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"

Every Day We Have, Is One More Than We Deserve

Passion Brought Them Together... Only Success Could Tear Them Apart!

-- "Do you want to be with me?"
-- "So much it hurts."

A comedy from the heart that goes for the throat.

-- "You make me want to be a better man."
-- "...That's maybe the best compliment of my life."
-- "Well, maybe I overshot a little, because I was aiming at just enough to keep you from walking out."

"I might be the only person on the face of the earth that knows you're the greatest woman on earth. I might be the only one who appreciates how amazing you are in every single thing that you do..."

A comedy about finding your heart and losing your head.

"My Michael, Michael O'Neal....Sophomore year at Brown, we had this one hot month. Yes, but of course, you know me, I got restless. So I get up the nerve to break his heart. And he gives me this look. And then he said: "The thing that makes me want to cry is I'm losing the best friend I ever had." And at that moment, I knew. I felt the same way. So I cried, for maybe the third time in my entire life, kissed him, and we've been best friends ever since. We've seen each other through everything. Losing jobs, losing parents, losing lovers. We've travelled all over. The best times of my life. Drinking and talking. Even if it's just over the phone."

"He's adored me for nine god-damn years, me...She has known him, for what, like five seconds, ok, plus she's got billions of dollars, plus she's apparently perfect, ok, so don't go feeling all, all sorry for Miss Pre-Teen Illinois!...I can't lose him, George. I'm gonna bring him back."

-- "Kimmy says if you love someone you say it. You say it right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just..."
-- "Passes you by..."
-- "Passes you by..."

"This is by far the dumbest thing I've ever done in my entire life. Uh, so dumb, in fact, uh, I can't. Oh, but I'm gonna. Michael, I love you. I've loved you for nine years, I've just been too arrogant and scared to realize it, and well, now I'm just scared. So, I-I realize this comes at a very inopportune time, but I really have this gigantic favor to ask of you. Choose me. Marry me. Let me make you happy. Oh, that sounds like three favors, doesn't it?"

The Blonde Leading The Blonde.

"You know, even though we've watched Pretty Woman like thirty-six times, I never get tired of making fun of it...I just get really happy when they finally let her shop."

-- "OK, so I have nothing to wear. We don't even have time to make anything new before we go out."
-- "Well, what about this?"
-- "Did you lose weight?"
-- "Actually, I have been trying this new fat-free diet I invented. All I've had for the past six days are gummy bears, jelly beans, and candy corns."
-- "God, I wish I had your discipline."
-- "I can't believe how cute I look."
-- "I know. You know what? This is like the cutest we've ever looked."
-- "It is definitely the cutest. Don't you love how we can just say that to each other and we know that we're not being conceited?"
-- "Oh, I know. No, we're just being honest."

Collide With Destiny.

"They've got you trapped, Rose, and you're gonna die if you don't break free. Maybe not right away because you're strong, but soon, that fire that I love much about you, Rose, that fire's going to burn out."

-- "I love you, Jack."
-- "Don't you do that. Don't you say your good-byes. Not yet. Do you understand me?"
-- "I'm so cold."
-- "Listen, Rose. You're gonna get out of here, you're gonna go on and you're gonna make lots of babies, and you're gonna watch them grow. You're gonna die an old... an old lady warm in her bed, but not here, not this night. Not like this, do you understand me?"
-- "I can't feel my body."
-- "Winning that ticket, Rose, was the best thing that ever happened to me. It brought me to you. And I'm thankful for that, Rose. I'm thankful. You must, you must do me this honor. You must promise me that you'll survive. That you won't give up, no matter what happens, no matter how hopeless. Promise me now, Rose, and never let go of that promise."
-- "I promise."
-- "Never let go."
-- "I'll never let go, Jack. I'll never let go."

What if angels walked among us, and one of them fell in love with us?

"I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it. One."

"I don't understand a God who would let us meet, if there's no way we could ever be together."

-- "Why do people cry?"
-- "What do you mean?"
-- "I mean, what happens physically?"
-- "Well, uhm, tear ducts operate on a normal basis to lubricate and protect the eye and when you have an emotion they overact and create tears."
-- "Why? Why do they overact?"
-- "I don't know."
-- "Maybe, maybe emotion becomes so intense your body just can't contain it. Your mind and your feelings become too powerful, and your body weeps."

When life fell apart, love fell into place.

"Bill. Are you having an affair with your wife's best friend?"

"Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome. That's what Momma always says. She says that beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts the most. Try to remember that when you find yourself at a new beginning. Just give hope a chance to float up. And it will, too."

-- "I would have stayed with you forever. I would have turned myself inside out for you."
-- "Birdee, I wouldn't have let you! People grow. They change. They have to!"
-- "You don't think I know that? I know, I know that I'm not what I once was. I know that! But then again, neither are you. You're sad, you're weak, and you're shorter, if you want to know the truth. But I haven't changed so much that I would go and lie to someone that I love. God, I would walk through fire before I'd let them feel like they were nothing! And I would, I would never break up anybody's home. Because I am not a quitter. I care about my family!"

"You know, I always thought I was gonna be, I don't know, special. But I'm not. I'm just, just an ordinary person. And that's OK. Because you make me special. Don't you know that? Don't you know that you are everything in this world to me? And we are gonna make it through this because we are a team. Birdee and Bernice, the coolest chicks in Smithville. So don't you ever think about leavin' me again because I need you. I love you."

No one can die - while he loves!

He's Expecting You.

"There's not an ounce of excitement, not a whisper of a thrill. This relationship has all the passion of a pair of titmice. I want you to get swept away out there. I want you to levitate. I want you to sing with rapture and dance like a dervish...Be deliriously happy. Or at least leave yourself open to be....I know it's a cornball thing, but love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. I say fall head over heels. Find someone you can love like crazy and who'll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Well, forget your head and listen to your heart. I'm not hearing any heart. And I'm not hearing any heart. 'Cause the truth is, honey, there's no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love -- well, you haven't lived a life at all. But you have to try. Because if you haven't tried, you haven't lived...Stay open. Who knows? Lightning could strike."

"So tell me, Joe. How come a man as attractive, intelligent, well-spoken... diffident in the most seductive way, and yet... powerful... is all alone in this world?"

"I loved Susan from the moment she was born, and I love her now and every minute in between. And what I dream of is a man who will discover her, and that she will discover a man who will love her, who is worthy of her, who is of this world, this time and has the grace, compassion, and fortitude to walk beside her as she makes her way through this beautiful thing called life."