62 Alfred Hitchcock Movies & TV Shows, Ranked Best to Worst

Based on the 1959 novel by Robert Bloch, the movie follows the story of a secretary Marion Crane, who, frustrated with her life, steals $40,000 cash from her employer and leaves Phoenix, Arizona. She checks in at Bates Motel owned by friendly Norman Bates who appears to have a dominating mother.

Counted as one of Alfred Hitchcock's best movies, Rear Window is a mystery thriller that follows the observations of a wheelchair-bound man who suspects that a neighbor has murdered his wife and is disposing off the evidence. The movie was ranked no. 42 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list. 

Based on Boileau-Narcejac's 1954 novel D'entre les morts, the movie follows a former cop - John Scottie Ferguson - who suffers from acrophobia and vertigo. Gavin Elster believes that his wife Madeleine is possessed and assigns Scottie the task of following her. Scottie saves her and the two fall in love. However, Madeleine, soon commits suicide leaving Scottie devastated.

An advertising executive Roger Thornhill's life goes upside down when he is mistaken for a certain George Kaplan. He is kidnapped, almost killed, framed for a murder and chased around by men led by Phillip Vandamm. As he sets out to prove his innocence and find the real Kaplan, he is helped by Eve Kendall, who is not what she appears to be.

Tony Wendice, a professional tennis player, plans the murder of his socialite wife, Margot Wendice, for having an affair with writer Mark Halliday. Tony blackmails Charles Swann to commit the murder but Margot survives the murder attempt. Tony then schemes to incriminate Margot for the crime but has to contend with Inspector Hubbard. 

A naive young woman falls in love with and marries the aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter, and upon reaching his estate, Manderley, realizes that he still loves his first wife, Rebecca, while the domineering housekeeper Mrs. Danvers is also obsessed with her. Just as she becomes consumed by inferiority complex, a sudden crisis changes the dynamics between the characters.

During a train journey, amateur tennis star Guy Haines, who is trying to divorce his promiscuous wife Miriam so he could remarry, meets psychopath Bruno Antony, who proposes that the two strangers kill each other's targets. Despite not agreeing explicitly, Guy becomes the prime suspect when his wife is found murdered, with Bruno expecting him to kill his father.

Two brilliant college students, Brandon Shaw and Phillip Morgan, strangle fellow classmate David Kentley as an intellectual exercise to prove their superiority. They organize a party after hiding the body in an antique chest and invite people close to David, as well as their prep-school teacher Rupert Cadell, who unwittingly inspired them and now begins to suspect them.

Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted Nazi spy, is convinced by US Government agent, T. R. Devlin, to infiltrate the Nazis by seducing Alex Sebastian. As Alicia slips further in her role as an undercover agent endangering her own life, Devlin must find a way to help her as he loves her. 

Teenager Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Newton is thrilled when her namesake and favorite maternal uncle Charlie Oakley comes for a visit. But soon she notices some odd things, then two detectives come home as surveyors asking questions about Uncle Charlie. As she learns from them that he is suspected serial killer, ‘Merry Widow Murderer,’ she starts investigating, which could prove unsafe for her life.

This Alfred Hitchcock directorial follows beautiful Iris Henderson on a trans-European train that gets delayed due to an avalanche. When the train resumes, Iris gets hit on head and becomes unconscious. Later, she realizes that her compartment-companion Miss Froy is missing, but other passengers refuse to ever have seen her. With co-traveler Gilbert’s help, a determined Iris tries to find Miss Froy.

When lawyer Mitch Brenner plays a practical joke on rich socialite Melanie Daniels, who is a known prankster, she follows him to his hometown Bodega Bay to pay him back in the same coin. Her arrival is followed by strange incidences of bird attacks which become increasingly more violent and terrifying with flocks of aggressive birds swooping down on people.

This mystery thriller film tells the story of Richard Hannay, who while vacationing in London, gets involved with a counter-espionage Agent and tries to help him. However, when the agent is killed, and the man is accused, he must not only save himself from the police, but also stop a spy ring from stealing top secret information. 

Lifeboat is a survival drama film which revolves around eight survivors of a torpedoed ship, who find themselves in the same boat with the man who had sunk the ship.  

Dr. Anthony Edwardes replaces retiring Dr. Murchison as the chief of Green Manors mental asylum. He is drawn towards psychoanalyst Dr. Constance Petersen who realizes that he is an imposter. She discovers that he is an amnesiac who fears that he has killed real Edwardes. Convinced of his innocence, Constance helps him recover his memory and find the killer of Dr. Edwardes.

Foreigner Correspondent is a spy thriller film which tells the story of a journalist John, whose editor sends him to Europe as a foreign correspondent. John soon stumbles on a spy ring. He decides to seek help from another journalist and the daughter of a politician.  

Notorious jewel thief John Robie is now retired, tending his vineyards on the French Riviera. But when a series of thefts begins to take place, emulating his style, he becomes a suspect; leaving him no other option but to catch the new robber in order to clear his name and in the midst of that he also develops romantic relationship with the daughter of a rich widow. 

The Man Who Knew Too Much is a suspense thriller film, which revolves around an American family who were vacationing in French Morocco, only to be dragged into a huge conspiracy. 

London is haunted by a serial killer who murders his victims by strangling them with a necktie. Ex-Royal Air Force Officer, Richard Blaney, becomes a suspect, after his ex-wife is murdered. He is forced to go on the run, and take refuge with his best-friend. Things take a turn when he suspects that his friend may be the killer himself. 

The Wrong Man is a drama film which revolves around an innocent musician named Christopher Emmanuel, who is arrested after he is mistaken for a robber. Although his attorney works to prove his innocence, the case threatens to destroy his family before he can be declared not guilty.

Suspicion is a 1941 romantic psychological thriller film, which revolves around a shy young heiress who gets married to a charming young gentleman. However, as time passes, she feels suspicious of him, and begins to worry that he may be trying to murder her.

A serial killer murdering blonde women is on the loose in London. Soon, a detective is put to the case hoping to put an end to the killings. The detective is dating the daughter of Mr and Mrs Bunting, and when a mysterious man arrives at the home of the Buntings, asking asking for a room to rent, the detective and the young girl suspect that he may be the killer.

Father Michael Logan is a priest being suspected of murder. He soon sees that the only way to remove suspicion from himself is by violating the sanctity of the confessional.

The psychological thriller by Hitchcock follows Marnie Edgar, a kleptomaniac who robs her employers and disappears. While working as Mark Rutland’s secretary, he stops her from stealing; and compels to marry him. After a disastrous honeymoon, Mark gets her past investigated through a detective. Realizing her problems, he helps her face her childhood trauma and relive repressed memories to resolve her issues. 

Saboteur is a war thriller film which revolves around Barry Kane, who works at the Los Angeles aircraft factory. When he is falsely accused of disrupting the place on purpose, he decides to escape arrest in order to prove his innocence and find the actual culprit.

Sound Test for Blackmail is a documentary short film, made as an experiment by renowned filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock. In this film, Hitchcock uses the sound device for the first time in a motion picture of his own. 

The Trouble With Harry is a comedy mystery film, which tells the story of a dead body of a young man which appear in the residence of a small hamlet. Now locals must not only determine why and how he was killed, but what to do with the body.  

An undercover detective working for Scotland Yard, gets a job at a cinema, where the manager is part of a gang planning to set off a bomb. However, things get complicated after his cover gets blown.

Stage Fright is a thriller film which tells the story of Jonathan, who is wanted for the murder of the husband of his mistress, who is a singer. His friend Eve, who is a struggling actress, decides to help him prove his innocence, and clear his name.

Blackmail is a crime thriller film which tells the story of Alice, a young woman, who stabs an artist to death accidentally while defending herself when the latter was trying to molest her. Her life turns upside down when an unknown witness, who knows about the murder, begins to blackmail her.

A phone psychic and her boyfriend who is a taxi driver and a private detective, is hired by an old woman to search for a missing heir in California. However, their search leads them to a pair of serial kidnappers.

An actress is murdered by her estranged husband, due to her affairs with multiple young boyfriends. One of them Robert Tisdall discovers her body on the beach, and runs to call the police, but he is mistaken to be the killer. He is arrested but eventually he manages to escape. Determined to prove his innocence, he is forced to take the help of a woman.  

Bob, along with his wife Jill, is on a family vacation in Switzerland, where they meet and become friendly with a man who is staying in the same hotel. However, their life takes a dangerous turn when he is assassinated in their presence, and he passes on a secret to Jill before dying. In order to keep them silent, Bob and Jill’s daughter is kidnapped by a group of assassins.

During the Cold War, American physicist Prof. Michael Armstrong defects to East Germany. His fiancée and assistant Sarah Sherman, who follows him to East Berlin, is shocked by his action. However, he is on a secret mission as double agent to get an important solution for a nuclear secret, before returning to the US. But Sarah’s presence makes the escape risky for both.

Anthony Keane is an attorney who has agreed to represent Mrs. Paradine, who is being charged of murdering her wealthy husband. Due to her beauty, the lawyer finds himself quite attracted to the woman, although he has been happily married himself for eleven years. He tries to pin the crime of murder on Latour, her servant; however the plan backfires.

During the First World War, three British agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy. However, things get complicated when two of them find themselves in conflict with their conscience, regarding the morality of their mission.

Ann and David are a married couple who live in New York City. Their lives get complicated when a county official arrives and informs David, that due to a jurisdictional mishap, their three-year-old marriage was not valid.  Things get complicated as Ann starts to feel that David might not want to marry her again.

Jamaica Inn is a crime adventure film which tells the story of a woman named Mary, who is sent to live with her uncle and aunt in Cornwall. Things take a turn when she discovers that her uncle’s property is being used for criminal activities, by a gang that arranges shipwrecks for profit.

Actress Edna Druce is found dead and strangely, she is holding the murder weapon herself. Fellow actor Diana is suspected and eventually convicted of the murder, and she is soon about to be sentenced for execution. However John Menier, one of the jurors, thinks that she may be innocent. An actor himself, Menier decides to revisit the crime scene hoping that he can get Diana’s name cleared.  

Watchtower Over Tomorrow is a documentary short film about the Dumbarton Oaks Plan, as well as the proposed formations of the United Nations.

Based on a novel of the same name, this spy thriller film revolves around a French intelligence agent who gets entangled in the politics of the Cold War, just before the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.

Under Capricorn is a romantic crime drama film which tells the story of Charles, a young man, who gets reunited with Heinreita, his childhood sweetheart in Australia. However, he soon learns that she is having several problems in her life, which has made her an alcoholic. Charles helps her restore her self-confidence and they get closer and closer to one another.

Based on real events, Waltez from Vienna is a musical film which revolves mostly around the complicated relationship between Austrian composer Johann Strauss and his son Johann Strauss II. Although the father wishes his son not to follow in his footsteps, his son wants to prove himself to his father by showing that he has what it takes to succeed in the world of music.

Fred Hill and his wife Emily receive an unexpected inheritance from an uncle, and they feel that it will give them happiness. Fred quits his job and they decide to go on a world tour. Soon, the money only turns out to be a curse, and their new luxurious lifestyle threatens to tear their marriage apart.

Sound Test for Blackmail is a documentary short film, made as an experiment by renowned filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock. In this film, Hitchcock uses the sound device for the first time in a motion picture of his own. 

The Wrong Man is a drama film which revolves around an innocent musician named Christopher Emmanuel, who is arrested after he is mistaken for a robber. Although his attorney works to prove his innocence, the case threatens to destroy his family before he can be declared not guilty.

Based on the 1959 novel by Robert Bloch, the movie follows the story of a secretary Marion Crane, who, frustrated with her life, steals $40,000 cash from her employer and leaves Phoenix, Arizona. She checks in at Bates Motel owned by friendly Norman Bates who appears to have a dominating mother.

Counted as one of Alfred Hitchcock's best movies, Rear Window is a mystery thriller that follows the observations of a wheelchair-bound man who suspects that a neighbor has murdered his wife and is disposing off the evidence. The movie was ranked no. 42 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list. 

Based on Boileau-Narcejac's 1954 novel D'entre les morts, the movie follows a former cop - John Scottie Ferguson - who suffers from acrophobia and vertigo. Gavin Elster believes that his wife Madeleine is possessed and assigns Scottie the task of following her. Scottie saves her and the two fall in love. However, Madeleine, soon commits suicide leaving Scottie devastated.

An advertising executive Roger Thornhill's life goes upside down when he is mistaken for a certain George Kaplan. He is kidnapped, almost killed, framed for a murder and chased around by men led by Phillip Vandamm. As he sets out to prove his innocence and find the real Kaplan, he is helped by Eve Kendall, who is not what she appears to be.

A naive young woman falls in love with and marries the aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter, and upon reaching his estate, Manderley, realizes that he still loves his first wife, Rebecca, while the domineering housekeeper Mrs. Danvers is also obsessed with her. Just as she becomes consumed by inferiority complex, a sudden crisis changes the dynamics between the characters.

During a train journey, amateur tennis star Guy Haines, who is trying to divorce his promiscuous wife Miriam so he could remarry, meets psychopath Bruno Antony, who proposes that the two strangers kill each other's targets. Despite not agreeing explicitly, Guy becomes the prime suspect when his wife is found murdered, with Bruno expecting him to kill his father.

Two brilliant college students, Brandon Shaw and Phillip Morgan, strangle fellow classmate David Kentley as an intellectual exercise to prove their superiority. They organize a party after hiding the body in an antique chest and invite people close to David, as well as their prep-school teacher Rupert Cadell, who unwittingly inspired them and now begins to suspect them.

Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted Nazi spy, is convinced by US Government agent, T. R. Devlin, to infiltrate the Nazis by seducing Alex Sebastian. As Alicia slips further in her role as an undercover agent endangering her own life, Devlin must find a way to help her as he loves her. 

Teenager Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Newton is thrilled when her namesake and favorite maternal uncle Charlie Oakley comes for a visit. But soon she notices some odd things, then two detectives come home as surveyors asking questions about Uncle Charlie. As she learns from them that he is suspected serial killer, ‘Merry Widow Murderer,’ she starts investigating, which could prove unsafe for her life.

This Alfred Hitchcock directorial follows beautiful Iris Henderson on a trans-European train that gets delayed due to an avalanche. When the train resumes, Iris gets hit on head and becomes unconscious. Later, she realizes that her compartment-companion Miss Froy is missing, but other passengers refuse to ever have seen her. With co-traveler Gilbert’s help, a determined Iris tries to find Miss Froy.

When lawyer Mitch Brenner plays a practical joke on rich socialite Melanie Daniels, who is a known prankster, she follows him to his hometown Bodega Bay to pay him back in the same coin. Her arrival is followed by strange incidences of bird attacks which become increasingly more violent and terrifying with flocks of aggressive birds swooping down on people.

This mystery thriller film tells the story of Richard Hannay, who while vacationing in London, gets involved with a counter-espionage Agent and tries to help him. However, when the agent is killed, and the man is accused, he must not only save himself from the police, but also stop a spy ring from stealing top secret information. 

Dr. Anthony Edwardes replaces retiring Dr. Murchison as the chief of Green Manors mental asylum. He is drawn towards psychoanalyst Dr. Constance Petersen who realizes that he is an imposter. She discovers that he is an amnesiac who fears that he has killed real Edwardes. Convinced of his innocence, Constance helps him recover his memory and find the killer of Dr. Edwardes.

Foreigner Correspondent is a spy thriller film which tells the story of a journalist John, whose editor sends him to Europe as a foreign correspondent. John soon stumbles on a spy ring. He decides to seek help from another journalist and the daughter of a politician.  

Notorious jewel thief John Robie is now retired, tending his vineyards on the French Riviera. But when a series of thefts begins to take place, emulating his style, he becomes a suspect; leaving him no other option but to catch the new robber in order to clear his name and in the midst of that he also develops romantic relationship with the daughter of a rich widow. 

The Man Who Knew Too Much is a suspense thriller film, which revolves around an American family who were vacationing in French Morocco, only to be dragged into a huge conspiracy. 

London is haunted by a serial killer who murders his victims by strangling them with a necktie. Ex-Royal Air Force Officer, Richard Blaney, becomes a suspect, after his ex-wife is murdered. He is forced to go on the run, and take refuge with his best-friend. Things take a turn when he suspects that his friend may be the killer himself. 

Suspicion is a 1941 romantic psychological thriller film, which revolves around a shy young heiress who gets married to a charming young gentleman. However, as time passes, she feels suspicious of him, and begins to worry that he may be trying to murder her.

A serial killer murdering blonde women is on the loose in London. Soon, a detective is put to the case hoping to put an end to the killings. The detective is dating the daughter of Mr and Mrs Bunting, and when a mysterious man arrives at the home of the Buntings, asking asking for a room to rent, the detective and the young girl suspect that he may be the killer.

Father Michael Logan is a priest being suspected of murder. He soon sees that the only way to remove suspicion from himself is by violating the sanctity of the confessional.

The psychological thriller by Hitchcock follows Marnie Edgar, a kleptomaniac who robs her employers and disappears. While working as Mark Rutland’s secretary, he stops her from stealing; and compels to marry him. After a disastrous honeymoon, Mark gets her past investigated through a detective. Realizing her problems, he helps her face her childhood trauma and relive repressed memories to resolve her issues. 

Saboteur is a war thriller film which revolves around Barry Kane, who works at the Los Angeles aircraft factory. When he is falsely accused of disrupting the place on purpose, he decides to escape arrest in order to prove his innocence and find the actual culprit.

The Trouble With Harry is a comedy mystery film, which tells the story of a dead body of a young man which appear in the residence of a small hamlet. Now locals must not only determine why and how he was killed, but what to do with the body.  

An undercover detective working for Scotland Yard, gets a job at a cinema, where the manager is part of a gang planning to set off a bomb. However, things get complicated after his cover gets blown.

Stage Fright is a thriller film which tells the story of Jonathan, who is wanted for the murder of the husband of his mistress, who is a singer. His friend Eve, who is a struggling actress, decides to help him prove his innocence, and clear his name.

Blackmail is a crime thriller film which tells the story of Alice, a young woman, who stabs an artist to death accidentally while defending herself when the latter was trying to molest her. Her life turns upside down when an unknown witness, who knows about the murder, begins to blackmail her.

A phone psychic and her boyfriend who is a taxi driver and a private detective, is hired by an old woman to search for a missing heir in California. However, their search leads them to a pair of serial kidnappers.

An actress is murdered by her estranged husband, due to her affairs with multiple young boyfriends. One of them Robert Tisdall discovers her body on the beach, and runs to call the police, but he is mistaken to be the killer. He is arrested but eventually he manages to escape. Determined to prove his innocence, he is forced to take the help of a woman.  

Bob, along with his wife Jill, is on a family vacation in Switzerland, where they meet and become friendly with a man who is staying in the same hotel. However, their life takes a dangerous turn when he is assassinated in their presence, and he passes on a secret to Jill before dying. In order to keep them silent, Bob and Jill’s daughter is kidnapped by a group of assassins.

During the Cold War, American physicist Prof. Michael Armstrong defects to East Germany. His fiancée and assistant Sarah Sherman, who follows him to East Berlin, is shocked by his action. However, he is on a secret mission as double agent to get an important solution for a nuclear secret, before returning to the US. But Sarah’s presence makes the escape risky for both.

Anthony Keane is an attorney who has agreed to represent Mrs. Paradine, who is being charged of murdering her wealthy husband. Due to her beauty, the lawyer finds himself quite attracted to the woman, although he has been happily married himself for eleven years. He tries to pin the crime of murder on Latour, her servant; however the plan backfires.

Ann and David are a married couple who live in New York City. Their lives get complicated when a county official arrives and informs David, that due to a jurisdictional mishap, their three-year-old marriage was not valid.  Things get complicated as Ann starts to feel that David might not want to marry her again.

Actress Edna Druce is found dead and strangely, she is holding the murder weapon herself. Fellow actor Diana is suspected and eventually convicted of the murder, and she is soon about to be sentenced for execution. However John Menier, one of the jurors, thinks that she may be innocent. An actor himself, Menier decides to revisit the crime scene hoping that he can get Diana’s name cleared.  

Based on a novel of the same name, this spy thriller film revolves around a French intelligence agent who gets entangled in the politics of the Cold War, just before the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.

Under Capricorn is a romantic crime drama film which tells the story of Charles, a young man, who gets reunited with Heinreita, his childhood sweetheart in Australia. However, he soon learns that she is having several problems in her life, which has made her an alcoholic. Charles helps her restore her self-confidence and they get closer and closer to one another.