Movies like Butter Fingers (2024)
The best movies like Butter Fingers (2024) are Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), Genie (2023) and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009). If Butter Fingers hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Empire Strikes Back (1980)8.4/10 from 19,123 votes
- NewestGood Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2026)Released 2026
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
A 22-year-old factory worker lets loose on the weekends: drinking, brawling, and dating two women, one of whom is older and married.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGenie (2023)
Flora, a genie trapped for more than 2,000 years inside an antique jewelry box, is accidentally called to service by Bernard, whose life is unraveling around him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTransformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
Sam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life. But when his mind is filled with cryptic symbols, the Decepticons target him and he is dragged back into the Transformers' war.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIn Good Company (2004)
Dan Foreman is a seasoned advertisement sales executive at a high-ranking publication when a corporate takeover results in him being placed under naive supervisor Carter Duryea, who is half his age. Matters are made worse when Dan's new supervisor becomes romantically involved with his daughter an 18 year-old college student Alex.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPygmalion (1938)
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSpace/Time (2025)
After a fatal test shuts down their project, a disgraced team of scientists enters the criminal underworld to rebuild a forbidden space-bending engine that could rescue humanity or annihilate it entirely.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisJust Friends (2005)
While visiting his hometown during Christmas, a man comes face-to-face with his old high school crush whom he was best friends with – a woman whose rejection of him turned him into a ferocious womanizer.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWaiting... (2005)
Young employees at Shenaniganz restaurant collectively stave off boredom and adulthood with their antics.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTerminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Ten years after the events of the original, a reprogrammed T-800 is sent back in time to protect young John Connor from the shape-shifting T-1000. Together with his mother Sarah, he fights to stop Skynet from triggering a nuclear apocalypse.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisPaterson (2016)
A week in the life of Paterson, a poet bus driver, and his wife Laura, a very creative artist, who live in Paterson, New Jersey, hometown of many famous poets and artists.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLovelace (2013)
Story of Linda Lovelace, who is used and abused by the porn industry at the behest of her coercive husband, before taking control of her life.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAll or Nothing (2002)
Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry and they lead joyless lives with their two children, Rachel, a cleaner, and Rory, who is unemployed and aggressive.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGood Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2026)
A 'Man from the Future' arrives at an LA diner where he must recruit the precise combination of disgruntled patrons to join him on a one-night quest to save the world from the terminal threat of a rogue artificial intelligence.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCharlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisStar Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
The starship Enterprise and its crew is pulled back into action when old nemesis, Khan, steals a top secret device called Project Genesis.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFalling for You (2018)
While planning a fundraising event, a small New England town’s radio station manager meets her match in a visiting businessman who can’t seem to see beyond the screen of his laptop computer, until she ropes him into participating in her bachelor bake-off to help save the station.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisUpgraded (2024)
Ana is an ambitious intern dreaming of a career in the art world while trying to impress her demanding boss Claire. When she's upgraded to first class on a work trip, she meets handsome Will, and Ana pretends to be her boss– a white lie that sets off a glamorous chain of events, romance and opportunity, until her fib threatens to surface.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Empire Strikes Back (1980)
The epic saga continues as Luke Skywalker, in hopes of defeating the evil Galactic Empire, learns the ways of the Jedi from aging master Yoda. But Darth Vader is more determined than ever to capture Luke. Meanwhile, rebel leader Princess Leia, cocky Han Solo, Chewbacca, and droids C-3PO and R2-D2 are thrown into various stages of capture, betrayal and despair.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisLittle (2019)
Jordan Sanders, a take-no-prisoners tech mogul, wakes up one morning in the body of her 13-year-old self right before a do-or-die presentation. Her beleaguered assistant April is the only one in on the secret that her daily tormentor is now trapped in an awkward tween body, just as everything is on the line.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBenny & Joon (1993)
A mentally ill young woman finds love with an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Butter Fingers?
The closest matches to Butter Fingers are Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), Genie (2023) and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Butter Fingers?
Start with Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), the closest match to Butter Fingers.
What is the highest-rated movie like Butter Fingers?
The Empire Strikes Back (1980), rated 8.4/10 by 19,123 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Butter Fingers?
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Butter Fingers?
Yes: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), Genie (2023) and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009).
How are movies similar to Butter Fingers chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Butter Fingers, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.