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10 Best Movies Like Butterfly

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

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#1
Kamome Diner

Kamome Diner

2006★ 7.4

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

On a quiet street in Helsinki, Sachie has opened a diner featuring rice balls. For a month she has no customers. Then, in short order, she has her first customer, meets Midori, a g...

#2
Head Case

Head Case

2007★ 3.3

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

A pseudo-documentary edited from the home movies of serial killers Wayne & Andrea Montgomery, presenting a look into their quiet, suburban lives...as well as the graphic & disturbi...

#3
Julieta

Julieta

2016★ 7.0

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

The film spans 30 years in Julieta’s life from a nostalgic 1985 where everything seems hopeful, to 2015 where her life appears to be beyond repair and she is on the verge of madnes...

#4
Fellini's Casanova

Fellini's Casanova

1976★ 6.9

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

Imprisoned for practicing black magic, writer and adventurer Giacomo Casanova escapes and wanders Europe, using his fluid sexuality to find his place in life amid a variety of ecce...

#5
Sixteen Candles

Sixteen Candles

1984★ 6.8

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

With the occasion all but overshadowed by her sister's upcoming wedding, angst-ridden Samantha faces her 16th birthday with typical adolescent dread. Samantha pines for studly olde...

#6
Don't Knock Twice

Don't Knock Twice

2017★ 5.5

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

A mother desperate to reconnect with her troubled daughter becomes embroiled in the urban legend of a demonic witch....