Movies Like The Congress of Mother-in-Laws
If you liked The Congress of Mother-in-Laws (1954), a comedy movie directed by Émile Couzinet, 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.
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Serial (Bad) Weddings 2 (2019)
★ 5.9/10Also comedyClaude and Marie Verneuil face a new crisis. The four spouses of their daughters, David, Rachid, Chao and Charles decided to leave France for various reasons. Here they are imagining their lives elsewhere.
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Oscar (1967)
★ 7.3/10Also comedyThis film originated as a play in Paris. The story focuses on the one-day adventures of Bertrand Barnier played with a genius of French cinema, Louis de Funes. In the same morning he learns that his daughter is…
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Femmes Fatales (1976)
★ 6.1/10Also comedyTwo men, fortyish, worn out by their wives, abandon everything to go and live in the back of beyond. There they meet a truculent priest, a boozer, Émile who recalls them to life's simple pleasures. Calm is what they…
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Riviera Revenge (2024)
★ 5.9/10Also comedyFrançois Marsault, a war veteran, makes the most of his retirement alongside his wife Annie. Authoritarian and ruthless, François rules his family with an iron fist — but when he discovers that his esteemed wife…
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Why Him? (2016)
★ 6.4/10Also comedyA dad forms a bitter rivalry with his daughter's young rich boyfriend.
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The Family Jewels (1965)
★ 6.5/10Also comedyA young heiress must choose between six uncles, one of which is up to no good and out to harm the girl's beloved bodyguard who practically raised her.
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It Boy (2013)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy38-year-old Alice has everything to become the next editor-in-chief of Rebelle magazine except for her uptight image. But when the young and charming Balthazar, barely 20, crosses Alice's path, she realizes that he…
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Duplex (2003)
★ 6.1/10Also comedyWhen a young couple buys their dream home, they have no idea what the sweet little old lady upstairs is going to put them through!
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Game Night (2018)
★ 6.8/10Also comedyMax and Annie's weekly game night gets kicked up a notch when Max's brother Brooks arranges a murder mystery party -- complete with fake thugs and federal agents. So when Brooks gets kidnapped, it's all supposed to be…
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Yankee Zulu (1993)
★ 6.2/10Also comedyTwo South African boys, one white, Rhino, and one black, Zulu, go their separate ways after an incident. Many years later, they meet up again as adults, when one, after living for years in the United States, is now a…
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LOL 2.0: Anne’s Golden Hour (2026)
★ 6/10Also comedyAt 55, Anne is finally enjoying her freedom after her children leave home. But everything changes when her 23-year-old daughter, Louise, moves back in with her after a professional and romantic failure. And to make…
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Switching Channels (1988)
★ 6/10Also comedyA television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story.
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The Perfume of the Lady in Black (2005)
★ 6/10Also comedyNewly married, Mathilde and Robert are honeymooning at a resort owned by their friends Edith and Arthur, the Chateau d'Hercule. But an unpleasant shock is in store for them.
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Good Neighbor Sam (1964)
★ 6.6/10Also comedyTo help his divorced neighbor claim a substantial inheritance, a family man poses as her husband. The ruse spills over into his career in advertising, and his recent promotion relies on his wholesome and moral…
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8 Women (2002)
★ 6.9/10Also comedyEight women gather to celebrate Christmas in a snowbound cottage, only to find the family patriarch dead with a knife in his back. Trapped in the house, every woman becomes a suspect, each having her own motive and…
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Addams Family Values (1993)
★ 7/10Also comedySiblings Wednesday and Pugsley Addams will stop at nothing to get rid of Pubert, the new baby boy adored by parents Gomez and Morticia. Things go from bad to worse when the new "black widow" nanny, Debbie Jellinsky…
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The Trouble with Angels (1966)
★ 6.7/10Also comedyMary and her friend, Rachel, are new students at St. Francis Academy, a boarding school run by the iron fist of Mother Superior. The immature teens grow bored and begin playing pranks on both the unsuspecting nuns and…
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Serial Mom (1994)
★ 6.7/10Also comedyBeverly is the perfect happy homemaker, along with her doting husband and two children, but this nuclear family just might explode when her fascination with serial killers collides with her ever-so-proper code of ethics.
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Serial (Bad) Weddings (2014)
★ 6.7/10Also comedyA catholic French couple sees their life upside down when their four daughters get married to men of different religion and origins.
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St. Vincent (2014)
★ 7.1/10Also comedyA young boy whose parents just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic, war veteran who lives next door.