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Movies Like Un vrai job

If you liked Un vrai job (2017), a movie directed by Maryam Khakipour, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Working Girl

    Working Girl (1988)

    ★ 6.6/10

    When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she takes a risky chance to reclaim it by impersonating him and running the project from his position.

  2. 2Pope Joan

    Pope Joan (2009)

    ★ 6.8/10

    A 9th century woman of English extraction born in the German city of Ingelheim disguises herself as a man and rises through the Vatican ranks.

  3. 3Far from the Madding Crowd

    Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)

    ★ 6.9/10

    Bathsheba Everdine, a willful and flirtatious young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and becomes romantically involved with three widely divergent men.

  4. 4Safe Haven

    Safe Haven (2013)

    ★ 7.2/10

    A young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her.

  5. 5The Words

    The Words (2012)

    ★ 6.7/10

    The Words follows young writer Rory Jansen who finally achieves long sought after literary success after publishing the next great American novel. There's only one catch - he didn't write it. As the past comes back to…

  6. 6La Cérémonie

    La Cérémonie (1995)

    ★ 7.3/10

    Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for an upper-class French family, finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who encourages her to stand up against her bourgeois employers.

  7. 7The Rules of the Game

    The Rules of the Game (1939)

    ★ 7.5/10

    The Marquis de la Chesnaye and his wife host a weekend gala where a variety of complicated romantic and social entanglements between guests and servants lead to tragedy, all against the backdrop of a looming war.

  8. 8The Good Neighbor

    The Good Neighbor (2022)

    ★ 6.7/10

    A nightmarish evening unfolds for neighbors David and Robert when they accidentally hit a woman on her bike and flee the scene. While David is increasingly plagued by feelings of guilt, Robert shows no remorse and…

  9. 9Chaos

    Chaos (2001)

    ★ 6.4/10

    A bourgeois couple, modern yet conventional. One night by accident, a young prostitute barges into their lives. Hounded down, beaten up, threatened, she will continue to struggle, with the help of a well off lady…

  10. 10How to Please a Woman

    How to Please a Woman (2022)

    ★ 6.3/10

    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.

  11. 11Overboard

    Overboard (1987)

    ★ 6.9/10

    Heiress Joanna Stayton hires carpenter Dean Proffitt to build a closet on her yacht—and refuses to pay him for the project when it's done. But after Joanna accidentally falls overboard and loses her memory, Dean sees…

  12. 12Yoh! Bestie

    Yoh! Bestie (2026)

    ★ 6.2/10

    Thando is perpetually unlucky in love, but when her bestie returns from his travels with a fiancée in tow, she's forced to face a new emotion — jealousy.

  13. 13Eleanor the Great

    Eleanor the Great (2025)

    ★ 6.8/10

    94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.

  14. 14White Palace

    White Palace (1990)

    ★ 6.7/10

    Max Baron is a Jewish advertising executive in his 20s who's still getting over the death of his wife. Nora Baker is a 40-something diner waitress who enjoys the wilder side of life. Mismatched or not, their attraction…

  15. 15My Little Princess

    My Little Princess (2011)

    ★ 6.5/10

    Young Violetta and her mother Hannah are a peculiar couple. Ten-year-old Violetta lives a quiet life with her grandmother, while her mother Hannah is an unpredictable photographer who lives off of the generosity of…

  16. 16This Is Our Land

    This Is Our Land (2017)

    ★ 5.9/10

    Pauline, a devoted and generous home help nurse, raises her two children alone, while also looking after her father, a former steelworker. Taking advantage of her popularity, the directors of an extremist political…

  17. 17An Autumn Romance

    An Autumn Romance (2021)

    ★ 7/10

    When librarian Taylor Harris suddenly loses her job, she decides to visit her brother in a small town in Montana. There, she gets involved in the fight to help save her brother's hotel from tycoon Joel Sheenan, who…

  18. 18Little

    Little (2019)

    ★ 6.8/10

    Jordan Sanders, a take-no-prisoners tech mogul, wakes up one morning in the body of her 13-year-old self right before a do-or-die presentation. Her beleaguered assistant April is the only one in on the secret that her…

  19. 19The Girl in the Book

    The Girl in the Book (2015)

    ★ 5.8/10

    The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.

  20. 20Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud

    Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud (1995)

    ★ 7/10

    Nelly leaves her lazy, unemployed husband to work for retired judge Mr Arnaud, forty years her senior, after he offers to clear her bills for her. While she types his memoirs the two develop a close friendship, but…

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