Best Janet Leigh movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Janet Leigh movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don't know about Janet Leigh.
TOP 21: Night of the Lepus
Janet Leigh as: Gerry Bennett
Genre: Horror, Science Fiction
Release: 1972
Giant mutant rabbits terrorize the southwest!!
TOP 20: Jet Pilot
Janet Leigh as: Lt. Anna Marladovna Shannon / Olga Orlief
Genre: Action, Drama
Release: 1957
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.
TOP 19: Prince Valiant
Janet Leigh as: Princess Aleta
Genre: Adventure
Release: 1954
A young Viking prince strives to become a knight in King Arthur's Court and restore his exiled father to his rightful throne.
TOP 18: Bye Bye Birdie
Janet Leigh as: Rosie DeLeon
Genre: Comedy, Music
Release: 1963
A singer goes to a small town for a performance before he is drafted.
TOP 17: Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
Janet Leigh as: Norma Watson
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Release: 1998
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.
TOP 16: Pepe
Janet Leigh as: Janet Leigh
Genre: Comedy, Music
Release: 1960
Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno is a hired hand, Pepe, employed on a ranch. A boozing Hollywood director buys a white stallion that belongs to Pepe's boss. Pepe, determined to get the horse back (as he considers it his family), decides to take off to Hollywood. There he meets film stars including Jimmy Durante, Frank Sinatra, Zsa Zsa Gabór, Bing Crosby, Maurice Chevalier and Jack Lemmon in drag as Daphne from Some Like It Hot. He is also surprised by things that were new in America at the time, such as automatic swinging doors. When he finally reaches the man who bought the horse, he is led to believe there is no hope of getting it back. However, the last scene shows both him and the stallion back at the ranch with several foals.
TOP 15: Hitchcock
Janet Leigh as: (archive footage)
Genre: Drama
Release: 2012
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.
TOP 14: Houdini
Janet Leigh as: Bess Houdini
Genre: Drama, Romance, History
Release: 1953
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.
TOP 13: Harper
Janet Leigh as: Susan Harper
Genre: Crime
Release: 1966
Harper is a cynical private eye in the best tradition of Bogart. He even has Bogie's Baby hiring him to find her missing husband, getting involved along the way with an assortment of unsavory characters and an illegal-alien smuggling ring.
TOP 12: The Fog
Janet Leigh as: Kathy Williams
Genre: Horror
Release: 1980
Strange things begin to occurs as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. Malone stumbles upon a dark secret about the town's founding; radio announcer Stevie witnesses a mystical fire; and hitchhiker Elizabeth discovers the mutilated corpse of a fisherman. Then a mysterious iridescent fog descends upon the village, and more people start to die.
TOP 11: Act of Violence
Janet Leigh as: Edith Enley
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Release: 1948
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.
TOP 10: Holiday Affair
Janet Leigh as: Connie Ennis
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 1949
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.
TOP 9: The Naked Spur
Janet Leigh as: Lina Patch
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Western
Release: 1953
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.
TOP 8: The Vikings
Janet Leigh as: Morgana
Genre: Action, Adventure, History
Release: 1958
Einar, brutal son of Ragnar and future heir to his throne, tangles with Eric, a wily slave, for the hand of a beautiful English maiden.
TOP 7: Scaramouche
Janet Leigh as: Aline de Gavrillac de Bourbon
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Release: 1952
In 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend's murder.
TOP 6: And the Oscar Goes To...
Genre: Documentary, TV Movie
Release: 2014
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed "Oscar," and quickly came to represent the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.
TOP 5: Little Women
Janet Leigh as: Meg
Genre: Romance, Drama, Family
Release: 1949
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.
TOP 4: 78/52
Janet Leigh as: Herself (Archival Footage)
Genre: Documentary
Release: 2017
The most famous murder scene in movie history comprises 78 camera settings and 52 cuts: the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. 78/52 tells the story of the man behind the curtain and his greatest obsession.
TOP 3: The Manchurian Candidate
Janet Leigh as: Eugenie Rose Chaney
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Mystery
Release: 1962
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.
TOP 2: Touch of Evil
Janet Leigh as: Susan 'Susie' Vargas
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Release: 1958
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.
TOP 1: Psycho
Janet Leigh as: Marion Crane
Genre: Horror, Drama, Thriller
Release: 1960
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.