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10 Best Movies Like The Word

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

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#1
Overboard

Overboard

2018★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Word for fans of Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A spoiled, wealthy yacht owner is thrown overboard and becomes the target of revenge from his mistreated employee....

#2
Fun with Dick and Jane

Fun with Dick and Jane

2005★ 6.2

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

After Dick Harper loses his job at Globodyne in an Enron-esque collapse, he and his wife, Jane, turn to crime in order to handle the massive debt they now face. Two intelligent peo...

#3
Two Weeks Notice

Two Weeks Notice

2002★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Word for fans of Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Dedicated environmental lawyer Lucy Kelson goes to work for billionaire George Wade as part of a deal to preserve a community center. Indecisive and weak-willed George grows depend...

#4
Shepherds and Butchers

Shepherds and Butchers

2017★ 6.3

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

A lawyer takes on a case of a prison guard in South Africa who is traumatized by the executions he's witnessed....

#5
Lawman

Lawman

1971★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Word for fans of Western. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken cattlemen go overboard with their celebrating and accidentally kill an old man with a stray shot. They return home to ...

#6
Marshall

Marshall

2017★ 7.3

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

Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, battles through one of his career-defining cases....

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