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10 Best Movies Like The Back-Up Plan

If you loved The Back-Up Plan, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Bordertown

Bordertown

2007★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Back-Up Plan for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

American corporations are using the North American Free Trade Agreement by opening large maquiladoras right across the United States–Mexico border. The maquiladoras hire mostly Mex...

#2
Monster-in-Law

Monster-in-Law

2005★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Back-Up Plan for fans of Comedy & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Office temp Charlotte Cantilini thinks she's found Mr. Right when she starts dating gorgeous surgeon Dr. Kevin Fields. But there's a problem standing in the way of everlasting blis...

#3
Beauty & the Briefcase

Beauty & the Briefcase

2010★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Back-Up Plan for fans of Comedy & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A freelance writer looking for romance sells a story to Cosmopolitan magazine about finding love in the workplace and goes undercover at a Finance Company....

#4
Shall We Dance?

Shall We Dance?

2004★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Back-Up Plan for fans of Comedy & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A bored estate lawyer spots a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing lessons to be near her, and then over time discovers how m...

#5
An Unfinished Life

An Unfinished Life

2005★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Back-Up Plan for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Stoic and heartbroken, Einar Gilkyson quietly lives in the rugged Wyoming ranchlands alongside his only trusted friend, Mitch Bradley. One day, the woman he blames for the death of...

#6
What to Expect When You're Expecting

What to Expect When You're Expecting

2012★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Back-Up Plan for fans of Comedy & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Challenges of impending parenthood turn the lives of five couples upside down. Two celebrities are unprepared for the surprise demands of pregnancy; hormones wreak havoc on a baby-...