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10 Best Movies Like My Wife's Ex

If you loved My Wife's Ex, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Ricky Gervais: Mortality

Ricky Gervais: Mortality

2025★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to My Wife's Ex for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Ricky Gervais tackles life, death and the state of the world in a brutally honest special that spares no topic, even his own mortality....

#2
Chris Rock: Kill the Messenger

Chris Rock: Kill the Messenger

2008★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to My Wife's Ex for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

An HBO special edited from three performances from Chris Rock's 2008 comedy tour: London (dark suit, dark shirt), Johannesburg (black suit, white shirt) and New York (shiny jacket)...

#3
The Headmaster

The Headmaster

2000★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to My Wife's Ex for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Ashour, Salaah’s father, runs his school with severity and cruelty. after Ashour's death, Salah inherits the job and lets Sayed, his deputy, take charge. Hussein the teacher makes...

#4
Mr. Bones

Mr. Bones

2001★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to My Wife's Ex for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A medicine man is sent looking for the son of his tribal king, and brings back an American golfer and a host of goons intent on keeping him in the golf tournament....

#5
Ricky Gervais Live 2: Politics

Ricky Gervais Live 2: Politics

2004★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to My Wife's Ex for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A year after Animals, Ricky Gervais comes back with his second stand up comedy tour: Politics....

#6
John Mulaney: The Comeback Kid

John Mulaney: The Comeback Kid

2015★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to My Wife's Ex for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Armed with boyish charm and a sharp wit, the former "SNL" writer offers sly takes on marriage, his beef with babies and the time he met Bill Clinton....

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