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There are some nights when all you want is to get dressed up with your besties, head to the nearest bar, and dance the night away. Other times, you'd rather stay in for the night, don your most comfortable pajamas, scarf down a buffet of snacks, and gossip over endless glasses of wine. For the evenings when you prefer to stay in and kick it with your friends, it's essential that you gather around your television screen for a movie that will inevitably leave you in stitches or in tears (maybe both). What you need in this situation? The best chick flicks Hollywood has to offer.
Before there was Catfish, there was You've Got Mail, the original rom-com about people falling in love while low-key lying to each other over the internet. But, in all seriousness, you can't go wrong with the combination of Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, and Nora Efron. It's just a fact.
Elsewhere on this list you will find Pride and Prejudice, truly one of the greatest romances ever put to paper and then onto film. Bridget Jones's Diary, also excellent, is in fact an homage to that classic Jane Austen tale, transported to early-2000s London. This movie is both laugh-out-loud funny, swooningly romantic and, in retrospect, kind of sad for how it embodied the body-shaming of the time in which it was made. But don't worry: The self-deprecation, hilariously horrific soundtrack, and sexy smooching still totally hold up.
In The Proposal, Sandra Bullock plays a hardass workaholic boss lady who's facing deportation back to Canada and Ryan Reynolds plays her long-suffering assistant who's just trying to get back to Alaska for his grandmother's birthday. Guess what happens? Oh, you already know.
Quite possibly the greatest romantic comedy of all time, When Harry Met Sally turned novel set pieces into classic rom-com tropes ("I'll have what she's having.") as it tried to answer the question, "Can men and women really be friends?" Of course, we know that they can (not the conclusion the movie comes to, but different times), and yet it's always fun to watch Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal will-they-or-won't-they for two hours.
Of the many Judd Apatow movies, this might be the most traditionally rom-commy. Amy Schumer's "Amy" doesn't do monogamy, until she meets Bill Hader. I mean, technically, she meets his character Aaron, but who wouldn't want to be with Bill Hader? (NO ONE.)
Alicia Silverstone became a pop culture icon for her role in the 1995 classic Clueless as lovable but offbeat Cher Horowitz, a rich girl with a killer closet navigating life as a high schooler in Beverly Hills. The coming of age film is a loose adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma; like Austen's protagonist, Cher is a well-meaning matchmaker who doesn't quite see the big picture.
The '90s gave us its fair share of truly amazing films, but Love Jones manages to stand out with its simple but scarily relatable story about two people who can't seem to figure out what their relationship is. Turn your girls' night in into a girls' night out to your local open mic night so you can find your own Darius Lovehall.
Carrie and friends hit the big screen in 2008, and their drama followed them: our heroine is still trying to manage her complicated relationship with Mr. Big, Miranda is raising her son with Steve, Charlotte is toying with the idea of having another child, and Samantha...well, she's still being Samantha.
Will Smith proved that he's everyone's dream man in the 2005 romantic comedy Hitch, playing a matchmaker for men who are unlucky in love. But the teacher becomes the student when he finds himself getting schooled in matters of the heart after coming across Sara, a gossip columnist with a chip on her shoulder. Has this movie aged particularly well? No, but Smith is so charming that it's still watchable.
A billionaire bachelor falls in love with a New Yorker and whisks her away to meet his family in Singapore. Not only is Crazy Rich Asians a visual masterpiece, but the cast is pretty damn good-looking, too.
FBI agent Grace Hart takes the main stage when she transforms into beauty queen Gracie Lou Hart to investigate a terrorist threat in an international beauty pageant. Sandra Bullock is everything as the hardheaded tomboy with a heart of gold, and her relationships with fellow pageant queens will remind you of your connection with your besties.
After being dumped by her ambitious boyfriend for not being studious enough, sorority girl Elle Woods sets her eyes on a new goal: Harvard Law School. But as she leans more into her studies and away from her relationship, Elle learns that there's more to life than just being a successful man's wife. A lesson in girl power.
In this modern-day adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Viola (Amanda Bynes) dons a short wig to sneak into her brother's elite boarding school and play on its male soccer team. Things get complicated when she starts developing feelings for Duke (Channing Tatum), the sexy team captain. Ahead of its time, a bit dated now, but absolutely worth it for the best Bynes performance of her career.
Chad Michael Murray is peak '90s hottie in A Cinderella Story as Austin Ames, the secret crush of a down-and-out high schooler (Hilary Duff) with an insufferable step-family. You probably didn't forget how good he looked back then, but just in case you forgot, turn this on.
This premise of this movie is a tad bit sketch when you get to thinking about it (fake identities? a teacher falling in love with a student?), but Never Been Kissed really does have all of the qualities of a classic romantic comedy: a plucky protagonist who works hard despite the odds, a very hot love interest, and a helpful fairy god[brotha] who feeds her lines from his van.
Some chick flicks make you laugh, others make you cry. This one does both, with stellar performances from Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Steve Carrell, and Julianne Moore about different people at different phases of life navigating the same questions about love and sharing your life with other people.
What's that? You say that Love Actually is a Christmas movie and shouldn't be on this list? Well we think you should reconsider that opinion. Here's why: First, this film's relation to Christmas is tangentially at best. Second, it's got all the trappings of a rom-com in an all-star ensemble format that was so novel at the time that it proceeded to inspire a ton of other rom-coms. Third, it's a classic (albeit perhaps a problematic fave) and anytime is a good time for a classic.
If you want to go truly classic for girls' night, cue up Breakfast at Tiffany's, starring Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly, a woman working as an escort and looking for real love. There are...some real problems with the film, but wrangling with that is an important part of watching it. Especially if you love it.
Based in large part on Kumail Nanjiani's early relationship with his wife Emily Gordon, this is one of those where you'll Google it afterwards wondering, Is this really true? Emily (Zoe Kazan) is struck with an illness that leaves her in a coma after Kumail (played by Nanjiani himself) dumps her. And believe it or not, the film's as funny as it is heart-wrenching and sweet.
This 2003 rom-com starring Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey is a modern screwball masterpiece and a damn good time that mostly holds up. In the film, Kate plays a magazine writer tasked with driving away a new flame in 10 days flat using the most stereotypical lady-in-love mistakes she can think of, while Matthew plays an ad exec determined to prove he can make any woman fall madly in love with him during the same timeframe (because that will mean he can sell diamonds, apparently). What ensues is some true early-aughts rom-com gold.
Ok, maybe this is a little bit on-the-nose in terms of chick flicks, but I think everyone can see themselves (a least a little bit) in shopping-obsessed Rebecca Bloomwood (Isla Fisher). After losing her job, she gets in over her head when she starts writing for a financial magazine, offering budgeting advice when she doesn't really have the business to do so. Her antics are laugh-out-loud funny and the fashion is *chef's kiss.*
Unfortunately most well-known as "the film where J. Lo literally worked her ass off and got snubbed for an Oscar nom," this one's also a perfect one to watch will girlfriends. Which stripper-turned-con artist would you be in this riveting rags to riches to jail time story?
There are movies that you know the moment you hear about their existence are going to be great, and there are movies that sound kind of insane, but turn out to be surprisingly delightful. About Time is the second type. The fantasy-romance-drama follows a young man (Domhnall Gleeson) who learns that the men in his family inherit the ability to time travel when they turn 21. He uses said power in his quest to woo Mary (Rachel McAdams) and somehow doesn't creepily veer into being a story about a man using magic to rob a woman of her agency and choice.
Allie and Noah's love story in The Notebook makes for the perfect girls' night movie. It's got romance, a few steamy love scenes, and a forever quotable moment: "If you're a bird, I'm a bird." *sighs*
Thelma and Louise is, in some ways, probably the ultimate girls' night movie. The movie follows best friends who go on the run after Louise (Susan Sarandon) shoots and kills a man who tried to rape Thelma (Geena Davis). Brad Pitt also makes a notable early (and very sexy) appearance in the film.
Yes, there have been many Pride and Prejudice remakes over the past few years, but this one stands out among the rest because the chemistry between Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen is out of this world.
Meryl Streep has been acting since 1977, but her role as Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada is an absolute fave. Whether you think she's the true villain of the plot or Andy's trash boyfriend Nate (spoiler alert: It's Nate), you're going to enjoy this one.
If you and your girlfriends are in the mood of a deep emotional release, For Colored Girls will do the trick. Adapted from Ntozake Shange's 1975 original choreopoem, the drama connects the heartbreak of ten women, reminding us that sisterhood is about lifting each other up when we're down.
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