The best Janet Leigh’s drama movies

Janet Leigh

Janet Leigh

06/07/1927- 03/10/2004
Today we present the best Janet Leigh’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Janet Leigh’s movies.
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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.

Little Women

Little Women
7.2/10
Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord Mass in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the civil war, the sisters: Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother - a very outspoken women for her time. The story is of how the sisters grow up, find love and find their place in the world.

The Manchurian Candidate

The Manchurian Candidate
7.9/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 01/10/1962
  • Character: Eugenie Rose Chaney
Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw is lauded as a hero by the rest of his platoon. However, the platoon commander, Captain Bennett Marco, finds himself plagued by strange nightmares and soon races to uncover a terrible plot.

Hitchcock

Hitchcock
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/11/2012
  • Character: (archive footage)
Follow the relationship between director Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville during the making of his most famous horror-thriller film, Psycho, and the trials and tribulations the director faced from Hollywood censors.

Holiday Affair

Holiday Affair
7.1/10
Just before Christmas, department store clerk Steve Mason meets big spending customer Connie Ennis, who's actually a comparison shopper sent by another store. Steve lets her go, which gets him fired. They spend the afternoon together, which doesn't sit well with Connie's steady suitor, Carl, when he finds out, but delights her young son Timmy, who quickly takes to Steve.

The Naked Spur

The Naked Spur
7.3/10
Howard Kemp has been tracking killer Ben Vandergroat for a long time. In the Colorado Rockies, he teams up with prospector Jesse Tate and former Union soldier Roy Anderson. Thinking Kemp is a sheriff, they agree to help for a small fee. When they catch Vandergroat, he tells them Kemp is pursuing a $5,000 bounty. After demanding equal shares, the uneasy alliance heads for Kansas as Vandergroat tries to turn them against each other.

Jet Pilot

Jet Pilot
5.6/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 11/10/1957
  • Character: Lt. Anna Marladovna Shannon / Olga Orlief
John Wayne stars as U.S. Air Force aviator Jim Shannon, who's tasked with escorting a Soviet pilot (Janet Leigh) claiming -- at the height of the Cold War -- that she wants to defect. After falling in love with and wedding the fetching flyer, Shannon learns from his superiors that she's a spy on a mission to extract military secrets. To save his new wife from prison and deportation, Shannon devises a risky plan in this 1957 drama.

Houdini

Houdini
6.8/10
By the early 1900s, the extraordinary Houdini earned an international reputation for his theatrical tricks and daring feats of extrication from shackles, ropes, handcuffs and... Scotland Yard's jails.

Act of Violence

Act of Violence
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 21/12/1948
  • Character: Edith Enley
A former prisoner of war, Frank Enley is hailed as a hero in his California town. However, Frank has a shameful secret that comes back to haunt him when fellow survivor Joe Parkson emerges, intent on making Frank pay for his past deeds.

That Forsyte Woman

That Forsyte Woman
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 03/11/1949
  • Character: June Forsyte
Soames and Irene Forsyte have a marriage of convenience. Young Jolyon Forsyte is a black sheep who ran away with the maid after his wife's death. Teenager June Forsyte has found love with an artist, Phillip Bosinny. The interactions between the Forsytes and the people and society around them is the truss for this love story set in the rigid and strict times of the Victorian age.

Words and Music

Words and Music
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 31/12/1948
  • Character: Dorothy Feiner
Encomium to Larry Hart (1895-1943), seen through the fictive eyes of his song-writing partner, Richard Rodgers (1902-1979): from their first meeting, through lean years and their breakthrough, to their successes on Broadway, London, and Hollywood. We see the fruits of Hart and Rodgers' collaboration - elaborately staged numbers from their plays, characters' visits to night clubs, and impromptu performances at parties. We also see Larry's scattered approach to life, his failed love with Peggy McNeil, his unhappiness, and Richard's successful wooing of Dorothy Feiner.

The Red Danube

The Red Danube
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomanceWar
  • Release: 14/10/1949
  • Character: Olga Alexandrova aka Maria Buhlen
A Russian ballerina in Vienna tries to flee KGB agents and defect.

An American Dream

An American Dream
4.8/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 31/08/1966
  • Character: Cherry McMahon
Stephen Rojack is a decorated war vet who has now found success as an outspoken television personality. During a vicious argument with his wife, Deborah, Stephen snaps and pushes her from his high-rise apartment to her death. He manages to convince the authorities that she killed herself, then reignites an old affair with singer Cherry McMahon -- which doesn't sit well with her jealous mobster boyfriend, Nicky.

Telethon

Telethon
7/10
The behind-the-scenes intrigues — including, possibly, a murder — of an all-star fundraising telethon set in Las Vegas.

If Winter Comes

If Winter Comes
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 31/12/1947
  • Character: Effie Bright
It's 1939 in the small English town of Penny Green and events in Poland are about to change lives. Mark Sabre, a writer of school textbooks, has married Mabel "on the rebound", after his real love Nona marries someone else. Just as war is about to break out, Nona returns home with her husband Tony. Mabel is sure she can hold onto Mark, though. But misunderstood good deeds on Mark's part turn life for him upside down when his relationship with a young girl starts tongues wagging. Soon, wartime casualties take their toll in Penny Green as well as on the front, as the death of fighting men affects lives back home.

Pete Kelly's Blues

Pete Kelly's Blues
6.3/10
In 1927, a Kansas City, Missouri cornet player and his band perform nightly at a seedy speakeasy until a racketeer tries to extort them in exchange for protection.

Boardwalk

Boardwalk
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/11/1979
  • Character: Florence Cohen
In this drama, David Rosen and his wife Becky have lived in the same Coney Island neighborhood for nearly all their married life. But the area is not what it used to be, and a gang leader named Strut has decided to make Coney Island his new turf. Strut begins shaking down the merchants in the area, demanding payment for "protection" and using violence to deal with anyone who gets in his way. David refuses to give Strut protection money for the restaurant he owns, and as a result his diner is soon firebombed, while many of his neighbors are attacked and his synagogue is desecrated.

In My Sister's Shadow

In My Sister's Shadow
5.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 12/11/1997
  • Character: Kay Connor
Joan Connor is a lonely florist who falls for her little sister's ex, even though he is stalking the younger woman.

The Romance of Rosy Ridge

The Romance of Rosy Ridge
7/10
A mysterious Civil War veteran courts a Missouri farmer's daughter amid postwar unrest.

The Doctor and the Girl

The Doctor and the Girl
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 29/09/1949
  • Character: Evelyn 'Taffy' Heldon
Dr. Michael Corday, a recent graduate of the Harvard Medical School, is the son of Dr. John Corday, an eminent New York City surgeon who has a tendency to continue to direct the lives of his grown children. The daughter, Fabienne, runs away from home, and Michael, after first following his father's advice of being callous to the point of cruelty toward patients, changes when he falls in love with a patient, marries her and sets up his practice on the lower East Side in New York.

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