Alfred Hitchcockis often cited as one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, and for good reason.

Here are the ten best Alfred Hitchcock movies with great acting, ranked.

It was in many ways the closest thing to a romantic comedy that he ever made.

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Lifeboatwas an impressive achievement on Hitchcocks partbecause he avoided casting well-known movie stars whose presence could have been distracting.

Joel McRea and Laraine Day in ‘Foreign Coorespondant’

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Madeleine Carroll sitting next to Robert Donat in ‘The 39 Steps’ (1935)

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Doris Day sitting next to Jimmy Stewart in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

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The Man Who Knew Too Much

Priscilla Lane and Norman Lloyd in Saboteur (1942)

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Cary Grant sitting next to Alfred Hitchcock on a bus in To Catch a Thief (1955)-1

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To Catch A Thief

Anthony and Constance on a train holding hands and gazing into each other’s eyes in Spellbound

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Notorious

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Grace Kelly sitting in Dial M For Murder

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Tallulah Bankhead, Hume Cronyn, Mary Anderson, John Hodiak, and Henry Hull in Lifeboat (1944)

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North by Northwest - 1959 (3)

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Notorious