15 Movies Like Butterflies
Loved Butterflies? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.
#1
Summer House
Selin travels back in time at a summer house and finds herself in her mother's youth, changing her family's fate and rebuilding her own life.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Butterflies.
#2
Aşk Sadece Bir An
A young man and woman from very different backgrounds fall in love but their relationship faces obstacles from his troubled past and her overprotective parents.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Butterflies.
#3
Two Worlds One Wish
Twenty-one years after a magical meeting at a children's hospital, Bilge and Can suddenly begin hearing each other's voices telepathically. What seems like a miracle soon reveals a hidden secret, as fate-reuniting them after decades-has much more in store.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Butterflies.
#4
Miracle in Cell No. 7
Separated from his daughter, a father with an intellectual disability must prove his innocence when he is jailed for the death of a commander's child.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Butterflies.
#5
The Glass House
When Ruby and Rhett's parents are killed in a car accident, their carefree teenage lives are suddenly shattered. Moving to an incredible house in Malibu with the Glasses', old friends of the family, seems to be the beginning of a new life for them.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Butterflies.
#6
The Darjeeling Limited
Three American brothers who have not spoken to each other in a year set off on a train voyage across India with a plan to find themselves and bond with each other -- to become brothers again like they used to be. Their "spiritual quest", however, veers rapidly off-course (due to events involving over-the-counter pain killers, Indian cough syrup, and pepper spray).
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Butterflies.
#7
This Is Where I Leave You
When their father passes away, four grown, world-weary siblings return to their childhood home and are requested -- with an admonition -- to stay there together for a week, along with their free-speaking mother and a collection of spouses, exes and might-have-beens. As the brothers and sisters re-examine their shared history and the status of each tattered relationship among those who know and love them best, they reconnect in hysterically funny and emotionally significant ways.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Butterflies.
#8
Charm City Kings
Mouse desperately wants to join The Midnight Clique, the infamous Baltimore dirt bike riders who rule the summertime streets. When Midnight’s leader, Blax, takes 14-year-old Mouse under his wing, Mouse soon finds himself torn between the straight-and-narrow and a road filled with fast money and violence.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Butterflies.
#9
My Own Private Idaho
In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the coast of Italy in a quest to find Mike's estranged mother. Along the way they turn tricks for money and drugs, eventually attracting the attention of a wealthy benefactor and sexual deviant.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Butterflies.
#10
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Renowned oceanographer Steve Zissou has sworn vengeance upon the rare shark that devoured a member of his crew. In addition to his regular team, he is joined on his boat by Ned, a man who believes Zissou to be his father, and Jane, a journalist pregnant by a married man. They travel the sea, all too often running into pirates and, perhaps more traumatically, various figures from Zissou's past, including his estranged wife, Eleanor.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Butterflies.
#11
Anemone
Middle-aged Jem sets out from his suburban home on a journey into the woods, where he reconnects with his estranged hermit brother Ray. Bonded by a mysterious, complicated past, the men share a fraught, if occasionally tender relationship—one that was forever altered by shattering events decades earlier.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Butterflies.
#12
Brothers
A reformed criminal's attempt at going straight is derailed when he reunites with his sanity-testing twin brother on a road trip for the score of a lifetime. Dodging bullets, the law, and an overbearing mother along the way, they must heal their severed family bond before they end up killing each other.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Butterflies.
#13
Make Me Believe
Two meddling grannies trick their adult grandkids into a meet-cute that reignites a childhood crush and old grudges.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Butterflies.
#14
Abandoned Man
After serving time in prison for his brother's crime, a man warily reunites with family, finding hope and healing in a life-changing bond with his niece.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Butterflies.
