The best Anthony Perkins’s thriller movies

Anthony Perkins

Anthony Perkins

04/04/1932- 12/09/1992
We present our ranking of the best Anthony Perkins’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Anthony Perkins.
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Psycho

Psycho
8.5/10
When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.

Psycho II

Psycho II
6.6/10
After years of treatment at a mental institution for the criminally insane, serial killer Norman Bates is finally released. Deciding to move back into his long-dead mother's infamous old house, he soon finds himself tormented by 'her' demands and begins to question his own sanity.

Murder on the Orient Express

Murder on the Orient Express
7.2/10
In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.

Crimes of Passion

Crimes of Passion
6.4/10
Joanna Crane lives a double life. During the day she works as fashion designer but during the night she is the high class prostitute China Blue. As she is accused for industrial spying, Bobby Grady is hired to shadow her. However, they fall in love. Meanwhile a psychopathic preacher starts stalking her.

Psycho III

Psycho III
5.5/10
Norman Bates is still running his little motel, and he has kept the dressed skeleton he calls 'mother'. One day a nosey journalist comes to see him to ask questions about his past.

Psycho IV – The Beginning

Psycho IV – The Beginning
5.4/10
Norman Bates is again released from the mental hospital he was placed in at the end of Psycho III after serving another few years and is apparently rehabiliated for the second time. Norman is now married to a young nurse named Connie and is expecting a child. However, Norman fears that the child will inherit his mental illness. Meanwhile, Fran Ambrose is a radio talk show host who is discussing the topic of matricide with guest Dr. Richmond, Norman's former psychologist. The radio station receives a call from Norman, who uses the alias "Ed" to tell his story.

Winter Kills

Winter Kills
6.2/10
19 years after President Timothy Keegan was assassinated, his brother Nick discovers a dying man claiming to have been the gunman. While trying to avoid his wealthy and domineering father's attempts to control his actions, Nick follows the clues that have been handed to him. As he progresses, it becomes increasingly difficult to discern the real trails from the dead ends, and increasingly dangerous as unknown parties try to stop Nick from uncovering the truth.

Pretty Poison

Pretty Poison
7/10
A young man gets in over his head when he convinces a small-town girl he's a secret agent.

Someone Behind the Door

Someone Behind the Door
5.8/10
A neurosurgeon with a cheating wife takes an amnesiac into his home and conditions him to believe that the cheating wife is his own and to take the "appropriate" action.

Double Negative

Double Negative
4/10
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release: 12/05/1980
  • Character: Lawrence Miles
Mentally tortured photojournalist attempts to track down his wife's murderer.

The Champagne Murders

The Champagne Murders
5.8/10
A champagne tycoon's partner suspects his partner's gigolo husband of murders he's been framed for.

Destroyer

Destroyer
4.8/10
A prison riot breaks out at the moment of a serial murderer's execution by electrocution, and his fate becomes indeterminate when the prison is shut down. 18 months later, a team of filmmakers converge on the prison to film a women-in-prison exploitation flick, but find that a certain somebody is disrupting their shooting schedule...

Edge of Sanity

Edge of Sanity
5.3/10
  • Genre: HorrorThriller
  • Release: 14/04/1989
  • Character: Dr. Henry Jekyll / Jack 'The Ripper' Hyde
When Henry Jekyll's experiments with cocaine have gotten out of control, he transforms into the hideous Jack Hyde. As Hyde he searches the London streets at night for his prey in whorehouses and opium dens. The police can't catch him, he has nothing to lose but his mind

In the Deep Woods

In the Deep Woods
5.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeThriller
  • Release: 26/10/1992
  • Character: Paul Miller, P.I.
A friend of Joanna has been killed by a serial killers who leaves the bodies in the woods. A strange guy who says is a private detective: Joanna begins to fear he might be the killer.

Five Miles to Midnight

Five Miles to Midnight
6.3/10
Immediately after Lisa (Loren) declares that she is leaving her immature, abusive, but easy-going husband Robert (Perkins), he is reported dead in a plane crash. Secretly still alive, he convinces her to collect his life insurance, although she knows that it's a bad idea. Lisa must contend with the complications of the scheme, which involve an aggressive suitor (Young), Robert's jealousy, and her own guilt.

I'm Dangerous Tonight

I'm Dangerous Tonight
4.9/10
An ancient Aztec cloth with a curse accidentally finds its way into the possession of a young woman. She decides to make a dress from the cloth. Whoever wears this cloth/dress comes under its spell; all inhibitions and moral responsibilities are lost.

Remember My Name

Remember My Name
6.3/10
Just released from prison, a young woman arrives in town to "start a new life", but soon begins stalking a married construction worker for no apparent reason, turning his life inside out and eventually terrorizing him and his wife.

How Awful About Allan

How Awful About Allan
5.7/10
After an eight-month stay in a mental hospital, a tormented man comes home to live with his sister; but a mysterious boarder may be trying to kill him.

Psychos

Psychos
Steven Soderbergh's feature-length mashup of Alfred Hitchcock’s original 1960 Psycho and Gus Van Sant‘s controversial shot-for-shot 1998 remake.

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