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10 Best Movies Like Butterfly Short

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

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#1
All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

2020★ 6.2

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

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime....

#2
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

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

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#3
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

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

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....

#4
El Chicano

El Chicano

2019★ 6.6

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

A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law....

#5
Adam

Adam

2020★ 6.4

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

A hard-living salesman becomes a quadriplegic after an accident....

#6
Guilty by Suspicion

Guilty by Suspicion

1991★ 6.5

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

Owing to his alleged involvement with communist parties, film director David Merrill is forbidden from working in Hollywood. He decides to fight for his rights and faces numerous c...

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