Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 masterpiece, Vertigo, is a hypnotic and powerfully emotional meditation on sexual yearning and obsession featuring James Stewart in his most expressive and complex performance as a retired detective paralysed by fears of falling from heights - and of falling in love - and Kim Novak as the enigmatic woman he is hired to pursue.

Suffused with a surreal, dreamlike mood and unsettling blurrings of normality, and accompanied by Bernard Herrmann's marvellous, brooding score, the film is captivating all the way from Saul Bass's arresting opening credits to its chilling conclusion.