Rebec­ca is a 1940 psy­cho­log­i­cal thriller film direct­ed by Alfred Hitch­cock, based on Daphne du Mau­ri­er’s nov­el of the same name. The film tells the sto­ry of a young woman who falls in love with and mar­ries a wealthy wid­ow­er, Max­im de Win­ter. She moves to his estate, Man­der­ley, on the coast of on the coast of Corn­wall, where she becomes haunt­ed by the mem­o­ry of Max­im de Win­ter’s first wife, Rebec­ca, who still has a pow­er­ful hold on the house­hold through the manip­u­la­tive and sin­is­ter house­keep­er, Mrs. Dan­vers. With excep­tion­al per­for­mances from Lau­rence Olivi­er, Joan Fontaine, and Judith Ander­son, Hitch­cock cre­ates a tense and sus­pense­ful atmos­phere, explor­ing themes of jeal­ousy, obses­sion, and pow­er dynam­ics. The film builds towards a cli­mac­tic rev­e­la­tion about Rebec­ca­’s death and the true nature of the de Win­ter fam­i­ly’s secrets, mak­ing Rebec­ca a clas­sic in the psy­cho­log­i­cal thriller genre.