Movies like Downshift
If Downshift's mix of sibling relationship, road movie and estranged brother stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Downshift's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Straight Story
1999 · Directed by David Lynch · 112 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: sibling relationship, road movie, estranged brother
Retired farmer and widower Alvin Straight learns one day that his estranged brother Lyle has suffered a severe stroke. Alvin is determined to make things right with Lyle while he still can, but his brother lives in…
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Paris, Texas
1984 · Directed by Wim Wenders · 145 min8.1
Why you'll like itShares: sibling relationship
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
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Brothers
2009 · Directed by Jim Sheridan · 105 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: sibling relationship
When his helicopter goes down during his fourth tour of duty in Afghanistan, Marine Sam Cahill is presumed dead. Back home, brother Tommy steps in to look over Sam’s wife, Grace, and two children.
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You Can Count on Me
2000 · Directed by Kenneth Lonergan · 111 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: sibling relationship
A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely-seen younger brother returns to town.
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Defiance
2008 · Directed by Edward Zwick · 137 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: sibling relationship
Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis.
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Gone in Sixty Seconds
2000 · Directed by Dominic Sena · 118 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: sibling relationship
Ex-car thief Randall Raines is forced out of retirement to save his brother Kip after a boost gone wrong. With the help of allies old and new, they race to meet the demands of notorious crime boss Raymond Calitri as…