Girlfriends

Let’s hear it for the badass buddies, the inseparable gal-pals, the obsessive duos and the wisecracking girl gangs of cinema.

Rhianna Dhillon's Galentine's Day

Rhianna Dhillon's pick of the BFI Player films that celebrate female friendship, from Frances Ha and Daisies to Celine and Julie Go Boating.

Short documentary
2026
9 mins

Girls Girls Girls

Three young women explore love and sex in this spirited coming-of-age drama, which won the World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award at Sundance 2022.

Romance
2021
101 mins
Alli Haapasalo

Celine and Julie Go Boating

Jacques Rivette’s biggest commercial hit is an exhilarating combination of theatricality, paranoia and ‘la vie parisienne’, around an entrancing examination of making and watching films.

Drama
1974
194 mins
Jacques Rivette

Me without You

Anna Friel and Michelle Williams star as two troubled girls whose tumultuous friendship takes many twists and turns.

Drama
2001
103 mins
Sandra Goldbacher

The Doll Squad

An elite group of female agents join to form The Doll Squad, with a mission to save the world from a diabolical madman intending to wreak havoc.

Crime
Drama
1973
91 mins
Ted V. Mikels

Requiem for a Vampire

Two female fugitives hide out in a deserted castle, only to become embroiled in a plot to extend the bloodline of a horde of blood-crazed vampires.

Horror
1972
87 mins
Jean Rollin

The Descent

Six friends on a caving expedition get trapped deep underground and discover they are not alone in this visceral, claustrophobic horror.

Horror
2005
99 mins
Neil Marshall

Skate Kitchen

A timid Long Island skater-girl befriends a New York City-based skateboarding crew in Crystal Moselle's Sundance-nominated coming-of-age tale.

Drama
2018
105 mins
Crystal Moselle

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