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- Adaptation (2002) Spike Jonze’s comedy meta-film is difficult to explain. Written by “Being John Malkovich” genius, Charlie Kaufman, the film follows a semi-fictionalised version of Kaufman (played by Nicolas Cage) and a completely fictionalised identical twin brother, Donald (also played by Cage), who are both screenwriters.
- The White Balloon (1995) The first feature of Jafar Panahi, a former assistant to the great Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami (who co-wrote the screenplay along with Panahi himself and Parvis Shahbazi), “Badkonake Sefid” follows the adventures of little seven-year-old Razieh (Aida Mohammadkhani) as she searches for a 500 toman banknote that she lost on her way to buy a goldfish.
- Hannah And Her Sisters (1986) Woody Allen’s comedy-drama follows which tells the intertwined stories of an extended family over two years. The story begins with Thanksgiving party hosted by Hannah (Mia Farrow) and her husband, Elliot (Michael Caine), who has become infatuated with one of Hannah’s sisters, Lee (Barbara Hershey).
- Dead Ringers (1988) David Cronenberg’s psychological thriller based on the lives of Stewart and Cyril Marcus and on Bari Wood and Jack Geasland’s novel “Twins”, follows Elliot and Beverly Mantle (both played by Jeremy Irons) who are identical twins and gynecologists who specialise in female fertility treatment.
Tales of a group of siblings who are forced to fend for themselves when they are abandoned by their mother in the parking lot of a shopping mall. They eventually meet their grandmother, a loner who is reluctant to take them in.
- My Sister’s Keeper (2009) The Plot: Anna Fitzgerald was conceived by her parents to become a bone marrow donor for her gravely ill older sister, Kate.
- 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) The Plot: Based on Shakespeare’s classic Taming of the Shrew, 10 Things I Hate About You is about two sisters, Kat and Bianca, who could not be more different.
- The Parent Trap (1998) The Plot: Long-lost twins reunite at summer camp and devise a plan to switch places in order to meet their estranged parent… and try to get them back together.
- Rain Man (1988) The Plot: When Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise) returns home for his complicated father’s funeral, he learns that he has a special needs older brother, Raymond (Dustin Hoffman), who has been kept from him his whole life and is also the recipient of his father’s inheritance.
With Catherine Curtin, Raymond Anthony Thomas, James Freedson-Jackson, Tasha Lawrence. Sophie, a struggling musician in New York City, goes home for her father's funeral and is met with the sudden reality of becoming her 12-year-old, now-orphaned, half-brother's guardian.
- Cynthia Silver
- 2016
- Short, Drama
- 15
- Little Women. Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy are perhaps the most treasured siblings in film history. There have been no less than five big-screen versions of the beloved novel, and audiences continue to be entranced by the sisters who clash with each other, are jealous of each other, love each other fiercely and ultimately unite in an endless sense of loss when one of them is taken.
- The Sound of Music. A few of my favorite siblings are Liesl, Louisa, Friedrich, Kurt, Brigitta, Marta and Gretl. The Von Trapp siblings contrive pranks to drive their current nanny Maria away, but they really just want their strict military father’s love and attention.
- The Star Wars franchise. In one of the most shocking reveals in cinema history, after hinting at a romantic relationship with a kiss, Luke and Leia discover they are twins, and the children of their enemy Darth Vader.
- The Godfather and The Godfather Part II. The three Corleone brothers are tied to a world of crime, which defines them and threatens their loyalties to each other.
Bairavi. Bar 51. The Beast in the Cellar. Before I Disappear. Bloody Murder 2: Closing Camp. Border Run. Brother and Sister (2022 film) Brother's Keeper (2002 film) A Brother's Love.
List of movies about Brothers, Sisters and Siblings ordered by release date. You can also view the movies in alphabetical order or in rating order.
