After examining the Greatest 'Guy' Movies of All-Time (illustrated) compiled by this site, or the 100 Greatest Guy Movies Ever Made and the 50 Best Guy Movies of All Time, it only seemed fair to put together a list of gal films or chick flicks (a demeaning and damning term, however, since this sub-genre of film was traditionally known as the "woman's film" in the 30s and 40s). Chick flicks have often been put down as trite, sappy, emotional, soap-opera-ish, cliched, melodramatic, weepy, and trivial. Familiar quotes or taglines from each film have been included, as well as an iconic screenshot.

See also this site's description of the chick flicks' genre "Womens' Films - Melodramas", and a collection of the Greatest Tearjerker Films, Moments and Scenes - many from "the greatest chick flicks".

Often considered an all-encompassing sub-genre, they mostly include dialogue-laden, formulated romantic comedies (with mis-matched lovers or female relationships), tearjerkers and gal-pal films, movies about family crises and emotional catharsis, some traditional 'weepies' and fantasy-action adventures, sometimes with foul-mouthed and empowered females, and female bonding situations involving families, mothers, daughters and children.

Note: The films that are marked with a yellow star are the films that "The Greatest Films" site has selected as the "100 Greatest Films"

Life. Family. Love.

"Everything seems like nothing to me now, 'cause I want you in my bed. I don't care if I burn in hell. I don't care if you burn in hell. The past and the future is a joke to me now. I see that they're nothin'. I see they ain't here. The only thing that's here is you - and me.... Loretta, I love you. Not, not like they told you love is and I didn't know this either. But love don't make things nice, it ruins everything! It breaks your heart, it makes things a mess. We aren't here to make things perfect. Snowflakes are perfect, stars are perfect. Not us! Not US! We are here to ruin ourselves and...and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and...and DIE...I mean, I mean the storybooks are bulls--t. Now I want you to come upstairs with me and...and GET in my bed. Come on, come on, come on."

Some Friendships Last Forever

"Oh, Hillary, I'll never forget this as long as I live...You doing the laundry for me. I mean, I hate to do laundry more than anything in the whole world. I think this is probably the nicest thing anybody ever did for me. A man would never do this for you no matter how much he loved you."

"So what do you do with yourself all day, now that you're a housewife? I mean, don't you get bored sitting around the house all day?"
"No, because I don't sit around the house all day. I'm extremely busy."
"Doing what?...How do you keep busy? Doing what?"
"...I spend my time working on various charities. I'm on the board of the Junior League, the State and Homes Preservation Society, I'm a docent at the art museum..."

CC: "...at least I belong to myself, which is more than I can say for you. I'm doing what I set out to do, remember? I'm living a life you didn't have the courage for. So don't give me 'You're not jealous'. You're so jealous you can hardly breathe." and later: Hillary: "I was jealous. I was so jealous of you I couldn't see straight! You did everything you said you were going to do, everything! And your talent, this incredible talent! I can't even yodel!"

For anyone who's ever won. For anyone who's ever lost. And for everyone who's still in there trying.

"You're the first woman I've seen in one of these things that dresses like a woman, not like a woman thinks a man would dress if he was a woman."

"I have a head for business and a bod for sin. Is there anything wrong with that?"

They couldn't hear him. They couldn't see him. But he was there when they needed him... Even after he was gone.

"I want to make something clear. If you think you can make a grown-up woman go weak in the knees just by giving her girl-clothes, you're about as dead as your airplane...I'm not going weak in the knees... I've gone weak in the head...I love you...So tell me you love me. Please, please, please, please, tell me, tell me, tell me. Aw, tell me, TELL ME! Tell me, tell me, tell me."

"I know you can't see me, but I'm right here."

"...I love you, Dorinda. I love you. I should have told you that a long time ago...I should have said the words, because I know now, that the love we hold back is the only pain that follows us here. And the memory of that love shouldn't make you unhappy for the rest of your life. I hope you can hear me, because I know this is true, from the bottom of my heart, how good your life is, how good it will be."

She's got every thing going for her. He's going for her with every thing he's got.

"What I really want to do with my life - what I want to do for a living - is I want to be with your daughter. I'm good at it."

"I don't believe this. You just broke up with me....She gave me a pen. I gave her my heart and she gave me a pen."

No one thought she had the courage. The nerve. Or the lingerie.

"I'm going to Greece for the sex. Sex for breakfast, sex for dinner, sex for tea, and sex for supper....It's called the F-plan."

"I think sex is like supermarkets, you know, overrated. Just a lot of pushing and shoving and you still come out with very little at the end."

Sometimes laughter is a matter of life and death.

"I'm fine! I can jog all the way to Texas and back, but my daughter can't! She never could! Oh God! I am so mad I don't know what to do! I wanna know why! I wanna know why Shelby's life is over! I wanna know how that baby will ever know how wonderful his mother was! Will he ever know what she went through for him! Oh God, I wanna know why? Why? Lord, I wish I could understand!
No! No! No! It's not supposed to happen this way! I'm supposed to go first. I've always been ready to go first! I-I don't think I can take this! I-I don't think I can take this! I-I just wanna hit somebody 'til they feel as bad as I do! I just wanna hit something! I wanna hit it hard!"

"Shelby, as you know, wouldn't want us to get mired down and wallow in this. We should handle it the best way we know how and get on with it. That's what my mind says, I just wish somebody would explain it to my heart."

Can two friends sleep together and still love each other in the morning?

Harry: "There are two kinds of women: high maintenance and low maintenance...You're the worst kind. You're high maintenance, but you think you're low maintenance....(He mimics her ordering behavior) 'Waiter, I'll begin with the house salad, but I don't want the regular dressing. I'll have the balsamic vinegar and oil, but on the side, and then the salmon with the mustard sauce, but I want the mustard sauce on the side.' 'On the side' is a very big thing for you.
Sally: "Well, I just want it the way I want it."
Harry: "I know, high maintenance."

"...And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible."