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 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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  1. Hi

    I saw 2 Hitchcock movies over the Christmas holidays, Shadow of a Doubt and Dial M for Murder. The cast in Shadow of a Doubt are incredible, Teresa Wright was a great actress, she seemed to start off so well in the 40s with The Little Foxes and Mrs. Miniver, and by the 50s it had petered out. And of course Joseph Cotton was a brilliant villain. It must be one of Hitchcock’s best movies.

    Grace Kelly was superb in Dial M for Murder, 54 was a fantastic year for her with The Country Girl and Rear Window. I can see why with 3 massive hits she won the Oscar, although tough on Judy Garland in A Star is Born.

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    1. Hey Chris…I think both of your Xmas Hitchcock movies fall into the second tier of Hitchcock greatness….still good movies…just not amongst his all time greats. I agree with you about Wright…but she still had a great career. Cotton is good as Uncle Charlie. 1954 was indeed huge for Grace Kelly….3 box office hits….1 Oscar win….I think almost every performer would take that year. I have always wanted to see the 3D version of Dial M For Murder. I found a 3D BluRay of that movie but it was 50 bucks! Way to high for a BluRay. Thanks for your thoughts on Hitch and two of his movies.

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  2. Hitchcock was the first movie director that I became aware of as a kid. He had a weekly show on television and I remember Psycho being screened. As a kid, it was one of the most incredible movies I’d ever seen. The shower scene, the private eye getting killed at the top of the stairs. It’s funny how it was remade, frame by frame, and it yet it didn’t have the same impact.
    There’s so many Hitchcock movies that I love, Notorious, Shadow of a Doubt, Stranger on the Train, Rebecca, Lifeboat and Suspicion. Although I was really disappointed by Mr and Mrs Smith and Spellbound. Couldn’t get into them at all, but hey you can’t love them all.
    But Hitchcock is definitely the master of suspense. Another guy whom the Academy ignored.

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    1. Hey Chris….thanks for sharing some of your Hitch moments. No matter how many times I see Perkins come charging out of the door at the end and hitting the light….it always freaks me out more than a little. I am right there with you with the Hitchcock movies you love. I agree with you about Mr. and Mrs. Smith and Spellbound. Spellbound scored very well on my scoring system….but it is one of my least favorite Hitch movies. I actually got a Hitchcock movie today that I have never seen before…I will be watching Under Capricorn in the next few days….it has been years since I watched a new to me Hitch movie. Thanks for the visit and for the interesting comment.

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    1. Box office information comes mainly from my 70 plus year Variety magazine collection. Review information came from places like IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, Yahoo Movies. Oscar information came from one of my Oscar books. Put them all together for a score comes from my Access Database which is closing in on 20,000 movies scored…hope that helps answer your question EJ

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  4. Here’s a bit of trivia on Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho – The woman who gets stabbed to death in the shower is Janet Leigh – mother of Jamie Lee Curtis. Great movie page. I love Hitchcock movies!

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    1. Hey DarylnCochrane…thanks for that piece of trivia. I am also a huge fan of Hitchcock….and I just re-watched Psycho a couple of months ago. A classic movie directed by a classic director. Thanks for the comment and the visit.

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  5. It’s not a five star film like Gaslight, but it is a solid film and much better than its reputation. Watching it in retrospect, it is quite haunting in that this was the last film she made before the film she made with Rosselini and all the mess that happened afterwards. The reasons for being ostracized by society were totally different, but her film character was considered a pariah due to her alcholism and odd behavior when drugged. Also, the dark past of Cotten which was far more complex than anyone imagined

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    1. Hey Flora…she(Bergman) was the queen of Hollywood before the Rosselini relationship…which is a shame because that almost ten year run was one the best runs ever for any actor or actress. Your mini-reviews have me thinking I should put this on my list of movies to watch….which has room on it as I just watched Scrooge and Exodus today…two classics that I have been trying to watch for awhile.

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