Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 10, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Wife

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

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#1
Deep Water

Deep Water

2022★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Wife for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A well-to-do husband who allows his wife to have affairs in order to avoid a divorce becomes a prime suspect in the disappearance of her lovers....

#2
Effie Gray

Effie Gray

2014★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Wife for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray....

#3
Repast

Repast

1951★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Wife for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In post-WWII Osaka, a middle-aged woman is forced to examine her dreary life and marriage when her husband's young and flirtatious cousin arrives for a brief stay to escape an arra...

#4
The Ice Storm

The Ice Storm

1997★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Wife for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hood family is skidding out of control. Then an ice storm hits, the worst in a century....

#5
The Pumpkin Eater

The Pumpkin Eater

1964★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Wife for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Jo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful but promiscuous screenwriter. Though they are physically and emotionally compatib...

#6
Albatross

Albatross

2011★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Wife for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Beth, a bookish teenager, befriends Emilia, an aspiring novelist who has just arrived in town. Emilia soon begins an affair with Beth's father that threatens to have devastating co...

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