The 11 Most Important Alfred Hitchcock Movies, Ranked

Vertigo, North by Northwest, and Psycho are among the Master of Suspense Alfred Hitchcock's most important works.

February 3, 2025 · 1 min · 55 words · Zachary Fowler

In 2009, the infamous crop-duster plane scene was ranked as the greatest moment in movie history byEmpiremagazine.

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Melanie inside a phone booth while birds fly outside in The Birds

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Shadow of a Doubt 1943

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Jeff, played by Jimmy Stewart, aiming his camera in Rear Window

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Guy Haines and Bruno Anthony talking in Strangers on a Train

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Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine in ‘Rebecca’

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Donald Calthrop and John Longden standing on opposite sides of table while Anny Ondra sits in front of the table in Blackmail (1929)

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Vertigo-Noir

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Marion Crane driving in Psycho

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Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill, wearing a suit and running away from a crop duster plane in North by Northwest

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