Charade (1963)
A soon-to-be divorced woman (Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s) needn’t worry any longer about her failing marriage when it is discovered her husband died after a tumble off of a moving train. She soon discovers her husband...
Tagged: Hitchcockian
Frantic (1988)
The plot: Heart surgeon Richard Walker and his loving wife Sondra travel to Paris where he is scheduled to speak at a medical convention. In their hotel room, they discover that his wife picked...
The Net (1995)
There’s three things you can’t have in order to properly enjoy The Net: (1) a knowledge of computers and/or the internet, (2) a familiarity with the works of Alfred Hitchcock, and (3) an adequate use...
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
The plot: A book-reader (Redford) for the CIA steps out to lunch; upon his return he finds all of his colleagues gunned down for reasons unknown. He informs his superiors, who want him to come...
So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993)
A San Francisco poet meets an owner of a Meats of the World deli, all the while falling more and more in love with her but also beginning to suspect more and more that...
The Cable Guy (1996)
Ah, yes. The old Strangers on a Train formula. Unassuming good guy gets mixed up with a well-meaning but clinging psychotic who invades every aspect of his life and when told to go away determines to...