Similar films

The Internet Movie Database usually lists a number of genre keywords for each film, and I thought it would be interesting to use those to find out which Hitchcock films are similar.

So, for each Hitchcock film, I’ve listed the top five other films that have the most keywords in common with that film. For example, the most similar film to “Psycho” is “Frenzy”, and the most similar to “Spellbound” is “Vertigo”.

What do you think — are the suggestions good ones and are the suggested films similar?

The Pleasure Garden (1925)

• Suspicion (1941)
• Murder! (1930)
• Vertigo (1958)
• The Paradine Case (1947)
• The Lady Vanishes (1938)

The Lodger (1927)

• Young and Innocent (1937)
• The 39 Steps (1935)
• Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
• Frenzy (1972)
• Stage Fright (1950)

The Ring (1927)

• Murder! (1930)
• The Pleasure Garden (1925)
• The Paradine Case (1947)
• The Manxman (1929)
• Notorious (1946)

Easy Virtue (1928)

• Rebecca (1940)
• I Confess (1953)
• The Skin Game (1931)
• Suspicion (1941)
• Spellbound (1945)

The Farmer’s Wife (1928)

• Rebecca (1940)
• Vertigo (1958)
• Spellbound (1945)
• Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
• Young and Innocent (1937)

The Manxman (1929)

• Murder! (1930)
• Vertigo (1958)
• Young and Innocent (1937)
• Topaz (1969)
• The Wrong Man (1956)

Blackmail (1929)

• Sabotage (1936)
• Foreign Correspondent (1940)
• Dial M for Murder (1954)
• Vertigo (1958)
• The 39 Steps (1935)

Juno and the Paycock (1930)

• Easy Virtue (1928)
• Number Seventeen (1932)
• I Confess (1953)
• Waltzes from Vienna (1934)
• Under Capricorn (1949)

Murder! (1930)

• Young and Innocent (1937)
• Jamaica Inn (1939)
• The 39 Steps (1935)
• I Confess (1953)
• Stage Fright (1950)

Rich and Strange (1931)

• Jamaica Inn (1939)
• The Lady Vanishes (1938)
• The 39 Steps (1935)
• Sabotage (1936)
• Lifeboat (1944)

The Skin Game (1931)

• Easy Virtue (1928)
• I Confess (1953)
• Murder! (1930)
• Dial M for Murder (1954)
• The Pleasure Garden (1925)

Number Seventeen (1932)

• Young and Innocent (1937)
• Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
• The 39 Steps (1935)
• Suspicion (1941)
• Sabotage (1936)

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)

• The Lady Vanishes (1938)
• The 39 Steps (1935)
• North by Northwest (1959)
• Jamaica Inn (1939)
• Foreign Correspondent (1940)

The 39 Steps (1935)

• The Lady Vanishes (1938)
• Young and Innocent (1937)
• Saboteur (1942)
• Sabotage (1936)
• North by Northwest (1959)

Sabotage (1936)

• The 39 Steps (1935)
• Dial M for Murder (1954)
• Blackmail (1929)
• The Lady Vanishes (1938)
• Strangers on a Train (1951)

Young and Innocent (1937)

• The 39 Steps (1935)
• Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
• Murder! (1930)
• Frenzy (1972)
• Foreign Correspondent (1940)

The Lady Vanishes (1938)

• The 39 Steps (1935)
• North by Northwest (1959)
• Foreign Correspondent (1940)
• Spellbound (1945)
• Sabotage (1936)

Jamaica Inn (1939)

• The 39 Steps (1935)
• Murder! (1930)
• Lifeboat (1944)
• Foreign Correspondent (1940)
• Young and Innocent (1937)

Rebecca (1940)

• Suspicion (1941)
• Vertigo (1958)
• Spellbound (1945)
• Saboteur (1942)
• Psycho (1960)

Foreign Correspondent (1940)

• North by Northwest (1959)
• Saboteur (1942)
• Topaz (1969)
• The 39 Steps (1935)
• Young and Innocent (1937)

Suspicion (1941)

• Rebecca (1940)
• Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
• Young and Innocent (1937)
• Spellbound (1945)
• Strangers on a Train (1951)

Mr and Mrs Smith (1941)

• Saboteur (1942)
• North by Northwest (1959)
• Rebecca (1940)
• Suspicion (1941)
• Foreign Correspondent (1940)

Saboteur (1942)

• Foreign Correspondent (1940)
• The 39 Steps (1935)
• North by Northwest (1959)
• Rebecca (1940)
• Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

• Frenzy (1972)
• Young and Innocent (1937)
• Psycho (1960)
• Suspicion (1941)
• Spellbound (1945)

Lifeboat (1944)

• Jamaica Inn (1939)
• Foreign Correspondent (1940)
• Spellbound (1945)
• Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
• Rich and Strange (1931)

Spellbound (1945)

• Vertigo (1958)
• Rear Window (1954)
• North by Northwest (1959)
• To Catch a Thief (1955)
• Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

Notorious (1946)

• North by Northwest (1959)
• Vertigo (1958)
• Topaz (1969)
• Rebecca (1940)
• Spellbound (1945)

The Paradine Case (1947)

• Murder! (1930)
• The Lady Vanishes (1938)
• Suspicion (1941)
• Young and Innocent (1937)
• The Pleasure Garden (1925)

Rope (1948)

• Psycho (1960)
• Strangers on a Train (1951)
• Rear Window (1954)
• Frenzy (1972)
• Dial M for Murder (1954)

Under Capricorn (1949)

• Suspicion (1941)
• Young and Innocent (1937)
• Topaz (1969)
• To Catch a Thief (1955)
• The Trouble with Harry (1955)

Stage Fright (1950)

• Young and Innocent (1937)
• The Lodger (1927)
• Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
• Psycho (1960)
• Murder! (1930)

Strangers on a Train (1951)

• Frenzy (1972)
• Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
• Suspicion (1941)
• Sabotage (1936)
• Rebecca (1940)

I Confess (1953)

• Dial M for Murder (1954)
• Spellbound (1945)
• Rear Window (1954)
• Easy Virtue (1928)
• The Wrong Man (1956)

Dial M for Murder (1954)

• Rear Window (1954)
• Psycho (1960)
• Sabotage (1936)
• I Confess (1953)
• North by Northwest (1959)

Rear Window (1954)

• Spellbound (1945)
• Psycho (1960)
• Dial M for Murder (1954)
• I Confess (1953)
• Vertigo (1958)

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

• Foreign Correspondent (1940)
• The Lady Vanishes (1938)
• North by Northwest (1959)
• The 39 Steps (1935)
• Topaz (1969)

To Catch a Thief (1955)

• Spellbound (1945)
• Young and Innocent (1937)
• Frenzy (1972)
• Foreign Correspondent (1940)
• The Lodger (1927)

The Trouble with Harry (1955)

• Psycho (1960)
• Young and Innocent (1937)
• The Lodger (1927)
• Suspicion (1941)
• Strangers on a Train (1951)

The Wrong Man (1956)

• Spellbound (1945)
• I Confess (1953)
• Vertigo (1958)
• Rear Window (1954)
• Psycho (1960)

Vertigo (1958)

• Spellbound (1945)
• Rebecca (1940)
• Rear Window (1954)
• Psycho (1960)
• North by Northwest (1959)

North by Northwest (1959)

• Foreign Correspondent (1940)
• Spellbound (1945)
• Psycho (1960)
• The Lady Vanishes (1938)
• The 39 Steps (1935)

Psycho (1960)

• Frenzy (1972)
• Rear Window (1954)
• North by Northwest (1959)
• Dial M for Murder (1954)
• Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

The Birds (1963)

• Psycho (1960)
• Rear Window (1954)
• Young and Innocent (1937)
• To Catch a Thief (1955)
• The Wrong Man (1956)

Marnie (1964)

• Rebecca (1940)
• Suspicion (1941)
• Spellbound (1945)
• Dial M for Murder (1954)
• Strangers on a Train (1951)

Torn Curtain (1966)

• Topaz (1969)
• Notorious (1946)
• North by Northwest (1959)
• Young and Innocent (1937)
• To Catch a Thief (1955)

Topaz (1969)

• Foreign Correspondent (1940)
• North by Northwest (1959)
• The 39 Steps (1935)
• Young and Innocent (1937)
• Rebecca (1940)

Frenzy (1972)

• Psycho (1960)
• Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
• Young and Innocent (1937)
• Strangers on a Train (1951)
• Spellbound (1945)

Family Plot (1976)

• Suspicion (1941)
• Stage Fright (1950)
• Rebecca (1940)
• The Lodger (1927)
• The Lady Vanishes (1938)