(0)Alfred Hitchcock
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Reunite with the 'Master of Suspense, ' Alfred Hitchcock, for more of the series' mind-boggling twists and devious thrills. In the fifth season, delve into 38 stories of greed, larceny, revenge, and murder where every character holds a guilty secret and a misleading 'MacGuffin' lurks in every corner.
22) To catch a thief
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Grant plays a reformed jewel thief who is suspected of a new rash of thefts. In order to clear himself, he is forced to find the real thief. He sets a trap with Kelly, using her mother's jewels.
23) I confess
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A priest hears a murderer's confession and then becomes the murder suspect himself.
24) Vertigo
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This 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.
26) 39 steps
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A man in London tries to help a counter-espionage agent and soon finds himself in one jam after another.
27) Stage fright
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An actress disguises herself as a maid in order to prove the innocence of her friend who has been accused of murdering the husband of another performer.
28) The 39 steps
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An innocent man is accused of a murder he did not commit. He must find the real murderer to clear his own name; in doing so, he becomes involved with an international spy ring.
29) Family plot
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In exchange for a $10,000 reward, a cab driver and a psychic team up to find a dead man who is not really dead, and in the process they become involved with a jewel merchant and his Woman in Black.
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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.
31) Jamaica Inn
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In this dark period drama, a young woman discovers her uncle heads a gang of ship-wreckers and murderers under the secret patronage of the local squire, wickedly played by Charles Laughton. Her efforts to stop their wicked ways leads her down a path filled with murder and betrayal.
32) Rear window
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A news photographer, confined to a wheelchair with a broken leg, passes the time by snooping on his Greenwich Village neighbors through his telephoto lens.
33) The birds
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When Melanie Daniels rolls into Bodega Bay in pursuit of eligible bachelor Mitch Brenner, the small California town is inexplicably attacked by thousands of birds.
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Joseph Cotten stars as Uncle Charlie, a calculating and charming killer who hides out in his relatives' small hometown. There, he befriends his favorite niece and namesake, Young Charlie. But she begins to suspect he may be the famed Merry Widow murderer. A deadly game of cat and mouse ensues as the psychopathic killer plots the death of his young niece to protect his secret.
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Two partners discover their real feelings for one another when one is bitten by a poisonous snake; A young boy witnesses an escaped mental patient and can't tell anyone about it; It's hard to tell who's the bigger cheater when a wife and her husband's jealous mistress sit down for some lethal negotiating; When two old men need a miracle in order to keep their home the answer arrives in the form of a killer on the run from the law; A young woman with...
38) To catch a thief
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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...
39) Rebecca
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A vacationing young lady meets, falls in love with, and marries handsome and wealthy widower Maxim de Winter. He takes his new bride home to his estate, Manderley. But the new Mrs. de Winter finds her married life donimated by the sinister, almost spectral influence of Maxim's late wife, Rebecca, who still rules from beyond the grave.
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Pillow talk: An uptight interior decorator cannot tolerate the carefree playboy she is forced to share a telephone party line with... until they accidentally meet in person (103 min.) ; Lover come back: Rival advertising executives get mixed up in a series of misunderstandings and mistaken identities over a secret "VIP" campaign (107 min.) ; Send me no flowers: A hypochondriac gets the wrong diagnosis and decides to find a "future" husband for his...