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10 Best Movies Like The Metropolitan Opera: Madama Butterfly

If you loved The Metropolitan Opera: Madama Butterfly, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

#1
The Son

The Son

2002★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Metropolitan Opera: Madama Butterfly for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A joinery instructor at a rehab center refuses to take a new teen as his apprentice, but then begins to follow the boy through the hallways and streets....

#2
Battles Without Honor and Humanity

Battles Without Honor and Humanity

1973★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Metropolitan Opera: Madama Butterfly for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza....

#3
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death and Rebirth

Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death and Rebirth

1997★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Metropolitan Opera: Madama Butterfly for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Originally a collection of clips from the Neon Genesis Evangelion TV series, Death was created as a precursor to the re-worked ending of the series. Rebirth was intended as that re...

#4
Six Men Getting Sick

Six Men Getting Sick

1967★ 5.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Metropolitan Opera: Madama Butterfly for fans of Animation. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Lynch's first film project consists of a loop of six people vomiting projected on to a special sculptured screen featuring twisted three-dimensional faces....

#5
The Beautiful Person

The Beautiful Person

2008★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Metropolitan Opera: Madama Butterfly for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

In the wake of her mother's tragic death, French teenager Junie transfers to a different high school. Though Junie lives mostly inside her own head, her beauty and stoicism win her...

#6
L'amore

L'amore

1948★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Metropolitan Opera: Madama Butterfly for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

L'Amore ('Love') is a 1948 Italian drama anthology film that consists of two parts, The Human Voice (Una voce umana), based on Jean Cocteau's 1929 play of the same title, and The M...