Alfred Hitchcock
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Alfred HItchcock, master of suspense, always started out his show with the line 'Good Evening.' Loaded with twists, turns, and things that go bump in the night, view this storyteller's classic tales with some of the biggest names in showbiz.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
"When allied troops invaded Germany and liberated Nazi death camps at the end of World War II, they found unspeakable horrors that still haunt the world's conscience. In 1945, British and American film crews accompanying the troops liberating the camps captured these atrocities firsthand. The resulting film, directed in part by Alfred Hitchcock but never finished, was discovered by Frontline in 1984 in the archives of the Imperial War Museum. Sixty...
3) Frenzy
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
In modern-day London, a sex criminal known as the Necktie Murderer has the police on alert; and in typical Hitchcock fashion, their trail is leading to an innocent man who must now elude the law and prove his innocence by finding the real murderer.
4) Notorious
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Working undercover for the U.S. government in Rio, the daughter of a convicted Nazi traitor marries a ruthless Nazi spy, but then begins a love affair with her American contact. Torn between passion and patriotism, they must sacrifice their feelings or risk destruction.
5) Rope
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Two friends strangle a classmate and invite his family and mutual friends to dinner--with the body stuffed inside the trunk for a buffet table. Inspired by the Leopold-Loeb murder.
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Reunite with the 'Master of Suspense,' Alfred Hitchcock, for more of the mind-boggling twists and devious thrills synonymous with one of TV's greatest shows. 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. Featuring some of Hollywood's brightest guest stars.
8) Family plot
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
A cabbie and a psychic work together to search for a missing hier. They become involved with a larcenous jewel merchant and his "Woman in Black" while discovering the family plot.
9) The birds
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
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.
10) Vertigo
Series
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
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) Psycho
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Horror melodrama in which a woman disappears after spending the night in an isolated motel which adjoins an eerie Victorian mansion, inhabited by a disturbed young man and his mother.
12) Stage fright
Publisher
Triad Productions
Pub. Date
[2009?]
Language
English
Description
Drama student Eve Gill envisions the acting challenge of a lifetime in the desperate predicament of a boy friend Jonathan Cooper, being framed for her husband's murder by a flamboyant stage star Charlotte Inwood. To prove Jonathan's innocence and Charlotte's guilt, Eve impersonates a maid and goes to work for Charlotte. For Eve, undercover work is like playing a game, but she's about to encounter other actors who are playing for keeps.
14) To catch a thief
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
A retired American jewel thief living on the French Riviera seeks to prove his innocence by exposing the burglar who has been imitating his technique.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The trouble with Harry is that he's dead, and while no one really minds, everyone feels responsible. Shirley Maclaine makes her screen debut in this New England romp that includes romance, humor ... and several unearthings of the corpse.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A tennis star (Guy) is harassed on a train by a psychotic (Bruno) who wants to swap murders and who proceeds to carry out his part of the unconfirmed bargain. The British version amplifies Bruno's flamboyance, his homoerotic attraction to Guy, and his psychotic personality.
18) Blackmail
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A thriller about a woman fighting off a sleazy blackmailer. The film was Hitchcock's first full-length sound film and was only his second foray into the suspense genre. Grocer's daughter Alice White kills a man in self-defense when he tries to sexually assault her. Her policeman boyfriend, Detective Frank Webber, covers up for her, but she has been spotted leaving the scene by a petty criminal who starts to blackmail her.
19) Rear window
Series
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2001], c1954
Language
English
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...