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  • Psycho
  • Psycho review by from Halesowen, England
    Rated - 5.0 stars A lasting tribute to Hitchcock genius 1 February 2005
    ... Bates motel setting having been preserved, together with the quality acting of Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates, you will not be disappointed if you enjoyed the suspense of th...   Read customer review
  • Agatha Christie's Murder On The Orient Express
  • Agatha Christie's Murder On The Orient Express review by GraftheGreatest from London, England
    Rated - 5.0 stars Superb rendition of Christie's locomotive thriller! 19 May 2004
    ...nis Quilley, Vanessa Redgrave, Jacqueline Bisset, Michael York, Rachel Roberts, Anthony Perkins, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Sir John Gielgud & George Coulouris. It is Fi...   Read customer review
  • On The Beach
  • On The Beach review by from Kent
    Rated - 5.0 stars A masterpiece 11 September 2004
    ... In one of the final scenes I found it ironic that a fly momentarily lands on Anthony Perkins' shoulder before buzzing off. After all, aren't the insects the only things tha...   Read customer review

Anthony Perkins - filmography


  • Psycho 4: The Beginning on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Anthony Perkins,  Henry Thomas,  Olivia Hussey
    Director: Mick Garris
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    If you have ever wondered what really happened to Norman's mother, PSYCHO IV gives you the opportunity to discover the truth! We can now have a grisly insight into how young Norman (Henry Thomas) came to commit the ultimate crime - matricide. But the film doesn't stop there - it also brings us bang ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 408 members
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  • Edge Of Sanity on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Anthony Perkins,  Glynis Barber
    Director: Gerard Kikoine
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    London, 1888. Dr Jekyll is unable to sleep so he returns to his dark laboratory to resume his experiment with a powerful new drug. Energised by his new find, he becomes transformed, mentally and physically. Strong and reckless, free from all moral constraint, the monstrous doctor has become the ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 115 members
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  • Psycho 3 on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Anthony Perkins,  Diana Scarwid,  Jeff Fahey
    Director: Anthony Perkins
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Norman Bates is back! He's alive and well, and living with his mother at Bates Motel. 'Psycho III' a psychological thriller, is the second sequel to Hitchcock's masterpiece of terror and suspense starring Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates. Tracy is an investigative reporter who arrives at Bates Motel ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 598 members
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  • Crimes Of Passion on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Kathleen Turner,  Anthony Perkins,  John Laughlin
    Director: Ken Russell
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Ken Russell's sexual caricature finds an all-American man, who's trapped in a sexless marriage, falling in love with a businesswoman who turns into a hooker by night. A psychotic priest (Perkins) tries to prevent their union, driving the wedge between love and sex. A thoughtful, sometimes very ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 720 members
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  • Psycho 2 (1983)
    Starring: Anthony Perkins,  Vera Miles,  Meg Tilly
    Director: Richard Franklin
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Norman Bates is coming home after spending 22 years in a mental institution. He plans to renovate the old Bates Motel, the place where his first murders occurred.
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 685 members
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  • The Black Hole on DVD (1979)
    Starring: Maximilian Schell,  Anthony Perkins,  Robert Forster
    Director: Gary Nelson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A space crew travelling the cosmos runs into a long-missing craft, manned by Dr. Hans Reinhardt. Upon meeting Reinhardt, the astronauts discover that he is not only insane, but steadfast in his efforts to travel through a nearby "black hole", an abyss from which no one can escape. Matters worsen ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 2,243 members
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  • Remember My Name (1978)
    Starring: Geraldine Chaplin,  Anthony Perkins,  Moses Gunn
    Director: Alan Rudolph
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Just released from prison, a young woman arrives in town to "start a new life", but soon begins stalking a married construction worker for no apparent reason, turning his life inside out and eventually terrorizing him and his wife.
    3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
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  • Lovin' Molly on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Anthony Perkins,  Beau Bridges,  Blythe Danner
    Director: Sidney Lumet
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    This Sidney Lumet-directed film focuses on two brothers in a small town in Texas who both love Molly Taylor so much they share her for forty years. LOVIN' MOLLY is based on a novel by Larry McMurtry.
    2 stars out of 5 39% from 50 members
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  • Ten Days Wonder (1971)
    Starring: Anthony Perkins,  Michel Piccoli,  Marlène Jobert
    Director: Claude Chabrol
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Anthony Perkins, a young sculptor with a weird penchant for waking up in strange hotels with his memory wiped clean and bloodied hands, invites a former professor (Michel Piccoli) to the Gatsby-like provincial manor presided over by his powerful tycoon father (Orson Welles). Welcomed by Welles' ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 9 members
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  • Catch 22 on DVD (1970)
    Starring: Martin Balsam,  Richard Benjamin,  Anthony Perkins
    Director: Mike Nichols
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Director Mike Nichols and writer-actor Buck Henry followed their enormous hit The Graduate (1967) with this timely adaptation of Joseph Heller's satiric antiwar novel. Haunted by the death of a young gunner, all-too-sane Capt. Yossarian (Alan Arkin) wants out of the rest of his WW II bombing ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 3,343 members
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  • Pretty Poison on DVD (1968)
    Starring: Anthony Perkins,  Tuesday Weld,  Beverly Garland
    Director: Noel Black
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Easygoing but psychotic Dennis (Anthony Perkins) is released from jail, where he has served a sentence for his complicity in a suspicious death. Wandering through a small, working-class New England town, Dennis befriends apparently normal high school A-student Sue Ann (Tuesday Weld). He fills her ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 235 members
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  • Orson Welles - The Trial on DVD (1963)
    Starring: Anthony Perkins,  Jeanne Moreau,  Orson Welles
    Director: Orson Welles
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Orson Welles, director of Citizen Kane & Touch of Evil, directs and appears in Kafta's classic tale of an ordinary man trying to make sense ot a world that is governed by bizarrely inexplicable rules and giant unyielding machines of power.
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 478 members
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  • The Trial on DVD (1963)
    Starring: Anthony Perkins,  Jeanne Moreau,  Elsa Martinelli
    Director: Orson Welles
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    THE TRIAL is Orson Welles's claustrophobic adaptation of Franz Kafka's surreal tale of fear and paranoia in a nameless society. Tinged with background jazz, filmed in shadowy black and white--mostly with direct light--THE TRIAL looks like a classic film noir, with angled close-ups and characters ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 489 members
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  • Two are Guilty (1963)
    Starring: Anthony Perkins,  Jean-Claude Brialy,  Renato Salvatori
    Director: Andre Cayatte
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    On the French Riviera, the son of a wealthy local woman is kidnapped for ransom. The police soon begin an investigation into finding the boy and apprehending the assailants. The kidnappers manage to escape the clutches of the police, killing their victim in the process. The three men are eventually ..read more »
    1.5 stars out of 5 30% from 2 members
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  • Phaedra (1962)
    Starring: Melina Mercouri,  Raf Vallone,  Anthony Perkins
    Director: Jules Dassin
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Inspired by Euripedes' tragedy Hippolytus and set in modern times, this allegorical tale centers on the love triangle between a fabulously wealthy Greek shipping magnate, his lonely second wife, and his first-born son. The affair between the wife and her stepson begins soon after she arrives in ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
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  • Psycho on DVD (1960)
    Starring: Anthony Perkins,  Vera Miles,  John Gavin
    Director: Alfred Hitchcock
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Credited with inventing the genre of the modern horror film, PSYCHO has had its share of sequels and imitators, none of which diminishes the achievement of this shocking and complex horror thriller. Alfred Hitchcock's choreography of elements in PSYCHO is considered so perfect it inspired a shot-by-..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 24,981 members
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  • Psycho - Blu-ray (1960)
    Starring: Anthony Perkins,  Vera Miles,  John Gavin
    Director: Alfred Hitchcock
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Credited with inventing the genre of the modern horror film, PSYCHO has had its share of sequels and imitators, none of which diminishes the achievement of this shocking and complex horror thriller. Alfred Hitchcock's choreography of elements in PSYCHO is considered so perfect it inspired a shot-by-..read more »
    4.5 stars out of 5 85% from 139 members
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  • On The Beach on DVD (1959)
    Starring: Gregory Peck,  Ava Gardner,  Fred Astaire
    Director: Stanley Kramer
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Although there'd been doomsday dramas before it, Stanley Kramer's On the Beach was considered the first important entry in this genre when originally released in 1959. Based on the novel by Nevil Shute, the film is set in the future (1964) when virtually all life on earth has been exterminated by ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 1,050 member
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  • The Matchmaker on DVD (1958)
    Starring: Shirley Booth,  Anthony Perkins,  Shirley MacLaine
    Director: Joseph Anthony
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Endearing romantic comedy farce based on the Broadway play by Thornton Wilder, which was later more famously adapted into the 1964 musical 'Hello Dolly'. Shirley Booth stars as Dolly Levi, a 19th-century matchmaker who harbours a secret desire to get married herself. Shirley MacLaine, Paul Ford, ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 18 members
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  • The Tin Star on DVD (1957)
    Starring: Henry Fonda,  Betsy Palmer,  Anthony Perkins
    Director: Anthony Mann
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    When a small town's sheriff is murdered, inexperienced deputy Ben Owens (Anthony Perkins) steps in as a temporary replacement. Idealistic and eager to succeed, Owens enlists the services of ex-lawman turned bounty hunter Morg Hickman (Henry Ford) to help him grow into his new role. The cynical, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 155 members
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  • Friendly Persuasion (1956)
    Starring: Gary Cooper,  Dorothy McGuire,  Anthony Perkins
    Director: William Wyler
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Indiana, 1862. Quakers Jess and Eliza Birdwell (Gary Cooper and Dorothy McGuire) live on their family farm. There are only minor ruffles in their quiet life--youngest son, Little Jess, has a running battle with the pet goose, Samantha; Eliza disapproves when Jess turns their weekly buggy ride to ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 25 members
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  • The Actress (1953)
    Starring: Spencer Tracy,  Jean Simmons,  Teresa Wright
    Director: George Cukor
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    In 1914 Wallacestone (located outside of Boston), the Joneses are just making ends meet, and only if parents, Clinton and Annie, watch every cent that they spend. However, their seventeen year old daughter, Ruth, has no such concerns as she is single minded in her pursuit of wanting to become a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 1 member
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  • Desire Under The Elms on DVD
    Starring: Sophia Loren,  Anthony Perkins,  Burl Ives
    Director: Delbert Mann
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Delbert Mann's moody adaptation of the Eugene O'Neill tragedy which finds Ephraim Cabot (played by Burl Ives), owner of a New England farm in 1840. He has three grown-up sons by two different wives, both now dead. He's bought out the shares in the farm of two of his sons, but a third, Eben (played ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 55 members
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Anthony Perkins facts

5 most recent films

In The Deep Woods - 2.0 stars
Psycho 4: The Beginning - 3.0 stars
Daughter Of Darkness - 2.0 stars
Edge Of Sanity - 2.0 stars
Psycho 3 - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Psycho - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
Psycho - 3.5 stars
The Tin Star - 3.5 stars
The Trial - 3.5 stars
Orson Welles - The Trial - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Remember My Name - 3 stars
Phaedra - 3 stars
How Awful About Allan - 1.5 stars
Two are Guilty - 1.5 stars
Someone Behind the Door - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Martin Balsam - 6 times - show films
Vera Miles - 5 times - show films
John Gavin - 4 times - show films
Orson Welles - 4 times - show films
Janet Leigh - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Alfred Hitchcock - 4 times - show films
Berry Gordy - 2 times - show films
Nicolas Gessner - 2 times - show films
Stuart Gordon - 2 times - show films
Glenn Jordan - 2 times - show films