American black-and-white films

Cape Fear

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 1962 IMDB Rating: 7.7

Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and his family but is always clever enough not to violat...

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Sergeant York

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1941 IMDB Rating: 7.7

Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes on...

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Salesman

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1969 IMDB Rating: 7.7

This documentary from Albert and David Maysles follows the bitter rivalry of four door-to-door salesmen working for the Mid-American Bible Company: Paul "The Badger" Brennan, Charles "The Gipper" McDe...

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Ball of Fire

Film Age rating: 6 Year: 1941 IMDB Rating: 7.7

A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide wo...

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Clerks

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 1994 IMDB Rating: 7.7

Convenience and video store clerks Dante and Randal are sharp-witted, potty-mouthed and bored out of their minds. So in between needling customers, the counter jockeys play hockey on the roof, visit a...

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Scarlet Street

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1945 IMDB Rating: 7.7

Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty...

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Down by Law

Film Age rating: 11 Year: 1986 IMDB Rating: 7.7

A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.

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My Darling Clementine

Film Age rating: 6 Year: 1946 IMDB Rating: 7.7

Wyatt Earp and his brothers Morgan and Virgil ride into Tombstone and leave brother James in charge of their cattle herd. On their return they find their cattle stolen and James dead. Wyatt takes on t...

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Marty

Film Age rating: 5 Year: 1955 IMDB Rating: 7.7

Marty, a butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother is unmarried at 34. Good-natured but socially awkward he faces constant badgering from family and friends to get married but has reluctantly res...

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