British black-and-white films

Oppenheimer is a 2023 epic biographical thriller film written, co-produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan. It follows the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist who helped develop the first nuclear weapons during World War II. Based on the 2005 biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, the film dramatizes Oppenheimer's studies, his direction of the Los Alamos Laboratory and his 1954 security hearing. Cillian Murphy stars as Oppenheimer, alongside Robert Downey Jr. as the United States Atomic Energy Commission member Lewis Strauss. The ensemble supporting cast includes Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek, and Kenneth Branagh.

1964 British satire film directed by Stanley Kubrick

1949 film directed by Carol Reed

1980 film by David Lynch

1962 USA film by Stanley Kubrick

1888 film by Louis Le Prince

1935 film by Alfred Hitchcock

2023 film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos

1948 film directed by Laurence Olivier

2005 film by George Clooney

1938 film by Alfred Hitchcock

2018 film directed by Paweł Pawlikowski

2021 film directed by Kenneth Branagh

Following is a 1998 British independent neo-noir crime thriller film written, produced, directed, photographed, and edited by Christopher Nolan in his feature film directorial debut. It tells the story of a young man who follows strangers around the streets of London and is drawn into a criminal underworld when he fails to keep his distance.

1945 British film directed by David Lean

1927 film by Alfred Hitchcock, Alma Reville

1939 film by Sam Wood

1959 film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

1946 film by David Lean

1964 film and pilot by Richard Lester

1950 film by Alfred Hitchcock

1959 film by Jack Clayton

1965 film directed by Martin Ritt

1953 film by John Huston

1939 film by Alfred Hitchcock

1929 film by Alfred Hitchcock

1903 film by Cecil Hepworth, Percy Stow

1965 film directed by John Schlesinger

If.... (stylized as if....) is a 1968 British satirical surrealist psychological drama film produced and directed by Lindsay Anderson, and starring Malcolm McDowell in his film debut as the character Mick Travis, who appeared in two further Anderson films. Other actors include Richard Warwick, Christine Noonan, David Wood, and Robert Swann. A biting satire of English public school life, the film follows a group of pupils who stage a savage insurrection at a boys' boarding school. The film is notable for jumpstarting McDowell's and Anderson's careers as well as using black-and-white and colour

1957 film by Charlie Chaplin

1965 film directed by Roman Polanski

Murder! is a 1930 British mystery thriller film co-written and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Herbert Marshall, Norah Baring and Edward Chapman. Written by Hitchcock, his wife Alma Reville, and Walter C. Mycroft, based on the 1928 novel Enter Sir John by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson, it is Hitchcock's third all-talkie film, after Blackmail (1929) and Juno and the Paycock (1930).

1936 film by Alfred Hitchcock

1963 film directed by Joseph Losey

1937 film by Alfred Hitchcock

1934 film by Alfred Hitchcock

2007 film directed by Anton Corbijn

1933 film by Alexander Korda

1949 film directed by Robert Hamer

1951 film by Charles Crichton

1890 film

1948 film by Carol Reed

1938 film directed by Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard

1936 film by Alfred Hitchcock

1963 film by Robert Wise

1956 film by Michael Anderson

1966 film by Roman Polanski

1955 film directed by Orson Welles

1938 film

1925 film by Alfred Hitchcock

1962 film by Tony Richardson

1961 film directed by Jack Clayton

1948 film by Julien Duvivier

1960 film by Wolf Rilla

1926 film by Alfred Hitchcock

1948 film directed by David Lean

2017 film directed by Sally Potter

1950 film by Jules Dassin

1958 film by Roy Ward Baker

1942 film by David Lean, Noël Coward