Hitchcock directed more than fifty films, spanning the distance from the silent era to that of VCRs and cable television. Though the majority of them are good movies, some haven't aged as well as others, or simply aren't quite up to the standard he sets in the best of his work.
The Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, and Grace Kelly movies make for obvious "sets." Grant starred in the stylish thrillers Suspicion, Notorious, To Catch A Thief, and North by Northwest. Stewart, Hitch's Everyman, was enlisted for Rope, Rear Window, the remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo. Kelly co-starred with Stewart in Rear Window and Grant in To Catch a Thief, and also co-starred in Dial M For Murder, which was filmed in 3D but released on ordinary film stock except for a brief 3D run in the 80s.
Among the other movies, the "must-see" movies are Psycho, Strangers on a Train, and The Birds. Not to be missed is The Trouble With Harry, Hitchcock's best comedy -- what's the trouble with Harry? He's dead, and everyone who comes across his body is convinced they had something to do with it.
1920s Number 13 - The Pleasure Garden - The Mountain Eagle - The Lodger: A
Story of the London Fog - Downhill - Easy Virtue - The Ring - The Farmer's
Wife - Champagne - The Manxman - Blackmail
1930s Juno and the Paycock - Murder! - Elstree Calling - The Skin Game
- Mary - Number Seventeen - Rich and Strange - Waltzes from Vienna - The Man
Who Knew Too Much - The 39 Steps - Secret Agent - Sabotage - Young and
Innocent - The Lady Vanishes - Jamaica Inn
1940s Rebecca - Foreign Correspondent - Mr. & Mrs. Smith - Suspicion
- Saboteur - Shadow of a Doubt - Lifeboat - Aventure Malgache - Bon Voyage
Spellbound - Notorious - The Paradine Case - Rope - Under Capricorn
1950s Stage Fright - Strangers on a Train - I Confess - Dial M for Murder
- Rear Window - To Catch a Thief - The Trouble with Harry - The Man Who Knew
Too Much - The Wrong Man - Vertigo - North by Northwest
1960s Psycho - The Birds - Marnie - Torn Curtain - Topaz
1970s Frenzy - Family Plot
Television:
"Alfred Hitchcock Presents" (1955 to 1962) TV Series
"The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" (1962 to 1965) TV Series
"Suspicion" (1957) TV Series
