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46 films tagged siblings
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1972 · Crime
The ageing head of a New York crime family starts handing the business to his sons, and the youngest, who wanted no part of it, is pulled in. Much of it plays out in quiet rooms, in conversations about loyalty and who owes what to whom.
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2016 · Drama
A Boston handyman is made guardian of his teenage nephew after his brother dies, which means going back to the town he left. The reason he left comes out slowly.
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2006 · Comedy
A family who can barely stand each other drive a failing camper van from New Mexico to California so the youngest can enter a children's beauty pageant. Everyone is having their own bad year.
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1998 · Drama
A former neo-Nazi comes out of prison set on pulling his younger brother back from the movement he helped build. Told in two strands, the present in colour and the past in black and white.
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2016 · Musical
A boy in 1980s Dublin, moved to a rough school when his parents run short of money, starts a band mostly to impress a girl standing outside it. They learn to play as they go.
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2023 · Drama
A Black novelist whose careful books nobody buys writes, as a joke, the crude street story publishers keep asking him for. Half of it is that joke going too far, half is his family at home.
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2007 · Romance
On a hot day in 1935 at an English country house, a thirteen-year-old girl tells a lie about her older sister. It then follows the people that lie touched, across years and into the war.
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2014 · Animation
A teenage robotics whiz in a city that is half San Francisco and half Tokyo teams up with a soft inflatable healthcare robot his brother built. It is bright and fast, with a real sad streak running under the jokes.
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2021 · Drama
A radio reporter travelling the country interviewing children ends up looking after his nine-year-old nephew for a while. Black and white, quiet, and mostly the two of them talking.
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2018 · Drama
A twelve-year-old boy living rough in Beirut takes his parents to court for having him. Most of it follows him around the city day to day, shot hand-held with people who had not acted before.
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2016 · Drama
A father raising six children off the grid in the forest has to bring them into ordinary America for the first time. Funny and sad in the same scene, and mostly about what the kids make of him.
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2016 · Drama
A former wrestler in a village in Haryana decides his two daughters will win the gold medal he never did, and starts training them before either of them wants it. Long, loud, and built around the bouts.
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2021 · Animation
Every child in a Colombian family gets a magical gift on their fifth birthday, except Mirabel, and now the house is cracking. Songs every few minutes and a lot of relatives to keep straight.
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2014 · Drama
An Olympic wrestler living in his brother's shadow takes an invitation to train at the estate of a very rich man who wants to be part of the sport. Slow and quiet, with nearly all of the tension in what nobody says.
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2013 · Animation
A princess sets out across the mountains to find her older sister, who has run from the kingdom after her power to freeze things got away from her. A musical for children, with big songs and a talking snowman.
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2018 · Comedy
A couple who take their weekly game night seriously turn up for a murder-mystery party thrown by his brother, and the fake kidnapping goes wrong. It runs fast and is played for laughs throughout.
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2017 · Crime
After a bank job goes wrong, a man spends one night crossing Queens trying to get his brother out of custody, and every fix he tries makes it worse. It never stops moving and the music sits right on top of you.
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2024 · Drama
A London woman furious at almost everything snaps at her husband, her son and everyone in the shops, while her cheerful sister keeps trying to reach her. Nearly all of it is talk in kitchens and living rooms.
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2016 · Crime
Two brothers rob small branches of one particular Texas bank, with a Ranger weeks from retirement working out where they will hit next. Wide empty roads, dry jokes, and a lot of waiting.
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2023 · Drama
Three sisters who do not get on share a small New York apartment while their father is dying in the back bedroom. Almost entirely that one flat, and almost entirely the three of them talking.
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2010 · Drama
Twins in Montreal open their mother's will and find two letters: one for a father they thought was dead, one for a brother they never knew about. They go looking, and it keeps cutting back to her life.
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2015 · Crime
Tom Hardy plays both Kray twins, the brothers who ran a piece of 1960s London, while one of them courts a girl from Bethnal Green. Suits, nightclubs, and violence that arrives without warning.
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2015 · Drama
A five-year-old falls asleep on a train and wakes thousands of miles across India, and grows up adopted in Australia. The first half is a small boy alone in a huge country; the second is a man at a computer.
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2019 · Drama
Four sisters grow up in Massachusetts during and after the Civil War, one of them trying to make a living writing. It cuts back and forth between their childhood and seven years on, so you have to keep track of where you are.
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2024 · Animation
A woman in Melbourne tells her life story to her pet snail: a twin brother sent to the other side of the country, foster homes, and a collection of things she cannot throw away. Clay animation, narrated all the way through, and sad more often than not.
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2022 · Horror
A brother and sister running their late father's horse ranch notice something in the sky above the valley and decide that filming it is the way out of their money troubles. Wide open country, long quiet stretches, then bursts of chaos.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2017 · Romance
A celebrated London dressmaker in the 1950s runs his house to a strict routine, then brings home a waitress from the coast and fits her into it. Quiet, mannered, and largely inside one townhouse.
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2005 · Romance
Five sisters in a country house are expected to marry well, and the second eldest takes an instant dislike to a rich, silent visitor. Talk, dances and long walks across fields, over two hours.
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2002 · Comedy
A lonely man who sells novelty bathroom supplies, has seven sisters, and loses his temper in ways he cannot explain meets a woman who likes him anyway. Loud in odd places, and ninety minutes long.
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2016 · Horror
A lifelong vegetarian starts at the veterinary school where her older sister is already a student, and hazing week makes her eat raw meat. Bloody, funny in places, and hard to watch in others.
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2011 · Drama
A man with a good job in New York builds his whole life around sex, and then his sister turns up with nowhere else to stay. Cold and slow, holding on shots for a long time.
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2025 · Horror
Twin brothers come home to the Mississippi Delta in 1932 and open a juke joint in an old mill, and opening night brings more than dancers. Half of it is the day of getting ready, and the blues playing matters as much as the plot.
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2008 · Drama
A teenager from the Mumbai slums is one question from winning the country's biggest game show, and the police want to know how a boy like him has the answers. His whole life, out of order and fast.
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2014 · Animation
A boy on an Irish lighthouse island takes his little sister, who has never spoken, on the long way home past the creatures of old Irish stories. Hand-drawn, gentle, and full of singing.
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2022 · Comedy
On a small Irish island in 1923, a man is told by his only friend, with no warning and no reason given, that they are not friends any more. Two men, a pub and a lot of talking, and it gets darker as it goes.
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2007 · Comedy
Three brothers who have not spoken since their father's funeral take a train across India on a trip the eldest has planned to the minute. Symmetrical shots, dry jokes, and a lot of luggage.
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2010 · Drama
A journeyman boxer in a Massachusetts mill town is trained by his half-brother, a former local hero now on crack, and managed by their mother. More about the family shouting at each other than about the fights.
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2012 · Science fiction
In a country where every district must send two teenagers to a televised fight to the death, a girl volunteers in her younger sister's place. The first half is preparation and television, the second is the arena.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2023 · Drama
The Von Erich brothers wrestle their way through 1980s Texas under a father who wants a world title in the family. Long, and it spends more time with the brothers at home than in the ring.
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2021 · Drama
In 1925 Montana two brothers run a cattle ranch until one marries a widow and brings her and her grown son home, which the other takes badly. Very slow, and most of the threat is in what nobody says.
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2001 · Comedy
Three grown-up child prodigies move back into their mother's New York townhouse at the same time as the father who walked out on them turns up saying he is dying. Deadpan, storybook-looking, and sadder than it first sounds.
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2017 · Action
Thor loses his hammer, lands on a junk planet run by a showman, and has to fight his way off it to get home. Jokes the whole way through, bright colours, and a synthesiser soundtrack.
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2006 · Comedy
A working-class woman in Madrid juggles her daughter, her sister and the village she grew up in, where the women talk about the dead as if they had never left. Bright colours, warm, and led entirely by women.
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2011 · Action
Two brothers who have not spoken in years both enter the same winner-takes-all mixed martial arts tournament, one to save his house and one for reasons he keeps to himself. Half family drama, half fight film.
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2019 · Drama
A high school wrestler in south Florida is holding together a bad shoulder, a girlfriend, and a father who expects a great deal. It changes shape halfway, and the camera and music never sit still.
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2018 · Horror
After her difficult mother dies, a miniature artist and her family begin coming apart, and something in the house does not feel finished. Long, quiet and building; the frights are mostly not the jumping kind.
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