# What are your Top Five Alfred Hitchcock Movies?

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**Created:** [July 19, 2015, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-five-alfred-hitchcock-movies/725596 "2015-07-19T12:21:50Z")\
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Psycho  
Rear Window  
Shadow of a Doubt  
Strangers on a Train  
Frenzy

Didn’t quite make the cut: Suspicion, North by Northwest, The Lady Vanishes, The Birds. Never cared much for Vertigo, despite its high reputation.

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**Rear Window** is one of my all-time favorite films, so that gets my #1 pick, natch.

**Lifeboat** is my favorite of his “experimental” films (meaning films that Hitchcock built around a particular film-making device or gimmick.) This would be on my list just for Tallulah Bankhead’s performance alone.

For favorite overlooked gem, I’ll go with **Torn Curtain**. It’s true that Paul Newman and Julie Andrews don’t have a lot of chemistry (Andrews is particularly miscast), but the film still has some spectacular suspense set-pieces, and one of the single-most nerve wracking murder scenes ever.

**Notorious** is definitely up there on the list.

And for the fifth, I’ll opt for “North by Northwest”, just for the sheer black humor bravado of it all. (“Are you trying to kill my son?”)

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1. North By Northwest
2. Vertigo
3. Rear Window
4. Marnie
5. The Trouble With Harry

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The 39 Steps  
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934, accept no substitutes)  
North by Northwest  
Rear Window  
Lifeboat

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