Cast: Janet Leigh

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Janet Leigh. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Psycho

1960 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Anthony Perkins · Janet Leigh · John Gavin · Vera Miles

Plot Office worker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. One Friday Marion is entrusted with $40,000 to take to the bank. Seeing the opportunity to...

8.4

106K votes

8.4

106K votes

Touch of Evil

1958 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Charlton Heston · Janet Leigh · Orson Welles · Marlene Dietrich

Plot An unseen man sets the timer on an explosive device. The clock starts ticking down as soon as he stashes it in the boot of a fancy-looking car. Immediately afterwards,...

8.2

29K votes

8.2

29K votes

Scaramouche

1952 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction George Sidney

Cast Stewart Granger · Eleanor Parker · Janet Leigh · Mel Ferrer

Plot In 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend's murder.

7.5

4K votes

7.5

4K votes

The Vikings

1958 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction Richard Fleischer

Cast Kirk Douglas · Tony Curtis · Ernest Borgnine · Janet Leigh

Plot Einar and Eric are two Viking half-brothers. The former is a great warrior whilst the other is an ex-slave, but neither knows the true identity of the other. When the...

7.4

16K votes

7.4

16K votes

The Naked Spur

1953 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast James Stewart · Robert Ryan · Janet Leigh · Millard Mitchell

Plot Howard Kemp (James Stewart) is a bounty hunter who's been after killer Ben Vandergroat (Robert Ryan) for a long time. Along the way in Colorado, Kemp is forced to take...

7.4

3K votes

7.4

3K votes

Act of Violence

1949 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Fred Zinnemann

Cast Van Heflin · Robert Ryan · Janet Leigh · Mary Astor

Plot War veteran Frank Enley seems to be a happily married small-town citizen until he realises Joe Parkson is in town. It seems Parkson is out for revenge because of something...

7.2

450 votes

7.2

450 votes

The Manchurian Candidate

1962 · Movie · 126 min. · United States

Direction John Frankenheimer

Cast Frank Sinatra · Laurence Harvey · Janet Leigh · Angela Lansbury

Plot In Korea in 1952, a US Army patrol is ambushed by Communist soldiers. A year later the squad, having escaped, returns to the US, where Staff Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Laurence...

7.2

4K votes

7.2

4K votes

Little Women

1949 · Movie · 121 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast June Allyson · Elizabeth Taylor · Peter Lawford · Janet Leigh

Plot 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,...

6.9

5K votes

6.9

5K votes

The Making of 'Psycho'

1997 · Documentary · 94 min. · United States

Direction Laurent Bouzereau

Cast Peggy Robertson · Clive Barker · Joseph Stefano · Patricia Hitchcock

Plot An excellent retrospective on the entire movie, from start to finish. There are interviews with many of the principle cast and crew (including Janet Leigh and Joseph Stefano), who all...

6.9

115 votes

6.9

115 votes

Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series)

1979 · Series · 25 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Graham Evans · John Gorrie · Alan Gibson · Herbert Wise

Cast Roald Dahl · John Houseman · Andrew Ray · Joan Collins

Plot TV Series (1979-1988). 9 seasons. 112 episodes. A British anthology of mystery, suspense, horror and black comedy, highlighted by plot twists and surprise endings (in the early seasons, all by...

6.8

49 votes

6.8

49 votes

Rogue Cop

1954 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Roy Rowland

Cast Robert Taylor · Janet Leigh · George Raft · Steve Forrest

Plot Detective Chris Kelvaney has a brother, Eddie, who also is a policeman. He witnessed a murderer running away from the scene of the crime. Chris has contacts with the gangster...

6.7

177 votes

6.7

177 votes

Harper

1966 · Movie · 121 min. · United States

Direction Jack Smight

Cast Paul Newman · Lauren Bacall · Julie Harris · Shelley Winters

Plot Lew Harper, a cool private investigator, is hired by a wealthy California matron to locate her kidnapped husband.

6.7

3K votes

6.7

3K votes

Direction Ted Haimes

Cast Kevin Spacey · Jonathan Demme · Alfred Hitchcock · Joseph Stefano

Plot This documentary is a fascinating look at the cinematic genius of Alfred Hitchcock. Briefly covering much of his early British works, the film primarily focuses on his American classics, such...

6.6

40 votes

6.6

40 votes

The Twilight Zone (TV Series)

1985 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Rod Serling · Paul Lynch · Peter Medak · Ryszard Bugajski

Cast William Atherton · Jenny Agutter · Martin Balsam · Jeffrey Tambor

Plot A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but often have a wicked sense of humor and an unexpected twist.

6.6

1K votes

6.6

1K votes

Columbo: Forgotten Lady (TV)

1975 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Harvey Hart

Cast Peter Falk · Janet Leigh · Maurice Evans · Sam Jaffe

Plot A faded dance star of film and stage murders her husband and makes it look like a suicide; Lt. Columbo doubts her seemingly perfect alibi.

6.6

278 votes

6.6

278 votes

That Forsyte Woman

1949 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Compton Bennett

Cast Errol Flynn · Greer Garson · Walter Pidgeon · Robert Young

Plot The Forsytes, Soames and Irene Forsyte is a marriage of covenience. Young Jolyon Forsyte is a black sheep who ran away with the maid after his wife's death. Teenager June...

6.5

136 votes

6.5

136 votes

Prince Valiant

1954 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Robert Wagner · James Mason · Janet Leigh · Debra Paget

Plot Cartoonist Hal Foster's medieval hero, the Scandinavian Prince Valiant, comes to the screen in all his Dutch-bob-haircut glory in this 1954 film directed by Henry Hathaway (Kiss of Death). Robert...

6.4

1K votes

6.4

1K votes

My Sister Eileen

1955 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Richard Quine

Cast Janet Leigh · Jack Lemmon · Betty Garrett · Bob Fosse

Plot Ruth and her beautiful sister Eileen come to New York's Greenwich Village looking for "fame, fortune and a 'For Rent' sign on Barrow Street". They find an apartment (such as...

6.4

366 votes

6.4

366 votes

A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers (TV Series)

2009 · Documentary · 58 min. · United States

Direction Laurent Bouzereau

Cast Ken Follett · Norman Lloyd · Alfred Hitchcock · Heywood Gould

Plot "A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers" will look at thrillers from all sides, including different types of thrillers and the stylistic tools filmmakers use to give...

6.3

36 votes

6.3

36 votes

Three on a Couch

1966 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Jerry Lewis

Cast Jerry Lewis · Janet Leigh · James Best · Leslie Parrish

Plot An artist has an opportunity to go to Paris and wants to bring his fiancee along. However, she's a psychiatrist who currently has three female patients who don't like men....

6.2

267 votes

6.2

267 votes