Rear Window (1954)

This 1954 Movie was directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The entire movie is shot inside an Apartment Complex. This movie didn't impress me as much as other Hitchcock Movies. The suspense of the movie was not worth the wait. The plot of the movie is as follows.

During a heat wave, normally itinerant news photographer L.B. Jefferies (James Stewart) finds himself confined by a broken leg to a wheelchair in his Greenwich Village apartment. Each day, and often into the night, he has little to do but gaze out his rear window at the activities of his neighbours in the surrounding apartments. Jeff’s main visitors are his fiancée Lisa Fremont (Grace Kelly), a high-fashion model, and Stella (Thelma Ritter), a wiry insurance company nurse. When Jeff says he suspects that his neighbour directly opposite, costume jewellery salesman Lars Thorwald (Raymond Burr), has murdered his wife, no one pays much attention at first. Lisa is mainly concerned to overcome Jeff’s reluctance to get married. But Jeff intensifies his window-gazing, using binoculars and even a telephoto lens. After Lisa volunteers to cross the courtyard and obtain evidence against Thorwald, trouble erupts. Thorwald catches her in his apartment. Jeff frantically calls the police, who come and arrest Lisa. Meanwhile, having learnt that Jeff has been spying on him, Thorwald decides to pay a visit. Only last-minute intervention by Jeff’s detective friend Tom Doyle (Wendell Corey) saves him from the enraged killer.

Strangers on a Train

This is the second time I am watching an Alfred Hitchcock movie. The first one was Psycho. That was an awesome movie. This too was impressive. Hope, I will be able to watch more of his movies.

The plot is as follows [ i lifted this from wikipedia...I hate typing too much :)]

Amateur tennis star Guy Haines (Farley Granger) wants to divorce his vulgar and unattractive small-town wife, Miriam (Kasey Rogers), in order to be able to marry the woman he loves, the elegant, beautiful, and rich Anne Morton (Ruth Roman), the daughter of a senator.
Guy Haines' wife Miriam, however, is not at all interested in divorce: she is having plenty of affairs, has become pregnant by one of her numerous lovers, and is perfectly happy to carry on exploiting her husband indefinitely.
In the opening scenes, Guy Haines chances to meet the charming, rich, clever, but psychopathic Bruno Anthony (Robert Walker) on a train. Bruno tells Guy his "amusing" idea about how to commit the perfect murder: two people who hardly know one another at all "exchange" murders; that way, neither one would have a motive, and each could arrange to have a perfect alibi for the time when the murder was committed. It would be, as Bruno describes his plan to Guy, "crisscross".
Bruno goes on to explain that for example, he, Bruno, could kill Guy's wife Miriam, and in exchange, Guy could kill Bruno's unpleasantly authoritarian father, and then both of them would be free to do whatever they wanted. Guy thinks Bruno is joking and leaves, but Bruno imagines that they have in fact made a bargain with one another.
In his hurry to get away from Bruno, Guy accidentally leaves his gold cigarette lighter behind, and Bruno takes it. Bruno knows that the lighter was an intimate gift to Guy from Anne, and he has seen that it has a tennis logo and "From A to G" engraved on it.
Bruno gets tired of waiting for Guy to contact him in order to set up the appropriate timetable for the murders. Bruno unilaterally goes ahead with his half of the "plan", strangling Guy's wife Miriam on an island in a lake at an amusement park, while she is out on a date with two of her admirers. The audience sees the murder as it is reflected in Miriam's glasses, which have fallen to the ground when Bruno attacks her.
Once the murder is discovered, suspicion immediately falls on Guy, because he had an obvious motive. It turns out that Guy is unable to provide a solid alibi for the time of the crime. Bruno starts making increasingly more intrusive appearances in Guy's life, in order to forcibly remind Guy that Guy is now obliged to kill Bruno's father, according to the bargain that was supposedly struck on the train when they first met.
Finally the police close in on Guy as he chases after Bruno, at sunset in the lakeside amusement park. Bruno is about to "plant" Guy's cigarette case at the scene of the murder, so that the police will have convincing evidence that Guy was the murderer.
The two men struggle on the carousel, which spins out of control and crashes. The police seize Guy, but an amusement park employee (who remembers Bruno's previous visit) points out that Bruno is in fact the murderer. Guy explains to the police what Bruno was about to do with his cigarette lighter.
Bruno is mortally wounded in the crash, but even though he is dying, he lies to the police, insisting that Guy was the one who killed Miriam, and that Guy left the lighter on the island. The moment after Bruno dies however, his fingers open up, revealing the gold cigarette lighter with Guy's and Anne's initials on it.
Guy and Anne are then seen reunited on a train home, and this time there is hope for their future together. A man asks Guy if he is Guy Haines (identical to the way Guy met Bruno), but Guy, fearing another mishap, leaves the compartment with Anne, leaving the man stunned.