Movies like Broke
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Broke (2025)
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A bronc rider in denial about his fading rodeo career battles against brain injury and a sudden blizzard while reflecting on how it became so difficult to achieve his dreams.
Style:
psychological, bleak, melancholic, existential, atmospheric, neo western, dramatic
Plot:
survival, winter, blizzard, isolation, rodeo, snowstorm, man versus nature, brain injury, cold, redemption, reflection, regret, memory loss, ranch, intimate, tragedy, small town, minimalism, prairie, injury, denial, concussion
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Most similar movies to Broke
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, atmospheric, psychological and bleak films with plots about isolation, redemption, small town, survival, intimate, character study and minimalism mostly in Drama, Western and Adventure genres. Some movies like Broke: Havlandet (1985), Pilgrim Hill (2013), Living Lost (2016), Ruby Jean and Joe (1996), I'm Beginning To See the Light (2025). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
This is a tale that has an epic scope in scenery "the northern snow-covered lands of coastal Norway" and is dramatized by moments of tumultuous stormy weather. But the focus is on Heikki (Stein Bjorn) a young man who is inspired by the ...
Style:
historical drama, atmospheric, bleak, melancholic, period piece ...
Plot:
northern lights, poverty, survival, hunger, man versus nature, snowstorm, winter, isolation, tragedy, rescue, blizzard, infant ...
Time:
1860s, 19th century
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A middle-aged bachelor farmer living in rural Ireland has to deal with isolation and loneliness.
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, bleak, contemplative, existential ...
Plot:
loneliness, isolation, village life, hardship, realism, social isolation, loss, minimalism, slice of life, intimate, slow burn, small town ...
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
91%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Gene Timbault, a corporate executive, is engaged in the deal of a lifetime, but learns he has an incurable disease. In an escape to the jungles of Central America he finds that all may not be lost.
Style:
emotional, reflective, existential, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
self discovery, redemption, personal growth, spiritual journey, transformation, second chance, acceptance, mortality, terminal illness, intimate, regret, isolation ...
Place:
central america, guatemala
Similarity:
88%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In a tale set in the rough and tumble world of professional rodeo, an over-the-hill former champion broncobuster and a young hitchhiker develop a special friendship.
Style:
heartfelt, touching, melancholic, emotional, reflective ...
Plot:
friendship, rodeo, intergenerational friendship, road trip, character study, second chance, life lesson, aging, bittersweet, horse riding, hitchhiking, nostalgia ...
Similarity:
83%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A tale of self-rediscovery seen through the eyes of a grief-stricken trumpeter, who finds salvation in a lighthouse and its two suicidal visitors.
Style:
emotional, dramatic, contemplative, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Plot:
lighthouse, grief, suicide, seaside, empathy, loneliness, trumpet player, salvation, healing, intimate, mourning, redemption ...
Similarity:
78%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An estranged father and son spend the day ambling around a cemetery, wandering the wilderness, searching for family, and stumbling through disharmony and heartache.
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, dramatic, serious, harsh ...
Plot:
father son relationship, son, father, father and son, cemetery, character study, estrangement, family drama, family relations, alienation, parents and children, estranged son ...
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Berlin. Night. An old, homeless drunk stumbles down the street. Ignored by everyone - almost everyone. A woman suddenly appears in front of him - mid-thirties, thin, a drug addict. She stands face-to-face for the first time in years with the man she ...
Style:
bleak, tense, intense, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Plot:
night, desperation, isolation, alienation, estrangement, secrets, homelessness, confrontation, survival, realism, regret, loss ...
Place:
berlin germany, german democratic republic, germany, east germany
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A newly married gunfighter seeks a quiet life with his bride. When he kills a bandit in self-defense, he finds them both pulled back into his old ways. The corrupt mayor of their locale will not let his brother's death go unpunished.
Style:
tense, grim, neo western
Plot:
gunfighter, violence, showdown, corruption, duel, revenge, corrupt mayor, redemption, moral ambiguity, justice, murder, self defense ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s
Similarity:
66%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Story:
"This feature-length film is set in the barren and lifeless "Broken Heart" desert of the 1920s. "Cold Sun" is the story of a prostitute searching for her dead brother, a confused excommunicated priest seeking love, two ...
Style:
atmospheric, noir, period piece, melancholic, tension ...
Plot:
desert, isolation, moral ambiguity, greed, desolation, loneliness, stolen gold, obsession, betrayal, tragedy, religious conflict, slow burn ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
california
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An outlaw is rescued from death by a nun who is traveling through the Badlands. She nurses him back to health in exchange for him guiding her to a Church in Williston. A deep friendship develops between these two unlikely people as they learn to ...
Style:
exciting, tense, suspenseful, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
wasteland, nun, church, outlaw, western hero, travel, shooting, gunfight, fight, relationships, problem, road trip ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
north dakota, south dakota
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Sierra Nevada Mountains, 1887: William Drayton, once a crack sharpshooter in the Civil War, has lost his wife and home. He has ascended to the high country, wanting never to be heard from again.
Style:
serious, tense, suspense, captivating, period piece ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
starting over, rivalry, escapades, lone wolves, small town, old west, tough heroes, danger, post civil war, isolation, solitude, wilderness ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
While middle-aged Vincent (Didier Sandre) makes a sand castle on a beach in Brittany, France, his sister Zaza (Catherine Ferran) and brother Francois (Charles Berling) spend a summer day reflecting on death and loss. They think back on their sister ...
Style:
melancholic, reflective, poignant, contemplative, emotional ...
Plot:
loss, grief, mourning, character study, bereavement, beach, memory, intimate, family relations, relationships, small town, minimalism ...
Time:
90s
Place:
brittany
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
An aging cowboy must choose between his desire to remain free and the responsibilities of maintaining a family.
Style:
reflective, contemplative, melancholic, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot:
freedom, character study, nostalgia, family conflict, moral dilemma, machismo, bittersweet, legacy, intimate, loneliness, regret, isolation ...
Place:
texas, austin texas
Similarity:
51%
299
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Dives into the often ignored seedy underbelly of Maine and it follows Emma Maddox as she returns to her hometown years following the mysterious death of her brother, Mikey. As she reconnects with his best friend Tommy, the two rekindle their flame ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, thrilling ...
Plot:
redemption, revenge, small town, problem, bereavement, life is a bitch, lie, getting home, investigation, betrayal, friendship, coastal town ...
Place:
maine
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After a series of unexpected UFO crash landings on the planet Earth, a large portion of life slowly and mysteriously went extinct. We follow a man that struggles for survival, as he gathers items needed for the impending winter. Outside of personal ...
Style:
bleak, existential, atmospheric, contemplative, melancholic ...
Plot:
survival, winter, post apocalyptic, sole survivor, desolation, isolation, slow burn, minimalism, post apocalypse, very little dialogue, loneliness, end of the world ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Seven Years after his wife's murder and the events that changed his life, Caleb Williams has become a gunfighter known as The Tailor.
Style:
atmospheric, suspenseful, realistic, rough, serious ...
Plot:
desert, small town, couple relations, clergy, old west, social relations, small town life, prison, shootout, revenge, gunslinger, showdown ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
yuma arizona, arizona
Similarity:
50%
183
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Chile, Argentina
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A screenwriter travels to Northern Chile to research his script for a Western thriller but ends up getting more than he bargained for.
Style:
tense, captivating, disturbing, independent film, atmospheric ...
Plot:
mistaken identity, survival, filmmaking, filmmaker, irony, director, screenwriter, escapades, struggle for survival, character study, journey, obsession ...
Place:
latin america
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Two missionaries witness a murder by hired guns and go on the run. They stumble onto the cabin of two retired contract killers who agree to help the women find safety, but only their guns can secure that promise.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, dark, noir
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder witness, on the run, violence, survival, isolation, chase, escape, fleeing, vigilante justice, moral ambiguity, missionary, moral dilemma ...
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A young African American man, reeling from the tragic loss of his wife, travels to rural Maine to seek answers from his estranged mother-in-law, who is herself confronting guilt and grief over her daughter's death.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, melancholic, bleak ...
Plot:
grief, guilt, mother-in-law, family problems, loss, mourning, character study, bereavement, loss of daughter, mother in law, countryside, loss of wife ...
Place:
maine
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Put-upon lawman John Dorsey is on the verge of losing his wife and his job as sheriff, so he posses up with bullish U.S. Marshall Butch Hayden to hold outlaw Emily Rusk hostage. A battle of wills ensues as Emily turns the posse on themselves, but as ...
Style:
intense, suspenseful, tense, neo western
Plot:
sheriff, outlaw, showdown, lawman, vigilantism, hostage, squad, gunfight, u.s. marshal, betrayal, anti hero, revenge ...
Similarity:
48%
133
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Four people, isolated in their different ways are trapped in the desert and changed forever. Against impossible odds, can they find meaning - life, laughter and love before it is too late?
Style:
psychological, existential, emotional, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Plot:
isolation, desert, thirst, survival, loneliness, transformation, australian outback, character study, heat wave, friendship, introspection, intimate ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
australia
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
On the run and bleeding a young man ends up at a pond house where he meets an old man (Tobin Bell) and holds him hostage in his own home. As the days pass and the secrets about their past are revealed, they learn that they might not have been ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, captivating, disturbing, melancholic ...
Plot:
father son relationship, hostage, father, family secret, estranged father, family relations, change of luck, family problems, parents and children, search for father, fatherhood, character study ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
In a small western town in the late 1800′s, two outlaws take a blind preacher, his wife and an Indian girl as hostages in their flight from the law. Excitement mounts when Dan, one of the outlaws makes a shocking discovery. The last train to ...
Style:
suspense, tension, atmospheric, bleak, christian film ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
hostage, outlaw, old west, preacher, kidnapping, train, christian, redemption, showdown, blind character, vigilantism, guilt ...
Similarity:
45%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The lives of three disparate families are illuminated by a meteor shower on a winter night.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, emotional, anthology ...
Plot:
psychology, family relations, winter, meteor shower, social problems, multiple storylines, life is a bitch, social issues, snow, stargazing, intimate, slice of life ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Brett and Jake meet in a bar and decide to drown their sorrows in whiskey, forgetting the past, ignoring the future, and exploring life, love, and tragedy together for one fateful night.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, romantic, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
night, male female relationship, love story, relationships, drinking alcohol, stormy night, couple relations, relationship problems, love affair, love interest, love and romance, alcoholism ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The story of a man's struggle to claim his future by confronting his past. The road is not an easy one as old demons resurface to threaten everything Eden has fought to overcome.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, touching, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
small town, redemption, starting over, haunted by the past, family relations, lifestyle, hopes, homecoming, parents and children, going straight, social relations, male protagonist ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
idaho, america, usa
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Wally Olynyk (Stefan Wodoslawsky) returns home to the Cape Breton region of Nova Scotia in this somber drama. After years of living in Los Angeles, he hopes to attend his high-school reunion and visit with his father Stan (Jan Rubes). Stan is the ...
Style:
melancholic, emotional, bleak, realistic, independent film ...
Plot:
father son relationship, alzheimer's disease, family drama, small town, memory loss, character study, estranged son, getting home, regret, mortician, reconciliation, homecoming ...
Place:
nova scotia, canada, nova scotia, canada, los angeles
Similarity:
42%
33
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
EDEN deals with what could possible be a future for most people caught up in the current economic climate in Ireland and how we have taken a bite of the financial apple and borrowed beyond our means. We follow Adam who has been left unemployed and ...
Style:
melancholic, independent film, bleak, existential, grim
Plot:
homelessness, street life, realism, social commentary, unemployment, poverty, empathy, character study, working class, survival, desperation, urban decay ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Two thousand miles from home, Jim and Jennifer Stolpa (with baby Clayton) lose their way and are stranded in an endless wilderness of deep snow, battling for survival against the elements. Using only meager supplies and resourcefulness, the young ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological
Plot:
frostbite, survival, hypothermia, snowstorm, rescue, wilderness, heroes, danger, babies and infants, family life, forces of nature, isolation ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Portrays the universe of an eternal being that exists within a lifecycle filled with disappointments and hopelessness. It's the chronicle about the search for love and the fight against oblivion.
Style:
existential, reflective, melancholic, emotional, dramatic ...
Plot:
loneliness, character study, loss, hopelessness, memory, frustration, identity crisis, alienation, intimate, lgbt, gay, redemption ...
Similarity:
41%
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