Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
Office Romance (2026) puts power at the center of desire: its protagonist is a CEO who has built her authority partly by keeping personal entanglement out of the workplace — a rule that collapses the moment attraction arrives in the form of someone she employs. The taste it signals is workplace-as-arena romance: stories where professional hierarchy, institutional rules, and carefully maintained composure are the very things that make longing impossible to ignore. Across film, TV, and fiction, what unites these picks is the tension between who you have to be at work and who you want to be with someone.
Office Romance is a 2026 American romantic comedy film directed by Ol Parker, written by Brett Goldstein and Joe Kelly and starring Jennifer Lopez and Goldstein.
From the Wikipedia article Office_Romance_(2026_film), available under CC BY-SA.
Series
Office Romance
Singles navigate a workplace where every task is designed to engineer attraction and manufacture connection.
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Filing for Love
An audit chief with a hidden side and a demoted colleague collide where professional stakes and personal tension overlap.
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Touch Your Heart
An actress goes undercover as a secretary to a difficult attorney, and the professional front slowly gives way.
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Buchou to Shachiku no Koi wa Modokashii
A company director and a devoted workaholic circle each other across a hierarchy neither can easily ignore.
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The Queen of Office
A supremely capable temp and a driven MBA clash across every status line the corporate ladder can draw.
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Air City
A woman falls for a man and finds herself torn between love and loyalty to a friend.
Book
CEO's Marriage Seduction
A powerful CEO pursues the boss's daughter with a calculated proposal that blurs business and desire.
Book
THE PLAYBOY'S OFFICE ROMANCE (BILLION-DOLLAR BRADDOCKS)
A new boss arrives who is the last person his employee expected — and the dynamic refuses to stay professional.
Book
CEO's expectant secretary
A CEO and his secretary are thrown together across the full weight of boardroom authority and proximity.
Book
The Marriage Risk
A secretary wants her brooding boss to see her differently — and he's already thinking the same thing.
Book
A Fashionable Affair
A woman in a precarious position turns to someone from her past, and the distance between them has closed.
Book
Business Arrangement Bride
A man at the top of his professional world realises the one thing he's missing can't be acquired alone.
Film
Office Sharing
A shared-office boss finds her professional distance complicated when two regulars compete for her attention.
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The Temptation of Office Ladies
Three women navigating careers discover that the men around them are far more flawed than they'd hoped.
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Office Lady, Confession, Flaming Romance
A love affair bounded by circumstance, brief and bittersweet, where timing overrides everything else.
Film
Erotic Diary of an Office Lady
An office worker grows restless with the narrow role society has assigned her and pushes past its limits.
Film
Romance Joe
A creative professional stuck and isolated finds unexpected connection with someone who simply shows up.
Film
Office Romance
A timid employee is pushed to charm his cold, formidable boss — and discovers she is something else entirely.
Fans of the boss-subordinate tension in Office Romance will enjoy the Korean TV series Filing for Love (2026) or Touch Your Heart (2019), which both blend workplace dynamics with slow-burn romantic chemistry.
The Queen of Office and Touch Your Heart are strong picks — both centre on sharp, capable women navigating romance with difficult male colleagues in high-stakes professional environments.
The Marriage Risk and The Playboy's Office Romance both explore forbidden attraction between an ambitious woman and her powerful boss, hitting the same forbidden-workplace-romance notes as the film.