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.

  • Sort by the star of the Alfred Hitchcock movie
  • Sort Alfred Hitchcock movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost
  • Sort Alfred Hitchcock movies by yearly box office ranking
  • 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. Great story, he was a great director, with a very long career, I agree with other coomenters, seeing the box office totals is pretty cool.

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    1. Thanks DAve…this page was very easy to write as we were talking about lots of classic movies…thanks for reading.

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  2. I love all of his movies, great read on a great director, I really like seeing all the box office numbers.

    i had no idea that spellbound was so big.

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    1. Thanks for stopping by WDH, I am glad you like the box office numbers….I think it helps realize how well a movie back in the 1940s would matchup with current movie grosses.

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  3. Coger-san, just to let you know there are plenty of inexpensive Hitchcock anthologies out there. I have a great one of the British films and another of those filmed in America. My favorites of Hitch’s lesser films are ‘The Trouble with Harry’ with its corpse that won’t stay buried and the suspenseful serial killer thriller, ‘Frenzy’.

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    1. Thanks for reading and commenting Boomer Flicks…..The Trouble With Harry seems to have a bigger following that what I was thinking….granted it was made right in the middle of Hitchcock’s peak years…..in one of the books I read about him….he was very surprised that the movie did not do better at the box office. I bet if the movie had been released ten years later, the public could have handle the comedy of the dead body showing up everywhere.

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  4. Nice Hitchcock article, too bad you do not have his early films,I am thinking some of those would rank pretty high. My favorite Hitchcock movie is To Catch a Thief. Thanks for sharing and posting.

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    1. I agree Tyler, I would have loved to have been able to use his earlier films, I am still researching, but it does not look…..as for how they would rank….I think The Lady Vanishes and The 39-Steps would have to be in his Top Ten…thanks for reading and commenting.

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  5. I love this page! You’ve done a fantastic job of highlighting the greatest of Hitchcock and his films. So bizarre that I should read this page now, because I just finished watching Rear Window and had forgotten how SCARY is was! I may do a hub on that film. BTW: Have you ever seen The Trouble With Harry? Different ~ I loved it. Oh, and thanks very much for the generous link ~ I will do the same for you… perhaps in a Rear Window page:)

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    1. Thanks for the great compliment tracykarl99, Rear Window has some great scary moments in it. Your Hitchcock pages are awesome, so I want more people to read them…..as for The Trouble With Harry….I have seen it twice….the first time I was very disappointed in it…..however after a second view years later, I found it to be a pretty good movie after all….not in the same league as his great classics, but a movie that has its moments….and a very young Shirley Maclaine…thanks for stopping by

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