MVC pattern in django

MVC pattern in django

This issue has been tormenting me for a while already. I've read about
this topic but nothing seems to clear my thoughts. I understand that they
call the views templates, and the models models as well, what I don't
really get is where the controllers are. What django calls views seem to
me more like actions/methods/functions of a controller than a controller
itself, but anywhere I read, I find that supposed view-controller
equivalency.
I've worked with MVC frameworks before (ASP.NET MVC3, Ruby on Rails, PHP
Laravel Framework), and they all define the controllers as the same thing:
a bunch of functions related to a specific topic of the site, namely user
accounts or something like that. The best equivalency that I find between
this description and django features are the apps, but of course I'm wrong
due to the huge amount of people and documentation going the other way.
Could anybody help me with this? Does my mindset make any sense? Am I
missing something essential here and then I can't get these concepts
right?