Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 11, 2026

10 Best Movies Like The Apprentice

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

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#1
About Dry Grasses

About Dry Grasses

2023★ 7.7

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

A young art teacher hopes to be transferred to Istanbul after completing his mandatory duty in a remote village school in Anatolia. After accusations of inappropriate contact with ...

#2
Hands of Stone

Hands of Stone

2016★ 6.6

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

The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives....

#3
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

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

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of gettin...

#4
Sergio

Sergio

2020★ 6.6

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

A sweeping drama set in the chaotic aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq, where the life of top UN diplomat Brazilian Sérgio Vieira de Mello hangs in the balance during the most tr...

#5
Reading Lolita in Tehran

Reading Lolita in Tehran

2024★ 7.2

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

As Islamic morality squads stage arbitrary raids in Tehran and as fundamentalists seize hold of the universities, Azar Nafisi, an inspired teacher, secretly gathers six of her most...

#6
Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014★ 6.5

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

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site ...

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