When I was about 13 I saw several Ingemar Bergman films over a short period of time (I was playing hookey from private school and hiding out in an "art film" house)...boy, they had quite an effect. Just the lighting was something I wasn't used to. I'd just gobble up the sub-titles, and enjoy watching those incredibly depressed Swedes. I also remember a rather pneumatic blonde named Gunnel Lindblom....sort of "Jayne Mansfield" to Liv Ullman's "Katherine Hepburn".
It didn't help my integration into 'real' society that while my peers were enjoying the exploits of Troy Donahue, I was more familiar with Gunnar Bjornstrand, and the ultimate depressed guy, Max Von Sydow.
But even though I was seeing a LOT of foreign films (I played hookey a lot) I still remember the American actress BARBARA PARKINS(!!) but not her director. Ross somebody?
I have to admit not being a Hitchcock fan, but "Strangers on a train was fun".
Funny thing but I THINK I've enjoyed every David Lean film I've ever seen, and definitely was a fan of John Cassavetes.