There’s No Way Every Girl Can Name All Of These Girly Movies, But They Can Try!
- by Rosalie Nardi
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Boyfriends, dads, and brothers all complain about having to watch these movies but we know they secretly love watching them... how could they not?? These films are filled with wonderful strong female characters and beautiful male leads, comedy, drama AND romance. The only thing that is typically, missing from these types of movies that the boys love is action, but that's still present in some of these films listed.
While some are filled with laughs and other with tears, there are some that are filled with both tears of joy and tears of sorrow. Some are romance stories while others are stories about coming of age and self-discovery, but they are all love stories. Take this quiz to test your knowledge on this broad film genre. For the fellas out there that have stumbled upon this quiz, don't feel discouraged! This one is for you guys too. Try to challenge the ladies in your life. Can you beat their scores? Probably not... but it's definitely worth a shot. Maybe you'll find some inspiration for your next movie night! Don't write off all these "chick-flicks" just yet.
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This 2009 romantic science fiction film is based on a novel of the same title by Audrey Niffenegger. The book and movie tell the story of a man who has a weird genetic condition that causes him to move around a lot. Its difficult for him to have a normal life because of his movement through the space-time continuum, but somehow he manages to build a romantic relationship with a woman who he has known since she was a little girl.
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This film was actually meant to be more of a dark film that would showcase the problems of class and "working women" in Los Angeles at the time. Instead, it was turned around to be a great romantic comedy that is one for the ages. Starring Richard Gere and Julia Roberts, this film grossed over eleven million dollars in just its opening weekend. It was number one at the box office for four weeks and in the Top 10 for sixteen weeks.
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Let's face it, Molly Ringwald is the icon of romantic comedies in the 80s. This one is about a girl who feels like she is forgotten by her family and friends. With everything going on with her sister's wedding, she feels as though she can't get her own space or her own time with her loved ones. Of course, there is also a love interest who won't give her the attention she seeks. It may be obvious, but we won't spoil the ending for you!
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This movie is about a group of high school girls called the "plastics" and how a new girl in town infiltrated the group to take them down. She gets a little carried away in the middle, losing herself in the image and forgetting about her real friends. It is a classic story of survival of the fittest, which is fitting since her parents are zoologists who just moved to Evanston, Illinois from Africa. The film actually takes its inspiration from the self-help book "Queen Bees and Wannabees".
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This film is so iconic that if you get this wrong, it's probably because you've been living under a rock your whole life. It is based on a real-life event that took place in 1912, but the beautiful love story of Rose and Jack was a fictional story by James Cameron. Similar to others of its kind, it is a love story between a rich girl and a poor boy. Clashing worlds cause for social disasters, but none like the one they experience in this tragic story.
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Rachel McAdams is one of our favorite actresses when it comes to dramatic romance. She is a wonderful actress and pairs beautifully with the amazing Ryan Gosling in this film. Again, a story about a poor boy and rich girl, who is quite resistant at first, but then gives in whole-heartedly. This film is based on a novel written by Nicholas Sparks of the same name written in 1996. The film was released in 2004 as directed by Nick Cassavetes.
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Being in high school is never easy, but in the 80s, American high school is all about cliques and which group you're part of. What happens if you don't fit into any? For Andie Walsh and her friends, that is the case. BUT they get by anyway and teach us that things may not always be the way you view them to be and sometimes people might surprise you... we know it's a tale as old as time, but this was the 80s!
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This film recounts the classic story of a small town girl leaving her life behind to move to the city and start fresh, much like Jo Wilson, or Brooke Stadler, on Grey's Anatomy. In this 1961 romantic comedy, Holly Golightly is just that character. She moves to New York City to have a glamorous life and tends to get what she wants until she meets Paul Varjak. Like every other woman in a romantic comedy, Holly's life gets overturned and she finds new meaning to it when she meets this mysterious man.
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This 90s classic is loosely based on Jane Austin's novel "Emma". It is about a Beverly Hills teenager who takes the new girl under her wing to help her become cool and popular and find a boyfriend. Along the way, however, she loses sight of what she's supposed to be doing as her judgment gets clouded by her heart. The amazing Paul Rudd plays the love interest in this film and your judgment would be clouded too if you had to look at him all day.
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This 2003 romantic comedy starring the dynamic duo that is Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey is about a man and a woman dating each other, both having ulterior motives. While one tries to push away, the other tries to pull back in. A classic game of tug-of-love. Lies and deception always make for great comedy, and because it's a romance film, the characters do end up falling for each other in the end even though the start of things was all under false pretenses.
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This film is about a married couple, played by Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum, who get into an accident. Paige suffers great memory loss and is unable to recognize her husband, Leo. Her parents, never having met Leo and disapproving of her artist lifestyle, try to bring her back to her old life as a law student, while Leo desperately tries to get Paige to remember who he is and how much she loves him. The film was inspired by a true story.
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This 2009 romantic comedy tells the story of Emma and Liv who have been friends their whole lives and have been planning their weddings for almost as long. They get engaged at the same time and end up competing over each others' weddings since they both want the same things and have the same guests. Liv, played by Kate Hudson, is the successful and popular one of the two who has always gotten what she wanted, but this time, Emma is done being a pushover and will not stand for it.
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This film is a modern take on William Shakespeare's comedy "The Taming of the Shrew". The play is about a man who tries to court a woman named Katherine who is unwilling to take a husband. Meanwhile, her sister Bianca has suiters competing over her. In the modern take, Bianca is not allowed to date until her older sister Kat does. Boys interested in Bianca, knowing this, devise a plan to get bad boy Patrick Verona to woo Kat so that Bianca would be free to date.
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This 2001 film starring Anne Hathaway is based on a young adult novel series by Meg Cabot. Mia Thermopolis is a teenager in high school who finds out that she is actually a princess when her grandmother, the queen of Genovia comes to visit. So, Mia is not stuck juggling her social life (or lack thereof) and school work with her new lady-like appearance and her duties as royalty. In the sequel, she must choose between love, and becoming queen.
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This movie is about a girl named Elle Woods (played by Reese Witherspoon) who decides to change her lifestyle from being the perfect sorority girl to being the perfect student. At first, she is trying to win back her childish ex-boyfriend, but on her journey, she realizes that her new field of study is where she wants to be. She also finds a great mature romance along the way. She may not be typical, but she has her own charm that brings an extra spice to her profession.
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This 2008 release is a British coming of age comedy film. It follows the story of Georgia Nicholson and her friends who are trying to get by in their young teenage life as they start to explore relationships with boys and more womanly things. This is all happening as Georgia is also trying to plan her fifteenth birthday party. The story has definitely been done before, but this comes with its own British take and is based on two novels by Louise Rennison.
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The first film in a series released in 2001, this movie is based on a series of books of the same name written by Helen Fielding, which is a modern take on Jane Austin's "Pride and Prejudice". The movie was a huge hit and also resulted in an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for the lead, Renée Zellweger. The film chronicles the life of a single 32-year old as she goes along her journey through work, friendship, and love.
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Starring Jennifer Garner, this 2004 film tells the story of a thirteen-year-old girl who gets pranked at her birthday party. Upset about the humiliation she has endured, Jenna wishes that she were thirty and successful. The next morning, she wakes up and she is all grown up and confused about the life she is living. What happened to her old friends? How was she supposed to do her job? And how does she get the guy out of her apartment?
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This 2008 film starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds is about a woman who needs to get married in order to get her green card so that she won't be deported back to Canada. Big-time editor Margaret convinces her assistant Andrew to marry her so that she can keep her job and stay in the country. A business deal turns into the real deal when they go to Alaska to visit Andrew's family. Not only does Margaret fall in love with the family, but Andrew as well.
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This 2016 romantic drama is based off the book of the same name by Jojo Moyes. It tells the story of Louisa Clark, a woman who was hired as a companion for Will Traynor after he was paralyzed from a motorcycle accident. The relationship starts off as cold. Will is non-acceptant of the life he now lives because he knows that he will probably never regain his physical abilities. But, it's pure physics. If you stay in cold place long enough, it will start to get warm.
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This 1999 romantic comedy is about a reporter named Josie Geller who goes undercover to get the inside scoop on high school kids for an article she is writing. It starts off as a nightmare because she was never cool in high school. When her brother comes in to help with her popularity, she gets the high school experience she had always dreamed of, and of course, there's this guy... the English teacher! Too bad she's disguised as a student!
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This 2008 romantic comedy is about a single woman named Jane Nichols who is in love with her boss. She does everything for him because she is a great helper and the perfect assistant. These qualities also make her a perfect candidate for bride's maid as well. Which she has been... twenty-seven times! Will this perfect bride's made ever become a bride? You'll have to see the movie to find out... but we all know these movies always have happy endings.
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This Sandra Bullock movie is about an FBI agent named Gracie Hart who goes undercover as a contestant for the Miss United States beauty pageant. Gracie Hart is not much of a girly girl so she must go through a major makeover to help her play the part to find out more about the bomb threat that is set to happen on the night of the pageant. Gracie must figure out where the threat is coming from and who the enemy is.
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This Hillary Duff film is a modern take on the Cinderella fairytale. Sam Montgomery is left to live with her stepmother and stepsisters after her father is killed in an earthquake. On top of serving her stepfamily, and serving her classmates at her father's diner, Sam doesn't get much time to study and excel in school. Thanks to the popular kids, school isn't really her favorite place to be either. But, where there are evil stepmothers and wicked stepsisters, love always gives hope and a happy ending always prevails.
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Daphne goes her whole life not knowing her father. After seventeen years, she decides to fly out to London to see her father who turns out to be a hot-shot politician. He never knew he had a daughter but is glad at the opportunity to get to know her now. Daphne tries hard to win over her father's friends who are of high social status. However, she is clumsy and just a common American teenager so things don't always go her way.
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This 2002 romantic comedy starring Reese Witherspoon is about a woman named Melanie who moves to New York City and changes her last name to hide her southern roots. When she left her hometown she left behind a family and her husband. When she gets engaged to Andrew, she has to go back home to tell her parents the news and get a divorce. Like any good southern romance story, a task as such is never easy. Melanie's problems with her divorce have her questioning her engagement.
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This Anne Hathaway film is a comical mixture of several aspects of different fairy tales. Between mean stepsisters and mother, fairies, curses, giants and talking books, it is hard to keep track of which fairy tale you are in and that is what makes this movie so unique. Ella is born cursed, or gifted, with obedience. She must do anything that someone tells her to do. Unable to bear the burden any longer, she sets out to find the fairy who cursed her.
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This film is based on a novel of the same title by Ann Brashares. It tells the story of four very close friends who are drifting apart over the summer but try everything they can to keep in touch. The go through ups and downs and some pretty bad rough patches but they make it to the end of the summer as strong as ever and the way they began it, together. All they needed was a little bit of magic.
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Meryl Streep is a goddess and it is impossible to not love her in every role that she plays... but the character that she plays in this movie is almost unbearable at the very beginning of the film. Miranda Priestly is a cold-hearted, dismissive boss. BUT as aforementioned, we love her in ALL her roles. Once her true colors (and heart) start to show, we see why she is the way she is and that she isn't all that bad.
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When fairy tale meets reality, you get this 2007 musical fantasy romantic comedy. This Disney movie is about an animated princess named Giselle who escapes the evil queen Narissa by fleeing to New York City. Slowly, though, all the other animated characters start to enter the city through the sewer porthole. Though Giselle does get a happy ending, in the end, it may not be the one she had planned for at the beginning of her journey when she enters New York City.
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Jumping back a couple of decades, we get to this movie about a group of strong-souled women in Louisiana who bond at a beauty salon. This group of women, though very different in some ways, all have a common ground that they connect with each other on. They go through their unexpected moments, losing loved ones, fights and makeups. The film features power female actors such as Julia Roberts, Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah and Olympia Dukakis.
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This 1996 American comedy starring Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton, and Bette Midler is the story about a group of women who form a type of sorority on common ground. They all feel like they've been wronged in some way in their marriages and decide to help build each other up because of their shared despair. Though they go through ups and downs, they all find ways to get back at their husbands. This is one of the original sources of the mentality of chicks before... well you know.
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A woman finds out that the man that she loves is getting married so she tries to win him back with only a few days until the big one! Julia Roberts plays Julianne Potter whose life-long friend is Michael O'Neal, played by Dermot Mulroney. She doesn't realize until just days before her best friends wedding that she is, in fact, in love with him and wants him all to herself. This film is considered one of the best and classic romantic comedies of all time.
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This classic movie is the one thing I can't get enough of and every time I watch it I have the time of my life. This famous movie tells the tale of a girl named Baby, her real name is Frances but with a name like that, you would want to change it too! She's vacationing on a resort with her family when she is introduced to a different way of dancing than what her instructor teaches her and becomes intrigued.
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This film, starring Matthew McConaughey and Sarah Jessica Parker is about a man named Tripp who will not move out of his parents' house. His parents are so fed up with having their thirty-five-year-old son still living in their basement so they hire a woman named Paula whose expertise is getting guys to leave the nest. Things take a different turn when feelings start to develop between the two and we see that Tripp may be more sensitive than he lets on.
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In this film, a man and a woman develop an anonymous correspondence. The woman, played by Meg Ryan, is a bookshop owner named Kathleen. Little does she know that the man she has been speaking to anonymously is none other than the owner of a huge bookstore franchise that has been putting her out of business. This man, played by Tom Hanks, is named Joe Fox of Foxbooks. Their relationship goes from a friendship to a hatred and finally a romance.
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This modern take on the fairy tale "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" is a coming of age movie starring Amanda Bynes who plays a tomboy turned sorority girl. Her mother was part of the sorority so she gets in as a legacy. Out of jealousy, however, the other sorority girls make her life miserable and she is forced to move into the "reject" house at the end of the block with seven guys who each have their special character.
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Mary's life is going pretty well for her. She has just planned another successful wedding and is on her way to becoming a partner in the company she works for when things take an unexpected turn. Saved from a horrible accident, Mary finds herself at the side of a very handsome doctor who she would much rather be with than the old childhood friend her father wants her to marry. Random coincidence turns to romance in this 2001 romantic comedy.
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This Amanda Bynes film is a modern adaptation of William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night". Viola disguises as her brother so that she can play on the soccer team at his school and prove that she can play better than a guy, especially her ex-boyfriend. The awkward part is that Viola falls in love with one of her teammates, Duke (played by Channing Tatum). She can't express her feelings unless she tells the truth about her identity, which would mean giving up her spot on the soccer team.
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In this story, a man who has recently lost his wife quickly becomes a radio celebrity after his son, concerned for his father's love life, calls in on a radio psychologist for advice on his father who seems sad and lonely. From this point on, having a love life is no the problem for Sam Baldwin. The issue is the endless mail that he is receiving from women across the country who have heard him on the radio and are dying to know more.
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This 2008 American romantic comedy sets the scene of a wedding about to take place. Who other can Hannah ask to be her maid of honor than her lifelong best friend, and player, Tom? Little does she know, the one person that Tom has deep romantic feelings for is Hannah who is about to marry a Scottish god named Collin. Of course, the film turns into a will they won't they situation and of course, they will... and they do!
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This film starring Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton tells the story of two successful people around the age of retirement that are complete opposites but end up finding love in each other at a mature age. It is a refreshing love story to the classic Hollywood type of movies that showcase young love or old lost love. Diane Keaton received a Golden Globe for her performance in the film and Jack Nicholson was nominated for one as well. It is definitely a must see.
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Of all the girly movies, this is the girliest one can get. This 2009 romantic comedy tells the story of a young journalist for a gardening magazine named Rebecca Bloomwood who has a helpless need to shop. This becomes a problem when she is drowning in debt because her one dream is to become a journalist for a big fashion magazine. To fit the part she must look the part, but to look the part, she must shop. What can she do to stop herself?
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This 2003 dramatic comedy recounts the story of twenty-two-year-old Molly Gunn, played by Brittney Snow, and the eight-year-old that she is a nanny for, Laraine "Ray" Schleine (played by Dakota Fanning). It is the story of an unlikely friendship between the two girls who somehow find something to bond over. One is a privileged child with a nanny while the other is a nanny who needs to work for a living and is struggling through a breakup with a now-famous musician.
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This romantic comedy follows the story of a pre-med student Paige Morgan (played by Julia Stiles) who is pursued by the prince of Denmark, Edvard (played by Luke Mably). The prince goes to Wisconsin hoping to find some fun party girls, but his life takes an unexpected turn when he meets Paige Morgan. At first, their relationship is a two-way tutoring one. Paige helps Eddie with common household chores while Eddie helps Paige with Shakespeare. Learning turns to flirting and flirting turns to romance.
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This story is about a has-been pop star who tries to make a comeback by collaborating with a hot young artist. The problem? He is suffering from writers' block and can't seem to get the lyrics flowing. The solution? His number one fan's sister, who also happens to be the girl who waters his plants, seems to be a natural and the words just come to her as he plays his music. Starting off as a great business deal, this friendship turns to romance.
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This dramatic teen comedy starring Lindsey Lohan tells the story of a girl named Lola who dreams of being a famous actress and makes every day of her life a dramatic scene. She has recently moved out of New York City into a boring suburb where she must be dramatic to emphasize her unhappiness with the move. For outlet, she joins the school play and becomes the star of her own show, but that's just the beginning of her new adventures as a suburban drama queen.
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This film tells the story of a woman named Holly who has recently lost her husband, Gerry. Soon after his death, Holly realizes that Gerry has left her ten love letters to help her grieve, come to terms with his death, and eventually move on with her life. The letters guide her through the months and through journeys of renewed discovery of both herself and the world. It is a beautifully tragic love story that actually received a lot of negative reviews.
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This film, starring Jennifer Lopez and Jane Fonda is about a woman who has to deal with her overbearing mother-in-law who pretends to be sick and injured so that she can keep close tabs on her son and his new wife. This woman is no ordinary mother-in-law. She even goes as far as to show up at her son's wedding in a white dress! Lopez's character, Viola catches on and starts to fight back, which makes for a great comedy film.
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This 2010 film is based on a novel by Nicholas Sparks of the same name. It tells the story of an army man, played by Channing Tatum, who falls in love with a girl, played by Amanda Seyfried. When he is deployed to war, they continue their love story by writing letters to each other. While this film got a lot of publicity, it actually got mixed to negative reviews. It didn't set very well with the critics and holds a "rotten" score of 29% on Rotten Tomatoes.