Brother and Sister

Brother and Sister

2010 · 105 min · ★ 6.6 · Comedy, Drama

They are both alone. They need each other but, at the same time, they despise each other. Siblings Marcos and Susana are unable to heal the old wounds festering within them after the death of their mother. When Susana sells their mother's flat, she deprives her brother of the home where he had cared for their mother his whole life. Marcos's need to start living again surfaces when his sister forces him to leave Buenos Aires for Uruguay.

Directed by Daniel Burman · Written by Sergio Dubcovsky

Your Rating

Where to Watch

Streaming

Cast

Make it a double feature

4h 31m together

Brother and Sister

The Seamstress

Both from Daniel Burman.

More from Daniel BurmanSee all →

The Seamstress

The Seamstress · 2017

In the thirties, two sisters separated by fate face prejudice and sexism, one by the high society in a big city and the other by a group of renegades in the countryside. Despite the distance, they know that they can only count on each other and both of them will assert themselves in their own and surprising way.

Cecilia

Cecilia · 2021

SeriesDramaComedy

The story of a woman whose world seemingly crumbles when she suffers a stroke. What at first seems like a tragedy ends up being an opportunity to reunite her family and rebuild her life.

The Motorcycle Diaries

The Motorcycle Diaries · 2004

The Motorcycle Diaries

Based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he and best friend Alberto Granado had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s.

Truman

MovieDramaComedy

Tomás, who lives in Canada, travels to Madrid, Spain, to visit his old friend Julián. Both of them, accompanied by Truman, Julián's faithful dog, will share many surprising and emotional little moments, triggered by the hard situation Julián is going through, for just a few days.

Swim Alone

Swim Alone · 2003

The film does not describe, rather it observes, in a distant manner, the world of Martin, a seventeen year old who feels he doesn’t belong anywhere, not at home, school, nor with his friends or members of his rock band. In search of some happiness, Martin takes off to the coastal town of Mar de Plata, where his older brother lives. Unglamorous, yet enchantingly addictive and refreshingly genuine, Acuña paints a confused and uncomfortable world, and makes us want revisit it over and over again.

18-j

A collection of 10 short films made by known Argentine directors on the AMIA bombing of July 18, 1994.

Yosi, the Regretful Spy

Yosi, the Regretful Spy · 2022

Yosi, the Regretful Spy

SeriesCrimeDrama

An Argentinian intelligence agent goes undercover in the Jewish community to gather information, unwittingly preparing the ground for anti-Semitic terrorist attacks. Years later, he decides to bring the truth to light.

Garage Olimpo

Garage Olimpo · 1999

María is eighteen years old, she lives with her mother in an old house in Buenos Aires in 1978, subletting rooms and giving classes to poor illiterate adults. Suddenly she is abducted by a military squad and finds herself accused of subversion and submitted to torture in the hideous underground of the Garage Olimpo, while her mother desperately tries to find her.

The Man Who Bought The Moon

The Man Who Bought The Moon · 2018

The Man Who Bought The Moon

A Sardinian fisherman has promised the moon to the woman he loves. And Sardinian men always keep their promises.

La Ciénaga

La Ciénaga · 2001

Amid the sweltering summer heat in northern Argentina, two middle-class families retreat to a crumbling country estate and a modest townhouse, where strained relationships, simmering tensions, and the presence of children and servants quietly expose the fractures of family life. Between idle days, gossip, and unspoken desires, the boundaries of class, tradition, and faith are reflected in their everyday interactions.

A Year Without Love

A Year Without Love · 2005

A Year Without Love

MovieDramaRomance

A writer dying of AIDS searches for a cure and human interaction in the hospitals and sex clubs of Buenos Aires.

Victoria Small

Victoria Small · 2019

SeriesComedyDrama

Jazmín, Barbara, Emma and Selva lives are entwined with the birth of Victoria, a newborn girl who makes their wish come true. The daughter of an adoptive mom, a surrogate mother, a transgender sperm donor and a stranger in the right place at the right time, Victoria will find four ways of loving, feeling and wishing, while these four women will have to put their differences aside in order to raise her.

Every Stewardess Goes to Heaven

Every Stewardess Goes to Heaven · 2002

Every Stewardess Goes to Heaven

MovieDramaRomance

Teresa is a stewardess who lives a perfect life in the midst of his impeccable suits world clean and prepared foods. However the world scares land: men, motherhood, love ... Meanwhile, Julian, a young doctor, must travel to Ushuaia to throw the ashes of his dead wife in the place where they fell in love.

Lost Embrace

Lost Embrace · 2004

MovieDramaComedy

In Buenos Aires, the twenty-something Jewish-Argentinean Ariel Makaroff ditches the University of Architecture and spends his time wandering through the downtown gallery where his mother has a lingerie shop and his brother runs an importation business. Ariel has never understood why his father left him when he was a baby, but when his dad returns to Argentina, that will soon change.

Thesis on a Homicide

Thesis on a Homicide · 2013

Thesis on a Homicide

MovieThrillerDrama

Roberto is a Law professor whose life is thrown into chaos when he becomes convinced that one of his best students has committed a brutal murder. Determined to uncover the truth, he begins a personal investigation…

Empty Nest

Empty Nest · 2008

Empty Nest tells the story of a couple who have to struggle to find themselves after their children grow up and move out. It starts out as a fairly simple story of a couple but becomes complicated by a series of events that may or may not be occurring only in Leonardo’s mind.

More Like This

Couldn't load this row right now.

Rate this film

Your ratings make Midnight smarter