MartinTeller

Rate the Hitchcocks

A thread over in Software got me curious about how other people rank the various Hitchcock films. Here's how I look at them:

Top tier:
Vertigo
Rear Window
North by Northwest
The Birds
The 39 Steps
Shadow of a Doubt

2nd tier: (slightly flawed but still immensely enjoyable)
Psycho
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
The Lady Vanishes
Rope
Notorious
Rebecca
Sabotage
Foreign Correspondent
Dial M for Murder
The Trouble With Harry
Young and Innocent
Strangers on a Train

3rd tier: (problematic, but worth watching)
Marnie
Frenzy
Saboteur (would be 2nd tier if Robert Cummings weren't so lame)
Lifeboat
Spellbound
To Catch a Thief

4th tier: (don't enjoy much at all)
Topaz
Torn Curtain
The Paradine Case
The Lodger


The rest I either haven't seen or don't remember seeing.

Kirk Tsai

Still missing a bunch of his,

Notorious
North By Northwest
Rebecca

Psycho
Shadow of a Doubt
Strangers on a Train
Vertigo
The 39 Steps

Rear Window
Suspicion
Rope
The Lady Vanishes
Marnie
The Birds
Saboteur
Frenzy

Spellbound
Dial M for Murder
To Catch a Thief
The Trouble with Harry
The Wrong Man
Torn Curtain

SteveGon

Top tier:

Vertigo
Rear Window
Psycho
The 39 Steps
Shadow of a Doubt
Foreign Correspondent

2nd tier: (slightly flawed but still immensely enjoyable)

The Lady Vanishes
Frenzy
Lifeboat
Notorious
Rebecca
Strangers on a Train
Rope

3rd tier: (problematic, but worth watching)

The Trouble With Harry
Sabotage
Saboteur
Spellbound
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)


4th tier: (don't enjoy much at all)
Marnie
Dial M for Murder
To Catch a Thief
Topaz
Torn Curtain
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

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Steve Christou

There's nothing flawed about Psycho, it's Hitchcock's masterpiece.


Psycho
North by Northwest
Rear Window (my personal favorite of his films)
Vertigo
Rebecca
The Lady Vanishes

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
Notorious
Foreign Correspondent
Strangers on a Train
The Birds
Shadow of a Doubt
The 39 Steps

Saboteur
To Catch a Thief
Dial M For Murder
Spellbound

Kristian

I have a lot of Hitchcock films left to see, but I'll rank what I've seen, anyways:

Top Tier

North by Northwest
Strangers on a Train
The Birds


2nd Tier

Notorious
Lifeboat


3rd Tier

Marnie
Spellbound


4th Tier

Dial M For Murder
Blackmail

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Cary T

How can anyone(Kirk) rank Rear Window in the third tier?!

Top Tier
Rear Window
Psycho
Rebecca
Vertigo
The Lady Vanishes

2nd Tier(Great to good, but not in the same class as the top tier)
Rope
The Birds
Frenzy
North By Northwest
Strangers on a Train
Notorious
Spellbound
Shadow of a Doubt
The 39 Steps
Saboteur
The Trouble with Harry

3rd Tier
Family Plot
The Man Who Knew Too Much(1956)
To Catch A Thief

4th Tier (The Hitch's I didn't like)
Topaz
Torn Curtain
Marnie

Kirk Tsai

How can most people not see the utter brilliance of Notorious I don't know either. FWIW, I tried to rank them in order, so Rear Window is still among my 9 favorite Hitchcocks.

Steve Christou

I love Notorious, but I had to single out 5-6 super classics and it just missed out.

You know this thread would have had more action in the Movies section, it's wasted in the Polls.

Hitchcock remains my favorite movie director, no other director comes close.
He's made more great films than any other director in cinema history IMO.

george kaplan

Top tier:

The 39 Steps
The Lady Vanishes
Strangers on a Train
The Birds
Psycho
The Trouble With Harry
Suspicion
Shadow of a Doubt
Rear Window
North by Northwest
Rebecca
Notorious
Rope
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
To Catch a Thief
Vertigo

2nd tier:

Lifeboat
Marnie
Saboteur
Spellbound
Blackmail

3rd tier:

Sabotage
Secret Agent
The Paradine Case
Frenzy
Family Plot
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
Murder!
Number 17
The Ring
The Lodger
Stage Fright
Foreign Correspondent
Mr. and Mrs. Smith

4th Tier:

Jamaica Inn
Under Capricorn
The Wrong Man
I Confess
Topaz
Torn Curtain

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MartinTeller

I'm surprised that Dial M for Murder is being ranked so low (and more surprised that George apparently hasn't seen it).