What are your Top Five Alfred Hitchcock Movies?

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See Highest Rated Feature Film Director Titles With Alfred Hitchcock for a complete listing of his movies, but I have selected these for this thread:

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  1. Psycho (1960)
  2. Rear Window (1954)
  3. North by Northwest (1959)
  4. Vertigo (1958)
  5. Dial M for Murder (1954)
  6. Rebecca (1940)
  7. Strangers on a Train (1951)
  8. Notorious (1946)
  9. Rope (1948)
  10. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
  11. The Lady Vanishes (1938)
  12. The 39 Steps (1935)
  13. The Birds (1963)
  14. Lifeboat (1944)
  15. Spellbound (1945)
  16. Foreign Correspondent (1940)
  17. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
  18. To Catch a Thief (1955)
  19. Frenzy (1972)
  20. Suspicion (1941)
  21. The Wrong Man (1956)
  22. The Lodger (1927)
  23. I Confess (1953)
  24. Marnie (1964)
  25. The Trouble with Harry (1955)
  26. Saboteur (1942)
  27. Stage Fright (1950)
  28. Sabotage (1936)
  29. Blackmail (1929)
  30. The Girl Was Young (1937)
  31. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
  32. Family Plot (1976)
  33. Torn Curtain (1966)
  34. Secret Agent (1936)
  35. Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)
  36. The Paradine Case (1947)
  37. Murder! (1930)
  38. Topaz (1969)
  39. Jamaica Inn (1939)
  40. The Ring (I) (1927)
  41. The Manxman (1929)
  42. Under Capricorn (1949)
  43. When Boys Leave Home (1927)
  44. The Pleasure Garden (1925)
  45. The Farmer’s Wife (1928)
  46. Strauss’ Great Waltz (1934)
  47. Mary (1931)
  48. East of Shanghai (1931)
  49. Number 17 (1932)
  50. The Skin Game (1931)

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Choose your own Top Five and post them. We’ll see what happens! :slight_smile:

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Rear Window (1954)
North by Northwest (1959)
Vertigo (1958)
Notorious (1946)
The Birds (1963)

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Rear Window (1954)
Lifeboat (1944)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
Psycho (1960)
Dial M for Murder (1954)

Least Favorite, of those I’ve seen:

The Birds (1963)

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Psycho (1960)
Rear Window (1954)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
Rope (1948)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

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  1. Vertigo (1958)
  2. Rear Window (1954)
  3. Psycho (1960)
  4. Dial M for Murder (1954)
  5. To Catch a Thief (1955)
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North by Northwest
The 39 Steps
Rear Window
Strangers on a Train
Saboteur

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North by Northwest
Rear Window
Frenzy
The Birds
Vertigo

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Rebecca
Rope
Notorious
Rear Window
Marnie

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Psycho (1960)
North by Northwest (1959)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Notorious (1946)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

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  1. Psycho (1960)
  2. Rear Window (1954)
  3. North by Northwest (1959)
  4. The Birds (1963)
  5. Sabotage (1936) - love the “Who Killed Cock Robin” Disney short

These are the numbers from the original list; I don’t want to pick and rank my favorites.

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  1. The Trouble with Harry
  2. Lifeboat
  3. Strangers on a Train
  4. Psycho
  5. North by Northwest
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  1. Vertigo
  2. Strangers on a Train
  3. Notorious
  4. Rear Window
  5. Shadow of a Doubt
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Rear Window
Frenzy
Dial M For Murder
The Man Who Knew Too Much
North By Northwest

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Psycho (1960)
Rear Window (1954)
Vertigo (1958)
*Rope *(1948)
The 39 Steps (1935)

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  1. Rear Window (1954)
  2. North by Northwest (1959)
  3. Psycho (1960)
  4. Strangers on a Train (1951)
  5. The Birds (1963)

Honorable mention: Frenzy (1972)
Most overrated: Vertigo (1958), The 39 Steps (1935)

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Shadow of a Doubt
The 39 Steps
The Lady Vanishes
Notorious
North by Northwest

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Psycho
Rear Window
Vertigo
Strangers on a Train
Notorious

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Psycho
The Birds
North by Northwest
Family Plot
Foreign Correspondent

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Psycho
Rear Window
Notorious
The Birds
Marnie

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Vertigo ranks among the greatest films ever…