
Movies that feel likeThe Birds (1963)
If you loved The Birds, the closest films we have are What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), Psycho (1960) and The Omen (1976). All three share The Birds' dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Black Cat (1934).
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If The Birds hit the spot, these will too

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

Alfred Hitchcock working the same nerve twice
The difference: Sits closer to mystery than The Birds does

Horror built on tension, twice over

Thriller with a pulse of dread, in both cases

Unsettling horror, and it commits to that
The difference: Made in the 1930s, in a different era of the craft

Both lean on tension more than on thriller
The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

Unsettling thriller in both cases


The same horror instincts
The difference: Leans harder into crime than The Birds does


Both are horror through and through
The difference: Trades the tension of The Birds for an angle of its own
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