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Director Facts
Birth:
August 13, 1899
Death:
April 29, 1980
Biography:
Alfred Hitchcock was the son of East End greengrocer William Hitchcock and his wife Emma. Raised as a strict Catholic and attending Saint Ignatius College, a school run by Jesuits, Hitch had very much of a regular upbringing. His first job outside of the family business was in 1915 as an estimator for the Henley Telegraph and Cable Company. ...more about Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock
DIRECTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1920s
2.4097
10
1930s
2.6789
13
1940s
3.2728
11
1950s
3.3952
11
1960s
2.8129
5
1970s
2.0881
2
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards for each movie.
Overall Director Score: 
3.4839
3.4839Alfred Hitchcock Movie Rankings
1
3.9056In this Alfred Hitchcock Thriller, James Stewart plays L.B. Jefferies who is homebound after breaking his leg. To pass time, he begins spying on his neighbors with binoculars out his window. Soon the seemingly harmless activity gets Jefferies into trouble when he believes he has witnessed a murder. ...more about Rear Window
Director Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Director
- Directors Guild of America, USA - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures
- DVD Best Pricing:
Wal Mart
2
3.8620Marion Crane on impulse steals $40,000 that has been entrusted to her by her employer. On the evening of her run-away she stops at a dark, off-road motel for the night and encounters a friendly, but deranged manager and soon meets an untimely demise. ...more about Psycho
Director Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Director
- Directors Guild of America, USA - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
3
3.7026Retired police detective Scottie Fergusson is asked by an old college friend to follow his wife, whom believes she is possessed by a dead ancestor. Scottie seems to foil her suicide attempt and begins falling in love with his friend's wife. ...more about Vertigo
Director Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White or Color
- Directors Guild of America, USA - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures
- DVD Best Pricing:
Wal Mart
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4
3.6888An Alfred Hitchcock film about a girl named Charlie who feels her life is becoming very mundane. Her world becomes much more interesting when she receives a surprise visit from her favorite uncle of the same name. ...more about Shadow of a Doubt
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
5
3.6061A young woman is haunted by her new husband's dead wife, Rebecca. After a quick courtship and world wind romance, the new Mr. and Mrs. de Winter return to his estate. Once there Mrs. ...more about Rebecca
Director Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Art Direction, Black-and-White
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Director
- DVD Best Pricing:
DVDEmpire
6
3.6021After her father is convicted of treason and commits suicide Alicia is asked by the U.S. government to spy on a Brazilian Nazi faction to help clear her name. She agrees and later falls in love with the agent assigned to her case, but he feels he still can't trust her. ...more about Notorious
- DVD Best Pricing:
DVDEmpire
7
3.5541Middle-aged Madison Avenue advertising executive Roger O. Thornhill is mistaken for a government agent by a gang of spies. ...more about North by Northwest
Director Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen
- Directors Guild of America, USA - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures
- DVD Best Pricing:
Overstock.com
8
3.4828An Alfred Hitchcock thriller about a famous tennis player named Guy Haines (Farley Granger) who is traveling on a train to a tennis match. On the train he meets a playboy named Bruno Anthony (Robert Walker). ...more about Strangers on a Train
Director Awards
- Directors Guild of America, USA - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures
- DVD Best Pricing:
Overstock.com
9
3.2509Manny Ballestero is an honest hardworking musician at New York's Stork Club. When his wife needs money for dental treatment, Manny goes to the local insurance office to borrow on her policy. ...more about Wrong Man
- DVD Best Pricing:
Overstock.com
10
3.2329London is terrorised by a vicious sex killer known as the neck tie murderer. Following the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, down-on-his-luck Richard Blaney is suspected by the police of being the killer. ...more about Frenzy
Director Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Director - Motion Picture
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
11
3.1960Ex-tennis pro Tony Wendice decides to murder his wife for her money and because she had an affair the year before. He blackmails an old college associate to strangle her, but when things go wrong he sees a way to turn events to his advantage. ...more about Dial M for Murder
Director Awards
- Directors Guild of America, USA - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
12
3.1664Johnny Aysgarth is a handsome gambler who seems to live by borrowing money from friends. He meets shy Lina McLaidlaw on a train whilst trying to travel in a first class carriage with a third class ticket. ...more about Suspicion
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
13
3.1351Johnny Jones is an action reporter on a New York newspaper. The editor appoints him European correspondent because he is fed up with the dry, reports he currently gets. ...more about Foreign Correspondent
Director Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Art Direction, Black-and-White
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
14
3.0973Richard Hannay is a Canadian visitor to London. At the end of "Mr Memory"'s show in a music hall, he meets Annabella Smith who is running away from secret agents. He accepts to hide her in his flat, but in the night she is murdered. ...more about 39 Steps
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
15
3.0798Flocks of sea gulls begin to take over a small costal town attacking anyone that gets in their way. ...more about Birds
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
16
3.0136Trouble erupts in a small, quiet New England town when a man's body is found in the woods. The problem is that almost everyone in town thinks that they had something to do with his death. ...more about Trouble with Harry
Director Awards
- Directors Guild of America, USA - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
17
2.9947Brandon and Philip are two young men who share a New York apartment. They consider themselves intellectually superior to their friend David Kentley and as a consequence decide to murder him. ...more about Rope
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
18
2.9661Sophisticated New York couple David and Annie Smith have an unusual marriage with an inordinate number of rules and regulations. One rule entitles them to ask each other one question per month which the other must answer completely honestly. ...more about Mr. & Mrs. Smith
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
19
2.9344Otto Kellar and his wife Alma work as caretaker and housekeeper at a Catholic church in Quebec. Whilst robbing a house where he sometimes works as a gardener, Otto is caught and kills the owner. ...more about I Confess
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
20
2.9210Alice White is the daughter of a shopkeeper in 1920's London. Her boyfriend, Frank Webber is a Scotland Yard detective who seems more interested in police work than in her. ...more about Blackmail
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
21
2.9164Dr. Ben McKenna, his wife Jo and their son Hank are on a touring holiday of Africa when they meet the mysterious Louis Bernard on a bus. ...more about Man Who Knew Too Much
Director Awards
- Directors Guild of America, USA - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures
- DVD Best Pricing:
Newegg.com
22
2.8792A serial killer known as "The Avenger" is on the loose in London, murdering blonde women. A mysterious man arrives at the house of Mr. and Mrs. Bunting looking for a room to rent. ...more about Lodger
- DVD Best Pricing:
Overstock.com
23
2.7842Jonathan Cooper is wanted by the police who suspect him of killing his lover's husband. His friend Eve Gill offers to hide him and Jonathan explains to her that his lover, actress Charlotte Inwood is the real murderer. ...more about Stage Fright
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
24
2.7841Marnie Edgar is an ice-cold habitual thief. She uses her looks to gain the confidence of her employers, robs them, and changes her identity. Her only loves are her horse and her mother, although she has problems with the latter relationship. ...more about Marnie
- DVD Best Pricing:
Newegg.com
25
2.7609A film actress is murdered by her estranged husband who is jealous of all her young boyfriends. The next day, writer Robert Tisdall (who happens to be one such boyfriend) discovers her body on the beach. ...more about Young and Innocent
- DVD Best Pricing:
Overstock.com
26
2.7386In 1831, Irishman Charles Adare travels to Australia to start a new life with the help of his cousin who has just been appointed governor. When he arrives he meets powerful landowner and ex-convict Sam Flusky, who wants to do a business deal with him. ...more about Under Capricorn
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
27
2.7362American expatriate John Robie living in high style on the Riviera is a retired cat burglar. He must find out who a copy cat is to keep a new wave of jewel thefts from being pinned on him. ...more about To Catch a Thief
Director Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color
- DVD Best Pricing:
Overstock.com
28
2.7195Mr. Verloc is part of a gang of foreign saboteurs operating out of London. He manages a small cinema with his wife and her teenage brother as a cover, but they know nothing of his secret. ...more about Sabotage
- DVD Best Pricing:
Overstock.com
29
2.7192The beautiful Mrs. Paradine is accused of poisoning her older, blind husband. She hires married Anthony Keane as her lawyer and when he begins to fall in love with her, she encourages him. ...more about Paradine Case
- DVD Best Pricing:
DVDEmpire
30
2.7033Fake medium Madam Blanche (Barbara Harris) and her taxi driver boyfriend George (Bruce Dern) make a living by scaming people with her phoney powers. ...more about Family Plot
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
31
2.6757Detective Gilbert is searching for a necklace robbed by a gang of thieves. In the beginning, the gang is in a house in London, then they are running away from police. It will not be easy for the detective to recover the jewel. ...more about Number Seventeen
- DVD Best Pricing:
Overstock.com
32
2.6255Bob and Jill Lawrence are on a winter sports holiday with their teenage daughter Betty. When their friend Louis Bernard is shot whilst dancing with Jill, he tells Bob of an assassination about to take place in London. ...more about Man Who Knew Too Much
- DVD Best Pricing:
Newegg.com
33
2.6111When sabotage destroys part of an aircraft plant, plant worker Barry Kane is falsely blamed for the crime. Determined to clear his name, he sets out to track down the man he believes to be the actual saboteur, the mysterious Mr. Fry. ...more about Saboteur
- DVD Best Pricing:
Overstock.com
34
2.5707Set in Cornwall where the young orphan, Mary, is sent to live with Aunt Patience and Uncle Joss who are the landlords of the Jamaica Inn. ...more about Jamaica Inn
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
35
2.4682A rich family, the Hillcrests, is fighting against the speculator, Hornblower, who sends away poor farmers to build factories on their lands. When Mrs. ...more about Skin Game
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
36
2.4519The police find the actress, Diana Baring, near the body of her friend. All the circumstantial proofs seems to point to her and, at the end of the trial, she is condemned. ...more about Murder!
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
37
2.3629Despite their differing backgrounds, fisherman Pete and lawyer Philip have been life long friends on the Isle of Man. Pete wants to marry Kate, the landlord's daughter at the local inn, however Kate's father doesn't think he is good enough. ...more about Manxman
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
38
2.2944During the Irish revolution, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life forgetting what the most important values of are. At the end, they discover they will not receive that inheritance; the family is destroyed and penniless. ...more about Juno and the Paycock
- DVD Best Pricing:
Newegg.com
39
2.2836U.S. rocket scientist Michael Armstrong and his assistant/fiancée Sarah Sherman are attending a convention in Copenhagen. Michael is acting very suspiciously and Sarah follows him to East Germany when he apparently tries to defect to the other side. ...more about Torn Curtain
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
40
2.1856A spoilt rich girl leads a life of luxury on the profits from her father's champagne business. To bring her back down to earth he tells her that all the money has been lost so she goes to seek her fortune. ...more about Champagne
- DVD Best Pricing:
Wal Mart
41
2.0821Larita Filton is named as correspondent in a scandalous divorce case. She escapes to France to rebuild her life where she meets John Whittaker. They are later married, but John's well-to-do family finds out Larita's secret. ...more about Easy Virtue
- DVD Best Pricing:
Overstock.com
42
2.0775Schani, Johan Strauss Jr., is forced by his father to forget music and to work in a bakery. Here he falls in love with Resi. The girl gets very jealous when a rich and beautiful contessa asks Schani to write a waltz for her. ...more about Waltzes from Vienna
- Not Available on DVD
43
2.0699Fred and Emily Hill are leading a boring life in London. They receive a big inheritance by a rich relative and now they can realize all their dreams. They leave for a cruise behaving as rich people....but this is the beginning of the end. ...more about Rich and Strange
- DVD Best Pricing:
Wal Mart
44
2.0547During the first world war, novelist Edgar Brodie is sent to Switzerland by the Intelligence Service. He has to kill a German agent. During the mission he meets a fake general first and then Elsa Carrington who helps him in his duty. ...more about Secret Agent
- DVD Best Pricing:
Overstock.com
45
1.8048A high ranking Russian official defects to the United States, where he is interviewed by US agent Michael Nordstrom. The defector reveals that a French spy ring codenamed "Topaz" has been passing NATO secrets to the Russians. ...more about Topaz
Director Awards
- National Board of Review, USA - Best Director
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
46
1.6072Public schoolboy Roddy Berwick is expelled from school when he takes the blame for a friend's theft and his life falls apart in a series of misadventures. ...more about Downhill
- Not Available on DVD
48
Pettigrew, a shop-keeper in a mountain town of Kentucky, falls in love with the teacher, Beatrice. The girl doesn't consider him as a lover, so he gets angry and accuses her of molesting his son Edward who has a mental illness. ...more about Mountain Eagle
- Not Available on DVD
49
Patsy Brand is a chorus girl at the Pleasure Garden music hall. She meets Jill Cheyne who is down on her luck and gets her a job as a dancer. ...more about Pleasure Garden
- Not Available on DVD
50
Jack Saunders and Bob Corby are two boxers in love with Nellie. Jack and Nellie are married but their marriage is flat so she starts to look to Bob for comfort. ...more about Ring
- DVD Best Pricing:
Overstock.com
52
The head of the Green Manors mental asylum Dr. Murchison is retiring to be replaced by Dr. Edwardes, a famous psychiatrist. Edwardes arrives and is immediately attracted to the beautiful but cold Dr. Constance Petersen. ...more about Spellbound
Director Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Director
- DVD Best Pricing:
DVDEmpire
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