Alfred Hitchcock Movies: Release Order

1925 - 197652 Films89h 12m3.8 Average

Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) remains one of the most influential and celebrated film directors of all time, known as the Master of Suspense. Over a career spanning five decades, Hitchcock directed more than 50 feature films, evolving from silent British thrillers to Hollywood psychological masterpieces that redefined the language of cinema.

Hitchcock's career began in the British silent era with The Pleasure Garden (1925), before pioneering the transition to sound with Blackmail (1929), Britain's first talkie. His British period established many of his signature themes - wrongly accused men, blonde heroines, and elegant suspense - in classics like The 39 Steps and The Lady Vanishes.

In 1940, he moved to Hollywood where he refined his craft with bigger budgets and major stars, creating iconic films that pushed the boundaries of censorship and audience expectations. From the Gothic romance of Rebecca to the shocking violence of Psycho, Hitchcock's American films cemented his reputation as a supreme manipulator of audience emotion.

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The Pleasure Garden

19251h 31m2.7
DramaRomance
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Virginia Valli, Carmelita Geraghty, Miles Mander, John Stuart, George Snell

Two chorus girls working at London's Pleasure Garden Theatre take divergent paths as they navigate love, ambition, and the complexities of their personal relationships.

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The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

19271h 31m4.1
CrimeThrillerMystery
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Ivor Novello, Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, June Tripp, Malcolm Keen

In fog-shrouded London, a serial killer targets young blonde women while a mysterious stranger arrives at a boarding house, casting suspicion on his true identity and motives.

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The Ring

19271h 56m3.1
DramaRomance
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Carl Brisson, Lillian Hall-Davis, Ian Hunter, Forrester Harvey, Harry Terry

A love triangle develops between two boxers and a woman, leading to marital complications when one boxer's wife seeks comfort from his rival.

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Downhill

19271h 46m3
Drama
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Ivor Novello, Ben Webster, Norman McKinnel, Robin Irvine, Jerrold Robertshaw

When a noble school captain takes the blame for his friend's scandal, he is expelled and cast out from his privileged world. He then descends through a series of increasingly degrading jobs and circumstances, falling deeper into ruin and despair.

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The Farmer's Wife

19282h 9m3
ComedyDrama
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Jameson Thomas, Lillian Hall-Davis, Gordon Harker, Gibb McLaughlin, Maud Gill

A widowed middle-aged farmer decides to remarry and pursues several local women as potential brides in this early Hitchcock comedy-drama.

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Easy Virtue

19281h 10m2.7
RomanceDrama
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Isabel Jeans, Franklin Dyall, Eric Bransby Williams, Ian Hunter, Robin Irvine

A woman wrongly accused of adultery flees to the French Riviera where she falls in love with a young Englishman, but her past threatens to catch up with her when she meets his disapproving family.

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Champagne

19281h 45m2.5
ComedyDrama
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Betty Balfour, Gordon Harker, Jean Bradin, Ferdinand von Alten, Fanny Wright

A wealthy heiress rebels against her millionaire father by fleeing to France to chase after her romantic interest, but her impulsive adventure doesn't unfold as she expected.

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The Manxman

19291h 40m3.3
RomanceDrama
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Carl Brisson, Malcolm Keen, Anny Ondra, Randle Ayrton, Clare Greet

Two childhood friends, a fisherman and an aspiring lawyer, find themselves rivals when they both fall in love with the same woman.

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Blackmail

19291h 26m3.6
DramaThrillerCrime
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Anny Ondra, Sara Allgood, Charles Paton, John Longden, Donald Calthrop

A Scotland Yard detective's neglect of his girlfriend leads her to accept an invitation from a charming artist, setting in motion a chain of events that will test their relationship and his professional duties.

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Juno and the Paycock

19301h 34m2.1
DramaComedy
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Barry Fitzgerald, Maire O'Neill, Edward Chapman, Sara Allgood, John Laurie

During the Irish Civil War, the impoverished Boyle family in Dublin's slums falls into false hope when they believe they've inherited a fortune. As the patriarch squanders their resources and the inheritance proves to be a lie, the family faces devastating consequences.

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Murder!

19301h 42m3.2
MysteryCrimeThriller
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Herbert Marshall, Edward Chapman, Esme Percy, Norah Baring, Phyllis Konstam

When actress Diana Baring is found beside her murdered colleague's body, she becomes the prime suspect. However, one juror begins to doubt her guilt and launches his own investigation to uncover the truth.

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The Skin Game

19311h 22m2.7
Drama
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: C. V. France, Helen Haye, Jill Esmond, Edmund Gwenn, John Longden

An old traditional family clashes with a modern family over valuable land in a small English village, revealing deep-seated class tensions and moral conflicts.

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Rich and Strange

19311h 23m2.8
ComedyRomanceDramaAdventure
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Henry Kendall, Joan Barry, Percy Marmont, Betty Amann, Elsie Randolph

A bored London couple receives an inheritance and embarks on a world cruise to rejuvenate their marriage, but their newfound wealth and freedom only expose the deeper cracks in their relationship as they each become attracted to other people.

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Number Seventeen

19321h 3m2.8
ThrillerMysteryCrime
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Leon M. Lion, Anne Grey, John Stuart, Donald Calthrop, Barry Jones

A gang of jewel thieves takes refuge in an abandoned London house, unaware that a detective has infiltrated their group in disguise.

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Waltzes from Vienna

19341h 21m2.7
HistoryRomanceMusic
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Edmund Gwenn, Esmond Knight, Jessie Matthews, Fay Compton, Frank Vosper

In 1930s Vienna, aspiring composer Johann Strauss Jr. struggles against his father's wishes to abandon music for a conventional career. Caught between family expectations and his musical dreams, he finds the inspiration to create one of his most famous waltzes.

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The Man Who Knew Too Much

19341h 16m3.6
ThrillerMystery
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre, Frank Vosper, Hugh Wakefield

A British couple on vacation in St. Moritz become entangled in an international assassination plot when they receive a mysterious clue, leading to their daughter being kidnapped to ensure their silence.

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The 39 Steps

19351h 26m4.3
MysteryThriller
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft

After a mysterious woman is murdered in his apartment, Richard Hanney becomes a fugitive from both the police and enemy spies. He must uncover the truth behind a secretive spy ring called The 39 Steps while evading capture across the Scottish Highlands.

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Secret Agent

19361h 26m3.3
ThrillerMysteryRomance
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Madeleine Carroll, John Gielgud, Peter Lorre, Robert Young, Percy Marmont

During World War I, a novelist presumed dead is recruited by British intelligence and sent to Switzerland under a new identity to assassinate a German spy. Teamed with fellow agents including one posing as his wife, the mission becomes complicated as personal feelings clash with duty.

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Sabotage

19371h 17m3.8
DramaThrillerCrime
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, Desmond Tester, John Loder, Joyce Barbour

A seemingly ordinary couple runs a small London cinema, but the husband harbors a dangerous secret that threatens to destroy his family and endanger his young brother-in-law's life.

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Young and Innocent

19371h 23m3.7
ThrillerRomanceMystery
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont, Edward Rigby, Mary Clare

A young writer falsely accused of murdering a famous actress must evade capture while working with a police constable's daughter to clear his name in this classic Hitchcock thriller.

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The Lady Vanishes

19381h 36m4.4
MysteryThriller
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, May Whitty, Basil Radford

When young Iris awakens from unconsciousness on a train, she discovers that the elderly woman she befriended has mysteriously vanished and no other passengers will admit to ever seeing her. As Iris investigates the disappearance with the help of a charming fellow traveler, they uncover a dangerous conspiracy while romance blossoms between them.

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Jamaica Inn

19391h 40m3.3
CrimeAdventureThriller
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Robert Newton, Leslie Banks, Marie Ney

In early 19th-century Cornwall, young Mary Yellan arrives at the remote Jamaica Inn to live with her aunt and uncle, only to discover the inn serves as headquarters for a dangerous gang of wreckers who prey on ships along the treacherous coast.

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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.