Movies Like Songs My Brothers Taught Me
If you liked Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015), a drama movie directed by Chloé Zhao, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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The Poker House (2008)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaAgnes and her two sisters struggle through a day in a home overrun by gamblers, thieves, and johns.
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Hounddog (2008)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaA drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.
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Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaA poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as…
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The Safety of Objects (2002)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaIn a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband…
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Fancy Dance (2024)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaFollowing her sister's disappearance, Jax and her niece Roki must stick together. Desperate to keep what's left of their family intact, Jax and Roki defy the law and hit the road on a journey to the Grand Nation Powwow…
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The Short History of the Long Road (2019)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaNola grew up living in a van with her father, Clint—two nomads against the world. When tragedy strikes, Nola must confront the reality of life on the road alone, learning to own her grief, her past, and her new…
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End of the Road (2022)
★ 6/10Also dramaRecently widowed mom Brenda fights to protect her family during a harrowing road trip when a murder and a missing bag of cash plunge them into danger.
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Hellion (2014)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaWhen motocross and heavy metal obsessed, 13-year-old Jacob's delinquent behavior forces CPS to place his little brother Wes with his aunt, Jacob and his emotionally absent father must finally take responsibility for…
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Lucky Them (2013)
★ 6/10Also dramaMore interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work, veteran rock journalist Ellie Klug has one last chance to prove her value to her magazine’s editor: a no-stone-unturned search to discover what…
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Thirteen (2003)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaWhen 13-year-old Tracy befriends Evie, the most popular girl in school, her life is turned upside down as Evie introduces her to a world of sex, drugs, and money. But it isn’t long before Tracy’s new lifestyle begins…
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The Trials of Cate McCall (2013)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaIn order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.
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Fish Tank (2009)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaFifteen-year-old Mia is in a constant state of war with her family and the world around her. When she meets her party-girl mother’s charming new boyfriend Connor, she is amazed to find he returns her attention, and…
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Holler (2021)
★ 6/10Also dramaIn a forgotten pocket of Southern Ohio where American manufacturing and opportunity are drying up, a determined young woman finds a ticket out when she is accepted to college. Alongside her older brother, Ruth Avery…
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American Honey (2016)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaA restless teenager escapes her troubled home and joins a traveling crew of young drifters selling magazines across the American Midwest. Immersed in a world of reckless partying, risky hustles, and fleeting romances…
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A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaA headstrong young woman returns to New Orleans after the death of her estranged mother.
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Cold Pursuit (2019)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaThe quiet family life of Nels Coxman, a snowplow driver, is upended after his son's murder. Nels begins a vengeful hunt for Viking, the drug lord he holds responsible for the killing, eliminating Viking's associates…
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Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2001)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaIn New York City, the lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a house-cleaner, a professor, and the people around them intersect as they ponder order and happiness in the face of life's cold unpredictability.
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The Principal (1987)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaBurglary. Drugs. Assault. Rape. The students at Brandel High are more than new Principal Rick Latimer bargained for. Gangs fight to control the school using knives - even guns - when they have to. When Latimer and the…
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Requiem for a Dream (2000)
★ 8/10Also dramaThe drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.