Can You Name the Most Famous Black and White Movies Ever?

About a century after Mary Shelley finished her novel, "Frankenstein," it was adapted for the big screen. The film's "It's alive!" quote was voted as one of the most iconic quotes in movie history by the American Film Institute.

Orson Welles created every aspect of this 1941 classic about Charles Foster Kane, who is loosely based on real-life newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst. The film is commonly recognized as one of the best movies ever made.

Humphrey Bogart plays Rick Blaine, who manages a bar in Casablanca, Morocco. One day his former lover, played by Ingrid Bergman, shows up with her husband looking to escape WWII and everything gets really complicated.

"Roma" follows the story of a maid in Mexico City, and it was released by Netflix in 2018. The movie went on to pick up 10 nominations at the Academy Awards, but not without criticism from Hollywood's anti-Netflix old guard.

De Niro's portrayal of the rise and fall of boxer Jake LaMotta nabbed him his second Oscar and it was the second time he teamed up with Martin Scorsese to create a classic. The film is widely considered to be one of the greatest sports movies ever made.

Gregory Peck won the 1963 Academy Award for his portrayal of Atticus Finch in the adaptation of this racially charged saga. Actor Robert Duvall actually made his official film debut in the movie but had no lines of dialogue.

Frank Capra joined forces with Hollywood star Jimmy Stewart to tell the story of a frustrated and ungrateful businessman in this holiday classic that is widely considered to be one of the greatest Christmas movies of all time.

Patty Duke spent a year perfecting her portrayal of Helen Keller on the stage, but she still almost didn't get the movie role because execs thought she was too old. They eventually changed their minds, and Duke ultimately won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar.

"12 Angry Men" features about 90 minutes of jury deliberation, and today the film is regularly used to teach team skills and conflicts and resolutions. Henry Fonda starred in and produced the film, and he hired Sidney Lumet to direct.

You can see Gary Cooper deliver Lou Gehrig's iconic farewell address at Yankee Stadium in this epic sports film that pays tribute to the legendary franchise. Babe Ruth appeared as himself in the movie that was released in 1942.

Anyone who knows Alfred Hitchcock knows he was the master of suspense for a reason, and this 1960 horror film is a prime example of his A-game. Fans were stunned to see the main character die at the beginning of the film and then were shocked to learn the movie's twist ending.

Just the name Sunset Boulevard evokes images of old Hollywood and Silver Screen legends, and this movie encompasses it all. This movie about a screenwriter won the Academy Award for Best Screenplay and has two separate listings on AFI's list of 100 best movie quotes.

The rocky relationship between timeworn Broadway star Margo Channing, played by Bette Davis, and fresh up-and-comer Eve Harrington, played by Anne Baxter, has gone down in history as one of the greatest screenplays ever written.

Peter Sellers played the title character in this satire about Soviet relations with the United States. The 1964 comedy is widely regarded as one of the greatest comedy movies ever made and one of the greatest movies ever made.

"A Streetcar Named Desire" was just Marlon Brando's second movie, but he was paid almost as much as his co-star Vivien Leigh, who was the highest-paid English actress at the time. Leigh ultimately won the Best Actress Oscar for her role, and Brando continued on to stardom.

Billy Wilder accepted Best Picture and Best Director awards at the 1961 Academy Awards for this romantic comedy that stars Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine in lead roles. When company execs need a place to carry out their extra-marital affairs, they find the perfect place.

This Charles Dickens classic will forever be one of the greatest Christmas stories ever told. The timeless tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, Jacob Marley and Tiny Tim doesn't change much in its cinema adaptation.

Marilyn Monroe is known for many things, and one of them is being cast in this Billy-Wilder directed romantic comedy. Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis star as hideaways who disguise themselves as women and join Monroe's girl band.

"The Maltese Falcon" is a classic example of 1940s film-noir and stars Humphrey Bogart as slick detective Sam Spade. Hollywood titan John Huston wrote and directed the movie, and it is regularly considered one of Hollywood's best.

It's impossible to create a list of black-and-white films without including Orson Welles, who was one of the premiere filmmakers of the time. He worked for just one week playing the role of Harry Lime in this film.

Here's another Dickens classic that has been adapted to the screen too many times to count, but the 1946 adaptation may be the best one, as it went on to win two Academy Awards. The story of Pip's journey from orphan to aristocrat will never get old.

You can hear Jimmy Stewart's iconic voice as he plays Jefferson Smith in this award-winning story about political corruption and scandal. Washington insiders didn't like it because they thought it shed a negative light on American politics.

Just a few years after Marlon Brando starred in "A Streetcar Named Desire," he landed the lead role in this film that went on to win eight Academy Awards at the 1955 Oscars, including the Best Actor award for Brando.

When two strangers meet each other on a train, they come up with the perfect idea to swap murders. That way it's impossible for either one of them to get caught. The thrilling mystery was directed by the master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock.

Orson Welles again. The opening scene in "Touch of Evil" is a masterful example of the long-take, where a full three-plus minutes of screen time are spliced together to look like a single take. The film centers around murder, corruption and kidnapping in a Mexican border town.

Steinbeck's screen adaptation was directed by legendary Western director John Ford and starred Henry Fonda in the lead role. The film nabbed Ford his second of four Best Director Oscars and also won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.

Humphrey Bogart is to black-and-white detective films what The Rock is to CGI action flicks. In this one, he played detective Philip Marlowe, and his love interest was Lauren Bacall, who also happened to be his real-life mistress.

Charles Dickens had the uncanny ability to tackle the deepest philosophical topics of love, hate and the meaning of life with the simplest stories. This one follows one of the most famous fictional characters ever created as he maneuvers the London underground.

Humphrey Bogart starred alongside Walter Huston, who was John Huston's father, and John Huston was the director of the film. Both Hustons went on to win Academy Awards for this Western drama that takes place in Mexico.

Frank Sinatra, Angela Lansbury and Janet Leigh star in this political conspiracy thriller that centers around the story of the brainwashed prisoner of war, Raymond Shaw, played by Laurence Harvey. The film was completed in just 39 days of shooting.

Ken Kesey's adaptation of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and the adaptation of "Silence of the Lambs" are the only two other movies to win Academy Awards for Best Actor, Actress, Writing, Director and Picture.

Audrey Hepburn's only Academy Award win came for her portrayal of the bored runaway Princess Ann in this 1953 romantic comedy. The film was voted as one of the best romantic comedies ever made and it was the first American film to be entirely made in Italy.

Oscar Wilde's literary classic was adapted for the screen in 1945 and starred George Sanders and Angela Lansbury. The story follows the youthful Dorian Gray and a painting that bears the brunt of his corruption, so he doesn't have to.

If you ever want to make your life as complicated as possible, just have an affair with your client's spouse and then plot to kill their spouse, so you guys can live happily ever after. If that sounds easy to you, you might want to check out this film.

Charlie Chaplin is arguably the most famous silent-film star ever, so no list of black and white movies is complete without him. His movie "The Great Dictator" was released at the beginning of WWII and spoofed an evil dictator.

Carey Grant, Katharine Hepburn and James Stewart all starred in this romantic comedy, and Stewart ultimately won the Best Actor Oscar for his role. Billionaire Howard Hughes later bought the film rights to the movie and gave them to Hepburn as a gift.

King Kong has been featured in countless movies, but he was introduced to the world in the 1933 film, "King Kong." When a film crew visits an exotic island, they find King Kong and decide to bring him back to NYC and put him on display. What could possibly go wrong?

Before Scarface was running the streets of Miami, Rico (aka Little Caesar) was rising in the Chicago underworld. The movie is considered one of the top 10 gangster flicks of all time and is recognized as a masterpiece in the genre.

"The Artist" won five Oscars at the 2012 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Director and Actor. The film is the most recent black and white film to win Best Picture, and only the second silent film to win the category.

It's up to you whether you consider this war epic an actual black and white movie, but the entire thing is in black and white except for this girl's red coat. In real life, the girl in the red coat survived the war and wrote a memoir.