Charade
1963, NR, 114 min.
D: Stanley Donen; with Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn.

Often referred to as “the best Hitchcock movie not made by Hitchcock,” this suave thriller was remade by Jonathan Demme as The Truth About Charlie. The sexual chemistry between Hepburn and Grant, when set against Charade‘s tumultuous backdrop of shifting identities, makes this movie an enduring favorite.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.