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10 Best Movies Like By Design

If you loved By Design, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Back-Up Plan

The Back-Up Plan

2010★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to By Design for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

When Zoe tires of looking for Mr. Right, she decides to have a baby on her own. But on the day she's artificially inseminated, she meets Stan, who seems to be just who she's been s...

#2
The Kids Are All Right

The Kids Are All Right

2010★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to By Design for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Two women, Nic and Jules, brought a son and daughter into the world through artificial insemination. When one of their children reaches age, both kids go behind their mothers' back...

#3
Babes

Babes

2024★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to By Design for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

After getting pregnant from a one-night stand, a single woman leans on her married best friend and mother of two to guide her through gestation and beyond....

#4
Ali Wong: Baby Cobra

Ali Wong: Baby Cobra

2016★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to By Design for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Ali Wong might be seven-months pregnant, but there’s not a fetus in the world that can stop this acerbic and savage train of comedy from delivering a masterful hour of stand-up....

#5
The Pod Generation

The Pod Generation

2023★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to By Design for fans of Sci-Fi. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

In a not-so-distant future, couples can share pregnancy on a more equal footing via detachable artificial wombs. While botanist Alvy has doubts about this new way of birthing babie...

#6
Look Who's Talking

Look Who's Talking

1989★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to By Design for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

After a single, career-minded woman is left on her own to give birth to the child of a married man, she finds a new romantic chance in a cab driver. Meanwhile, the point-of-view of...

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