List of the best Janet Leigh movies: My Sister Eileen(1955), Just This Once(1952), Psycho(1960), The Naked Spur(1953), Holiday Affair(1949), Grand Slam(1967), Houdini(1953), Bye Bye Birdie(1963), Hello Down There(1969), Strictly Dishonorable(1951), Jet Pilot(1957), Two Tickets to Broadway(1951) ... ...
Musical, Comedy
USA
1955
108 Minutes
Eileen Sherwood
Janet Leigh Jack Lemmon Betty Garrett Bob Fosse Kurt Kaszner Dick York Lucy Marlow Tommy Rall Barbara Brown Horace MacMahon Henry Slate
aspiring actress aspiring writer magazine editor newspaper reporter cheeky amusing spirited engaging new york city columbus, ohio greenwich village apartment drugstore career writing acting chasing dreams big break romance adventure
After submitting a story of her beautiful sister, a woman assumes her identity to maintain the attention of a playboy publisher.
Comedy
USA
1952
90 Minutes
Janet Leigh Peter Lawford Lewis Stone Marilyn Erskine Richard Anderson Douglas Fowley Hanley Stafford Henry Slate Jerry Hausner Benny Rubin Charles Watts
millionaire lawyer businessman judge love interest lighthearted witty new york city apartment romance love triangle money love rivalry 1950s
Mark MacLene owes the IRS, the banks and others a lot of money. The problem is that his trust makes $1,000,000 a year, but he spends $150,000 every month. His trustee, Sam, uses the power ... See full summary »
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
USA
1960
109 Minutes
Marion Crane
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.
Western
USA
1953
91 Minutes
James Stewart Janet Leigh Robert Ryan Ralph Meeker Millard Mitchell
bounty hunter soldier prospector murderer woman dark thrilling spectacular rocky mountains colorado river greed journey reward gunfight fall pursuit rivalry 1860s
A bounty hunter trying to bring a murderer to justice is forced to accept the help of two less-than-trustworthy strangers.
Other, Romance
USA
1949
87 Minutes
Robert Mitchum Janet Leigh Wendell Corey Gordon Gebert Griff Barnett Esther Dale Henry O'Neill Harry Morgan Larry J. Blake Helen Brown James Griffith
clerk widow single mother son lawyer homeless person lighthearted charming emotional department store hotel central park new york city zoo love fraud mourning mother/son relationship unemployment christmas
A young widow is torn between a boring attorney and a romantic ne'er-do-well.
Crime, Drama
Italy|Spain|West Germany
1967
121 Minutes
Edward G. Robinson Janet Leigh Adolfo Celi Klaus Kinski Jorge Rigaud Robert Hoffmann Riccardo Cucciola Miguel del Castillo
professor safecracker small-time crook soldier engineer playboy confident suspenseful office building metro city city apartment safe rio de janeiro change of lifestyle unintended consequences financial scheme greed consequences get rich quick 1960s
At the suggestion of a retired professor, a motley group of criminals plans the robbery of a Brazilian diamond company but it must contend with a new alarm system and the mutual distrust among its members.
Biography, Drama
USA
1953
106 Minutes
Bess Houdini
Tony Curtis Janet Leigh Torin Thatcher Ian Wolfe Sig Ruman Angela Clarke
magician wife assistant mother tender suspenseful thrilling stage coney island detroit love entertainment magic ambition occult harry houdini love rise 1920s
From his beginnings as a "wildman" carnival act to the internationally famous feat of escaping from a locked trunk in an ice-jammed river, the great Harry Houdini emerged as the world's most captivating magician and escape artist.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1963
112 Minutes
Rosie DeLeon
Dick Van Dyke Janet Leigh Ann-Margret Maureen Stapleton Bobby Rydell Jesse Pearson Paul Lynde Mary LaRoche Michael Evans Robert Paige Gregory Morton
singer songwriter secretary fan father mother campy amusing madcap sweet apple, ohio office small town stage celebrities adolescence pop music family fame jealousy underdog
A rock singer travels to a small Ohio town to make his "farewell" television performance and kiss his biggest fan before he is drafted.
Comedy
USA
1969
98 Minutes
Vivian Miller
Tony Randall Janet Leigh Jim Backus Roddy McDowall Ken Berry Charlotte Rae Kay Cole Richard Dreyfuss Lou Wagner Arnold Stang Harvey Lembeck
scientist family band member businessman record producer rival amusing charming crafty lighthearted madcap playful underwater research base family home scientific experiments rock 'n' roll escape escape quest rivalry
A marine scientist volunteers to have his family live in a prototype underwater home to prove it's practical.
Comedy
USA
1951
86 Minutes
Melvin Frank Ezio Pinza Janet Leigh Millard Mitchell Gale Robbins Maria Palmer Esther Minciotti Silvio Minciotti Arthur Franz Sandro Giglio Hugh Sanders
An Italian opera singer (Ezio Pinza) has a marriage of convenience with an innocent fan (Janet Leigh) from Mississippi
Drama
USA
1957
112 Minutes
John Wayne Janet Leigh Jay C. Flippen Paul Fix Richard Rober Roland Winters Hans Conried Ivan Triesault Joyce Compton Denver Pyle Elizabeth Flournoy
soviet pilot pilot officer commander soldier love interest sultry campy alaska air force base jet palm springs, calif. soviet union cold war communism flying duplicity espionage secret plans adventure
Air Force Colonel Jim Shannon is tasked to escort a defecting Soviet pilot who is scheming to lure Shannon to the USSR.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1951
106 Minutes
Nancy Peterson
Tony Martin Janet Leigh Gloria DeHaven Eddie Bracken Ann Miller Barbara Lawrence
singer love interest agent girlfriend producer lighthearted amusing charming manhattan, n.y. bus station central park television studio bus song and dance big break deception television love rise 1950s
Nancy Peterson and her friends want to get a spot on Bob Crosby's TV show, but their agent has linked them.
Drama
USA
1966
103 Minutes
Stuart Whitman Janet Leigh Eleanor Parker Barry Sullivan Lloyd Nolan Murray Hamilton J.D. Cannon Susan Denberg Les Crane Warren Stevens Joe De Santis
talk show host wife gangster mistress father police detective dark tense apartment building police station nightclub love-hate relationship jealousy fugitives betrayal murder cover-up fall rivalry discovery
A TV talk-show host who may have killed his wife finds himself being pursued by both the police and a gang of hoods.
Horror
USA
1972
88 Minutes
Stuart Whitman Janet Leigh Rory Calhoun DeForest Kelley Paul Fix Melanie Fullerton Chris Morrell Chuck Hayward Henry Wills Francesca Jarvis William Elliott
rancher college president researcher daughter son rabbit gory creepy campy arizona shed research station ranch science gone awry killer rabbits animal attack survival death mutation escape
Giant mutant rabbits terrorize the south-west.
Comedy
1966
109 Minutes
Dr. Elizabeth Acord
Jerry Lewis Janet Leigh Mary Ann Mobley Gila Golan Leslie Parrish James Best Kathleen Freeman Buddy Lester Fritz Feld Renie Riano Scatman Crothers
artist psychiatrist girlfriend patient friend zoologist madcap cheery lighthearted psychiatrist's office house party relationships psychiatry impersonation love schemes love transformation metamorphosis
An artist (Jerry Lewis) tries to help his psychiatrist fiancee (Janet Leigh) by posing as suitors for her lovesick patients.
Musical
1955
95 Minutes
Ivy Conrad
Jack Webb Janet Leigh Edmond O'Brien Peggy Lee Andy Devine Lee Marvin Ella Fitzgerald Martin Milner
A bootlegger (Edmond O'Brien) strong-arms a jazz cornetist (Jack Webb) and his combo at a 1920s Kansas City speakeasy.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA
1958
95 Minutes
Susan "Susie" Vargas
Charlton Heston Orson Welles Janet Leigh Joseph Calleia Akim Tamiroff Valentin de Vargas Ray Collins Dennis Weaver Joanna Moore Mort Mills Marlene Dietrich
drug enforcement agent police officer criminal wife chilling mexico police station motel country road border crime crooked cops smuggling murder mystery pursuit 1950s
A stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping, and police corruption in a Mexican border town.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
1962
126 Minutes
Eugenie Rose Chaney
Frank Sinatra Laurence Harvey Janet Leigh Angela Lansbury Henry Silva James Gregory Leslie Parrish John McGiver Khigh Dhiegh James Edwards Douglas Henderson
war hero politician soldier spy communist tense intricate china washington, d.c. rally costume party brainwashing communism cold war political campaign assassination conspiracy transformation rise revenge
A former prisoner of war is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy.
Adventure
USA
1952
111 Minutes
Aline de Gavrillac de Bourbon
Stewart Granger Eleanor Parker Janet Leigh Mel Ferrer Henry Wilcoxon Nina Foch Richard Anderson Robert Coote Lewis Stone Elisabeth Risdon Howard Freeman
marquis peasant damsel in distress instructor love interest swordsman charming thrilling spirited france theater palace revenge betrayal acting murder royalty love quest rescue
In France during the late 18th Century, a man sets out to avenge the death of his friend at the hands of a master swordsman.
Adventure, Action
USA
1958
114 Minutes
Morgana
Kirk Douglas Tony Curtis Janet Leigh Ernest Borgnine James Donald Alexander Knox Frank Thring Maxine Audley Eileen Way Edric Connor Dandy Nichols
king prince princess slave half brother viking thrilling intense brutal castle boat rivalry power struggle feud love triangle kidnapping mistaken identity discovery love rivalry
A slave and a Viking prince fight for the love of a captive princess.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
USA
1980
89 Minutes
Kathy Williams
Adrienne Barbeau Hal Holbrook Janet Leigh Jamie Lee Curtis John Houseman Tom Atkins Nancy Kyes Charles Cyphers Ty Mitchell George "Buck" Flower John Vick
radio host priest hitchhiker wife fisherman coroner chilling gory shocking frightening california coast lighthouse church house ghosts shipwreck secret past small-town life supernatural
An unearthly fog rolls into a small coastal town exactly 100 years after a ship mysteriously sank in its waters.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1954
95 Minutes
Wally Cook
Dean Martin Jerry Lewis Janet Leigh Edward Arnold Fred Clark Sheree North Sammy White Sid Tomack Sig Ruman Richard Loo Raymond Greenleaf
railroad worker doctor reporter editor love interest charming unrestrained los alamos, n.m. railroad tracks small town doctor's office new york city hotel love triangle deception fame radiation newspapers mistaken diagnosis quest
An unsophisticated stationmaster from provincial New Mexico fraudulently claims that he is dying in order to get an expense-paid dream tour of New York.
Adventure
USA
1954
100 Minutes
Princess Aleta
James Mason Robert Wagner Janet Leigh Sterling Hayden Debra Paget Victor McLaglen Donald Crisp Brian Aherne
prince king arthur knight viking princess villain spirited campy melodramatic camelot castle battlefield secret plans royalty sword battles training romance chivalry quest love
A young Viking prince strives to become a knight in King Arthur's Court and restore his exiled father to his rightful throne.
Adventure
1948
97 Minutes
Margit Mitchell
Edmund Gwenn Donald Crisp Janet Leigh Tom Drake Rhys Williams Reginald Owen Edmond Breon Alan Napier Hugh Green Lumsden Hare Eileen Erskine
dog doctor shepherd son uplifting endearing scotland edinburgh, scotland medicine rural life pets hydrophobia father/son relationship animals underdog growing up 20th century
A dedicated Scottish doctor tries to cure Lassie's water phobia while caring for patients throughout the glen.
Comedy
1960
115 Minutes
Ann Wilson
Tony Curtis Dean Martin Janet Leigh James Whitmore John McIntire Barbara Nichols Larry Keating Larry Storch
impostor professor writer spy wife student amusing quirky madcap university laboratory restaurant secret headquarters empire state building espionage infidelity husband/wife relationship impersonation deception fbi
After his wife (Janet Leigh) catches him kissing a pretty coed, a chemistry professor (Tony Curtis) asks his buddy (Dean Martin) to help him come up with a clever cover story.
Drama
USA
1972
97 Minutes
Gert Meredith
Trish Van Devere Monte Markham Melvyn Douglas Janet Leigh Jane Elliot Jonathan Lippe Mark Bramhall Paul Jenkins Scott Beach Morgan Upton Joe Spano
wife professor widower best friend leader love interest emotional tender household support group art gallery divorce infidelity loneliness therapy friendship starting over fall rise love
A young woman has difficulty understanding why her husband walks out on her. Alone for the first time, she finds life difficult to cope with and for a time lives with the hope that her ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1950
114 Minutes
June Forsyte
Errol Flynn Greer Garson Walter Pidgeon Robert Young Janet Leigh Harry Davenport Stanley Logan Lumsden Hare Aubrey Mather Matt Moore
wealthy man wife lover niece friend cousin melodramatic emotional england london household adultery romance death rape wealth family forbidden love rivalry wretched excess
Love among the Forsytes is strange, full of tradition, melancholy and gold digging in this film treatise on Victorian-age rigidity and vestiges of a flawed society.
Romance
USA
1949
119 Minutes
Olga Alexandrova, Maria Buhlen
Walter Pidgeon Ethel Barrymore Peter Lawford Angela Lansbury Janet Leigh Louis Calhern Francis L. Sullivan Melville Cooper Robert Coote Alan Napier Roman Toporow
colonel mother superior major aide ballerina private tense emotional vienna convent train station rome repatriation communism faith romance duty suicide quest escape
Shortly after the end of World War II, British Colonel Michael S. "Hooky" Nicobar (Walter Pidgeon) is assigned to a unit in the British Zone of Vienna. His duty is to aid the Soviet ... See full summary »
Romance
USA
1948
97 Minutes
Effie Bright
Walter Pidgeon Deborah Kerr Angela Lansbury Binnie Barnes Janet Leigh Dame May Whitty Rene Ray Virginia Kelley Reginald Owen John Abbott Rhys Williams
writer wife widow pregnant woman townsperson ex-lover melodramatic powerful touching small town england publishing house front lines house small-town life world war ii scandal rumors suicide false accusations
It's 1939 in the small English town of Penny Green, and events in Poland are about to change lives. Mark Sabre (Walter Pidgeon), a writer of school text books, has married Mabel (Dame ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1966
121 Minutes
Susan Harper
Paul Newman Lauren Bacall Shelley Winters Julie Harris Robert Wagner Janet Leigh Arthur Hill Pamela Tiffin Robert Webber Strother Martin Harold Gould
detective wife stepmother teenager lawyer guru cool intricate family home california office abduction divorce wealth family crime mystery 1960s
Lew Harper, a cool private investigator, is hired by a wealthy California matron to locate her kidnapped husband.
Musical
USA
1948
119 Minutes
Dorothy Feiner Rodgers
Mickey Rooney Tom Drake June Allyson Perry Como Ann Sothern Betty Garrett Janet Leigh Marshall Thompson Jeanette Nolan Richard Quine Clinton Sundberg
lyricist composer actress singer best friend touching melodramatic hollywood, calif. broadway theater london new york city may-december romance alcohol songwriting friendship depression success rise fall love
Fictionalized story of the songwriting partnership of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.
Horror, Other
USA
1998
85 Minutes
Norma Watson
Jamie Lee Curtis Adam Arkin Josh Hartnett Michelle Williams Adam Hann-Byrd Jodi Lyn O'Keefe Janet Leigh LL Cool J Joseph Gordon-Levitt Nancy Stephens Branden Williams
serial killer headmistress son teen boy michael myers nurse thrilling gory tense suspenseful intense frightening northern california school basement elevator family home rest stop survival serial murders
Laurie Strode, now the dean of a Northern California private school with an assumed name, must battle the Shape one last time, as the life of her own son hangs in the balance.