Rentals
Alfred Hitchcock
Bathed in blood and often shaded in blonde, the work of our most revered director is vivid proof of how film can awe.
Injustice, identity, sex and death are frequent themes of this collection, storytelling experiments which became exemplars. They include Psycho, The Birds, Marnie and the film which topped Sight & Sound's 50 Greatest Films of All Time: Vertigo.
Psycho Psycho
Horror 1960 109 mins Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Blood! Blood! Hitchcock’s masterpiece was his most successful film; a sensation in its time that continues to terrify.
78/52 78/52
Documentary 2017 92 mins Director: Alexandre O. Philippe
This superb, in-depth documentary devotes 90 minutes to analysing one of cinema’s most famous sequences – the shower scene in Psycho.
Hitchcock/Truffaut Hitchcock/Truffaut
Documentary 2015 80 mins Director: Kent Jones
Kent Jones’ excellent documentary about a historic encounter between two cinema greats.
Vertigo Vertigo
Thriller 1958 128 mins Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Hitchcock’s timeless thriller about a former detective with a fear of heights who is hired to follow a woman who seems possessed by the past.
Torn Curtain Torn Curtain
1966 128 mins Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Paul Newman stars in Hitchcock’s spy thriller, as a scientist who pretends to defect to East Germany in order to steal a secret formula.
Saboteur Saboteur
War 1942 109 mins Director: Alfred Hitchcock
A factory worker is framed for sabotage and forced on the run in Hitchcock’s fast-moving thriller, with its famous finale atop the Statue of Liberty.
The Birds The Birds
Horror 1963 119 mins Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Birds inexplicably turn against man and begin attacking the small community of Bodega Bay, in Alfred Hitchcock’s suspense classic.
Marnie Marnie
Crime 1964 130 mins Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Sean Connery stars as the man who marries a kleptomaniac who has some strange psychological problems, played by Tippi Hedren.
Shadow of a Doubt Shadow of a Doubt
Drama 1943 108 mins Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Hitchcock’s personal favourite from his own films is a brilliantly suspenseful drama about a teenage girl whose uncle may be a murderer.
Rear Window Rear Window
Thriller 1954 112 mins Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock’s masterly thriller stars James Stewart as an invalided photographer who spots something fishy outside his rear window.
The Trouble with Harry The Trouble with Harry
Comedy 1954 99 mins Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Hitchcock’s black comedy about four village residents trying to work out what to do with a dead body.
Rope Rope
Crime 1948 81 mins Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Hitchcock’s stage adaptation about two murderers who hide a body during a dinner party is famously constructed from 10 unbroken ten-minute takes.
Frenzy Frenzy
Police drama 1973 116 mins Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Hitchcock returned to London for was his penultimate film, a brutal serial killer drama that proved the veteran still had the edge.
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