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Brother of Sleep (1995)
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Brother of Sleep (1995)
Original name: Schlafes Bruder
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Schlafes Bruder tells the story a few exceptionally talented individuals who grew up in a remote mountain town in the Alps. The film, based on an internationally successful novel by Robert Schneider of the same name, depicts the slow withering of their unique skills.
Style: psychological, melancholic, disturbing, enigmatic, sexual, sentimental, aesthetic, tense, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: jealousy, mountain, gay love, music, unrequited love, social differences, introspection, poverty, friendship, fall in love, couples, isolation, lifestyle, human nature, organ, society, village, coming of age, snow, suicide, village life, genius, sex, lgbt, time machine ...
Time: 1800s, 19th century, 70s
Place: alps, austria, europe, ireland, tokyo
Keyword: mass, german, marketplace

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Most similar movies to Brother of Sleep

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sentimental films with plots about love and romance, couples, fall in love, family relations, society, love and friendship mostly in Drama, Romance and Music genres. Some movies like Brother of Sleep: Life on a String (1991), The Piano (1993), Chopin: Desire for Love (2002), Preacher's Kid (2010), To Heaven (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Life on a String (1991)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, War
Country: China, Germany, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Two blind men pursue ephemeral and unlikely hopes. One is an aged master, a wandering troubador venerated as a saint, in physical decline, waiting to break his 1,000th banjo string, an event his own master promised years before would bring him ...
Style: art film, road movie, spiritual, touching, atmospheric ...
Plot: blindness, disability, spirituality, music, minimal dialogue, kite, village, peasant, forbidden love, mountain village, friends, couples ...
Time: year 1991
Place: china, mongolia
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The Piano (1993)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Australia, France, New Zealand
Duration: 121 min.
Story: After a long voyage from Scotland, pianist Ada McGrath and her young daughter, Flora, are left with all their belongings, including a piano, on a New Zealand beach. Ada, who has been mute since childhood, has been sold into marriage to a local man ...
Style: period piece, psychological, sexual, scenic, serious ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: piano, desire, sexual relations, adultery, infidelity, couple relations, love affair, love triangle, human nature, mother daughter relationship, couples, love and romance ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1850s, 90s, 1800s ...
Place: new zealand, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Chopin: Desire for Love (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Music
Country: Poland
Duration: 134 min.
Story: The biography of world famous Polish composer Fryderyk Chopin.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot: composer, biopic, prodigy, musician's life, lifestyle, love affair, couples, destructive relationship, fall in love, society, chess, friendship ...
Time: 19th century, ancient times, 1830s
Place: poland, vienna, mallorca, warsaw poland, paris france ...
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61%
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Preacher's Kid (2010)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Small-town girl Angie King leaves the church and her home to pursue a dream of singing stardom. Luckett plays Angie, the daughter of a stern but loving bishop, whose attraction to the hunky star (Tank) of a traveling gospel show takes her on the ...
Style: sentimental, realistic, touching, serious, independent film ...
Plot: parents and children, lifestyle, hopes, love and romance, destructive relationship, youth, couples, friendship, christian, religion, father daughter relationship, music ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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To Heaven (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Shy teenager Andrés lives in the Argentine city of La Plata and cycles between school, work and home listening to punk rock. One night he finds out that his idol, the lead singer of his favorite band, has committed suicide. His religious mother is ...
Style: sentimental, melancholic, psychological, touching, sexy ...
Plot: gay teenager, gay, coming of age, gay youth, punk band, church, grandmother grandson relationship, love and romance, gay couple, young lovers, couples, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Farewell My Concubine (1992)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 171 min.
Story: Abandoned by his prostitute mother in 1920, Douzi was raised by a theater troupe. There he meets Shitou and over the following years the two develop an act entitled, "Farewell My Concubine," that brings them fame and fortune. When Shitou ...
Style: visual, epic, visually stunning, atmospheric, emotional ...
Plot: gays and lesbians, suicide, homosexuality, gender bending, theater, lgbt, child abuse, communism, drug addiction, childhood, lgbtq, transsexual ...
Time: 1940s, 1920s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1993 ...
Place: china, beijing china, tibet, asia, japan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
A Song for Martin (2001)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Martin, conductor of a symphonic orchestra, meet Barbara, violine player and they start a relationship. Five years later Martin starts to develop loss of memory and becomes more and more confused. Finally he is diagnosed with Alzheimer's ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot: family relations, infidelity, couple relations, couples, love affair, violin, lifestyle, love and romance, musician's life, crumbling marriage, fall in love, family problems ...
Time: year 2001
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Food of Love (2002)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Spain, Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Young aspiring pianist attracts attention of famous musicians. Chance encounters bring them together but expectations must be managed by all.
Style: serious, emotional, sentimental, touching, realistic ...
Plot: gay, gay teenager, lgbt, family relations, love affair, gay relationship, youth, lifestyle, musician's life, passionate interest, spouse leaving, lgbtq ...
Place: new york, barcelona, usa, san francisco, spain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Listen to Your Heart (2010)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Danny Foster doesn't have much: an apartment as small as his paychecks, no family, and a struggling music career. Yet for him, "every day is a great day to be alive," an attitude he gained from his mother's unwavering optimism ...
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, realistic, heartbreaking ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, teens
Plot: mute or deaf, family relations, fall in love, love and romance, couple relations, lifestyle, musician's life, couples, misfit, unfulfillment, parents and children, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, connecticut, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Brooklyn Babylon (2001)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A charismatic rapper falls in love with a young Jewish girl despite the confines of her religious background.
Style: touching, sincere, sentimental, serious, crime drama ...
Plot: friendship, interracial relations, culture clash, social decay, social differences, tragic love, opposites attract, unlikely couple, street life, musician's life, racism, love affair ...
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Beauty and the Bastard (2005)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Modern finnish movie about two very different young adults that after a chance meeting end up making music together and fall in love. While Nellis parents have the perfect career and man planned, she dreams of becoming a singer. Through a chance ...
Style: semi serious, captivating, entertaining, melancholic, realistic ...
Plot: music, opposites attract, hip hop culture, love and romance, lifestyle, love affair, self discovery, forbidden love, friendship, rap, coming of age, couples ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: finland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Jane Eyre (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Charlotte Bronte's classic novel is filmed yet again. The story of the Yorkshire orphan who becomes a governess to a young French girl and finds love with the brooding lord of the manor is given a standard romantic flare, but sparks do not seem ...
Style: costume drama, gothic, atmospheric, emotional, spiritual ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: age difference, literary, couples, society, fall in love, youth, love, haunted house, young love, education, spirituality, victorian england ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: england, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
House of Boys (2009)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Luxembourg, Germany
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A glamorous, colourful coming-of-age story that follows the dramatic journey of Frank, a high school kid in 1984 through an exciting world of sex and music, when his deep new passion is suddenly turned into a struggle for courage, facing a new ...
Style: touching, serious, sentimental, sincere, avant garde ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, male prostitute, gay teenager, gays and lesbians, aids, gay love, youth, gay lead character, gender, life is a bitch, friendship, lgbt ...
Time: 20th century, year 1984, 80s
Place: europe, amsterdam, holland, morocco
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Farewell Song (2019)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A female duo band "Haruleo" hires a handsome roadie Shima. Contrary to their success, adding a male leads them to the love-triangle. They set out on their final tour after deciding the break-up.
Style: romantic, melancholic, touching, psychological, sexy ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbian love, singer, lesbian relationship, lesbianism, lesbian interest, love and romance, society, lgbt, love affair, fall in love, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Run of the Country (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: An Irish lad (Matt Keeslar) who fled from his oppressive, widowed father (Albert Finney) falls for a girl (Victoria Smurfit) from an affluent family.
Style: realistic, serious, gloomy, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot: coming of age, teenager, death, father son relationship, strained relationship, police officer, ira, family relations, politics, rural area, family problems, death in the family ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Basil (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A lonely young aristocrat in turn-of the century England struggles to meet the approval of his over-bearing, class-conscious father while trying to please the selfish woman he loves.
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, light, sincere ...
Plot: unfulfilled love, betrayal, fall in love, friendship, couples, love affair, society, father daughter relationship, secret, adultery, extramarital affair, unrequited love ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 1998, 90s
Place: england, britain, europe, yorkshire, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Go-Between (1971)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Tale of torrid and forbidden love between Christie and Bates in the English countryside.
Style: sexy, disturbing, contemplative, serious, realistic ...
Plot: forbidden love, coming of age, class differences, summer, literary, love, first love, landscape, children, cricket, new love, trippy ...
Time: victorian era, year 1971, 1900s, 20th century, 19th century ...
Place: england, america, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
No Hard Feelings (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Parvis, the son of exiled Iranians, copes with life in his small hometown by indulging himself with pop culture, Grindr dates, and raves. After being caught shoplifting, he is sentenced to community service at a refugee shelter where he meets ...
Style: touching, sentimental, melancholic, tense, contemplative ...
Plot: gay, gay sex, gay muslim, gay interest, gay love, coming of age, refugee, gay subtext, gay lead character, gay club, lgbt, immigrant ...
Time: 21st century
Place: berlin germany, iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Westerland (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In the midst of a freezing winter on the island of Sylt, Cem comes across Jesús, who is on the verge of committing suicide. The two young men become fast friends, with their friendship unexpectedly threatening to develop into something more. Cem ...
Style: tense, touching, psychological, sexy, melancholic ...
Plot: male nudity, gay, mental illness, eating disorder, gay subtext, gay interest, gay couple, couple relations, love, gay relationship, love and romance, gay lead character ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
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42%
Mademoiselle Chambon (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Véronique Chambon (Sandrine Kiberlain), a single schoolteacher and Jean (Vincent Lindon), discover an unexpected bond that causes them to question the direction of their lives. They move in different social circles but their relationship develops ...
Style: serious, psychological, captivating, sentimental, sexual ...
Plot: family relations, love triangle, love affair, teacher, obsession, fall in love, infidelity, unfulfillment, small town, social differences, family problems, love ...
Place: france, europe
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41%
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The Song (2014)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: The film follows aspiring singer-songwriter Jed King (Alan Powell) as he struggles to catch a break and escape the long shadow of his father, a country music legend. After reluctantly accepting a gig at a local vineyard harvest festival, Jed is ...
Style: serious, sentimental, uplifting, captivating, christian film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: musician's life, love affair, christian, artists and showbiz, desire for fame, music, couples, country singer, faith, unfulfillment, introspection, hopes ...
Time: 80s, 2000s, year 2006, year 1981, 21st century
Place: usa, nashville tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Bandage (2010)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Set in Japan in the early 1990s, there's one rising band called LANDS, that is starting to find success amidst a flood of other bands. Asako and Miharu are two Tokyo high school students. When Miharu gives Asako her favorite indie rock band; a ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, romantic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: musician's life, friendship, betrayal, rising to stardom, contests and competitions, fall in love, desire for fame, love and romance, coming of age, artists and showbiz, music, rivalry ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Vive L'Amour (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Three lonely young denizens of Taipei unknowingly share an apartment: Mei, a real estate agent who uses it for her sexual affairs; Ah-jung, her current lover; and Hsiao-ang, who's stolen the key and uses the apartment as a retreat.
Style: erotic, disturbing, meditative, atmospheric, slow cinema ...
Plot: sex, love triangle, character study, multiple storylines, friendship, art, dysfunctional family, storytelling, drug, love and romance, couples, jealousy ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: taiwan, taipei, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Mo' Better Blues (1990)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Opens with Bleek as a child learning to play the trumpet, his friends want him to come out and play but mother insists he finish his lessons. Bleek grows into adulthood and forms his own band - The Bleek Gilliam Quartet. The story of Bleek's ...
Style: serious, psychological, stylized, clever, hood ...
Plot: jazz, music, black, friendship, rivalry, musician's life, hip hop, african american, urban, jealousy, saxophonist, blaxploitation ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1969, 60s
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, africa, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Strictly Sinatra (2001)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In Glasgow, Toni Cocozza, age 28, aspires to be a lounge singer; his repertoire is strictly Sinatra, backed by Bill, an aging piano player and his only friend. Toni dreams big and enters a local television talent show. About that time, a local Mob ...
Style: realistic, suspense, captivating, enigmatic, independent film ...
Plot: gangster, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, desire for fame, ambition, music, love and romance, relationship vs career, jazz, singer, unfulfillment, fall in love ...
Place: scotland, europe, new york, glasgow scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Proposition (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Father Michael McKinnon goes from the UK to Boston circa 1935. For unknown reasons, he avoids at all costs the most prominent parishioners, Arthur and Eleanor Barret. Meanwhile Eleanor and Arthur desperately want to have a child, but Arthur is ...
Style: absurd, melancholic, sincere, emotional, inspirational ...
Plot: priest in love, infertility, adultery, love triangle, human nature, dangerous attraction, fall in love, family problems, crumbling marriage, society, forbidden sex, dishonesty ...
Time: 1930s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: boston, usa, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Mambo Kings (1992)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The Mambo Kings tells the story of César and Nestor Castillo, brothers and aspiring musicians who flee from Cuba to America in search of the American Dream.
Style: sentimental, melancholic, emotional, serious, realistic ...
Plot: music, musician's life, rags to riches, true love, performer's life, family relations, immigrant, love story, brother brother relationship, sibling rivalry, fame, love ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, year 1992, 20th century
Place: cuba, new york, america, havana cuba, latin america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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One Love (2003)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Jamaica, Norway, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Kassa a free-wheelin rasta man, falls for a straight laced gospel singer Serena, when they both meet as they enter a music contest. Serena's father the pastor forbids her to see him and wants her to marry one of his church members. Meanwhile ...
Style: emotional, captivating, sentimental, realistic, stylized ...
Plot: jamaican, reggae, love, music, fall in love, couples, lifestyle, unfulfillment, contests and competitions, ambition, clergy, pastor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: jamaica, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Under the Greenwood Tree (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Set in a rustic English village in the mid 19th century, Under The Greenwood Tree tells the story of a poor young man who falls for a middle-class schoolteacher and attempts to win her over.
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, costume drama, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: village life, social differences, fall in love, forbidden love, love and romance, looking for love, unfulfilled love, society, couples, social relations, curses spells and rituals, christmas ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, middle ages, 50s
Place: britain, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Jane Eyre (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, UK, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Jane Eyre is an orphan cast out as a young girl by her aunt, Mrs. Reed, and sent to be raised in a harsh charity school for girls. There she learns to be come a teacher and eventually seeks employment outside the school. Her advertisement is ...
Style: romantic, costume drama, period piece, melancholic, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: happy ending, orphan, love triangle, fall in love, power relations, family relations, love and romance, love affair, parents and children, haunted by the past, rich and poor, love story ...
Time: 19th century, year 1996, ancient times, victorian era
Place: england, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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