CINEMA’S acclaimed master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, is to be celebrated in a season of four films at City Screen, York.

Sir Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) was born in England, but later moved to Hollywood. His career spanned six decades, during which he directed more than 50 feature films.

Together with the British Film Institute, which has restored several of the director’s movies, City Screen is celebrating the director’s genius in a series of screenings, starting on Sunday at 6.15pm with The Lodger (PG), Hitchcock’s early British masterpiece, subtitled A Story Of The London Fog. It stars Ivor Novello and references the crimes of Jack the Ripper.

The film has been lovingly restored by the BFI National Archive and is being screened with a new score by Nitin Sawhney.

Next up, on Monday November 12, at 6.15pm, is Rear Window (PG), which explores voyeurism. A photojournalist, played by James Stewart, is immobilised with a broken leg and amuses himself by spying on his neighbours. The observation becomes an obsession when he thinks he has witnessed a murder in the apartment opposite.

Acclaimed by some as the greatest film ever made, Vertigo (PG) – showing on Monday November 19, at 6.15pm – was re-released in 2012. This psychological thriller is the director’s most personal and revealing film, dealing with men’s obsessions as James Stewart is employed to follow and then pursues ice-cool blonde Kim Novak.

The short season ends on Monday, November 26, again at 6.15pm, with a screening of The Birds (15), loosely based on a work by British novelist Daphne du Maurier. Hitchcock transposes the story from Cornwall to California, where suddenly and inexplicably birds indulge in a series of widespread and violent attacks.

• Phone 0871 902 5726 for tickets or visit picturehouses.co.uk/york