Alfred Hitchcock Movies: Hollywood Films

1940 - 197630 Films55h 49m4.2 Average

When Alfred Hitchcock moved to Hollywood in 1940, he entered the most productive and acclaimed phase of his career. Working with major studios and Hollywood's biggest stars - Cary Grant, James Stewart, Ingrid Bergman, Grace Kelly - Hitchcock gained access to larger budgets and more sophisticated technical resources that allowed him to fully realize his artistic vision.

The Hollywood period marks a stylistic evolution from his British work. While his British films built suspense primarily in their final acts, his American films maintained tension throughout, using advanced camera techniques, tighter framing, and more complex editing patterns. The psychological depth increased, exploring darker themes of obsession, guilt, and identity.

This watch list showcases Hitchcock's golden age, including his most iconic and influential works - from the Oscar-winning Rebecca to the groundbreaking Psycho, and masterpieces like Vertigo, Rear Window, and North by Northwest that continue to inspire filmmakers today.

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Rebecca

19402h 10m4.8
MysteryRomanceThriller
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson, Nigel Bruce

A young woman marries a widower and moves to his estate, only to find herself haunted by the lingering presence of his deceased first wife, Rebecca. She must navigate the hostility of the obsessive housekeeper Mrs. Danvers while uncovering dark secrets about her husband's past.

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Foreign Correspondent

19402h4
ThrillerMysteryAction
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders, Albert Bassermann

An American crime reporter assigned to cover pre-WWII Europe stumbles into a dangerous web of espionage and assassination. With help from a politician's daughter and a fellow journalist, he must uncover an international spy ring while navigating the escalating tensions of impending war.

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Mr. & Mrs. Smith

19411h 35m3.2
ComedyRomance
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Carole Lombard, Robert Montgomery, Gene Raymond, Jack Carson, Philip Merivale

A happily married couple discovers their marriage is not legally valid due to a technicality, leading to complications when the husband admits he wouldn't marry his wife again if given the choice.

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Suspicion

19411h 39m4.1
MysteryRomanceThriller
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, May Whitty

A sheltered heiress marries a charming but irresponsible playboy, only to discover his gambling debts and mounting lies. As mysterious deaths occur around them, she begins to fear that her husband may have deadly intentions toward her.

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Saboteur

19421h 49m3.9
Thriller
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Robert Cummings, Priscilla Lane, Otto Kruger, Alan Baxter, Clem Bevans

A factory worker wrongly accused of sabotage must flee across the country to clear his name and find the real culprits in this Hitchcock thriller.

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Shadow of a Doubt

19431h 47m4.4
ThrillerMystery
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey, Henry Travers, Patricia Collinge

A young woman's excitement over her charming uncle's visit to their quiet California town turns to suspicion when his increasingly strange behavior suggests he may be harboring a dark secret.

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Lifeboat

19441h 36m4.3
WarDrama
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, John Hodiak

During World War II, survivors of a torpedoed ship find themselves stranded together in a lifeboat, forced to overcome their differences and work together to survive at sea.

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Spellbound

19451h 51m4.4
ThrillerMysteryRomance
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Leo G. Carroll, Michael Chekhov, John Emery

A psychoanalyst discovers that the new director of her Vermont mental hospital is actually an amnesiac impostor who fears he may have murdered the real doctor. She becomes convinced of his innocence and helps him uncover the truth through psychoanalysis.

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Notorious

19461h 43m4.6
ThrillerRomanceMystery
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Leopoldine Konstantin, Louis Calhern

A U.S. government agent recruits the daughter of a convicted Nazi war criminal to infiltrate a group of German conspirators hiding in Brazil. As the dangerous mission unfolds, a complex love triangle develops that threatens both the operation and their lives.

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The Paradine Case

19471h 54m3.4
DramaMysteryRomance
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Gregory Peck, Ann Todd, Alida Valli, Charles Laughton, Charles Coburn

A happily married London barrister becomes dangerously infatuated with his beautiful client, a woman accused of poisoning her blind husband. His obsession clouds his professional judgment and threatens both his career and marriage.

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Rope

19481h 21m4.8
ThrillerCrimeDrama
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Collier

Two young men believe they have committed the perfect murder and decide to test their theory by hosting a dinner party with the victim's family and friends.

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Under Capricorn

19491h 58m3.2
DramaHistory
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Michael Wilding, Margaret Leighton, Cecil Parker

A British ex-convict and his troubled wife attempt to start fresh in colonial Australia, but their dark past catches up with them when a young newcomer arrives and threatens to expose long-buried secrets.

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Stage Fright

19501h 50m3.9
Thriller
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding, Richard Todd, Alastair Sim

A struggling actress becomes entangled in a murder investigation when she tries to help a friend who's been accused of killing a prominent entertainer's husband.

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Strangers on a Train

19511h 41m4.6
CrimeThriller
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker, Leo G. Carroll, Patricia Hitchcock

A charming psychopath proposes to a tennis star that they can commit the perfect crime by exchanging murders, each killing someone the other wants gone.

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I Confess

19531h 35m4.1
DramaThrillerCrime
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden, Brian Aherne, O.E. Hasse

A priest becomes the prime suspect in a murder case when he cannot reveal what he learned during a confession, putting his faith and freedom at stake.

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Dial M for Murder

19541h 45m4.8
ThrillerCrime
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, John Williams, Anthony Dawson

A wealthy woman's jealous husband devises an elaborate murder plot when her American lover comes to visit London, hoping to eliminate her and claim her inheritance.

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Rear Window

19541h 52m5
ThrillerMystery
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr

A wheelchair-bound photographer becomes obsessed with watching his neighbors from his apartment window and grows suspicious that one of them may have committed murder.

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To Catch a Thief

19551h 46m4.3
MysteryRomanceThriller
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis, John Williams, Charles Vanel

A reformed cat burglar on the French Riviera must catch a copycat thief to clear his name when a string of jewel robberies makes him the prime suspect. His investigation leads him into a web of romance and intrigue with a wealthy American widow and her daughter.

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The Trouble with Harry

19551h 39m4
ComedyMystery
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine, Edmund Gwenn, Mildred Natwick, Mildred Dunnock

In a quiet Vermont village, the discovery of a dead body causes unexpected chaos as several townspeople each believe they may be responsible for the death.

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The Man Who Knew Too Much

19562h4.4
ThrillerMystery
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda De Banzie, Bernard Miles, Ralph Truman

An American doctor and his wife become entangled in international intrigue when they witness a murder during their Moroccan vacation and their young son is kidnapped as a result.

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The Wrong Man

19561h 45m4.2
CrimeDrama
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle, Harold J. Stone, Charles Cooper

An innocent musician is wrongly arrested and accused of armed robbery in this tense drama based on a true story.

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Vertigo

19582h 8m5
MysteryRomanceThriller
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones

A retired San Francisco detective with a fear of heights becomes dangerously obsessed while investigating the mysterious behavior of an old friend's wife.

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North by Northwest

19592h 16m4.8
ThrillerAdventure
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll

An advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent and finds himself pursued by enemy spies across the country in this classic Hitchcock thriller.

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Psycho

19601h 49m5
HorrorThrillerMystery
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam

A young woman on the run with stolen money stops at the isolated Bates Motel, where she encounters the peculiar manager Norman Bates and his mysterious mother.

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The Birds

19632h4.4
HorrorThriller
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, Veronica Cartwright

In this classic Hitchcock thriller, a peaceful seaside town becomes the target of inexplicable and increasingly violent bird attacks that terrorize the residents.

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Marnie

19642h 10m4.1
ThrillerMysteryRomance
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Diane Baker, Martin Gabel, Louise Latham

A beautiful but troubled thief who steals from her employers is discovered by her new boss, who becomes obsessed with her and blackmails her into marriage, believing he can heal her psychological wounds.

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Torn Curtain

19662h 7m3.7
Thriller
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Lila Kedrova, Hansjörg Felmy, Tamara Toumanova

During the Cold War, an American scientist pretends to defect to East Germany on a secret mission, but his plan becomes complicated when his unsuspecting fiancée follows him across the border.

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Topaz

19692h 7m3.2
DramaThriller
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, John Vernon, Karin Dor, Michel Piccoli

A French intelligence agent becomes entangled in a dangerous Cold War espionage operation when a high-ranking Soviet official decides to defect in 1962 Copenhagen.

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Frenzy

19721h 56m4.1
CrimeThrillerHorror
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Anna Massey, Alec McCowen

In this Hitchcock thriller, London is gripped by fear as a serial killer known as The Necktie Murderer stalks the city. When down-on-his-luck Richard Blaney becomes the prime suspect after his ex-wife's murder, he must evade police while desperately trying to prove his innocence.

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Family Plot

19762h3.8
ComedyCrimeThrillerMystery
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Barbara Harris, Bruce Dern, Karen Black, William Devane, Ed Lauter

A spiritualist and her taxi driver boyfriend become entangled with dangerous criminals while searching for a missing heir in this Hitchcock thriller.