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10 Best Movies Like My Favorite Spy

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

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#1
My Man Godfrey

My Man Godfrey

1936★ 7.5

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

Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in a dump by the East River. Irene...

#2
My Favorite Brunette

My Favorite Brunette

1947★ 6.6

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

Ronnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective. When a lovely baroness actually mistakes him for one and asks him to help locat...

#3
Stanley and Livingstone

Stanley and Livingstone

1939★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to My Favorite Spy for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingston...

#4
Monkey Business

Monkey Business

1952★ 6.7

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

Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours th...

#5
Contempt

Contempt

1963★ 7.0

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

A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Prokosch has hired Fritz Lang to direct an adaptation of "The Odyssey," ...

#6
Pierrot le Fou

Pierrot le Fou

1965★ 7.4

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

Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the...