Rebecca was named Best Picture in 1940 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, but chances are it would win in any year. This brilliant adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's celebrated novel won virtually every accolade imaginable thanks to masterful direction by Alfred Hitchcock.

An all-time classic, this is as chillling and suspenseful today as when it was first released. Whilst on holiday, young timid ladies companion (Joan Fontaine) meets handsome and wealthy widower Maxim de Winter (Laurence Olivier) whose wife Rebecca has recently died in a boating accident. The two fall in love and marry. However, her joy is short lived when she returns to the de Winter estate and soon discovers that Rebecca still has a strange, unearthly hold over everyone there.