The best Janet Leigh’s thriller 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.

Touch of Evil

Touch of Evil
8/10
  • Genre: CrimeThriller
  • Release: 30/03/1958
  • Character: Susan 'Susie' Vargas
When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement agent Miguel Vargas begins his investigation, along with American police captain Hank Quinlan. When Vargas begins to suspect that Quinlan and his shady partner, Menzies, are planting evidence to frame an innocent man, his investigations into their possible corruption quickly put himself and his new bride, Susie, in jeopardy.

Halloween H20: 20 Years Later

Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
5.8/10
Two decades after surviving a massacre on October 31, 1978, former baby sitter Laurie Strode finds herself hunted by persistent knife-wielder Michael Myers. Laurie now lives in Northern California under an assumed name, where she works as the headmistress of a private school. But it's not far enough to escape Myers, who soon discovers her whereabouts. As Halloween descends upon Laurie's peaceful community, a feeling of dread weighs upon her -- with good reason.

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.

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.

The Spy in the Green Hat

The Spy in the Green Hat
5.7/10
"Spy in the Green Hat, The (1966)" on the other hand, is both exciting AND funny. Especially the scene where Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) hides from THRUSH agents under a young woman's (the incredibly cute Letícia Román) bed and is caught by the woman's grandmother (Penny Santon), who is forcing Solo to marry the young woman. He successfully escapes, but is hunted by a legion of stereotyped Italian gangsters. Now that's comedy.

Grand Slam

Grand Slam
6.8/10
Professor James Anders is a seemingly mild-mannered teacher, an American working in Rio De Janeiro. Anders, bored with years of teaching, decides to put together a team to pull off a diamond heist during the Rio Carnival. Four international experts are brought together to carry out the robbery: a safe cracking expert, a master thief, a mechanical genius, and a playboy.

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.

The Egg

The Egg
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyThriller
  • Release: 01/01/1993
  • Character: The egg (voice) (archive footage)
The shower scene from Psycho reenacted with an egg.

Bad Girls from Valley High

Bad Girls from Valley High
3.7/10
Brooke, Danielle, and Tiffany are three attractive and popular teenage girls who have risen to the top of the pecking order at their high school, and that's just the way they want things to stay. A sexy exchange student, however, arrives at the school and soon attracts the attention of all the boys -- including Danielle's hunky boyfriend. Not eager to share the spotlight with anyone, the gals decide that the new girl in town needs to be dealt with...permanently.

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.

Honeymoon with a Stranger

Honeymoon with a Stranger
5.9/10
While on honeymoon with her husband in Spain, a woman wakes up one morning to find he has disappeared. After reporting it to the police, a man shows up claiming to be her husband. But he's not the man she married and no one will believe her.

The Monk

The Monk
5.3/10
Underworld attorney Leo Barnes hires Gus Monk to safeguard a valuable envelope containing information on a mobster. Monk refuses — until he meets Mrs. Barnes and jumps on a merry-go-round of viciousness and murder.

Murder at the World Series

Murder at the World Series
6/10
A disturbed young man threatens violence at the World Series after failing to make the Houston Astros.

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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