Top 5 most underrated Hitchcock films

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1 Rope
2 I confess
3 Trouble with Harry
4 Torn Curtain
5 Spellbound

So many people have already mentioned it but..

1. Rope- great performance by James Stewart. Maybe it's considered under-rated because it was not well received by critics at the time. Loads of suspense too.

2. Blackmail- early sound Hitchcock very primitive but all the trademarks are there including a brillant finale at the British Museum

3. Shadow of a Doubt- fantastic, cynical best performance ever by Joseph Cotton. I always forget about this but it is one of his best films.

4. Lifeboat- lots of tension and Hitchcock's best cameo.

5. Young and Innocent- I saw it once a long time ago but it has always stuck with me. The long take /crane shot to the murderer's eyes and a bizarre slow motion sequence with seagulls on the beach.

1. Rope
2. Lifeboat
3. Torn Curtain
4. The Wrong Man
5. Sabotage

Isn't Rope usually considered to be one of his best films? It's my 2nd favorite out of 28 I've seen and it was my favorite for quite some time...

His british films are much less known than his american work. The 39 Steps and The Lady Vanishes are the 2 which are the most well known. Both are really good. Especially The 39 Steps.

However some even more overlooked films probably are:
1. The Wrong man (1956) - Hitchcock goes for a true story. He uses some really interesting techniques to show the characters and conflicts. It's probably one of his best directing efforts but quite overlooked.
2. Blackmail (1929) - The story is quite simple but it's told in a very delightful way.
3. The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) - it's probably the film most often claimed to be Hitchcock's best effort in silent film but it's still not excactly well known. It sets up a great atmosphere and is much more classical as a murder mystery than most other Hitchcock films.
4. Lifeboat (1944) - Not very known either. Hitchcock delivers very well on the one location premise though.
5. Stage Fright (1950) - It's not particularly great but nontheless good. It's probably his least well known movie from the 50's and far from the worst.


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It depends how you define "underrated." A lot of these lists seem to include any film that's not Psycho, The Birds, or Vertigo. For instance, I wouldn't say Rope or Marnie can be classified as "underrated," because they have been extensively analyzed and praised by critics and moviegoers. Underrated to me would be defined as not having a majority of people singing its praises; sometimes bashed or classified as inferior Hitch; or outside of the major years of the late 50s/early 60s. With that said, here's my list, in no particular order:
Frenzy
Lifeboat
The Lady Vanishes
Saboteur
The Lodger