Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

11 Episodes

For five decades, Alfred Hitchcock explored our innermost anxieties, desires, and obsessions in his diabolically constructed thrillers, which redefined the mechanics of screen terror through meticulous editing, voyeuristic camera work, and unforgettable set pieces. In endlessly studied and imitated masterpieces like SHADOW OF A DOUBT, REAR WINDOW, and VERTIGO as well as singular stylistic experiments like LIFEBOAT, ROPE, and MARNIE, the Master of Suspense tapped into the peculiar pleasures of fear like no filmmaker before or since.

Subscribe Share
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

11 Episodes

  • Foreign Correspondent
    2:00:44
    Foreign Correspondent
    Episode 1

    Foreign Correspondent

    Episode 1

    Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1940 • United States
    Starring Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall

    In 1940, Alfred Hitchcock made his official transition from the British film industry to Hollywood. And it was quite a year: his first two American movies, REBECCA and FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT, w...

  • The Lady Vanishes
    1:36:21
    The Lady Vanishes
    Episode 2

    The Lady Vanishes

    Episode 2

    Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1938 • United Kingdom
    Starring Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas

    In Alfred Hitchcock’s most quick-witted and devilish comic thriller, the beautiful Margaret Lockwood, traveling across Europe by train, meets a charming spinster (Dame May Whitty), who t...

  • Young and Innocent
    1:23:32
    Young and Innocent
    Episode 3

    Young and Innocent

    Episode 3

    Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1937 • United Kingdom
    Starring Derrick De Marney, Nova Pilbeam, Percy Marmont

    Alfred Hitchcock’s delightfully entertaining, often overlooked tale of a wrongly accused man follows a young writer (Derrick De Marney) who, when he becomes the prime suspect in the murde...

  • Sabotage
    1:17:07
    Sabotage
    Episode 4

    Sabotage

    Episode 4

    Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1936 • United Kingdom
    Starring Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, John Loder

    This loose adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s novel “The Secret Agent” is one of the high-water marks of Alfred Hitchcock’s early British period. Sylvia Sidney is the unsuspecting wife of a London c...

  • The 39 Steps
    1:27:06
    The 39 Steps
    Episode 5

    The 39 Steps

    Episode 5

    Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1935 • United Kingdom
    Starring Robert Donat, Madeline Carroll, Lucie Mannheim

    A heart-racing spy story by Alfred Hitchcock, THE 39 STEPS follows Richard Hannay (Robert Donat) as he stumbles upon a conspiracy that thrusts him into a hectic chase across the Scottish ...

  • The Man Who Knew Too Much
    1:16:04
    The Man Who Knew Too Much
    Episode 6

    The Man Who Knew Too Much

    Episode 6

    Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1934 • United Kingdom
    Starring Peter Lorre, Leslie Banks, Edna Best

    An ordinary British couple vacationing in Switzerland suddenly find themselves embroiled in a case of international intrigue when their daughter is kidnapped by spies plotting a political assassina...

  • Rich and Strange
    1:23:15
    Rich and Strange
    Episode 7

    Rich and Strange

    Episode 7

    Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1931 • United Kingdom
    Starring Henry Kendall, Joan Barry

    Taking its all-too-appropriate title from “The Tempest,” this fascinatingly offbeat satiric drama concerns a stuck-in-a-rut young couple who, upon coming into a generous inheritance, immediately use the mo...

  • Murder!
    1:42:03
    Murder!
    Episode 8

    Murder!

    Episode 8

    Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1930 • United Kingdom
    Starring Herbert Marshall, Norah Baring, Phyllis Konstam

    One of Alfred Hitchcock’s signature obsessions—the “wrong man” motif he would return to time and again—receives one of its earliest treatments in this innovative whodunit. After a you...

  • Blackmail
    1:25:31
    Blackmail
    Episode 9

    Blackmail

    Episode 9

    Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1929 • United Kindgom
    Starring Anny Ondra, Sara Allgood, John Longden

    Alfred Hitchcock’s—and Britain’s—first talkie finds the director using sound technology as inventively as he used the camera. Anny Ondra (prototype for the many Hitchcock blondes to come) play...

  • Downhill
    1:50:14
    Downhill
    Episode 10

    Downhill

    Episode 10

    Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1927 • United Kingdom
    Starring Ivor Novello, Ben Webster, Norman McKinnel

    That’s the direction things go for boarding-school student and star rugby player Roddy Berwick (celebrated songwriter and matinee idol Ivor Novello) when he falls from golden boy to public di...

  • The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
    1:30:22
    The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
    Episode 11

    The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

    Episode 11

    Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1927 • United Kingdom
    Starring Ivor Novello, June Tripp

    With his third feature film, THE LODGER: A STORY OF THE LONDON FOG, Alfred Hitchcock took a major step toward greatness and made what he would come to consider his true directorial debut. This haunting sile...

×