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10 Best Movies Like The Cuckoos

If you loved The Cuckoos, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Stunt Pilot

Stunt Pilot

1939★ 5.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Cuckoos for fans of Crime. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

The second of a series of four features Monogram made based on the comic strip by Hal Forrest (Universal also used the strip characters in two serials), finds a movie company shoot...

#2
The Shawshank Redemption

The Shawshank Redemption

1994★ 8.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Cuckoos for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting ski...

#3
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Cuckoos for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....

#4
The Dark Knight

The Dark Knight

2008★ 8.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Cuckoos for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations t...

#5
The Godfather

The Godfather

1972★ 8.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Cuckoos for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attemp...

#6
Schindler's List

Schindler's List

1993★ 8.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Cuckoos for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II....