Movies Like My Wife's Name Is Maurice

If you liked My Wife's Name Is Maurice (2002), a comedy movie directed by Jean-Marie Poiré, 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
The Valet (2006)
★ 6/10Also comedy
Caught by tabloid paparazzi with his mistress Elena, a famous and beautiful fashion model, billionaire Pierre Levasseur tries to avoid a divorce by inventing a preposterous lie. He uses the presence of a passerby in…
2
Cyrano, My Love (2018)
★ 7.5/10Also comedy
Paris, France, December 1897. The young playwright Edmond Rostand feels like a failure. Inspiration has abandoned him. Married and father of two children, desperate and penniless, he persuades the great actor Constant…
3
Marry Me, Dude (2017)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy
Yassine asks his best friend Fred to marry him in order to avoid deportation...
4
La Cage aux Folles (1978)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy
Two gay men living in St. Tropez have their lives turned upside down when the son of one of the men announces he is getting married. They try to conceal their lifestyle and their ownership of the drag club downstairs…
5
Zazie dans le Métro (1960)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy
A brash and precocious ten-year-old comes to Paris for a whirlwind weekend with her rakish uncle.
6
Sons of the Desert (1933)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy
Ollie and Stan deceive their wives into thinking they are taking a medically necessary cruise when they are really going to a lodge convention.
7
The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy
Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities.
8
Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy
Michel Simon gives one of the most memorable performances in screen history as Boudu, a Parisian tramp who takes a suicidal plunge into the Seine and is rescued by a well-to-do bookseller, Edouard Lestingois. The…
9
Heartbeat (1938)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy
A pompous grocer’s assistant in Marseille annoys a visiting film crew so much that they prank him with a phony acting contract; believing it to be real, the “schpountz” heads to Paris for his new career.
10
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy
Con artist Lawrence Jamieson is a longtime resident of a luxurious coastal resort, where he enjoys the lavish fruits of his deceptions -- that is, until a competitor, Freddy Benson, shows up. When the new guy's lowbrow…
11
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (1973)
★ 7.4/10Also comedy
In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab rebel leader. The two dress up as rabbis as they try…
12
La Cage aux Folles II (1980)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy
In a move to make his partner, Renato, jealous, the flamboyant Albin waits in a local cafe - dressed as a woman - hoping to be picked up. But Albin gets more than he bargains for when the fly he catches in his web is…
13
Ricky Stanicky (2024)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy
When three childhood best friends pull a prank gone wrong, they invent the imaginary Ricky Stanicky to get them out of trouble. Twenty years later, the trio still uses the nonexistent Ricky as a handy alibi for their…
14
The Wedding Ringer (2015)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy
Doug Harris is a loveable but socially awkward groom-to-be with a problem: he has no best man. With less than two weeks to go until he marries the girl of his dreams, Doug is referred to Jimmy Callahan, owner and CEO…
15
Mon Oncle (1958)
★ 7.4/10Also comedy
Genial, bumbling Monsieur Hulot loves his top-floor apartment in a grimy corner of the city, and cannot fathom why his sister's family has moved to the suburbs. Their house is an ultra-modern nightmare, which Hulot…
16
Oscar (1967)
★ 7.3/10Also comedy
This 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…
17
Happy Easter (1984)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy
Chronic serial womanizer Stephane Margelle drops his wife Sophie off at the airport so she can go away for Easter weekend. He immediately picks up beautiful young Julie, who has just had a fight with her married…
18
Blithe Spirit (1945)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy
While holding a séance for skeptical novelist Charles Condomine, self-proclaimed 'spiritualist medium' Madame Arcati inadvertently summons the spirit of his deceased first wife Elvira, leading to an increasingly…
19
The Ritz (1976)
★ 6/10Also comedy
To escape from a mobster, businessman Gaetano Proclo orders a cab driver to take him to a place where he can't be found. Unfortunately for Gaetano, the place turns out to be a gay bathhouse.
20
Serial (Bad) Weddings 2 (2019)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy
Claude 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.