Rentals
Alfred Hitchcock
Bathed in blood and often shaded in blonde, the work of our most revered director is vivid proof of how film can awe.
Injustice, identity, sex and death are frequent themes of this collection, storytelling experiments which became exemplars. They include Psycho, The Birds, Marnie and the film which topped Sight & Sound's 50 Greatest Films of All Time: Vertigo.
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PsychoPsycho
Horror 1960 109 minsDirector: Alfred Hitchcock
Blood! Blood! Hitchcock’s masterpiece was his most successful film; a sensation in its time that continues to terrify.
MarnieMarnie
Crime 1964 130 minsDirector: Alfred Hitchcock
Sean Connery stars as the man who marries a kleptomaniac who has some strange psychological problems, played by Tippi Hedren.
RopeRope
Crime 1948 81 minsDirector: Alfred Hitchcock
Hitchcock’s stage adaptation about two murderers who hide a body during a dinner party is famously constructed from 10 unbroken ten-minute takes.
Hitchcock/TruffautHitchcock/Truffaut
Documentary 2015 80 minsDirector: Kent Jones
Kent Jones’ excellent documentary about a historic encounter between two cinema greats.
VertigoVertigo
Thriller 1958 128 minsDirector: Alfred Hitchcock
Hitchcock’s timeless thriller about a former detective with a fear of heights who is hired to follow a woman who seems possessed by the past.
Torn CurtainTorn Curtain
1966 128 minsDirector: Alfred Hitchcock
Paul Newman stars in Hitchcock’s spy thriller, as a scientist who pretends to defect to East Germany in order to steal a secret formula.
The BirdsThe Birds
Horror 1963 119 minsDirector: Alfred Hitchcock
Birds inexplicably turn against man and begin attacking the small community of Bodega Bay, in Alfred Hitchcock’s suspense classic.
SaboteurSaboteur
War 1942 109 minsDirector: Alfred Hitchcock
A factory worker is framed for sabotage and forced on the run in Hitchcock’s fast-moving thriller, with its famous finale atop the Statue of Liberty.
Shadow of a DoubtShadow of a Doubt
Drama 1943 108 minsDirector: Alfred Hitchcock
Hitchcock’s personal favourite from his own films is a brilliantly suspenseful drama about a teenage girl whose uncle may be a murderer.
FrenzyFrenzy
Police drama 1973 116 minsDirector: Alfred Hitchcock
Hitchcock returned to London for was his penultimate film, a brutal serial killer drama that proved the veteran still had the edge.
Rear WindowRear Window
Thriller 1954 112 minsDirector: Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock’s masterly thriller stars James Stewart as an invalided photographer who spots something fishy outside his rear window.