Best is either Rear Window or Psycho. Worst is Marnie. But it's so over the top bad it's kinda funny.
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North by Northwest and The Birds are my two favorites, NXNW for the epic scale and Bernard Hermann's soundtrack, and The Birds because it's creepy as fuck. I also really like Rear Window. While I'm not the biggest Jimmy Stewart fan, the story and the set design are amazing.
I liked The 39 Steps a lot, haven't seen enough to see one I haven't liked but i hear that Hitchcock's filmography is a bit of a mixed bag.
My Favorite Hitchcock movie is The Birds.
The only Hitchcock movie i have seen that I don’t like was Lifeboat.
Rear Window, partly because he takes the 'shot in the same location' idea and makes the best possible movie out of it. Partly because he shines a fascinating camera on the phenomenon of people-watching. But also because the specially-built set (inside a warehouse stage IIRC) is incredibly intricate and becomes the 3rd star of the movie, effectively. All that said, viscerally I just loved it, as well.
Meanwhile, I caught a couple of Hitch's movies later in his life and they didn't do much for me. So, somewhere in that 4-film run of Marnie to Family Plot would be my least favorite.
I haven't seen everything he's done, but my under rated favorite is "Family Plot."
Funny and scary, with wicked performances all around.