Just as Sergio Leone did more than westerns (Once upon a time in America) And Akira Kurosawa more than samurai films (Up and down,, IkiruAnd Bad sleep well), the same goes for Alfred Hitchcock More than the master of suspense. As with Leone and the Westerns, and Kurosawa and Samurai films, Hitchcock could be the highest for his thrillers, but he was versatile behind the camera. Many of his films had dark comic elements, for example, but he was also the director of a surprisingly large number of pure and simple comedies (some not great, but of course, but The lady disappears And The problem with Harry are both quite good).
And romance was another genre that Hitchcock barely failed to explore, with many of his thriller / adventure / mystery films also containing enough romantic things to qualify, at least in part, as romance films. The following is the best of the best romance films (or at least partial romance) that Alfred Hitchcock has made in a long career. And the “romance” is defined quite widely here. If the cinema features a man and a woman, and they are at least a little coquential and / or interested in each other, it is a romantic film. Certainly, some of them explore the darker side of romance, and some belong to other greater genresBut there are enough through romance in everything so that they can qualify here.
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‘Rebecca’ (1940)
Featuring: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders
It is almost surprising, given that the heritage of Alfred Hitchcock, but the man never directed only one film which won the best film, and he released a good time before he really touched his stride as a filmmaker (the mid -1940s in the early 1960s was probably when he was at his best, although some could disagree). But this winner of the best film was a film certainly good: RebeccaWhich works like a romantic film in a way, even if it is also a thriller and something that has a lot of mystery attached to its central premise.
Rebecca is a film that becomes quite dark in places, although it is not as painful as some of the films later (and even more broadly Celbratebrated).
At the base, Rebecca revolves around a young woman marrying a mysterious widower, and ends up learning alarming things about the woman with whom he was married: the rebecca holder. It is a film that becomes quite dark in places, although it is not as painful as some of the films later (and even more broadly Celbratebrated), like Psycho, for example. Always, Rebecca East Ideal enough for a psychological thriller of his age, certainly having a feeling of patient rhythmBut nevertheless being captivating and undeniably atmospheric. In addition, the performance of its center is great, since it features some legends of the golden age of Hollywood, including Laurence Olivier And Joan Fontaine.
Rebecca
- Release date
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March 23, 1940
- Execution time
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121 minutes
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“Spellbound” (1945)
With: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Leo G. Carroll
Unleashed is undeniably one of the best films of Alfred Hitchcock, in general, it therefore goes without saying that it is also one of his best who has a strong element of romance. He focuses on a man (Gregory Peck) whose mind collapses, thanks to amnesia, and he continually fears that he has murdered someone without being able to remember. He wants to try to go to the bottom of things, and I hope to prove his innocence in the process, obtaining the help of a psychoanalyst (played by Ingrid Bergman) undertake such a task.
Throughout UnleashedThe two also start to fall from each other, but it adds a lot to the fear and suspense inherent in the story in question, since the character of Peck may well be able to do terrible things. And so things alternate between being stirred, entertaining and full of suspense, all balanced in a way that you generally see when Hitchcock completely controls the film he makes. Everything is very well and is one of the director’s most underestimated films, Perhaps because he was released during this aforementioned gold race for Hitchcock; There were so many other classics that he led during the period of almost 20 years that he was at his best.
Unleashed
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November 8, 1945
- Execution time
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111 minutes
Casting
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Gregory Peck
John Ballantine
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Ingrid Bergman
Dr Constance Petersen
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Leo G. Carroll
Dr Murchison
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Michael Chekhov
Dr Alexander Brulov
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‘Notorious’ (1946)
With: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains
One year later UnleashedIngrid Bergman played in another film by Alfred Hitchcock which could well feel even more timeless as a thriller: Famous. As Unleashed,, Famous Mixes the genres of romance, mystery and thriller, but it also has the consequences of the Second World War by playing a big role in the plot … perhaps not to the extent that it could be called a war film, but war is significant for history at hand. Essentially, it is a man and a woman in love who are also responsible for translating the Nazis into justice after the end of the Second World War, with difficulties occurring because, for the arrest of a Nazi, the woman must go under cover and pretend to fall for him.
These are very high issues both at a personal and large / societal level, but Famous Always manage to be unusually entertaining and emotional while treating certain things seriously when it needs it. It’s a committing story, and the basic cast here is also great. Claude Pluies gives one of his best performances as a hiding Nazi, while Bergman and Cary Grant Are also excellent because lovers tested by the task they need to undertake. And speaking of great Alfred Hitchcock films that Star Cary Grant…
Famous
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August 15, 1946
- Execution time
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101 minutes
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‘North by Northwest’ (1959)
Featuring: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
Okay, well, the other cary grant film that Hitchcock made North by the northwestAnd this one cannot be called a complete romantic film in the same notorious way. However, there are a lot of sexual innuendos in the film, and the two main characters, played by Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saintare certainly pretty coquentis to do North by the northwest At least slightly qualifiable as a romantic film. It is also a film which is on the verge of being definable as a comedy, because it is generally light and very entertaining, although it reveals enough suspense to be mainly a thriller / adventure film.
Well, it’s entertaining and a bit cheeky sometimes, and that is the most important. It is another Hitchcock film on a man on the run, with the said man trying to prove his innocence while falling unexpectedly for a woman who joins him for a large part of the trip, but the formula works, damn it. It is in a way a case of “if it is not broken, does not repair it”, but with North by the northwestHitchcock took something that was not broken and improved it. It could well be his most entertaining film, and the fact that it is also (almost) a comedy and a romantic film at the same time is Just the icing on this cake which was cooked in 1959, but which has still not become expiredeither way.
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‘Vertigo’ (1958)
Featuring: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes
One of the most interesting things on VertigoAt least compared to all the aforementioned films, it is that it is not really romantic, but it is a novel film, considering love, desire and (possibly) obsession are all explored here. It’s so frank to unpack these things in a dark and twisted way that it is a little difficult to believe Vertigo was released in the 1950s. The labeling “in advance on his time” would be quite the euphemism.
Not only is it one of the best films of his decade, But you can also include quite easily Vertigo Among a list of the greatest films of all time / of any decade. Alfred Hitchcock could have made more entertaining films (like North by the northwest) or more scary (like Psycho And, no doubt, Birds), but he never made a psychological thriller which was as disturbing, provocative and haunting as Vertigo. He feels timeless and is one of the greatest dark romantic films of all time, so putting it in place n ° 1 here is obvious.
Vertigo
- Release date
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May 28, 1958
- Execution time
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128 minutes
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James Stewart
THE. John ‘Scottie’ Ferguson
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Kim Novak
Madeleine Elster / Judy Barton
