If You Liked Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Watch These Next
Finished Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Diary of a Mad Black Woman, most of them are drama, romance, comedy.
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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.The War of the Roses(1989)
6.9ComedyDramaAlso comedy and drama
Barbara and Oliver Rose live happily as a married couple. When Barbara starts to wonder what life would be like without Oliver and likes what she sees, the two begin a campaign to force each other to leave their house, with their divorce lawyer D'Amato caught in the middle.
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2.Petulia(1968)
6.0DramaRomanceAlso drama and romance
Dr. Archie Bollen is having a midlife crisis. He's just divorced his wife and is establishing a new life for himself. One night, he catches the eye of Petulia Danner, a charming, free-spirited young woman. Petulia's vibrant personality hides her fear of her abusive husband, David, whose father is a powerful society…
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3.The One I Love(2014)
6.9RomanceComedyDramaAlso romance and comedy
Ethan and Sophie are a married couple on the brink of separation when, at the urging of their therapist, they decide to salvage their relationship by escaping to a beautiful vacation house for the weekend.
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4.Hello I Must Be Going(2012)
5.9DramaComedyRomanceAlso drama and comedy
An affair with a 19-year old actor helps reinvigorate life for thirty-something Amy after she moves home to her parents’ house following her divorce.
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6.In the Land of Women(2007)
5.9RomanceComedyDramaAlso romance and comedy
After a bad breakup with his girlfriend leaves him heartbroken, Carter Webb moves to Michigan to take care of his ailing grandmother. Once there, he gets mixed up in the lives of the mother and daughters who live across the street.
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7.The Free World(2016)
6.2RomanceDramaAlso romance and drama
Following his release from a brutal stretch in prison for crimes he didn't commit, Mo is struggling to adapt to life on the outside. When his world collides with Doris, a mysterious woman with a violent past, he decides to risk his newfound freedom to keep her in his life.
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8.Revolutionary Road(2008)
7.0DramaRomanceAlso drama and romance
A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.
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9.Brief Encounter(1945)
7.7DramaRomanceAlso drama and romance
Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must…
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10.Solitary Man(2009)
5.9ComedyDramaRomanceAlso comedy and drama
A car magnate watches his personal and professional life hit the skids because of his business and romantic indiscretions.
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12.Love & Sex(2000)
6.2ComedyDramaRomanceAlso comedy and drama
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 the day. This gets Kate thinking back over her own various experiences, and to wondering if she is in much of a position to write on the…
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13.She's So Lovely(1997)
5.9DramaRomanceThrillerAlso drama and romance
After being released from a psychiatric institution, a man tries to redeem himself in the eyes of his now-ex wife from the events that led up to his incarceration.
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14.How to Please a Woman(2022)
6.3RomanceComedyDramaAlso romance and comedy
When her all-male house-cleaning business gets out of control, a mature woman must embrace her own sexuality, if she is to make a new life for herself.
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15.Tortilla Soup(2001)
6.4ComedyDramaRomanceAlso comedy and drama
A Mexican-American master chef and father to three daughters has lost his taste for food but not for life.
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16.I Can Do Bad All By Myself(2009)
6.3DramaComedyAlso drama and comedy
When Madea catches teenage Jennifer and her two younger brothers looting her home, she decides to take matters into her own hands and delivers the young delinquents to the only relative they have: their aunt April. A heavy-drinking nightclub singer who lives off of her married boyfriend, April wants nothing to do…
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17.Unfaithful(2002)
6.7ThrillerDramaRomanceAlso drama and romance
A New York suburban couple's marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling.
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18.A Woman Under the Influence(1974)
7.7DramaRomanceAlso drama and romance
Mabel Longhetti, desperate and lonely, is married to a Los Angeles municipal construction worker, Nick. Increasingly unstable, especially in the company of others, she craves happiness, but her extremely volatile behavior convinces Nick that she poses a danger to their family and decides to commit her to an…
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19.The Roses(2025)
6.6ComedyDramaRomanceAlso comedy and drama
Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy and Theo: successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing – as Theo's career nosedives while Ivy's own ambitions take off, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden resentment ignites.
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20.Shoot the Moon(1982)
6.3DramaRomanceAlso drama and romance
After fifteen years of marriage, an affluent couple divorce and take up with new partners.
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