Alfred Hitchcock
Language
English
Formats
Description
Living on the French Riviera, John Robie is a retired jewel thief who was once known as 'The Cat.' He catches the eye of Frances Stevens who is a pampered, vacationing heiress. But when a new rash of gem thefts occurs amongst the luxury hotels of the spectacular French playground, it appears that 'The Cat' is on the prowl once again. Robie might be reformed, but is he deviously using Frances to gain access to the tempting collection of fabulous jewelry...
3) Rear window
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
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 grilfriend to investigate the highly suspicious chain of events. Events that ultimately lead to one of the most memorable and gripping endings...
6) Rebecca
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young woman who believes she has found her heart's desire when she marries the dashing aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter. But upon moving to Manderley, her groom's baroque ancestral mansion, she soon learns that his deceased wife haunts not only the home but the temperamental, brooding Maxim as well.
8) Topaz
Series
Publisher
Universal
Language
English
Description
American CIA agent learns of Cuban missiles and a NATO spy by the code name of TOPAZ from a defecting Russian.
9) Suspicion
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alfred Hitchcock weaves a terrifying web of suspicion around a fragile young English bride and captures a classic suspense thriller. Joan Fontaine is the bride, a gently-reared heiress who fears she has married a murderer. Cary Grant is the husband, a dashing ne'er-do-well with a penchant for the high life--and a bank account that's strictly low-life.
10) The 39 steps
Series
Criterion collection volume 56
Language
English
Description
A man in London tries to help a counterespionage agent. But when the agent is killed and he stands accused, he must go on the run to both save himself and also stop a spy ring trying to steal top secret information.
11) Torn curtain
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Scientist Michael Armstrong becomes involved in an action thriller when he attends a congress in Copenhagen.
12) Vertigo
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Police detective John "Scottie" Ferguson succombs to his neuroses after the death of his partner and meeting a look-a-like of his former lover.
13) Rear window
Language
English
Formats
Description
A wheelchair bound photographer spies on his neighbours from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
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.
15) Notorious
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
The innocent daughter of a war criminal is persuaded to help a U.S. agent trap a Nazi mastermind now living in Brazil.
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Harry's corpse is found in the autumnal New England woods. While no one mourns his death, several people feel responsible for it. The body is unearthed several times, humorous situations occur, and love affairs develop before the real cause of Harry's death is revealed.
19) Vertigo
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A tale of obsession, fear and murder stars Stewart as a detective afraid of heights who is obsessed with a lost love and her look-alike, Kim Novak.
20) The birds
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
The residents of Bodega Bay are attacked by hundreds of birds of all shapes and sizes.