Top 10 Strange-Cinematic-Siblings

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Nicole Stephane and Edouard Dermithe in Les Enfants Terribles (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1950).
Jean Cocteau and Jean-Pierre Melville joined forces for this adaptation of Cocteau’s wicked novel about the wholly unholy relationship between a brother and sister, Elisabeth and Paul, who close themselves off from the world by playing an increasingly intense series of mind games. MUBI. Suggested by @girl_hag, @maventattler, @SkotArmstrong,

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974).
Two siblings and three of their friends en route to visit their grandfather’s grave in Texas are terrorized by a chain-saw wielding killer. One by one, they wander into the murderous clutches of Leatherface and his family of grave-robbing cannibals. MUBI. Thanks @lintlvieno.

Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich, 1962).
psychological thriller–horror film produced and directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, about an aging former actress who holds her paraplegic ex-movie star sister captive in an old Hollywood mansion. WIKIPEDIA.

Cary Grant and Raymond Massey with Peter Lorre in Arsenic And Old Lace (Frank Capra, 1944).
Mortimer, a drama critic, has just got married and is about to go on his honeymoon when he discovers insanity runs in his family. His sweet maiden aunts poison lonely old men and have a number of corpses buried in the cellar. MUBI. Thanks @GloriaBB2.

Jeremy Irons in Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg, 1988).
The chilling story of identical twin gynecologists—suave Elliot and sensitive Beverly, bipolar sides of one personality—who share the same practice, the same apartment, the same women. When a new patient, glamorous actress Claire Niveau, challenges their eerie bond, they descend into a whirlpool of sexual confusion, drugs, and madness. THE CRITERION COLLECTION. Thanks to @SkotArmstrong, @MavenTattler, @Mmelulu,

Brian and Eric Deacon in A Zed And Two Noughts (Peter Greenaway, 1985).
A car collides with a swan outside Rotterdam Zoo. Two women passengers die and the driver, Alma, has to have her leg amputated. Obsessed with the accident, the husbands of the dead women – twins at that – embark on a strange affair with Alma… . MUBI. Nominated by @mmelulu.

A BETTE DAVID DOUBLE (QUADRUPLE?) BILL:

Bette Davis and Bette Davis in Dead Ringer (Paul Henreid, 1964).
The twin sister of a callous wealthy woman murders her out of revenge and assumes the identity of the dead woman. MUBI. @scarberry nominated this.

Bette Davis and Bette Davis in A Stolen Life (Curtis Bernhardt, 1946).
When a woman’s twin sister is drowned, she assumes her identity in order to be close to the man she feels her sister took from her years before. MUBI. Thanks again @SkotArmstrong.

Eva Green and Louis Garrel in The Dreamers (Bernardo Bertolucci, 2003).
In May 1968, the student riots in Paris only exacerbate the isolation felt by three youths: an American exchange student named Matthew (Michael Pitt) and twins Théo (Louis Garrel) and Isabelle (Eva Green). Having bonded over their mutual love of cinema, Matthew is fascinated by the sense of intimacy shared by Isabelle and Theo, who were born conjoined. When the twins’ bohemian parents go away for a month, they ask Matthew to stay at their place, and the three lose themselves in fantasy. WIKIPEDIA. Suggested by @JHPCine, @joojosxoxo.

Brian De Palma’s Sisters (1973), features Margot Kidder.
Margot Kidder is Danielle, a beautiful model separated from her Siamese twin, Dominique. When a hotshot reporter (Jennifer Salt) suspects Dominique of a brutal murder, she becomes dangerously ensnared in the sisters’ insidious sibling bond. THE CRITERION COLLECTION. Nominated by @MissVanos13.

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