The Cuckoo

Portrait of Hermann Heinzel.

After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair,...

Marie Kaufmann has to face an unusual interview that decides not only her own fate.

Irene is a lonely 50-year-old ornithologist who, during secret research in the rainforest, immerses herself in a sensory journey to rescue her...

This documentary follows various migratory bird species on their long journeys from their summer homes to the equator and back, covering thousands of...

The long running, often bitter scientific debate over the origin of birds and the evolution of flight.

A cat is driven up the wall by the inhabitant of the cuckoo clock, so he spends the film trying to catch him.

Three fanatical bird-watchers spend an entire year competing to spot the highest number of species as El Nino sends an extraordinary variety of rare...

A cuckoo falls in love with a beautiful robin. The only thing that’s holding him back is... his cuckoo clock.

In Pica Pica Kristersson invites the viewer to be enthralled for an hour and a half by the vicissitudes of magpie life. Opposing himself to the...

Cuckoos are brood parasites who they lay their eggs in the nests of other bird species, a clever trick that spares the rearing and feeding of their...

A peaceful community is forever changed when a mysterious young woman moves in. As the quirky locals embrace her, their lives soon improve. But, they...