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10 Best Movies Like The Ambitious One

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

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#1
Paris 36

Paris 36

2008★ 6.1

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

A star is born in a time of both celebration and instability in this historical drama with music from director Christophe Barratier. In the spring of 1936, Paris is in a state of u...

#2
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

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

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....

#3
The Sower

The Sower

2017★ 6.0

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

In 1852, the mountain village in Provence where Violette lives is brutally deprived of all its men after the repression of the republicans ordered by Napoleon III. Women spend mont...

#4
Street Flow 2

Street Flow 2

2023★ 6.1

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

Struggling to overcome cycles of betrayal, revenge and violence, the Traoré brothers continue to fight for a brighter future in a seedy Paris suburb....

#5
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

1996★ 7.2

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

A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act and devot...

#6
The Kick of Sirocco

The Kick of Sirocco

1979★ 6.0

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

A shady Parisian tries to take advantage of a family of French-descended Algerians forced to move to France....

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