Highest-Rated Movies about 'Killing A Bird'

Kes (1969), The White Ribbon (2009), Lacombe, Lucien (1974), Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999), The Lighthouse (2019), The Horseman on the Roof (1995), Swiss Army Man (2016), Seom (2000) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Killing A Bird movies.

#1. Kes (1969)

Storyline: Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper (David Bradley), a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes. Helped and encouraged by his English teacher Mr. Farthing (Colin Welland) and his fellow students, Billy finally finds a positive purpose to his unhappy existence, until tragedy strikes.

Plot Keywords: british new wave, independent film, based on novel, bird, bully, child abuse, teacher ...

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#2. The White Ribbon (2009)

Storyline: From July, 1913 to the outbreak of World War I, a series of incidents take place in a German village. A horse trips on a wire and throws the rider; a woman falls to her death through rotted planks; the local baron's son is hung upside down in a mill; parents slap and bully their children; a man is cruel to his long-suffering lover; another sexually abuses his daughter. People disappear. A callow teacher, who courts a nanny in the baron's household, narrates the story and tries to investigate the connections among these accidents and crimes. What is foreshadowed? Are the children holy innocents? God may be in His heaven, but all is not right with the world; the center cannot hold.

Plot Keywords: year 1914, sexual abuse, repression, fatal accident, patriarchy, patriarch, verbal abuse ...

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#3. Lacombe, Lucien (1974)

Storyline: A small town in the south-west of France, summer of 1944. Having failed to join the resistance, the 18 year old Lucien Lacombe, whose father is a prisoner in Germany and whose mother dates her employer, works for the German police. He then meets France Horn, the daughter of a rich jewish tailor.—Vincent Merlaud <merlaud@studi.mathematik.hu-berlin.de>

Plot Keywords: france, year 1944, collaborator, based on true story, french resistance, occupation, moral ambiguity ...

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#4. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)

Storyline: A hitman who lives by the code of the samurai, works for the mafia and finds himself in their crosshairs when his recent job doesn't go according to plan. Now he must find a way to defend himself and his honor while retaining the code he lives by.

Plot Keywords: crime boss, honor, pigeon, hitman, african american, samurai, photograph ...

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#5. The Lighthouse (2019)

Storyline: As the wavering cry of the foghorn fills the air, the taciturn former lumberjack, Ephraim Winslow, and the grizzled lighthouse keeper, Thomas Wake, set foot in a secluded and perpetually grey islet off the coast of late-19th-century New England. For the following four weeks of back-breaking work and unfavourable conditions, the tight-lipped men will have no one else for company except for each other, forced to endure irritating idiosyncrasies, bottled-up resentment, and burgeoning hatred. Then, amid bad omens, a furious and unending squall maroons the pale beacon's keepers in the already inhospitable volcanic rock, paving the way for a prolonged period of feral hunger; excruciating agony; manic isolation, and horrible booze-addled visions. Now, the eerie stranglehold of insanity tightens. Is there an escape from the wall-less prison of the mind?—Nick Riganas

Plot Keywords: lighthouse, minimal cast, masturbation, hallucination, mermaid, drunkenness, storm ...

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#6. The Horseman on the Roof (1995)

Storyline: In 1832, cholera ravages Provence (South of France). After several misadventures, Angelo, young Italian officer hunted by the Austrian secret police, meets Pauline de Theus, a young lady. After a second accidental meeting, both will start the search of Pauline's husband in a chaotic country.—Remy Amouroux <Remy.Amouroux@imag.fr>

Plot Keywords: knight, escape, saving a life, prologue, horse and carriage, shot in the head, duel ...

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#7. Swiss Army Man (2016)

Storyline: Hank, stranded on a deserted island and about to kill himself, notices a corpse washed up on the beach. He befriends it, naming it Manny, only to discover that his new friend can talk and has a myriad of supernatural abilities...which may help him get home.

Plot Keywords: dead body, corpse, talking to a dead body, homoeroticism, island, flatulence, erection ...

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#8. Seom (2000)

Storyline: Mute Hee-Jin is working as a clerk in a fishing resort in the Korean wilderness; selling baits, food and occasionally her body to the fishing tourists. One day she falls in love to Hyun-Shik, who is on the run for the police and rescues him with a fish hook, when he tries to commit suicide.

Plot Keywords: suicide attempt, female nudity, fishing pole, guilt, investigation, island, madness ...

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#9. Apt Pupil (1998)

Storyline: Neighborhood boy Todd Bowden (Brad Renfro) discovers that an old man living on his block named Arthur Denker (Sir Ian Mackellan) is a Nazi war criminal. Bowden confronts Denker and offers him a deal: Bowden will not go to the authorities if Denker tells him stories of the concentration camps in World War II. Denker agrees and Bowden starts visiting him regularly. The more stories Bowden hears, the more it affects his personality.

Plot Keywords: nazi, blackmail, falling down stairs, basement, knife in back, tunnel, guidance counselor ...

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#10. The Third Murder (2017)

Storyline: Misumi has a criminal record dating back many years and is now under the spotlight again. It looks like an open and shut case, for Misumi has confessed to the new charge. Enter prominent lawyer Shigemori, who harbours other ideas, which could mean the difference between life and death.—aghaemi

Plot Keywords: japanese schoolgirl, school uniform, sailor uniform, queue, corrupt businessman, bowing, estranged father ...

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#11. 2 Guns (2013)

Storyline: Robert Trench, an undercover DEA agent, takes advantage of gunman Michael Stigman's idea to rob a bank to bust him and a mob boss. However, it proves too successful with much more money seized than anticipated with Trench's forces not stopping the getaway. Complicating things still more, Stigman turns out to be a Naval Intelligence agent who shoots Trench and takes the money. The interservice debacle suddenly finds Trench and Stigman in a bloody web of corrupt clandestine rivalries as they are hunted, blackmailed and isolated for the money on both sides of the law. Now, the fugitives must work together to find a way out of this situation with no one to turn to but themselves.

Plot Keywords: female nudity, cow, audi, brutality, killer, bank, undercover ...

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#13. The Shooting (1967)

Storyline: An ex- bounty hunter turned miner returns to his mine dig to find one of his partners dead, how brother has run away and the remaining partner is slightly simple and unclear as to what happened. warren is enlisted by a mysterious women to take her across the desert. The woman is strange and keeps changing her story about what she wants and why. On the journey they pick up a gunslinger the woman has hired. The party ends up tracking a rider who is ahead of them. Warren figures out that the trip is really to track down the rider. It's along hot trip across the desert with a purposeful woman,a homicidal gunslinger, the former bounty hunter and his simple sidekick and the unknown quarry.—Prairiekid

Plot Keywords: man murders a woman, tent, grave, scene during opening credits, telling someone to shut up, two word title, main character dies ...

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#14. Diary of a Madman (1963)

Storyline: Simon Cordier's a well-respected magistrate who visits a condemned prisoner, Louis Girot, just before his execution. Girot pleads his innocence insisting he's been taken over by a spirit which forced him to commit the crimes. Cordier doesn't believe him and the man suddenly dies. In the following days, Cordier must face a number of strange occurrences iand begins to wonder if he's now dealing with those same spirits.—garykmcd

Plot Keywords: art gallery, killing a bird, stabbed multiple times, severed head, passionate kiss, marital separation, pocket watch ...

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#15. Dead in a Week (2018)

Storyline: After another failed attempt to commit suicide, hapless writer William addresses the services of hired assassin Leslie, the inexorable angel of death from the Killers Guild, an organization that is ready to help anyone who needs a quick and painless death. Leslie has a good heart, but an unsteady hand. The authorities want to retire him, and the contract that has turned up is the only chance to postpone the inevitable. However, the case intervenes in the fortuity. The fate suddenly smiled to William: he falls in love.—Peter-Patrick76 (peter-patrick@mail.com)

Plot Keywords: attempted suicide, hitman, traumatized man, trauma, younger version of character, ice cream, orphan ...

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