Alfred Hitchcock
Description
Roger Thornhill is a New York advertising executive who is kidnapped by a gang of spies led by Philip Vandamm, who believes Thornhill is CIA agent George Kaplan. Thornhill escapes, but must find Kaplan in order to clear himself of a murder that Kaplan is accused of committing. Following Kaplan to Chicago as a fugitive from justice, Thornhill is helped by beautiful Eve Kendall. In Chicago, she delivers a message to Kaplan that almost costs Thornhill...
2) Rear window
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Stewart, a photographer with a broken leg, takes up spying and suspects that his neighbor has murdered his invalid wife and buried her in the flower garden.
3) Murder
Description
When a woman is convicted of murder, one of the jurists selected to serve on the jury believes she is innocent and takes it upon himself to apprehend the real killer.
5) Vertigo
Description
This tale of obsession, fear and murder stars Stewart as a detective afraid of heights who is obsessed with a lost love and her look-alike, Kim Novak.
7) The 39 steps
Description
An innocent man is accused of a murder he did not commit. He must find the real murderer to clear his own name; in doing so, he becomes involved with an international spy ring.
Description
A full-throttle espionage thriller, starring Joel McCrea as a green Yank reporter sent to Europe to get the scoop on the imminent war. It's wall-to-wall witty repartee, head-spinning plot twists, and brilliantly mounted suspense set pieces, including an ocean plane crash climax with astonishing special effects.
9) Notorious
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Working undercover for the U.S. government in Rio, the daughter of a convicted Nazi traitor marries a ruthless Nazi spy, but then begins a love affair with her American contact. Torn between passion and patriotism, they must sacrifice their feelings or risk destruction.
11) The Manxman
Description
Alfred Hitchcock's last silent film about two friends, a lawyer and a fisherman who fall in love with the same woman. She marries one, but she loves the other.
14) Secret agent
Description
An espionage thriller set in Geneva, seasoned with romance. Two British Intelligence Service agents pose as husband and wife in an attempt to eliminate an agent for the Central Powers.
15) Blackmail
Description
[Blackmail] A young woman kills an artist who attempts to rape her. Her Scotland Yard detective boyfriend soon learns the killer's identity, but so has someone else. First produced as a silent film, then in this version with dialog.
[Easy virtue] "After divorcing an abusive husband, an innocent woman makes a valiant effort at beginning her life anew, but she cannot escape the incidents surrounding her past"--Container.
16) Sabotage: Lodger
Description
Sabotage: An undercover Scotland Yard detective infiltrates the home of a theatre operator who is suspected of sabotage. When the saboteur suspects he is being watched, he asks his nephew to deliver an explosive parcel across town.
The lodger: The central character, called simply "The Lodger", is caught in the trap of other peoples' suspicions. Because this lodger, who is renting a room in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bunting, seems mysterious, he is...
17) Jamaica Inn
Description
An Irish orphan girl (Mary) ... lives on the rugged coast of Cornwall with her uncle. After several vessels smash on the deadly rocks, Mary begins to suspect it's more than accidental. By the time she realizes what's going on, she is a target for the marauding smugglers and highwaymen who are ravaging the area.
18) Rich and strange
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[Rich and Strange] Instead of waiting for their inheritance, Fred and Emily Hill ask for it in advance. Their rich uncle surprisingly obliges. They set out to use the money in the best possible way--by spending it.
[The sorcerer's apprentice] An innocent boy becomes the pawn in a deadly circus game gone awry.
Description
[Young and innocent] When a woman's body is discovered on the beach by one of her former lovers, he races off to call the police. Two witnesses see him run and think he is the escaping killer. After being arrested, he manages to escape in the confusion at the courthouse. With the assistance of the constable's daughter, he tries to prove his innocence while avoiding the police.
[The Cheney vase] A fired curator begins to manipulate an elderly woman...
20) Number seventeen
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[Number seventeen] A comedy-thriller about an unsuspecting, innocent hobo who accidentally stumbles across the hideout of a gang of jewel thieves.
[The Ring] A silent film with musical soundtrack. A carnival fighter trys to make it as a professional to please his girlfriend.