Here are a few films whose directors passed over color and decided black and white would be a much more fitting color scheme for the tone and overall reception and impact of their piece.

Drug use has always had an ambiguous place in cinema. Often used as a tool to get characters to reach a certain emotional focal point unachievable if they were to remain sober, drug use can be viewed as humorously disastrous or, on the opposite end of the spectrum, a dangerous tool necessary to the daily stability of a character’s psyche.