Every Sofia Coppola Film Ranked Worst To Best

Coppola's directorial debut is as melancholic as it is dark, and as beautifully haunting as it is an excellent display of the director's natural filmmaking abilities. Based on the novel of the same name by Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides details the isolation, depression and emotional upheaval of five troubled sisters (Kirsten Dunst, A.J Cook, Chelse Swain, Leslie Hayman, Hanna R. Hall).

With its haunting subject matter, mature performances, thoughtful social observations and deeply affecting narrative structure, The Virgin Suicides is far from an easy film to watch, but is nonetheless compulsively watchable thanks to its performances and Coppola's inspired screenplay and direction.

For some, the film will be too unsettling to enjoy, but underneath all the trauma and startling emotional themes, The Virgin Suicides is both a scathing assessment of teenage strife and loss, as well as one of the most effective directorial debuts of the 90s. Hard to watch, but well worth the trip.