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10 Best Movies Like The Butcher Boy

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

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#1
Nine Queens

Nine Queens

2000★ 7.8

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

Two con artists try to swindle a stamp collector by selling him a sheet of counterfeit rare stamps, the "nine queens"....

#2
Satantango

Satantango

1994★ 8.0

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

Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor ...

#3
WR: Mysteries of the Organism

WR: Mysteries of the Organism

1971★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Butcher Boy for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

What does the energy harnessed through orgasm have to do with the state of communist Yugoslavia circa 1971? Only counterculture filmmaker extraordinaire Dušan Makavejev has the ans...

#4
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

2007★ 7.1

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

Outlaw Jesse James is rumored to be the 'fastest gun in the West'. An eager recruit into James' notorious gang, Robert Ford eventually grows jealous of the famed outlaw and, when R...

#5
Priest

Priest

2011★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Butcher Boy for fans of Action. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

In an alternate world, humanity and vampires have warred for centuries. After the last Vampire War, the veteran Warrior Priest lives in obscurity with other humans inside one of th...

#6
Idiocracy

Idiocracy

2006★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Butcher Boy for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

To test its top-secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average Americans it can find - an Army private and a prostitute - and sends them to the year 2505 aft...