Movies Like The Awful Truth (1937)

The Awful Truth is a 1937 comedy, romance film from Leo McCarey with a MovieMagicScore of 7.2/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with The Divorce of Lady X and Love Crazy.

Comedy Romance

The Divorce of Lady X

1938

A London barrister believes the woman who spent the night in his hotel suite is the erring wife of his newest client.

5.9

MagicScore

Love Crazy

1941

Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.

6.7

MagicScore

The Grass Is Greener

1960

Victor and Hillary are down on their luck to the point that they allow tourists to take guided tours of their castle. But Charles Delacro, a millionaire oil tycoon, visits, and takes a liking to more than the house. Soon, Hattie Durant gets involved and they have a good old fashioned love triangle.

6.3

MagicScore

The Wheeler Dealers

1963

Henry J. Tyroon leaves Texas, where his oil wells are drying up, and arrives in New York with a lot of oil money to play with in the stock market. He meets stock analyst Molly Thatcher, who tries to ignore the lavish attention he spends on her but, in the end, she falls for his charm.

6.2

MagicScore

Pillow Talk

1959

Playboy songwriter Brad Allen's succession of romances annoys his neighbor, interior designer Jan Morrow, who shares a telephone party line with him and hears all his breezy routines. After Jan unsuccessfully lodges a complaint against him, Brad sets about to seduce her in the guise of a sincere and upstanding Texas rancher. When mutual friend Jonathan discovers that his best friend is moving in on the girl he desires, however, sparks fly.

7.1

MagicScore

The Philadelphia Story

1940

When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.

7.6

MagicScore

Phffft

1954

Robert and Nina Tracey resolve to live separate lives when their eight-year marriage dissolves into disagreements and divorce. But their separate attempts to get back out on the dating scene have a funny way of bringing them together.

6.1

MagicScore

Intolerable Cruelty

2003

A revenge-seeking gold digger marries a womanizing Beverly Hills lawyer with the intention of making a killing in the divorce.

5.9

MagicScore

Romance on the High Seas

1948

Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband cheating. Meanwhile equally suspicious husband Michael Kent has sent a private eye on the same cruise to catch his wife cheating. Love and confusion ensues along with plenty of musical numbers.

6.7

MagicScore

#10

Who Gets the Dog?

2016

Six years after saying "I do," Olive and Clay call it quits. Although they split amicably, both want custody of their beloved dog Wesley and they end up in court. With everything at stake, can man's best friend find a way to reunite the couple?

5.0

MagicScore

#11

The Gay Divorcee

1934

Seeking a divorce from her absentee husband, Mimi Glossop travels to an English seaside resort. There she falls in love with dancer Guy Holden, whom she later mistakes for the corespondent her lawyer hired.

6.9

MagicScore

#12

The Palm Beach Story

1942

A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire, J. D. Hackensacker III.

7.0

MagicScore

#13

Woman of the Year

1942

Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.

6.9

MagicScore

#14

Move Over, Darling

1963

Three years into their loving marriage, with two infant daughters at home in Los Angeles, Nicholas Arden and Ellen Wagstaff Arden are on a plane that goes down in the South Pacific. Although most passengers manage to survive the incident, Ellen presumably perishes when swept off her lifeboat, her body never recovered. Fast forward five years. Nicholas, wanting to move on with his life, has Ellen declared legally dead. Part of that moving on includes getting remarried, this time to a young woman named Bianca Steele, who, for their honeymoon, he plans to take to the same Monterrey resort where he and Ellen spent their honeymoon. On that very same day, Ellen is dropped off in Los Angeles by the Navy, who rescued her from the South Pacific island where she was stranded for the past five years. She asks the Navy not to publicize her rescue nor notify Nicholas as she wants to do so herself.

6.7

MagicScore

#15

That Uncertain Feeling

1941

A happily married woman sees a psychoanalyst and develops doubts about her husband.

6.6

MagicScore

#16

We're Not Married!

1952

A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally married.

5.7

MagicScore

#17

Ball of Fire

1941

A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.

7.3

MagicScore

#18

Send Me No Flowers

1964

At one of his many visits to his doctor, hypochondriac George Kimball mistakes a dying man's diagnosis for his own and believes he only has about two more weeks to live. Wanting to take care of his wife Judy, he doesn't tell her and tries to find her a new husband. When he finally does tell her, she quickly finds out he's not dying at all (while he doesn't) and she believes it's just a lame excuse to hide an affair, so she decides to leave him.

6.7

MagicScore

#19

The Talk of the Town

1942

Hilarity ensues when a falsely accused fugitive from justice hides at the house of his childhood friend, which she has recently rented to a high-principled law teacher.

7.3

MagicScore

#20

50 First Dates

2004

Henry is a player skilled at seducing women. But when this veterinarian meets Lucy, a girl with a quirky problem when it comes to total recall, he realizes it's possible to fall in love all over again…and again, and again. That's because the delightful Lucy has no short-term memory, so Henry must woo her day after day until he finally sweeps her off her feet.

6.9

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like The Awful Truth?

The top films similar to The Awful Truth by MovieMagicScore are The Divorce of Lady X (5.9), Love Crazy (6.7), The Grass Is Greener (6.3). Each shares comedy/romance themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is The Awful Truth worth watching?

The Awful Truth holds a MovieMagicScore of 7.2/10 from 335 viewer ratings, putting it among the better-reviewed titles in its genre.

What kind of movie is The Awful Truth?

The Awful Truth (1937) is a comedy, romance film directed by Leo McCarey, starring Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy.

Where can I find more recommendations like The Awful Truth?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more comedy recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like The Awful Truth

This ranked list pairs The Awful Truth (1937), a comedy and romance film from Leo McCarey, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Irene Dunne take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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