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Alfred Hitchcock & His Followers In Suspense & Noir
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The Birds (Collector's Edition)The Birds (Collector's Edition)
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Hitchcock's film with Rod Taylor and Tippi Hedren who battle off attacking birds in a California seacoast town. Based loosely upon a Daphne Du Maurier story.
Blood SimpleBlood Simple
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The Coen's first film is a noir involving the murder of a bar owner by his wife and her boyfriend. Once they commit the murder they make one stupid mistake after another. The cast, including Frances McDormand, became a who's who in film.
Blow OutBlow Out
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John Travolta is a sound technician who has to come with a good scream for a horror film. He meets Nancy Allen who is in a car that goes into the river when its tire blows out. The driver is a famous married politician and her lover.Brian DePalma film.
Body Double (Widescreen Special Edition)Body Double (Widescreen Special Edition)
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Craig Wasson moves into a colleague's house when he splits with his lover. While there he sees some strange goings on through a telescope including a possible murder. Melanie Griffith is a porn star who may have been involved in this crime. Brian DePalma film.
Body Heat (Deluxe Edition)Body Heat (Deluxe Edition)
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William Hurt is a marginal attorney in Florida who is barely scraping by in life and law. He begins an affair with the wife of the wealthiest man in the town. The two get ready and want hubby dead. A who's who of acting: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Mickey Rourke and Ted Danson. Lawrence Kasdan wrote and directed.
The Bride Wore BlackThe Bride Wore Black
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Francois Truffaut's film stars Jeanne Moreau who exacts revenge on everyone who was involved in murdering her bridgegroom on her wedding day. An homage to Hitchcok, Truffaut's idol.
Chinatown (Special Collector's Edition)Chinatown (Special Collector's Edition)
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Jack Nicholson investigates a water rights case in early 20th century Los Angeles which begins to unravel the secrets of Faye Dunaway's wealthy father who owns those rights, including all the most serious of crimes. Roman Polanski directs Robert Towne's script.
Dead AgainDead Again
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Kenneth Branagh directs himself and then wife Emma Thompson as two strangers who are reincarnations of their earlier selves who were married decades ago. Back then he was convicted and executed for murdering her. Branagh and Thompson were perfection together in this.
Diabolique (Criterion Collection Spine #35)Diabolique (Criterion Collection Spine #35)
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Henri-Georges Clouzot film about two women who murder the one's husband at the school where he was headmaster. Strange things begin to happen afterwards. Simone Signoret stars.
Dial M for MurderDial M for Murder
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Hitchcock's film with Ray Milland, who wants to murder wife Grace Kelly who is having an affair with Robert Cummings. He concocts an elaborate plot for her murder.
Elevator to the Gallows - Criterion CollectionElevator to the Gallows - Criterion Collection
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Louis Malle's film about a businessman who murders his employer who is married to his lover, Jeanne Moreau. He makes a mistake at the murder scene though and this sets off a sequence of events, each more absurd than the other.
Femme FataleFemme Fatale
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Brian De Palma's film starring Rebecca Romijn and Antonio Banderas features a con woman who has disappeared as another person for seven years only to be unwittingly revealed by a photograph taken for the newspaper.
The Fourth ManThe Fourth Man
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Paul Verhoeven's film starring Jeroen Krabbé as a writer who visits a hairdresser who has had three husbands who died tragically. He is gay and attracted to her boyfriend but is increasingly convinced that she murdered her husband and that they are next in line for murder.
Freeway (Widescreen Edition)Freeway (Widescreen Edition)
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Reese Witherspoon is a teenager who has to make her own way in the world. She manages to take on all comers but meets her nemesis in Keifer Sutherland who is a serial killer preying on young women. This is like no serial killer movie you've ever seen! Based on the fairy tale, LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD AND THE BIG BAD WOLF.
FrenzyFrenzy
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Hitchcock's film with One man accused of being the necktie strangler while his friend is the actual killer and has set him up as the suspect.
The Grifters (Miramax Collector's Series)The Grifters (Miramax Collector's Series)
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Angelica Huston and John Cusack are both grifters, small time con artists. They are also mother and son with a very turbulent relationship. He gets involved with Annette Bening and that upsets what little harmony existed between the two.
The Hot SpotThe Hot Spot
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Don Johnson is a used car salesman in this Dennis Hopper film. Johnson is blackmailed by his boss's wife, Virginia Madsen, and has to give up his girlfriend, a very young and beautiful Jennifer Connolly.
I ConfessI Confess
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Hitchcock's film starring Monty Clift who is a priest. A murderer confesses a murder in the confessional to Clift meaning Clift can tell no one. Clift gets dragged into the murder case and can't say anything, even when he is suspected.
The Man Who Knew Too MuchThe Man Who Knew Too Much
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Hitchcock's film about a couple who are kept in line by the kidnapper of their son because they know too much about an assassination planned at Albert Hall in England. Remake of his own film from the '20s.
The Man Who Wasn't ThereThe Man Who Wasn't There
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The Coen brothers noirish film stars Billy Bob Thornton as a barber in 1949 California who sees a way to make it big and escape his humdrum life.
MarnieMarnie
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Hitchcock's film about Tippi Hedren who steals money from various companies but is caught at it by Sean Connery who marries her. Marnie's problems are more involved than theft though.
MementoMemento
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Christoper Nolan's film starring Guy Pearce and Joe Pantoliano in a backwards 2001 thriller. He is suffering from reverse Alzheimer's. He can get through the day because he remembers everything long term but he loses short term memory constantly.
Mulholland DriveMulholland Drive
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David Lynch's surreal take on murder as Naomi Watts stars as an actress who becomes very close to a beautiful woman she meets who is suffering from amnesia after a car crash.
North by Northwest (50th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray Book) [Blu-ray]North by Northwest (50th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray Book) [Blu-ray]
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Hitchcock's film about Cary Grant suddenly finding James Mason's thugs trying to kill him when he is taken for another man in a restaurant. As he runs for his life Eve Marie Saint comes to his aid.
NotoriousNotorious
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Hitchcock's film with Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman in a love and spy story. Bergman's father is convicted as a Nazi war criminal in the USA. She is asked by CIA agent Grant to join his cohorts in South America and spy on them for the CIA.
Psycho (Special Edition) (Universal Legacy Series)Psycho (Special Edition) (Universal Legacy Series)
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Hitchcock's film with Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates, the axe wielding killer of showering Janet Leigh. Or was it his mother who killed her?
The Postman Always Rings TwiceThe Postman Always Rings Twice
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Jessica Lange, the wife of a older man who owns a cafe in Depression era rural California, has an affair with a young drifter who comes to work for them, Jack Nicholson. They decide to kill the husband so they can be together with the husband's money. James M. Cain's classic novel. Remake from '40s version.
Purple NoonPurple Noon
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René Clément's film of Patricia Highsmith's book stars Alain Delon as the young man who wants his rich friend's life for himself. So he kills him and takes his place in life.
Read My LipsRead My Lips
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Jacques Audiard's film starring Vincent Cassel as a young man newly released from prison who is hired by a hearing disabled woman who is attracted to him.
Rear Window (Universal Legacy Series)Rear Window (Universal Legacy Series)
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Hitchcock's film with James Stewart confined in his apartment due to an injury. While looking out his window he sees Raymond Burr murder his wife. Grace Kelly is there as Stewart's girlfriend.
RebeccaRebecca
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Hitchcock's film with Laurence Olivier, who owns the lavish estate Manderly which was run by his late wife until her recent death. He meets a new wife while on vacation and takes her home to take over. Manderley's housekeeper is obsessed by the late wife Rebecca and life there is oppressive.
Run Lola RunRun Lola Run
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Franka Potente runs against time in attempt after attempt to save both herself and her boyfriend from disaster. Tom Twyker's German film.
Shadow of a DoubtShadow of a Doubt
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Hitchcock's film with Teresa Wright, who loves her Uncle Charlie (Joseph Cotton) who comes to stay with her family. He is on the run from the police who suspect him of being the Merry Widow killer.
Shattered ImageShattered Image
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Raoul Ruiz's film starring Anne Parillaud who seems to be living different realities. In one of them she is William Baldwin's wife and it appears he may be involved with her commitment to a mental asylum.
SpellboundSpellbound
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Hitchcock's film with Ingrid Bergman as a psychiatrist who falls in love with the new director of her clinic, Gregory Peck. However, Peck is then suspected of being a murder and she tries to save him. Salvador Dali's art is used throughout.
Strangers on a Train (Two-Disc Special Edition)Strangers on a Train (Two-Disc Special Edition)
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Hitchcock's film with spoiled heir Robert Walker who tells tennis ace Farley Granger that he will kill his wife in exchange for Granger's killing his father. Granger thinks that Walker is just some lunatic on the train but then Walker goes ahead and kills Granger's wife.
Tell No OneTell No One
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Guillaume Canet's film about a pediatrician whose wife has been presumed dead for many years. He sees her picture online and thus it appears that she may have been in hiding and is still alive.
To Catch a ThiefTo Catch a Thief
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Hitchcock's film with Cary Grant as a retired jewel thief who is lured out of retirement to help figure out who is stealing Grace Kelly's mother's jewelry while they vacation on the Riviera.
The Vanishing - Criterion CollectionThe Vanishing - Criterion Collection
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A young man stops at a gas station and his girlfriend leaves the car to get a snack. She never reappears and he becomes obsessed on finding out what happened to her. Finally, he is contacted by the man who says he can answer all of this questions. Horribly remade in the USA with the same title.
Vertigo (Collector's Edition)Vertigo (Collector's Edition)
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Hitchcock's film with James Stewart who falls in love with mysterious, enigmatic Kim Novak but then loses her in a fall from a church steeple when he can't rescue her due to his vertigo.