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The First Wives Club (1996)
60K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After years of helping their hubbies climb the ladder of success, three mid-life Manhattanites have been dumped for a newer, curvier model. But the trio is determined to turn their pain into gain. They come up with a cleverly devious plan to hit their exes where it really hurts - in the wallet!
Style:
feel good, light, rom com, humorous, funny, entertaining, hilarious, lighthearted, captivating, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, girls' night, teens
Plot:
revenge, divorce, battle of the sexes, female protagonist, feminist, female bonding, friendship, feminism, dancing, breakup, mother daughter relationship, older man younger woman relationship, women, suicide, vengeance, father daughter relationship, midlife crisis, actress, drunkenness, husband wife relationship, extramarital affair, reconciliation, argument, dysfunctional marriage, ex husband ex wife relationship ...
Time:
90s, 60s, year 1969, 1960s, 1990s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, san francisco
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Most similar movies to The First Wives Club
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, funny and light films with plots about women, storytelling, dialogue, mentor, runaway, catastrophe and adaptation mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like The First Wives Club: 9 to 5 (1980), The Other Woman (2014), She-Devil (1989), Big Business (1988), The Fabulous Four (2024). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
43K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Frank Hart is a pig. He takes advantage in the grossest manner of the women who work with him. When his three assistants manage to trap him in his own house they assume control of his department and productivity leaps, but just how long can they ...
Style:
funny, retro, light, rom com, witty ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
workplace, female protagonist, revenge, feminist, strong female lead, satire, girl power, sexual harassment, kidnapping, farce, marijuana, fighting the system ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 70s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, new york, seattle ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
After discovering her boyfriend is married, Carly soon meets the wife he's been cheating on. And when yet another affair is discovered, all three women team up to plot mutual revenge on the three-timing SOB.
Style:
feel good, funny, romantic, entertaining, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, adult
Plot:
women, revenge, infidelity, friendship, womanizer, friends, couple relations, extramarital affair, feminine wiles, happy ending, battle of the sexes, foe turned friend ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, bahamas, new york
Similarity:
100%
21K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A cunning and resourceful housewife vows revenge on her husband when he begins an affair with a wealthy romance novelist.
Style:
black comedy, funny, dark comedy, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
revenge, infidelity, novelist, mistress, dysfunctional marriage, adultery, embezzlement, mansion, extramarital affair, dark humor, divorce, breakup ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night. One set to a poor local family and the other to a rich family just passing through. The dizzy nurse on duty accidentally ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, laugh out loud, retro, hilarious ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, teens, girls' night
Plot:
twins, luxury hotel, twins separated at birth, hotel, women, mistaken identity, switched at birth, shakespeare, culture clash, business, dilemma, parents ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa, west virginia, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Three lifelong friends travel to Key West, Florida to be bridesmaids in the surprise wedding of their college girlfriend Marilyn. Once there, sisterhoods are rekindled, the past rises up again in all its glory, and there’s enough sparks, drinks ...
Style:
feel good, semi serious, satirical, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
female friendship, friendship, wedding, road trip, wedding planning, friend, friends, travel, girlfriend, satire, wedding preparations and rituals, journey ...
Place:
key west florida, florida
Similarity:
100%
481K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George.
Style:
teen, feel good, light, funny, satirical ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
teenager, high school, teenage girl, teenage life, fish out of water, adolescence, high school life, bullying, popularity, jealousy, friendship, female friendship ...
Time:
2000s, year 2004, 80s, 21st century
Place:
illinois, chicago, africa, usa, pennsylvania ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A sheltered young high society woman joins the army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficult situation than she ever expected.
Style:
sentimental, funny, semi serious, light, parody ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
basic training, self discovery, wedding, boot camp, gender, military training, fish out of water, paratrooper, women, military, transformation, soldier ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
belgium, paris france, usa
Similarity:
100%
73K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Two disconnected sisters are summoned to clean out their childhood bedrooms before their parents sell their family home.
Style:
funny, buddy comedy, humorous, teen, light ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
sisters, sister sister relationship, sister, party, foul language, relationships, mother daughter relationship, woman, female friendship, storytelling, drinking, women ...
Time:
year 2016, 21st century
Place:
atlanta georgia, florida, usa, orlando florida
Similarity:
100%
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275K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school's pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other. Emboldened by her success, she decides to give ...
Style:
feel good, rom com, romantic, teen, light ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot:
high school, fashion, youth, teenager, teenage life, couples, opposites attract, teen romance, love and romance, enemies to lovers, popularity, teenage love ...
Time:
90s, y2k, 20th century, year 1995, 80s
Place:
los angeles, california, beverly hills, usa, seattle
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Laurel Ayres is a businesswoman trying to make it but unfortunately she works at a investment firm where she does all the work but all the senior investors like Frank Peterson grab all the credit. She then leaves and starts her own firm. While ...
Style:
entertaining, feel good, witty, clever, retro ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
gender disguise, wall street, sexism, workplace, comedy of errors, hidden identity, business, strong female lead, women, farce, racism, fake identity ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
new york, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Five best friends from college reunite 10 years later for a wild bachelorette weekend in Miami. Their hard partying takes a hilariously dark turn when they accidentally kill a male stripper. Amidst the craziness of trying to cover it up, ...
Style:
buddy comedy, sexy, humorous, rom com, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
friendship, friends, drinking, death, bachelorette party, male stripper, murder, woman urinating, blonde, female friendship, female protagonist, strip show ...
Time:
year 2017, year 2006, year 2016
Place:
miami, florida, usa
Similarity:
100%
24K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily-wedded Mary Haines finds her marriage in trouble when shop girl Crystal Allen gets her hooks into ...
Style:
sexy, witty, entertaining, humorous, light ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
women, infidelity, betrayal, divorce, friendship, transformation, fashion, fashion show, lesbian, woman in labor, female friendship, cheating ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 1930s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, connecticut, san francisco
Similarity:
67%
75K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Heiress, Joanna Stayton hires carpenter, Dean Proffitt to build a closet on her yacht -- and refuses to pay him for the project when it's done. But after Joanna accidentally falls overboard and loses her memory, Dean sees an opportunity to get ...
Style:
feel good, light, entertaining, sentimental, funny ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night, kids, family outing ...
Plot:
rich woman poor man, memory loss, amnesia, love and romance, single father, father son relationship, family life, destiny, carpenter, pretend relationship, personality change, revenge ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place:
oregon
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Brad Sexton and his wife, Caroline, are wealthy New Yorkers with both marital and financial problems. The latter issue becomes a pressing matter when they discover that their accountant has embezzled millions and pinned the blame on them. Forced to ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, feel good, romantic comedy, detective ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
amish, fish out of water, embezzlement, true love, wealth, lawyer, farce, marital discord, marital reconciliation, small town, husband and wife, divorce ...
Time:
90s, year 1997
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
31K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years.
Style:
sentimental, heartbreaking, tear jerker, sad, sweet ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, kids, teens
Plot:
friendship, childhood friend, best friend, terminal illness, singer, female bonding, mother daughter relationship, female lawyer, death, life is a bitch, coming of age, dog ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 70s, 80s, 1950s ...
Place:
new york, atlantic city new jersey, san francisco, manhattan new york city, los angeles ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
An advice columnist, Andie Anderson (Kate Hudson), tries pushing the boundaries of what she can write about in her new piece about how to get a man to leave you in 10 days. Her editor, Lana (Bebe Neuwirth), loves it, and Andie goes off to find a man ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, light, romantic comedy, rom com ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, teen drama ...
Plot:
love, love story, fall in love, battle of the sexes, love and romance, relationships, couples, unlikely couple, bet, dating, couple relations, initially antagonists ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, madison square garden manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, san francisco ...
Similarity:
100%
110K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Ike Graham, New York columnist, writes his text always at the last minute. This time, a drunken man in his favourite bar tells Ike about Maggie Carpenter, a woman who always flees from her grooms in the last possible moment. Ike, who does not have ...
Style:
romantic, rom com, light, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, family outing, teens, date night ...
Plot:
wedding, small town, fiance fiancee relationship, love and romance, journalist, battle of the sexes, unlikely couple, enemies to lovers, fear of commitment, reporter, breakup, canceled wedding ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, maryland, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
After building his dream house, architect Newton Davis proposes marriage to his girlfriend, only to be summarily rejected. He seeks solace in a one-night stand with a waitress, never imagining that a woman he slept with once would end up posing as ...
Style:
romantic, light, humorous, feel good, funny ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, kids, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot:
small town, breakup, lie, love story, destiny, architect, screwball, happy ending, farce, employer employee relationship, marriage proposal, father son relationship ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1992, 1930s
Place:
usa, massachusetts, boston
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Elle Woods has it all. She's the president of her sorority, a Hawaiian Tropic girl, Miss June in her campus calendar, and, above all, a natural blonde. She dates the cutest fraternity boy on campus and wants nothing more than to be Mrs. Warner ...
Style:
feel good, light, sweet, romantic comedy, funny ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, kids ...
Plot:
sorority, lawyer, girl power, blonde, law school, fashion, college, law, university, law student, campus, believe in yourself ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
california, boston, harvard university, los angeles, massachusetts ...
Similarity:
75%
139K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Two academic teenage superstars realize, on the eve of their high school graduation, that they should have worked less and played more. Determined to never fall short of their peers, the girls set out on a mission to cram four years of fun into one ...
Style:
rom com, entertaining, cult classic, teen, funny ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot:
coming of age, lesbian, lgbtq, teenager, high school, lesbian teen, teenage lesbian, last day of school, sapphic, high school student, female best friends, teen party ...
Time:
year 2019, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, new haven connecticut
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Chevy Chase stars as Andy Farmer, a sportswriter who moves with his schoolteacher wife Elizabeth (Madolyn Smith) to the country in order to write a novel in relative seclusion. Of course, seclusion is the last thing the Farmers find in the small, ...
Style:
hilarious, rom com, humorous, slapstick, social ...
Audience:
kids, date night
Plot:
small town, fish out of water, writers, husband wife relationship, aspiring writer, farce, christmas, chase, breakup, divorce, fishing, plagiarism ...
Time:
80s
Place:
vermont, new york, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
324K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Annie’s life is a mess. But when she finds out her lifetime best friend is engaged, she simply must serve as Lillian’s maid of honor. Though lovelorn and broke, Annie bluffs her way through the expensive and bizarre rituals. With one chance to ...
Style:
funny, romantic, sweet, humorous, rom com ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, date night, boys' night ...
Plot:
wedding, best friend, friendship, female friendship, wedding preparations and rituals, wedding dress, friends, sex scene, bachelorette party, fear of commitment, single woman, rivalry ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, chicago, milwaukee wisconsin, paris france, wisconsin
Similarity:
67%
12K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
What happens when a screenwriter (Brooks) loses his edge, he turns to anyone he can for help... even if it's the mythical "Zeus's Daughter" (Stone). And he's willing to pay, albeit reluctantly, whatever price it takes to ...
Style:
satirical, clever, light, funny, feel good ...
Plot:
hollywood, muse, screenwriter, writers, satire, manipulation, husband wife relationship, writer's life, alter ego, workplace, mentor, runaway ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
100%
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658K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you're a Ken.
Style:
rom com, captivating, entertaining, funny, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
barbie, fantasy world, doll, social satire, voice over narration, teenage girl, female protagonist, interdimensional travel, pregnant woman, ceo, patriarchy, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A comedy about a married couple -- he's a sports lawyer, she's a psychologist -- which takes place on their 16th wedding anniversary, when they make some startling confessions.
Style:
talky, intense, realistic, semi serious, witty ...
Plot:
infidelity, dysfunctional family, adultery, crumbling marriage, family problems, couple relations, dishonesty, battle of the sexes, life turned upside down, dysfunctional marriage, husband wife relationship, divorce ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles, new york
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Aspiring chef Lizzy sets off with her three best friends in tow to compete in the prestigious Saucy Food Festival. What begins as a calculated career move quickly turns into a madcap misadventure full of food, fun and female bonding, where the girls ...
Style:
feel good, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, satirical ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
female bonding, female friendship, women, friendship between girls, festival, food, friendship, journey, female protagonist, best friend, chef, group of friends ...
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Two old friends reconnect at their friend's funeral, and decide to exact revenge on the widower who wronged all three of them decades earlier.
Style:
funny, satirical, captivating, entertaining, humorous ...
Plot:
funeral, friendship, revenge, widower, troubled past, female protagonist, woman with a gun, best friend, old friend, murder, murder investigation, humour ...
Place:
ohio, california
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Yearning for an evening without their kids, some friends plan a night out. But to do this, their husbands need to watch the kids. What can go wrong?
Style:
sweet, humorous, cute, melancholic, funny ...
Audience:
chick flick, family friendly, girls' night, teens
Plot:
christian, pastor, parenthood, nothing goes right, parents and children, family relations, couples, comedy of errors, best friend, parent child relationship, youth, escapades ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
You slipped into my life as easily as vermouth into a glass of gin, purrs reclusive singing star Angela Arden. Arden is not only haunted by a secret, she's treated like dirt by her louse of a husband, her snoopy maid, and her petulant daughter. ...
Style:
humorous, witty, melancholic, satirical, light ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
murder, transvestism, dysfunctional family, family relations, artists and showbiz, eccentric family, lifestyle, family life, parents and children, dark humor, love affair, male nudity ...
Time:
year 2003, 20th century, 50s, 1950s, 60s ...
Place:
spain, greenwich village manhattan new york city, hong kong
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
If there's one thing this wild group of friends at an all-girls high school has learned, it's how to get what they want! So when word leaks out that their school is about to merge with an all-boys academy, some of the students strike ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, period piece, light, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
coming of age, boarding school, gender, teenage life, teenage love, high school, battle of the sexes, school, youth, bullying, girls' school, friendship between girls ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, year 1998, year 1963, 80s
Place:
new york state, new jersey, tokyo
Similarity:
29%
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