My favourite modern B&W films (1968-)
A selection of my most-cherished modern B&W films
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- DirectorGrzegorz KrólikiewiczStarsFranciszek TrzeciakAnna NieborowskaIrena LadosiównaBased on a pre-war murder case of the Malisz couple. They end up committing a petty robbery and a sordid murder. He is an illustrator who is not used by a climbing architect. His folks don't like his wife and keeping both of them around as they float from one petty job to another. They finally try to rob a mailman of a bogus money order they have cooked up and end up killing an old, invalid couple with whom they have roomed.
- DirectorKároly MakkStarsLili DarvasMari TörőcsikIván DarvasThe wife of a political prisoner tends to her mother-in-law and keeps from the old woman the truth about her son, whom she believes is in New York making a film.
- DirectorPaolo BenvenutiStarsLucia PoliValentino DavanzatiRenzo CerratoThe trial of a woman in San Miniato accused of witchcraft in 1594.
- DirectorOssama MohammedIn a rolling area of Syria, the villagers live their everyday life, in toil and poverty. Trapped between the hardships of farming, religious and political ideologies, they barely survive. Their children are the only ones that are still full of hope. They imagine their future lives and picture themselves as doctors or engineers. But these are pipe dreams. All they can actually look forward to is farming the land with primitive tools like their parents, getting a menial job in the city or becoming brainwashed soldiers...
- DirectorMani KaulStarsRekha SabnisArun KhopkarOm ShivpuriAashad Ka Ek Din is an adaptation of the play that is based on Kalidasa's life in three acts. Kalidasa is renowned as one of the greatest writers, poets and dramatists in the history of Sanskrit language.
- DirectorBoris YashinStarsValentina TelichkinaVsevolod SafonovKonstantin SorokinA poetic story about the first love of the village girl Natasha, loyal to the memory of the deceased fiancé. In peacetime, the heroine's fiancé blew up on a land mine that remained on the collective farm field since the war, and her life turned into a nightmare. But sooner or later, dreams end and the world opens again.
- DirectorÉric RohmerStarsJean-Louis TrintignantFrançoise FabianMarie-Christine BarraultA devout Catholic man's rigid principles are challenged during a one-night stay with Maud, a divorced woman with an outsize personality.
- DirectorAleksandre RekhviashviliStarsMamuka SalukvadzeRamaz ChkhikvadzeValodia TsuladzeA poetised chronicle of the events taking place in one of the Georgian villages in the late 19th century, when, to save a forest, the in-numerous intelligentsia could rally the people and oppose the industrialists.
- DirectorAlex LehmannStarsMark DuplassSarah PaulsonClu GulagerMeeting by chance when they return to their tiny California hometown, two former high-school sweethearts reflect on their shared past.
- DirectorMetodi AndonovStarsKatya PaskalevaAnton GorchevMilen PenevThe film sends us to the 17th century when Bulgaria was a part of the Ottoman Empire. Four hoodlums break into the house of the shepherd Karaivan, raping and killing his wife in full view of their little girl, Maria. Karaivan decides to take the law into his own hands and becomes enslaved by his violent wish for revenge. He burns their house with his wife's body inside and abandons the gentle life they had shared, choosing instead to take his daughter to live in a rough hut high in the hills. He raises Maria as a boy, training her to fight so that she can kill in cold blood and help her father avenge her mother's murder. Nine years pass before the two locate and kill three of the four perpetrators. At each body they leave a goat horn as the symbol of their revenge. While on a mission to kill the last one at his rich oriental house, Maria becomes the unwitting witness of a love scene and change comes over her. Now, from time to time she secretly dons a beautiful women dress and exults in her newly found femininity. She falls in love with young shepherd and the hate begins to melt from her heart. When Karaivan discovers the change that is taking place in her it is already late. He tries to bring Maria back to him and their life of revenge, with disastrous results.
- DirectorAloysio RaulinoStarsArnulfo SilvaArnulfo Silva, a former abandoned child, retells his childhood difficulties living on the streets.
- DirectorArunas ZebriunasStarsInga MickyteLilija ZadeikyteArvidas SamukasLittle Inga considers herself pretty and is pampered by her mother and other children in her housing block, until a new boy with questionable habits arrives and calls her ugly in her face.
- DirectorHerz FrankA 10 minute long journey of emotions that befall children faces. Fear, Curiosity; a Smile. They all sit in a dark theater. What they see, we don't; we can only guess from their faces.
- DirectorFrançois AyméYves JeulandStarsJean GabinGrégory GadeboisNoëlle AdamA documentary using almost 200 clips, on the versatile and iconic French movie star who made 95 films between the 1930s and the 1970s and came to embody the idea of their country for native audiences.
- DirectorJim Jennings
- DirectorStephen FrearsStarsVictor HenryCath ChurchillRay GoslingRegarding the overall poverty of the inhabitants of the slum district of St. Ann's Nottingham.
- DirectorUldis BraunsStarsInese JansonePeteris GaudinsBenita OzolinaAn accidental meeting helps to learn a lot of new in surrounding world and his soul, to realize that youth is one of the most important stages of human life.
- DirectorOsamu TezukaA cowboy is hampered by the imperfections in the film print showcasing his story.
- DirectorRobert E. Fulton
- DirectorMarcell JankovicsThe film is an artistically spare depiction of the Greek myth of Sysiphus, sentenced to eternally roll a stone up a mountain. The story is presented in a single, unbroken shot, consisting of a dynamic line drawing of Sysiphus, the stone, and the mountainside.
- DirectorLeonids LeimanisStarsEduards PavulsLiga LiepinaKarlis SebrisA painfully ironic story about life in Latvia in 1920s. A poor girl falls in love with an unemployed teacher of French.
- DirectorMikheil KobakhidzeStarsMikheil KobakhidzeGia AvalishviliMisha observes the area with binoculars. In the infinite white, he notices Gia, as lonely as himself.
- DirectorAlison MacleanStarsTheresa HealeyPeter TaitAnnagretta ChristianA woman finds something quaint in her kitchen sink and feels strangely captivated towards it.
- DirectorAlmantas GrikeviciusStarsBronius BabkauskasVytautas PauksteEugenija BajoryteCaesar, a former Nazi concentration camp prisoner, sifts through his traumatic experiences against the background of the new modern buildings of Vilnius, and become even stronger when he learns of the death of a friend and fellow traveler.
- DirectorFerenc Grunwalsky