Alfred Hitchcock’s Typical Vibe
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Alfred Hitchcock has 45 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1920s through the 2000s. 7 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Rope.
Recurring themes

Lady in the Lake
1946
Mystery · Thriller

Dark Passage
1947
Thriller · Mystery

A Conspiracy of Faith
2016
Crime · Drama

Phantom Lady
1944
Mystery · Thriller

The Morning After
1986
Thriller · Mystery

Rider on the Rain
1970
Thriller · Mystery

Green for Danger
1946
Mystery · Crime

Kiss of Death
1947
Crime · Thriller

North by Northwest
1959 · Movie · Director
Top 1%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Strangers on a Train
1951 · Movie · Director
Top 5%Tubi · Free w/ ads

The Lady Vanishes
1938 · Movie · Director
Top 12%Max · Included

The 39 Steps
1935 · Movie · Director
Top 14%Max · Included

Foreign Correspondent
1940 · Movie · Director
Top 14%Max · Included

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
1927 · Movie · Actor · Director · Writer
Top 28%Max · Included
When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey
A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes

Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
Thousands of birds flock into a seaside town and terrorize the residents in a series of deadly attacks.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy

Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger

When her American lover visits London, a wealthy woman’s jealous husband hatches a plan to murder her and inherit her fortune.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings
Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips with the terrible secret of her handsome, cold husband, Max De Winter. She must also deal with the jealous, obsessed Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, who will not accept her as the mistress of the house.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders

In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains

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.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda De Banzie

In sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlie’s world brightens when her sophisticated Uncle Charlie arrives for a long visit. But as his behavior grows increasingly strange, she begins to suspect that her beloved uncle may be hiding a terrible secret—and that danger has quietly entered her home.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey
When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Leo G. Carroll

A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit the perfect crime by exchanging murders—each killing the other’s most-hated person.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker
Marnie is a beautiful but emotionally withdrawn thief, stealing from employers before disappearing under new identities. When her new boss, Mark Rutland, discovers her secret, his fascination turns to obsession, and he blackmails her into marriage, convinced he can cure her. But as he probes deeper into Marnie’s fractured mind, long-buried fears and compulsions begin to surface.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Diane Baker

On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a hotel in a fictional European country, young Iris befriends elderly Miss Froy. When the train resumes, Iris suffers a bout of unconsciousness and wakes to find the old woman has disappeared. The other passengers ominously deny Miss Froy ever existed, so Iris begins to investigate with another traveler and, as the pair sleuth, romantic sparks fly.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas

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.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim

American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall

When a string of jewel robberies hits the French Riviera, suspicion falls on retired thief John “The Cat” Robie. To clear his name, he sets out to trap the copycat himself—entangling a wealthy widow and her beguiling daughter in a seductive game of pursuit, deception, and desire.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis

During World War II, a small group of survivors is stranded in a lifeboat together after the ship they were traveling on is destroyed by a German U-boat.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak

Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Robert Cummings, Priscilla Lane, Otto Kruger

In a quiet Vermont village, a corpse creates unexpected chaos as several townspeople each believe they may be to blame.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine, Edmund Gwenn

A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding

A sheltered heiress falls for a charming playboy and elopes with him, but soon discovers his gambling vice and mounting debts. As his lies deepen and those around them meet mysterious ends, she begins to suspect that her husband’s affection may conceal a deadly motive—and that she could be his next victim.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke

In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle

London is terrorized by a vicious sex killer known as The Necktie Murderer. Following the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, down-on-his-luck Richard Blaney is suspected by the police of being the killer. He goes on the run, determined to prove his innocence.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Barbara Leigh-Hunt

as Man in Newspaper Office (uncredited) · Director · Writer
Max · Included+1
London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog. One foggy, sinister night, a young man who claims his name is Jonathan Drew arrives at the guest house run by the Bunting family and rents a room.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Ivor Novello, Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney

During the Cold War, an American scientist appears to defect to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the formula for a resin solution—but the plan goes awry when his fiancee, unaware of his motivation, follows him across the border.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Lila Kedrova

Spiritualist Blanche Tyler and her cab-driving boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Barbara Harris, Bruce Dern, Karen Black

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Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Alfred Hitchcock

When a young writer is falsely accused of murdering a famous actress, he escapes custody and joins forces with the daughter of a police constable to prove his innocence.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont