Here are the most thrilling Alfred Hitchcock movies, ranked.

Notoriousmarked a notable change in the direction of Hitchcocks careerin which his films began to become more realistic.

Hitchcock was an important part of this moment of maturation that signified that Hollywood itself had grown up.

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Joel McRea and Laraine Day in ‘Foreign Coorespondant’

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Madeleine Carroll sitting next to Robert Donat in ‘The 39 Steps’ (1935)

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Cary Grant sitting next to Alfred Hitchcock on a bus in To Catch a Thief (1955)-1

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To Catch A Thief

Doris Day sitting next to Jimmy Stewart in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

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The Man Who Knew Too Much

Robert Cummings, Norman Lloyd, and Virgil Summers in Saboteur (1942)

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Gregory Peck resting his head against Ingrid Bergman’s head in Spellbound (1945)

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Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman as T. R. Devlin and Alicia Huberman about to kiss in the film Notorious

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Grace Kelly as Margot looking at a person offscreen in Dial M for Murder (1954)

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Tallulah Bankhead, Hume Cronyn, Mary Anderson, John Hodiak, and Henry Hull in Lifeboat (1944)

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North by Northwest - 1959 (3)

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