Es gibt so viele sehr gute s/w-Filme, da fällt eine Liste sehr schwer. Hier mal eine TOP 100, natürlich ohne Anspruch auf Vollständigkeit.

1. The Night of the Hunter
2. 12 Angry Men
3. The Third Man
4. Witness for the Prosecution
5. Casablanca
6. M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder
7. Some Like It Hot
8. Es geschah am helllichten Tag
9. Psycho
10. High Noon
11. Sunset Boulevard
12. Gilda
13. Judgment at Nuremberg
14. Citizen Kane
15. It’s A Wonderful Life
16. Arsenic and Old Lace
17. Bande à part
18. Key Largo
19. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
20. Stalag 17
21. Suddenly, Last Summer
22. The Defiant Ones
23. Mrs. Miniver
24. Murder She Said
25. The Scarlet Claw
26. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
27. Fail-Safe
28. Out of the Past
29. Touch of Evil
30. Les yeux sans visage
31. Die Mörder sind unter uns
32. Germania anno zero
33. All Quiet on the Western Front
34. A Streetcar Named Desire
35. Rebecca
36. Skammen
37. Freud
38. Ninotchka
39. Captains Courageous
40. Inherit the Wind
41. To Kill a Mockingbird
42. The Shop Around the Corner
43. The Manchurian Candidate
44. The Lady Vanishes
45. Queen Christina
46. Kind Hearts and Coronets
47. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
48. The Letter
49. The Ox-Bow Incident
50. Viaggio in Italia
51. Stromboli
52. Angels with Dirty Faces
53. Dark Victory
54. Shadow of a Doubt
55. Phantom Lady
56. Roma, città aperta
57. Strangers on a Train
58. Notorious
59. In a Lonely Place
60. Metropolis
61. Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse
62. Der blaue Engel
63. The Elephant Man
64. Au hasard Balthazar
65. A Face in the Crowd
66. Midnight Lace
67. Sorry, Wrong Number
68. The Asphalt Jungle
69. The Maltese Falcon
70. The Children's Hour
71. To Be or Not to Be
72. The Lady from Shanghai
73. Foreign Correspondent
74. Mein Schulfreund
75. Du rififi chez les hommes
76. The 39 Steps
77. La Terra trema: Episodio del mare
78. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
79. Destry Rides Again
80. And Then There Were None
81. Anna Karenina
82. Desire
83. Blackboard Jungle
84. Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss
85. Ascenseur pour l'échafaud
86. Cape Fear
87. The Birds
88. You Can't Take It with You
89. Sabotage
90. His Girl Friday
91. The Big Heat
92. On the Beach
93. Des Teufels General
94. To Have and Have Not
95. Repulsion
96. La Bête humaine
97. Meet John Doe
98. It Happened One Night
99. Double Indemnity
100. Vargtimmen