Movies Like Ali Wong: Hard Knock Wife (2018)

Ali Wong: Hard Knock Wife is a 2018 comedy film from Jay Karas with a MovieMagicScore of 6.9/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Ali Wong: Baby Cobra and Cocoon: The Return.

Comedy

Ali Wong: Baby Cobra

2016

Ali Wong might be seven-months pregnant, but there’s not a fetus in the world that can stop this acerbic and savage train of comedy from delivering a masterful hour of stand-up.

7.2

MagicScore

Cocoon: The Return

1988

The reinvigorated elderly group that left Earth comes back to visit their relatives. Will they all decide to go back to the planet where no one grows old, or will they be tempted to remain on Earth?

6.5

MagicScore

What to Expect When You're Expecting

2012

Challenges of impending parenthood turn the lives of five couples upside down. Two celebrities are unprepared for the surprise demands of pregnancy; hormones wreak havoc on a baby-crazy author, while her husband tries not to be outdone by his father, who's expecting twins with his young trophy wife; a photographer's husband isn't sure about his wife's adoption plans; a one-time hook-up results in a surprise pregnancy for rival food-truck owners.

6.0

MagicScore

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

1963

Three tales of very different women using their sexuality as a means to getting what they want.

7.5

MagicScore

Earth Mama

2023

A pregnant single mother, with two children in foster care, embraces her Bay Area community as she fights to reclaim her family.

5.9

MagicScore

We Are Pregnant

2016

It seems simple: an egg + sperm = one embryo. But if your sperm is "few, vague and abnormal" and your woman is premenopausal at age 37, things start to get complicated.

5.4

MagicScore

Slam

2016

Samuele is 16 and has a passion for skateboarding. He has big dreams: going to university, move to California, and travel, but things change when he meets Alice, who could be the girl of his life.

5.8

MagicScore

Red Hill

2010

Young police officer Shane Cooper's first day on duty, after relocating to the small town of Red Hill, rapidly turns into a nightmare. News of a prison break, involving convicted murderer Jimmy Conway, sends the local law enforcement officers - led by the town's ruling presence, Old Bill - into a panic and leads to a terrifying and bloody confrontation.

6.0

MagicScore

Penny Serenade

1941

Julie and Roger are a love-struck married couple who desperately want to have a child. Tragedy after tragedy gets in their way, as the two attempt to rise above their troubles and fulfill their dreams of parenthood.

6.6

MagicScore

#10

Tully

2018

Marlo, a mother of three, including a newborn, is gifted a night nanny by her brother. Hesitant at first, she quickly forms a bond with the thoughtful, surprising, and sometimes challenging nanny named Tully.

6.8

MagicScore

#11

The Back-Up Plan

2010

When Zoe tires of looking for Mr. Right, she decides to have a baby on her own. But on the day she's artificially inseminated, she meets Stan, who seems to be just who she's been searching for all her life. Now, Zoe has to figure out how to make her two life's dreams fit with each other.

6.1

MagicScore

#12

Prevenge

2017

A pregnant widow, believing herself to be guided by her unborn child, embarks on a homicidal rampage.

5.5

MagicScore

#13

Waitress: The Musical

2023

A waitress and expert pie-maker dreams of a way out of her small town and rocky marriage.

7.3

MagicScore

#14

Bridget Jones's Baby

2016

After breaking up with Mark Darcy five years earlier, Bridget Jones' happily-ever-after hasn't quite gone according to plan. Fortysomething and single again, she decides to focus on her job as top news producer and surround herself with old friends and new. For once, Bridget has everything completely under control. Then her love life takes a turn - while a weekend away at a music festival, she meets a dashing American named Jack, who is everything Mark is not, and spends a night with him. A week later, she runs into newly-separated Mark, and has a one-night dalliance. In an unlikely twist, she finds herself pregnant, but with one hitch - she's not sure of the identity of her baby's father - Mark or Jack.

6.4

MagicScore

#15

Father of the Bride Part II

1995

Just when George Banks has recovered from his daughter's wedding, he receives the news that she's pregnant ... and that George's wife is expecting too. He was planning on selling their home, but that's a plan that—like George—will have to change with the arrival of both a grandchild and a kid of his own.

6.3

MagicScore

#16

Home Fries

1998

Dorian and Angus chase down their womanizing stepfather with a helicopter, frightening him to death. In his effort to cover their tracks, Dorian begins investigating his stepfather's mistress, Sally. She works at a fast-food drive-through, she's pregnant and Dorian quickly falls in love with her. Unfortunately, his scheming mother wants Sally dead. And Sally isn't sure she wants Dorian to be her child's father and also his brother.

5.1

MagicScore

#17

Evil Dead Rise

2023

A reunion between two estranged sisters gets cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.

7.0

MagicScore

#18

Parallel Mothers

2021

Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a hospital room: Janis, in her late-thirties, unrepentant and happy; Ana, a teenager, remorseful and frightened.

6.8

MagicScore

#19

Birth/Rebirth

2023

A single mother and a childless morgue technician are bound together by their relationship to a little girl they have reanimated from the dead.

6.3

MagicScore

#20

Kindred

2020

When her boyfriend Ben suddenly dies in an accident, mother-to-be Charlotte collapses upon receiving the news. She wakes up in Ben’s family home, a crumbling old manor house in the middle of nowhere with Ben’s overbearing mother and his controlling stepbrother who are determined to care for her. Grief-stricken and increasingly haunted by visions possibly brought on by the pregnancy, Charlotte begins to doubt the family's intentions and her suspicions grow that they may be trying to control her and her unborn baby.

5.4

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Ali Wong: Hard Knock Wife?

The top films similar to Ali Wong: Hard Knock Wife by MovieMagicScore are Ali Wong: Baby Cobra (7.2), Cocoon: The Return (6.5), What to Expect When You're Expecting (6.0). Each shares comedy themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Ali Wong: Hard Knock Wife worth watching?

Ali Wong: Hard Knock Wife holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.9/10 from 130 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Ali Wong: Hard Knock Wife?

Ali Wong: Hard Knock Wife (2018) is a comedy film directed by Jay Karas, starring Ali Wong.

Where can I find more recommendations like Ali Wong: Hard Knock Wife?

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This ranked list pairs Ali Wong: Hard Knock Wife (2018), a comedy film from Jay Karas, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Ali Wong 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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