Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 13, 2026

10 Best Movies Like The Ideal

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

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#1
It Boy

It Boy

2013★ 6.5

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

38-year-old Alice has everything to become the next editor-in-chief of Rebelle magazine except for her uptight image. But when the young and charming Balthazar, barely 20, crosses ...

#2
A Difficult Year

A Difficult Year

2023★ 5.9

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

Compulsive spenders Albert and Bruno are in debt up to their necks. While seeking help from community workers to get their lives back on track, they run into a group of young green...

#3
Family Is Family

Family Is Family

2018★ 5.8

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

Valentin D is a hot designer architect who claims to be an orphan because he is too ashamed to admit he is the son of working-class scrap metal merchants from the north of France....

#4
Inspector Blunder

Inspector Blunder

1980★ 6.3

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

A detective, fresh out of the academy (lowest mark in class), gets the assignment to bodyguard a spoiled rich girl reporter. She's been interviewed on TV and has questioned the vir...

#5
Would I Lie to You?

Would I Lie to You?

1997★ 6.3

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

Jobless loner Eddie Vuibert gets a lucky break when a rich Jewish entrepreneur mistakes him for a Jew and gives him a sweet job in the Parisian fashion district....

#6
Why Worry?

Why Worry?

1923★ 6.5

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

A hypochondriac vacations in the tropics for the fresh air - and finds himself in the middle of a revolution instead....

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