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The Birds 120 minutes, USA (1963), 15
Average user rating (4.2 / 24 votes)

Tippie Hedren and Rod Taylor star in Alfred Hitchcock's profoundly unnerving psychodrama. In a small Californian town, birds gather then start attacking humans

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The Birds: Hitchcock's masterful suspense thriller has an ice blonde (Hedren) taking destiny into her own hands and pursuing Mitch Brenner (Taylor) to Bodega Bay. As in both Marnie and Psycho, the heroine is unsympathetic and brittle and disturbs the social order, ultimately inviting own destruction...
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