Three Netflix movies to binge while you wait for ‘Office Romance’
Jennifer Lopez returning to rom-coms in 2026? Oh, we are so back, people. When Netflix announced Office Romance, all of us knew what the platform was trying to do. Honestly, we do need that 2000s rom-com energy because that’s the only thing that can heal people now. Jennifer Lopez and Brett Goldstein in a workplace romance together? Hell yeah! That office is about to become the least productive place on earth, and we are sat.
The film follows Jackie Cruz, a powerful CEO with one very strict company rule: absolutely no dating at work. Which… babe. Come on now. So far, we have all known that the moment a rom-com character says that out loud, everybody already knows disaster is coming. Sure enough, Jackie starts getting close to the company’s new lawyer, and suddenly professionalism vanishes in thin air.
And honestly? Jennifer Lopez belongs in rom-coms. She just does. The early 2000s basically turned her into the queen of glamorous relationship dramas after films such as Maid in Manhattan and The Wedding Planner became massive fan favourites. Then Netflix randomly had her fighting assassins in The Mother and AI robots in Atlas, which still feels slightly insane when you think about it for too long.
So while waiting for Office Romance to finally arrive next month, Netflix already has a few films carrying that exact same office rom-com energy. Fake dating? Workplace flirting? You’ve got it all. Oh, these three films are absolutely about to keep the Office Romance obsession going.
Three Netflix movies to binge while you wait for Office Romance
Set It Up (Claire Scanlon, 2018)
Oh come on, we all knew Set It Up was going to be the first movie on this list because Netflix absolutely cooked with this rom-com. Workplace romance fans genuinely treat this film like the Holy Bible, and fair enough too, because the chemistry here? Oof. Dangerous levels of charming. It’s the story of Harper (Zoey Deutch) and Charlie (Glen Powell), two completely exhausted assistants working for nightmare bosses in New York City. Harper works under intense sports journalist Kirsten (Lucy Liu), while Charlie spends his days trying to survive businessman Rick (Taye Diggs).
After bonding over how miserable their work lives have become, the pair come up with a genius little plan to set their bosses up together so they can finally get free time back in their lives. Tiny problem though: while planning dates and manipulating situations for the bosses, they accidentally start falling for each other instead. Absolute rom-com nonsense, but that’s what we are here for. And yes, everybody has probably already watched Set It Up at least five times by now, but please treat this as official permission to stream it again before Office Romance arrives.
Love Guaranteed (Mark Steven Johnson, 2020)
Dating apps already cause enough problems in real life, so naturally, they’ll increase it a notch in rom-coms. Love Guaranteed is exactly that. We have Susan (Rachael Leigh Cook), who’s a lawyer struggling to keep her small law firm running when Nick (Damon Wayans Jr.) arrives with the most ridiculous lawsuit imaginable. Nick wants to sue a dating platform called “Love Guaranteed” after going on hundreds of dates without finding love despite the company building its entire reputation around promising romantic success. Which, fair enough, already sounds embarrassing enough to explain in court.
As Susan and Nick begin working together on the case, things become awkward between them because the pair clearly stop acting like people with a strictly professional relationship. When it was released on Netflix in 2020, it instantly became a comfort-watch, especially for viewers who grew up obsessed with Rachael Leigh Cook rom-coms in the early 2000s. If Office Romance ends up carrying workplace chemistry with romance, do know that Love Guaranteed did it years ago.
The Hating Game (Peter Hutchings, 2021)
The closest any film on this list gets to Office Romance is probably The Hating Game because workplace tension is basically the entire premise of this movie. The film stars Lucy Hale as Lucy Hutton and Austin Stowell as Joshua Templeman, two coworkers forced to work side by side after their publishing companies merge. Tiny issue, though: the two of them absolutely cannot stand each other. Or at least that’s what they keep trying to convince everybody around them.
Things become even messier once Lucy and Joshua start competing for the same promotion. Before you know it, there is a crazy sexual tension and passive-aggressive flirting which is too hot to handle. Then one unexpected kiss completely changes the situation, and the emotional confusion starts getting very obvious very quickly. The film is based on Sally Thorne’s bestselling romance novel, which already had a huge fanbase before the adaptation was released in 2021.