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The Girlhood Watchlist
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items While we love our rom coms, these are the movies that make you so damn grateful to be a girl. The kind that celebrate friendship bracelets, long talks, messy feelings, and sisterhood that saves you over and over again. Watch with your besties, cry a ...
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For the Girls
This is THE girlhood blueprint. Lifelong secrets, unbreakable friendships, and the kind of girlhood that stretches across generations. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood is about healing and the ride-or-die magic of your girl gang, even when thin...
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)
Uptown Girls is girlhood in all its messy, magical glory. It’s glitter and grief, tantrums and tenderness, a reminder that growing up doesn’t have to mean growing cold. This movie captures the sweetness of unlikely friendships and the healing that ha...
Uptown Girls
She may have been clueless, but the lessons? Timeless. Clueless isn’t just about fashion and funny one-liners (though we do owe it everything for the plaid matching set era), it’s about growth, friendship, and figuring out who you are underneath all ...
Clueless
This one’s for the girls who’ve been knocked down and underestimated, only to rise up louder, funnier, and stronger than ever. The First Wives Club is about friendship after heartbreak, reclaiming your power, and getting even (with style). It reminds...
The First Wives Club
Midnight margaritas. Sisterhood spells. Generational wounds and generational love. Practical Magic is for the girls who always felt a little different, a little wild, a little magical. It’s about choosing each other when the world doesn’t understand ...
Practical Magic
Girlhood in its rawest form. Beauty salon confessions, belly laughs, unbearable grief, and the kind of friendships that hold you up when life knocks you down. It’s about women being soft and strong, fragile and fierce. You’ll laugh, cry, and then cal...
Steel Magnolias
This is pure, glittery, sun-soaked friendship. Dancing barefoot with your best friends, laughing until you cry. It’s about moms, daughters, wild love stories, and the magic of not needing all the answers to feel completely alive.
Mamma Mia!
Thelma & Louise is girlhood with the volume all the way up. Wild, untamed, and fiercely loyal. It’s about saying no more, taking the wheel (literally), and choosing freedom, even when it costs everything. This one’s for the girls who’d rather rid...
Thelma & Louise
Sleepovers, butterfly clips, first crushes, and the kind of best friend love that actually saves you. It’s about believing in magic, in each other, and in the power of girlhood before the world tries to change you.
Aquamarine
The Princess Diaries is for every girl who’s ever felt invisible then realized she was powerful all along. It’s frizzy hair, bad posture, and finding your confidence before the makeover. It’s about growing into yourself, choosing kindness over coolne...
The Princess Diaries
Girls Trip is what happens when adult life gets heavy and your girls remind you who the hell you are. This movie is about reconnecting with your joy, reclaiming your sparkle, and laughing so hard you almost pee (or do). It’s a love letter to the powe...
Girls Trip
The Parent Trap is childhood magic, campfires, secret handshakes, matching outfits, and the wild idea that maybe anything is possible if you really believe. It’s about sisterhood (literally). Lindsay Lohan in her dual-role era? Iconic.
The Parent Trap
Sex and the City is girlhood all grown up. Messier, sexier, wiser (or not?), and still totally dependent on your best friends to survive it all. Dating disasters, career highs, and navigating love in all its complicated forms. But more than anything,...
Sex and the City
Legally Blonde is the ultimate reminder that you can be smart and sparkly, kind and unstoppable. It’s about rewriting the story people try to place you in and doing it in heels with a scented résumé. Elle Woods taught an entire generation of girls th...
Legally Blonde
A love letter to the girl you used to be and the woman you’re still becoming. It’s glitter, sleepovers, scrunchies, and the ache of wanting to grow up too fast. It’s about realizing that success means nothing without people who love the real you. Jen...
13 Going on 30
Losing the guy but finding yourself and realizing your real soulmates might be your best friends. Messy apartments, tequila-fueled dance breaks, ugly crying, and saying goodbye to who you thought you were. It’s about growing up, letting go, and celeb...
Someone Great
A glittery existential crisis wrapped in pink, set to a Billie Eilish song that made us all cry in the theater. It’s about identity, womanhood, and what it means to break free from perfection. Underneath the plastic and punchlines is a story about re...
Barbie
Little Women is sisterhood in four parts. Creative, chaotic, headstrong, and tender. It captures the beauty and heartbreak of being a girl with big feelings in a world that doesn’t always know what to do with them. Every scene feels like a letter to ...
Little Women
This one feels like summer. Growing up in different directions while holding each other close. It’s first heartbreaks, big changes, family messiness, and the friends who make it all bearable. It’s the kind of movie that makes you want to call your be...
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Miss Congeniality is the moment you realize you can kick ass and wear lip gloss. It’s about embracing softness without losing strength, and learning that vulnerability doesn’t make you weak. Gracie Hart goes from grumpy lone wolf to sisterhood-having...
Miss Congeniality
This one’s for the girls who grew up planning their dream wedding and assumed their best friend would be right there next to them. It’s dramatic, petty, pink, and painfully real because sometimes your closest friendships go through the messiest growi...
Bride Wars
Iconic for a reason. Beneath the quotes and pink Wednesdays is a story about wanting to belong, losing yourself, and learning how to find your way back. It’s girlhood at its most chaotic: the messiness, the insecurities, the unspoken rules, and the p...
Mean Girls
Bridesmaids is what happens when life falls apart and your best friend is getting married, and you’re barely holding it together. At its core, it’s about the fear of being left behind, the awkward in-between of growing up, and the deep, ride-or-die k...
Bridesmaids