Movies like Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015)
The best movies like Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015) are Drunktown's Finest (2014), Powwow Highway (1989) and Dreamkeeper (2003). If Songs My Brothers Taught Me hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedMud (2013)7.1/10 from 3,199 votes
- NewestRez Ball (2024)Released 2024
Drunktown's Finest (2014)
On a desolate Navajo reservation in New Mexico, three young people – a college-bound, devout Christian; a rebellious and angry father-to-be; and a promiscuous but gorgeous Nádleehi (trans person) – search for love and acceptance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Powwow Highway (1989)
Two Northern Cheyenne men take a road trip from Montana to New Mexico to bail out the sister of one of them who has been framed and arrested in Santa Fe. On the way, they begin to reconnect to their spiritual heritage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Dreamkeeper (2003)
In South Dakota, in an Indian reservation, an old storyteller Indian asks his grandson Shane, who is in trouble owing money to some bad guys, to take his old pony and him to Albuquerque to the great powwow, an Indian meeting. While traveling, Grandpa tells mysterious Indian tales of love, friendship and magic.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Wild Indian (2021)
Decades after covering up his classmate’s murder, Michael has moved on from his reservation and fractured past. When a man who shares his violent secret seeks vengeance, Michael goes to great lengths to protect his new life with his wife and boss from the demons of his past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisTe Ata (2017)
The extraordinary life of Chickasaw Nation citizen Mary Thompson Fisher is given a heartfelt tribute in this moving look at a culture in transition, and the way one woman used her voice to keep Native traditions and stories alive. Raised in Indian Territory, Fisher left home to pursue her dream of becoming an actress, only to find that her true calling was at home all along. From Chautauquas to Broadway and even the White House, Fisher traveled the world performing Native American songs and stories for heads of state, American presidents, and European royalty. Featuring Chickasaw citizens both in front of and be-hind the camera, this touching portrait starring Q’orianka Kilcher (“The New World”) and Graham Greene honors a woman whose own story was the most inspiring one she never told. -TCFF database
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Mekko (2015)
Mekko gets out of prison after 19 years. He has no home or family so he makes his way to Tulsa. He tries to connect with a cousin but she turns him away. With nowhere to go Mekko ends up sleeping on the streets. He is taken in by the homeless native community. At times jovial, there is a dark undercurrent to the community. He begins having issues with a man named Bill. Bill is pure evil. Convinced that this man is a witch, Mekko turns to the old teachings of his grandmother in order to rid the community of this 'witch'. It's a story of redemption, and hope. Mekko is in search of his home and the strength to forgive himself of his past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Dance Me Outside (1995)
Explores the sensitive, and tense, relationship between life on an First Nations reservation and life in the outside world. When Native Canadian Silas Crow is forced to write a personal essay in order to get a much-desired job, he tells the story of the rape and murder of an Indian girl by a drunken thug. When the killer received a lenient two-year sentence for manslaughter, the First Nations community felt shock and anger—and tried desperately to deal with the after-effects of this lack of justice.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Smoke Signals (1998)
Young Native American man Thomas is a nerd in his reservation, wearing oversize glasses and telling everyone stories no-one wants to hear. His parents died in a fire in 1976, and Thomas was saved by Arnold. Arnold soon left his family, and Victor hasn't seen his father for 10 years. When Victor hears Arnold has died, Thomas offers him funding for the trip to get Arnold's remains.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRez Ball (2024)
After losing their star player, a high school basketball team rooted in Native American culture must unite to keep their state championship dreams alive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWildhood (2022)
Link and his brother flee their abusive father and embark on a journey where Link discovers his sexuality and rediscovers his Mi’kmaw heritage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIndian Horse (2018)
Follows the life of Native Canadian Saul Indian Horse as he survives residential school and life amongst the racism of the 1970s. A talented hockey player, Saul must find his own path as he battles stereotypes and alcoholism.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThunderheart (1992)
A young mixed-blood FBI agent is assigned to work with a cynical veteran investigator on a murder on a poverty-stricken Sioux reservation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Grizzlies (2019)
In a small Arctic town struggling with the highest suicide rate in North America, a group of Inuit students' lives are transformed when they are introduced to the sport of lacrosse.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWar Pony (2023)
The interlocking stories of two Lakota boys growing up on Pine Ridge Reservation. At 23, Bill just wants to make something of himself. Meanwhile, 12-year-old Matho can’t wait to become a man. Bound by their shared search for belonging, each of the boys grapple with identity, family, and loss, as they navigate their unique paths to manhood.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMickey and the Bear (2019)
In Anaconda, Montana, a strong-willed teenage girl navigates a loving but volatile relationship with her veteran father. In a desperate search for independence and her own identity, she risks family, heartbreak, and her standing in the only place she can call home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLeave No Trace (2018)
A father and daughter live a perfect but mysterious existence in Forest Park, a beautiful nature reserve near Portland, Oregon, rarely making contact with the world. But when a small mistake tips them off to authorities, they are sent on an increasingly erratic journey in search of a place to call their own.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAtanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2002)
Based on a local legend and set in an unknown era, it deals with universal themes of love, possessiveness, family, jealousy and power. Beautifully shot, and acted by Inuit people, it portrays a time when people fought duels by taking turns to punch each other until one was unconscious, made love on the way to the caribou hunt, ate walrus meat and lit their igloos with seal-oil lamps.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMud (2013)
Two teenage boys find a fugitive hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River and help him reunite with his lover and escape an avenging family and their armed posse.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Cathedral (2022)
An only child's meditative, impressionistic account of an American family's rise and fall over two decades.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Don't Come Back from the Moon (2017)
The men of a small town on the edge of nowhere mysteriously disappear, one by one, leaving women and children behind to fend for themselves in a desolate and dreamlike world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Bare (2015)
A young woman's friendship with a drug-dealing drifter evolves into a lesbian romance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisFancy Dance (2024)
Following 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 in Oklahoma City.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMaine (2018)
Backpacking alone on the Appalachian trail, a married woman meets a younger hiker and the two strangers become inexplicably drawn to one another.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Never Steady, Never Still (2017)
A mother struggles to take control of her life in the face of advanced Parkinson's disease, while her son battles his sexual and emotional identity amongst the violence of Alberta's oil field work camps.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Beneath the Harvest Sky (2013)
During harvest break, Casper is drawn into smuggling drugs across the Canadian border with his outlaw father, Clayton. Meanwhile, Dominic works his final potato harvest, hoping to earn the money he needs to buy a car and take them away towards a better future. But with Casper’s life unraveling before their eyes, their friendship and loyalty are put to the test as they are forced to mature and make very adult decisions that will forever alter the course of their lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Frybread Face and Me (2023)
Two adolescent Navajo cousins from different worlds bond during a summer herding sheep on their grandmother's ranch in Arizona while learning more about their family's past and themselves.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Beans (2021)
Twelve-year-old Beans is on the edge: torn between innocent childhood and reckless adolescence; forced to grow up fast and become the tough Mohawk warrior she needs to be during the Oka Crisis, the turbulent Indigenous uprising that tore Quebec and Canada apart for 78 tense days in the summer of 1990.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Rhymes for Young Ghouls (2013)
In 1976, a Mi'gMaq teenager plots revenge against the sadistic Indian agent who imprisoned her in a residential school where rape and abuse are common.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThrough Black Spruce (2019)
The disappearance of a young Cree woman in Toronto traumatizes her Northern Ontario family, and sends her twin sister on a journey south to find her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Poker House (2008)
Agnes and her two sisters struggle through a day in a home overrun by gamblers, thieves, and johns.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Songs My Brothers Taught Me?
The closest matches to Songs My Brothers Taught Me are Drunktown's Finest (2014), Powwow Highway (1989) and Dreamkeeper (2003). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Songs My Brothers Taught Me?
People who watched Songs My Brothers Taught Me most often go on to Drunktown's Finest (2014), Powwow Highway (1989) and Dreamkeeper (2003).
What is the highest-rated movie like Songs My Brothers Taught Me?
Mud (2013), rated 7.1/10 by 3,199 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Songs My Brothers Taught Me?
Rez Ball (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Songs My Brothers Taught Me?
Yes: Drunktown's Finest (2014), Powwow Highway (1989) and Dreamkeeper (2003).
How are movies similar to Songs My Brothers Taught Me chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Songs My Brothers Taught Me, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.