Summary

• The bond between siblings in movies can be depicted as both loving and ive or intense and rivalrous, adding depth to the storytelling.
• Iconic sister duos in movies often overcome challenges together, whether it's in the form of magic, horror, or complex family dynamics.
• Some memorable sister duos in movies include Elizabeth and Jane Bennet (Pride & Prejudice), Sally and Gillian Owens (Practical Magic), and Su-mi and Su-yeon (A Tale Of Two Sisters), each displaying unique dynamics and impactful storytelling.

The bond between siblings has been a driving force for countless movies, and the best sister duos make for unforgettable silver-screen storytelling. There have been many on-screen sisters over the decades, but only the most memorable have gone on to become iconic duos. While there are many movies with a group of sisters, like Little Women, it is even better when the relationship is a closer one that is between just two siblings.

Many of the most iconic sisters in movies are loving siblings who help each other navigate life. This isn't always the case though, as they can also be rivals, with each doing whatever it takes to get ahead of their sibling — a dynamic that can make for intense drama. Whether the sisters are there to push each other up, such as in movies like The Parent Trap, or there to tear each other apart, like Gamora and Nebula in Guardians of the Galaxy, the best sister duos in movies are always a treat to watch.

30 Elizabeth & Jane Bennet (Pride & Prejudice)

The Eldest Bennet Sisters Stand Out In Every Version

There are several Bennet sisters, but what really makes the siblings stand out across every version of Pride & Prejudice is the relationship between the two eldest sisters, Elizabeth and Jane. While the younger sisters are always getting into trouble, the older ones are finally finding love. However, Elizabeth is more headstrong, and she is willing to sacrifice her future when she believes she needs to stand up for Jane. The love these sisters had for each other helped to lead to their happiness and love-filled endings, none of which would have been possible without Elizabeth's sacrifices.

29 Sally & Gillian Owens (Practical Magic)

Nicole Kidman And Sandra Bullock Work Magic As Sorcerous Sisters

Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman are sisters in 1998's Practical Magic, and it is their sisterhood that carries this movie about witches to great heights. The movie is about Sally and Gillian Owens, two sisters who come from a long line of witches and were raised by their aunts after their parent's death. The sisters learned practical magic as they grew up. However, as adults, the Owens sisters had to unlock their full mystical potential to defeat an evil spirit. With conflict, betrayal, and magic, the best thing about Practical Magic is how these sisters were able to put their differences aside and work together to overcome a magical foe.

28 Su-mi & Su-yeon (A Tale Of Two Sisters)

A Harrowing South Korean Horror That Shows How Far Protective Siblings Will Go

In one of the scariest stories involving two sisters, 2003's A Tale of Two Sisters is a South Korean horror movie about a teenage girl named Su-mi who comes home after a stay at a mental institution. However, when she returns home, she finds that her father has a new wife, and Su-mi begins to suspect that this woman is physically abusing her younger sister Su-yeon.

However, no one will listen to Su-mi after she tries to raise the alarm, and she decides that she might have to do the unthinkable to protect her younger sister from what she sees as an evil stepmother. This is a movie with a twist that turns everything on its head and shows how sisterly love can cause someone to do horrible things.

27 Baby Jane & Blanche (What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?)

A Classic Thriller About Sibling Rivalry And Stardom

Not all the best sister duos in movies got along. The most obvious case of sisters who despised each other was the classic 1962 movie What Ever Happened To Baby Jane. In this movie, Bette Davis plays a former spoiled and successful child actor named Baby Jane, who performed in vaudeville theaters with her father all over the country. While this was happening, her older sister Blanche lived in her shadow and Jane treated her horribly. 18 years later, Blanche is now a successful actor and Jane has fallen. The movie then jumps 27 years later, when both sisters are still living together and hiding dark secrets.

26 Black Widow & Yelena Belova (Black Widow)

The MCU's Most Deadly Siblings

In Black Widow, Marvel told the story of Natasha Romanoff's childhood, where she was raised in America as Cold War spies with Yelena Belova posing as her younger sister. However, they were raised as sisters, and as the movie showed, they still considered themselves sisters when they grew up. Sadly, this was the only time they were together again before Black Widow's death. However, in the Disney+ series Hawkeye, Yelena showed that she never gave up on this sisterhood as she sought revenge against the man she felt was responsible for Natasha's death.

25 Tara & Sam Carpenter (Scream 5)

The First Ghostface's Daughter Is A Fiercely Protective Sister

In the first few Scream movies, the story focused on friends of Sidney Prescott hunted down by various people dressed as Ghostface. However, things changed a little in Scream 5. While some characters remained the same, including the surviving cast from the original movie reprising their roles, a new group of young adults ended up targeted. One thing that made these new victims stand out was that two of them were sisters — Tara (Jenna Ortega) and Sam (Melissa Barrera). Sam's father was Billy Loomis, the killer from the first movie, and Sam will do anything to protect her sister from the new copycat killers.

24 Martha & Lucy (Martha Marcy May Marlene)

Sarah Paulson And Elizabeth Olsen Play Sisters With An Intensely Complex Past

Martha Marcy May Marlene was an award-winning movie from 2011 starring Elizabeth Olsen as Martha, a woman who lived with a cult in the mountains for two years. She finally decides to escape, and she calls her sister Lucy (Sarah Paulson) to help her. This is a tough sister movie to watch, as Lucy wants to do everything she can to help Martha, but her little sister is acting strangely and might pose a danger to her and her husband, Ted.

These two sisters have a lot of childhood trauma to get through, on top of the trauma Martha experienced in the cult itself. The movie never really reconciles their issues, showing that not every iconic sister duo needs a happy ending to be memorable.

23 Anne & Mary Boleyn (The Other Boleyn Girl)

A Historical Tale Of Sisterhood In The Court Of Henry VIII

Based on the novel by Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl is a historical fiction movie about Mary Boleyn and her sister Anne. Mary was King Henry VIII's mistress and Anne was his ill-fated future wife. This movie, while not telling a true story of the real-life characters, instead focuses on the sisterhood between Mary and Anne, and how the sisters tried to help each other, even when they didn't always make the right decisions. Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson played Anne and Mary, and the sisters remained true to each other up until Anne's tragic demise.

22 Ginger & Brigitte (Ginger Snaps)

Two Sisters Try To Overcome Lycanthropy

Ginger Snaps is one of the best werewolf movies ever made, and a lot of its success falls on the two main stars — Emily Perkins and Katharine Isabelle. They play sisters Brigitte and Ginger and their life changes drastically when Ginger is bitten by a werewolf and becomes one herself. The two girls, both teenagers, hide Ginger's changes in this allegory toward female puberty as it equates Ginger's menstruation with the time of the month she turns into a werewolf. The sisterly bond is what helps both deal with their changes and the world as it spins out of control around them.

21 Rose & Norah (Sunshine Cleaning)

Crime Brings Sisters Closer In This 2008 Indie Gem

Sunshine Cleaning stars Amy Adams and Emily Blunt as sisters Rose and Nora Lorkowski. While Rose is in her 30s and has a steady job as a house cleaner, Norah is younger and can't keep a job. Rose needs to find money for her son's school, and she ends up opening a crime scene cleanup company using her connections with a police officer. As their business grows, they start to find purpose in helping others in the aftermath of disasters, while also bonding with each other after years of struggles. This is an often heartwarming of two sisters who are polar opposites coming together in a time of adversity.