Top 20 movies like Butterfly

Butterfly

The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a close relationship with his teacher Don Gregorio who introduces the boy to different things in the world. While the story centres on Moncho's ordinary coming-of-age experiences, tensions related to the looming Spanish Civil War periodically interrupt Moncho's personal growth and daily life.

La lengua de las mariposas is of 1 hour(s) and 36 minute(s). It is Produced By:  TVG, Canal+ España, Las Producciones del Escorpión S.L., TVE, Grupo Voz, Sogetel. It was released on 1999-09-24. It has the tagline: Stop and taste the world. It has an average vote of 7.381 on TMDB.

Genres: Drama

1. To Die in Madrid (Mourir à Madrid)

To Die in Madrid

Morir en Madrid brings together several papers on the Spanish Civil War and integrates capturing different points of view, intended to represent the continuity of the suffering of the Spanish during the Franco regime. The death of Federico Garcia Lorca, Guernica, the defense of Madrid, the International Brigades, are some of the items comprised in this document.

It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.

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2. The Adventures of the American Rabbit

The Adventures of the American Rabbit

To fight evil, a young rabbit can transform into a star spangled superhero.

It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.

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3. Voyage to Nowhere (El viaje a ninguna parte)

Voyage to Nowhere

The Iniesta-Galván family is a theatre company that goes from town to town offering its performances. Over the years, its members will have to adapt to changes and make decisions, like that of whether or not to continue performing. One day, unexpectedly, a son that he has fathered on his travels presents himself to Carlos Galván.

It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.

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4. The Attack of the Giant Mousaka (Η Επίθεση του Γιγαντιαίου Μουσακά)

The Attack of the Giant Mousaka

Around the year 2000, a terrible occurence shocks the city of Athens: a huge piece of moussaka appears on the city streets, spreading panic and death. Everyone keeps wondering: why, where, how, for what reason? But no one can give an answer...

It has an average vote of 3.1 on TMDB.

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5. Stillness in the Storm (Gelditasuna ekaitzean)

Stillness in the Storm

Lara returns from Paris with her partner, Telmo, to settle in San Sebastian. Daniel has never left the city; today he lives with his girlfriend, Vera, and works for his mother's real estate agency. Lara and Daniel's lives cross while visiting a flat for sale; but this may not be the first time they have met. Halfway between the past and the present, Gelditasuna ekaitzean explores the love story of two people whose lives, in other circumstances, in other times, could have taken other paths.

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6. The Misadventures of Margaret

The Misadventures of Margaret

A timid, insecure popular author with an overly-attentive professor husband decide to write an erotic novel. With encouragement from her sister and a bi-sexual friend, she goes to France with the intent of doing research at an inn where a diary she had been using documented erotic encounters. Instead she finds the inn is now a cloister for singing nuns. However, a young, divorced sound engineer is also there taping the nuns. While attracted, she mostly succumbs only to new fantasies until he follows her home to New York.

It has an average vote of 5.2 on TMDB.

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7. You're My Hero (Eres Mi Héroe)

You're My Hero

Thirteen-year-old Ramon is on the verge of many adolescent discoveries -- and the confusion that goes along with them. Shy and awkward, he's moved from town to town throughout his childhood and believes that life is about winning and losing. But he soon learns it's all about survival. Like Ramon, Spain is in transition ; it's a time of social upheaval marked by change, illusion and struggle.

It has an average vote of 5.4 on TMDB.

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8. Steel

Steel

Daniel, a successful TV journalist living life in the fast lane, has fallen into a deep depression. His seemingly perfect life suddenly collapses under him when panic attacks force him to deal with himself and his past.

It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.

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9. Hasta la Victoria Siempre (Hasta la Victoria Siempre)

Hasta la Victoria Siempre

An obituary of Che Guevara, made in forty-eight hours to be shown at the mass meeting on the 18th October 1967 in the Plaza de la Revolucion in Havana, where Fidel Castro announced the death of Guevara in Bolivia.

It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.

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10. Secrets of the Heart (Secretos del corazón)

Secrets of the Heart

Javi and his friend Carlos visit an old house on the outskirts of a small Spanish village. According to his brother Juan this is a haunted house and one can hear the voices of the dead. Later he is intrigued with a room which is always closed . He is so interested in these mysteries that he starts to investigate all the secrets of these dead people and their stories.

It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.

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11. Piggy (Cerdita)

Piggy

Sara is an overweight teen who lives in the shadow of a clique of cool girls holidaying in her village. Not even her childhood friend, Claudia, defends her when she's bullied at the local pool in front of an unknown man. Her clothes are stolen and Sara must get home wearing nothing but her bikini.

It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.

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12. November (Noviembre)

November

Impelled by a spirit which still preserves a patina of idealism, Alfredo arrives to Madrid with the intention to create "a performance that is free, straight from the heart, capable of making people feel alive". His concept of what acting should be begins beyond the stage, out in the streets face to face with the public. Outdoors, in any town square, in a park or in the city's most commercial street, Alfredo and his troupe November start the show; demons to provoke passers-by, displays of social conscience, actions taken to the extreme to put the forces of law and order on full alert. There are no limits, no censorship; only ideas which are always valid so long as the public ceases to be the public and becomes part of the show swept by surprise, fear, tears or laughter. Theater as life, life as theater… there is no longer any difference.

It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.

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13. Apache

Apache

Following the surrender of Geronimo, Massai, the last Apache warrior is captured and scheduled for transportation to a Florida reservation. On the way he manages to escape and heads for his homeland to win back his girl and settle down to grow crops. His pursuers have other ideas though.

It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.

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14. Before the Revolution (Prima della rivoluzione)

Before the Revolution

The study of a youth on the edge of adulthood and his aunt, ten years older. Fabrizio is passionate, idealistic, influenced by Cesare, a teacher and Marxist, engaged to the lovely but bourgeois Clelia, and stung by the drowning of his mercurial friend Agostino, a possible suicide. Gina is herself a bundle of nervous energy, alternately sweet, seductive, poetic, distracted, and unhinged. They begin a love affair after Agostino's funeral, then Gina confuses Fabrizio by sleeping with a stranger. Their visits to Cesare and then to Puck, one of Gina's older friends, a landowner losing his land, dramatize contrasting images of Italy's future. Their own futures are bleak.

It has an average vote of 7.072 on TMDB.

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15. Lacombe, Lucien (Lacombe Lucien)

Lacombe, Lucien

In Louis Malle's lauded drama, Lucien Lacombe is a young man living in rural France during World War II who seeks to join the French Resistance. When he is rejected due to his youth, the resentful Lucien allies himself with the Nazis and joins the Gallic arm of their Gestapo. Lucien grows to enjoy the power that comes with his position, but his life is complicated when he falls for France Horn, a beautiful young Jewish woman.

It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.

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16. Carmina or Blow Up (Carmina o revienta)

Carmina or Blow Up

Carmina, 58, runs a shop selling Iberian products in Seville. After several robberies and no help from her insurance company, she comes up with a way to recover the money she needs to keep her family. While she waits in her kitchen for her plan to kick in, she thinks back over her life, her work and her miracles.

It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.

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17. Wondrous Boccaccio (Maraviglioso Boccaccio)

Wondrous Boccaccio

It's 1348. The plague has brutally hit Florence. A group of then young people, seven women and three men, rebel against the feeling of death that is about to swallow them. They flee the city and find refuge in an abandoned villa in the Tuscan hills. Here, between moral doubts and the tasks needed to survive, they kill time by telling each other stories until they will decide to return. The stories are varied - tragic, bizarre, funny or erotic - but common and central to all of them is the female presence.

It has an average vote of 5.9 on TMDB.

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18. The 13 Roses (Las 13 rosas)

The 13 Roses

True story of thirteen totally normal young women that suffered harsh questioning and were put in prison under made up charges of helping the rebellion against Franco back in the 1940s. Despite of their innocence, the thirteen were soon executed without even a trace of evidence of any wrong doing.

It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.

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19. Pellet (El Bola)

Pellet

El Bola is a 12-year-old boy raised in a violent and sordid environment. Embarrassed by his family life, he avoids becoming close to classmates. The arrival of a new boy at school changes his attitude towards his classmates and friendship. The heart of the story is the change in El Bola's life, at almost all levels, after befriending this new classmate.

It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.

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20. Belle Époque (Belle Époque)

Belle Époque

In 1931, a young soldier deserts from the army and falls into a country farm, where he is welcomed by the owner due to his political ideas. Manolo has four daughters, Fernando likes all of them and they like him, so he has to decide which one to love.

It has an average vote of 6.666 on TMDB.

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