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10 Best Movies Like The Cuckoo

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

#1
Live and Become

Live and Become

2005★ 7.4

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

In 1980, the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews and are secretly carried to Israel. The day before the transport the son of a Jewish mother dies. In his plac...

#2
Курорт. Провинциальная история Хэ

Курорт. Провинциальная история Хэ

2016★ 6.0

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

After a contract fight somewhere in the open spaces of Russia between St. Petersburg and Moscow, the top Moscow football hooligans return home to the capital with a victory. On the...

#3
Sarah's Key

Sarah's Key

2010★ 7.3

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

On the night of 16 July 1942, ten year old Sarah and her parents are being arrested and transported to the Velodrome d'Hiver in Paris where thousands of other jews are being sent t...

#4
Why Don't You Just Die!

Why Don't You Just Die!

2018★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Cuckoo for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Andrey, a detective and the world's most horrible father, brings together a terrible group of people in his apartment: his resentful actress daughter, an angry thug, and a cheated ...

#5
Cucuy: The Boogeyman

Cucuy: The Boogeyman

2018★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Cuckoo for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

When children start disappearing, a rebellious teen under house arrest starts to suspect that a legendary evil, a boogeyman known as the Cucuy, might be responsible....

#6
Eggs

Eggs

1995★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Cuckoo for fans of Drama & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Two brothers in their seventies, Pa and Moe, have lived together all their lives in a little house in the country, the only interruption being when Pa made a weekend trip to Smålan...