230 Chick Flick movies based on books you can watch and read

At a modern-day nursing home, an elderly man, Duke, reads a romantic story from his notebook to a fellow patient. He pursues her, and they begin a summer romance. One evening, he takes her to the abandoned Windsor Plantation that he intends to buy and restore for them.

In 1963, Aibileen Clark is an African-American maid in Jackson, Mississippi. Aibileen’s best friend and fellow maid Minny Jackson works for Mrs. Walters, whose daughter Hilly Holbrook leads the women’s socialite group and is president of the city’s Junior League chapter.

Andrea Andy Sachs is an aspiring journalist fresh out of Northwestern University. Despite her ridicule for the shallowness of the fashion industry, she lands a job as junior personal assistant to Miranda Priestly, the editor-in-chief of Runway magazine, a job that millions of girls would kill for.

Olive, an average high school student, sees her below-the-radar existence turn around overnight once she decides to use the school’s gossip grapevine to advance her social standing. Now her classmates are turning against her and the school board is becoming concerned, including her favorite teacher and the distracted guidance counselor.

Hazel Grace Lancaster is a teenager, living in the suburbs of Indianapolis, who has thyroid cancer that has spread to her lungs. Believing she is depressed, her mother Frannie urges her to attend a weekly cancer patient support group.

Sixteen-year-old homeschooled Cady Heron and her zoologist parents, Betsy and Chip Heron, return to the United States after a twelve-year research trip in Africa, settling in Evanston, Illinois. Cady becomes attracted to Regina’s ex-boyfriend, Aaron Samuels, and purposely fails math, a subject she is gifted at, in order to have an excuse to talk to him.

Cameron James, a new student at Padua High School in the Seattle area, becomes instantly smitten with popular sophomore Bianca Stratford. Geeky Michael Eckman warns him that Bianca is vapid and conceited, and that her overprotective father does not allow Bianca or her older sister, the shrewish Kat, to date.

Bridget Jones is 32, single, engagingly imperfect, and worried about her weight. Overhearing Mark grumble to his mother about her attempt to set him up with a verbally incontinent spinster who smokes like a chimney, drinks like a fish, and dresses like her mother, Bridget decides to turn her life around.

Holly and Gerry are a married couple who live on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. One winter, Gerry dies of a brain tumor, and Holly realizes how much he meant to her as well as how insignificant their arguments and differences were. She doesn’t want to live anymore without him.

In Beaufort, North Carolina, popular and rebellious high school senior Landon Carter and his friends have partaken in underage drinking on school grounds. They lure a new student, Clay Gephardt, to a factory in the hopes of pranking him, with the façade that this is an initiation task into their elite friendship group.

Kathleen Kelly is in a relationship with Frank Navasky, a left-leaning newspaper writer for The New York Observer who is always in search of an opportunity to root for the underdog. Using the screen name Shopgirl, she reads an email from NY152, the screen name of Joe Fox, whom she first met in an over-30s chatroom.

Fashion merchandising student and sorority girl Elle Woods is taken to an expensive restaurant by her boyfriend, the governor’s son, Warner Huntington III. He intends to go to Harvard Law School and become a successful politician, and believes that Elle is not serious enough for that kind of life.