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 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. Psycho is the scaries movie ever made, all done with the imagination, the blade never touches the Janet Leigh’s double a single time. Very well done.

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    1. Hey Norman…as in Norman Bates?….you are 100% correct…the shower scene is considered one of the scariest brutal scenes ever…..but if you actually watch it in slow motion….all you see is knife…eyes…..water….shadows…..all the terror happens in your imagination which makes it all the better….in current movies….we would have to watch the knife do the damage and lots of special effects blood….thanks for the complimen

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  2. I love Alfred Hitchcocck movies. “Rebecca” and “Marnie” are two movies I can see again and again. According to Tippi Hedron, who starred in “Marnie” and “The Birds” he had a bizarre sense of humor. He once gifted her with a shrunken head. Ewww!

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    1. Hey Fay….Tippi was Hitchcock’s third blonde…..first he was madly in love with Grace Kelly…..when she left to become a real queen….Hitch kept trying to replace her….first he tried Kim Novak and then Tippi….. in reading some Hitchcock books….Tippi pretty much stopped making movies to get away from Hitch…..so when Melanie Griffith(Tippi’s daughter)….made Body Double(pretty much a tribute movie to Hitchcock)…even more ironic…..I agree that Rebecca and Marnie are very good films….Marnie is a movie most people pretty much ignore, but those that watch it, agree that it is a very good movie…..as always thanks for reading.

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    2. Thanks for the compliment Radioguy…..I am glad you enjoyed the page…..I only wish I could have found more information on his England days…..thanks for reading.

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  4. Hitchcock made some wonderful movies – Marnie, Topaz and The Birds were very entertaining movies – I still like to see Marnie with Sean Connery…Good information

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    1. Hey BERN1960. The movies you listed were some of his last movies he ever made….sorry you movies you like did not fair very well in the rankings…..but any Hitchcock movie is better than most movies…thanks for the comments and stopping by.

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  5. Very well done Cogerson, some of his movies, especially The Birds and Psycho take me back to my youth, I remember how much they scared me back then.

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    1. Hey KellyE…those two movies helped him earned his master of terror title….today I still feel Psycho is much scarier than the Birds….the Birds would be rated PG these days…thanks for the comments

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