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

Devils on the Doorstep
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Purple Butterfly for fans of War & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
During the Japanese occupation of China, two prisoners are dumped in a peasant's home in a small town. The owner is bullied into keeping the prisoners until the next New Year, at w...

The Eight Hundred
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Purple Butterfly for fans of War & Drama & History. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
In 1937, eight hundred Chinese soldiers fight under siege from a warehouse in the middle of the Shanghai battlefield, completely surrounded by the Japanese army....

The Wasted Times
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Purple Butterfly for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Shanghai gangsters grapple with lust and loyalty on the eve of war with Japan as they try to navigate an alliance with the enemy's army....

Waiting for Anya
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Purple Butterfly for fans of War & Drama. 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....

The Flowers of War
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Purple Butterfly for fans of War & Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A Westerner finds refuge with a group of women in a church during Japan's rape of Nanking in 1937. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety....

Shanghai
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Purple Butterfly for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the de...