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Movies Like Take My Wife

If you liked Take My Wife (2005), a movie directed by Paul Thomas, 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. 1The Last Five Years

    The Last Five Years (2014)

    ★ 5.8/10

    In New York, a struggling actress and a successful writer sing about their failed marriage from two perspectives.

  2. 2The Pirate

    The Pirate (1948)

    ★ 6.5/10

    A girl is engaged to the local richman, but meanwhile she has dreams about the legendary pirate Macoco. A traveling singer falls in love with her and to impress her he poses as the pirate.

  3. 3Music and Lyrics

    Music and Lyrics (2007)

    ★ 6.5/10

    A washed-up '80s pop star gets a chance at a comeback when reigning pop diva Cora Corman invites him to write & record a duet with her, but there's a problem--Alex hasn't written a song in years; he's never written…

  4. 4The Proposal

    The Proposal (2009)

    ★ 7.2/10

    When she learns she's in danger of losing her visa status and being deported, overbearing book editor Margaret Tate forces her put-upon assistant, Andrew Paxton, to marry her.

  5. 5Funny Girl

    Funny Girl (1968)

    ★ 7.1/10

    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.

  6. 6McLintock!

    McLintock! (1963)

    ★ 6.6/10

    Aging rancher and self-made man, George Washington McLintock is forced to deal with numerous personal and professional problems. Seemingly everyone wants a piece of his enormous farmstead, including high-ranking…

  7. 7The Thin Man Goes Home

    The Thin Man Goes Home (1944)

    ★ 7.1/10

    Hoping for a peaceful visit with his parents in the small town of Sycamore Springs, Nick Charles and his wife Nora soon find themselves surrounded by old rivalries, family tensions, and a mysterious murder. Nick’s…

  8. 8A Star Is Born

    A Star Is Born (1954)

    ★ 7.1/10

    A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

  9. 9Another Thin Man

    Another Thin Man (1939)

    ★ 7.1/10

    Nick and Nora Charles are back - and this time, they have a baby, a wealthy new client, and another murder to solve! Retired detective Nick is enjoying family life with Nora and their young son, Nick Jr., when…

  10. 10The Apple Dumpling Gang

    The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975)

    ★ 6.6/10

    A roving bachelor gets saddled with three children and a wealth of trouble when the youngsters stumble upon a huge gold nugget. They join forces with two bumbling outlaws to fend off the greedy townspeople and soon…

  11. 11Bluebeard's Eighth Wife

    Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)

    ★ 7/10

    American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broke French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a number in the line of his ex-wives and undertakes her own strategy…

  12. 12One Hour with You

    One Hour with You (1932)

    ★ 6.4/10

    Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatious best friend, Mitzi, he does his best to resist her advances. But she is persistent, and very cute, and he succumbs…

  13. 13Emma

    Emma (1996)

    ★ 6.6/10

    Emma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people’s affairs. She is perpetually trying to unite men and women who are utterly wrong for each other. Despite her interest in romance, Emma…

  14. 14Shadow of the Thin Man

    Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)

    ★ 7/10

    While attending a major horse race with their young son, Nick Jr., Nick and Nora Charles witnesse a shocking murder from the crowded grandstand. What first appears to be an isolated killing soon leads to a maze of…

  15. 15The Magnificent Ambersons

    The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

    ★ 7.3/10

    The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.

  16. 16Moonstruck

    Moonstruck (1987)

    ★ 6.8/10

    37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts a marriage proposal from her boyfriend Johnny, even though she doesn't love him. When she meets his estranged younger…

  17. 17City Girl

    City Girl (1930)

    ★ 7.5/10

    A waitress from Chicago falls in love with a man from rural Minnesota and marries him, with the intent of living a better life - but life on the farm has its own challenges.

  18. 18They Live by Night

    They Live by Night (1949)

    ★ 6.8/10

    An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.

  19. 19Easy Virtue

    Easy Virtue (2008)

    ★ 6.5/10

    A young Englishman marries a glamorous American. When he brings her home to meet the parents, she arrives like a blast from the future - blowing their entrenched British stuffiness out the window.

  20. 20Love Is in the Air

    Love Is in the Air (2023)

    ★ 6.2/10

    A fiercely independent pilot fighting to keep her family business afloat starts to fall for the man sent by corporate to ground her operation forever.

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