# The best black-and-white movies of the 21st century

When colour was the norm, these filmmakers chose black and white: from the Coens to Cuarón and Pawlikowski, the modern monochrome films most recommended by El cine en la sombra, Univision, Señal Colombia and MacGuffin007.

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- Nov 27, 2021 · versionoriginal_errante
- https://even.best/en/l/4220/the-best-black-and-white-movies-of-the-21st-century

## Top 15

1. **Cold War (2018)** (13 · ▲13 ▼0) — Pawlikowski again: an impossible love between Poland and Paris after the war.
2. **Roma (2018)** (12 · ▲15 ▼3) — Alfonso Cuarón remembers 1970s Mexico through Cleo, the family's housekeeper.
3. **Nebraska (2013)** (11 · ▲12 ▼1) — Alexander Payne: a father and son cross the Midwest for a prize that doesn't exist.
4. **The Lighthouse (2019)** (11 · ▲11 ▼0) — Robert Eggers locks Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe in a lighthouse.
5. **Ida (2013)** (10 · ▲12 ▼2) — Paweł Pawlikowski: a novice nun in 1962 Poland uncovers her family's past.
6. **The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)** (9 · ▲10 ▼1) — The Coen brothers and a quiet barber who gets into blackmail.
7. **Blancanieves (2012)** (9 · ▲10 ▼1) — Pablo Berger moves the fairy tale to 1920s bullfighting Andalusia, as a silent film.
8. **Polytechnique (2009)** (8 · ▲10 ▼2) — Denis Villeneuve on the 1989 massacre at Montreal's École Polytechnique.
9. **The White Ribbon (2009)** (8 · ▲9 ▼1) — Michael Haneke and a German village before the First World War.
10. **Frances Ha (2012)** (7 · ▲8 ▼1) — Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig: a 27-year-old dancer in New York.
11. **Embrace of the Serpent (2015)** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — Ciro Guerra and two explorers in the Colombian Amazon guided by a shaman.
12. **A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)** (6 · ▲7 ▼1) — Ana Lily Amirpour: an Iranian vampire western.
13. **Güeros (2014)** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — Alonso Ruizpalacios: two brothers and a friend drift through Mexico City during the UNAM strike.
14. **The Artist (2011)** (3 · ▲6 ▼3) — Michel Hazanavicius makes a silent film about the end of the silent era.
15. **Persepolis (2007)** (3 · ▲5 ▼2) — Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel about growing up in Iran, animated.
16. **Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)** (1 · ▲3 ▼2) — George Clooney and journalist Edward R. Murrow against Senator McCarthy.

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