Movies like Butterfly (2005)
The best movies like Butterfly (2005) are Henry & June (1990), True Romance (1993) and The Hot Spot (1990). If Butterfly hooked you with its romance, these 23 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedTrue Romance (1993)7.5/10 from 3,242 votes
- NewestThat's Not All (2023)Released 2023
Henry & June (1990)
While traveling in Paris, author Henry Miller and his wife, June, meet Anais Nin, and sexual sparks fly as Nin starts an affair with the openly bisexual June. When June is forced to return to the U.S., she gives Nin her blessing to sleep with her husband. Then, when June returns to France, an unexpected, and sometimes contentious, threesome forms.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTrue Romance (1993)
Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Hot Spot (1990)
Upon arriving to a small town, a drifter quickly gets into trouble with the local authorities — and the local women — after he robs a bank.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDelicious Ambiguity (2009)
Daria's uber-religious aunt has died and, out of spite, she's put liberal, lesbian Daria in charge of the funeral.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Water Lilies (2007)
Set during a sultry summer in a French suburb, Marie is desperate to join the local pool's synchronized swimming team, but is her interest solely for the sake of sport or for a chance to get close to Floriane, the bad girl of the team? Sciamma, and the two leads, capture the uncertainty of teenage sexuality with a sympathetic eye in this delicate drama of the angst of coming-of-age.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPragma (2018)
Yoo-Hee and Joo-Yeon fell in love in high school, but their school’s persecution of gays tore them apart. When meet again years later, sparks fly.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
The Good Girl (2002)
A discount store clerk strikes up an affair with a stock boy who considers himself the incarnation of Holden Caulfield.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSaving Face (2004)
A Chinese-American lesbian and her traditionalist mother are reluctant to go public with secret loves that clash against cultural expectations.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLoving Annabelle (2007)
Annabelle is the wise-beyond-her-years newcomer to an exclusive Catholic girls school. Having been expelled from her first two schools she's bound to stir some trouble. Sparks fly though when sexual chemistry appears between her and the Head of her dorm and English teacher, Simone Bradley. Annabelle pursues her relentlessly and until the end the older woman manages to avoid the law.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTell It to the Bees (2019)
Dr. Jean Markham returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over her late father's medical practice. When a school-yard scuffle lands Charlie in her surgery, she invites him to visit the hives in her garden and tell his secrets to the bees, as she once did. The new friendship between the boy and the bee keeper brings his mother Lydia into Jean's world.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSappho (2008)
On honeymoon on the island of Lesbos, a woman falls for the daughter of a Russian archaeologist.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe World Unseen (2007)
A drama centered on two women who engage in a dangerous relationship during South Africa's apartheid era.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Walk on the Moon (1999)
The world of a young housewife is turned upside down when she has an affair with a free-spirited blouse salesman.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIf These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000)
The stories of three lesbian couples -- who live in the same house at different periods of time -- who are at a crossroads in their lives. In 1961, Edith loses her lover, Abby, to a stroke. Linda and Amy struggle with feminist issues in 1972. And, in 2000, Kal and Fran try to have a baby with the help of sperm donor.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Venus Effect (2021)
A romantic comedy about Liv, who is at the beginning of her 20s. She is very close to her parents and working in the family greengrocer business when, against all expectation, she falls in love with a spirited and somewhat older rainbow girl, Andrea. Andrea claims to be suffering from stress. But in reality, she is heartbroken and has sought refuge at her uncle’s apple plantation. Liv’s encounter with Andrea becomes the catalyst for a divorce, the loss of a friendship and an identity crisis that ultimately shatters their love. But in a rebellion against her parents, Liv realises that love is mutable and that a family may assume many forms.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
That's Not All (2023)
Two young women narrate their stories of recent love relationships. Living in the metropolis of São Paulo, their experiences are permeated by issues influenced by current ways of relating in love.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Turn It Around (2017)
When fifteen-year-old Bram meets Florian at a house party, he immediately falls for him. There's only one problem: nobody knows Bram is gay.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Show Me Love (1998)
Two teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisStealing Beauty (1996)
Lucy Harmon, an American teenager is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a family friend who lives in a beautiful villa. Lucy visited there four years earlier and exchanged a kiss with an Italian boy with whom she hopes to become reacquainted.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAffinity (2008)
A grieving upper class woman becomes a "Lady Visitor" at Millbank prison, hoping to escape her troubles and be a guiding figure in the lives of the female prisoners. Of all her friendships with prisoners, she is most fascinated by Selina - a medium.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisButterfly (2004)
Flavia is a thirtysomething married teacher. She has suppressed the memory of her adolescent lesbian fling with Jin and is stuck in a stifling marriage. A chance encounter in a supermarket with the playful and seductive singer Yip reawakens dormant feelings and she begins to think back on her teenage affair with Jin.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Butterfly?
The closest matches to Butterfly are Henry & June (1990), True Romance (1993) and The Hot Spot (1990). Below are 20 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Butterfly?
Start with Henry & June (1990), the closest match to Butterfly.
What is the highest-rated movie like Butterfly?
True Romance (1993), rated 7.5/10 by 3,242 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Butterfly?
That's Not All (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Butterfly?
Yes: Henry & June (1990), True Romance (1993) and The Hot Spot (1990).
How are movies similar to Butterfly chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Butterfly, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.