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Posted on May 10, 2013 |
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Bon Voyage (1944)
Short | War
A young Scottish RAF gunner is debriefed by French officials about his escape from occupied territory, and in particular one person who may or may not have been a German agent.
Starring: John Blythe
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Posted on May 10, 2013 |
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Aventure Malgache (1944)
Short | War
The Moliere players are in their dressing room, getting ready to go on set. One actor mentions to another that his face reminds him of an opportunist turncoat he knew when he was in the Resistance. He then relates the adventure that he had in the Resistance, running an illegal radio station and dodging the Nazis.
Starring: Paul Bonifas, Paul Clarus, Jean Dattas, Andre Frere, Guy Le Feuvre, Paulette Preney
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Posted on May 10, 2013 |
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The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog / The Lodger (1927)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
In this silent film, a family running a boarding house suspects their new tenant is Jack the Ripper.
Starring: Marie Ault, Ivor Novello
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Posted on May 2, 2013 |
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Suspicion (1941)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Johnny Aysgarth is a handsome gambler who seems to live by borrowing money from friends. He meets shy Lina McLaidlaw on a train whilst trying to travel in a first class carriage with a third class ticket. He begins to court Lina and before long they are married. It is only after the honeymoon that she discovers his true character and she starts to become suspicious when Johnny's friend and business partner, Beaky is killed mysteriously.
Starring: Joan Fontaine, Cary Grant, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, Dame May Whitty, Isabel Jeans
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Posted on February 5, 2013 |
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The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
Crime | Mystery | Thriller
A British family gets mixed up with spies and an assassination plot while vacationing in Switzerland.
Starring: Leslie Banks, Peter Lorre, Edna Best, Frank Vosper, Hugh Wakefield, Nova Pilbeam
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Posted on November 21, 2012 |
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North by Northwest (1959)
Action | Adventure | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
A suave, succesful New York advertising executive finds himself, through a case of mistaken identity, embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder that takes him across the country to prove his innocence to the police and get an evil crime syndicate, looking for a lost microfilm, off his tail. Filmed in VistaVision.
Starring: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jesse Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll, Martin Landau
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Posted on November 21, 2012 |
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Psycho (1960)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Marion Crane goes on the run after stealing $40,000 from one of her employer's clients. Taking a wrong turn in a storm, Marion arrives at the isolated Bates Motel, run by the twitchy Norman, who is constantly at the beck and call of his unseen mother.
Starring: Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, John McIntire
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Posted on November 20, 2012 |
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Torn Curtain (1966)
Thriller
Paul Newman and Julie Andrews star in this classic tale of international espionage set behind the Iron Curtain.
Starring: Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Lila Kedrova, Hansjörg Felmy, Tamara Toumanova, Ludwig Donath
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Posted on November 19, 2012 |
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Strangers on a Train (1951)
Crime | Film-Noir | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Two complete strangers, Bruno Anthony, a psychotic mother's boy and Guy Haines, a professional tennis player meet on a train and begin discussing a theory on how the two of them could commit the perfect crime. Guy thinks they are joking, while Anthony is serious, and is about to take their convertation a step too far.
Starring: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker, Leo G. Carroll, Patricia Hitchcock, Marion Lorne
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Posted on November 15, 2012 |
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Family Plot (1976)
Comedy | Thriller
When a wealthy woman unwittingly hires a con man and a phoney psychic to find her missing heir, the results are diabolically funny in Alfred Hitchcock's tongue-in-cheek mystery thriller.
Starring: Karen Black, Bruce Dern, William Devane, Barbara Harris, Cathleen Nesbitt, Ed Lauter
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Posted on November 15, 2012 |
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Vertigo (1958)
Mystery | Romance | Thriller
During a rooftop chase, police detective John "Scottie" Ferguson is overcome with a severe case of acrophobia–a deep fear of falling which results in a stultifying vertigo–that leads to the death of a fellow officer. After retiring from the police force, Scottie attempts to return to a normal life, but his life takes another unusual turn when an old school aquaintance asks Scottie to shadow his wife, the luminescently beautiful but utterly mysterious Madeleine. Scottie is wary but the minute he sees her he cannot resist the chase. As his fixation with Madeleine grows, however, so too does her obsession with death. When Scottie's vertigo prevents him from saving Madeleine's life, his one chance at perfect love comes crashing to a brutal end. Then one day, Scottie sees a woman walking down the street who looks just like Madeleine. She is Judy Barton, a salesgirl from Kansas with her own secrets–secrets that will once again turn Scottie's world into a dizzying battle between illusion and reality. Filmed in VistaVision.
Starring: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones, Raymond Bailey
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Posted on November 15, 2012 |
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Dial M for Murder (1954)
Crime | Mystery | Thriller
A playboy of a husband decides to hire a killer to do in his wife who's having an affair with a dashing younger man for fear that he'll lose the inheritance that could make him (the husband) wealthy, but things just don't go as planned.
Starring: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, Anthony Dawson, Leo Britt, Patrick Allen
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Posted on November 11, 2012 |
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The Birds (1963)
Horror | Thriller
An immense flock of birds descends upon a seacost town, makes it their nesting ground, and begins to attack and kill the townsfolk.
Starring: Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, Tippi Hedren, Veronica Cartwright, Charles McGraw
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Posted on November 11, 2012 |
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Frenzy (1972)
Crime | Thriller
In modern-day London, a sex criminal known as the Necktie Murderer has the police on alert, and in typical Hitchcock fashion, the trail is leading to an innocent man, who must now elude the law and prove his innocence by finding the real murderer,
Starring: Alec McCowen, Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Billie Whitelaw, Anna Massey, Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Posted on November 10, 2012 |
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Topaz (1969)
Thriller
The Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, brought a best-selling spy novel to the screen with riveting results in this spellbinding espionage thriller. John Forsythe star as an American CIA agent who hires a French operative named Devereaux (Frederick Stafford) to go to Cuba and check out rumours of Russian missiles and a NATO spy called Topaz.
Starring: Dany Robin, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret, John Forsythe, Karin Dor, Frederick Stafford
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Posted on November 8, 2012 |
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The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
Thriller
International spies kidnap a doctor's son when he stumbles on their assassination plot. Filmed in VistaVision.
Starring: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda de Banzie, Bernard Miles, Ralph Truman, Daniel Gélin
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Posted on November 8, 2012 |
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Marnie (1964)
Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
The Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock creates a spellbinding portrait of a distrurbed woman, and the man who tries to save her, in this unrelenting psychological thriller.
Starring: Sean Connery, Tippi Hedren, Diane Baker, Louise Latham, Mariette Hartley, Martin Gabel
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Posted on November 8, 2012 |
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Rear Window (1954)
Mystery | Thriller
A magazine photographer, housebound on account of a broken leg, becomes voyeur to the apartment building facing his rear window for lack of anything to do. Soon, he draws his visiting girlfriend in on the thrill and eventually they witness a murder in progress that gets them into hot water.
Starring: Grace Kelly, James Stewart, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr, Judith Evelyn
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Posted on November 8, 2012 |
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The Trouble with Harry (1955)
Comedy | Mystery | Thriller
A corpse creates a world of trouble for several passersby who each believe they may have caused the death. Filmed in VistaVision
Starring: Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine, Mildred Natwick, Royal Dano, Mildred Dunnock
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Posted on November 2, 2012 |
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Rope (1948)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Two wealthy young men try to commit the perfect crime by murdering a friend.
Starring: James Stewart, Farley Granger, John Dall, Douglas Dick, Cedric Hardwicke, Edith Evanson, Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Collier
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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