Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 09, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Poor Butterfly

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

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#1
Waiting for Anya

Waiting for Anya

2020★ 6.3

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

During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain....

#2
Mother Night

Mother Night

1996★ 6.6

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

An American spy behind the lines during WWII serves as a Nazi propagandist, a role he cannot escape in his future life as he can never reveal his real role in the war....

#3
Uprising

Uprising

2001★ 6.5

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

In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis....

#4
Adam Resurrected

Adam Resurrected

2008★ 6.1

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

After again attempting to commit murder, a Jewish man with a mysterious past and extraordinary intelligence, charisma, and body control returns to an insane asylum, where he makes ...

#5
Wolf Hound

Wolf Hound

2022★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Poor Butterfly for fans of War. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Inspired by the real-life German special operations unit KG 200 that shot down, repaired, and flew Allied aircraft as Trojan horses, "Wolf Hound" takes place in 1944 German-occupie...

#6
The Secrets We Keep

The Secrets We Keep

2020★ 6.0

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

In post-World War II America, a woman, rebuilding her life in the suburbs with her husband, kidnaps her neighbor and seeks vengeance for the heinous war crimes she believes he comm...

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