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10 Best Movies Like An Ideal Husband

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

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#1
An Ideal Husband

An Ideal Husband

1999★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to An Ideal Husband for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past...

#2
Let's Make Love

Let's Make Love

1960★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to An Ideal Husband for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful...

#3
Oscar

Oscar

1991★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to An Ideal Husband for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Angelo "Snaps" Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world of crime and become an honest businessman. Despite having no experience in making...

#4
Stage Beauty

Stage Beauty

2004★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to An Ideal Husband for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Humble Maria, who outfits top London theater star Ned Kynaston, takes none of the credit for the male actor's success at playing women. And because this is the 17th century, Maria,...

#5
Mr Malcolm's List

Mr Malcolm's List

2022★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to An Ideal Husband for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

When she fails to meet an item on his list of requirements for a bride, Julia Thistlewaite is jilted by London’s most eligible bachelor, Mr. Malcolm. Feeling humiliated and determi...

#6
Plunkett & Macleane

Plunkett & Macleane

1999★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to An Ideal Husband for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Will Plunkett and Captain James Macleane, two men from different ends of the social spectrum in 18th-century England, enter a gentlemen's agreement: They decide to rid the aristocr...

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