A field guide to classic black-and-white film

Find your way through classic black-and-white film.

Where to begin, what to feel, what to notice — without the film-school voice.

Start here First time? Eight films to fall for.

Gentle, gorgeous, and not a chore. The easiest doors in.

What next? Follow a trail.

Short, ordered routes — each starts with a single film.

Browse the catalogue Choose by mood, era, or ease.

Thirty hand-picked films, with a clear way into each one.

Now showing · Trail Nº 02

If you only watch one film noir

Shadow, rain, a voice narrating its way to ruin. Start with one.

4 films · start with Sunset Blvd.

Follow the trail

Tonight's picks

The Third Man 1949

1949 · Carol Reed · 104 min

The Set-Up 1949

1949 · Robert Wise · 73 min

Tokyo Story 1953

1953 · Yasujirō Ozu · 137 min

1960 · Alfred Hitchcock · 109 min

From the catalogue

A Trip to the Moon 1902

1902 · Georges Méliès · 13 min

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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920

1920 · Robert Wiene · 77 min

Sherlock Jr. 1924

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1924 · Buster Keaton · 45 min

Battleship Potemkin 1925

1925 · Sergei Eisenstein · 75 min

Silents that don't feel like homework Trail Nº 01 · 6 films Your first Japanese classic Trail Nº 03 · 3 films When the screen bursts into colour Trail Nº 04 · 2 films