Movies Like Butterflies (2018)

Butterflies is a 2018 comedy, drama film from Tolga Karaçelik with a MovieMagicScore of 6.9/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Harry and Tonto and The Straight Story.

Comedy Drama

Harry and Tonto

1974

Harry is a retired teacher in his 70s who has lived in the Upper West Side of New York City all his life. When his building is torn down to make way for a parking garage, Harry and his beloved cat Tonto begin a journey across the United States — visiting his children, seeing a world he never seemed to have the time to see before, making new friends, and saying goodbye to old friends.

7.1

MagicScore

The Straight Story

1999

A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle has suffered a stroke and may not recover. Alvin is determined to make things right with Lyle while he still can, but his brother lives in Wisconsin, while Alvin is stuck in Iowa with no car and no driver's license. Then he hits on the idea of making the trip on his old lawnmower, thus beginning a picturesque and at times deeply spiritual odyssey.

7.7

MagicScore

Pleasantville

1998

Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and find a world where everything is peachy keen all the time. But when Jennifer's modern attitude disrupts Pleasantville's peaceful but boring routine, she literally brings color into its life.

7.3

MagicScore

Like Water for Chocolate

1992

Tita is passionately in love with Pedro, but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking and discovers she can transfer her emotions through the food she prepares, infecting all who eat it with her intense heartbreak.

7.3

MagicScore

Lovers of the Arctic Circle

1998

Otto and Ana are kids when they meet each other. Their names are palindromes. They meet by chance, people are related by chance. A story of circular lives, with circular names, and a circular place where the day never ends in the midnight sun. There are things that never end, and Love is one of them.

7.3

MagicScore

Palm Trees in the Snow

2015

Spain, 2003. An accidental discovery leads Clarence to travel from the snowy mountains of Huesca to Equatorial Guinea, to visit the land where her father Jacobo and her uncle Kilian spent most of their youth, the island of Fernando Poo.

7.4

MagicScore

My Father's Secrets

2022

Brussels, Belgium, 1959. Michel and Charly Kichka, two Jewish brothers, enjoy a happy childhood with their parents and their two sisters. Henri, their discreet and usually silent father, does not speak at all about his past, so they imagine that as a young man he was an adventurer, a pirate or a treasure hunter.

6.9

MagicScore

Home from the Hill

1960

The wealthiest man in a Texas town decides to teach his teenage son how to hunt to make a man out of him.

6.8

MagicScore

The Whip and the Body

1963

Disowned in the past by his father, Kurt Menliff, a cruel and sadistic nobleman, returns to the family castle to reclaim his inheritance.

6.4

MagicScore

#10

Back Roads

2019

A young man cares for his younger sisters after their mother is imprisoned for murdering their abusive father. When he strikes up an affair with a married woman, long-dormant family secrets bubble to the surface.

5.8

MagicScore

#11

Darkness

2019

Three sisters, Stella, Luce and Aria, live in an isolated house, immersed in the shadows, submitted by a violent and authoritarian father, a religious fanatic obsessed with the end of the world, who keeps them prisoners behind locks and closed windows, under the pretext that the Apocalypse has finally arrived.

4.9

MagicScore

#12

The Uninvited

1944

A brother and sister move into an old seaside house that has been abandoned for many years on the Cornwellian coast. They soon discover that it is haunted by the ghost of the mother of their neighbor's granddaughter, with whom the brother has fallen in love.

6.9

MagicScore

#13

12 Feet Deep

2018

Two sisters are trapped under the fiberglass cover of an Olympic sized public pool and must brave the cold and each other to survive the harrowing night.

6.0

MagicScore

#14

Paranormal Activity 3

2011

In 1988, young sisters Katie and Kristi befriend an invisible entity who resides in their home.

5.9

MagicScore

#15

Savage State

2020

Saint Charles County, Missouri, December 1863. Edmond, a prosperous French perfume merchant, decides to flee to a safer place when the storms of the American Civil War start knocking at his door, threatening the life and fortune of his family.

5.6

MagicScore

#16

Moonage Daydream

2022

A cinematic odyssey featuring never-before-seen footage exploring David Bowie's creative and musical journey.

7.5

MagicScore

#17

Green Book

2018

Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line, relied on a guide called The Negro Motorist Green Book.

8.2

MagicScore

#18

Beautiful Minds

2022

Two men, with vastly different life stories and personalities, embark on a hearse heading to the South of France. During their journey they realize that, however unlikely, they're not so different in the end.

7.3

MagicScore

#19

Thelma & Louise

1991

Taking a break from their dreary lives, close friends Thelma and Louise embark on a short weekend trip that ends in unforeseen incriminating circumstances. As fugitives, both women rediscover the strength of their bond and their newfound resilience.

7.6

MagicScore

#20

Y Tu Mamá También

2001

In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.

7.4

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Butterflies?

The top films similar to Butterflies by MovieMagicScore are Harry and Tonto (7.1), The Straight Story (7.7), Pleasantville (7.3). Each shares comedy/drama themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Butterflies worth watching?

Butterflies holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.9/10 from 105 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Butterflies?

Butterflies (2018) is a comedy, drama film directed by Tolga Karaçelik, starring Tuğçe Altuğ, Tolga Tekin, Bartu Küçükçağlayan.

Where can I find more recommendations like Butterflies?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more comedy recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like Butterflies

This ranked list pairs Butterflies (2018), a comedy and drama film from Tolga Karaçelik, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Tuğçe Altuğ take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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