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10 Best Movies Like Wives Never Know

If you loved Wives Never Know, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest

1952★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Wives Never Know for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a co...

#2
Arsenic and Old Lace

Arsenic and Old Lace

1944★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Wives Never Know for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick tr...

#3
The Secret of My Success

The Secret of My Success

1987★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Wives Never Know for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York, but once in New York, he learns that jobs - and girls - are hard to get. When Bra...

#4
Spite Marriage

Spite Marriage

1929★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Wives Never Know for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

An unimpressive but well-intentioned man is given the chance to marry a popular actress, of whom he has been a hopeless fan. But what he doesn't realize is that he is being used to...

#5
Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing

2013★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Wives Never Know for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A modern retelling of Shakespeare's classic comedy about two pairs of lovers with different takes on romance and a way with words....

#6
Blithe Spirit

Blithe Spirit

1945★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Wives Never Know for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

While holding a séance for skeptical novelist Charles Condomine, self-proclaimed 'spiritualist medium' Madame Arcati inadvertently summons the spirit of his deceased first wife Elv...

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