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.
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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I just finished watching Under Capricorn on TCM. It was the first time I had seen it. It is ironic about that movie. It was a financial disaster. As a Hitchcock film it is an anomaly like Mr. and Mr. Smith was a Hitch anomaly as a comedy. If you were watching for Notorious-type suspense, yes there is much to find lacking. But never mind that AH made suspense films and look at it for its own merit. (For those of your readers who are only familiar with the recent film MAMS, this is a completely separate marriage comedy starring Robert Montgomery.)
Yet this is not a bad film. Indeed, it is a very strong costume drama about marriage and sacrifice, alcoholism and an attempt to keep the alcoholic sick out of jealousy. If you were to start watching the movie after the credits were finished and were lied to and told that this was directed by George Cukor instead, you would not be disappointed. It is very reminiscent in tone to Gaslight. When I pretend the movie is Cukor, I love the film. I don’t understand why over time it hasn’t become better known than it is.
Thanks for the review Flora….I imagine that really only leaves a few of his movies for you to watch. Interesting point you make about it seemed like a George Cukor movie than a Hitchcock movie. A comparison to Gaslight is pretty impressive as I really like that movie with Charles Boyer give a great performance which seems overshadowed by Ingrid Bergman’s Oscar winning performance. Thanks for stopping by.
A great page! Hitchcock is a favorite of mine as well. I have always been partial to The Birds and Psycho. I appreciate your patronage to my page – I’m just getting started and need an excellent hub writer like yourself to help me get off the ground. Keep up the good work!
Hey thatmovieguy….glad you liked my Hitchcock hub. I just recently rewatched Psycho …and it still is such a great movie. Reading your hubs is fun…and I wish you lots of success in the future.
I absolutely love Afred Hitchcock and his films. Rebecca is by far my favorite, and me and my grandmother have seen every last one of his other films – including the black and white ones from way back when Hollywood had not discovered him yet.
Thank you so much for sharing this, it brought back lots of memories for me.
Hey Rachelle….glad my movie page could bring back some fond memories of you and your grandmother. Rebecca is a classic. The only Hitchcock film to win Best Picture and he had lots of great films. Thanks for stopping by and checking out my Hitch page.
Frenzy was the answer but I would have put stabbing a woman to death higher up on the violence scale than strangulation. Looking at the results average for that question only 34% get it right.
Don’t know why it doesn’t work for you Flora, here is the HTML version of the same quiz maybe it’ll work now –
http://www.funtrivia.com/playquiz.cfm?qid=111053
Thanks. This link worked. I got ten out of ten. Frenzy is the most violent because the largest number of people are killed.
Well done Flora, there is a tougher Hitchcock quiz on there if you want to give it a go.
I actually got the question of most violent film correct…probably because I had just recently watched Frenzy….well done both of you. I am impressed with your Hitchcock knowledge.
Steve-no, that is actually Frenzy, where the killer is a serial killer and strangles women while raping them. It is really annoying I can’t open the quiz.