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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Thriller
A young girl fears her favorite uncle may be a killer.
Starring: Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Henry Travers, Patricia Collinge, Macdonald Carey, Wallace Ford
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Saboteur (1942)
Action | Thriller
A young man accused of sabotage goes on the lam to prove his innocence.
Starring: Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Otto Kruger, Norman Lloyd, Alan Baxter, Clem Bevans, Alma Kruger, Dorothy Peterson
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
The 39 Steps (1935)
Mystery | Thriller
Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed — with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it all to Scotland Yard, he heads for the hills of Scotland to try to clear his name by locating the spy ring known as "The 39 Steps."
Starring: Madeleine Carroll, Robert Donat, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Spellbound (1945)
Film-Noir | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Dr. Constance Petersen is a psychiatrist with a firm understanding of human nature. When the mysterious Dr. Anthony Edwardes becomes the new chief of staff at her institution, it is soon discovered that he has difficulty with remembering things as he is a troubled amnesiac–who could also be a killer. The bookish and detached psychiatrist plummets into a whirlwind of romance, tangled identities and psychological fever with a captivating dream sequence by Surrealist icon Salvador Dalí.
Starring: Gregory Peck, Ingrid Bergman, Leo G. Carroll, Leo G. Carroll
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Lifeboat (1944)
Thriller | War
A chic writer, a stoker and others drift with the U-boat captain who has sunk their ship.
Starring: Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, John Hodiak, Henry Hull, Heather Angel, Hume Cronyn, Canada Lee
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Notorious (1946)
Film-Noir | Romance | Thriller
At the end of World War II, U.S. military intelligence drafts a beautiful woman with a tainted past to infiltrate a band of nefarious Germans who are in Brazil. She is teamed with Devlin, a dashing but chilly agent with whom she falls deeply in love. In order to have better access to information she agrees to marry the ringleader of the Germans. The marriage touches off an intricate downward spiral of deceit and betrayal, leaving Bergman trapped in the home of an enemy. If her husband ever discovers the truth about her mission, her life will be in mortal danger.
Starring: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Comedy | Mystery | Thriller
In Alfred Hitchcock's most quick-witted and devilish comic thriller, the beautiful Margaret Lockwood, traveling across Europe by train, meets a charming old spinster (Dame May Whitty), who them seems to disappear into thin air. The younger woman turns investigator and finds herself drawn into a complex web of mystery and high adventure.
Starring: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, Dame May Whitty, Naunton Wayne
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
To Catch a Thief (1955)
Crime | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
U.S. expatriate John Robie living in high style on the Riviera is a retired cat burglar. He must find out who a copy cat is to keep a new wave of jewel thefts from being pinned on him. High on list of prime victims is Jessie Stevens, in Europe to help daughter Frances find a suitable husband. Lloyds of London insurance agent is using a thief to catch a thief. Take an especially close look at scene where Robie gets Jessie's attention, dropping an expensive casino chip down decolletage of French roulette player. Filmed in VistaVision.
Starring: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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