i REALLY enjoyed charlie chaplin's movies "The Circus" and "City Lights" any other suggestions or any classic movie suggestion is great! i love movies in black and white and silent movies too.
2007-03-25 17:06:00 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Every sunday night around midnight on the east coast TCM shows a silent film from various genres.
As a silent film fan let me recommend the following silent films and B&W talkies..all available from Netflix i have skipped descriptions but believe me all of these are masterpieces.
Citizen Kane
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The Man Who Laughs (silent)
Pandora's Box (silent)
Intolerance (silent)
Metropolis (silent)
The Gold Rush (silent)
Casablanca
The Kid(silent)
The Unknown (silent)
Picadilly (silent and please remake this wonderful movie)
Wings(silent first film to win best picture Oscar)
It(silent)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (silent)
Modern Times(silent)
Cat and the Canary(silent horror comedy remade by Bob Hope)
The Sheik(silent)
The Mark of Zorro(silent)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame(silent)
Ben-Hur(silent version brief nudity)
Phantom(silent 1927)
enjoy these and if you need more just ask..
2007-03-25 17:40:59 · answer #1 · answered by sprydle 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Charlie Chaplin is one of the best! I love his films also. You should check out a rarely seen one of his, "The Kid". Wow, what a film! I love the black and white era also, I wish more people would delve back into that era, if only they knew what they were missing. Like someone said above, Turner Classic Movies shows some unforgettable classics. And as for more silent movies, aside from Charlie Chaplin, Lon Chaney gave some great performances--"The Unholy Three", "The Unknown", "Laugh, Clown, Laugh" are just a few. Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd also.
And, if you're looking for great B&W film, check out the early performances of actors like Kirk Douglas, Robert Ryan, Ida Lupino, Robert Mitchum, Orson Welles, Bette Davis....
Nearly forgot, Director Alfred Hitchcock's films are not to be missed! Heck, just get TCM.
Hope this helps...
2007-03-26 01:01:24 · answer #2 · answered by CuriousCat 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Harold Lloyd in "The Freshman" and Buster Keaton in "The General" were just wonderful. I have a lot of their films and it's hard to pick just one, but I must to keep from going on too long. The early Marx Brothers movies are some more of my favorites. "Animal Crackers" is a widespread favorite. For later pictures in black and white, some favorites of mine are "The Philadelphia Story", "You Can't Take It With You", and "My Man Godfrey". Also The Thin Man series for comic mystery. That's just a beginning, movies that are famous enough that you might be able to find them still.
2007-03-26 03:01:51 · answer #3 · answered by the whistler 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Modern Times and The Great Dictator. Both first rate, classic movies and both have very interesting stories about their development and productions. Chaplin revelance as a social commentator is still very cogent today. Also, politics aside, the movies are very funny. He was a genius of pantomime and narrative.
2007-03-26 00:21:09 · answer #4 · answered by Heavy S 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Three classic B&W movies, but not in the comic side:
Le strada. Director: Federico Fellini (Italian)
Du Rififi chez les hommes. Director: Jules Dassin (French)
My Darling Clementine. Director: John Ford (USA)
...very good, IMHO.
By the way, Fellini made a wonderful film about the circus where he presents a circus show dedicated to... the clowns!
I'm not sure about the title, maybe: The Clowns (in color).
2007-03-26 00:33:10 · answer #5 · answered by Ulises 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you like silent comedies, then take a look at any of the films by Harold Lloyd. Safety Last is my favorite.
2007-03-26 01:01:22 · answer #6 · answered by ChristianH 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's much later, but still black and white; one of my all-time favorites is "The African Queen" with Humphrey Bogart and Kate Hepburn, a definite classic.
2007-03-26 00:35:03 · answer #7 · answered by PJPeach 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the Little Dictator is very good
2007-03-26 00:19:14 · answer #8 · answered by Ben There 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
try going to http://silent-movies.com/
2007-03-26 00:10:22 · answer #9 · answered by heavenly_bbw 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋