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10 Best Movies Like Butley

If you loved Butley, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Riot Club

The Riot Club

2014★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Butley for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Two first-year students at Oxford University join a secret society and learn that their reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of one evening....

#2
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

1966★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Butley for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university's faculty. As the drinks flow, secrets come to light, and the middle-aged couple unload onto...

#3
Oleanna

Oleanna

1994★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Butley for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Carol, a college student, comes to John's office, her professor, to discuss the grade she has received for one of her papers....

#4
Prick Up Your Ears

Prick Up Your Ears

1987★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Butley for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When the young, attractive Joe Orton meets the older, more introverted Kenneth Halliwell at drama school, he befriends the kindred spirit and they start an affair. As Orton becomes...

#5
Tea and Sympathy

Tea and Sympathy

1956★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Butley for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A sensitive young man recalls his time in boarding school when the only person who seemed compassionate towards him was his housemaster's wife....

#6
The Adjuster

The Adjuster

1991★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Butley for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An uptight insurance man and his film-censor wife become a kinky couple's landlords....

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