Sequels and Remakes of Hitchcock Films

This page contains a selection of sequels to Hitchcock films (such as the Psycho series) and loosly related films (such as 'Night Train to Munich), as well as films which either remake a Hitchcock film or use the same (or similar) original source story.

Sequels

The Birds (1963)

• The Birds II: Land's End (1994) — directed by Rick Rosenthal

The Lady Vanishes (1938)

• Night Train to Munich (1940) — directed by Carol Reed
• Crook's Tour (1941) — directed by John Baxter
• Millions Like Us (1943) — directed by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder
• Charters & Caldicott (1985) — TV mini-series

Psycho (1960)

• Psycho II (1983) — directed by Richard Franklin
• Psycho III (1986) — directed by Anthony Perkins
• Bates Motel (1987) — directed by Richard Rothstein
• Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990) — directed by Mick Garris

Remakes

Other films either based on a Hitchcock film, based on the same source material, or just suspiciously similar...

The 39 Steps (1935)

• The 39 Steps (1959) — directed by Ralph Thomas
• The Thirty-Nine Steps (1978) — directed by Don Sharp
• The 39 Steps (TV, 2008) — directed by James Hawes

The Birds (1963)

• El Ataque de Los Pájaros (1987) — directed by René Cardona Jr.
• The Birds (????) — produced by Michael Bay

Dial M for Murder (1954)

• Dial "M" for Murder (1981) — directed by Boris Sagal
• A Perfect Murder (1998) — directed by Andrew Davis

Easy Virtue (1928)

• Easy Virtue (2008) — directed by Stephan Elliott

Jamaica Inn (1939)

• Jamaica Inn (ITV 1983) — directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark
• Jamaica Inn (BBC 2014) — Philippa Lowthorpe

The Lady Vanishes (1938)

• So Long at the Fair (1950) — directed by Terence Fisher
• The Lady Vanishes (1979) — directed by Anthony Page
• Flightplan (2005) — directed by Robert Schwentke

Lifeboat (1944)

• Lifepod (1993) — directed by Ron Silver

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)

• The Lodger (1932) — directed by Maurice Elvey
• The Lodger (1944) — directed by John Brahm
• Man in the Attic (1953) — directed by Hugo Fregonese
• The Lodger (2009) — directed by David Ondaatje

Notorious (1946)

• Notorious (1992) — directed by Colin Bucksey
• Mission: Impossible II (2000) — directed by John Woo

Psycho (1960)

• Psycho (1998) — directed by Gus Van Sant

Rear Window (1954)

• Rear Window (1998) — directed by Jeff Bleckner
• Disturbia (2007) — directed by D.J. Caruso

Rebecca (1940)

• Rebecca (1997) — directed by Jim O'Brien

Sabotage (1936)

• The Secret Agent (1996) — directed by Christopher Hampton

Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

• Step Down to Terror (1958) — directed by Harry Keller
• Shadow of a Doubt (1991) — directed by Karen Arthur

Vertigo (1958)

• Last Cup of Sorrow (1997) — directed by Joseph Kahn

Remakes of other works

Some of the early films Hitchcock worked on as a title designer, art director, etc. were remade:

Three Live Ghosts (1922)

• Three Live Ghosts (1929) — directed by Thornton Freeland
• Three Live Ghosts (1936) — directed by H. Bruce Humberstone

Woman to Woman (1923)

• Woman to Woman (1929) — directed by Victor Saville
• Woman to Woman (1946) — directed by Maclean Rogers

Premakes

Some of Hitchcock's films were based on works that had been previously filmed by other directors.

• The Manxman (1917) — directed by George Loane Tucker
• Haus Nummer 17 (1928) — directed by Géza von Bolváry and filmed by Hitchcock as Number Seventeen (1932)