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10 Best Movies Like Misnomer

If you loved Misnomer, 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 Misnomer 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
Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

2001★ 7.5

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

Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig undergoes a personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she reinvents herself as an 'internationally ignored' but divinely t...

#3
Boy Meets Girl

Boy Meets Girl

2014★ 6.6

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

In Kentucky, a transgender woman and her best male friend lament the lack of eligible partners and step across old boundaries of love and romance....

#4
The Reluctant Debutante

The Reluctant Debutante

1958★ 6.7

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

While visiting her father, an American teenage girl is thrown into London society during its final "Debutante Season."...

#5
Port Authority

Port Authority

2019★ 6.0

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

Paul, a 20 year old midwesterner, arrives at the central bus station and quickly catches eyes with Wye, a 22 year old girl voguing on the sidewalk. After Paul seeks her out in secr...

#6
Mrs. Winterbourne

Mrs. Winterbourne

1996★ 7.2

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

Connie Doyle is eighteen, pregnant and alone. She accidentally ends up on a train where she meets Hugh Winterbourne and his wife pregnant Patricia. The train wrecks and she wakes u...

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