Chick flick (also "chick's flick") is slang for a film designed to appeal to a female target audience. The term was first used in the 1980s[citation needed], a decade during which such chick flicks as Beaches were released. Although many types of films may be directed toward the female gender,......

A guy-cry film is the masculine version of the chick flick genre, a film that addresses a male audience, but has strong emotional material. [1][2] Sports films are important to the guy-cry genre, but sports action is not necessarily essential to qualify a film as a genuine guy-cry.[1][2] Some......

While most films have some aspect of romance between characters (at least as a subplot) a romance film can be loosely defined as any film in which the central plot (the premise of the story) revolves around the romantic involvement of the story's protagonists. Common themes include the characters......