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. Hitchcock was the master, I would mention all the movies others have already mentioned, but I think I will throw some love to Shadow of Doubt, I love that movie.

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    1. Thanks for the compliment ShaunBroncoMan….I actually have not seen Shadow of a Doubt….I will have to check it out…thanks for reading my Hitch movie page.

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  2. Very interesting information here! Have always enjoyed Hitchcock films, especially Rear Window, Vertigo, Psycho, and The Birds.

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    1. Thanks for reading my page Painted Seahorse….all 4 of your favorites did pretty well in the rankings…2nd, 3rd, 11th and 13th….and they all are classics….thanks for the comments

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  3. Very interesting information here! Have always enjoyed Hitchcock films, especially Rear Window, Vertigo, Psycho, and The Birds.

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  4. Hey Cogerson…I forgot to mention that the book “Marnie” is a quick read and riveting from the opening line to the last.

    Director’s interpretation of books are often disappointing, but Hitchcock was exceptional.

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    1. Thanks for the update Fay, I noticed when I was reading numerous books on Hitchcock, that he liked to find a novel he liked and then turn it into a movie. I will have to check out Marnie the book…..it has been a very long time since I saw Marnie the movie….thanks for stopping by.

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  5. Excellent page! I love Hithcock’s work so much! Over at Hulu.com you can see just about every Hitchcock Hour or A. Hitchcok Presents. I spent weeks watching them all, recently. I’ve never heard of a MacGuffin. I’m going to do some more research on this. Thanks for the excellent Info. Totally awesome!

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    1. Hey Angela….I loved his tv show as well…even the one they did in the late 80s…..I will have to check out Hulu to find my favorite two episodes… one was about a female prisoner that tries to escape from jail and ends up in a coffin with the person that was going to help her escape…..the other was about a wife that got raped and as they are going home from the hospital she sees a guy and says….”that’s him…the guy that raped me”…so the husband follows the guy and kills him and goes back to the wife…..as they continue the drive….she sees another guy….and says….”that’s him….the guy that raped me”….Hitchcock was known for his MacGuffins and his cameos…the above link from Steve Lensman has a great video with about 25 of his cameos …thanks for reading….it is greatly appreciated.

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