Movies like My Brother 2006
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My Brother (2006)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
"My Brother" is an inner city story of two impoverished boys, Isaiah and James. James is developmentally disabled. Their mother, L'Tisha, finds herself in a tragic situation. Dying of tuberculosis, she desperately tries to get her two boys, eight and eleven at the time, adopted together. Finding that only Isaiah can be adopted. L'Tisha makes the only choice she feels she can make; creating an unbreakable bond of love between the boys, and hoping that bond will get them through life. Her prayers are answered as the boys overcome impossible odds on their way to adulthood, staying as close as ever as young men dealing with life's obstacles.
Style:
serious, emotional, realistic, touching
Plot:
disability, terminal illness, life is a bitch, family relations, mentally challenged, family problems, brother brother relationship, sick mother, siblings relations, performer's life, urban ghetto life, urban ghetto, mental institution, comedian, down syndrome, flashback, stand up comedian, mental retardation, responsibility, package, force feeding
Time:
21st century, contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and emotional films with plots about family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, parents and children, terminal illness and disability mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like My Brother: Duet for One (1986), Two Gates of Sleep (2010), Silent Heart (2014), Dawn Anna (2005), Ocean Heaven (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Duration: 107 min.
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Duration: 78 min.
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Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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76%
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Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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serious, emotional, sentimental, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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57%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Duration: 126 min.
Story:
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