Hitchcock Films (Movies) From Plot Hints

1964

Tippi Hendren plays the title character. She is rather messed up and freaks out over the colour red. Sean Connery is a wealthy widower who marries her even though he knows she's a thief. He gradually uncovers her backstory.

1963

The animals in this film start behaving weirdly. By the end they're attacking in large numbers left right and centre (but we never really discover what their problem is).

1960

A thief takes shelter in a roadside hotel. The hotel owner seems to have a very close relationship with his overbearing mother. During the night, someone stabs her to death in the shower.

1959

Cary Grant is abducted by agents who claim he is 'George Kaplan' (he isn't). He has to escape and find the real Kaplan. There are famous scenes with a crop-duster plane and at Mount Rushmore.

1958

A detective rescues a woman from a river. Later she chucks herself off a church but he can't stop her because of his fear of heights. Later he meets someone who reminds him of her... and it turns out it actually is her and she faked her death (it's all a bit confusing).

1954

James Stewart has a broken leg, so he watches his neighbours from his flat for a bit of entertainment. He becomes convinced that one of them is a murderer.

1954

This was filmed in 3D - you can tell by the way Grace Kelly theatrically reaches out to grab the telephone. Her husband wants to murder her for having an affair.

1951

Two people unknown to each other get talking on a railway journey. They both have someone at home driving them mad. One of them suggests they could 'swap murders', and so neither of them would ever get caught.

1944

The film is entirely set on an eponymous small boat, containing the assorted survivors of a Nazi topedo attack (including the captain of the U-boat).

1940

Based on a story by Daphne du Maurier, it's named after the original Mrs de Winter (now dead). The new Mrs de Winter takes up residence in a big house called Manderley, but the servants don't really take to her very well.

1939

Mary goes to live in an isolated pub in the middle of a moor in Cornwall. It turns out that it's the centre of a ruthless shipwrecking gang.

1938

An English tourist is crossing Europe on a train and gets chatting to an older lady, Miss Froy. The next day Miss Froy is nowhere to be found, and everyone else denies ever having seen her in the first place.

1935

This is loosely based on a novel by John Buchan. Robert Donat tries to prevent spies stealing military secrets. But he gets wrongly accused of murder and tries to hide on the Scottish moors.

1934 / 1956

Hitchcock made two different films under this title, thrillers about the foiling of an assasination plot. The later version features Doris Day singing 'Que Sera, Sera'.