Classic Hitchcock crime caper, with Milland as the scheming husband who thinks he's planned the perfect murder. But his plot goes pear-shaped when wife Margot (Kelly) stabs her would-be killer, plunging hubby even deeper into his web of deceit and blackmail. Tense and clever, if slightly stagey. find out more...

A father is haunted by the death of his young child. Omens point to disaster and hallucinations predict the future as this wonderful atmospheric film moves to its disturbing climax. Shot in the beautiful city of Venice and based on the book by Daphne du Maurier.

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Undoubtedly one of Hitch's best. An innocent businessman is mistaken for a spy by enemy agents and learns the true meaning of persecution, while a deceptively beautiful blonde in the pay of his tormentors steals his heart. A tense and compulsively gripping nice-guy's nightmare. Obligatory viewing. find out more...

Hitchcock's masterpiece. A news photographer is confined to his apartment by an injury and spends his days watching the neighbours. He comes to believe that he is witnessing the preparations for a murder. Based on the novel by Cornell Woolrich. Suspense, ambiguity and voyuerism; total brilliance! find out more...

A psycho-chiller/thriller from the master of the genre as the naive young wife of a rich Cornish land owner is haunted by the image of his first glamorous wife, Rebecca. The usual mix of pyschology and fine film making, and widely considered to be one of Hitchcock's best works. Best Picture at the 1940 Academy Awards. find out more...

Hitchcock apparently made this as a trial run for "North by Northwest", and while Robert Cummings is no match for the effortlessly charismatic Cary Grant, the villains are wonderfully nasty. Cummings is the fugitive framed for sabotage at the munitions factory where he works, engaged in a race against the clock to find the Nazi agents responsible before the police find him. Some cleverly tense set pieces, not least of which is the climax atop the Statue of Liberty. find out more...

The original and the best screen adaptation of John Buchan's jingoistic thriller of German plots and dashing Englishmen. Considered by the director as one of his very best this launched the theme of the innocent man on the run from both the law and the villians. Excellent. find out more...

Laughton's only stab at directing, with Mitchum giving a stunning performance as the psychopathic preacher who, whilst in jail for a minor offence, hatches a devious plan to get his hands on the loot stashed by his condemned cell-mate. Set in '30s rural America, the film polarises into a struggle between good and evil for the souls of innocent children. Laughton's deliberately old-fashioned direction throws up a startling array of images: an amalgam of Mark Twain-like exteriors (idyllic riversid find out more...