Alfred Hitchcock
2) Marnie
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Formats
Description
A compulsive liar and thief...winds up marrying the very man she attempts to rob. When a terrible accident pushes her over the edge, her husband struggles to help her face her demons as the plot races to an inescapable conclusion.
5) The birds
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The residents of Bodega Bay are inexplicably attacked by hundreds of birds of all shapes and sizes.
Publisher
Laserlight DVD
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : si., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A middle-aged widower sets out to choose a wife from the unattached women in the neighborhood. He and his housekeeper make a list of eligible females, whom he then pursues with interesting consequences.
7) Saboteur
Formats
Description
Wartime thriller about a Los Angeles aircraft factory worker who witnesses his plant's firebombing by a Nazi agent, and is framed for that act himself.
9) Rope
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Description
After two friends kill a classmate and host a dinner party with the corpse stuffed into a trunk in the same room, their former teacher begins to suspect that they have taken his theories about murder and carried them out.
10) Vertigo
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Scottie Ferguson, a San Francisco police detective is forced to retire when a freak accident gives him a severe case of acrophobia. Ferguson is hired by a rich shipbuilder to follow his wife who is behaving suspiciously and might be planning suicide. He falls in love with her, she is later murdered and Ferguson becomes demonic in his desire to re-create her in another woman.
11) To catch a thief
Pub. Date
[2017]
Formats
Description
Robie is suspected of a new rash of gem thefts in the luxury hotels of the French Riviera, and he must set out to clear himself. Meeting pampered heiress Frances, he sees a chance to bait the mysterious thief with her mother's fabulous jewels. His plan backfires, however, but Frances, who believes him guilty, proves her love by helping him escape. In a spine-tingling climax, the real criminal is exposed.
12) Under Capricorn
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a British man is banished to Australia, his nervous alcoholic wife meets an old friend anxious to help her with her problems.
13) Rope
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
p2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 81 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Two thrill-seeking friends (Granger and Dall) strangle a classmate and then hold a party for their victim's family and friends, serving refreshments on a buffet table fashioned from a trunk containing the lifeless body. When dinner conversation revolves around talk of the 'perfect murder, ' their former teacher (Stewart) becomes increasingly suspicious that his students have turned his intellectual theories into brutal reality."--Container.
14) Vertigo
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
San Francisco police detective Scottie Ferguson is forced to retire when a freak accident gives him a severe fear of heights. When a rich shipbuilder hires Scottie to follow his wife, who may be suicidal, Scottie finds himself falling in love with her. Eventually Ferguson becomes obsessed with the chance to re-create her in another woman.
15) Rear window
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2001], c1954
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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 girlfriend to investigate the highly suspicious chain of events. . . Events that ultimately lead to one of the most memorable and gripping endings...
Publisher
Delta Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (169 min.) : sd. & si., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The lodger: The central character, called simply "The Lodger", is caught in the trap of other peoples' suspicions. Because this lodger, who is renting a room in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bunting, seems mysterious, he is suspected of being the notorious "Avenger", a killer who has been stalking women in London and strangling them.
Sabotage: An undercover Scotland Yard detective infiltrates the home of a theatre operator who is suspected of sabotage....
17) Suspicion
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Series
Criterion Collection volume 885
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This haunting silent thriller tells the tale of a mysterious young man who takes up residence at a London boardinghouse, just as a killer who preys on blonde women, known as the Avenger, descends upon the city. The film is animated by the palpable energy of a young stylist at play, decisively establishing the director's formal and thematic obsessions.
Series
Description
Iris is travelling on a train through Europe and befriends Miss Froy, a kindly old lady. When Iris is knocked unconscious by a falling flower pot, she awakens to find Miss Froy mysteriously replaced by an imposter. She's led to believe the accident caused an illusion until Gilbert, a young musician, comes to her assistance. Together, they find themselves caught up in a mystery.
Series
Criterion collection volume 696
Pub. Date
2014
Formats
Description
A full-throttle espionage thriller, starring Joel McCrea as a green Yank reporter sent to Europe to get the scoop on the imminent war. It's wall-to-wall witty repartee, head-spinning plot twists, and brilliantly mounted suspense set pieces, including an ocean plane crash climax with astonishing special effects.