What’s Galentine’s Day, you ask? “Oh, it’s only the best day of the year. Every February 13th, my lady friends and I leave our husbands and our boyfriends at home, and we just come and kick it, breakfast-style. Ladies celebrating ladies. It’s like Lilith Fair, minus the angst. Plus frittatas.” – Leslie Knope (Parks and Recreation)
01. The Joy Luck Club (1993)
Four Chinese women, along with their mothers, delve into their past in a series of sixteen vignettes that explore cultural conflict and the often turbulent relationships between daughters and mothers.
02. Now and Then (1995)
Three strong women — Roberta Martin (Rosie O’Donnell), Samantha Albertson (Demi Moore), and Tina “Teeny” Tercell (Melanie Griffith) — return home to reunite with their childhood friend Chrissy DeWitt Williams (Rita Wilson) and see her through the end of her first pregnancy.
03. Bridesmaids (2011)
Annie (Kristen Wiig) is a single woman whose life is a mess, but when she learns that her lifelong best friend, Lillian (Maya Rudolph), is engaged, she has no choice but to serve as the maid of honor. Though lovelorn and almost penniless, Annie winds her way through the strange and expensive rituals associated with her job as the bride’s go-to gal.
04. Someone Great (2019)
An aspiring music journalist lands her dream job and is about to move to San Francisco when her boyfriend of nine years decides to call it quits. She and her two best friends spend one outrageous last adventure in New York City to nurse her broken heart.
05. The Craft (1996)
After transferring to a Los Angeles high school, Sarah (Robin Tunney) finds that her telekinetic gift appeals to a group of three wannabe witches who happen to be seeking a fourth member for their rituals. Bonnie (Neve Campbell), Rochelle (Rachel True), and Nancy (Fairuza Balk), like Sarah herself, all have troubled backgrounds, which, combined with their nascent powers, lead to dangerous consequences.
06. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)
A classic Southern tale of hilarious sadness set in a sleepy Louisiana parish. A group of lifelong friends stages a rather unorthodox intervention to help a young playwright unravel the truth about her complicated, eccentric mother, find forgiveness and acceptance, and let go of her painful past.
07. Girls Trip (2017)
Best friends Ryan, Sasha, Lisa, and Dina are in for the adventure of a lifetime when they travel to New Orleans for the annual Essence Festival. Along the way, they rekindle their sisterhood and rediscover their wild side by doing enough dancing, drinking, brawling, and romancing to make the Big Easy blush.
08. Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion (1997)
Ten years after their high school graduation, Romy (Mira Sorvino) and Michele (Lisa Kudrow) haven’t accomplished everything they set out to do. When they hear of their upcoming high school reunion, they take it as an opportunity to show their classmates how much they’ve changed — first by trying to reform themselves, then by creating a lie that eventually spins out of control.
09. Hidden Figures (2016)
Three brilliant African American women at NASA — Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson — serve as the brains behind one of the most extraordinary operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, a stunning achievement that restored the nation’s confidence, turned around the Space Race and galvanized the world.
10. Waiting to Exhale (1995)
Navigating through careers, family, and romance, four friends bond over the shortcomings in their love lives — namely, the scarcity of good men. Both as the “other woman,” Savannah (Whitney Houston) and Robin (Lela Rochon) carry on relationships with married men. On the flip side, Bernadine (Angela Bassett) ends up alone when her husband divorces her for his mistress. Meanwhile, Gloria (Loretta Devine) finds love with a new neighbor.
