India, April 25 -- * Psycho (1960)

Enormously influential, this film is credited with inventing the slasher-horror genre. It remains Alfred Hitchcock's best-known film. It is also his only movie to have sparked a franchise.

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* Vertigo (1958)

Considered one of the greatest films ever made, by directors and critics alike, this is a compelling tale of obsession. It is also Hitchcock's most personal film, drawing on his own manipulation of his lead actresses, and his desire to mould them to his will.

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* The Wrong Man (1956)

The cinephile's choice, Hitchcock's bleakest film is almost a documentary, based on the true story of a man wrongly accused. It was the subject of one of the most famous reviews by then film critic Jean-Luc Godard...