Jennifer Lopez has officially reclaimed her rom-com crown. Office Romance, her new R-rated Netflix comedy directed by Ol Parker (Mamma Mia!
Here We Go Again), landed on the platform on 5 June 2026 and shot straight to No. 1 in 65 territories within 24 hours.
Written by Ted Lasso actor Brett Goldstein and Joe Kelly, the film stars JLo as Jackie Cruz - a perfectionist airline CEO whose company runs a strict anti-fraternisation policy - and Goldstein as Daniel Blanchflower, the sharp new in-house lawyer she is absolutely not supposed to fall for.
The supporting cast includes Betty Gilpin, Jodie Whittaker, Tony Hale, Bradley Whitford, and Edward James Olmos, who reunites with Lopez on screen as her on-screen father for the first time in 30 years.
If you've already finished it and need somewhere to go next, these five recent workplace romance films, all available on major streaming platforms right now, are exactly where to start.
Written by Ted Lasso actor Brett Goldstein and Joe Kelly, the film stars JLo as Jackie Cruz - a perfectionist airline CEO whose company runs a strict anti-fraternisation policy - and Goldstein as Daniel Blanchflower, the sharp new in-house lawyer she is absolutely not supposed to fall for.
The supporting cast includes Betty Gilpin, Jodie Whittaker, Tony Hale, Bradley Whitford, and Edward James Olmos, who reunites with Lopez on screen as her on-screen father for the first time in 30 years.
If you've already finished it and need somewhere to go next, these five recent workplace romance films, all available on major streaming platforms right now, are exactly where to start.
1. Jerry Maguire (1996)
Director: Cameron Crowe Cast: Tom Cruise, Renée Zellweger, Cuba Gooding Jr., Kelly Preston, Bonnie Hunt, Regina King, Jonathan Lipnicki. Released: 13 December 1996
The one that belongs on every list is ever left off. Cameron Crowe's sports romantic comedy-drama is not strictly an office romance in the conventional sense but the relationship at its core is entirely born out of professional crisis and professional loyalty, which makes it the most emotionally honest workplace love story ever put to screen.
Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) is a hotshot sports agent at a major firm who has a late-night crisis of conscience, writes a 25-page mission statement titled The Things We Think and Do Not Say advocating for fewer clients and more genuine care, and is promptly fired for it. When he walks out, only one person in the entire office follows him- Dorothy Boyd (Renée Zellweger), a single mother who was moved enough by his manifesto to bet her career on it. Together, they build a new agency from scratch with a single volatile client, Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr., in his Oscar-winning role). The romance between Jerry and Dorothy grows slowly and messily from that professional foundation - rooted in mutual respect, shared stakes, and the particular intimacy of two people building something together against the odds.
The one that belongs on every list is ever left off. Cameron Crowe's sports romantic comedy-drama is not strictly an office romance in the conventional sense but the relationship at its core is entirely born out of professional crisis and professional loyalty, which makes it the most emotionally honest workplace love story ever put to screen.
Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) is a hotshot sports agent at a major firm who has a late-night crisis of conscience, writes a 25-page mission statement titled The Things We Think and Do Not Say advocating for fewer clients and more genuine care, and is promptly fired for it. When he walks out, only one person in the entire office follows him- Dorothy Boyd (Renée Zellweger), a single mother who was moved enough by his manifesto to bet her career on it. Together, they build a new agency from scratch with a single volatile client, Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr., in his Oscar-winning role). The romance between Jerry and Dorothy grows slowly and messily from that professional foundation - rooted in mutual respect, shared stakes, and the particular intimacy of two people building something together against the odds.
Where to Watch: Streaming on Netflix. Also available to rent on Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV.
2. The Hating Game (2021)
Director: Peter Hutchings Cast: Lucy Hale, Austin Stowell, Corbin Bernsen. Released: 10 December 2021
If you liked the enemies-to-lovers tension in Office Romance, this is its most direct equivalent. Based on Sally Thorne's beloved 2016 novel, The Hating Game follows Lucy Hutton (Lucy Hale, Pretty Little Liars) and Joshua Templeman (Austin Stowell), executive assistants to the co-CEOs of a merged publishing house, who have turned professional rivalry into a competitive sport.
They sit across from each other every day, mirror each other's movements to irritate one another, and are competing for the same promotion - all while the audience can see, long before they can, exactly where this is heading. The film knows the tropes it is working with and leans into them without apology. Hale is particularly strong - funny, brittle and disarmingly real.
Where to Watch: Streaming on Netflix. Also available on Prime Video and Hulu.
If you liked the enemies-to-lovers tension in Office Romance, this is its most direct equivalent. Based on Sally Thorne's beloved 2016 novel, The Hating Game follows Lucy Hutton (Lucy Hale, Pretty Little Liars) and Joshua Templeman (Austin Stowell), executive assistants to the co-CEOs of a merged publishing house, who have turned professional rivalry into a competitive sport.
They sit across from each other every day, mirror each other's movements to irritate one another, and are competing for the same promotion - all while the audience can see, long before they can, exactly where this is heading. The film knows the tropes it is working with and leans into them without apology. Hale is particularly strong - funny, brittle and disarmingly real.
Where to Watch: Streaming on Netflix. Also available on Prime Video and Hulu.
3. Set It Up (2018)
Director: Claire Scanlon Cast: Zoey Deutch, Glen Powell, Lucy Liu, Taye Diggs, Pete Davidson. Released: 15 June 2018
The Netflix original rom-com that proved the streaming giant could produce the real thing and one that still holds up eight years on. Glen Powell and Zoey Deutch star as Charlie and Harper, two chronically overworked assistants in New York City whose bosses (Lucy Liu and Taye Diggs) treat them like personal property. Desperate for a night off, the pair hatch a plan to engineer a romance between their respective bosses - the logic being that two people in love spend less time terrorising their staff.
While playing cupid for their nightmare superiors, Charlie and Harper are, of course, completely failing to notice the obvious. Written by Katie Silberman (
The Netflix original rom-com that proved the streaming giant could produce the real thing and one that still holds up eight years on. Glen Powell and Zoey Deutch star as Charlie and Harper, two chronically overworked assistants in New York City whose bosses (Lucy Liu and Taye Diggs) treat them like personal property. Desperate for a night off, the pair hatch a plan to engineer a romance between their respective bosses - the logic being that two people in love spend less time terrorising their staff.
While playing cupid for their nightmare superiors, Charlie and Harper are, of course, completely failing to notice the obvious. Written by Katie Silberman (
Where to Watch: Streaming on Netflix in the US and Canada.
4. I Want You Back (2022)
Director: Jason Orley Cast: Charlie Day, Jenny Slate, Gina Rodriguez, Scott Eastwood, Manny Jacinto. Released: 11 February 2022
Not a conventional office romance in the strictest sense but one of the funniest and most underrated romantic comedies in recent memory, and it does begin in the stairwell of an Atlanta office block where two strangers realise they have just been dumped on the same day. Peter (Charlie Day, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) works as a VP at a retirement home firm. Emma (Jenny Slate) is a dental office receptionist. Both are quietly spiralling.
When they discover their exes have already moved on to new relationships, they concoct an elaborate scheme to sabotage the competition - each infiltrating the other's ex's life in increasingly chaotic fashion. Written by Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger (This Is Us), the film is funnier than most of the rom-coms that arrived around it and carries a genuine emotional warmth beneath the mayhem.
Where to Watch: Streaming on Amazon Prime Video in the US and Canada.
Not a conventional office romance in the strictest sense but one of the funniest and most underrated romantic comedies in recent memory, and it does begin in the stairwell of an Atlanta office block where two strangers realise they have just been dumped on the same day. Peter (Charlie Day, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) works as a VP at a retirement home firm. Emma (Jenny Slate) is a dental office receptionist. Both are quietly spiralling.
When they discover their exes have already moved on to new relationships, they concoct an elaborate scheme to sabotage the competition - each infiltrating the other's ex's life in increasingly chaotic fashion. Written by Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger (This Is Us), the film is funnier than most of the rom-coms that arrived around it and carries a genuine emotional warmth beneath the mayhem.
Where to Watch: Streaming on Amazon Prime Video in the US and Canada.
5. The Proposal (2009)
Director: Anne Fletcher Cast: Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds, Betty White, Mary Steenburgen, Craig T. Nelson. Released: 19 June 2009
A relentlessly rewatchable movie that leaving it off any workplace romance list feels like a professional offence. The setup is deceptively simple and almost identical in its power dynamics to Office Romance: Margaret Tate (Sandra Bullock) is a Canadian editor-in-chief at a major New York publishing house, feared by every person on her floor, who discovers her visa has expired and she is about to be deported back to Canada. Her solution- coercing her long-suffering assistant Andrew Paxton (Ryan Reynolds) into a fake engagement or face losing his job - is ethically indefensible and comedically perfect.
To convince a suspicious immigration officer, the pair are forced to travel to Andrew's family home in Sitka, Alaska, where his mother (Mary Steenburgen), father (Craig T. Nelson), and the scene-stealing Grandma Annie (Betty White) are waiting. Bullock received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy for the role. Over 15 years on, it has been sitting in Hulu's US Top 15 for months at a stretch.
Where to Watch: Streaming on Netflix and fuboTV. Also available to rent or buy on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Google Play, and Fandango at Home.
The rom-com is back, and Office Romance is only the latest proof. JLo's return to the genre has already translated into a global No. 1, and with her Nuyorican Productions slate continuing to grow, another project in this space seems more likely than not.
A relentlessly rewatchable movie that leaving it off any workplace romance list feels like a professional offence. The setup is deceptively simple and almost identical in its power dynamics to Office Romance: Margaret Tate (Sandra Bullock) is a Canadian editor-in-chief at a major New York publishing house, feared by every person on her floor, who discovers her visa has expired and she is about to be deported back to Canada. Her solution- coercing her long-suffering assistant Andrew Paxton (Ryan Reynolds) into a fake engagement or face losing his job - is ethically indefensible and comedically perfect.
To convince a suspicious immigration officer, the pair are forced to travel to Andrew's family home in Sitka, Alaska, where his mother (Mary Steenburgen), father (Craig T. Nelson), and the scene-stealing Grandma Annie (Betty White) are waiting. Bullock received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy for the role. Over 15 years on, it has been sitting in Hulu's US Top 15 for months at a stretch.
Where to Watch: Streaming on Netflix and fuboTV. Also available to rent or buy on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Google Play, and Fandango at Home.
The rom-com is back, and Office Romance is only the latest proof. JLo's return to the genre has already translated into a global No. 1, and with her Nuyorican Productions slate continuing to grow, another project in this space seems more likely than not.