What does it mean to be you when someone else carries your face, your DNA, your first breath?

Twins unsettle the idea of a single self. Closeness that overwhelms, separation that aches, absence that hollows out when one half is lost. Across cinema, filmmakers return to this riddle of two.

These are some stories where the self is never only one.

1. Ter Gub Chun Gub Chun (You & Me & Me)

(2023), Romance/Drama

Timing is Y2K Thailand, where identical twin sisters You and Me move through life like mirrors, in sync, almost every breath shared. Thitiya “Baipor” Jirapornsilp makes her debut embodying both, a performance that earned her Best Actress at the 2025 Viral Hits Asian Soft Power Awards. Their world tilts when a charming boy, Mark, arrives. The twins cling, twist and collide around him, juggling parents on the edge of divorce and the chaos of teenage existence.

Crafted by twin auteurs Wanweaw and Weawwan Hongvivatana from the raw textures of their own youth, the story drifts from Bangkok to a sunlit Isan summer. At grandma’s house, sisterly bonds teeter on the brink and every laugh, every fight, every secret edges toward fracture. Watching them is to feel the tension of a love too close to break, while hoping it does not.

2. Twinless

(2025), Comedy

In cinemas now, Dylan O’Brien and James Sweeney star as Roman and Dennis, two strangers who meet at a support group for twins who have lost their other half. One gay, one straight, they form an unlikely friendship that quickly becomes inseparable. 

Together, they navigate the strange and painful void of losing someone who felt like a missing piece. Writer-director-actor James Sweeney delivers a bittersweet story that explores trauma-bonding through friendship, blending smart comedy with honest reflections on loss, loneliness, and codependency. The film moves between heartfelt drama and laugh-out-loud moments, full of quirky charm and unexpected twists, a rare story that wears its heart on its sleeve.

3. Sinners

(2025), Horror

Ryan Coogler’s Southern Gothic nightmare drags 1930s Mississippi into the skin, real slick with shadow and sound. Michael B. Jordan gives dual performances, inhabiting twin brothers Smoke and Stack Moore with a split-screen intensity, each persona carved through lighting, lens, costume design, and posture.

Lifting straight from Depression-era frames and old-school supernatural horror, the film trails the veterans-turned-bootleggers as they return to Clarksdale clutching stolen cash and brittle dreams. Their plan to open a juke joint collides with a dark force waiting in the corners, hungry to pull them back into shadow. It’s a pulse-quickening odyssey of survival, greed, and the uncanny, a story that’s as haunted as it is raw, soaked in Southern grit and spectral menace.

4. Svaha: The Sixth Finger

(2019), Mystery/Horror

In this South Korean mystery horror, Pastor Park prowls the fringes of faith, sniffing out dangerous religious sects, while Police Captain Hwang hunts a murder tangled in the same cult’s shadow. At the story’s heart are twin sisters from a remote village: Geum-hwa, limping through life with a disabled leg, and her older twin, a grotesque figure once written off as doomed, surviving to 16 chained and feared as evil.

The film twists the mirror on morality, asking who is truly cursed and who is innocent. As the cult’s dark grip spreads, the sisters’ haunted lives and the investigation collide, unravelling a supernatural web where fear, devotion, and mystery blur into something far darker than sin.

5. Faed (Alone)

(2007), Horror/Drama

Pim returns to Thailand from Korea when her mother falls sick but home offers no sanctuary. She carries a past carved in twin shadows, once joined to Ploy, the cold ruthless mirror to her sweet protective self. 

The surgery that separated them killed Ploy, leaving Pim alive and hollow with guilt. Korea was supposed to be an escape, a way to outrun a sister who should not exist anymore. Now the house sits in Ploy’s lingering presence, and every corner of Pim’s past claws back, reminding her that survival is not freedom when it comes with a haunting.

6. The Parent Trap

(1998), Family/Comedy

In this remake of the 1961 film, Lindsay Lohan leads a double life as twins Hallie and Annie, split at birth by divorce and oceans: Hallie in sunny California, Annie in rain-soaked London.

A summer camp mix-up sparks a clash that turns into a revelation: they’re twin sisters. Then comes the swap, the masquerade, the thrill of stepping into each other’s worlds. Their mission is to rekindle their parents’ lost love. Chaos, comedy, and a rush of teen ingenuity follow as two girls bend life, love, and identity to make family whole again.

7. The Prestige

(2006), Thriller/Sci-fi

In Victorian London, magicians Robert Angier and Alfred Borden become bitter rivals after a stage accident kills Angier’s wife. Their duels escalate, each crafting ever-riskier illusions. The impossible trick at the center of it all is Borden’s “Transported Man.”

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The secret is shocking. Borden is actually one of twin brothers who share the same identity, the same career, even the same love, turning their lives into the ultimate illusion.

8. New York Minute

(2004), Family/Comedy

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen ignite the screen as Jane and Roxy Ryan, twin sisters split at the core. Jane, all crisp notebooks and Columbia dreams, lands in Manhattan for a scholarship interview. Roxy, the chaos incarnate, skips class for a music video shoot. The city becomes their playground and battleground, chased by a truant officer, tangled in a stolen music chip, and caught in one misadventure after another.

By the end, the twins navigate the mess, clash and collide, and somehow discover that their differences are the very thing that makes them unstoppable.