Best Female friendship Movies
Ranked by how strongly each film carries the visual signature of female friendship cinema — measured across 3,323 indexed frames from 44 films, against a 404,689-frame catalogue baseline. Not by box office, and not by vote.
Female friendship films over-index on smartphone, earrings and necklace — the objects that make the genre recognisable before a line is spoken.
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Talk to Me (2023)
Michael Philippou, Danny PhilippouDP Aaron McLiskyIMDb 7.1TMDB 7.1See in full on FrameThrower →
When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.
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Pleasure (2021)
Ninja ThybergDP Sophie WinqvistIMDb 6.3TMDB 6.3See in full on FrameThrower →
Ninja Thyberg's debut feature PLEASURE is a journey into the American porn industry and follows 19-year-old Bella from Sweden, who arrives in Los Angeles with the dream of becoming the next big porn star. The film is raw but offers both a human and humorous portrayal of a male-dominated world seen from a female perspective.
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Someone Great (2019)
Jennifer Kaytin RobinsonDP Autumn EakinIMDb 6.2TMDB 6.4See in full on FrameThrower →
Aspiring music journalist Jenny (Gina Rodriguez) has just landed her dream job at an iconic magazine and is about to move to San Francisco. Rather than do long distance, her boyfriend of nine years (Lakeith Stanfield) decides to call it quits. To nurse her broken heart, Jenny gathers up her two best friends Erin (DeWanda Wise) and Blair (Brittany Snow) for one outrageous last adventure in New York City. From writer/director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (creator of MTV's Sweet/Vicious), SOMEONE GREAT is a hilarious and heartfelt story of friendship, love, and what it means to let go of your twenties and enter adulthood.
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The Bling Ring (2013)
Sofia CoppolaDP Christopher BlauveltIMDb 5.6TMDB 5.4See in full on FrameThrower →
Quiet teenager Marc Hall arrives as a new student at Indian Hills High School in Agoura Hills, California. He is befriended by fame-obsessed Rebecca Ahn. While at a party at Rebecca's house, the pair check unlocked vehicles on the street, taking valuables such as cash and credit cards. When Marc mentions that one of his wealthy acquaintances is out of town, Rebecca persuades him to join her in breaking into his house. Rebecca steals a handbag, mentioning that her idol, Lindsay Lohan, has the same one. She also steals cash and the keys to a Porsche, which the pair use to flee the scene. With the cash, the two go on a shopping spree, affording themselves the luxury lifestyle they admire in magazines. Marc visits a nightclub with Rebecca and her friends Nicki Moore, Nicki's adoptive sister Sam, and Chloe Tainer, where they rub shoulders with celebrities such as Kirsten Dunst and Paris Hilton. While researching Hilton on the Internet, Marc and Rebecca realize that she will be out of town. The pair go to her house, and finding the key under the doormat, they go through Hilton's belongings, taking some jewelry. Rebecca then flaunts a stolen bracelet to Nicki, Sam, and Chloe at a party..
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Do Revenge (2022)
Jennifer Kaytin RobinsonDP Brian BurgoyneIMDb 6.3TMDB 6.4See in full on FrameThrower →
A dethroned queen bee at a posh private high school strikes a secret deal with an unassuming new student to enact revenge on one another’s enemies.
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Sex and the City 2 (2010)
Michael Patrick KingDP John ThomasIMDb 4.5TMDB 6.0See in full on FrameThrower →
Two years have passed since Carrie Bradshaw finally bagged John "Mr. Big" Preston, the man she was always meant to be with. Just as her friend Charlotte must deal with her young daughter's "terrible two's", Carrie must deal with her relationship taking a turn for the worse - Big likes to watch old black-and-white movies on TV and eat take-out food, which prevents Carrie from feeling like the free-wheeling party girl she used to be. Meanwhile, Miranda copes with a new boss that can't handle an intelligent, powerful woman, and Samantha works a public relations angle that gets the fashionable foursome an all-expense-paid trip to Abu Dhabi.
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Fresh (2022)
Mimi CaveDP Pawel PogorzelskiIMDb 6.7TMDB 7.0See in full on FrameThrower →
Frustrated by scrolling dating apps only to end up on lame, tedious dates, Noa takes a chance by giving her number to the awkwardly charming Steve after a produce-section meet-cute at the grocery store.
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Laggies (2014)
Lynn SheltonDP Benjamin KasulkeIMDb 6.4TMDB 6.1See in full on FrameThrower →
Overeducated and underemployed, 28 year old Megan is in the throes of a quarterlife crisis. Squarely into adulthood with no career prospects, no particular motivation to think about her future and no one to relate to, Megan is comfortable lagging a few steps behind - while her friends check off milestones and celebrate their new grown-up status. When her high-school sweetheart proposes, Megan panics and- given an unexpected opportunity to escape for a week - hides out in the home of her new friend, 16-year old Annika and Annika's world-weary single dad Craig.
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Thelma & Louise (1991)
Ridley ScottDP Adrian BiddleIMDb 7.6TMDB 7.6See in full on FrameThrower →
Louise is working in a diner as a waitress and has some problems with her boyfriend Jimmy, who, as a musician, is always on the road. Thelma is married to Darryl who likes his wife to stay quiet in the kitchen so that he can watch football on TV. One day they decide to break out of their normal life and jump in the car and hit the road. Their journey, however, turns into a flight when Louise kills a man who threatens to rape Thelma. They decide to go to Mexico, but soon they are hunted by American police.
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Spring Breakers (2012)
Harmony KorineDP Benoît DebieIMDb 5.3TMDB 5.3See in full on FrameThrower →
Brit, Candy, Cotty, and Faith have been best friends since grade school. They live together in a boring college dorm and are hungry for adventure. All they have to do is save enough money for spring break to get their shot at having some real fun. A serendipitous encounter with rapper "Alien" promises to provide the girls with all the thrill and excitement they could hope for. With the encouragement of their new friend, it soon becomes unclear how far the girls are willing to go to experience a spring break they will never forget.
What female friendship films are made of
How much more often each element appears in a female friendship frame than in an average frame from the catalogue. A ratio, not a share — smartphone is not in most frames, it is simply far more common here than anywhere else.
- smartphone2.9×
- earrings2.5×
- necklace2.0×
- woman1.8×
- neon sign1.6×
- sofa1.6×
- glasses1.6×
- bed1.5×
How female friendship films are shot
Weaker signals than the objects above, and worth saying so: most dramatic genres skew dark and night-heavy, so these numbers separate female friendship from the catalogue far more than they separate it from its neighbours.
- 20%high keyvs 12% baseline
- 86%eye levelvs 69% baseline
What breaks the pattern
The Descent (2005) is the least typical film here — it carries the least of what the rest of this list is made of. Which is either a failure of the genre label, or the most interesting film on the page.
Method
Every frame in the FrameThrower catalogue is tagged for shot size, lighting, time of day, camera angle, colour and the objects visible in it. This page aggregates those tags across 3,323 frames from 44 films carrying the female friendship label, and compares each figure to the same measurement across the whole catalogue (404,689 frames). Films are ranked by how closely they match the theme’s over-indexed elements, weighted by how distinctive each element is; one film per series. Only films with at least 20 indexed frames and 500 TMDB votes are listed.
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