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10 Best Movies Like Brother, I Cry

If you loved Brother, I Cry, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
A Million Little Pieces

A Million Little Pieces

2019★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Brother, I Cry for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A young drug-addled writer approaching the bottom of his descent submits to two months of agonizing detox at a treatment center in Minnesota....

#2
Beautiful Boy

Beautiful Boy

2018★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Brother, I Cry for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son, who goes from experimenting with drugs to becoming devastatingly addicted to metha...

#3
Trainspotting

Trainspotting

1996★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Brother, I Cry for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends --Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane...

#4
I Smile Back

I Smile Back

2015★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Brother, I Cry for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Laney is an attractive, intelligent suburban wife and devoted mother of two adorable children. She has the perfect husband who plays basketball with the kids in the driveway, a pri...

#5
Blood Punch

Blood Punch

2014★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Brother, I Cry for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Milton, a college dropout, was only supposed to cook meth for one day. Broken out of rehab by a brash young woman and her trigger-happy ("ex") boyfriend and driven to a remote cabi...

#6
Candy

Candy

2006★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Brother, I Cry for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A poet falls in love with an art student, who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle — and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationsh...

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