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5 days ago | netflixlife.com | Todd Vandenberg

The legacy of the Master of Suspense lives onPerhaps more than any other director in the history of cinema, Alfred Hitchcock was fascinated by identity. Many of his films revolve around a case of mistaken identity. This was played out in many of his classic films, from Saboteur to The Wrong Man and on to North by Northwest. In each case, our erstwhile hero has been accused of some villainous act and must fight his way through 120-odd minutes to clear his name.

5 days ago | netflixlife.com | Ljubinko Zivkovic

From MMA and soccer to a Sintonia spin-off and elsewhere. Netflix has prepared a series of films, TV series, and documentaries from Brazil that will surely pique the interest of its viewers. Sintonia series, about three teens from São Paulo shanty town that ran for five seasons on Netflix, and is probably the biggest show on the streamer’s Brazilian service, will now get a movie spin-off that is supposed to continue the story where the series left off.

6 days ago | netflixlife.com | Jonathan Eig

Catch them before they fall. If you are a fan of movies by writer-directors, you might want to catch three fine examples of the form on Netflix before they leave at the end of June. All three movies exit the platform after June 30. As a genre, writer-director movies tend to focus more heavily on story and character and perhaps a little less on spectacle and visual design. The stories are often contemporary, have limited casts, and confine themselves to a few primary locations.

6 days ago | netflixlife.com | Todd Vandenberg

Classic Hitchcock and new hits, all this week Netflix is adding just 11 new shows for the first week of June. That may seem like a light schedule, but that's coming on the heels of a massive 30 new titles on the first of the month. It's never advertised itself as the home of the classics. The Criterion Channel, it ain't. But they're taking a small step toward resolving that by adding six of Alfred Hitchcock's classic films to kick off the month.

1 week ago | netflixlife.com | Jonathan Eig

We can't wait. ByJonathan Eig|2 hours agoAlfred Hitchcock began making movies in the early 1920s, half a decade before the advent of the talking feature film. Fifty years later, he was still at it. During his long career, he not only moved from silents to talkies – he also moved from his native England to Hollywood. It was a shift in working conditions that would have a major influence on his output.