THE BEST CHICK FLICKS (34 titles)
80% from 20 members
Dirty Dancing
First saw this film when I was 15 years old - 20 years later and I still love it.
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Dirty Dancing
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Cynthia Rhodes
Director: Emile Ardolino
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Headstrong 17-year-old Baby Houseman hardly expects her family's usual summer vacation in the Catskills to be momentous. But then Baby spies Johnny Castle, the resort's dance instructor from the wrong side of the tracks. Johnny's facing a crisis: his dance partner and friend Penny is pregnant and ..read more »
72%
from 24,063 members
Beaches
The tear ducts get a good work-out !!!!
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Beaches
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Bette Midler, Barbara Hershey, John Heard
Director: Garry Marshall
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The story of a deep friendship, lasting from childhood to beyond death, between two very different women--Bette Midler plays C.C. Bloom, a poor but ambitious Jewish girl from the Bronx who goes on to become a famous Broadway star, and Barbara Hershey plays Hillary, an attractive WASP from a wealthy ..read more »
70%
from 6,549 members
Gone With The Wind
Frankly my dear - I do give a damn ... which is why it's on my list. Can't help but feel sorry for poor old Scarlet.
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Gone With The Wind
on DVD
(1939)
Starring: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard
Director: Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood
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Absorbing film version of Margaret Mitchell's Pullitzer Prize-winning novel about life in America's Deep South during the Civil War. Winner of ten Academy Awards. Please Note: The Feature disc is doule-sided, please flip over.
74%
from 8,749 members
Serendipity
I just love this film - is it fate that Jonathan and Sarah get together .... watch it to find out.
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Serendipity
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: John Cusack, Kate Beckinsale, Molly Shannon
Director: Peter Chelsom
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New York City, just before Christmas. The last pair of black cashmere gloves in Bloomingdale's is on its way to the counter. As the gloves arrive, Sara (Kate Beckinsale) and Jonathan (John Cusack) claim them simultaneously. And so it begins--Sara and Jonathan go to a little coffee shop, named ..read more »
64%
from 12,780 members
The Notebook
Beautiful nostalgic film - get your hankies out for the ending.
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The Notebook
(2004)
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, James Garner
Director: Nick Cassavetes
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A sweeping love story told by a man reading from his faded notebook to a woman in a nursing home. The Notebook follows the lives of two North Carolina teens from very different worlds. Though her upbringing takes places in an antebellum mansion and he grew up in the kind of house where musicians ..read more »
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72%
from 28,526 members
The English Patient
A true classic beautiful film. You really feel the pain of the character played by Ralph Fiennes.
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The English Patient
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe
Director: Anthony Minghella
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Set during the Second World War, this epic romance tells the story of a mysterious Englishman found badly burned in the Sahara. His nurse transports him across war-torn Europe taking him to a deserted Tuscan monastery where he can die in peace. There they become friends and she begins to read to ..read more »
68%
from 17,217 members
Armageddon
The character played by Bruce Willis has so much love for his daughter that he is willing to sacrifice his life for her. Moves me to tears every time.
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Armageddon
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Liv Tyler
Director: Michael Bay
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NASA's executive director discovers that the Earth has only eighteen days before it is obliterated by a meteor the size of Texas. He has only one option - to drop a handful of rougheck oil drillers onto the asteroid and get them to drop a nuclear warhead into its core...
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from 27,041 members
Pearl Harbour
Romantic tri-angle that pulls at the heart strings so much.
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Pearl Harbour
on DVD
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A brief overview of the events of December 7th 1941, a day memorable for the atrocities suffered by the American Navy at the hands of the Japanese airforce but also for being a catalyst for America's decision to send troops to help fight against the Nazi threat - a decision that would ultimately ..read more »
41%
from 214 members
Memoirs Of A Geisha
Beautiful film - very touching.
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Memoirs Of A Geisha
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Ziyi Zhang, Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh
Director: Rob Marshall
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This epic motion picture from the director of Chicago is based on the international best-selling novel by Arthur Golden. Torn from her impoverished family before World War II and sent to work in a geisha house, a child will blossom into the legendary geisha Sayuri. Beautiful and accomplished, ..read more »
69%
from 58,990 members
The Family Stone
This film really surprised me - it was very touching. Kleenex at the ready !
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The Family Stone
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker, Claire Danes, Diane Keaton
Director: Bezucha Thomas
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Sarah Jessica Parker stars as an uptight business-focused New Yorker who meets her boyfriend's family for the first time. She finds herself like a fish out of water when the Stone family turns out to be anything but conventional...
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from 30,481 members
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