Call them chick flicks if you like but some movies are just perfect for women.

Let's say your wife or girlfriend is home sick and bored.  You want to bring her a movie she'll like but aren't sure where to start.  Bring home any of the movies on this list and she'll thank you.

We've taken a look at the movies made over the past 75 years and come up with our favorite choices for movies women will love.  In most cases men will enjoy these too!
 

This powerful cast of Hollywood royalty and soon to be royalty looks at the everyday loves, triumphs and disappointments of just plain living.  Peppered with southern down-home humor and eccentric characters, Steel Magnolias is a movie that captures the essence of being a woman and the importance of the people in our lives. TOP

Looking at the lives and friendship of two drastically different women.  Hillary, a debutant and heir to a tremendous fortune and CeCe the precocious and ambitious street-smart child star.  The two girls meet as children under the Atlantic City boardwalk and begin a lifelong friendship.  Through their lives they fight over men, grow together and then apart until finally tragedy brings them together.  Warm, ingratiating and at times almost two real, Beaches remains a favorite of women everywhere. TOP

Both romantic and exciting, Casablanca is the encapsulation of a great romantic novel set to the screen and often considered one of the greatest movies of all time.  Set against the backdrop of World War II, Casablanca mixes love with danger and intrigue by following a reluctant hero as he navigates politics in pursuit of the one he loves, only to say goodbye in the end. TOP

This powerful film is about strength within ones’ self and the power of belief in pulling your life out of despair against all odds.  It is about women being seen as objects and turning the tables on abuse.  It is about sisters, separated but never parted in their souls whom ultimately grow through life and find each other in the happiest of reunions. TOP

When good girls go bad and finally have enough, you have Thelma and Louise! Add a convertible, incredible scenery, gorgeous men, slimy men and the cops hot on your tail and this movie delivers the ultimate road trip fantasy of two women escaping suburbia, teaching men-pigs lessons in respect and discovering themselves. TOP

Though made in the forties, Mildred Pierce is about today’s reality for many women.  A single mom pulls herself out of the gutter and poverty to create a successful business and become prosperous.  In the process, she steps on many toes, burns bridges and turns her back on love and her daughter.  Through the lessons she comes to realize what is important in life and through tenacity begins rebuilding on a foundation more secure. TOP

Another story about Mother’s and daughters that explores the love-hate relationship and psychotic episodes that are part of the relationship as daughters become adults and mother’s revert back to being children.  At times heart wrenching and at times ingratiating, this story is about life and how each woman makes it through one day at a time. TOP

Women can be cruel, yet we are devilishly charming while doing it.  All About Eve is the story of ambition and the lengths some women will go to in an effort to achieve success.  It is the classic story of good and evil and a study in ethics as one woman uses cunning and deception dressed in sweetness to undermine and replace another.  In the end like all great lessons, what goes around comes around. Eve finds herself confronting herself as another woman takes her place and begins the same campaign on her.     TOP

A true life Cinderella story.  A single mom on welfare is forced into creating her own destiny through happenstance and bad luck.  In the process she finds her true calling and becomes the savior of hundred’s of people.  A David and Goliath story on two fronts, both in the business world and personal world, Erin Brockovich will leave every woman believing with guts she can do anything. TOP