Is the movie The Diving Bell and the Butterfly available on Netflix, Disney+, Prime or Apple TV+?
At Stream Tracker, we help you find where to watch films that linger in the imagination — like Julian Schnabel’s The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007). Based on Jean-Dominique Bauby’s wrenching memoir, the film follows an editor who, after a stroke, is trapped in a silent body and must painstakingly dictate his life through the single blink of an eye. From the heavy solitude of the diving bell to the fragile flutter of memory like a butterfly, Schnabel’s direction turns inner vision into cinema. The film earned wide critical praise, winning Best Director at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival and collecting four Academy Award nominations, including Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. Read on to see whether this delicate, haunting work is streaming now on Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video or Apple TV+.
Synopsis
At 43, Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of France’s Elle, is struck by a catastrophic stroke that leaves him almost completely paralyzed. With severe brainstem damage, he is trapped in a motionless body and can communicate only by blinking a single eye. Relying on that fragile link to the world, he painstakingly spells out his life story, turning solitude and physical confinement into a determined creative act.
Watch on which platform The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Updated on 12/03/2026Netflix
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Disney+
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Apple TV+
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