Netflix added a full slate of Alfred Hitchcock movies to its library in June, including “Vertigo,” “Rear Window,” and “The Birds,” the terrifying 1963 film starring Tippi Hedren. The drama builds slowly but deliberately, as Melanie (Hedren) meets Mitch (Rod Taylor) buying a pair of lovebirds.

Based on the true story of the 2009 Maersk Alabama hijacking, Captain Phillips sees Tom Hanks play an American merchant mariner Richard Phillips who is held hostage by Somali pirates. Hanks is no stranger to playing a heroic male lead staring down the face of adversity, but this is another level of human endurance in the worst of times.