Where to watch Alfred Hitchcock movies free

Before Rebecca, Psycho and Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) learned his craft in the British studios of the 1920s. You can already see the wrong-man suspects, icy blondes and set-piece chases that made him famous.

Start with The Lodger, a Jack-the-Ripper-style mystery, then Blackmail, which ends with a chase across the roof of the British Museum.

Hitchcock's silent films

• The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog 91 min · Silent Pictures
  Ivor Novello as a mysterious lodger suspected of being a serial killer haunting foggy London (1927).
• Downhill 105 min · Silver Screen
  Ivor Novello as a schoolboy expelled for a friend's misdeed, sliding down through London and Paris (1927).
• Champagne 86 min · Silver Screen
  Betty Balfour as a madcap heiress whose father pretends to be ruined to teach her a lesson (1928).
• The Manxman 84 min · Silent Pictures
  Hitchcock's last silent: two lifelong friends and the woman they both love, on the Isle of Man (1929).

Into the sound era

• Blackmail 85 min · Case Files
  A young woman kills an attacker in self-defence and is blackmailed; Hitchcock made it in both silent and sound versions, and the sound one is often called the first British talkie (1929).

See also: Free film noir and mystery movies · Free silent movies · Free 1920s movies · All free collections