The Wrong Man (1956)

Alfred Hitchcock refrains from many of his tricks and lets a harrowing true story do all the work in this 1956 thriller about a New York musician (Henry Fonda) accused of a string of armed robberies and his wife (Vera Miles) who suffers a psychological breakdown during what becomes a protracted Kafkaesque criminal investigation.

★★★★☆

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Psycho (1960)

A woman steals from her boss, goes on the run, and ends up in a chilling encounter with a psychopath at the Bates Motel in this Hitchcock thriller that really did introduce "a new and altogether different screen excitement" to cinema.

★★★★★

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