Alfred Hitchcock Movies

Want to know the best Alfred Hitchcock movies?  How about the worst Alfred Hitchcock movies?  Curious about Alfred Hitchcock’s box office grosses or which Alfred Hitchcock movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Alfred Hitchcock movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place …. because we have all of that information.

Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) directed well over 50 films in his six decade career. Hitchcock directed his first 26 movies in England from 1922 to 1939. He directed his last 30 movies in the United States from 1940 till 1976. Some of his early successes in England were 1926’s The Lodger, 1929’s Blackmail (considered to be the first movie from England with sound), 1934’s The Man Who Knew Too Much, 1935’s The 39-Steps and 1938’s The Lady Vanishes.

Legendary producer David O. Selznick signed Hitchcock to a seven-year contract beginning in March 1939, when the Hitchcock family moved to the United States. Talk about getting off to a good start, Hitchcock’s first Hollywood movie was 1940’s Rebecca. Rebecca would be a smash hit, earned 11 Oscar® nominations, including Hitchcock’s first ever nomination for Best Director and won the Oscar® for Best Picture of the year. The 1940s produced the classic Hitchcock movies Suspicion, Shadow of a Doubt, Spellbound and Notorious. The 1950s were the peak years for Hitchcock…with movies like Strangers on a Train, To Catch A Thief, Rear Window, North by Northwest, Vertigo, The Man Who Knew Too Much and Dial M for Murder.

This page will only be ranking Alfred Hitchcock’s Hollywood movies….not because I have anything against England…..other than they kept very poor box office records in the 1930s.  Alfred Hitchcock movies are ranked in five sortable columns of information in the following table.

James Stewart in Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window (1954).
James Stewart in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window (1954).

Alfred Hitchcock Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

Alfred Hitchcock Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about ther table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

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  • Sort Alfred Hitchcock movies by critic reviews and audiences voting.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Alfred Hitchcock movie received.
  • Sort Alfred Hitchcock movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.

Alfred Hitchcock Adjusted World Wide Box Office Grosses

Possibly Interesting Facts About Alfred Hitchcock

1.  Alfred Hitchcock was born in Leytonstone, Essex, England.

2.  Alfred Hitchcock’s opinion about actors….”I never said all actors are: what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle”.

3.  Alfred Hitchcock love to have MacGuffins in his movies.  MacGuffins are basically decoys…they get the audience to think something is important and by the end of the movie the audience realizes they were not really important at all.

4.  Alfred Hitchcock was nominated five times for a Best Director Oscar®…but he never won…he was nominated for Rebecca, Spellbound, Lifeboat, Psycho and Rear Window.

5.  Alfred Hitchcock made 4 movies with James Stewart and Cary Grant. The Stewart 4….Rope, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Rear Window and Vertigo.  The Grant 4….Suspicion, Notorious, To Catch A Thief and North by Northwest.

6.  Alfred Hitchcock’s favorite actress was Grace Kelly…..they made three movies together…..Dial M For Murder, To Catch A Thief and Rear Window…..Hitchcock kept hoping Kelly would return to movies….but she never did.

7.  Alfred Hitchcock has been described as the most influential filmmaker of all time.

8.  Alfred Hitchcock wanted to call North by Northwest….”The Man on Lincoln’s Nose”….he was overruled….but he sneak a Shakespeare reference into the title.

9.  Alfred Hitchcock was given an honorary Oscar®….the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1968.

10.  Alfred Hitchcock was famous for his cameo appearances in almost all of his movies….for a great movie page on his cameos check out Film Historian Steve Lensman’s Hitchcock’s Cameos which also includes a video of the Hitchcock cameos.

Steve Lensman’s Alfred Hitchcock Expanded You Tube Video

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154 thoughts on “Alfred Hitchcock Movies”

  1. Cogerson, Topaz is my least favourite from his later films so I’m not complaining seeing it at the bottom. I’m surprised to see Marnie so low on the list, some critics think very highly of it, not me.

    Saboteur is a favourite, plenty of action as an innocent man is accused of sabotage and murder and a memorable climax taking place on the torch of the Statue of Liberty, a sort of precursor to North by Northwest.

    Two important themes run through many of Hitch’s films, “the mother figure” and the innocent man on the run.

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    1. Hey Steve….I read that Hitchcock’s dad punished little Alfred by sending him to the police station with a note saying please lock my son up for ten minutes for misbehaving….evidently it terrified him so much….that he kept thinking about being stuck in jail for no reason…thus the theme “innocent man on the run” was formed. As for Topaz….I thought it was a horrible movie….actually the only one after The Birds that I liked at all would be Family Plot….I have not seen Saboteur in awhile but I clearly remember the Statue of Liberty scene

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  2. Very nicely done, Hitchcock has aged very nicely, I can still enjoy some of the classics like Psycho, North by Northwest, and I do not think Grace Kelly has ever looked pretty than in To Catch A Thief, Hitch liked those blondes.

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    1. hey hinton1966…..I agree 100% ….Grace Kelly looked awesome in all of the Hitchcock movies…..I would say Kelly and Elizabeth Taylor and Audrey Hepburn….would rank high on that list for the 1950s…I appreciated the compliment.

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  3. Nice. Now I can say I have every single movie on your list in my collection Cogerson! 🙂

    Been a fan of Hitch’s since seeing North by Northwest as a wee lad. It is probably still my favourite of his films, but I also love Psycho, Vertigo and Rear Window too.

    It is interesting to see Rebecca top your moviescore list, great film and the only Best Picture Oscar winner of his films. From his British films pre-1940 The Lady Vanishes is my favourite and most watched.

    I knew Psycho was his most successful film but I didn’t know how successful wow it sure looks impressive in adjusted dollars, Spellbound and Notorious were huge too. Interesting looking at those box office figures, good work, enjoyed the trivia too.

    I remember renting Psycho on Super 8 back in the late 70’s, the entire film on reels of film projected on a screen. A year later I had a VHS recorder and it was goodbye Super 8. I was soon recording Hitchcock’s films off the TV. 🙂

    Excellent movie page on my favourite movie director Cogerson and thanks for the link.

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    1. Hey Steve….I will probably have to turn in my movie fan card….I only have one of the movies on the list….North by Northwest…..as for Rebecca being the top one….that Oscar win for Best Picture plus the 11 nominations put it ahead statistically over some of his greater known movies….I tried unsuccessfully to get some England box office numbers from his pre-Hollywood career…..but did not even come close to finding any information…..and finally do you think Topaz is being unfairly ranked as the worst of Hitchcock? as always thanks for reading and commenting

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  4. The man was a cinematic genius, possibly the greatest director in film history (Certainly in the top 5). The guy made so many amazing films. That shower scene in “Psycho” is one one of the most iconic pop-culture images ever. I think “Rebecca”, “The Birds” and “Rear Window” were my personal favorites.

    A bit of trivia: After making two films with Tippy Hedron, (Marnie & the Birds) Hitchcock became strangely obsessed with her. It creeped poor Tippy out so much that she walked out on the third project they were scheduled to make together. (On the plus side, it led to Tippy’s career change from an actress to an environmental crusader.)

    Great movie page;

    Rob

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    1. Hey Rob….I agree with your top Hitchcock films…..my wife loves Rebecca and we seem to watch that one every couple of years….interesting story on Tippi Hedren….I know Hitchcock had a strong liking towards blondes….maybe he was afraid Tippi was going to leave him like Grace Kelly did….thanks for reading and commenting

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  5. Hitchcock,s Psycho and Bird’s are the one that I remember.Birds defined,to me,true surrealism as if the characters truly entered another dimension.;)

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    1. Hey mentalist acer….the Birds and Psycho sealed his master of terror title….I remember seeing the Birds on tv as a kid and it scaring me….as I waited for the bad stuff to happen…..ah…the power of imagination….thanks for stopping by

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