The 16 Best Female-Led Comedy Movies of All Time

The 2001 British romantic comedy starring Renée Zellweger as the relatable, perpetually single Londoner stumbling toward love in her scruffy but endearing way.

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.

The 2006 fashion-world satire featuring Meryl Streep's iconic turn as ruthless magazine editor Miranda Priestly terrorizing wide-eyed assistant Anne Hathaway.

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.

Olivia Wilde's acclaimed 2019 directorial debut following two overachieving best friends cramming four years of teenage rebellion into one frantic night before graduation.

The 2017 breakout comedy that launched Tiffany Haddish to stardom following four college friends reuniting for a raucous, uncensored girls' weekend in New Orleans.

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.

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.

The 2000 Sandra Bullock comedy following a tomboyish FBI agent hilariously undercover as a beauty pageant contestant to foil an anonymous bomb threat.

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.

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.

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.

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.