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10 Best Movies Like Hardly a Butterfly

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

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#1
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12

2017‱★ 5.9

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

Anton and Erika started out as friends for five years and got into a romantic relationship for seven years. Anton is a commercial director while Erika is a former band member and b...

#2
Two Evil Eyes

Two Evil Eyes

1990‱★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hardly a Butterfly for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A duo of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations about a greedy wife's attempt to embezzle her dying husband's fortune, and a sleazy reporter's adoption of a strange black cat....

#3
Florence Fight Club

Florence Fight Club

2015‱★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hardly a Butterfly for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Intertwined stories from the gladiator/athletes participating to the Calcio Storico Fiorentino yearly championship....

#4
Deported Women of the SS Special Section

Deported Women of the SS Special Section

1976‱★ 4.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hardly a Butterfly for fans of Drama. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Young women in Nazi-occupied countries are packed onto a train and shipped off to a prison camp, where the sadistic commandant uses them as rewards for his lesbian guards and perve...

#5
Shimmy: The First Monkey King

Shimmy: The First Monkey King

2023‱★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hardly a Butterfly for fans of Animation. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Shimmy, a monkey newly discover superhero powers and learns how to control his extraordinary transformative abilities and prevent powerful demonic forces from sending the universe ...

#6
Star

Star

2017‱★ 6.0

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

Star is a young graffiti writer, the best in his city, Paris. His reputation attracts him as much into art galleries than in the police precincts. Accused of vandalism, he faces ja...