Since the 1960s, movies shot in black and white have practically become extinct. The number of films shot in black and white has decreased every successive decade since then. And yet, sometimes a movie demands to be shot without color to capture a certain kind of mood or tone that color would otherwise fail to get. In the case of the following list, "modern-day" means anything produced after 1970, which is when the decline really started happening. The following 15 examples are further proof that black and white will never die, as long as there are directors and DP's out there willing to value and acknowledge its importance.
1) Tim Burton's Ed Wood
2) David Lynch's The Elephant Man
3) Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha
5) Joel Coen's The Man Who Wasn't There
6) Alexander Payne's Nebraska
7) Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull
8) Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List
9) Jim Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise
10) Woody Allen's Zelig
11) Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show
12) Peter Bogdanovich's Paper Moon
13) Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein
14) David Lynch's Eraserhead
15) Woody Allen's Manhattan
