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Movies Like A Boyfriend for My Wife

If you liked A Boyfriend for My Wife (2008), a romance and comedy movie directed by Juan Taratuto, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

    You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and drama

    Two married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 years of marriage, Alfie leaves his wife to pursue what he thinks is happiness with a call girl. His wife, Helena, reeling…

  2. 2The Invite

    The Invite (2026)

    ★ 7.2/10Also comedy and drama

    Joe and Angela's marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbors for a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected places. Have they reignited the spark or lit the match that burns it…

  3. 3You're Killing Me Susana

    You're Killing Me Susana (2016)

    ★ 6.7/10Also romance and drama

    An actor's world comes crashing down after he learns that his wife has left him.

  4. 4The Red Thread

    The Red Thread (2016)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and romance

    Seven years after their first infatuated encounter, Abril and Manuel meet again. Despite the fact that they are both married, it is soon apparent that their attraction has only grown.

  5. 5Celeste & Jesse Forever

    Celeste & Jesse Forever (2012)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy and drama

    Celeste and Jesse met in high school and got married young. They laugh at the same jokes and finish each other’s sentences. They are forever linked in their friends’ minds as the perfect couple – she, a high-powered…

  6. 6Shag

    Shag (1989)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy and drama

    Summer of 1963. Carson is getting married to her boyfriend so her friends Melaina, Pudge and Luanne take her to Myrtle Beach for one last irresponsible weekend.

  7. 7Funny Girl

    Funny Girl (1968)

    ★ 7.1/10Also comedy and drama

    The life of famed 1930s comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of New York, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, as well as her marriage to the rakish gambler Nick Arnstein.

  8. 8Sex, Shame & Tears

    Sex, Shame & Tears (1999)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy and drama

    A comedic drama featuring two couples and two old friends in Mexico City. Tomas visits Carlos and Ana, while Miguel and Andrea are joined by Maria. The presence of guests triggers lust, rejection, infidelities…

  9. 9Why Did I Get Married Again?

    Why Did I Get Married Again? (2026)

    ★ 6.8/10Also comedy and romance

    The couples reunite for the destination wedding of Marcus and Angela's daughter, bringing drama old and new as they ask, "Why did we get married again?"

  10. 10Camila

    Camila (1984)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama and romance

    In 1847 Buenos Aires, a young noblewoman and a young Jesuit fall in love, much to the disapproval of her family and the Church.

  11. 11The Roses

    The Roses (2025)

    ★ 6.7/10Also comedy and drama

    Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy and Theo: successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing – as Theo's career nosedives while…

  12. 12Chéri

    Chéri (2009)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and comedy

    The son of a courtesan retreats into a fantasy world after being forced to end his relationship with the older woman who educated him in the ways of love.

  13. 13Enemies, a Love Story

    Enemies, a Love Story (1989)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy and drama

    A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.

  14. 14Cyrus

    Cyrus (2010)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and drama

    With John's social life at a standstill and his ex-wife about to get remarried, a down on his luck divorcée finally meets the woman of his dreams, only to discover she has another man in her life - her son. Before…

  15. 15A California Christmas: City Lights

    A California Christmas: City Lights (2021)

    ★ 6.6/10Also romance and comedy

    Follows Callie and Joseph one year after they fell in love, now running a dairy farm and winery, but their romance is threatened when business and family obligations call Joseph back to the city.

  16. 16The Best You Can

    The Best You Can (2025)

    ★ 7/10Also comedy and romance

    Cynthia Rand is a buttoned-up New Yorker married to a brilliant professor 25 years her senior. She begins feeling the effects of her husband’s advancing age on their relationship, just as her world is turned upside…

  17. 17Father of the Bride

    Father of the Bride (2022)

    ★ 6.3/10Also romance and comedy

    A father comes to grips with his daughter’s upcoming wedding through the prism of multiple relationships within a big, sprawling Cuban-American family.

  18. 18Un novio para mi mujer

    Un novio para mi mujer (2022)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and romance

    Diego wants to separate from his wife, Lucía, but he doesn't know how to tell her. He is fed up with her neuroses and constant complaints about him, and he has long since lost the spark that made him fall in love…

  19. 19Belle Époque

    Belle Époque (1992)

    ★ 6.7/10Also comedy and drama

    In 1931, a young soldier deserts from the army and falls into a country farm, where he is welcomed by the owner due to his political ideas. Manolo has four daughters, Fernando likes all of them and they like him, so he…

  20. 20Hello I Must Be Going

    Hello I Must Be Going (2012)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and comedy

    An affair with a 19-year old actor helps reinvigorate life for thirty-something Amy after she moves home to her parents’ house following her divorce.

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