Mystery · Romance · Thriller
Vertigo
Avg rating 8.9 / My rating TBC
1958 · Directed by Alfred Hitchcock · With James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes
- Suspense
- Classical Hollywood
- Melodrama
- Auteur Cinema
A San Francisco detective, retired after an incident that left him with a crippling fear of heights, is asked by an old friend to follow his wife, who seems to be haunted by something. What begins as a routine job becomes a slow, dreamlike fixation. Hitchcock's most personal thriller works as much as a love story as a mystery.
Film info
- Runtime
- 2h 08m · 128 min
- Format
- Technicolor, shot in VistaVision, so best seen in a restored widescreen version where the colour design registers fully.
- IMDb
- 8.2 / 10 (458,761 votes)
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 94% (critics)
- Metacritic
- 100 / 100
- TMDB
- 8.1 / 10 (audience, 6,525 votes)
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