chick flicks
Romantic comedy films
Chick flicks are movies marketed primarily to women, typically featuring romance, emotional relationships, and feel-good storylines.
The term carries a mildly dismissive tone, implying lightweight entertainment: My boyfriend refuses to watch chick flicks.
Common examples include romantic comedies and tearjerkers.
The label is sometimes rejected as reductive or sexist.
- rom-comsHumorous love stories onscreen
- Dirty DancingEighties resort romance film
- loveIntense fond attachment
- love storyNarrative of romantic involvement
- comedyWork meant to amuse
Mean Girls · Pretty Woman · movie · movie night · girls night · tearjerker · happy tears · film · empowerment · genre · self-discovery · romantic comedy · heartwarming · relationship · best friends forever · coming-of-age · feel-good · romance
- romantic escapismfairy tales, love stories, romance novels, rom-coms, bodice rippers
- gender humorgender stereotypes, husband jokes, wife jokes, dating humor, mansplaining
- feminist mediamale gaze, female gaze, Bechdel test, representation, spectatorship
- sentimental comediesrom-coms, romantic comedies, tearjerkers, dramedy
- romancelove story, amor, love, boyfriend, courting
- lifestylewellness, health, fitness, routines, diet
chick flicksaction movies
Films featuring combat, chases
shoot-em-ups · war films · horror films · slasher movies · action flicks
chick flicksart house films
Independent, aesthetically-driven movies