Top Ranked Films of Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock

1st in titles with 14, 1st in total points with 64,881 (7,000 ahead of #2 Stanley Kubrick)

These are all the films of Hitchcock’s that made the top 1000 in our 2011 update of the Top Ranked 1000 Films on the Net, all polls. His 14 titles led all directors in total film count in the 1000. [Photos courtesy of Fanpix.net]

1. Vertigo (1958) #12
2. Psycho (1960) #14
3. North by Northwest (1959) #27
4. Notorious (1946) #54
5. Rear Window (1954) #64
6. Rebecca (1940) #153
7. Strangers on a Train (1951) #157
8. Shadow of a Doubt (1943) #264
9. Birds, The (1963) #282
10. 39 Steps, The (1935) #372
11. Rope (1948) #457
12. Lady Vanishes, The (1938) #621
13. Dial M for Murder (1954) #657
14. Marnie (1964) #681

For me, Hitchcock made a lot of good films, but few great ones. I like Vertigo a lot, especially Stewart's performance, but found Psycho, North by Northwest, The Birds, and others to be a bit too incredible and bordering on the preposterously silly (Torn Curtain).

I did like his early British classics The Lady Vanishes and The 39 Steps, also Strangers on a Train, so I guess I lean toward his black-and-white films with less tongue-in-cheek, something that he avoided in Vertigo as well.

See the full list of top ranked 100 directors here: Top Ranked 100 Directors, 2011 Edition