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Alfred Hitchcock
41) Family plot
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
A cabbie and a psychic work together to search for a missing heir. They become involved with a larcenous jewel merchant and his "Woman in Black" while discovering the family plot.
Pub. Date
[c2004]
Description
Guy Haines, a tennis star who hates his wife, is approached on a train by a stranger, Bruno Anthony, who hates his father. Anthony offers a plan: each could kill the other's victim. No motive, no clue would link the two murders save the casual meeting of strangers on a train. Haines doesn't take the plan seriously, however, until his wife is suddenly murdered, and Anthony appears to demand that Haines keep his part of the bargain.
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
As a photographer with a broken leg, Stewart takes up the fine art of spying on his Greenwich Village neighbors during a summer heat wave. Things really begin to get hot when he suspects a salesman may have murdered his nagging wife and buried the body in a flower garden. He actively enlists the help of his girlfriend to investigate the highly suspicious chain of events. Events that ultimately lead to one of the most memorable and gripping endings...
44) Suspicion
Pub. Date
2009
Description
A shy English woman begins to suspect that her new husband is a murderer; when two strangers seemingly agree to commit murders for each other, one of them goes through with it and begins stalking the other man; a priest becomes a murder suspect when he refuses to break the seal of confession; a man is accused of armed robbery when he goes to the office of an insurance company.
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Frenzy : The Necktie Murderer has the London police on red alert and an innocent man is on a desperate quest to find the real sex criminal and clear his name. Alternating heart-pounding tension with distinctive Hitchcock humor, Frenzy marked the Master of Suspense's return to his native England after almost 20 years. Family plot : In his final picture, Hitchcock weaves together suspense and humor in this tongue-in-cheek thriller about a wealthy woman...
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
[Breakdown]:"Mr.Callew (Joseph Cotton), a coldly efficient, workaholic businessman, has disdain for men who make a show of their emotions. On a lonely stretch of road, his convertible collides with construction equipment and he is paralysed and mistaken for dead. Can Callew contain HIS emotions long enough to save himself--or suffer a fatal 'Breakdown'?"--from container.
[Mr. Blanchard's Secret]:" A daffy suburban spoof of Hitchcock's Rear Window....
48) Marnie
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Marnie, a compulsive thief and liar is caught. Her captor impulsively marries the frigid, disturbed girl in hopes of helping her and discovering the reasons for her ongoing anti-social behavior.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
This documentary contains interviews, production shorts, trailers, film clips, and news segments along with behind-the-scenes footage of some of Hitchcock's films, including Psycho, Rear window, Vertigo, Dial M for murder. This film offers a rare look into the life and times of the master of suspense.
51) The Birds
Description
Melanie Daniels is a beautiful blonde who arrives in Bodega Bay in pursuit of the handsome and eligible Mitch Brenner. But love is not the only thing in the air when thousands of birds descend upon the town, attacking and terrorizing its residents. Soon Melanie and Mitch are fighting for their lives against a deadly, unexplainable force in this spine-tingling portrait of nature at its most powerful and ruthless.
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Two thrill-seeking friends strangle a classmate and then hold a party for their victim's family and friends, serving refreshments on a buffet table fashioned from a trunk containing the lifeless body. When dinner conversation revolves around talk of "the perfect murder," their former teacher becomes increasingly suspicious that his proteges have turned his intellectual theories into brutal reality.
53) Vertigo
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Scottie Ferguson, a San Francisco police detective, is forced to retire when a freak accident gives him a severe case of acrophobia. Ferguson is hired by a rich shipbuilder to follow his wife who is behaving suspiciously and might be planning suicide. He falls in love with her, but she is later murdered and Ferguson becomes demonic in his desire to re-create her in another woman.
57) Rebecca
Series
Description
A vacationing young lady meets, falls in love with, and marries handsome and wealthy widower Maxim de Winter. He takes his new bride home to his estate, Manderley. But the new Mrs. de Winter finds her married life dominated by the sinister, almost spectral influence of Maxim's late wife, Rebecca, who still rules from beyond the grave.
59) Vertigo
Pub. Date
2012
Description
San Francisco police detective Scottie Ferguson is forced to retire when a freak accident gives him a severe fear of heights. When a rich shipbuilder hires Scottie to follow his wife, who may be suicidal, Scottie finds himself falling in love with her. Eventually Ferguson becomes obsessed with the chance to re-create her in another woman.
60) The 39 steps
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
"Richard Hannay is on vacation in London when he meets a mysterious woman who tells him of a spy ring which she is trying to crack. She doesn't know the identity of the masterspy, but does know a few revealing details. Later she is murdered-- before Hannay can learn anything more. His own life now in danger, Hannay sets out to solve a mystery."--Container.
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