The 10 best films of Alfred Hitchcock, the master of suspense

Following the premiere last weekend of the film 'Hitchcock' by Sacha Gervasi, the Web labutaca.net has prepared a list with Alfred Hitchcock movies you like the most. Inspired by your article, we have made a selection with our 10 favorites. Without a doubt, practically all of his filmography deserves to be in this article, but we want to value the 10 selected titles. Without further ado, because we could talk about Alfred Hitchcock for hours, we went on to the list, we hope you like it:

1. "From among the dead (Vertigo)" (1958). A fascinating and current work in which Kim Novak was the exquisite ghost that James Stewart chased through a ghostly San Francisco, painted in the saturated colors of Robert Burks and with the death mood of Bernard Herrmann's soundtrack.
2. "Chained" (1946) The great Ben Hecht was the screenwriter of this adaptation of a story by John Taintor Foote that combined espionage, romance and Nazis in Brazil with three great stars: Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant and Claude Rains. They formed the triangle of passions and betrayals that gave rise to some of the most celebrated sequences in Alfred Hitchcock's cinema, like a long kiss between Grant and Bergman that had to contend with censorship.
3. "Psychosis" (1960). Robert Bloch's adaptation of the novel turned the conventional Hollywood narrative upside down by featuring a female lead who died mid-plot. It is perhaps Alfred Hitchcock's most popular film and also one of the most mythical ones related to its protagonist Anthony Perkins or Janet Leigh and the shower sequence. Its filming gave rise to the book "Alfred Hitchcock and the making of Psycho", in turn the starting point for "Hitchcock" de Sasha Gervasi. It also had several sequels and a shot-by-shot and color remake of Gus Van Sant.
4. "The birds" (1963). Based on the magnificent story of the writer Daphne Du Maurier, Hitchcock turned "the birds" into a monster movie in which once again he turned the harmless and routine - the birds in the title - into the raw material of the most irrational horror. Here the Apocalypse took the form of an infinite flock that swept through a town in Northern California, a disaster in the midst of which Tippi Hedren struggled to survive. Its final sequence is one of the most terrifying moments in cinema.
5. "Frenzy" (1972). Hitchcock returned to England to shoot this thriller about a serial killer who murders his victims with a tie, based on a novel by Arthur La Bern. Set in London, it is one of his most raw and aggressive feature films ever made, a harsh and unpleasant film that featured the first nudes of his filmography and featured a haunting Jon Finch as the lead. With him, the director returned to meet the praise of the critics.
6. "The rear window" (1954). James Stewart embodied the voyeur that every viewer has inside, spying from his window on the lives of others and accidentally discovering a murder while a beautiful Grace Kelly tried to get his attention. It is one of the director's most beloved and celebrated films: a vibrant thriller despite the immobility of its protagonist, and a masterful example of how to extract suspense from the mere observation of everyday life.
7. "With death on the heels" (1959). Quintessential false culprit thriller, the man in the wrong place at the wrong time that Hitchcock used so many times throughout his career. Cary Grant was one of its best representatives like Roger O. Thornhill, persistently confused with George Kaplan and persecuted throughout the American geography. It is perhaps the closest the filmmaker came to making an action movie.
8. "Rebeca" (1940). It involved his meeting with producer David O. Selznick, who was concerned that he was as faithful as possible to the Daphne du Maurier novel that he adapted. With the fictional character that Hitchcock attributed to it, this debut in the North American cinema did not contain its essential keys, but it offered a ghostly tale with excellent Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier.
9. "The man who knew too much" (1956). Remake of his one of his best works from his British period, the film put a family on vacation in Morocco in the middle of an international conflict. James Stewart and Doris Day were the troubled parents desperate to find their kidnapped son, a race against time that culminated in one of the best Hitchcockian endings, a portentous scene at London's Royal Albert Hall.
10. "Torn curtain" (1966). Political thriller with a strong Cold War climate, in it Paul Newman was a scientist who, together with his secretary and girlfriend (Julie Andrews), got into more than one problem in East Germany in his attempt to obtain information on Soviet nuclear technology . Adrenaline and intense like few others, "Torn Curtain" also had one of the wildest and most savage murders in his cinema, the one that the protagonist attacks Gromek (Wolfgang Kieling).

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