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10 Best Movies Like The Merry Widow

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

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#1
Love & Sex

Love & Sex

2000★ 6.1

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

When her rather explicit copy is rejected, magazine journalist Kate is asked by her editor to come up with an article on loving relationships instead, and to do so by the end of th...

#2
He Said, She Said

He Said, She Said

1991★ 5.8

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

Womanising, right-wing Dan Hanson and quiet, liberal Lorie Bryer work for the Baltimore Sun. Rivals for the job of new writer of a vacant column, the paper ends up instead printing...

#3
Walking and Talking

Walking and Talking

1996★ 6.0

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

Just as Amelia thinks she's over her anxiety and insecurity, her best friend announces her engagement, bringing her anxiety and insecurity right back....

#4
Broken English

Broken English

2007★ 5.9

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

Nora Wilder is freaking out. Everyone around her is either in a relationship, married, or has children, while she's in her thirties, alone with job she's outgrown and a mother who ...

#5
Kings & Queen

Kings & Queen

2004★ 6.9

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

Shortly before her wedding, art gallery director Nora travels from Paris to Grenoble to visit her preteen son, Elias, who is spending time with her aging professor father, Louis, r...

#6
Cyrus

Cyrus

2010★ 5.9

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

With John's social life at a standstill and his ex-wife about to get remarried, a down on his luck divorcée finally meets the woman of his dreams, only to discover she has another ...

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