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Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Breakdown (1955)
Chilling
This has to be one of the creepiest films I've ever seen. It's a good thing that Hitchcock had his TV series where he could direct this episode. To run this story any longer than the 25 minutes would have seemed to drawn out but this story fits just perfectly in the allotted time. It's a chilling and suspenseful story that is imaginatively shot from one person's perspective. I won't say more; just see it.
(Even being a big Hitch fan I had never seen any of his TV shows; now it's so easy to see just the episodes he directed through iTunes. This was the first episode I've seen and it definitely lives up to the Hitchcock brand.)
Enigma (2001)
Truly Hitchcockian!
I saw "Enigma" at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival and the whole time I thought, "Hitchcock could have directed this!" Many movies are called "Hitchcockian" but most of them don't deserve that description. However, this one does.
It is very suspenseful and has incredible and totally unexpected twists and turns in the plot. There is a beautiful blonde like the "Hitchcock blondes", there is intrigue, suspicion, sabotage, and a saboteur and even a brief cameo by one of the producers (Mick Jagger, no less). The ending is very fitting a Hitchcock film. It is about the Nazi code-breakers in England during WWII. I was blown away by this movie. Watch for it to come out in general release.
Abre los ojos (1997)
The Matrix without the special effects...
This is a mind-boggling movie that will make you think. Who controls our destiny? What are the consequences of our actions?
Also, the cinematography is crisp and the acting is excellent. I hope it will come out in DVD format in the U.S. soon because it is the kind of movie you want to see again and again.