Movies like Butterflies (2018)
The best movies like Butterflies (2018) are My Brother (2016), Kosmos (2010) and Iftar Soda (2016). If Butterflies hooked you with its drama and comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedOnce Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)7.5/10 from 572 votes
- NewestNoah Land (2019)Released 2019
My Brother (2016)
Two resentful, singer brothers Hakan and Ozan who can't get along well. Meet again in their father's funeral. Even though they want to get back to their daily lives after the funeral, their father's will won't allow it. They will take a journey with their dead father's old car in order to carry out his bequest which is to sing at a wedding in Urla.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisKosmos (2010)
Kosmos is a thief and a miracle-worker. He appears one morning in a tiny, snowbound border village where he is welcomed with open arms – on account of arriving just in time to resuscitate a small boy who would otherwise have drowned.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIftar Soda (2016)
In early 1970s, Adem is a boy living in an Aegean village with his family. He just finished the primary school and he wants to work while he's on summer holiday. He gets permission from his family to work for a soda pop seller named Ciber Kemal. But the Ramadan has just came and Adem wants to do his fast while he's working. But he starts seeing hallucinations because of the hot summer day. It seems it's going to be the longest day of Adem.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe International (2006)
It is 80's Turkey, local musicians of Adiyaman are hired by the military and trained to welcome one of the forceful generals of coup regime.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLinha de Passe (2008)
In the periphery of São Paulo, the pregnant single mother Cleuza works as maid in the apartment of a middle-class family. Each of her sons has a different unknown father: the oldest, Dênis, has a baby son that lives with his mother and he works as motorcycle courier.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI Saw the Sun (2009)
In the southeast region of Turkey, the Kurdish family of Altun lives in a small mountainside village plagued by a 25-year war that makes their daily lives a hellish struggle. As the war intensifies, the family is forced to migrate west to the city of Istanbul.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSour Apples (2016)
In an eastern Turkish town, suitors knock on the door of the mayor and father of three beautiful daughters who choose to follow their own paths.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHalam Geldi (2014)
On the border of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and the Greek village of Limya lies the frontier hamlet of Akıncılar, where the call to prayer mingles with church bells and Turkish music blends with Greek melodies, and people from Diyarbakır and Cyprus live side by side. In this village there are three children, each thirteen years old, bound together by fate and traveling a shared path. Their story unfolds amid a ritual that becomes ever more tangled: the drama of “child brides.”
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Jolly Life (2009)
Burdened by troubles and caught between cultures, Riza takes a job as a mall Santa and finds that real life may not be so different from make believe.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Magician (2006)
Failed magician Iskender decides to do a tour to save his career, but has to bring his grumpy and senile father along. The tour is quite unexpectedly interrupted when a bride actually disappears from the stage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLosers' Club (2011)
Kaan and Mete, co-hosts of a mid 1990s radio show called Kaybedenler Kulübü (Losers' Club), struggle to deal with their daily lives after their show becomes an instant hit. Kaan meets Zeynep, the girl of his dreams, but their relationship comes under pressure as the show continues to stir controversy and attract fans from every segment of Istanbul society.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOnce Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
A group of men set out in search of a dead body in the Anatolian steppes
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisVizontele Tuuba (2004)
Guner Sernikli is a government official who, with his wife and their wheelchair bound daughter, has been assigned as the head librarian to this isolated province, virtually an exile since there is no library in the village. The family is warmly welcome, but these are the years of political anarchy and leftist/rightist clashes in big cities and the youth of the village inevitably follow the tides. They arrive in Vizontele, just as the situation is becoming really absurd. Guner brings wisdom; his daughter Tuba brings beauty, innocence and love. Some like the Mayor, Nazmi Dogan and crazy Emin appreciate these things but they are in the minority and confusion continues to reign. The story is based on the memories of writer-director Yılmaz Erdoğan of the last summer of his childhood in Hakkâri, Turkey in 1980.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEverything's Gonna Be Great (1998)
When Altan swipes prescription drugs from his brother Nuri's pharmacy, they soon find themselves on a dangerous but funny road trip to get rid of the stuff and escape the mafiosi Altan tried to double-cross. Along the way, the brother who are compete opposites finally bond.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNoah Land (2019)
Suffering through a mid-life crisis, Omer has to face the angry villagers in order to realize his estranged father's dying wish to be buried under the enshrined Noah Tree which his father claims to have planted half a century ago.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOffside (2000)
Thirtysomething Suat still lives with his parents and works at his father's store when not practicing as goalie for the local football team, Esnaf Spor. The neighborhood's greatest wish is for Esnaf Spor to win the amateur league championship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Boats Out of Watermelon Rinds (2004)
In his award-winning debut feature film, director Ahmet Ulucay portrays the innocence of childhood and the lure of the cinema for two teens in a small Turkish village. Working for a watermelon seller by day, Remet spends his evenings trying to rebuild a film projector with his friend Mehmet. Both have big dreams to be famous film directors one day.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisWhisper If I Forget (2014)
An old pop singer who has Alzheimer's returns to her old house where she remembers her old days of climbing the stairs of fame and fortune while trying to deal with her older sister who holds her responsible for her ruined life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNobody's Home (2013)
After her father’s sudden death, Feride takes on the role of the father in the family. Her mother, Nurcan, desperately tries to replace her lost husband with Feride, while her brother, İlker, starts to drift away from the family. Feride decides to break free, changing everyone’s fate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Lemonade (2015)
So begins an entertaining road story where we witness two brothers with different cultural backgrounds, who don't even know each other, have similarities, differences and even their fights.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDistant (2002)
A young man from rural Turkey arrives in Istanbul with dreams of working on a ship and stays with a cousin while he searches for work. Over time, the former’s struggles to find employment and the latter’s troubles and disappointments strain their relationship and living situation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTimes and Winds (2006)
In a small, poor village leaning over high rocky mountains, the villagers are simple and diligent people who struggle to cope with a harsh nature. They earn their living off the earth and a few animals they feed. Fathers always prefer one of their sons. Mothers command their daughters ruthlessly. Ömer, the son of the imam, wishes hopelessly for the death of his father. When he understands that wishful thinking does not have any concrete results, he begins to search for childish ways to kill his father. Yakup is in love with his teacher, and one day after seeing his father spying on the teacher he dreams too, like Ömer, of killing his father. Yıldız studies and tries to manage the household chores imposed by her mother. She learns with irritation about the secrets of the relationship between men and women.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Miracle (2015)
1960s Turkey countryside. A newly assigned teacher finds out that the solitary village is missing a school. He gets fond of the village people and especially a disabled man. The teacher helps the village to build a new school and educate the children and the disabled man.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTurkish Dance School (2017)
A woman recovering from an attempted suicide meets an aspiring doctor who takes a keen interest in her efforts to move forward in life through dance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Sivas (2014)
Establishing a bleak village in Eastern Turkey as its setting, Sivas features the story of Aslan, an eleven-year-old boy, and Sivas, a weathered fighting dog who develop a strong relationship after Aslan finds Sivas wounded in a ditch, left to die.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNausea (2015)
Ahmet, who had recently lost his wife and little daughter in a traffic accident while he was away with his lover, is a prominent person dealing with "head work". As someone who does not care for anybody and does not knuckle under anything, he moves on quite unaffected. Yet some things start to change in himself and his life without any apparent reason.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Sibel (2019)
25-year-old Sibel lives with her father and sister in a secluded village in the mountains of Turkey’s Black Sea region. Sibel is a mute, but she communicates by using the ancestral whistled language of the area.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKaybedenler Kulübü Yolda (2018)
Kaan and Mete, who have a holiday in Olympos with a crowded Kadiköy group, travel to Istanbul with their engines. Two people are accompanied by two unexpected guests on their journey. This journey, which they do with various plans, shows them that the journey and the relations are not as planned at all.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Vavien (2009)
Celal, lives an unhappy family life with his wife Sevilay and his child in a small town. Celal and his brother Cemal, running an electrician shop which doesn't go well. They are in debt. The only fun they have is going to the night clubs in Samsun. Celal's love for Sibel Ceylan who works in the night club, will cause him trouble. Celal's wife, Sevilay, saves her money, sent by her father who lives in Germany. She is unaware of the fact that Celal knows her secret.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBilo the Banker (1980)
Bilo is a goodhearted man who wants to marry the cutest girl in the village but needs money to take the consent from her father. His best friend Mahmut offers him a way to go to Germany and work in a factory to save up the money he needs.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Butterflies?
The closest matches to Butterflies are My Brother (2016), Kosmos (2010) and Iftar Soda (2016). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Butterflies?
People who watched Butterflies most often go on to My Brother (2016), Kosmos (2010) and Iftar Soda (2016).
What is the highest-rated movie like Butterflies?
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011), rated 7.5/10 by 572 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Butterflies?
Noah Land (2019) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to Butterflies chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Butterflies, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.