Items24The creator’s order
  1. 1East of Eden (1955)East of Eden (1955) 7.8/10 on IMDbReleased Apr 10, 1955The template for every "Dad always liked you best" argument. James Dean's Cal is the restless son, Richard Davalos's Aron the good one, and Elia Kazan stages their contest for a cold father's approval as a Cain and Abel story set in the Salinas Valley around World War I. Dean plays jealousy as a…0
  2. 2What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) 8.0/10 on IMDbReleased Oct 31, 1962Sibling rivalry at its most gothic. Bette Davis plays Jane Hudson, a former vaudeville child star gone sour, and Joan Crawford is Blanche, the sister whose film career eclipsed hers and who now depends on Jane from a wheelchair in their decaying Hollywood mansion. Robert Aldrich lets decades of…0
  3. 3Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) 7.8/10 on IMDbReleased Feb 7, 1986Three adult sisters, two Thanksgivings and a great deal of quiet resentment. Mia Farrow's Hannah is the capable one everyone leans on, which is exactly why Dianne Wiest's flailing Holly and Barbara Hershey's restless Lee find her so hard to forgive. Woody Allen keeps the tone light enough for…0
  4. 4Rain Man (1988)Rain Man (1988) 8.0/10 on IMDbReleased Dec 12, 1988A cross-country drive with a brother you never knew you had. Tom Cruise's Charlie starts out wanting only his share of the inheritance; Dustin Hoffman's Raymond wants Judge Wapner on at five o'clock. What changes between them is small, slow and earned, which is why it still works. It won Best…0
  5. 5Grave of the Fireflies (1988)Grave of the Fireflies (1988) 8.5/10 on IMDbReleased Apr 16, 1988The most devastating sibling film ever animated, and not one for a casual evening. Seita, fourteen, tries to keep his little sister Setsuko alive after the 1945 firebombing of Kobe, and every small kindness he manages, a tin of fruit drops or a jar of fireflies, is shadowed by what he cannot…0
  6. 6A River Runs Through It (1992)A River Runs Through It (1992) 7.2/10 on IMDbReleased Oct 9, 1992For anyone who has loved a sibling they could not save. Robert Redford's Montana film follows the minister's sons, steady Norman (Craig Sheffer) and gifted, reckless Paul (Brad Pitt), whose shared language is fly fishing on the Big Blackfoot River. The fly-casting scenes are gorgeous, but the real…0
  7. 7What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) 7.7/10 on IMDbReleased Dec 17, 1993The eldest sibling's movie. Johnny Depp's Gilbert holds his small Iowa family together, and his chief duty is minding his younger brother Arnie, played by a startlingly committed teenage Leonardo DiCaprio, who climbs the town water tower whenever no one is looking. Lasse Hallström finds plenty of…0
  8. 8Children of Heaven (1997)Children of Heaven (1997) 8.2/10 on IMDbReleased Aug 1, 1997A pair of worn sneakers shared between a brother and sister in Tehran, and somehow it plays like a thriller. Ali loses Zahra's only shoes, and rather than tell their struggling parents, the two swap his pair between morning and afternoon school shifts, sprinting through alleys to make the…0
  9. 9You Can Count on Me (2000)You Can Count on Me (2000) 7.5/10 on IMDbReleased Mar 3, 2000The best film there is about the sibling who stayed home and the one who drifted. Laura Linney's Sammy, a single mother in a small Catskills town, is thrilled and then exasperated when her unreliable brother Terry (Mark Ruffalo) turns up needing money and a place to land. Kenneth Lonergan's debut…0
  10. 10Lilo & Stitch (2002)Lilo & Stitch (2002) 7.4/10 on IMDbReleased Jun 21, 2002The 2002 animated original, with the alien on the poster and the sisters at the heart. Nani, barely an adult, is raising her little sister Lilo after their parents' deaths, juggling jobs while a social worker watches for any excuse to separate them. Their fights are loud, petty and completely…0