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10 Best Movies Like What's Gotten Into Him?

If you loved What's Gotten Into Him?, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
There's Something About Mary

There's Something About Mary

1998★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to What's Gotten Into Him? for fans of Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

For Ted, prom night went about as bad as it’s possible for any night to go. Thirteen years later, he finally gets another chance with his old prom date, only to run up against othe...

#2
Shortbus

Shortbus

2006★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to What's Gotten Into Him? for fans of Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

In post-9/11 New York City, an eclectic group of citizens find their lives entangled, personally, romantically, and sexually, at Shortbus, an underground Brooklyn salon infamous fo...

#3
Jungle Fever

Jungle Fever

1991★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to What's Gotten Into Him? for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo rela...

#4
Cruel Intentions

Cruel Intentions

1999★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to What's Gotten Into Him? for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower their headmaster's daughter before the summer ends. If he succeeds, the prize is th...

#5
sex, lies, and videotape

sex, lies, and videotape

1989★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to What's Gotten Into Him? for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Ann, a frustrated wife, enters into counseling due to a troubled marriage. Unbeknownst to her, her husband John has begun an affair with her sister. When John’s best friend Graham ...

#6
Thumbsucker

Thumbsucker

2005★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to What's Gotten Into Him? for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Justin Cobb, a teenager in suburban Oregon, copes with his thumb-sucking problem, romance, and his diagnosis with ADHD and subsequent experience using Ritalin....