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10 Best Movies Like The Gay Divorcee

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

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#1
My Favorite Wife

My Favorite Wife

1940★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Gay Divorcee for fans of Comedy & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Years after she was presumed dead in a shipwreck, Ellen Arden returns home to the surprise of her husband recently remarrying. But he too gets a shock when he learns that Ellen spe...

#2
Swing Time

Swing Time

1936★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Gay Divorcee for fans of Comedy & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Lucky is tricked into missing his own wedding to Margaret and has to make $25,000 so her father will allow him to marry her. He and business partner Pop go to New York where they r...

#3
Top Hat

Top Hat

1935★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Gay Divorcee for fans of Comedy & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel room, much to the annoyance of slee...

#4
Jade Dynasty

Jade Dynasty

2019★ 7.5

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

After the massacre of his village, Zhang Xiaofan is taken in by the Qing Yun Sect where he begins his journey of cultivation. When he finds out the truth behind the deaths of his p...

#5
Face to Face

Face to Face

1976★ 7.2

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

Two psychiatrists' marriage is tested when one suffers a mental breakdown....

#6
Flying Down to Rio

Flying Down to Rio

1933★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Gay Divorcee for fans of Comedy & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

An American bandleader woos a Brazilian beauty who is already engaged to his employer. His friends try to help him, while learning the local dance, The Carioca. The first pairin...