Screening Dates: 12 February 2026, Thursday, 8:00 pm / 5 March 2026, Thursday, 8:00 pm

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Screenplay: Marie Belloc Lowndes, Eliot Stannard, Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Ivor Novello, Marie Ault, June Tripp, Arthur Chesney, Malcolm Keen

UK / 1927 / 91 min / Black & White / Silent / English intertitles / Turkish subtitles

A killer targeting blonde women is on the loose in the foggy nights of London. One of the many women who disguises her hair with wigs and hats out of fear is Daisy Bunting. As the number of victims steadily rises, Daisy’s family takes in a mysterious lodger. The young man’s strange behavior and his secretive nighttime departures arouse suspicion within the household, and especially in Daisy’s policeman boyfriend. Yet Daisy herself has already begun to feel drawn to the man whose innocence is under question.

Drawing directly on the Jack the Ripper myth, Hitchcock described The Lodger, his third feature film, as “the first true Hitchcock film.” Indeed, many of the motifs he would later develop are already present here, including his first cameo appearance. Recently returned from Berlin, the director channels his fascination with German Expressionism into camera angles and lighting, staircases and railings. This early masterpiece translates the modern city’s capacity for generating fear into the very architecture of suspense.

*The screening will be accompanied by a live music performance by Mimic (İpek Göztepe & Kerem Can Dündar).
*Special thanks to Silent Thursday sponsor Kurukahveci Mehmet Efendi for their support.