Movies like The Birds
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The Birds (1963)
219K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Chic socialite Melanie Daniels enjoys a passing flirtation with an eligible attorney in a San Francisco pet shop and, on an impulse, follows him to his hometown bearing a gift of lovebirds. But upon her arrival, the bird population runs amok. Suddenly, the townsfolk face a massive avian onslaught, with the feathered fiends inexplicably attacking people all over Bodega Bay.
Style:
classic horror, dark, suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller, natural horror, cerebral, intense, psychological, retro ...
Audience:
horror for children
Plot:
bird, bird attack, disaster, paranoia, animal attack, killer animal, small town, lawyer, seagull, unsolved mystery, teacher, creature feature, dangerous animal, violent, survival, school, rescue, brother sister relationship, death of friend, gas station, birthday party, supernatural, murder, danger, beast ...
Time:
20th century, year 1963, 60s, 1960s
Place:
california, san francisco, bay area
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Most similar movies to The Birds
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspenseful, psychological and suspense films with plots about macabre, supernatural, danger, death, blood, monster and catastrophe mostly in Horror, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Birds: Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010), What Lies Beneath (2000), Dark Water (2005), The Innocents (1961), Marnie (1964). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A platoon of eagles and vultures attacks the residents of a small town. Many people die. It's not known what caused the flying menace to attack. Two people manage to fight back, but will they survive Birdemic?
Style:
surreal, suspenseful, atmospheric, scary, serious ...
Plot:
bird attack, bird, animal attack, driving, confined, survival, danger, couples, evacuation, family relations, small town, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Birds go berserk and turn against mankind.
Style:
natural horror, dark, psychological, serious, scary ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
killer animal, bird attack, bird, animal attack, creature, exploitation, insect, nature, villain, lighthouse, death of son, confined ...
Time:
90s, year 1994
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
When Claire Spencer starts hearing ghostly voices and seeing spooky images, she wonders if an otherworldly spirit is trying to contact her. All the while, her husband tries to reassure her by telling her it's all in her head. But as Claire ...
Style:
suspense, surprise ending, sexy, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, couple relations, supernatural horror, woman in danger, danger, haunted by the past, infidelity, supernatural, couples, adultery, psychology ...
Time:
year 2000, 90s, 20th century, 2000s
Place:
vermont, persia, usa, boston
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Dahlia Williams and her daughter Cecelia move into a rundown apartment on New York's Roosevelt Island. She is currently in midst of divorce proceedings and the apartment, though near an excellent school for her daughter, is all she can afford. ...
Style:
psychological, creepy, dark, disturbing, stylized ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
supernatural horror, ghost, haunted, imaginary friend, mother daughter relationship, divorce, haunted house, spirit, fear, evil child, starting over, danger ...
Time:
year 2000, 70s, year 1974, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, usa, seattle, washington state ...
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted.
Style:
gothic, dark, creepy, scary, gothic horror ...
Plot:
haunted, supernatural, haunting, old mansion, macabre, children, hide and seek, ghost story, haunted house, schizophrenia, insanity, paranoid ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s, year 1961, 1860s ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, london
Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Marnie is a beautiful kleptomaniac who is in love with businessman Mark Rutland. Marnie who is a compulsive thief is being watched by her new boss Mark who suspects her of stealing from him and thus decides to blackmail her in the most unusual way. ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, enigmatic, sexual, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
twists and turns, kleptomania, sexualized violence, sexual abuse, obsession, psychology, robbery, employer employee relationship, psychoanalysis, horse ranch, compulsive liar, rape ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
philadelphia, baltimore, new jersey, maryland, usa ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh start is interrupted by visions of a fiendish ...
Style:
atmospheric, cult classic, dark, gothic, creepy ...
Plot:
carnival, afterlife, female protagonist, ghost, supernatural, car accident, surrealism, nervous breakdown, american horror, boarding house, spirit, coffee ...
Time:
year 1962
Place:
salt lake city utah, utah, usa, kansas
Similarity:
35%
418K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A woman and a pair of children are blindfolded and make their way through a post-apocalyptic setting along a river.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
survival, end of the world, epidemic, creature, fear, blindness, post apocalypse, characters murdered one by one, pursuit, survival horror, dystopia, parents and children ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
35%
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651K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
Style:
suspense, scary, disturbing, visually stunning, frightening ...
Audience:
date night, family friendly, teens, adult
Plot:
creature, post apocalypse, sign language, monster, survival, creature feature, silence, survival horror, deafness, fear, alien invasion, self sacrifice ...
Time:
2010s, near future, distant future, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
new york state
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An artist in crisis is haunted by nightmares from the past in Ingmar Bergman's only horror film, which takes place on a windy island. During "the hour of the wolf" - between midnight and dawn - he tells his wife about his most painful ...
Style:
gothic, creepy, atmospheric, surreal, black and white ...
Plot:
surrealism, macabre, insanity, nightmare, artist, island, isolation, insomnia, existentialism, obsession, mental illness, homosexual subtext ...
Time:
year 1968, 60s, 20th century
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe, europe, germany
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When the Solomons trade in the craziness of big-city life for the quiet of a North Dakota farm, little do they expect the nightmare that follows. Soon after arriving, teenage Jess (Kristen Stewart) and her younger brother see terrifying apparitions ...
Style:
psychological, scary, horrifying, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, murder, supernatural, haunted, death threat, uncover truth, haunted by the past, family in danger, family problems, psychopath, family life ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
north dakota, chicago
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Joseph and his family live in the remote wilderness as fur trappers but their tranquility starts to be threatened when they think are being hunted by the return of a rogue wolf and Joseph leaves them behind to track it.
Style:
suspense, psychological, scary, tense, serious ...
Plot:
beast, wolf, serial killer, dead body, animal attack, creature feature, trapper, woods, dog, creature, death, survival ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
34%
142K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Gang-du is a dim-witted man working at his father's tiny snack bar near the Han River. One day, Gang-du's one and only daughter Hyun-seo comes back from school irritated. She is angry at her uncle, Nam-il, who visited her school as her ...
Style:
suspense, scary, dark, splatter, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
monster, giant monster, fear, dark humor, macabre, animal attack, daughter, giant creature, environment, beast, deadly creature, creature feature ...
Time:
year 2002, year 2006, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
south korea, east asia, asia, seoul, korea ...
Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
On the last working day of Sheriff Wayne, his small town is attacked by blood thirsty ravens that eat human flesh. Meanwhile his wife Cynthia visits a farm where a Mennonite family lives to say farewell to her friend Gretchen and discloses a dark ...
Style:
rough, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
bird attack, bird, small town, raven, corpse, diner, danger, misfit, amish, curse, deadly creature, social relations ...
Similarity:
34%
44K
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Psychological horror about a lonely young woman traumatized by a difficult childhood, and her increasingly desperate attempts to connect with the people around her.
Style:
psychological, gothic, creepy, bloody, dark ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
serial killer, mental illness, imaginary friend, psychopath, female psychopath, childhood trauma, insanity, dangerous attraction, violence, dark humor, murder, doll ...
Time:
year 2000, year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After her lousy stepfather steals her savings to buy a vicious tiger, Kelly loses all hope of going to college. But Kelly's situation worsens when a hurricane leaves her and her autistic brother boarded up in their house with the man-eating ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
animal attack, autism, wild animal, dangerous animal, trapped, tiger, killer animal, home invasion, danger, creature feature, woman in danger, hurricane ...
Time:
jurassic, 21st century
Similarity:
34%
22K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Tricia's husband Daniel has been missing for seven years. Her younger sister Callie comes to live with her as the pressure mounts to finally declare him 'dead in absentia.' As Tricia sifts through the wreckage and tries to move on ...
Style:
psychological horror, horrifying, psychological thriller, spooky, creepy ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
missing husband, tunnel, missing person, grief, cosmic horror, evil force, woman in danger, investigator, presumed dead, hopes, back from the dead, creature ...
Time:
year 2011, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
34%
187K
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Sidney Prescott, now the author of a self-help book, returns home to Woodsboro on the last stop of her book tour. There she reconnects with Sheriff Dewey and Gale, who are now married, as well as her cousin Jill and her Aunt Kate. Unfortunately, ...
Style:
scary, slasher, suspense, creepy, teen horror ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
serial killer, masked killer, mystery killer, serial murder, high school, telephone call, woman in danger, killer, gory, closeted homosexual, high school student, revenge ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In 1994, a group of teenagers discovers that the terrifying events which have haunted their town for generations ​are all connected — and that they may be the next targets.
Style:
slasher, suspense, perverse, queer horror, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
murder, teenager, supernatural, lesbian, serial killer, witch, lesbian teen, lgbt, alter ego, killer, terror, masked killer ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s, 2020s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
34%
154K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When paleontologist Kate Lloyd travels to an isolated outpost in Antarctica for the expedition of a lifetime, she joins an international team that unearths a remarkable discovery. Their elation quickly turns to fear as they realize that their ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, suspense, atmospheric, serious ...
Audience:
date night, boys' night, adult
Plot:
monster, gory, alien, deadly creature, alien invasion, blood, evil alien, body horror, survival horror, chase, survival, alien encounter ...
Time:
2010s, 80s, year 2011, future, year 1982 ...
Place:
antarctica
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Francis Barnard goes to Spain, when he hears his sister Elizabeth has died. Her husband Nicholas Medina, the son of the most brutal torturer of the Spanish Inquisition, tells him she has died of a blood disease, but Francis finds this hard to ...
Style:
gothic horror, gothic, scary, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
spanish inquisition, castle, torture, murder, insanity, vengeance, investigation, inquisition, monster, macabre, gory, edgar allan poe ...
Time:
middle ages, 15th century, 16th century, medieval times, 14th century ...
Place:
europe, spain
Similarity:
34%
49K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A young teacher discovers that her troubled student's father and younger brother harbor a deadly supernatural secret. Taking the boy into her care, the teacher must fight for their survival against horrors beyond imagination.
Style:
scary, suspense, slasher, unusual plot structure, suspenseful ...
Plot:
creature, wendigo, monster, abuse, folk horror, superstition, native american, school bully, killing spree, child neglect, brother brother relationship, evil spirit ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
oregon
Similarity:
34%
81K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Three young people on a road trip from Colorado to New Jersey talk to a trucker on their CB radio, then must escape when he turns out to be a psychotic killer.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, psychological, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult, teen drama
Plot:
kidnapping, truck driver, truck, prank, twists and turns, paranoia, psychopath, brother brother relationship, torture, brutality, road trip, trap ...
Time:
year 2001, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, north america, colorado, salt lake city utah, nebraska ...
Similarity:
34%
Movie in collections
371K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other people. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten ...
Style:
twist ending, psychological, bad ending, atmospheric, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, monster, apocalypse, stephen king, creature, fear, trapped, twists and turns, survival horror, cosmic horror, chaos and mayhem, death ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, distant future, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
usa, maine
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The story of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
Style:
black and white, minimal cast, suspense, gothic horror, mysterious ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
isolation, nightmare, lighthouse keeper, lighthouse, drunkenness, symbolism, hallucination, fight, storm, madness, violence, bird ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, 90s, year 2019, victorian era ...
Place:
new england, nova scotia, canada
Similarity:
33%
151K
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
When Rebecca left home, she thought she left her childhood fears behind. Growing up, she was never really sure of what was and wasn’t real when the lights went out…and now her little brother, Martin, is experiencing the same unexplained and ...
Style:
dark, creepy, suspenseful, scary, spooky ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, paranormal, supernatural, macabre, child in peril, mental illness, darkness, brother sister relationship, haunted, depression, paranormal phenomena, sibling relationship ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
Similarity:
33%
36K
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
From the director of Wolf Creek comes this terrifying look at nature's perfect killing machine. When a group of tourists stumble into the remote Australian river territory of an enormous crocodile, the deadly creature traps them on a tiny mud ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, scenic, natural horror ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
crocodile, animal attack, monster, creature, dangerous animal, survival horror, gory, killer animal, river, isolation, creature feature, disaster ...
Time:
jurassic, 70s, 21st century
Place:
australia, oceania
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.
Style:
suspense, scary, suspenseful, apocalyptic, disturbing ...
Audience:
family friendly, date night, teens, adult
Plot:
post apocalypse, creature, deaf, monster, alien, survival horror, silence, survival, alien creature, alien invasion, deafness, alien monster ...
Time:
near future, future, 2010s, 2020s
Place:
usa, new york, atlantic ocean, new york state, america
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Once an architect, Frank Bannister now passes himself off as an exorcist of evil spirits. To bolster his facade, he claims his "special" gift is the result of a car accident that killed his wife. But what he does not count on is more ...
Style:
scary, black comedy, dark comedy, horror comedy, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, horror for children, adult
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, serial killer, haunted house, dark humor, funeral, psychic, supernatural ability, violence, architect, car accident, death of wife ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 1800s, 1950s, 70s
Place:
oklahoma city, oceania, usa, california
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A seductive alien prowls the streets of Glasgow in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell.
Style:
surreal, creepy, dark, cult classic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
alien, extraterrestrial, human prey, disguise, femme fatale, nudity, seduction, nightclub, creature, deformity, arthouse horror, female nudity ...
Time:
future, 2010s, year 2013, year 2014, 21st century
Place:
scotland, glasgow scotland, europe
Similarity:
33%
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