

The star of a team of teenage crime fighters falls for the alluring villainess she must bring to justice.
Costume
Plaid skirts as lethal weapon and lesbian signaling device
Direction
Robinson committing fully to the bit, no apologies
Writing
The thesis scene — cinema's greatest fake academic moment

Director
Angela Robinson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Angela Robinson's feature debut — she'd later direct episodes of The L Word and Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, completing her holy trinity of queer cinema.
Released in 2005 when mainstream lesbian cinema was either tragic or invisible, D.E.B.S. dared to be silly, horny, and completely uninterested in straight approval.