List of the best Alfred Hitchcock movies: Psycho(1960), Rear Window(1954), Vertigo(1958), North by Northwest(1959), Dial M for Murder(1954), Rope(1948), Strangers on a Train(1951), Notorious(1946), Shadow of a Doubt(1943), The Lady Vanishes(1938), The Birds(1963), Spellbound(1945) ... ...
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
USA
1960
109 Minutes
Director
Anthony Perkins Janet Leigh Vera Miles John Gavin Martin Balsam John McIntire Simon Oakland John Anderson Frank Albertson Patricia Hitchcock
secretary norman bates police officer boyfriend mother creative creepy thrilling motel california highway phoenix office theft mental illness mystery 1960s
A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1954
112 Minutes
Director
James Stewart Grace Kelly Wendell Corey Raymond Burr Thelma Ritter Judith Evelyn Ross Bagdasarian Georgine Darcy Sara Berner Frank Cady Jesslyn Fax
journalist photographer girlfriend nurse assassin dog suspenseful apartment murder stalking disappearance deception mystery pursuit 1950s
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1958
128 Minutes
Director
James Stewart Kim Novak Barbara Bel Geddes Tom Helmore Henry Jones Raymond Bailey Ellen Corby Konstantin Shayne Lee Patrick
detective wife friend dead person police officer suspenseful gripping church san francisco hotel country club obsession madness investigation accident deception rescue pursuit mystery love
A former police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with a hauntingly beautiful woman.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1959
136 Minutes
Director
Cary Grant Eva Marie Saint James Mason Leo G. Carroll Martin Landau Jessie Royce Landis Philip Ober Adam Williams Josephine Hutchinson Edward Platt Robert Ellenstein
ad executive spy secret agent mother henchman police officer amusing suspenseful engaging thrilling new york city long island, n.y. south dakota cornfield mount rushmore hotel room mistaken identity espionage romance fugitives
A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA
1954
105 Minutes
Director
Ray Milland Grace Kelly Bob Cummings John Williams Anthony Dawson Leo Britt Patrick Allen George Leigh George Alderson Robin Hughes
tennis player wife writer criminal detective intellectual frightening suspenseful thrilling london apartment bar courtroom botched murder greed affair jealousy murphy's law dangerous job mystery
A former tennis player tries to arrange his wife's murder after learning of her affair.
Crime, Drama
USA
1948
80 Minutes
Director
James Stewart John Dall Farley Granger Joan Chandler Cedric Hardwicke Constance Collier Edith Evanson Douglas Dick Dick Hogan
murderer best friend guest girlfriend professor dark creative offbeat tense apartment manhattan big city murder philosophy nihilism evil party evil plot quest wretched excess
Two men attempt to prove they committed the perfect crime by hosting a dinner party after strangling their former classmate to death.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1951
101 Minutes
Director
Robert Walker Farley Granger Ruth Roman Leo G. Carroll Patricia Hitchcock Marion Lorne Jonathan Hale Howard St. John John Brown Norma Varden Robert Gist
tennis player murderer floozy fiancée senator police officer chilling tense witty small town amusement park train family home tennis match murder blackmail class distinctions stalking mystery pursuit
A psychopath forces a tennis star to comply with his theory that two strangers can get away with murder.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1946
103 Minutes
Director
Cary Grant Ingrid Bergman Claude Rains Louis Calhern Leopoldine Konstantin Reinhold Schünzel Moroni Olsen
secret agent spy nazi mother engaging tense suspenseful united states brazil mansion espionage deception nazism dangerous assignment love mystery discovery love rescue 1940s
A woman is asked to spy on a group of Nazi friends in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA
1943
108 Minutes
Director
Teresa Wright Joseph Cotten Hume Cronyn Macdonald Carey Henry Travers Patricia Collinge Edna May Wonacott Wallace Ford Irving Bacon Charles Bates Clarence Muse
uncle serial killer young girl neighbor detective widow dark suspenseful household small town murder surveillance poison newspapers paranoia infatuation pursuit mystery 1940s
A young girl, overjoyed when her favorite uncle comes to visit the family, slowly begins to suspect that he is in fact the "Merry Widow" killer sought by the authorities.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1938
97 Minutes
Director
Margaret Lockwood Michael Redgrave Dame May Whitty Paul Lukas Googie Withers Cecil Parker Linden Travers Catherine Lacey Naunton Wayne Basil Radford Mary Clare
musicologist governess doctor spy suspenseful charming witty thrilling central europe train london hotel kidnapping espionage disappearance conspiracy mystery rescue adventure love
While travelling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1963
119 Minutes
Director
Rod Taylor Tippi Hedren Suzanne Pleshette Jessica Tandy Veronica Cartwright Ethel Griffies Charles McGraw Joe Mantell Elizabeth Wilson Doodles Weaver Richard Deacon
socialite love interest victim bird scientist teacher chilling frightening suspenseful san francisco shop street family home vehicle school killer animals birds death regret darkness
A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1945
111 Minutes
Director
Ingrid Bergman Gregory Peck Michael Chekhov Leo G. Carroll Rhonda Fleming John Emery Norman Lloyd Bill Goodwin Steven Geray Donald Curtis Wallace Ford
doctor impostor detective psychoanalyst dense gripping suspenseful intricate vermont new york city mental institution ski resort amnesia psychoanalysis murder love deception quest love mystery
A psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1935
80 Minutes
Director
Robert Donat Madeleine Carroll Godfrey Tearle Lucie Mannheim Peggy Ashcroft Wylie Watson John Laurie Helen Haye
tourist spy bystander police officer suspenseful intricate amusing london scotland espionage murder fugitives romance escape pursuit adventure love 1930s
A man in London tries to help a counter-espionage Agent. But when the Agent is killed, and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring which is trying to steal top secret information.
Drama
USA
1944
96 Minutes
Director
Tallulah Bankhead William Bendix Walter Slezak Mary Anderson John Hodiak Henry Hull Heather Angel Hume Cronyn Canada Lee William Yetter Jr.
survivor nazi civilian military officer emotional tense atlantic ocean boat world war ii survival deception confinement rescue quest 1940s
Several survivors of a torpedoed merchant ship in World War II find themselves in the same lifeboat with one of the crew members of the U-boat that sank their ship.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1940
119 Minutes
Director
Joel McCrea Laraine Day Herbert Marshall George Sanders Albert Basserman Robert Benchley Edmund Gwenn Edward Ciannelli Harry Davenport Martin Kosleck
reporter editor spy diplomat love interest politician suspenseful gripping thrilling london europe new york city amsterdam espionage conspiracy romance world war ii adventure love pursuit
On the eve of World War II, a young American reporter tries to expose enemy agents in London.
Romance, Mystery & Thriller
USA
1955
106 Minutes
Director
Cary Grant Grace Kelly Jessie Royce Landis John Williams Charles Vanel Brigitte Auber Jean Martinelli Georgette Anys
thief daughter mother insurance investigator police chief lighthearted airy witty france resort ballroom jewelry theft romance love pursuit 1950s
A retired jewel thief sets out to prove his innocence after being suspected of returning to his former occupation.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1972
116 Minutes
Director
Jon Finch Barry Foster Barbara Leigh-Hunt Anna Massey Alec McCowen Vivien Merchant Billie Whitelaw Jean Marsh Bernard Cribbins Michael Bates Clive Swift
murderer suspect ex-wife inspector murder suspect murder victim dark gritty thrilling suspenseful london bar market river office restaurant framed for murder murder manhunt serial murders
A serial murderer is strangling women with a necktie. The London police have a suspect, but he is the wrong man.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1956
120 Minutes
Director
James Stewart Doris Day Brenda De Banzie Bernard Miles Ralph Truman Daniel Gélin Mogens Wieth Alan Mowbray Hillary Brooke Chris Olsen Reggie Nalder
kidnapper mother father son spy tense gripping melodramatic africa morocco london opera house murder espionage kidnapping family rescue pursuit adventure 1950s
A tale of innocent American tourists in Morocco whose son's kidnapping sets off a twisting plot of international intrigue.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1941
99 Minutes
Director
Cary Grant Joan Fontaine Cedric Hardwicke Nigel Bruce Dame May Whitty Isabel Jeans Heather Angel Leo G. Carroll
wife husband best friend father chilling creative family home highway mansion hotel death wealth marriage mystery pursuit 1940s
A shy young heiress marries a charming gentleman, and soon begins to suspect he is planning to murder her.
Crime, Drama
USA
1956
105 Minutes
Director
Henry Fonda Vera Miles Anthony Quayle Harold J. Stone Esther Minciotti Charles Cooper Nehemiah Persoff Laurinda Barrett Norma Connolly Doreen Lang Lola D'Annunzio
musician wife attorney judge criminal suspenseful disturbing thrilling engaging new york city prison courtroom mistaken identity robbery coincidence trial mental breakdown money escape quest
In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.
Drama
USA|Canada
1953
95 Minutes
Director
Montgomery Clift Anne Baxter Karl Malden Brian Aherne O.E. Hasse Roger Dann Dolly Haas Charles Andre Judson Pratt Ovila Légaré Gilles Pelletier
priest lawyer immigrant dark suspenseful tense quebec church courtroom murder religion false accusations confession forbidden love sacrifice temptation 1950s
A priest, who comes under suspicion for murder, cannot clear his name without breaking the seal of the confessional.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1964
129 Minutes
Director
Tippi Hedren Sean Connery Diane Baker Martin Gabel Louise Latham Bob Sweeney Milton Selzer Alan Napier
publisher secretary businessman mother thief brash dark gripping philadelphia newsroom big city home theft childhood trauma obsession blackmail marriage financial scheme mystery revenge
Mark marries Marnie although she is a habitual thief and has serious psychological problems, and tries to help her confront and resolve them.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1942
108 Minutes
Director
Bob Cummings Priscilla Lane Norman Lloyd Otto Kruger Alan Baxter Clem Bevans Alma Kruger Vaughan Glaser Dorothy Peterson Ian Wolfe Frances Carson
factory worker model saboteur blind person police officer suspenseful intense gripping united states new york city los angeles sabotage terrorism conspiracy false accusations arson quest pursuit mystery 1940s
A young man accused of sabotage goes on the lam to prove his innocence.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1950
110 Minutes
Director
Jane Wyman Marlene Dietrich Richard Todd Michael Wilding Kay Walsh Sybil Thorndike Miles Malleson Hector MacGregor Joyce Grenfell Andre Morell Patricia Hitchcock
wrongly accused ex-girlfriend detective actress actor amateur sleuth suspenseful gripping london theater chase false accusations disguise blackmail deception investigation pursuit mystery escape 1950s
A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high society entertainer.
Comedy
USA
1955
99 Minutes
Director
Edmund Gwenn Shirley MacLaine John Forsythe Mildred Natwick Mildred Dunnock Jerry Mathers Royal Dano Dwight Marfield
sea captain corpse ex-wife artist sheriff young boy amusing crafty madcap outlandish vermont small town death investigation suspicion guilt discovery mystery 1950s
The trouble with Harry is that he is dead and, while no one really minds, everyone feels responsible. After Harry's body is found in the woods, several locals must determine not only how and why he was killed but what to do with the body.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1929
86 Minutes
Director
Anny Ondra John Longden Donald Calthrop Cyril Ritchard Sara Allgood Charles Paton Harvey Braban Phyllis Monkman Hannah Jones Percy Parsons Johnny Butt
girlfriend detective artist thief eerie suspenseful england artist's studio british museum blackmail self-defense murder pursuit discovery 1920s
After killing a man in self-defense, a young woman is blackmailed by a witness to the killing.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1936
76 Minutes
Director
Sylvia Sidney Oscar Homolka Desmond Tester John Loder Joyce Barbour Matthew Boulton S.J. Warmington William Dewhurst Austin Trevor Torin Thatcher Aubrey Mather
saboteur detective wife brother professor dark intense suspenseful london movie theater sabotage terrorism lie bomb working undercover mystery discovery 1930s
A Scotland Yard undercover detective is on the trail of a saboteur who is part of a plot to set off a bomb in London. But when the detective's cover is blown, the plot begins to unravel.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1976
120 Minutes
Director
Bruce Dern Karen Black Barbara Harris William Devane Ed Lauter Cathleen Nesbitt Katherine Helmond Warren Kemmerling Edith Atwater William Prince Nicholas Colasanto
thief psychic elderly woman cab driver jeweler madcap suspenseful amusing san francisco car robbery pursuit mistaken identity crime inheritance adventure pursuit mystery 1970s
A phony psychic/con artist and her taxi driver/private investigator boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1934
75 Minutes
Director
Leslie Banks Peter Lorre Edna Best Frank Vosper Hugh Wakefield Nova Pilbeam Pierre Fresnay Cicely Oates D.A. Clarke-Smith George Curzon Henry Oscar
mother father daughter spy assassin tense suspenseful thrilling st. moritz england hotel london albert hall government secrets espionage kidnapping family murder adventure pursuit
An ordinary British couple vacationing in Switzerland suddenly find themselves embroiled in a case of international intrigue when their daughter is kidnapped by spies plotting a political assassination.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1966
128 Minutes
Director
Paul Newman Julie Andrews Lila Kedrova Hansjoerg Felmy Tamara Toumanova Ludwig Donath Wolfgang Kieling Günter Strack Gisela Fischer Mort Mills Carolyn Conwell
spy physicist friend communist fiancé fiancée suspenseful tense thrilling east germany copenhagen cold war nuclear weapons espionage defection romance escape love 1960s
An American scientist publicly defects to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the solution for a formula resin before planning an escape back to the West.
Drama
USA
1947
116 Minutes
Director
Gregory Peck Alida Valli Charles Laughton Charles Coburn Ann Todd Ethel Barrymore Louis Jourdan Leo G. Carroll Joan Tetzel Isobel Elsom John Goldsworthy
lawyer murderer servant judge police officer hotel manager tense engaging gripping suspenseful brooding london courtroom hotel restaurant home murder trial marriage false accusations
A happily married London barrister falls in love with the accused poisoner he is defending.
Adventure
UK
1939
99 Minutes
Director
Charles Laughton Maureen O'Hara Leslie Banks Emlyn Williams Robert Newton Wylie Watson Marie Ney Morland Graham Stephen Haggard Mervyn Johns
young woman gentleman aunt uncle peddler lawyer dark bleak tense cornwall, england road inn ship coast pirates family impersonation kidnapping dark secrets police work
In Cornwall, 1819, a young woman discovers she's living near a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecks for profit.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1969
125 Minutes
Director
Frédérick Stafford John Forsythe Dany Robin John Vernon Karin Dor Michel Piccoli Philippe Noiret Claude Jade Michel Subor Roscoe Lee Browne
cia agent spy kgb agent wife journalist suspenseful intense moscow copenhagen new york city harlem, n.y. cuba espionage nuclear weapons cold war mystery pursuit 1960s
A French Intelligence Agent becomes embroiled in the Cold War politics first with uncovering the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and then back to France to break up an international Russian spy ring.
Drama
UK|Isle Of Man
1929
90 Minutes
Director
Carl Brisson Malcolm Keen Anny Ondra Randle Ayrton Clare Greet Kim Peacock Nellie Richards Wilfred Shine
A fisherman and a rising young lawyer, who grew up as brothers, fall in love with the same girl.
Drama
UK
1949
117 Minutes
Director
Ingrid Bergman Joseph Cotten Michael Wilding Margaret Leighton Cecil Parker Denis O'Dea Jack Watling Harcourt Williams John Ruddock Ronald Adam Francis De Wolff
A young gentleman goes to Australia where he reunites with his now married childhood sweetheart, only to find out she has become an alcoholic and harbors dark secrets.
Drama
UK|Germany
1925
75 Minutes
Director
Virginia Valli Carmelita Geraghty Miles Mander John Stuart Nita Naldi George Schnell C. Falkenberg Ferdinand Martini Florence Helminger
Two couples' romances are fancifully intertwined.
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
UK
1932
65 Minutes
Director
Leon M. Lion Anne Grey John Stuart Donald Calthrop Bart Jones Ann Casson Garry Marsh Henry Caine Herbert Langley
hobo detective thief young girl suspenseful amusing intricate london house train heist deception jewelry identity investigation mystery discovery pursuit 1930s
A gang of thieves gather at a safe house following a robbery, but a detective is on their trail.
Drama
UK
1931
87 Minutes
Director
Edmund Gwenn Helen Haye Jill Esmond Phyllis Konstam John Longden Frank Lawton C.V. France Edward Chapman Ronald Frankau Herbert Ross Dora Gregory
An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village and almost destroy each other.
Drama, Romance
UK
1928
79 Minutes
Director
Isabel Jeans Robin Irvine Franklin Dyall Enid Stamp-Taylor Violet Farebrother Frank Elliott Dacia Deane Dorothy Boyd Ian Hunter Eric Bransby Williams Benita Hume
A recently divorced woman hides her scandalous past from her new husband and his family.
Comedy
UK
1928
89 Minutes
Director
Betty Balfour Gordon Harker Jean Bradin Ferdinand von Alten Clifford Heatherley Jack Trevor Claude Hulbert Marcel Vibert
spoiled girl father lover amusing nightclub love triangle greed transformation 1920s
A spoiled heiress defies her father by running off to marry her lover. However, Daddy has a few tricks up his sleeve.
Comedy, Drama
UK
1930
95 Minutes
Director
Edward Chapman Sara Allgood Maire O'Neil Sidney Morgan John Longden Kathleen O'Regan John Laurie Donald Calthrop Dave Morris Fred Schwartz Dennis Wyndham
During the Irish Civil War in 1922, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life, forgetting what the most important values are.
Mystery & Thriller
1937
80 Minutes
Director
Derrick de Marney Nova Pilbeam Percy Marmont Edward Rigby Mary Clare John Longden George Curzon Basil Radford Pamela Carme George Merritt J.H. Roberts
actress police chief man suspect aunt murderer tense crafty thrilling england police station on the run hotel mystery mistaken identity framed for murder escape discovery quest 1930s
A Cornish constable's (Percy Marmont) teenage daughter (Nova Pilbeam) helps a man (Derrick de Marney) accused of strangling an actress.
Comedy
1941
95 Minutes
Director
Carole Lombard Robert Montgomery Gene Raymond Jack Carson Philip Merivale Lucile Watson William Tracy Charles Halton Esther Dale Emma Dunn William Edmunds
husband wife romantic rival colleague spirited amusing endearing new york city ski resort nightclub world's fair ferris wheel marital problems courtship rules love discovery pursuit 1940s
Bickering New Yorkers (Carole Lombard, Robert Montgomery) learn from a lawyer that, technically, they're not married.
Adventure, Drama
1927
80 Minutes
Director
Ivor Novello Ben Webster Robin Irvine Isabel Jeans Ian Hunter Norman McKinnell
Drama
1932
92 Minutes
Director
Henry Kendall Joan Barry Percy Marmont Betty Amann Elsie Randolph
accountant wife princess commander pirate amusing witty charming london paris cruise ship singapore folies bergère boat inheritance class conflict infidelity greed commitment swindling
London spouses (Henry Kendall, Joan Barry) inherit a fortune and take a rough cruise to the Far East.
Documentary, War
2014
70 Minutes
Director
Sidney Bernstein
Romance, Biography
1934
81 Minutes
Director
Esmond Knight Jessie Matthews Edmund Gwenn Fay Compton Frank Vosper Robert Hale Charles Heslop Betty Huntley-Wright Hindle Edgar Sybil Grove Bill Shine
Mystery & Thriller
1940
130 Minutes
Director
Laurence Olivier Joan Fontaine Judith Anderson George Sanders Nigel Bruce Reginald Denny C. Aubrey Smith Gladys Cooper Florence Bates Leo G. Carroll Melville Cooper
widower housekeeper husband wife bride dark suspenseful emotional mansion england cabin death fire obsession betrayal deception suicide transformation mystery 1940s
A British gentleman's (Laurence Olivier) innocent bride (Joan Fontaine) grapples with intrusive reminders of his deceased wife.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1929
86 Minutes
Director
Anny Ondra John Longden Donald Calthrop Cyril Ritchard Sara Allgood Charles Paton Harvey Braban Phyllis Monkman Hannah Jones Percy Parsons Johnny Butt
girlfriend detective artist thief eerie suspenseful england artist's studio british museum blackmail self-defense murder pursuit discovery 1920s
After killing a man in self-defense, a young woman is blackmailed by a witness to the killing.