For the record, I’m a dude, and I like Grease and Dirty Dancing.
Full disclosure: I love musicals and movies with dancing.
There isn’t one, really. If I (female) tell people that The Departed was the best movie of the year, it won’t cause much of a stir, though the only lead females were Jack Nicholson’s whore and a pushover psychiatrist. But a straight guy would have a hard time if he said the same about, say, Dreamgirls. Women are taught to identify with men because theirs is the default experience. They’re born a blank slate. Women have no such luck. ‘Man’ is human, ‘woman’ is different, the other, etc. etc. So there are ‘chick flicks’ (and chick lit), and then everything else.
Hmm, perhaps feminist film majors?
For the record, I love Dirty Dancing, but not as much as The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Police Academy 7: Mission to Moscow
Males: 2.6
Females: 4.7
Difference: 2.1
I thought there would be a difference, but in the opposite direction.
A few others
Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy (2006) (TV)
Males: 5.8
Females: 7.8
Difference: 2.0
Yojimbo
Males: 8.3
Females: 6.5
Difference: 1.8
Beach Babes 2: Cave Girl Island (1998)
Males: 3.2
Females: 1.1
Difference: 2.1
Exactly right. There are all kinds of movies that are designed to appeal to an audience that’s predisposed to love them. That’s equally true of left-wing documentaries, “Left Behind” style Christian movies, gory horror movies, or gay cult movies. Such flicks tend to score very high on the IMDB ratings because people who aren’t into such things just don’t go to see them, and people who eat such stuff up do.
Incidentally, as a married guy, I’d be willing to bet that men get dragged to chick flicks a LOT more than women get dragged to see horror, action or puerile comedy flicks.
I saw “Beaches” with my wife. I saw “Shaun of the Dead” and “South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut” alone. Enough said.
Here’s one that surprised me: Hard Core Logo. I’d guessed it would have a big difference (and it does, 1.7), but it’s favoured by the women not the men.
Well, it’s a close race, but I’m still claiming the lead with a 2.2, for a movie with more than 200 ratings and more than 10 ratings by each gender.
The movie’s alternate title is “Day of the Woman”, for the subsequent prolonged and graphic vengeance she exacts upon her attackers. To this day, some folks defend the movie as a sort of feminist revenge fantasy.
Summary of plot: woman moves to rural community. Woman is raped by four men. One by one, woman kills men. End of movie. Honest, that’s it. I’m not skimming over any big character moments. Last guy dies, credits immediately roll.
The Seven Samurai has a 7.4 - 8.9 disparity of women to men. That’s a 1.5 difference. Ran has a 6.8 from women and a 8.3 from men. A difference of 1.5 again.
I see Yojimbo has a 1.8 difference. Must be something about Kurosawa. Women aren’t going for that whole Samurai, war, and honor thing?
Most romantic comedies have a disparity of about 1.
The only types of films that I can think of that men won’t go near are the ones that target the feminist crowd. The Vagina Monologues got a 5.6 from men and a 7.4 from women. Disparity of 1.8. I really thought this one was going to have a bigger disparity. Anyone know of any other hardcore feminist movies?
Looking through porn seemed like a good idea, but the only women who voted for these movies were the ones that were interested in watching them. It’s not like did not know what to expect.
If you watch commercials closely, almost all that are narrated by women are about items that men would never buy. Everything else is narrated by men, because it is OK for women to like male items, but not the other way around.
Brotherhood of War: Males 8.2, females 5.9
Of course all the men who saw the vagina monologues are like Mr. Van Driessen (that would be Beavis & Butthead’s teacher).
The Gold Standard of Hong Kong Action Movies, John Woo’s The Killer, has a male/female disparity of 7.9/5.7 (2.2!). The Killer is about as manly as a man-movie gets. 
Helicopter movies.