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Movies Like Body Works

If you liked Body Works (2026), a movie directed by Maki Makilan, 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. 1Sweet November

    Sweet November (2001)

    ★ 6.9/10

    Nelson is a man devoted to his advertising career in San Francisco. One day, while taking a driving test at the DMV, he meets Sara. She is very different from the other women in his life. Nelson causes her to miss out…

  2. 2Love by Chance

    Love by Chance (2016)

    ★ 5.9/10

    Claire, an ambitious pastry chef, is busy running her new restaurant, but her meddling mom is preoccupied with her lack of love life. Without her knowledge, Claire’s mother finds her the perfect man, but when Claire…

  3. 3White 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…

  4. 4The Lonely Guy

    The Lonely Guy (1984)

    ★ 6.2/10

    A writer for a greeting card company learns the true meaning of loneliness when he comes home to find his girlfriend in bed with another man.

  5. 5Poor Cow

    Poor Cow (1967)

    ★ 6.4/10

    Joy lives a life filled with bad choices. At a young age, she marries and has a child–with an abusive thief who quickly ends up incarcerated. Left alone, she takes up with the guy's mate, another thief, who seems to…

  6. 6Someone Like You...

    Someone Like You... (2001)

    ★ 6/10

    Jane Goodale has everything going for her. She's a producer on a popular daytime talk show, and is in a hot romance with the show's dashing executive producer Ray. But when the relationship goes terribly awry, Jane…

  7. 7The Roses

    The Roses (2025)

    ★ 6.6/10

    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…

  8. 8The Hating Game

    The Hating Game (2021)

    ★ 7.3/10

    Resolving to achieve professional success without compromising her ethics, Lucy embarks on a ruthless game of one-upmanship against cold and efficient nemesis Joshua, a rivalry that is complicated by her growing…

  9. 9Stanley & Iris

    Stanley & Iris (1990)

    ★ 6.5/10

    An illiterate cook at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman. As they get to know one another, she discovers his inability to read. When he is fired, she takes on trying to teach him to…

  10. 10Dying Young

    Dying Young (1991)

    ★ 6.7/10

    After she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her, Hilary O'Neil is looking for a new start and a new job. She begins to work as a private nurse for a young man suffering from blood cancer. Slowly, they fall in…

  11. 11The Wrong Paris

    The Wrong Paris (2025)

    ★ 6.7/10

    Dawn thinks she's joining a dating show in Paris, France, only to land in Paris, Texas. She has an exit plan — until sparks fly with the cowboy bachelor.

  12. 12Pretty Woman

    Pretty Woman (1990)

    ★ 7.4/10

    Vivian is a carefree, streetwise diamond in the rough when she meets sophisticated billionaire Edward in a chance encounter that turns into a week-long business arrangement. But Vivian's energetic spirit challenges…

  13. 13Set It Up

    Set It Up (2018)

    ★ 6.9/10

    Two overworked and underpaid assistants come up with a plan to get their bosses off their backs by setting them up with each other.

  14. 14Elevator Girl

    Elevator Girl (2010)

    ★ 6/10

    A smart, uptight attorney and a disorganized yet passionate and creative woman meet in a stuck elevator, and sparks ignite instantly. Will opposites attract, or are they simply passing time before getting off on…

  15. 15City Girl

    City Girl (1930)

    ★ 7.5/10

    A waitress from Chicago falls in love with a man from rural Minnesota and marries him, with the intent of living a better life - but life on the farm has its own challenges.

  16. 16Good Luck to You, Leo Grande

    Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022)

    ★ 7/10

    Nancy Stokes, a retired schoolteacher, is pretty sure she has never had good sex. Now that her husband has died, she is determined to take a tour of sexual vistas that until now she has only imagined. She even has a…

  17. 17A Summer Place

    A Summer Place (1959)

    ★ 6.6/10

    A self-made businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children begin a romance of their own with drastic consequences for both couples.

  18. 18The Man from Elysian Fields

    The Man from Elysian Fields (2001)

    ★ 5.9/10

    A failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work at an escort service, where he becomes entwined with a wealthy woman whose husband is a successful writer.

  19. 19Your Fault: London

    Your Fault: London (2026)

    ★ 7.4/10

    Nick and Noah are both embarking on life-changing adventures that are threatening to pull them apart—Nick in business with his father and Noah starting a fresh chapter at Oxford University. Now living separate lives…

  20. 20Ruth & Boaz

    Ruth & Boaz (2025)

    ★ 7.4/10

    A talented singer leaves the Atlanta music scene and starts over in small-town Tennessee, where she finds love and new purpose but can't escape the past.

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