Is the movie How to Be a Good Wife available on Netflix, Disney+, Prime or Apple TV+?

How to Be a Good Wife (2020) is a sharply observed period comedy that sends you straight to a housekeeping school in Bitche, Alsace, where Paulette and her students are trained to be the “perfect housewives.” When Paulette is forced to take the reins after her husband’s death, a nationwide upheaval — the May 1968 protests — and a lively cast (her first love André, eccentric stepsister Gilberte, and the stern nun Marie‑Thérèse) set the stage for a quiet, domestic revolution. If you’re wondering whether the film is on Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video or Apple TV+, this article will walk you through where to stream it and what to expect from the housekeeping drama, the on‑air competition subplot, and the film’s take on liberation and changing gender roles. The film drew critical attention on release, though it wasn’t a major awards winner; below you’ll find up‑to‑date availability across the main streaming services.

Synopsis

In the Alsatian town of Bitche, Paulette Van Der Beck has long run a domestic training school with her husband, shaping teenage girls into model homemakers in a society that insists women bow to their husbands. When her husband dies unexpectedly, Paulette learns the school is close to collapse and must assume full control to save it. As the students prepare to represent the academy on a popular televised home-making contest, the upheaval of May 1968 sweeps across the country and begins to crack the certainties they were taught. Reunited with her first love, André, and with unlikely allies in her boisterous stepsister Gilberte and the austere Sister Marie-Thérèse, Paulette and her pupils confront the limits imposed on them and discover new possibilities for autonomy. What starts as a fight for the institution’s survival becomes a personal and collective awakening, as a generation of women claim the right to define their own lives.

Release date

2020

Duration

1h 48min

Rating

Director

Martin Provost

Country

France

Genre(s)

Comédie

Cast

Juliette Binoche Yolande Moreau Noémie Lvovsky Édouard Baer François Berléand Marie Zabukovec Anamaria Vartolomei