Movies like Brothers 2003

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Brothers (2003)
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Brothers (2003)
Original name: Broidit
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Estonia
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Photographer Sami, maybe 35 and living in a loveless marriage, has to travel south to Pärnu, Estonia, to find his much younger brother Joni and get him back to Helsinki for treatment. Joni, around 20, is possibly fatally ill but would rather stay in Estonia enjoying a simple life together with a local girlfriend Rimma and her little baby.
Plot: cancer, love, prostitute, death, photographer, illness, age difference, doctor, happiness, runaway, leukemia, male female relationship, brother, young man, terminal illness, older brother, improv, dying, brother brother relationship, frustration, marital problem, little brother, middle aged man, young adult, bald ...
Place: estonia

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Most similar movies to Brothers

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, sincere and serious films with plots about cancer, terminal illness, illness, love, death, family relations and husband wife relationship mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Brothers: Endings (2010), Familiye (2017), She Lives! (1973), The Last Best Year (1990), Yumechiyo's Diary (1985). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Endings (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Emmy Ferguson is a 10-year old who learns that, after a long bout with leukemia, today is probably her last day on earth. Chris Ryan is a 35-year-old drug addict who is determined to make this his last day. And Adonna Frost, suffering from advanced ...
Style: independent film
Plot: cancer, drug addict, terminal illness, drug addiction, family relations, death, dying, suicide, drug, journey, leukemia, breast cancer
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95%
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Familiye (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Familiye tells the story of an ex-con who, after his release from prison, has to care for his two younger brothers. One of whom is a gambling addict, the other has Down Syndrome.
Style: dramatic, captivating, serious, bleak
Plot: gambling, prison, down syndrome, brothers, brother brother relationship, released from prison, little brother, brother, addiction, terminal illness, illness
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85%
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She Lives! (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A young couple searches for the cure for the girl's terminal illness.
Plot: cancer, love, death, college student, star crossed lovers, disease, dying young, melancholy, terminal illness
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68%
The Last Best Year (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Jane (Bernadette Peters) has a dizzy spell while at home. As her condition does not improve, she consults a doctor who finds that she is very ill and that she has no family to help her through this very trying time. He enlists the help of a ...
Plot: dying woman, humanity, cancer, female friendship, terminal illness, therapist, childhood trauma, death, dying
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Life As a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The story of a doctor named Tomasz who questions his beliefs, faith and morality as his end is near, so he makes all efforts to find dignity in his imminent death.
Style: tricky, serious, captivating, clever, intellectual ...
Plot: doctor, meaning of life, cancer, suffering, terminal illness, ex husband ex wife relationship, cynicism, death, illness, fighting illness, life & death, cause and meaning ...
Time: 2000s
Place: eastern europe, poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
The Forgettable Life of Liam White (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Liam White's career has peaked—to put it kindly. Uninspired and burnt-out, the titular character loses his will to finish his next novel and even shirks his public appearance commitments. To top it all off, Liam is told by his oncologist that ...
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot: writers, cancer, love, novelist, support, sick, writer's life, confronting the past, relationships, male female relationship, fighting illness, relationship vs career ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Yumechiyo's Diary (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Yumechiyo, a geisha house madam recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, yearns to do something constructive with the little time she has left. Through her responsibility lies in taking care of her girls, she finds purpose in providing a man ...
Plot: cancer, arrest, accidental death, son murders father, river, actor, spa, accidental killing, geisha, terminal illness, skiing, police ...
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52%
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Peaceful (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A son in denial of a serious illness. A mother facing the unbearable. And between them a doctor fighting to do his job and bring them to acceptance. The three of them have one year and four seasons to come together and understand what it means to ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: cancer, medical examination, acceptance, mother son relationship, changing lives, family relations, fighting illness, life is a bitch, family problems, illness, lifestyle change, terminal illness ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Forever and a Day (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Eugene arrives in Bukidnon with only one intention: to forget his problems at work. But when he meets Raffy and as they travel and go on ridiculous and death-defying activities together, they start to form a friendship that goes beyond Euge’s ...
Style: psychological, contemplative, sincere, unusual plot structure, sentimental ...
Plot: father son relationship, illness, cancer, cancer patient, dying, doctor, rafting, waterfall, track and field, dinner, store, marathon ...
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Three Wise Men (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Three middle aged men, long time friends, get together in a normally closed Karaoke bar to drink their failed lives away. Secrets are revealed and sometimes discovered and they sing their miseries one by one during Karaoke sessions. The arrival of a ...
Plot: christmas, terminal illness, mental disorder, grief, improv, christmas present, storytelling, friend, drinking, photographer, friendship, adultery ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Forgotten Light (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Father Holy, a village priest, battles against the state and religious bureaucracies of 1980s Czechoslovakia in his fight to raise money for a new church roof. Permeated by his love for the villagers, his encounters are marked by his good humor. In ...
Style: weird
Plot: rural setting, cancer, communist, cathedral, fund raising, communism, gypsy, sculptor, belief, dying, faith, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 1930s, 80s
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50%
The Other Woman (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After the divorce from Michael, Tessa raises her daughters Kate and Lara alone. None of them can stand Michael's new young wife Carolyn, a model. But when Tessa learns that she's suffering from cancer and soon will die, she tries to get ...
Style: realistic
Plot: cancer, model, divorce, love, family relations, terminal illness, parent child relationship, family problems, couples, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, love and romance ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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A Report (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 88 min.
Story: 1964 Finnish drama.
Plot: love, media, doomed romance, fight, ship, sailor, young adult, tragic romance, reporter, female nudity, suicide, harbor ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Before the Vigil (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Matsuoi and his wife Tsuya moved to Oshima City because of her unpredictable character. Even though Tsuya continues to have affairs, Matsuoi loves her and is a devoted husband. Tsuya is then diagnosed with a cancer and later goes into a coma. ...
Style: captivating, psychological, thrilling
Plot: cancer, fighting illness, family relations, married couple, husband wife relationship, illness, coping, marriage, family problems, marital problem, problem, changing lives ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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My Life (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: It seems that Bob Jones has everything a man could want, namely a fulfilling job and a beautiful, pregnant wife, Gail. But Bob's life is turned upside-down when he is diagnosed with cancer and given four months to live -- not even enough time ...
Style: sad, emotional, touching, melancholic, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: terminal illness, cancer, death, reconciliation, family drama, childbirth, pregnancy, self discovery, couple relations, family life, expectant father, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: usa
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47%
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Ice Bound (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: It is during the final months of 1999 that 46-year-old physician Jerri Nielsen (Susan Sarandon) finds herself stranded at the Amundsen-South Pole Research Station along with a tiny staff of researchers and technicians. Although, at first, there is ...
Style: dramatic, suspense, disturbing, realistic
Plot: cancer, doctor, adaptation, survival, hopes, happy ending, rescue, trapped, illness, breast cancer, party, wind ...
Place: antarctica
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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The Shadow Box (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Over the course of a day in a California hospice, three terminally ill patients are observed with their families reflecting on life and death. Adapted for television from the award-winning play by Michael Cristofer.
Plot: mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, death, husband wife relationship, love, marriage, letter, cancer, gay, homosexual, ex husband ex wife relationship, terminal illness ...
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Princes In Exile (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Diagnosed as having a brain tumor, seventeen-year-old Ryan is angrily resigned to the fact that he may not live to see another year. With time running out, he clings to two goals: publishing his journal and losing his virginity. But as Ryan finds ...
Style: independent film
Audience: family outing
Plot: summer camp, doctor, teenage boy, patient, child, teenager, death, journal, teenage girl, self pity, cancer, brain tumor ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Mum's List (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A dying mother's life lessons to the husband and sons she left behind. Based on the best-selling novel by St John (Singe) Greene, the film is the story of Singe and Kate, a couple from North Somerset, whose lives were turned upside down when ...
Style: touching, sincere, psychological, thought provoking, sentimental ...
Plot: cancer, last wish, mother, death, children, family relations, death of wife, parents and children, breast cancer, list, illness, wife ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Those Who Remain (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Bertrand (Vincent Lindon) dutifully visits his terminally ill wife every day, braving the long train and bus ride to and from the hospital. Lorraine (Emmanuelle Devos) not so willingly visits her boyfriend who was diagnosed with colon cancer. They ...
Style: realistic, touching, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: terminal illness, hospital, unfulfillment, love, self discovery, couples, friendship, fall in love, parents and children, life is a bitch, family relations, supportive spouse ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Spaces and Reservations (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Spaces and Reservations is an intimate and unsparingly realistic relationship drama that tells the story of a young couple being torn apart by malaise and infidelity, and the way the trauma of their breakup brings them back together. Jamie and ...
Style: captivating, mumblecore
Plot: breakup, naivete, loneliness, infidelity, couple relations, relationships, marital problem, relationship problems, family problems, tragic love, male female relationship, love interest ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Doctor Glas (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Doktor Glas finds himself attracted to a young woman, married to a corrupt clergyman. She's miserable in her marriage, so he agrees to help in anyway he can. But he is quickly torn between passion and morality. The story is based on the 1905 ...
Plot: women, death, love, doctor, husband wife relationship, flashback, love triangle, murder, male female relationship, wife abuse, older man younger woman relationship, death of wife ...
Time: 60s, 1900s
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42%
Naked Harbour (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Naked Harbour is a movie about Finnish love in the year 2011. It is a story about people who seek love and acceptance at any cost. During one winter week all its characters face something irreversible.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, emotional, anthology ...
Plot: human nature, single mother, woman on top, prostitute, couples, innocence lost, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, nudity, psychology, coming of age, european ...
Time: 21st century
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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April Bride (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story: On April 5, 2007, a couple married in a church. At first glance, it was a typical wedding. The bride, however, was suffering from late-stage breast cancer and had been given only a month to live. A young woman is diagnosed with breast cancer but ...
Style: romantic, captivating, sincere
Plot: love story, terminal illness, wedding, relationships, male female relationship, couple relations, true love, couples, love and romance, wedding preparations and rituals, arranged marriage, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
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41%
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Wit (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.
Style: depressing, sincere, emotional, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: cancer, medical, hospital, nurse, doctor, poetry, terminal illness, chemotherapy, dying, philosophy, hopes, regret ...
Time: 20th century
Place: usa
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37%
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Blackbird (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A terminally ill mother invites her family to their country house for one final gathering, but tensions quickly boil over between her two daughters.
Style: disturbing, sentimental, sincere, thought provoking, touching ...
Plot: dying man, terminal illness, family relations, family problems, meaning of life, life & death, health situation, doubts and hesitations, problem solving, dark secret, death of mother, cancer ...
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37%
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The Good Son (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When his mother takes a shine to a man at a party, a young man begins to lose his grip on reality. Initial release: March 25, 2011 (Finland) Director: Zaida Bergroth Editor: Jan Forsström Music composed by: Mi and L'au Awards: Jussi Award for ...
Style: psychological, sincere, touching, unusual plot structure
Plot: narcissism, family relations, dysfunctional family, teenage son, young man, brother brother relationship, single mother, writers, violent behavior, countryside, manipulation, oedipus complex ...
Time: 2010s
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Nine Days of One Year (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Two young scientists are exploring new fields of nuclear physics. Dmitry Gusev and Ilya Kulikov are good friends, but rivals in love. Dmitry marries Lyolya and they live happily together. Luck has it that he makes an important discovery. ...
Style: spiritual
Plot: scientist, realism, moving, spirituality, science, romantic rivalry, dysfunctional marriage, marriage crisis, nuclear, pessimism, physicist, optimism ...
Place: soviet union, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Griffin and Phoenix (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Geoffrey Griffin who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer in his chest, meets Sarah Phoenix as they both attend a university lecture on the psychology of dying. Sarah Phoenix has got terminal leukemia, but Griffin doesn't know that, and she ...
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional
Audience: date night
Plot: terminal illness, cancer, love, bittersweet, unlikely couple, unfulfillment, dealing with death, love and romance, youth, young lovers, couples, campus ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Don't Cry, Mr. Ogre (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story: What was once a superlative varsity baseball coach is now a jaded middle-aged man. He and a former student meet and the older man discovers that his now married pupil is afflicted with terminal cancer. Full of regrets of how he once treated the ...
Style: captivating, thrilling, psychological
Plot: japanese man, baseball, athlete and trainer, athlete's life, fighting illness, guilty conscience, cancer, illness, problem, terminal illness, student athlete
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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