Movies Like Brother of Sleep

If you liked Brother of Sleep (1995), a drama movie directed by Joseph Vilsmaier, 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.

1
A Hidden Life (2019)
★ 7.2/10Also drama
Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.
2
The Dark Valley (2014)
★ 7/10Also drama
The Alps, late 19th century. Greider, a mysterious lone rider who claims to be a photographer, arrives at an isolated lumber village, despotically ruled by a family clan, asking for winter accommodation.
3
Miroirs No. 3 (2025)
★ 6.6/10Also drama
After a car crash kills her boyfriend, piano student Laura is taken in by Betty, who witnessed the accident. Living with Betty's family brings comfort, but Laura starts questioning their intentions as time passes.
4
Fatima (2020)
★ 7.2/10Also drama
In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin Mary, who tells them that only prayer and suffering will bring an end to World…
5
Ghosts (2005)
★ 6.1/10Also drama
Nina, a mentally ill teenage orphan, starts a new job as a garden cleaner when she meets Toni. They fall in love but soon Toni starts betraying Nina. Meanwhile, Francoise is picked up at a Berlin psychiatric hospital…
6
Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
★ 7.2/10Also drama
Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939. But when World War II breaks out, the arrogant Harrer falls into Allied forces' hands as a prisoner of…
7
Black Narcissus (1947)
★ 7.5/10Also drama
A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climate in the region is hostile and the nuns are housed in an odd old palace. They work to establish a school and a…
8
Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)
★ 6.6/10Also drama
A veteran actress comes face-to-face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself when she agrees to take part in a revival of the play that launched her career 20 years earlier.
9
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
★ 7.6/10Also drama
An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her…
10
Nell (1994)
★ 6.5/10Also drama
In a remote woodland cabin, a small town doctor discovers Nell — a beautiful young hermit woman with many secrets.
11
Noel (2004)
★ 5.8/10Also drama
With Christmas Eve just around the corner in bustling New York, five lonely and sad strangers find their lives inadvertently intersected.
12
You're Not You (2014)
★ 7.4/10Also drama
When an accomplished pianist is diagnosed with the devastating and incurable disease ALS, she hires a directionless young woman who becomes her full-time caregiver. Complete opposites, the strangers form a…
13
Jerichow (2008)
★ 6.5/10Also drama
In a small Northern German town, a dishonourably discharged Afghanistan veteran is offered a job as a deliveryman by an alcoholic Turkish entrepreneur, through which the former meets the latter's gorgeous wife.
14
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
★ 8.3/10Also drama
George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas…
15
Faust (2011)
★ 6.6/10Also drama
A doctor in early 19th-century Germany becomes infatuated with the sister of a man he unintentionally killed and bargains with the Devil incarnate to conjure their union in exchange for his soul.
16
At Eternity's Gate (2018)
★ 7/10Also drama
Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him.
17
The Shack (2017)
★ 7.5/10Also drama
A grieving man receives a mysterious, personal invitation to meet with God at a place called 'The Shack'.
18
Amadeus (1984)
★ 8/10Also drama
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the hedonistic and remarkably talented young Salzburger composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
19
Second Best (1994)
★ 6.7/10Also drama
The difficult relationship between a british postal officer and his adoptive son.
20
The German Lesson (2019)
★ 6.5/10Also drama
In a small North German village a drama played out during and shortly after the Second World War about duty versus individual conscience and morality.