Top 10 Movies About Girlfriends

Thora Birch ruins Steve Buscemi's life in Terry Zwigoff's Ghost World, but the pain at the very heart of this film lies in her dissolving friendship with Scarlett Johansson. Achingly true, hilarious, and at times painful to watch, this comic book adaptation is an instant classic.

Pawel Pawlikowski captures the breathtaking intensity of friendship. The electric connection between Mona and Tasmin is defined by a marvelous, nerve-wracking give and take. British actresses Nathalie Press and Emily Blunt give stunning performances.

Winner at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival, Erick Zonca's film tells the heartbreaking story of Marie and Isa, penniless friends in Lille who stick together in a borrowed apartment. Impossibly beautiful, oh so French actresses Elodie Bouchez and Natacha Regnier star.

Kate Winslet's debut performance in this early Peter Jackson film is not to be missed, and the claymation fantasies are oddly intriguing. When female friendships go wrong, mothers beware!

The winner of the 2007 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, Cristian Mungiu's devastating drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days tells the story of a young woman who helps her college roommate obtain an illegal abortion in 1980s Romania. It's a riveting, wrenching, horrifying and beautifully told story - as a friendship is put to the test.

Sandra Golbacher's film about friendhship is one of the very best. Talented actresses Michelle Williams and Anna Friel do their best to make each other miserable--all in the name of friendship.

There's a twisted, unhealthy bond between inseparable Nikki Reed and Evan Rachel Wood in Catherine Hardwicke's disturbing (but fantastic) coming of age drama Thirteen.

Jim McKay's quiet, intelligent film tells the story of three friends who live in a housing project in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. The teenage girls are pulled in different directions when their high school is closed. A lovely performance by Kerry Washington holds it all together.

When Morvern Callar (Samantha Morton) decides to leave cold, dark, wet Scotland for sunny Spain she takes her best friend Lanna (played with easy, hilarious charm by newcomer Kathleen McDermott). Lynne Ramsay's moody punk film explores the binds of friendship that outlast their use.

Kate Beckinsale and Chloe Sevigny are roommates and fellow disco girls in Whit Stillman's iconic 1980's New York film. Publishing assistant Beckinsale is not to be trusted, and poor, poor Sevigny--after contracting HIV in Kids and then falling for a woman in Boys Don't Cry--has more bad luck in the sack.