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Barbara Harris is almost enough to carry the goofy, playful Family Plot, but it's often too meandering to earn full attention.

Tensely sexual as it follows two domineering people, Marnie is relentlessly uncomfortable in Hitchcock's usual form.

A heated wartime paranoia thriller, Shadow of a Doubt excels as a premiere early American Hitchcock classic.

Hitchcock dipped into wartime paranoia and propaganda with Saboteur, a passable thriller more concerned with a message than thrills.

The Trouble with Harry drips with careful innuendo, polite dark humor, yet no genuine mystery and still feels every bit of Alfred Hitchcok's personality.

Hitchcock turns the mundane into a terror with The Birds, treating the animals like a force protecting old morals.

Psycho breaks with perceived norms circa the early 1960s, lashing out against a more open culture emerging from Puritan values.

Vertigo belies its '50s era origin through a devious story of lust, obsession, and desperation, leading to an engrossing thriller.

Rear Window's relentless paranoia captures post-war America in a confined, tension-driven space.

A masterpiece of screen romance and intellectual satire, Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief is a marvelous example of screen foreplay.

A decent Australian thriller starring Stacy Keach and Jamie Lee Curtis, Road Games relies more on twists and suspense than lurid action.

Hitchcock is as much a story about Alma and her influence on the director's movies, than it is about Alfred Hitchcock himself.