Movies Like Birdy and the Beast (1944)

Birdy and the Beast is a 1944 animation, comedy, family film from Robert Clampett with a MovieMagicScore of 6.8/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Hatch Up Your Troubles and The Egg and Jerry.

Animation Comedy Family

Hatch Up Your Troubles

1949

A baby woodpecker mistakes Jerry for his mother. The mouse rejects the newly hatched bird but soon finds himself protecting it against his feline nemesis, Tom.

6.9

MagicScore

The Egg and Jerry

1956

A lost baby woodpecker, that believes Jerry is its mother, does everything it can to save the mouse from Tom, who is once again in pursuit. A CinemaScope remake of the 1949 Tom and Jerry cartoon Hatch Up Your Troubles.

6.2

MagicScore

Birds Anonymous

1957

In this spoof of Alcoholics Anonymous, pussycats are cast as bird-eating addicts and go through the 12-step process to deal with their addiction. Sylvester, who could never quite get the best of the object of his desire, Tweety Bird, joins and resolves to quit chasing and eating the canary.

7.2

MagicScore

Tweetie Pie

1947

Thomas the cat finds Tweetie in the snow, warming himself by a cigar butt. Thomas's mistress rescues the little yellow bird before her cat can devour him, but Thomas doesn't give up.

6.8

MagicScore

A Tale of Two Kitties

1942

Two alley cats, Babbitt and Catsello, decide to make a meal out of Orson as he sleeps in his nest atop a telephone pole. The gullible (and loud) Catsello is repeatedly gulled into trying to "get the bird," earning a variety of thrashings from the casually murderous little canary. Catsello finally resorts to an air strike (with a pair of wooden boards for wings), but it's wartime, and Orson has the cat blasted out of the sky by anti-aircraft guns.

6.8

MagicScore

Snow Business

1953

Sylvester Cat and Tweety Bird are snowbound in a mountain cabin, and though Tweety has lots of bird seed, Sylvester will starve unless he can cook the unsuspecting Tweety. Meanwhile, a starving mouse thinks Sylvester is edible.

6.5

MagicScore

The Last Hungry Cat

1961

Sylvester Cat tumbles and falls dazed to the floor when making a grab for Tweety Bird. He comes to and thinks he has killed and swallowed the little canary and that he's wanted for murder.

6.5

MagicScore

Little Quacker

1950

Tom steals an egg from a mother duck's nest, but soon the resultant hatchling runs away from the cat and into a mouse hole, where it finds an able protector in Jerry.

6.9

MagicScore

The Counterfeit Cat

1949

A cat steals the headpiece of a dog to deceive the bulldog Spike and get a chance to eat the canary Spike is guarding.

6.3

MagicScore

#10

The Flying Cat

1952

Tom sets out to capture and eat a canary.

7.0

MagicScore

#11

Hyde and Go Tweet

1960

Sylvester alternates chasing the normal Tweety and fleeing a monster version of Tweety.

6.8

MagicScore

#12

Tweety and the Beanstalk

1957

Jack's mother throws Jack's magic beans outside under Sylvester Cat's sleeping box, and the cat is whisked to the world above, where he finds a huge Tweety Bird in the castle of the legendary Giant.

6.8

MagicScore

#13

The Aristocats

1970

When Madame Adelaide Bonfamille leaves her fortune to Duchess and her children—Bonfamille’s beloved family of cats—the butler plots to steal the money and kidnaps the legatees, leaving them out on a country road. All seems lost until the wily Thomas O’Malley Cat and his jazz-playing alley cats come to the aristocats’ rescue.

7.3

MagicScore

#14

Canned Feud

1951

Sylvester Cat finds that his people have gone on vacation and left him alone in a locked house with a large stash of canned food in a cupboard. Sylvester needs a can opener, or he'll starve. And a pesky mouse has the only can opener in the house and torments Sylvester into trying more and more desperate measures to obtain it.

7.2

MagicScore

#15

Little Red Rodent Hood

1952

An elderly mouse tells the bedtime story of Little Red Riding Hood to her grandson, who visualizes the tale in cat-and-mouse terms, with himself as Red and Sylvester as the Big Bad Wolf.

7.0

MagicScore

#16

Space Jam

1996

With their freedom on the line, the Looney Tunes seek the help of NBA superstar Michael Jordan to win a basketball game against a team of moronic aliens.

6.8

MagicScore

#17

Little Beau Pepé

1952

After driving the Foreign Legionnaires from their fort with his aroma, lovesick skunk Pepe falls for the camp mascot, a cat who's accidentally gotten a white stripe painted down her back.

6.6

MagicScore

#18

Ain't She Tweet

1952

Sylvester Cat discovers Tweety Bird in a pet store window. Tweety is taken to be delivered by truck to a new owner - Granny. Sylvester chases the delivery truck to Granny's home, where Granny has a huge, fenced-in area for her army of bulldogs. Sylvester makes several unsuccessful attempts to pass the dogs and reach Tweety inside Granny's house.

6.5

MagicScore

#19

All a Bir-r-r-d

1950

Tweety Bird is on a train with Sylvester.

6.1

MagicScore

#20

Katnip Kollege

1938

At the Katnip Kollege, we see a roomful of cats taking a course in Swingology. Everyone swings except Johnny, who can't cut it and has to sit in the dunce chair. Miss Kitty Bright tells him to look her up when he learns how to swing. Finally, listening to the pendulum clock at night, Johnny gets the beat. He rushes out to where everyone is playing and sings "Easy As Rollin' Off a Log" to Kitty Bright. She joins in; he grabs a trumpet for an instrumental break, with the complete band. They both fall off a log; she covers him with kisses.

5.5

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Birdy and the Beast?

The top films similar to Birdy and the Beast by MovieMagicScore are Hatch Up Your Troubles (6.9), The Egg and Jerry (6.2), Birds Anonymous (7.2). Each shares animation/comedy/family themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Birdy and the Beast worth watching?

Birdy and the Beast holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.8/10 from 20 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Birdy and the Beast?

Birdy and the Beast (1944) is a animation, comedy, family film directed by Robert Clampett, starring Mel Blanc, Robert Clampett.

Where can I find more recommendations like Birdy and the Beast?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more animation recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like Birdy and the Beast

This ranked list pairs Birdy and the Beast (1944), a animation and comedy and family film from Robert Clampett, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Mel Blanc take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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