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The 16 Best Female-Led Comedy Movies of All Time

by YPB Team

From Legally Blonde to Bridesmaids, female-led comedies have delivered some of cinema's sharpest wit and most enduring characters. We're ranking the greatest of them all.

  1. The First Wives Club — ranked #11
    The First Wives Club
    The 1996 revenge comedy starring Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler, and Diane Keaton as three women plotting delicious payback against the husbands who left them for younger women.
    1000pts
  2. Pitch Perfect — ranked #22
    Pitch Perfect
    The 2012 a cappella comedy starring Anna Kendrick and Rebel Wilson as collegiate singers competing for championship glory with big laughs and even bigger arrangements.
    756pts
  3. Legally Blonde — ranked #33
    Legally Blonde
    The 2001 Reese Witherspoon classic in which sorority queen Elle Woods defies all expectations by enrolling at Harvard Law School and outwitting everyone.
    655pts
  4. Clueless — ranked #44
    Clueless
    Amy Heckerling's 1995 Beverly Hills high-school satire starring Alicia Silverstone as the lovably self-absorbed Cher, a witty modern take on Jane Austen's Emma.
    640pts
  5. Bridesmaids — ranked #55
    Bridesmaids
    The 2011 Kristen Wiig ensemble comedy that redefined the R-rated comedy genre for women, spawning a decade of imitators with its anarchic wedding-prep chaos.
    640pts
  6. Booksmart — ranked #66
    Booksmart
    Olivia Wilde's acclaimed 2019 directorial debut following two overachieving best friends cramming four years of teenage rebellion into one frantic night before graduation.
    585pts
  7. The Devil Wears Prada — ranked #77
    The Devil Wears Prada
    The 2006 fashion-world satire featuring Meryl Streep's iconic turn as ruthless magazine editor Miranda Priestly terrorizing wide-eyed assistant Anne Hathaway.
    585pts
  8. Bridget Jones's Diary — ranked #88
    Bridget Jones's Diary
    The 2001 British romantic comedy starring Renée Zellweger as the relatable, perpetually single Londoner stumbling toward love in her scruffy but endearing way.
    524pts
  9. 9 to 5 — ranked #99
    9 to 5
    The 1980 comedy cult classic starring Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton, and Lily Tomlin as office workers who fantasize about — then carry out — revenge on their sexist boss.
    454pts
  10. Spy — ranked #1010
    Spy
    Paul Feig's 2015 action-comedy showcasing Melissa McCarthy's breakout spy-thriller performance as a desk-bound CIA analyst thrust into the field with hilarious results.
    454pts
  11. Girls Trip — ranked #1111
    Girls Trip
    The 2017 breakout comedy that launched Tiffany Haddish to stardom following four college friends reuniting for a raucous, uncensored girls' weekend in New Orleans.
    374pts
  12. Miss Congeniality — ranked #1212
    Miss Congeniality
    The 2000 Sandra Bullock comedy following a tomboyish FBI agent hilariously undercover as a beauty pageant contestant to foil an anonymous bomb threat.
    374pts
  13. Private Benjamin — ranked #1313
    Private Benjamin
    Goldie Hawn's 1980 Oscar-nominated breakthrough as a pampered Jewish princess who accidentally enlists in the US Army and discovers her own formidable inner strength.
    282pts
  14. Sister Act — ranked #1414
    Sister Act
    Whoopi Goldberg's 1992 comedy blockbuster in which a lounge singer hides from mobsters by posing as a nun and transforms a church choir into a sensation.
    175pts
  15. Mamma Mia! — ranked #1515
    Mamma Mia!
    The 2008 ABBA-fueled musical comedy in which Meryl Streep's free-spirited innkeeper must identify which of three former flames is her daughter's father before the wedding.
    175pts
  16. Mean Girls — ranked #1616
    Mean Girls
    Tina Fey's 2004 sharp-tongued comedy following Cady Heron's chaotic infiltration of a high-school's most powerful clique, with quotable dialogue that has endured for decades.
    0pts

#Movies657#2000s147#90s149#Women100#Actors267#Comedy140#Classics488

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