Movies like Untamed Butterflies (2010)
The best movies like Untamed Butterflies (2010) are The Adjustment Bureau (2011), Mystery Train (1989) and Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022). If Untamed Butterflies hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedMystery Train (1989)7.3/10 from 545 votes
- NewestAt Midnight (2023)Released 2023
The Adjustment Bureau (2011)
A man glimpses the future Fate has planned for him – and chooses to fight for his own destiny. Battling the powerful Adjustment Bureau across, under and through the streets of New York, he risks his destined greatness to be with the only woman he's ever loved.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMystery Train (1989)
In Memphis, Tennessee, over the course of a single night, the Arcade Hotel, run by an eccentric night clerk and a clueless bellboy, is visited by a young Japanese couple traveling in search of the roots of rock; an Italian woman in mourning who stumbles upon a fleeing charlatan girl; and a comical trio of accidental thieves looking for a place to hide.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGood Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022)
Nancy Stokes, a retired schoolteacher, is pretty sure she has never had good sex. Now that her husband has died, she is determined to take a tour of sexual vistas that until now she has only imagined. She even has a plan; it involves an anonymous hotel room, and a sex worker who calls himself Leo Grande.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like this5 to 7 (2014)
A young writer begins an affair with an older woman from France whose open marriage to a diplomat dictates that they can meet only between the hours of 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFour Rooms (1995)
It's Ted the Bellhop's first night on the job...and the hotel's very unusual guests are about to place him in some outrageous predicaments. It seems that this evening's room service is serving up one unbelievable happening after another.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisBobby (2006)
In 1968 the lives of a retired doorman, hotel manager, lounge singer, busboy, beautician and others intersect in the wake of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAt Midnight (2023)
Alejandro's life is disrupted when actress Sophie Wilder stays at his hotel. To their surprise, the two fall for one another, meeting at midnight.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCalifornia Suite (1978)
The misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Million Dollar Hotel (2000)
A federal agent searches for a potential killer among the bizarre residents of a dilapidated Los Angeles hotel.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisPlaying by Heart (1998)
In a vibrant tapestry of love and longing, nine interconnected souls navigate romance and heartbreak in L.A., where passions collide and truths unfold, revealing that the heart's desires often lead us where we least expect.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFor Love or Money (1993)
New York concierge Doug Ireland wants to go into business for himself and refurbish a hotel on Roosevelt Island, N.Y., but he needs an investor. With a few weeks left before his option on the site runs out, Doug agrees to help wealthy Christian Hanover conceal his affair with salesgirl Andy Hart from his wife. Despite his own attraction to Andy, Doug tries to stay focused on getting Christian to invest $3 million in his project.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSame Time, Next Year (1978)
A man and woman meet by chance at a romantic inn over dinner and, although both are happily married to others, they find themselves in the same bed the next morning questioning how this could have happened. They agree to meet on the same weekend each year—in the same hotel room—and the years pass each has some personal crisis that the other helps them through, often without both of them understanding what is going on.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOriginal Sin (2001)
A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisInsignificance (1985)
Four 1950s icons meet in the same hotel room, and two of them discover more in common between them than they ever anticipated.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Countess from Hong Kong (1967)
A Russian countess stows away in the stateroom of a married U.S. diplomat bound for New York.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNappily Ever After (2018)
After an accident at the hair salon, Violet realizes she's not living life to the fullest. A soulful barber helps her put the pieces back together.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Bellboy (1960)
Stanley is a bellboy at the Fountainbleau Hotel in Miami Beach, where he performs his duties quietly and without a word to anyone. All he displays are facial expressions and a comedic slapstick style. And anything that can go wrong, does go wrong when Stanley is involved. One day, Jerry Lewis arrives at the hotel and some of the staff notice the striking resemblance.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPlaza Suite (1971)
Film version of the Neil Simon play has three separate acts set in the same hotel suite in New York's Plaza Hotel with Walter Matthau in a triple role. In the first, Karen Nash tries to get her inattentive husband Sam's attention and help save their failing marriage. In the second, brash film producer Jesse Kiplinger tries to seduce his former one-time flame Muriel. In the third, Roy Hubley and his wife Norma try and persuade their daughter, a bride to-be with cold feet, out of the bathroom before her approaching wedding ceremony.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTea with Mussolini (1999)
In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman, sends him to be taken care of by British expatriate Mary Wallace. Mary and her cultured friends - including artist Arabella, young widow Elsa, and archaeologist Georgie - keep a watchful eye over the boy. But the women's cultivated lives take a dramatic turn when Allied forces declare war on Mussolini.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThoroughly Modern Millie (1967)
Millie Dillmount, a fearless young lady fresh from Salina, Kansas, determined to experience Life, sets out to see the world in the rip-roaring Twenties. With high spirits and wearing one of those new high hemlines, she arrives in New York to test the "modern" ideas she had been reading about back in Kansas: "I've taken the girl out of Kansas. Now I have to take Kansas out of the girl!"
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Untamed Butterflies?
The closest matches to Untamed Butterflies are The Adjustment Bureau (2011), Mystery Train (1989) and Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Untamed Butterflies?
Start with The Adjustment Bureau (2011), the closest match to Untamed Butterflies.
What is the highest-rated movie like Untamed Butterflies?
Mystery Train (1989), rated 7.3/10 by 545 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Untamed Butterflies?
At Midnight (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to Untamed Butterflies chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Untamed Butterflies, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.