Rear Window (1954)
- Directed by
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Genre
- drama film, crime film, mystery film, thriller film, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 52m
- Rated
- PG
- Rating
- 8.3 of 10 from 7,226 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A photographer confined to his apartment in a wheelchair starts watching his neighbors through a window. He becomes convinced that one of them has committed a murder. He tries to prove it with the help of his girlfriend and his nurse.
suspensefulclaustrophobictenseslow-burnobservationalvoyeuristicparanoidvisually inventive
What happens
Rear Window is a 1954 American mystery thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by John Michael Hayes, based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story "It Had to Be Murder". Originally released by Paramount Pictures, the film stars James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, and Raymond Burr. It was screened at the 1954 Venice Film Festival in competition for the Golden Lion. Rear Window is shot almost entirely from within one room and from the point-of-view outside the window. The film was made with a budget of $1 million ($12 million in 2025), and grossed $27 million during its initial release ($324 million in 2025). Rear Window is considered by many filmgoers, critics, and scholars to be one of Hitchcock's best films, as well as one of the greatest films ever made. It received four Academy Award nominations, and was ranked number 42 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list and number 48 on the 10th-anniversary edition, and in 1997 was added to the United States National Film Registry in the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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