Alfred Hitchcock

Foreign Correspondent 1940

On the eve of World War II, a young American reporter tries to expose enemy agents in London.

Category: Action, romance, Romantic, Thriller

Stars: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall

7.4 IMDB Rating 29 Views
Rebecca 1940

A self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence.

Category: Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery

Stars: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders

8.1 IMDB Rating 228 Views
Spellbound 1945

A psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory.

Category: Film-Noir, Mystery, romance, Romantic

Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov

7.5 IMDB Rating 226 Views
Suspicion 1941

A shy young heiress marries a charming gentleman, and soon begins to suspect he is planning to murder her.

Category: Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller

Stars: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke

7.3 IMDB Rating 581 Views
Shadow of a Doubt 1943

A teenage girl, overjoyed when her favorite uncle comes to visit the family in their quiet California town, slowly begins to suspect that he is in fact the "Merry Widow" killer sought by the authorities.

Category: Film-Noir, Thriller

Stars: Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey

7.8 IMDB Rating 237 Views
Torn Curtain 1966

An American scientist publicly defects to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the solution for a formula resin before planning an escape back to the West.

Category: Drama, Romantic, Thriller

Stars: Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Lila Kedrova

6.6 IMDB Rating 211 Views
Family Plot 1976

A phony psychic/con artist and her taxi driver/actor boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.

Category: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Stars: Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris

6.8 IMDB Rating 229 Views
Frenzy 1972

A serial murderer is strangling women with a necktie. The London police have a suspect, but he is the wrong man.

Category: Thriller

Stars: Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Barbara Leigh-Hunt

7.4 IMDB Rating 188 Views
The Trouble with Harry 1955

Harry's dead and, while no one really minds, everyone feels responsible. After Harry's body is found in the woods, several locals must determine not only how and why he was killed but what to do with the body.

Category: Comedy, Mystery

Stars: John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine, Edmund Gwenn

7.0 IMDB Rating 230 Views
To Catch a Thief 1955

A retired jewel thief sets out to prove his innocence after being suspected of returning to his former occupation.

Category: Mystery, Romantic, Thriller

Stars: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis

7.4 IMDB Rating 247 Views
Notorious 1946

The daughter of a convicted Nazi spy is asked by American agents to gather information on a ring of Nazi scientists in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?

Category: Drama, Film-Noir, romance, Romantic

Stars: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains

7.9 IMDB Rating 212 Views
The Man Who Knew Too Much 1956

An American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocco, and are drawn into a twisting plot of international intrigue when their young son is kidnapped.

Category: Drama, Thriller

Stars: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda de Banzie

7.4 IMDB Rating 340 Views
Rope 1948

Two men attempt to prove they committed the perfect crime by hosting a dinner party after strangling their former classmate to death.

Category: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Stars: James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger

7.9 IMDB Rating 578 Views
North by Northwest 1959

A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies.

Category: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller

Stars: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis

8.3 IMDB Rating 4,314 Views
Vertigo 1958

John "Scottie" Ferguson is a retired San Francisco police detective who suffers from acrophobia and Madeleine is the lady who leads him to high places. A wealthy shipbuilder who is an acquaintance from college days approaches Scottie and asks him to follow his beautiful wife, Madeleine. He fears she is going insane, maybe even contemplating suicide, he believes she is possessed by a dead ancestor. Scottie is skeptical, but agrees after he sees the beautiful Madeleine.

Category: Mystery, Romantic, Thriller

Stars: James Stewart,Kim Novak,Barbara Bel Geddes,Tom Helmore

8.4 IMDB Rating 5,194 Views
Psycho 1960

Phoenix officeworker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. She has to meet her lover Sam in lunch breaks and they cannot get married because Sam has to give most of his money away in alimony. One Friday Marion is trusted to bank $40,000 by her employer. Seeing the opportunity to take the money and start a new life, Marion leaves town and heads towards Sam's California store. Tired after the long drive and caught in a storm, she gets off the main highway and pulls into The Bates Motel. The motel is managed by a quiet young man called Norman who seems to be dominated by his mother.

Category: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Stars: Anthony Perkins,Vera Miles,John Gavin,Janet Leigh

8.5 IMDB Rating 6,345 Views
The Birds 1963

Melanie Daniels is the modern rich socialite, part of the jet-set who always gets what she wants. When lawyer Mitch Brenner sees her in a pet shop, he plays something of a practical joke on her, and she decides to return the favor. She drives about an hour north of San Francisco to Bodega Bay, where Mitch spends the weekends with his mother Lydia and younger sister Cathy. Soon after her arrival, however, the birds in the area begin to act strangely. A seagull attacks Melanie as she is crossing the bay in a small boat, and then, Lydia finds her neighbor dead, obviously the victim of a bird attack. Soon, birds in the hundreds and thousands are attacking anyone they find out of doors. There is no explanation as to why this might be happening, and as the birds continue their vicious attacks, survival becomes the priority.

Category: Drama, Horror, Mystery

Stars: Tippi Hedren,Suzanne Pleshette,Rod Taylor,Jessica Tandy

7.7 IMDB Rating 4,474 Views
Marnie 1964

Mark marries Marnie although she is a habitual thief and has serious psychological problems, and tries to help her confront and resolve them.

Category: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Stars: Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Martin Gabel

7.1 IMDB Rating 3,115 Views
Dial M for Murder 1954

A former tennis star arranges the murder of his adulterous wife.

Category: Crime, Thriller

Stars: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings

8.2 IMDB Rating 3,938 Views
Rebecca 1940

A self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence.

Category: Drama, Mystery, romance, Romantic

Stars: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders

8.1 IMDB Rating 3,258 Views