Brother John is a 1971 American drama film about an enigmatic African-American man who shows up every time a relative is about to die.

The suspicions of the local Sheriff and Doc Thomas' son, the District Attorney, grow after they search John's room and find a passport filled with visa stamps from countries all over the world, including some that few Americans are allowed to travel to.

After the funeral of John's sister, he admits to a young woman, Louisa, a teacher at the local elementary school, that his "work" is finished, and that he has a few days to "do nothing" before he must leave.

This is reinforced when Doc asks if it will come by fire and emphasized by the fact that John may be more than he appears to be when he opens, without difficulty, an apparently locked jail cell door.

The film was negatively reviewed by Vincent Canby in The New York Times, who stated, "If Brother John is a disaster—and it is—the responsibility is Mr. Poitier's, whose company produced the movie and hired everyone connected with it.