Rank Hitchcock movies

I've recently started watching his work so I'm kinda curious as to how people would rank his movies and what to expect.

Out of the movies I've seen, I'd rank like this:

1. Vertigo
2. Psycho
3. Strangers on a Train

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We have many threads about this, but.....

1. Rear Window
2. North by Northwest
3. Psycho
4. Dial M for Murder

That's a defacto top 4. The rest usually can shuffle a bit.

Going to try and rewatch Rear Window before the discussion ends so that could move up but for now:

01.North By Northwest
02.Vertigo
03.Notorious
04.Rebecca
05.Dial M For Murder
06.The Wrong Man
07.Shadow of a Doubt
08.Psycho
09.Strangers On A Train
10.Frenzy
11.Suspicion
12.Saboteur
13.The 39 Steps
14.Rope
15.The Lady Vanishes
16.Rear Window
17.The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
18.Marnie
19.The Birds
20.The Trouble With Harry

There's no bad Hitch films.

My current top 6 are:
Rebecca (1940)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
The Birds (1963)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Spellbound (1945)
Notorious (1946)

i love Hitch movies and i love them all however i can share those i loved less

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Haven't seen them all but I have a defacto top 4 as well:

4. Psycho
3. Rear Window
2. Dial M For Murder
1. Vertigo

This is too hard a thread for me. I love Hitchcock and I find choosing favourites an awful experience. I can tell you that for the last 3 years, Rope is my fav.

I've seen all Hitchcock films and I try to rank my favorites based on how strong I think they are as a cinematic achievement. I try to be as objective as possible. Love them all though. Almost all these that I've listed are 9s and 10s.


1. Psycho
1. Vertigo (tied with Psycho)
3. Rear Window
4. North By Northwest
5. Rope
6. Dial M for Murder
7. The Birds
8. Strangers On A Train
9. The Lady Vanishes
10. Notorious
11. Shadow of a Doubt
12. To Catch a Thief
13. The Lodger
14. The Trouble With Harry
15. Spellbound

Strangers On A Train

To Catch A Thief

Shadow Of a Doubt

Rear Window

Vertigo

Something like this, though the exact order becomes somewhat random after the first few:

Rear Window
North by Northwest
Shadow of a Doubt
Notorious
Frenzy
Psycho
Vertigo
The Lady Vanishes
The 39 Steps
Rope
Spellbound
Suspicion
Rebecca
The Birds
The Trouble with Harry
The Wrong Man
etc...

I only recall being bored by Torn Curtain, but then I used to not like Topaz, until one day I watched it and loved it quite a lot. So maybe Torn Curtain is awaiting such a viewing. Also, I'm not a fan of Marnie, but it's been a long while since I've seen it, and as well it could hit me in the right way on the right day. I've not seen much of very early work, though I have it all, and I will need to review more of his films from the 40s, so some (like Rebecca) could benefit a lot.

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My Top 10.
Rebecca
Psycho
The Birds
Dial M For Murder
Frenzy
39 Steps
Strangers on aTrain
Shadow of a Doubt
Notorious
The Wrong Man

I saw one of his black and white movies once that blew me away, it is definitely in my top five, called Lifeboat with Tallulah Bankhead. I think in this one Hitch had to make his appearance in a newspaper ad that they were looking at because he obviously couldn't appear in the boat! But I think Rope was pretty good too, since he does it all in 20 minute chunks without a cut.

Hitchcock probably holds 4-5 places on my most top 20 most overrated movies of all time list.

There is a lot to love... From what I've seen, all of which I own on Blu-ray. Have always wanted to see Notorious

North by Northwest
The Birds
Rear Window
Psycho
Strangers on a Train
To Catch a Thief
Suspicion
Vertigo
Shadow of a Doubt
Dial M For Murder
Rope
Frenzy
Marnie
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Family Plot

For me it would be far easier to list the ones that weren't as good! IMO his best period was the late '40s to the early '60s. My personal top 6 would be:

1. Vertigo
2. North by Northwest
3. Shadow of a Doubt
4. Rear Window
5. Psycho
6. Strangers on a Train

In my view some of his very best films would be unthinkable without the magnificent film scores by Bernard Herrmann. In fact, although Torn Curtain was harmed by the miscasting of Newman and Andrews, the writing was strong. And the film could have definitely been saved as a good one if the score had been done by Herrmann.

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His silent's were fairly terrible, borderline unwatchable.

1. Rear Window
2. Rope
3. Rebecca
4. North by Northwest

5. Psycho
6. Strangers on a Train
7. Dial M for Murder

8. Vertigo
9. The Birds
10. Lifeboat
11. Foreign Correspondent
12. The Man Who Knew Too Much (Lorre)

13. Notorious
14. The Lady Vanishes
15. The Trouble with Harry
16. Frenzy
17. Shadow of a Doubt
18. The Man Who Knew Too Much (Stewart)
19. The Paradine Case
20. The Lodger
21. Spellbound
22. Jamaica Inn

23. Blackmail
24. Marnie
25. Sabateur
26. I Confess
27. 39 Steps
28. Easy Virtue
29. Suspicion
30. Family Plot

31. Young and Innocent
32. Aventure Malgache
33. Torn Curtain
34. Mr and Mrs Smith
35. Murder!
36. The Pleasure Garden
37. Topez
38. The Wrong Man
39. To Catch a Thief
40. Sabotage
41. Secret Agent
42. The Skin Game
43. Downhill

44. Juno and Paycock
45. Champagne
46. Stage Fright
47. Under Capricorn
48. Waltzes from Vienna
49. Bon Voyage
50. Number Seventeen
51. The Manxman
52. Rich and Strange
53. Farmers Wife
54. The Ring

Admittedly, I haven't seen all of Hitchcock classics... I especially have to make to see Rebecca. But of the many I have seen, Psycho, Vertigo, and Rear Window stand out as the three best. Psycho, and Vertigo being imo among the best films ever made... and Rear Window being a classic in in its own right.

I don't see the masterpiece in North By Northwest, in all honesty.

Of the Hitchcock films I've seen, I'd rank them as follows, but in all honesty they are all interchangeable in rank because I love anything and everything he's done . The list below is purely my love of each film, and not based on cinematic merit.

1. Psycho
2. The Birds
3. Rear Window
4. The Trouble with Harry
5. Dial M for Murder
6. Rebecca
7. North by Northwest
8. The Man Who Knew Too Much
9. Strangers on a Train
10. Vertigo

1. The Trouble with Harry (1955)
( maybe not his best film but it's my favorite. It's comfy and i like autumn. )
2. The Birds (1963)
3. Vertigo (1958)
4. Rear Window (1954)
5. Psycho (1960)
6. Rope (1948)
7. North by Northwest (1959)
8. Rebecca (1940)
9. Marnie (1964)
10. Lifeboat (1944)

I like the quaint ones, that's what he did better.

1. Rope
2. Psycho
3. North by Northwest
4. Man Who Knew Too Much
5. Rear Window
6. Vertigo
7. Strangers on a Train
8. Dial M For Murder
9. Rebecca
10. Shadow of a Doubt
11. Trouble With Harry
12. Lifeboat

Birds needs a re-watch.