Movies like Working Girl

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Working Girl (1988)
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Working Girl (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Witty, romantic look at life in the corporate jungle. Tess McGill is an ambitious secretary with a unique approach for climbing the ladder to success. When her classy, but villainous boss breaks a leg skiing, Tess takes over her office, her apartment and even her wardrobe. She creates a deal with a handsome investment banker that will either take her to the top, or finish her off for good.
Style: feel good, inspirational, captivating, light, talky, sweet, romantic comedy, romantic, humorous, rom com ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night
Plot: business, women, workplace, secretary, workplace romance, career woman, rise to the top, female protagonist, love and romance, career, boss, strong female character, happy ending, love story, determination, hopes, wall street, feminism, finance, female nudity, sex scene, female executive, caught having sex, unfaithfulness, economics ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, new jersey
Keyword: feminist film, filipino, retrospective

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Most similar movies to Working Girl

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, feel good, humorous and light films with plots about love and romance, love, couples, fall in love, women, workplace and love story mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Working Girl: Morning Glory (2010), Other People's Money (1991), Tootsie (1982), The Secret of My Succe$s (1987), When Harry Met Sally... (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Morning Glory (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A young and devoted morning television producer is hired as an executive producer on a long-running morning show at a once-prominent but currently failing station in New York City. Eager to keep the show on air, she recruits a former news ...
Style: romantic, light, feel good, melancholic, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, teen drama
Plot: workaholic, journalism, hotshot, media, work ethic, female protagonist, life philosophy, reporter, journalist, showbiz, relationship vs career, ambition ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, new jersey, usa
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100%
Other People's Money (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A corporate raider threatens a hostile take-over of a "mom and pop" company. The patriarch of the company enlists the help of his wife's daughter, who is a lawyer, to try and protect the company. The raider is enamoured of her, and ...
Style: sentimental, humorous, romantic comedy, clever, feel good ...
Audience: date night
Plot: wall street, stock market, money, business, workplace intrigue, lawyer, greed, unlikely couple, family business, finance, manipulation, economics ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: new york, usa, rhode island, new england, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 114K
Tootsie (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: When struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego -- Dorothy Michaels -- in order to land a part in a daytime drama, he unwittingly becomes a feminist icon and ends up in a romantic pickle.
Style: feel good, light, witty, humorous, funny ...
Audience: kids, chick flick, date night
Plot: cross dressing, man dressed as a woman, actor, gender bending, love, love and romance, actress, transvestite, relationships, double life, love triangle, gender ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1982
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Secret of My Succe$s (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York, but once in New York, he learns that jobs - and girls - are hard to get. When Brantley visits his uncle, Howard Prescott, who runs a ...
Style: feel good, light, realistic, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, manly, family friendly, date night
Plot: business, rich and poor, office, workplace, mistaken identity, love triangle, ambition, rise to the top, fish out of water, farce, job promotion, office worker ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: new york, kansas, usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: During their travels from Chicago to New York, Harry and Sally Will debate whether or not sex ruins a perfect relationship between a man and a woman. Eleven years later, and they're still no closer to finding the answer.
Style: feel good, romantic, sweet, sentimental, funny ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: male female friendship, autumn, friendship, love and romance, initially antagonists, best friends in love, fall in love, unlikely couple, love story, life philosophy, opposites attract, looking for love ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 70s, year 1989, year 1987 ...
Place: new york, seattle, chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Maid in Manhattan (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Marisa Ventura is a struggling single mom who works at a posh Manhattan hotel and dreams of a better life for her and her young son. One fateful day, hotel guest and senatorial candidate Christopher Marshall meets Marisa and mistakes her for a ...
Style: romantic, light, sweet, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, adult
Plot: love story, love and romance, fall in love, class differences, opposites attract, cinderella story, couples, hotel, mistaken identity, eligible bachelor, single mother, social differences ...
Time: year 2002, 70s, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 32K
Mystic Pizza (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in Mystic Connecticut.
Style: light, sentimental, melancholic, sweet, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: small town, coming of age, pizza, teenager, friendship, food, women, commitment, small town life, teenage life, siblings relations, love and romance ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, new england, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Ladies in Black (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Adapted from the bestselling novel by Madeleine St John, Ladies in Black is an alluring and tender-hearted comedy drama about the lives of a group of department store employees in 1959 Sydney.
Style: stylized, atmospheric, captivating, light, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot: fashion, department store, career, woman, women, love, workplace, post war, happy ending, opportunity, immigrant, nylons ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1959
Place: sydney australia, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Life or Something Like It (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Poland
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A reporter Lanie Kerrigan interviews a psychic homeless man for a fluff piece about a football game's score. Instead he tells her that her life has no meaning and is going to end in just a few days, which sparks her to action, trying to change ...
Style: romantic, feel good, light, sentimental, entertaining ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: journalism, career woman, life & death, life philosophy, homeless man, oracle, rise to the top, love and romance, opposites attract, family relations, workplace romance, love story ...
Place: seattle, new york, washington state, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 44K
Sabrina (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: An ugly duckling having undergone a remarkable change, still harbors feelings for her crush: a carefree playboy, but not before his business-focused brother has something to say about it.
Style: romantic, sweet, feel good, sentimental, light ...
Audience: chick flick, family outing, date night
Plot: fall in love, age difference, love story, workaholic, cinderella story, love and romance, millionaire, love, happy ending, cinderella, couple relations, love triangle ...
Time: 90s
Place: paris france, europe, long island, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
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Baby Boom (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The life of super-yuppie J.C. is thrown into turmoil when she inherits a baby from a distant relative.
Style: light, touching, sentimental, sweet, sincere ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, kids, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: adoption, baby, babies and infants, career woman, love affair, single mother, motherhood, women, single parent, starting over, relationship problems, business ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: new york, vermont, manhattan new york city, usa, new york state ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 5.8
 30K
Second Act (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Maya, a 40-year-old woman struggling with frustrations from unfulfilled dreams. Until, that is, she gets the chance to prove to Madison Avenue that street smarts are as valuable as book smarts, and that it is never too late for a Second Act.
Style: light, inspirational, feel good, sweet, uplifting ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: ambitious woman, career woman, job seeking, female protagonist, best friend, job interview, deception, businesswoman, businessman, career, new job, women ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The Devil Wears Prada is about a young journalist who moves to New York to work in the fashion industry. Her boss however is extremely demanding and cruel and won’t let her succeed if she doesn’t fit into the high class elegant look of their ...
Style: romantic, feel good, funny, romantic comedy, teen ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, family friendly, date night ...
Plot: fashion, fashion industry, women, journalism, city life, strong female character, workplace intrigue, workplace situations, journalist, career woman, designer, relationship vs career ...
Time: 2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, boston, miami ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Frankie and Johnny (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: When Johnny is released from prison following a forgery charge, he quickly lands a job as a short-order cook at a New York diner. Following a brief fling with waitress Cora, Frankie develops an attraction for Cora's friend and fellow waitress ...
Style: sentimental, touching, light, sweet, feel good ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: cafe, true love, waitress, restaurant, male female relationship, ex convict, loneliness, dating, love, love story, life philosophy, friendship ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Blonde Ambition (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A young professional woman (Simpson) unwittingly becomes the pawn of two business executives in their bid to oust the head of a mega-conglomerate.
Style: realistic, feel good, semi serious, humorous, rom com ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: couples, workplace, rise to the top, love and romance, obnoxious boss, workplace situations, love triangle, workplace romance, ambition, couple relations, fish out of water, breakup ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, oklahoma
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Born Yesterday (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A businessman shows up in Washington to lobby agendas that are friendly to his construction plans. His ditsy ex-showgirl bimbo proves to be an embarrassment in social situations, so he hires a reporter to teach her how to appear more intelligent. ...
Style: humorous, satirical, semi serious, witty, clever ...
Audience: date night
Plot: politics, farce, society, fall in love, love and romance, journalism, social differences, self discovery, teaching the ways of the world, couples, women, corruption ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Picture Perfect (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A young advertising executive's life becomes increasingly complicated when, in order to impress her boss, she pretends to be engaged to a man she has just met.
Style: romantic, feel good, sweet, light, talky ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, teens, chick flick
Plot: wedding, workplace romance, manipulation, happy ending, employer employee relationship, female protagonist, unlikely couple, dishonesty, nothing goes right, fall in love, workplace, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place: new york, usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A chaotic Bridget Jones meets a snobbish lawyer, and he soon enters her world of imperfections.
Style: feel good, sweet, romantic, light, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot: love, love triangle, love and romance, couples, love story, thirtysomething life, christmas, looking for love, opposites attract, holiday, workplace romance, happy ending ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, london, united kingdom, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Nine to Five (1980)
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, light, humorous, witty, clever ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: workplace, female protagonist, revenge, feminist, business, strong female lead, farce, satire, sexual harassment, kidnapping, fighting the system, worker ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 70s
Place: california, los angeles, usa, new york
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100%
 6.7
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You've Got Mail (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Book superstore magnate, Joe Fox and independent book shop owner, Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet – both blissfully unaware that he's putting her out of business.
Style: feel good, sweet, touching, sentimental, light ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, kids, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot: love, fall in love, bookstore, happy ending, destiny, online dating, unlikely couple, rivalry, christmas, internet, hidden identity, love story ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
For Love or Money (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: New York concierge Doug Ireland wants to go into business for himself and refurbish a hotel on Roosevelt Island, N.Y., but he needs an investor. With a few weeks left before his option on the site runs out, Doug agrees to help wealthy Christian ...
Style: entertaining, romantic, talky, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: hotel, concierge, betrayal, mistress, couple relations, love and romance, disorder, couples, dishonesty, rise to the top, infidelity, happy ending ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
Place: new york, ireland, usa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.5
 48K
One Fine Day (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father of Maggie, are both divorced. They meet one morning when overwhelmed Jack is left unexpectedly with Maggie and forgets that Melanie was to take her ...
Style: light, feel good, entertaining, romantic, romantic comedy ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, kids
Plot: single parent, opposites attract, architect, one day, couples, love, single mother, girl, love and romance, parents and children, looking for love, disorder ...
Time: year 1996, 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, usa
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36%
 6.9
 101K
A Good Year (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Failed London banker Max Skinner inherits his uncle's vineyard in Provence, where he spent many childhood holidays. Upon his arrival, he meets a woman from California who tells Max she is his long-lost cousin and that the property is hers.
Style: feel good, romantic, sentimental, inspirational, romantic comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: wine, vineyard, fall in love, countryside, character change, love story, love and romance, starting over, doubts and hesitations, workaholic, inheritance, self discovery ...
Time: year 2006, 20th century, 80s, 21st century
Place: provence, france, europe, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 5.9
 91K
Cocktail (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: After being discharged from the Army, Brian Flanagan moves back to Queens and takes a job in a bar run by Doug Coughlin, who teaches Brian the fine art of bar-tending. Brian quickly becomes a patron favorite with his flashy drink-mixing style. Brian ...
Style: sexy, entertaining, romantic comedy, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, manly, girls' night ...
Plot: bartender, ambition, betrayal, college, love and romance, love, rise to the top, business, love affair, stereotypes, love triangle, punched in the face ...
Time: 80s, year 1988, 20th century
Place: jamaica, new york, manhattan new york city, usa, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 5.8
 42K
Spread (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In Los Angeles, Nikki is homeless, car-less and closing in on 30, but he's amoral, good-looking, and adept in the sack, moving from one wealthy woman of 35 or 40 to another, a kept boy-toy. His newest gig, with Samantha, an attorney whose house ...
Style: sexy, erotic, romantic, sentimental, teen ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: womanizer, fall in love, seduction, sex, infidelity, relationships, manipulation, gigolo, party, battle of the sexes, love and romance, in love ...
Time: 20th century, year 2009
Place: california, los angeles, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
A Lot Like Love (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: On a flight from Los Angeles to New York, Oliver and Emily make a connection, only to decide that they are poorly suited to be together. Over the next seven years, however, they are reunited time and time again, they go from being acquaintances to ...
Style: romantic, romantic comedy, sweet, light, feel good ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: love story, best friends in love, love and romance, love, happy ending, friendship, bittersweet, small town, loneliness, travel, encounter, unfulfilled love ...
Time: year 2005, 20th century, 21st century
Place: new york, california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)
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, humorous, romantic comedy ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night, teens, teen drama ...
Plot: love, love story, fall in love, battle of the sexes, love and romance, couples, unlikely couple, bet, couple relations, relationships, dating, journalist ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, madison square garden manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
No Reservations (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Master chef Kate Armstrong runs her life and her kitchen with intimidating intensity. However, a recipe for disaster may be in the works when she becomes the guardian of her young niece while crossing forks with the brash sous-chef who just joined ...
Style: feel good, romantic, sentimental, sweet, uplifting ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: cooking, restaurant, chef, love, love story, cooking and food, opposites attract, fall in love, initially antagonists, guardian, love and romance, food ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: new york, italy, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
While You Were Sleeping (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A love story built on a misunderstanding. A transit worker pulls commuter Peter off the tracks after he's mugged. But while he's in a coma, his family mistakenly thinks she's Peter's fiancée, and she doesn't correct them. ...
Style: romantic, sweet, light, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night, family outing, teen drama ...
Plot: christmas, fall in love, holiday, love and romance, mistaken identity, love triangle, loneliness, love, pretend relationship, new year's eve, love affair, winter ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: chicago, illinois, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.8
 63K
Before We Go (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A woman who is robbed on her way to catch the 1:30 train to Boston is left stranded in New York City. She meets a man who helps her during the course of the night and the two form a romance.
Style: touching, romantic, sweet, light, witty ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: love and romance, chance meeting, love, stranger, hopes, love story, life philosophy, loneliness, honest, jazz musician, husband wife relationship, nothing goes right ...
Time: y2k, year 2014, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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