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10 Best Movies Like If You Could Only Cook

If you loved If You Could Only Cook, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Baxter

The Baxter

2005★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to If You Could Only Cook for fans of Comedy & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Mild mannered tax accountant Elliot Sherman is what he calls a "Baxter": the kind of calm, unexciting fellow who "wears sock garters" and "enjoys raking leaves." Loved by bosses an...

#2
Sex and the Single Girl

Sex and the Single Girl

1964★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to If You Could Only Cook for fans of Comedy & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A womanizing reporter for a sleazy tabloid magazine impersonates his hen-pecked neighbor in order to get an expose on renowned psychologist Helen Gurley Brown....

#3
That Uncertain Feeling

That Uncertain Feeling

1941★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to If You Could Only Cook for fans of Comedy & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A happily married woman sees a psychoanalyst and develops doubts about her husband....

#4
My Man Godfrey

My Man Godfrey

1936★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to If You Could Only Cook for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in a dump by the East River. Irene...

#5
Another Thin Man

Another Thin Man

1939★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to If You Could Only Cook for fans of Comedy & Crime. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate....

#6
Take the Money and Run

Take the Money and Run

1969★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to If You Could Only Cook for fans of Comedy & Crime. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Virgil Starkwell is intent on becoming a notorious bank robber. Unfortunately for Virgil and his not-so-budding career, he is completely incompetent....

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