If you know of more (good) movies that fit the description please tell me. It’s like one of my favorite genres. I love loser girls. They make me feel seen. <3

The main girl(s) needs to be really unpopular/bullied and socially awkward in a school setting or grown up and a real fuck-up who can’t get their shit together resulting in their life falling apart.
Bonus if they still live with their parents and have max. 1 friend and fail to date anyone (successfully).

1. Muriels Wedding
2.Welcome to the Dollhouse
3. May
4. Frances Ha.
5. Ghost World
6. Young Adult
7. Eighth Grade
8. Shiva Baby
9. Drop Dead Fred
10. Bottoms


Honorable Mentions: Fleabag (if you count the pro-shot of the play as a movie), Booksmart, Dinner in America and Ingrid goes West.

I have decided to make 2 separate lists for 90s teen movies, one fun and one serious, because I just love them all so much I couldn’t fit them into one.

1. Rushmore (1998)
2. 10 things I hate about you (1999)
3. But I’m a Cheerleader (1999)
4. Dazed and Confused (1993)
5. The Doom Generation (1995)
6. Election (1999)
7. Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)
8. She’s all that (1999)
9. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)
10. Jawbreaker (1999)

Honorable Mentions: Clueless (1995), Can’t Hardly Wait (1998), Dick (1999), The Opposite of Sex (1998), American Pie (1999)

(Most of the honorable mentions are guilty pleasures because of how problematic and/or stupid they are, so please don’t judge me too harshly for how much I love them)

1. Charlie Kaufman – Favs: “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” (2004), “Adaptation.” (2002), “Being John Malkovich” (1999), “Synecdoche, New York” (2008)
2. Miranda July – Favs: “Me and You and Everyone We Know” (2005) and “Kajillionaire” (2020)
3. Paul Thomas Anderson – Favs: “Magnolia” (1999), “Punch Drunk Love” (2002), “Boogie Nights” (1997), “There Will Be Blood” (2007)
4. Sofia Coppola – Favs: “The Virgin Suicides” (1999), “Lost in Translation” (2003), “Priscilla” (2023)
5. Wes Anderson – Favs: “The Royal Tenenbaums” (2001), “Rushmore” (1998), “Moonrise Kingdom” (2012)
6. Wong Kar-Wai – Favs: “Chungking Express” (1994), “Fallen Angels” (1995), “Happy Together” (1997)
7. Michel Gondry – Favs: “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” (2004) and “Science of Sleep” (2006)
8. Todd Solondz – Favs: “Welcome to the Dollhouse” (1995), “Happiness”(1998), “Storytelling” (2001)
9. Yorgos Lanthimos – Favs: “The Favorite” (2018), “Poor Things” (2023), The Lobster” (2015)
10. Richard Linklater – Favs: “Before”-Trilogy (1995, 2004, 2013), “Waking Life” (2001), “Dazed and Confused” (1993)

Honorable Mentions: Park chan wook – Favs: “Oldboy” (2003), “Lady Vengeance” (2005), “I’m a Cyborg, But That’s ok” (2006)

Mike Mills – Favs: “20th Century Women” (2016) and “C’mon C’mon” (2021)

Greta Gerwig – Favs: “Ladybird”(2017), “Frances Ha” (2012), “Mistress America” (2015)

Jim Jarmusch – Favs: “Night on Earth” (1990) and “Only Lovers Left Alive” (2013)

Gregg Araki – Favs: The Teen Apocalypse Trilogy (1993, 1995, 1997), “Mysterious Skin” (2004), “Smiley Face” (2007)

Terry Zwigoff – Favs: “Ghost World” (2001), “Crumb” (1994), “Art School Confidential” (2006)

Jordan Peele – Favs: “Get Out” (2017) and “Us” (2019)

Coen Brothers- Favs: “The Big Lebowski” (1998), “Fargo” (1996), “Blood Simple” (1984)

Satoshi Kon – Favs: “Tokyo Godfathers” (2003), “Perfect Blue” (1997), “Paranoia Agent” (Miniseries, 2004)

Diablo Cody – Favs: “Juno” (2007), “Young Adult” (2011), “Tully” (2018)

I got a request from a friend for a “Top 10 horror franchises” list, but unfortunately, despite having seen a lot of horror movies, the only franchise I have really strong positive feelings for/feel dedicated to, beyond watching 1-2 movies is “Scream” (I’ve seen every single one). So that would’ve been a very short list.
I thought instead I could just do horror movies in general. I hope that’s fine, too. 🥺

1. Silence of the Lambs (1990)
2. Get Out (2017)
3. May (2002)
4. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
5. The Wicker Man (1973)
6. Funny Games (1997)
7. The People Under the Stairs (1991)
8. Us (2019)
9. Scream (1996)
10. Midsommar (2019)

Honorable Mentions: Carrie (1976), Jennifer’s Body (2009), Audition (1999), House (1977), The Addiction (1995), The Shining (1980), Black Swan (2010), Repulsion (1965),

Also there are some movies that are labeled “Horror” but for some reason just don’t feel like horror movies to me, which is why I omitted them from this list, despite loving them a lot.
-> Freaks (1932), Perfect Blue (1997), American Psycho (2000), Sinners (2025),

Fun ones only. So no “Thirteen” (2003) or Speak (2004), even though I really love both.

1. Ghost World (2001)
2. Juno (2007)
3. Mean Girls (2004)
4. Freaky Friday (2003)
5. Twilight (2008)
6. Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004)
7. High School Musical 2 (2007)
8. The Princess Diaries (2001)
9. Superbad (2007)
10. The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003)

Honorable Mentions: Whip It (2009), St. Trinians (2007), She’s the Man (2006), New York Minute (2004), A Cinderella Story (2004),