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In this psychological espionage thriller from master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock, Alicia Huberman’s (Bergman) notorious reputation sees her recruited as a U.S. spy in post-war Rio de Janeiro. Helped by agent Devlin (Grant), she is ordered to seduce and marry Alexander Sebastian (Rains), a member of a covert group of exiled Nazis, but when Sebastian himself realises who his wife is working for, he begins to plot to get rid of her. Containing one of film history’s most intimate and erotic two-and-a-half-minute kisses, Notorious is the most elegant expression of Hitchcock’s visual style.