Best "butterfly" Movies of All Time

40 movies found (page 1/2):

Barbie Mariposa & the Fairy Princess(2013)

| 1h 15min | Animation, Kids & Family, Fantasy

3.5/5 (with 131 votes)

Mariposa becomes the Royal Ambassador of Flutterfield, and is sent to bring peace between her fairy land and their rivals, the Crystal Fairies of Shimmervale. While Mariposa doesn't make a great first impression on the King, she becomes fast friends with his shy daughter, Princess Catania. However, a misunderstanding causes Mariposa to be banished from their fairy land. As Mariposa and Zee returns to Flutterfield, they encounter a dark fairy on her way to destroy Shimmervale. Mariposa rushes back and helps Princess Catania to save their fairy land and together, the two girls prove that the best way to make a friend, is to be a friend.

Directed by William Lau

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Barbie Mariposa(2008)

| 1h 15min | Animation, Fantasy, Kids & Family

3.4/5 (with 221 votes)

Elina, heroine of the Fairytopia films tells her friend Bibble the story of Flutterfield, a faraway kingdom populated by fairies with butterfly wings. Henna, the evil butterfly fairy has poisoned the queen of Flutterfield in an attempt to take over the kingdom.

Directed by Conrad Helten

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Maggie Simpson in The Longest Daycare(2012)

| 5min | Animation, Drama, Kids & Family

3.5/5 (with 161 votes)

In this Oscar-nominated short from The Simpsons, Maggie must navigate an eventful first day in daycare. At the Ayn Rand School for Tots, Maggie is diagnosed with average intelligence. Barred from the gifted children, she longs to escape from her glue-guzzling classmates. But when a lonely caterpillar befriends her, she makes it her mission to save it from a ruthless butterfly smashing toddler.

Directed by David Silverman

Anatomy(2000)

| 1h 43min | Horror, Thriller

3.0/5 (with 122 votes)

Medical student Paula wins a place at an exclusive Heidelberg medical school. When the body of a young man she met on the train turns up on her dissection table, she begins to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death, and uncovers a gruesome conspiracy within the school.

Directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky - With Franka Potente, Benno Fürmann, Rüdiger Vogler, Anna Brüggemann, Anna Loos, Simon Schwarz, ...

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The Duke of Burgundy(2014)

1h 44min | Drama, Mystery, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 140 votes)

Day in and day out, lovers Cynthia and Evelyn enact an elaborate sadomasochistic fantasy as mistress and maid. But as their ritual of domination and submission begins to turn stale, Cynthia yearns for something more conventional, while Evelyn tries to push their taboos even further.

Directed by Peter Strickland - With Sidse Babett Knudsen, Kata Bartsch, Monica Swinn

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Gwendoline(1984)

| 1h 28min | Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller

2.5/5 (with 37 votes)

A beautiful woman hires an intrepid adventurer to help find her father, who has disappeared in the jungle while searching for a rare and priceless butterfly. Along the way they run into cannibals, a race of Amazon warriors and all the usual attractions one would expect to find in a lost jungle.

Directed by Just Jaeckin - With Tawny Kitaen, Brent Huff, Zabou Breitman, Bernadette Lafont, Jean Rougerie

The Collector(1965)

1h 59min | Drama, Thriller

3.7/5 (with 81 votes)

Freddie is an inept bank clerk with no future. His only hobby is collecting butterflies, which gives him a feeling of power and control that is otherwise totally missing from his life. He comes into a large sum of money and buys himself a country house. Still unable to make himself at ease socially, he starts to plan on acquiring a girlfriend - in the same manner as he collects butterflies. He prepares the cellar of the house to be a collecting jar and stalks his victim over several days.

Directed by William Wyler - With Terence Stamp, Samantha Eggar, Mona Washbourne, Edina Ronay, Kenneth More

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Little Ashes(2008)

| 1h 52min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.0/5 (with 53 votes)

About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca.

Directed by Paul Morrison - With Javier Beltrán, Robert Pattinson, Matthew McNulty, Marina Gatell, Federico García Lorca, Luis Buñuel, ...

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Frogs(1972)

| 1h 31min | Horror, Mystery

2.4/5 (with 54 votes)

Jason Crockett is an aging, grumpy, physically disabled millionaire who invites his family to his island estate for his birthday celebration. Pickett Smith is a free-lance photographer who is doing a pollution layout for an ecology magazine. Jason Crockett hates nature, poisoning anything that crawls on his property. On the night of his birthday the frogs and other members of nature begin to pay Crockett back.

Directed by George McCowan - With Ray Milland, Sam Elliott, Joan Van Ark, Adam Roarke, Judy Pace, Lynn Borden, ...

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Butterfly(1999)

| 1h 36min | Drama

3.7/5 (with 99 votes)

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.

Directed by José Luis Cuerda - With Fernando Fernán Gómez, Elena Fernández, Manuel Lozano, Uxía Blanco, Jesús Castejón, Guillermo Toledo, ...

Premam(2015)

2h 37min | Comedy, Romance / Love

3.6/5 (with 38 votes)

Three stages in George's life, and three girls he encounters in each stage.

Directed by Alphonse Puthren - With Nivin Pauly, Soubin Shahir, Sai Pallavi, Anupama Parameswaran

In the Time of the Butterflies(2001)

PG-13

| 1h 35min | TV Movie, Thriller, Drama, History, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 14 votes)

Based on the book by Julia Alvarez. Three sisters become activists during the Dominican Republic's Trujillo regime when members of their family are killed by the government's troops.

Directed by Mariano Barroso - With Salma Hayek, Edward James Olmos, Mía Maestro, Demián Bichir, Lumi Cavazos, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., ...

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Wings of Life(2011)

1h 17min | Documentary

3.5/5 (with 16 votes)

A beautiful love story in danger. Our future depends on an amazing love story between the flowers and fauna consisting of bees, butterflies, birds and bats, which allow these species to reproduce. Delicate and graceful, the flowers are not content to be the ultimate symbol of beauty. On the contrary, their vibrant colors and their exotic flavors are so many wonders that attract pollinators and drunk with desire. All these animals are involved in a complex dance of seduction on which one third of our crops, a dance without which we could survive ... Pollen presents the unsung heroes of the global food chain. Their fantastic worlds are full of stories, drama and beauty. While a fragile and threatened, essential for the balance of the planet, it should now actively protect ...

Directed by Louis Schwartzberg - With Mélanie Laurent, Meryl Streep

Flight of the Butterflies(2012)

| 45min | Documentary

3.2/5 (with 9 votes)

It takes two or three generations for the monarch butterfly to reach the Canadian breeding grounds, but it is one "supergeneration" that makes the 2,000 mile return trip back south into central Mexico. The documentary film covers Dr Fred Urquhart's interest in monarch butterflies, with perspectives of Urquhart as a child wondering where the butterflies went, his years of research and study into their life and migration, to his time decades-later as a senior scientist looking back at his investigations and discoveries about the insect's life pattern.

Directed by Mike Slee - With Gordon Pinsent

A Woman After a Killer Butterfly(1978)

1h 57min | Drama, Mystery, Romance / Love

2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

A melodrama about a man who survives an attempted double suicide with a stranger while picnicking with friends. He goes on a cave expedition for a famous archaeologist where he discovers a skeleton several thousand years old. He meets the spirit of the skeleton in a dream, and then becomes romantically involved with the archeologist's daughter.

Directed by Kim Ki-young

The Butterfly Tree(2017)

1h 37min | Drama

3.4/5 (with 7 votes)

Evelyn, an ex-burlesque queen, bewitches single dad Al and his teenage son Fin with her zest for life. When father and son discover they are competing for the affections of the same woman, it reopens old wounds over the death of Fin's mother.

With Melissa George

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Varan(1958)

1h 27min | Science Fiction, Horror

3.5/5 (with 7 votes)

When a rare species of butterfly is found in a mysterious valley in Japan, a pair of entomologists go to investigate and find more. They discover Varan, a giant monster, Who decided to leave the valley and head straight for Tokyo.

Directed by Ishirō Honda - With Haruo Nakajima, Myron Healey, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Akihiko Hirata, Yoshifumi Tajima, Kin Sugai, ...

The Blue Butterfly(2004)

1h 37min | Adventure, Drama

3.3/5 (with 13 votes)

Based on a true story, The Blue Butterfly tells the story of a terminally ill 10-year-old boy whose dream is to catch the most beautiful butterfly on Earth, the mythic and elusive Blue Morpho. His mother persuades a renowned entomologist to take them on a trip to the jungle to search for the butterfly, leading to an adventure that will transform their lives.

Directed by Léa Pool - With William Hurt, Pascale Bussières, Marc Donato

Chrysalises(2022)

Drama

The streets of Barcelona, thousands of people coinciding at the same time, eyes crossed lost in thought. Not realizing that even though it may seem unique, everyone has a story worth telling. People who live the moment that will change them forever, that will define and vindicate them. Moments in our lives where we have been, or will be, aware of a change of stage; of a before and an after. Moments when we feel like we’re dragging our backs every minute we’ve lived. Because we are all inside our chrysalis until someone breaks them and forces us to face the real world.

The Clouded Yellow(1950)

| 1h 35min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

3.1/5 (with 8 votes)

After leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers (played by Trevor Howard) finds work cataloging butterflies at the country house of Nicholas and Jess Fenton. After the murder of a local gamekeeper, suspicion (wrongfully) falls on their niece, Sophie Malraux (Jean Simmons). Somers helps Sophie to escape arrest and they go on the run together. After a cross-country chase they arrive at a coastal city with the intention of leaving the country by ship. All's well that ends well after the true identity of the murderer is revealed.

Directed by Ralph Thomas - With Trevor Howard, Jean Simmons, Sonia Dresdel

Sweet Cocoon(2014)

| 6min | Adventure, Comedy, Animation

3.1/5 (with 11 votes)

A story about a caterpillar undergoing metaphorphosis in a too-small cocoon.

Directed by Matéo Bernard, Matthias Bruget, Jonathan Duret, Manon Marco, Quentin Puiraveau

Katy Caterpillar(1984)

| 1h 24min | Adventure, Animation, Kids & Family

3.1/5 (with 5 votes)

Katy Caterpillar lives in a cherry tree deep in the forest, but she longs to see the wide world. When she finally gets her chance, she meets lots of fascinating characters along the way.

Directed by José Luis Moro, Santiago Moro

A Butterfly Kiss(2011)

1h 41min | Drama

2.7/5 (with 4 votes)

Billie and Louis have the good fortune of loving each other passionately and of having a family. But then one day terrible news turns their existence and that of their friends' upside down. Marie, a famous actress who is Billie's friend and confidant, redoubles her determination to give life, while Alice, her nurse, fighting for freedom, maintains that life 'is here and now and in the moment.' A film about love, hope, and the conviction that the force of life, despite the toughest tests, will always gain the upper hand.

Directed by Karine Silla - With Anton Yakovlev, Bakary Sangaré, Benjamin Bellecour, Camille Thomas, Catherine Hiegel, Cécile de France, ...

Butterfly Wings(1991)

1h 48min | Drama, Kids & Family

3.7/5 (with 10 votes)

Ami is a 6 year old girl, extremely sensitive. Her mother, Carmen, lives with the obsession of giving a son to her husband, Gabriel. When finally she gets pregnant, the relation between mother and daughter becomes a tragic one, driving the family to an inevitable nightmare.

Directed by Juanma Bajo Ulloa - With Silvia Munt, Tito Valverde, Txema Blasco, Karra Elejalde, Juanma Bajo Ulloa

The Spider and the Butterfly(1909)

2min | Horror, Fantasy

2.9/5 (with 12 votes)

Surviving fragment of a longer film. A magician makes a butterfly woman appear, and a woman in a star. Exhausted, the magician falls asleep and the star woman turns into a spider, dragging the butterfly into her web.

Directed by Georges Méliès - With Georges Méliès

I Was a Teenage Butterfly(2007)

3min | Animation, Comedy

The Battle of the Bug Bands.

The Dream of Butterfly(1939)

1h 36min | Drama, Music, Romance / Love

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Italian filmmaker Carmine Gallone was still in his "operetta" mode when he helmed 1938's Il Sogno di Butterfly (Dream of the Butterfly) Maria Cebotari plays opera diva Rosa Belloni, currently starring in a production of Puccini's Madama Butterfly. The plot thickens when Rosa's backstage life begins to mirror the travails of the character she is portraying. The climax comes when Harry Peters (Fosco Giachetti), the American father of Rosa's illegitimate child, returns after four years with his new wife in tow, leading inexorably to a doleful ending both on- and offstage. Critics complained about the substandard photography in Il Sogno di Butterfly, but this might have been due to poor laboratory work.

Directed by Carmine Gallone - With Maria Cebotari, Fosco Giachetti, Germana Paolieri, Luigi Almirante, Carlo Lombardi, Miranda Bonansea, ...