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10 Best Movies Like Whatever Works

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

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#1
Prime

Prime

2005★ 6.0

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

A career driven professional from Manhattan is wooed by a young painter, who also happens to be the son of her psychoanalyst....

#2
Serendipity

Serendipity

2001★ 7.0

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

Although strangers Sara and Jonathan are both already in relationships, they realize they have genuine chemistry after a chance encounter – but part company soon after. Years later...

#3
How to Be Single

How to Be Single

2016★ 6.3

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

New York City is full of lonely hearts seeking the right match, and what Alice, Robin, Lucy, Meg, Tom and David all have in common is the need to learn how to be single in a world ...

#4
Carrie Pilby

Carrie Pilby

2017★ 6.8

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

Awkward, isolated and disapproving of most of the people around her, a precocious 19-year-old genius is challenged to put her convictions to the test by venturing out on to the NYC...

#5
Love at First Sight

Love at First Sight

2023★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Whatever Works for fans of Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Hadley and Oliver begin falling in love on a flight from New York to London, but when they lose each other at customs, can they defy all odds to reunite?...

#6
Everyone Says I Love You

Everyone Says I Love You

1996★ 6.5

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

A New York girl sets her father up with a beautiful woman in a shaky marriage while her half sister gets engaged....

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