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1. Amsterdam (2022)

R | 134 min | Comedy, Drama, History

In the 1930s, three friends witness a murder, are framed for it, and uncover one of the most outrageous plots in American history.

Director: David O. Russell | Stars: Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, John David Washington, Alessandro Nivola

Votes: 94,221

2. Rio (2011)

G | 96 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

When Blu, a domesticated macaw from small-town Minnesota, meets the fiercely independent Jewel, he takes off on an adventure to Rio de Janeiro with the bird of his dreams.

Director: Carlos Saldanha | Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, George Lopez, Karen Disher

Votes: 249,777 | Gross: $143.62M

3. The Birds (1963)

PG-13 | 119 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette

Votes: 205,377 | Gross: $11.40M

4. Fly Away Home (1996)

PG | 107 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

A father and daughter decide to attempt to lead a flock of orphaned Canada Geese south by air.

Director: Carroll Ballard | Stars: Jeff Daniels, Anna Paquin, Dana Delany, Terry Kinney

Votes: 27,214 | Gross: $24.51M

5. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)

GP | 96 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

An American expatriate in Rome attempts to unmask a serial killer he witnessed in the act of an attempted murder - and is now hunting him and his girlfriend.

Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall, Enrico Maria Salerno, Eva Renzi

Votes: 24,230 | Gross: $0.42M

6. Compulsion (1959)

Approved | 103 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Two wealthy law-school students go on trial for murder in this version of the Leopold-Loeb case.

Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Orson Welles, Dean Stockwell, Diane Varsi, Bradford Dillman

Votes: 7,538

7. The Woodsman (2004)

R | 87 min | Drama

A child molester returns to his hometown after 12 years in prison and attempts to start a new life.

Director: Nicole Kassell | Stars: Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, Yasiin Bey, David Alan Grier

Votes: 35,444 | Gross: $0.04M

8. God Help the Girl (2014)

Unrated | 112 min | Drama, Music, Romance

As Eve begins writing songs as a way to sort through some emotional problems, she meets James and Cassie, two musicians each at crossroads of their own.

Director: Stuart Murdoch | Stars: Emily Browning, Olly Alexander, Hannah Murray, Pierre Boulanger

Votes: 9,252 | Gross: $0.10M

9. The Ornithologist (2016)

Unrated | 117 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery

Fernando, a solitary ornithologist, is looking for black storks when he is swept away by the rapids. Rescued by a couple of Chinese pilgrims, he plunges into an eerie and dark forest, trying to get back on his track.

Director: João Pedro Rodrigues | Stars: Paul Hamy, João Pedro Rodrigues, Xelo Cagiao, Han Wen

Votes: 3,769 | Gross: $0.05M

10. Continental Divide (1981)

PG | 103 min | Comedy, Romance

A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher.

Director: Michael Apted | Stars: John Belushi, Blair Brown, Allen Garfield, Carlin Glynn

Votes: 5,656 | Gross: $15.58M

11. Wind Across the Everglades (1958)

Approved | 93 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

An ornithologist battles a family of bird poachers in the Florida Everglades.

Directors: Nicholas Ray, Budd Schulberg | Stars: Burl Ives, Christopher Plummer, Chana Eden, Gypsy Rose Lee

Votes: 1,273

12. Firestorm (1998)

R | 89 min | Action, Thriller

Firefighter Jesse Graves has to save ornithologist Jennifer and other people caught in a forest fire, which was set up by the lawyer of convicted killer Earl Shaye, who escaped from the ... See full summary »

Director: Dean Semler | Stars: Howie Long, Scott Glenn, William Forsythe, Suzy Amis

Votes: 4,340 | Gross: $8.04M

13. Birdemic 3: Sea Eagle (2022)

83 min | Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi

A flock of sea eagles attack the coastal town of Santa Cruz, California. Why did the birds attack? Who will survive?

Director: James Nguyen | Stars: Ryan Lord, Julia Culbert, Marc DeNola, Alan Bagh

Votes: 419

14. Rare Birds (2001)

R | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

A down-and-out restaurateur and his neighbor hatch a plan to lure luminaries to their small Newfoundland town.

Director: Sturla Gunnarsson | Stars: William Hurt, Andy Jones, Molly Parker, Vicky Hynes

Votes: 1,782

15. Away and Back (2015 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Hostility turns into something else between a widowed farmer and a pushy ornithologist who came to his farm to save a family of swans.

Director: Jeff Bleckner | Stars: Jason Lee, Minka Kelly, Maggie Elizabeth Jones, Jaren Lewison

Votes: 1,598

16. Zombie 5: Killing Birds (1988)

Not Rated | 92 min | Horror, Mystery

A group of college students go into the woods to study birds. They encounter a strange blind man who's connected to the killer zombies that prowl a dilapidated house deep in the forest.

Directors: Claudio Lattanzi, Joe D'Amato | Stars: Lara Wendel, Robert Vaughn, Timothy W. Watts, Leslie Cumming

Votes: 1,903

17. Adam & Steve (2005)

R | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Follows two New York City couples, one heterosexual and one gay, who explore the peaks and the valleys of their respective relationships.

Director: Craig Chester | Stars: Craig Chester, Malcolm Gets, Parker Posey, Chris Kattan

Votes: 3,281 | Gross: $0.31M

18. Journey of My Heart (2021 TV Movie)

TV-G | 83 min | Romance

A wildlife biologist named Abby travels to a remote part of Alaska where she befriends and receives life advice from a Native American family and finds true love in the process.

Director: Lucie Guest | Stars: Rhiannon Fish, Darien Martin, Grace Dove, Paul C. Grenier

Votes: 745

19. Cold Zone (2017)

Unrated | 85 min | Action, Sci-Fi

A storm is coming. No one could predict it. No one can measure it.Now one family must survive it. You can't come in from the cold.

Director: John MacCarthy | Stars: Martin Cummins, Lauren K. Robek, Nick Purcha, Sarah Desjardins

Votes: 1,080

20. Leo the Last (1970)

R | 104 min | Drama, Comedy

A social satire about the last heir of a dethroned family of European monarchs whose plans to return to power through revolution become secondary after he becomes fascinated by the life of a poor London black girl and her boyfriend.

Director: John Boorman | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Billie Whitelaw, Calvin Lockhart, Glenna Forster-Jones

Votes: 675

21. Love and Death in the Garden of the Gods (1972)

90 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

An old professor rents a mysterious old villa, and finds a tape recorded by a previous occupant, detailing her debauched lifestyle and the events leading to her murder.

Director: Sauro Scavolini | Stars: Erika Blanc, Peter Lee Lawrence, Ezio Marano, Rosario Borelli

Votes: 442

22. Days and Nights (2014)

Unrated | 92 min | Comedy, Drama

Reckless desire wreaks havoc over Memorial Day weekend as a family confronts the volatile and fragile nature of love. Inspired by Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull," set in rural New England in 1984.

Director: Christian Camargo | Stars: Katie Holmes, William Hurt, Allison Janney, Jean Reno

Votes: 1,123 | Gross: $0.01M

23. Fast Sofa (2001)

R | 109 min | Adventure, Drama

Rick loses his girlfriend to his friend when he spends a night with his favorite porn star. He moves out, picks up a weirdo and goes on a wild road trip to find the porn star again.

Director: Salomé Breziner | Stars: Jake Busey, Crispin Glover, Natasha Lyonne, Adam Goldberg

Votes: 963

24. The Other Fellow (2022)

80 min | Documentary, Biography, Thriller

A film about Men, Real Men. Named James Bond.

Director: Matthew Bauer | Stars: Gunnar James Bond Schäfer, James Alexander Bond, James Bond Jr., Gregory Itzin

Votes: 189

25. Anveshana (1985)

113 min | Mystery, Thriller

The story of an Ornithologist and a Police investigator coming to a forest and trying to solve the mystery of a series of killings allegedly by a man-eating tiger.

Director: Vamsy | Stars: Bhanupriya, Karthik, Kaikala Satyanarayana, Sarath Babu

Votes: 360

26. The Birdwatcher (2015)

89 min | Drama

The Birdwatcher is the story of Saffron, a single mother of two, who after being diagnosed with cancer, embarks on a journey to re-connect with her estranged birth mother in the hopes of finding a home for her children when she is gone.

Director: Siobhan Devine | Stars: Camille Sullivan, Jakob Davies, Matreya Fedor, Nneka Croal

Votes: 43

27. La educación de las hadas (2006)

103 min | Drama, Romance

A happily married woman with an eight-year-old son suddenly decides to end her relationship with her second husband. His son thinks only a fairy can save their marriage. But do fairies exist?

Director: José Luis Cuerda | Stars: Ricardo Darín, Irène Jacob, Bebe, Víctor Valdivia

Votes: 921

28. The Hide (2008)

Not Rated | 82 min | Thriller

On the windswept Suffolk mudflats creaks a bird-hide, inside which hovers Roy Tunt, a prematurely aged, mildly obsessive-compulsive birder. With one more sighting - the elusive sociable ... See full summary »

Director: Marek Losey | Stars: Alex Macqueen, Phil Campbell, Laura Hopwood, Howard Ward

Votes: 4,632

29. The Flying Serpent (1946)

Approved | 59 min | Horror

The demented archaeologist Dr. Andrew Forbes discovers a living, breathing serpent-creature known to the Aztecs as Quetzalcoatl, the Killer Bird God. Tragically, he causes his wife's death ... See full summary »

Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: George Zucco, Ralph Lewis, Hope Kramer, Eddie Acuff

Votes: 566

30. As the Crow Flies (2021)

18 min | Short, Drama

The closeted small-town delinquent Mathias is shaken by the arrival of a charismatic Swedish ornithologist who is passing through to study the local birdlife.

Director: Michael Søndergaard | Stars: Viktor Flarkell, Lasse Steen, Charlotte Munck, Andreas Bromand Hansen

31. The first Gentleman (2021)

121 min | Comedy

A zoologist and expert on birds is on a trip to an isolated locale to study the native species. He is expected to be in relative isolation given his destination. His wife is the leader of a... See full summary »

Director: Hayato Kawai | Stars: Shihori Kanjiya, Ainosuke Kataoka, Hôka Kinoshita, Ittoku Kishibe

Votes: 97

32. Birdsong (I) (2022)

3 min | Animation, Short

A man's obsession with a Kauai o o, a now extinct Hawaiian singing bird.

Director: Michelle Cheng | Stars: James Cheek, Maddie Rivera

Votes: 12

33. Birds Are Singing in Kigali (2017)

113 min | Drama

In 1994 Rwanda, a Polish woman ornithologist saves a Tutsi girl from certain death. After a few years they both revisit Africa on an emotional journey full of painful memories.

Directors: Joanna Kos-Krauze, Krzysztof Krauze | Stars: Jowita Budnik, Eliane Umuhire, Witold Wielinski, Ciza Remy Muhirwa

Votes: 345

34. La decente (1971)

98 min | Comedy

Nuria is a beautiful woman who has decided to become a widow, because she is fed up with her husband, With the help of two former suitors Roberto Clavijo, and Pepe Orozco, Nuria devises a plan to kill him.

Director: José Luis Sáenz de Heredia | Stars: Concha Velasco, Alfredo Landa, José Luis López Vázquez, Fernando Guillén

Votes: 78

35. The Bird Watcher (2000)

84 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

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Director: Gabriel Auer | Stars: Thom Hoffman, Inês de Medeiros, Catherine de Seynes, Javier Cruz

Votes: 30

36. Mala uva (2004)

Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy

César, vigorous in his 60s, runs a vineyard near Barcelona. The week he learns his vines have worms, a former associate calls: César is a retired hit man and the call blackmails into one ... See full summary »

Director: Javier Domingo | Stars: Sancho Gracia, Ágata Lys, Enrique Martínez, Fernando Aguilar

Votes: 77

37. Custard's World: Kea Kaha (2020 TV Special)

22 min | Short, Adventure

Stirred by Custard and Buzz putting together their family tree, orphaned Kea travels down to Queenstown, New Zealand, in a bid to find his family and why he was abandoned by them.

Director: Rajneel Singh | Stars: Jon Coddington, Kelly Gilbride, Terry Hooper, Paul Lewis

38. Soñando con alas. Un historia de locos por las aves (2019)

Documentary

"Soñando con alas" addresses a growing worldwide phenomenon in which people with very different lives, living in very different places, feel a common passion for bird watching, thei ... See full summary »

Directors: Germán Pinelo Castro, Juan José Ramos Melo | Stars: Carlos Lozano Robledo, Daniel López Velasco, Ana Miranda de Lage, Juan Ramírez Román

39. Humorous Flights (1929)

10 min | Short, Comedy

Naturalist Stewart lectures on bird mating habits and other wonders of ornithology.

Director: Fred Fleck | Stars: Donald Ogden Stewart, Sarah Edwards

Votes: 23

40. Ian Fleming: The CBC Interview (2006 Video)

8 min | Short

Abridged version of the final interview with James Bond creator Ian Fleming at Goldeneye, Jamaica.

Stars: Ian Fleming, Munroe Scott

Votes: 17

41. Birds Make Sport (1946)

Approved | 9 min | Short, Family, Sport

Noted sports writer and ornithologist John Kieran provides the commentary on this short that includes rare slo-mo (at-the-time)studies of the tiny hummingbird, and highlights of the ostrich... See full summary »

Director: Jack Eaton | Stars: John Kieran, Jimmy the Crow

42. Songbird (2018 Video)

10 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy

Songbird is a fairytale with a dark heart. You will be transported to the island of Kauai in 1984. Here, you are invited to search for the last known 'o'o, an iconic black bird with yellow ... See full summary »

Director: Lucy Greenwell | Stars: Siân Phillips, Jim Jacobi

43. Dneprovskiy veter (1976 TV Movie)

64 min | Drama

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Directors: Vladimir Denisenko, Vasiliy Ilyashenko | Stars: Irina Doroshenko, Vladimir Alekseyenko, Konstantin Artyomenko, Ivan Gavrilyuk

44. Derrick (1974–1998)
Episode: Mama Kaputtke (1998)

58 min | Crime, Drama

An ornithologist captured the screams of a dying woman.Lizy Kraus lived with her brother Paul and her sister Gabriele.Her mother, called Mama Kaputtke, asked Stephan Derrick and Harry to find the murderer of her daughter.

Director: Alfred Weidenmann | Stars: Horst Tappert, Fritz Wepper, Willy Schäfer, Sonja Sutter

Votes: 52

45. The Forest Rangers (1963–1966)
Episode: Bird Watchers (1963)

26 min | Family

A professor leaves property to Zeke for a bird sanctuary.

Director: George McCowan | Stars: Graydon Gould, Rex Hagon, Ralph Endersby, Syme Jago

46. Everglades! (1961–1962)
Episode: Fatal Information (1962)

30 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Linc and a pretty ornithologist become targets for the mob when the dying witness to a gangland killing tells a pair of hitmen that he told the lawman and scientist who the mob boss's killers were.

Director: John Florea | Stars: Ron Hayes, Frances Helm, Lonny Chapman, Ken Drake

47. Head Hunters (2019– )
Episode: Episode #1.25 (2019)

44 min | Game-Show

The questions facing today's contestants are from the categories number ones, animals, historical events, art, games, literature, film stars, space and European geography.

Director: Chris Power | Star: Rob Beckett

48. Beautiful Excursions (2006– )
Episode: Les couleurs de la Sologne (2019)

Documentary

A nice excursion of Sophie from Chambord and Yvoy-le-Marron ( the beekeeper and sheep breeder Nils Aucante, the visit of the castle, the double helix staircase, the beehives in the park of ... See full summary »

Director: Olivier Corre | Star: Sophie Jovillard

49. Escape to the Farm with Kate Humble (2020–2024)
Episode: Episode #2.7 (2021)

45 min | Documentary

Kate goes for a pre-dawn chorus walk with an ornithologist to hear the birdsong. She then takes expert forager Liz to hunt down wild garlic and in the farm kitchen, Kate uses rhubarb as a roasted accompaniment to grilled mackerel fillets.

Director: Ludo Graham | Star: Kate Humble

50. Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities (2022)
Episode: The Murmuring (2022)

TV-MA | 64 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Mourning a major loss, ornithologists Nancy and Edgar flock to a secluded home to study birds, but the house's history reveals heartbreak and horror.

Director: Jennifer Kent | Stars: Essie Davis, Andrew Lincoln, Greg Ellwand, Daxton William Lund

Votes: 7,472