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{{Short description|American film distributor}}
{{Infobox company
| name             = Janus Films
| logo             = [[Image:Janus films logo.jpg|250px|Janus Films logo from [[Seven Samurai]] 1956]]
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| type             = [[Privately held company|Private]]
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| foundation       = {{start date and age|1956}}<br />[[Cambridge, Massachusetts]]
| founder          = [[Bryant Haliday]]<br>[[Cyrus Harvey Jr.]]
| location_city    = [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]]
| location_country = [[United States|U.S.]]
| key_people       = [[Saul J. Turell]]<br>[[William J. Becker]]
| industry         = [[Film distributor|Motion picture distribution]]
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| services         = 
| revenue          = $6.1 million [[United States dollar|USD]] <small>(2007)</small>
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| owner            = [[Steven Rales]]
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| homepage         = [http://www.janusfilms.com/ www.janusfilms.com]
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}}
'''Janus Films''' is an American [[Film distributor|film distribution]] company. The distributor is credited with introducing numerous films, now considered masterpieces of world cinema, to American audiences, including the films of [[Michelangelo Antonioni]], [[Sergei Eisenstein]], [[Ingmar Bergman]], [[Federico Fellini]], [[Akira Kurosawa]], [[Satyajit Ray]], [[François Truffaut]], [[Yasujirō Ozu]] and many other well-regarded directors. Ingmar Bergman's ''[[The Seventh Seal]]'' (1957) was the film responsible for the company's initial growth.<ref>{{cite web|title=Introduction To Janus Films 50th Anniversary|url=http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/141976%7C0/Janus-Films-50th-Anniversary.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304135507/http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/141976%7C0/Janus-Films-50th-Anniversary.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 4, 2016|work=TCM Turner Classic Movies|publisher=Turner Entertainment Networks, Inc. A Time Warner Company|access-date=26 April 2012|author=Roger Fristoe|year=2012}}</ref>

Janus has a close business relationship with [[The Criterion Collection]] regarding the release of its films on [[DVD]] and [[Blu-ray]] and is still an active theatrical distributor.

The company's name and [[logo]] come from [[Janus]], the two-faced [[Roman mythology|Roman god]] of transitions, passages, beginnings, and endings.