List of the best Anthony Perkins movies: Psycho(1960), Pretty Poison(1968), Fear Strikes Out(1957), Tall Story(1960), Edge of Sanity(1989), A Demon in My View(1991), The Fool Killer(1965), How Awful About Allan(1970), Daughter of Darkness(1990), Psycho IV: The Beginning(1990), The Tin Star(1957), Play It as It Lays(1972) ... ...
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
USA
1960
109 Minutes
Anthony Perkins Janet Leigh Vera Miles John Gavin Martin Balsam John McIntire Simon Oakland John Anderson Frank Albertson Patricia Hitchcock
secretary norman bates police officer boyfriend mother creative creepy thrilling motel california highway phoenix office theft mental illness mystery 1960s
A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1968
89 Minutes
Dennis Pitt
Anthony Perkins Tuesday Weld Beverly Garland John Randolph Dick O'Neill Clarice Blackburn Joseph Bova Ken Kercheval Don Fellows Parker Fennelly
worker teenager guard mother probation officer chilling uneasy creepy dark new england factory household courtroom paranoia murder sabotage manipulation mother/daughter relationship trial fall
When a mentally disturbed young man tells a pretty girl that he's a secret agent, she believes him, and murder and mayhem ensue.
Biography
USA
1957
100 Minutes
Jim Piersall
Anthony Perkins Karl Malden Norma Moore Adam Williams Perry Wilson Peter Votrian Dennis McMullen Gail Land Brian G. Hutton Bart Burns
father son baseball player reporter psychiatrist doctor tense disturbing emotional engaging dark connecticut baseball field boston father/son relationship emotional abuse baseball mental illness obsession pursuit
True story of the life of Jimmy Piersall, who battled mental illness to achieve stardom in major league baseball.
Comedy
USA
1960
91 Minutes
Ray Blent
Anthony Perkins Jane Fonda Ray Walston Marc Connelly Anne Jackson Murray Hamilton Bob Wright Bart Burns Karl Lukas Elizabeth Patterson Tom Laughlin
cheerleader basketball player amusing playful united states ethics love love 1950s
A young insecure college sportsman is in trouble. He wants to marry his very straightforward girlfriend, also a student, but has no money. When he is offered a bribe to fix a game, he is torn even more about the matter.
Horror
UK|Hungary
1989
86 Minutes
Dr. Henry Jekyll, Jack `'The Ripper'` Hyde
Anthony Perkins Glynis Barber Sarah Maur Thorp David Lodge Ben Cole Ray Jewers Jill Melford Lisa Davis Noel Coleman Claudia Udy Briony McRoberts
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 ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
Germany
1991
102 Minutes
Arthur Johnson
Anthony Perkins Uwe Bohm Sophie Ward Deborah Lacey Stratford Johns Brian Bovell
A strangler known as the Kenbourne Killer has been murdering streetwalkers for 25 years. The police set out to track him down.
Adventure
1965
99 Minutes
Milo Bogardus
Anthony Perkins Edward Albert Dana Elcar Henry Hull Salome Jens Yvonne Gilbert Charlotte Jones Arnold Moss
orphan old man ex-soldier foster father reverend eerie intense tennessee shack revival tent on the run murder religion child abuse legends civil war reconstruction growing up fall 1860s
A post-Civil War orphan (Edward Albert) thinks a stranger (Anthony Perkins) he meets is a folk-tale killer of the world's fools.
Horror
1970
74 Minutes
Anthony Perkins Julie Harris Joan Hackett Kent Smith Robert H. Harris Billy Bowles Trent Dolan Kenneth Lawrence Jeanette Howe Molly Dodd
Mental patient Allan (Anthony Perkins) comes home to his unbalanced sister (Julie Harris) and hears voices.
Horror, Adventure
1990
97 Minutes
Anthony Perkins Mia Sara Jack Coleman Robert Reynolds Erika Bodnar Ági Margitai
An American's (Mia Sara) search for her father in Romania leads to a glassblower (Anthony Perkins), bad dreams and vampires.
Mystery & Thriller, Horror
1990
97 Minutes
Norman Bates
Anthony Perkins Henry Thomas Olivia Hussey CCH Pounder Donna Mitchell Warren Frost
serial killer radio host wife doctor mother psychologist dark disturbing creepy radio station mansion bates motel fruit cellar rehabilitation norman bates split personality pregnancy murder jealousy revenge
Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) phones a talk show and recalls his life as a 1940s teenager (Henry Thomas) warped by his mother (Olivia Hussey).
Western
USA
1957
93 Minutes
Henry Fonda Anthony Perkins Betsy Palmer Neville Brand Lee Van Cleef John McIntire Michel Ray Mary Webster Peter Baldwin Richard Shannon
gunslinger bounty hunter sheriff doctor engaging spirited wild west small town law enforcement mentorship aspirations redemption training underdog transformation 19th century
A cynical former sheriff turned bounty hunter helps a young, recently appointed acting sheriff with his advice, his experience and his gun.
Drama
USA
1972
99 Minutes
actress director celebrity husband wife producer intense dark powerful sad los angeles movie set las vegas mojave desert nervous breakdown failed romance infidelity career vs. love hollywood escape
A Hollywood actress undergoes a psychic breakdown and recalls the traumatic events which led to her stay at a sanitarium.
Drama
USA
1958
114 Minutes
Sophia Loren Anthony Perkins Burl Ives Frank Overton Pernell Roberts Rebecca Welles Jean Willes Anne Seymour Roy Fant
widower farmer wife slave gripping fascinating melodramatic new england farm california slavery farming money affair illegitimate child discovery forbidden love transformation 1950s
Desperation and secret passions on a family farm lead to tragedy.
Drama
USA
1984
101 Minutes
Kathleen Turner Anthony Perkins John Laughlin Annie Potts Bruce Davison
prostitute father priest businessman fashion designer store owner hedonistic shocking sultry outlandish los angeles street motel store apartment double life prostitution adultery stalking voyeurism
A mysterious woman, fashion designer by day and prostitute by night, is hounded by two men: a married father of two children and a sexually repressed preacher.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1986
100 Minutes
A private detective specializing in missing children is charged with the task of finding a special child whom dark forces want to eliminate.
Mystery & Thriller
France|UK
1971
97 Minutes
Laurence Jeffries
Charles Bronson Anthony Perkins Jill Ireland Henri Garcin Adriano Magistretti Agathe Natanson
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.
Comedy
USA
1958
101 Minutes
Cornelius Hackl
Shirley Booth Anthony Perkins Shirley MacLaine Paul Ford Robert Morse Perry Wilson Wallace Ford Russell Collins Rex Evans Gavin Gordon Torben Meyer
matchmaker businessman storekeeper hatter friend charming amusing endearing madcap lighthearted yonkers, n.y. new york city restaurant store romance matchmaking mistaken identity marriage rivalry love
Nightclub owner T.J. Brennon dies in a car accident and two narcotics agents are killed in his apartment, prompting an investigation by the local police aided by Brennon's cop brother.
Crime, Drama
France
1967
98 Minutes
Christopher
Maurice Ronet Anthony Perkins Yvonne Furneaux Stéphane Audran Suzanne Lloyd Catherine Sola Christa Lang Henry Jones George Skaff Marie-Ange Agnes Annie Vidal
A champagne tycoon's (Furneaux) partner (Ronet) suspects his partner's gigolo husband (Perkins) of murders he's been framed for.
Romance
USA
1959
101 Minutes
Audrey Hepburn Anthony Perkins Lee J. Cobb Sessue Hayakawa Henry Silva Nehemiah Persoff Michael Pate Estelle Hemsley
son love interest grandfather native fascinating dreamy intricate venezuela caracas jungle nature war loss romance gold discovery love metamorphosis revenge 1890s
A young man in the jungles of Venezuela meets a strange girl of the forest and falls in love with her.
Comedy
1964
98 Minutes
Harry Compton, Nicolas Sergueievitch Miloukne
A Soviet agent (Anthony Perkins) recruits a beautiful but dimwitted woman (Brigitte Bardot) to help him steal sensitive documents.
Drama
1963
110 Minutes
Sophia Loren Anthony Perkins Gig Young Jean-Pierre Aumont Yolande Turner Tommy Norden Mathilde Casadesus Barbara Nicot
wife businessman journalist love interest socialite dark gripping paris france spousal abuse marriage divorce plane crash fraud violence escape forbidden love fall 1960s
An American (Anthony Perkins) plays dead after a plane crash and sends his wife (Sophia Loren) to claim his life insurance in Paris.
Drama
1962
115 Minutes
Alexis
Melina Mercouri Anthony Perkins Raf Vallone Giorgos Karoussos Elizabeth Ercy Georges Sarris Andreas Philipides Olympia Papadouka
wife ship owner son business owner young woman fascinating passionate dark moving greece island family home affair unhappy marriage incest unusual romance family business forbidden love growing up 1960s
A Greek shipping tycoon's (Raf Vallone) second wife (Melina Mercouri) has a tragic affair with her stepson (Anthony Perkins).
Drama
1980
90 Minutes
Bibi Andersson Anthony Perkins Sandra Dumas
A middle-aged divorcee (Bibi Andersson) and her theater-critic ex-husband (Anthony Perkins) desire the same young woman (Sandra Dumas) in Holland.
Western
1957
87 Minutes
Riley Wade
Jack Palance Anthony Perkins Neville Brand Elaine Aiken Claude Akins Robert Middleton Elisha Cook Jr. Lee Van Cleef Harry Shannon James Bell Adam Williams
A gunfighter (Jack Palance) turns rancher at the mercy of a son (Anthony Perkins) who hates him and a gambler (Neville Brand) who wants to kill him.
Drama
USA
1956
139 Minutes
Josh Birdwell
Gary Cooper Dorothy McGuire Anthony Perkins Marjorie Main Richard Eyer Robert Middleton Phyllis Love Peter Mark Richman
father mother son daughter quaker endearing emotional indiana armed conflict family religion forbidden love discovery forbidden love 1860s
The pacifist attitude of a Quaker family is tested as a result of the American Civil War.
Romance
France|USA
1961
120 Minutes
Philip Van der Besh
Ingrid Bergman Yves Montand Anthony Perkins Jessie Royce Landis Jackie Lane Pierre Dux Jean Clarke David Horne Lee Patrick Diahann Carroll
businessperson boyfriend mother friend cool confident paris apartment office may-december romance love triangle infidelity aging forbidden love 1960s
A successful business woman, dissatisfied with her current, philandering lover, starts an affair with a much younger man.
Drama
USA
1953
90 Minutes
Spencer Tracy Jean Simmons Anthony Perkins Teresa Wright Mary Wickes Ian Wolfe Norma Jean Nilsson Dawn Bender
mother actress teen girl father student charming touching boston apartment theater father/daughter relationship acting ambition employment education theater growing up quest discovery 1910s
This is an account of the real life experience of actress/playwright Ruth Gordon.
Drama
USA
1970
115 Minutes
Rainey
Paul Newman Joanne Woodward Anthony Perkins Laurence Harvey Pat Hingle Don Gordon Michael Anderson Jr. Leigh French Bruce Cabot Cloris Leachman Moses Gunn
announcer girlfriend social worker preacher assassin gripping uneasy powerful new orleans radio station political rally political unrest conspiracy radio racial tension patriotism discovery temptation 1970s
A radio station in the Deep South becomes the focal point of a right-wing conspiracy.
Mystery & Thriller
Canada
1980
96 Minutes
Lawrence Miles
Michael Sarrazin Susan Clark Anthony Perkins Howard Duff Kate Reid Al Waxman Elizabeth Shepherd Kenneth Welsh John Candy
Mentally tortured photojournalist attempts to track down his wife's murderer.
Action
1980
99 Minutes
Kramer
Roger Moore James Mason Anthony Perkins George Baker Lea Brodie Faith Brook Jeremy Clyde Al Hedison Jennifer Hilary Philip O'Brien Michael Parks
An English admiral (James Mason) needs an eccentric lord (Roger Moore) and his frogmen to save oil rigs and a ship from a mad bomber (Anthony Perkins).
Horror
1990
97 Minutes
Prof. Buchanan
Madchen Amick Corey Parker Anthony Perkins R. Lee Ermey Dee Wallace Natalie Schafer
An archaeology professor's red Aztec cloak spreads evil and turns a shy coed (Madchen Amick) into a she-devil.
Comedy, Western
1972
120 Minutes
Reverend LaSalle
Paul Newman Victoria Principal Anthony Perkins Jacqueline Bisset Ava Gardner Tab Hunter John Huston Stacy Keach Roddy McDowall Ned Beatty Anthony Zerbe
outlaw beautiful woman friend teacher singer murderer gritty quirky texas small town saloon river law and order justice robbery money death rescue quest 1900s
A small-time outlaw takes over a town by dispensing his own form of justice and confiscating property for court costs.
Drama
1975
109 Minutes
Sean
Diana Ross Billy Dee Williams Anthony Perkins Jean-Pierre Aumont Beah Richards Nina Foch Marisa Mell Lenard Norris Ira Rogers Kristine Cameron Ted Liss
fashion model congressional candidate photographer designer boyfriend diva amusing melodramatic rome chicago runway fashion rags to riches relationships modeling ambition bad behavior love rise transformation
Sci-Fi
USA
1959
133 Minutes
Lt. Peter Holmes
Gregory Peck Ava Gardner Fred Astaire Anthony Perkins Donna Anderson John Tate Lola Brooks John Meillon Lou Vernon Guy Doleman Harp McGuire
commander alcoholic scientist newlywed lieutenant survivor dark tense emotional australia submarine deep sea hotel san francisco san diego nuclear war radiation survival reconnaissance denial
After a global nuclear war, the residents of Australia must come to terms with the fact that all life will be destroyed in a matter of months.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1970
121 Minutes
Chaplain Capt. A.T. Tappman
Alan Arkin Martin Balsam Richard Benjamin Art Garfunkel Jack Gilford Bob Newhart Anthony Perkins Paula Prentiss Martin Sheen Jon Voight Orson Welles
captain pilot soldier lieutenant doctor witty amusing profound island mediterranean sea war zone horrors of war bombing aviation disillusionment insanity world war ii escape discovery 1940s
A man is trying desperately to be certified insane during World War II, so he can stop flying missions.
Mystery & Thriller
UK|USA
1974
127 Minutes
Hector MacQueen
Albert Finney Lauren Bacall Martin Balsam Ingrid Bergman Jacqueline Bisset Jean-Pierre Cassel Sean Connery John Gielgud Wendy Hiller Anthony Perkins Vanessa Redgrave
detective millionaire aristocrat doctor conductor hercule poirot suspenseful uneasy train train station istanbul abduction murder deception mystery 1930s
In December 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.