[Req] B&W City Themed Films

FrCrilly

Hi All,

I’m putting together a list of Black & White (and “Technicolor”) films which have a particular city theme to them. The kind of themes I’m looking for include:

City Apartment Life
City Glamour
Wealthy city lifestyle
Painting the Town Red.
The City Underworld
The Chattering Classes/ Word on the Street
Film Noir

So far I’ve put together the following films that match some or all these criteria. If anyone can think of any others, I am all ears.

Thanks In Advance for all responses.

Dark Passage
How to Marry a Millionaire
On The Town
Singin in the Rain
It's Always Fair Weather
The 7 Year Itch
The Roaring Twenties
Angels with Dirty Faces

L31mr0d

Angel-A

Tomohawk

Manhattan by Woody Allen
25th Hour

rednik

One of the most famous films ever made fits right into what your looking for. Metropolis by Fritz Lang was made in 1927 and is considered by many to be the greatest movie ever made.

purple_hatstand

'Rome, Open City'[1945] might tick some of your boxes. It's a film about the Italian resistance movement which was shot in Rome during the Nazi occupation. Amazing stuff.

I also love 'Pepe le Moko'[1937] - a french gangster movie set in Algiers. Brilliant.

AnonoBoy

Sweet Smell of Success

BopNiblets

Not exactly B&W but close: Payback.