Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious stars Ingrid Bergman as the daughter of a convicted Nazi spy, recruited by American agent Cary Grant to infiltrate a ring of German operatives hiding out in postwar Rio de Janeiro. As she grows dangerously close to a wealthy conspirator (Claude Rains) to gather intelligence, she and Grant find their assignment tangled with a slow-burning romance neither can afford. Equal parts espionage thriller and doomed love story, it’s one of Hitchcock’s most tightly wound and romantic films, anchored by three career-best performances.
