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I mean it's a tight call for me.
I think I'd go with THE THIRD MAN, but SABRINA is so great looking too.
I dunno, there are some great looking b-movies to consider also.
So what you say boys?

Just a quick vote for The Passion of Joan of Arc, or at least the Criterion release.

It's an hour and a half of impeccably shot ugly, ugly faces.

I agree about The Third Man.

There are also two films shot in colour which become very eerie and creepy when you watch them in b/w, namely Sir Kenneth Branagh's Dead Again - this is really a film noir - and David Millin ASC's Ride The High Wind, the first South African zombie movie.

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NIGHT OF THE HUNTER immediately comes to mind. (wWell, duh!)

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I like the visuals in the following:

The Trial
Alphaville
Kafka
Pi
The Saboteur (1942)
Pool of London (1951)
Dark Passage (1947)

toughie........here are some of my favorites

Casablanca, The Third Man, The Rules of the Game, M, The Artist

Also consider THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI.

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Forgot Dr. Strangelove too

All my favorites are Expressionist.

METROPOLIS

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i'd have to say suddenly,last summer is my fave. not only for my beloved K.H., but the cinematography is AMAZING!

I'm about with ya on that...though Mario Bava's movies all look GREAT.

http://youtu.be/9nDWSbG5CJ8 (http://youtu.be/9nDWSbG5CJ8)

Oops! Black and white films! Well-BLACK SUNDAY looks great! As does anything shot by Karl Freund-which a lot of those old silents from Germany,as did DRACULA (1931) and the MUMMY (1932) among others.

BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (1925) is awesome and gorgeous to look at... it was on TCM last night. 

I love that movie. It's in my Top Ten Favorite silent films.

I think  Dreyer's VAMPYR (1932) has an eerie,dreamlike quality to it. It's beautiful.

http://youtu.be/HVyPgDNTV90 (http://youtu.be/HVyPgDNTV90)

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans is one of mine - it's hard to find single images that look great, it's more about the picture with motion.  One of the most active and inventive cameras in all silent film.

I'm going to stick with modern Black and white films I have loved. All have a unique feel to them in some form or another.

A Field In England:

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Dead Man:

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Ed Wood:

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Control:

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A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night:

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And this one I'm looking forward to seeing but haven't yet:

The Eyes of my mother:

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OH and one more:

American Astronaut:

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Beauty and the Beast (1946)

REPULSION (1965)

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I'm going to say the island sequences of the original King Kong  There's all these little details O'Brien put into the sets, like seeing birds fly through the air, or how you could see the snake beast actually swimming in the lake of Kong's lair.

The big artisitc influnce in Kong is Gustave Dore, a print maker best know for his illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy.   You can really see that influence on the island scenes.

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Schindler's List (1993)

Nosferatu: A Symphony Of Horrors(1922)

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I'll probably think of other later, but the first that came to my mind was John Frankenheimer's "The Train":

http://youtu.be/CPRh4gw_GmQ (http://youtu.be/CPRh4gw_GmQ)

What caught my attention is that it's B/W yet the camerawork is extremely inventive and dynamic, like something a much modern director would have done. And those dutch angles are terrific.

CARNIVAL OF SOULS (1962)  As cheap and cheezee as I think this film is, I love it, it's a top favorite, and the camerawork is awesome. 

http://youtu.be/dkTz0EvfEiY (http://youtu.be/dkTz0EvfEiY)

Hard to beat Young Frankenstein.

A couple of years ago the HP Lovecraft historical society made a movie of 'The Call of Cthulhu' using only techniques that were available in the 20's (including it being a silent movie). I have to admit to having a soft spot for it.

IN COLD BLOOD

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ERASERHEAD

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