Movies Like Battle of the Butterflies
If you liked Battle of the Butterflies (1924), a movie directed by Franz Eckstein, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Stealing Beauty (1996)
★ 6.7/10Lucy Harmon, an American teenager is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a family friend who lives in a beautiful villa. Lucy visited there four years earlier and exchanged a kiss with an Italian…
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The Brave Little Toaster (1987)
★ 7/10A group of dated appliances, finding themselves stranded in a summer home that their family had just sold, decide to seek out their eight year old 'master'.
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Plan B (2021)
★ 6.2/10After a regrettable first sexual encounter, a straight-laced high school student and her slacker best friend have 24 hours to hunt down a Plan B pill in America's heartland.
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Blue Lagoon: The Awakening (2012)
★ 6.4/10Two high school students become stranded on a tropical island and must rely on each other for survival. They learn more about themselves and each other while falling in love.
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Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond - Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton (2017)
★ 7.5/10Through the lens of his stunningly immersive performance as Andy Kaufman, Jim Carrey ponders the meaning of life, reality, identity and career.
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42 Up (1999)
★ 7.6/10Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.
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Flicka (2006)
★ 6.9/10Katy McLaughlin desires to work on her family's mountainside horse ranch, although her father insists she finish boarding school. Katy finds a mustang in the hills near her ranch. The headstrong 16 year old then sets…
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Real Women Have Curves (2002)
★ 6.1/10In East Los Angeles, an 18-year-old struggles between her ambitions of going to college and the desires of her domineering mother for her to get married, have children, and oversee the small, rundown family-owned…
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Lady Bird (2017)
★ 7.2/10Lady Bird McPherson, a strong willed, deeply opinionated, artistic 17 year old comes of age in Sacramento. Her relationship with her mother and her upbringing are questioned and tested as she plans to head off to…
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Summertime (1955)
★ 6.7/10Middle-aged Ohio secretary Jane Hudson has never found love and has nearly resigned herself to spending the rest of her life alone. But before she does, she uses her savings to finance a summer in romantic Venice…
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Stardust Memories (1980)
★ 6.9/10While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.
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Blue My Mind (2017)
★ 6.7/1015-year-old Mia faces an overwhelming transformation which puts her entire existence into question. Her body is changing radically, and despite desperate attempts to halt the process, Mia is soon forced to accept that…
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Call Me Crazy: A Five Film (2013)
★ 7/10A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
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The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers (2006)
★ 6.2/10As the Great Day of the Flyers nears, the Great Valley's flying youngsters are eager to participate in the annual exhibition to show off their skills. Everyone, that is, except free-spirited pterodactyl Petrie, whose…
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Hounddog (2008)
★ 6.5/10A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.
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The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island (1997)
★ 6.3/10The Great Valley turns barren and herds of dinosaurs have to find another place to inhabit. Cera, Littlefoot and Petrie, all kids, leave to find food and get stranded on a lush unknown island.
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Once Upon a Forest (1993)
★ 6.5/10A young mouse, mole and hedgehog risk their lives to find a cure for their badger friend, who's been poisoned by men.
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Winter Spring Summer or Fall (2024)
★ 7.3/10Remi and Barnes, two very different teenagers, meet by chance in the winter of their senior year, then spend four days together over the course of a year that will change their lives forever.
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Barbie as the Island Princess (2007)
★ 7.3/10Young Rosella is saved by a few kind animals after a shipwreck. Now called Ro, she learns to talk to animals. One day, she saves the life of a prince and returns to civilisation to discover her past.
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Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl (1998)
★ 7.2/10Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even…