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2024 · Movie · your starting pointIf The Apprentice is the itch, these scratch it — some louder, some quieter. Free ones first.
Movies like The Apprentice, ranked
1. Suits (2011)
The mentorship dynamic between a sharp operative and an ambitious protégé—one teaching ruthless pragmatism while the other absorbs lessons in power and deception—drives both narratives through morally gray New York power structures.
2. The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
Meryl Streep's ice-cold mentor figure mirrors the ruthless attorney who molds an ambitious protégé through psychological dominance, using wit and calculated cruelty to teach the brutal logic of power in a cutthroat New York industry.
3. The Abe Lincoln Of Ninth Avenue (1939)
Jimmy's ascent through New York's cutthroat streets mirrors the protagonist's ruthless apprenticeship, both tracing how ambition and moral compromise reshape a young man's character in the city's unforgiving landscape.
4. The Audacity (2026)
Ali Abbasi's eye for mentorship dynamics and moral compromise returns in this sharp examination of how unchecked ambition reshapes ambitious men into something harder and more corrosive.
5. Wall Street (1987)
A young protégé's ruthless education under a morally flexible mentor unfolds through the same lens of ambition, moral compromise, and the seductive allure of power in 1980s Manhattan finance.
6. Air (2023)
Nike's scrappy underdog ambition mirrors the protagonist's relentless drive to prove himself in a competitive arena where mentorship from a visionary strategist becomes the key to transforming an untested asset into a dynasty.
7. The Producer (2026)
This music industry drama captures the same mentorship-through-friction dynamic, where an ambitious protégé clashes with a demanding authority figure who teaches ruthless tactics and forces him to abandon naivety to survive in a cutthroat world.
8. The Practice (1997)
The Practice's stripped-down Boston firm explores the same moral compromises and cutthroat mentorship dynamic, following ambitious young lawyers who learn to bend ethics under pressure from seasoned operators chasing power.
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