10 Best Alfred Hitchcock Movies

[Hunter Rider]

Not my list, but Comingsoon.Net are still going strong with their top 10's lol. See what you guys think of it, I'm going to have to give my Hitch top 10 some thought.

10 Best Alfred Hitchcock Movies - ComingSoon.net

 

[Mandon Knight]

Now you are talking....favourite director....

 

[Abudefduf]

Honestly I've only watched about 20 of them (I'm still missing some of his classics like Dial M, The Lady Vanishes and Rebecca), but anyway...

Psycho
The Birds
Suspicion
Rope
I Confess
The Wrong Man
Shadow of a Doubt
Strangers on a Train
Vertigo
The Man Who Knew Too Much

I didn't like Rear Window (James Stewart's character was a jerk and he deserved to be murdered by the neighbor ), and found To Catch a Thief to be boring.

 

[Dr.]

Incidentally… In the last BFI listing of the Greatest Films of All Time, Vertigo emerged as #1 (unseating the long reigning Citizen Kane). Psycho cracked the Top 50, coming in at #35 (tied with three others).


The 50 Greatest Films of All Time | Sight & Sound

 

[Mandon Knight]

Vertigo is my all time favourite (non CBM) film.

 

[Mandon Knight]

Article from the Independent of his best films....

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-...ed-hitchcocks-20-greatest-films-a7593301.html

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

Picking just ten is hard but I more or less agree with that list. Marnie, The Birds and Suspicion would’ve been on my list though.

Strangers on a Train should be held in the same regard as Psycho.

 

[Mandon Knight]

I think Marnie makes for a very interesting film as the 'uncomfortable' nature of the film in it's difficult and traumatic central themes are shown at a period of history where woman where not understood very well or acknowledged for allowing to have their own views and feelings and it's directed by a man who has his own issues with women and placement of value in self and belonging as well, so the themes overlap in the film and also it's own of Connery's best performances in any of his films too.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Putting my list together made me realize there's a few Hitchcock movies I still need to see.


10. The 39 Steps
9. To Catch a Thief
8. The Man Who Knew Too Much
7. The Birds
6. North by Northwest
5. Vertigo
4. Strangers on a Train
3. Notorious
2. Dial M for Murder
1. Rear Window

 

[PhasedPlasma101]

Glad Rope is getting some love. It's basically a stage play on film but it succeeds so ****ing hard in its intent

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Glad Rope is getting some love. It's basically a stage play on film but it succeeds so ****ing hard in its intent

I love Rope. The long takes somehow just ups the tension.

 

[Mandon Knight]

For a director with such a consistent high standard, I think 'Shadow of a Doubt' is one of his most underrated films.

 

[flickchick85]

Glad Rope is getting some love. It's basically a stage play on film but it succeeds so ****ing hard in its intent

Even if the story is essentially a stage play, the tension that camera work builds makes it pure cinema to me. Y'all want to see an actual Hitchock point-and-shoot stage play adaptation, see Juno and the Paycock. Or don't. It's #52, at the very bottom of my rankings because talk about a bore. Even Hitch described as "just a photograph of a stage play."

For a director with such a consistent high standard, I think 'Shadow of a Doubt' is one of his most underrated films.

I love it because the abuse and incestuous implications being pure subtext due to the film codes of the time somehow makes it 10x more disturbing than if it had been explicit in any way. It is easily one of his straight-up creepiest films, imo.

Hmmm...I wonder if we have a general Hitchcock thread I can revive...I feel the urge to do some write-ups, lol.

 

[flickchick85]

Hmmm...I wonder if we have a general Hitchcock thread I can revive...I feel the urge to do some write-ups, lol.

Yep!

 

[childeroland]

1. Shadow of a Doubt
2. The Lady Vanishes
3. Strangers on a Train
4. North By Northwest
5. Rear Window
6. Psycho
7. Suspicion
8. The Birds
9. Notorious
10. The 39 Steps

 

[DACrowe]

1. Rear Window
2. Psycho
3. Shadow of a Doubt
4. Notorious
5. Dial M for Murder
6. Rope
7. The Man Who Knew Too Much
8. North by Northwest
9. Vertigo
10. To Catch a Thief/Strangers on a Train

 

[Dark Raven]

In no particular order:

1. Rope
2. Rear Window
3. Marnie
4. North By Northwest
5. To Catch A Thief
6. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
7. Dial M For Murder
8. Saboteur
9. Torn Curtain
10. The Lady Vanishes

Special shout out to Psycho, Vertigo, Notorious, The Birds and Strangers on a Train. Can't remember if I've seen Shadow of a Doubt.

Not so keen on his version of the 39 Steps though. The 1978 version "The Thirty Nine Steps" actually seems to have more Hitchcockian elements than even Hitchcock's own version, such as the dramatic ending with Robert Powell hanging off the clock hands of Big Ben.

That seems like something Hitchcock himself would've thought of, so I'm surprised he didn't for his own version of the 39 Steps and that the ending was so sedate. After all, he did similar things himself with North By Northwest (the chase across Mount Rushmore) or Saboteur (hanging off the torch of the Statue of Liberty).