
10 Best Movies Like M. Butterfly
If you loved M. Butterfly, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Lady Chatterley's Lover
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to M. Butterfly for fans of Romance & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
An early-20th-century tale of love across class boundaries which tells the legendary and romantic story of Lady Chatterley’s affair with her gamekeeper. Jed Mercurio’s adaptation o...

The Man from Elysian Fields
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to M. Butterfly for fans of Romance & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work at an escort service, where he becomes entwined with a wealthy woman whose husb...

Original Sin
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to M. Butterfly for fans of Romance & Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp....

The French Lieutenant's Woman
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to M. Butterfly for fans of Romance & Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters, Sarah and Charles. Both acto...

Sweet Dreams
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to M. Butterfly for fans of Romance & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The story of Patsy Cline, the velvet-voiced country music singer who died in a tragic plane crash at the height of her fame....

Panther
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to M. Butterfly for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In this sprawling, fictionalized history of the Black Panthers, 1960s Oakland becomes a war zone as the Panthers battle for the right to exist....