Can’t Get Enough of The Devil Wears Prada 2? Try These 10 Picks

If you loved The Devil Wears Prada 2, you’re craving sharp workplace dynamics, formidable women, and that intoxicating blend of comedy and drama. These ten films deliver power struggles, style, and ambition in equal measure.

I’ve watched Miranda Priestly wield a steely glare across two decades now, and I honestly didn’t think we needed a sequel. Then David Frankel pulled the original cast back together — Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci — and suddenly I’m seated in a theater at 10 AM on a Tuesday, completely invested in what happens when the fashion world’s most terrifying editor faces down a media landscape that’s left print behind. The 119-minute runtime vanished. I left wanting more of that specific cocktail: cutthroat industries, women navigating impossible power structures, and the kind of dialogue that lands like a well-placed stiletto.

Why Fans Love The Devil Wears Prada 2

What makes this sequel work isn’t nostalgia — though seeing Andy walk back into the Runway offices stirred something in me I wasn’t prepared for. It’s the way the film updates its own thesis. The 2006 original asked whether you could survive Miranda’s orbit without losing yourself. The sequel, with its tagline “Icons reign forever,” asks what happens when the orbit itself is crumbling. Miranda isn’t just fighting for creative control anymore; she’s fighting for survival in an industry that’s moved online while she was busy perfecting the September issue.

Emily Charlton’s return as the head of a luxury brand — the very brand that could bankroll Runway’s future — is a masterful bit of character evolution. She’s no longer the frazzled first assistant eating carbs off a napkin. She’s the person holding the purse strings. That reversal crackles with tension every time Blunt and Streep share the frame. Stanley Tucci’s Nigel remains the emotional anchor, and Justin Theroux’s Benji Barnes adds a new wrinkle I won’t spoil here.

People are drawn to this franchise for the same reason they rewatch Succession: the thrill of watching deeply flawed people maneuver within systems that reward ruthlessness. But there’s also genuine warmth buried under all that Chanel. Andy’s arc — returning to a world she once fled — taps into something universal about reconciling who you were with who you’ve become. At a 6.8 on TMDb, it’s not the critical darling the first film was, but the audience score tells a different story. People like this movie. So do I, even if the third act rushes toward a resolution that feels a touch too tidy.

10 Movies That Capture the Same Magic

1. The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

Start with the obvious — because if you jumped straight into the sequel, you owe yourself the original. Frankel’s first film remains the gold standard for workplace comedies about losing your soul to a glamorous industry. Streep’s Miranda is colder here, more terrifying, and the transformation of Hathaway’s Andy from skeptical outsider to mirror-image insider still lands with genuine discomfort. The Paris sequence alone is worth the rewatch.

2. Working Girl (1988)

Before there was Andy Sachs, there was Tess McGill. Mike Nichols’ film is the DNA from which the entire “ambitious woman versus impossible boss” genre was built. Melanie Griffith plays a secretary who refuses to stay in her lane, and Sigourney Weaver delivers one of cinema’s great corporate villains — manipulative, charming, and utterly ruthless. The Staten Island ferry opening remains one of the best character introductions in American cinema. If Miranda Priestly had a predecessor in film history, it’s Weaver’s Katharine Parker.

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3. The Intern (2015)

Nancy Meyers handed Anne Hathaway the reins this time, casting her as the boss rather than the assistant. Hathaway plays Jules Ostin, the founder of a fashion e-commerce startup whose life gets disrupted — and enriched — by Robert De Niro’s retired widower intern. It’s gentler than what you just watched, more Meiersian in its obsession with gorgeous kitchens and emotional reconciliation. But the dynamic between a woman running an empire and the systems that try to take it from her? That resonates with the same frequency.

4. Morning Glory (2010)

Rachel McAdams plays a plucky morning show producer squaring off against Harrison Ford’s embittered veteran anchor and Diane Keaton’s long-serving co-host. Roger Michell directed this, and it shares a screenplay with the original Prada — Aline Brosh McKenna wrote both. The DNA is unmistakable: an optimistic outsider enters a cynical professional world, clashes with a formidable figure, and ultimately earns respect without fully compromising themselves. The breakfast scene between McAdams and Ford is prickly perfection.

5. Bombshell (2019)

Charlize Theron’s transformation into Megyn Kelly is unsettling in its precision, but the film’s real power lies in its depiction of women navigating a workplace designed to destroy them. The parallels to Miranda’s Runway are structural — both feature women who’ve achieved power within systems that remain hostile to them, and both ask uncomfortable questions about complicity. Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie round out the ensemble. Jay Roach’s direction is leaner than you’d expect from the guy who made Austin Powers. This one’s heavier than Prada, but the thematic overlap is undeniable.

6. How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)

Simon Pegg plays a British journalist who infiltrates a glossy New York magazine, only to discover that the glamorous world he worshipped from afar is rotten with pretension and power games. Megan Fox, Kirsten Dunst, and Jeff Bridges fill out the supporting cast. Robert B. Weide’s film isn’t as sharp as it thinks it is — the satire occasionally blunts itself — but it captures the absurdity of elite media culture with a messy energy I find endearing. If you enjoyed the industry-insider vibe of the Prada sequel, this scratches a similar itch with more cynicism and less couture.

7. Crazy Rich Asians (2018)

Jon M. Chu’s romantic comedy-drama operates in a different register — it’s warmer, more romantic, and far more visually extravagant — but the core appeal overlaps: an outsider enters an impossibly wealthy, insular world and must prove they belong without erasing who they are. Constance Wu’s Rachel Chu faces down Eleanor Young (Michelle Yeoh), a matriarch whose disapproval carries the weight of generations. Yeoh plays her with the same quiet menace Streep brings to Miranda — the threat isn’t volume, it’s certainty. Plus, the fashion is genuinely spectacular.

8. Ocean’s 8 (2018)

Gary Ross assembled a heist movie built around women who understand that style isn’t superficial — it’s strategy. Sandra Bullock’s Debbie Ocean spends the film orchestrating a Met Gala robbery, and the fashion-industry setting means the costumes and production design operate as narrative tools, not just eye candy. Cate Blanchett serves major Miranda energy as Lou, the effortlessly cool partner who runs their front business. It’s a caper, not a workplace drama, but the underlying theme — women executing a plan with meticulous precision in a world that underestimates them — feels cut from adjacent cloth.

9. The September Issue (2009)

R.J. Cutler’s documentary follows Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and creative director Grace Coddington as they produce the magazine’s most important issue of the year. If you’ve only experienced this world through fiction, this is your reality check. Wintour is the real Miranda Priestly — Lauren Weisberger’s novel was inspired by her time as Wintour’s assistant — and the documentary reveals both the steely exterior and flickers of vulnerability beneath. Coddington, meanwhile, is the film’s secret weapon: an artist who fights for her vision with a stubbornness that rivals any fictional protagonist. Essential companion viewing.

10. The Menu (2022)

Stay with me here. Mark Mylod’s pitch-black satire isn’t about fashion — it’s about fine dining. But the structural parallels are striking: an elite world built on aesthetic perfection, a formidable figure who demands absolute obedience, and a protagonist who gradually realizes the entire system is designed to consume people. Ralph Fiennes plays Chef Slowik with the same terrifying calm Streep brings to Miranda, and Anya Taylor-Joy’s Margot is every bit the outsider who threatens to upend the order. It’s darker than anything else on this list, but if you responded to the sequel’s undercurrent of industry critique, this turns that critique up to eleven.

Honorable Mentions

Funny Face (1957) — Stanley Donen and Audrey Hepburn created the original fashion-movie template. It’s featherlight and gorgeous, and Hepburn’s philosophical bookshop owner feels like a proto-Andy Sachs.

Phantom Thread (2017) — Paul Thomas Anderson’s portrait of a fashion designer consumed by control. Daniel Day-Lewis is less Miranda and more a haunted genius, but the power dynamics between creator and muse echo loudly.

Ready to Wear (Pret-à-Porter) (1994) — Robert Altman’s chaotic, underrated ensemble film about Paris Fashion Week. Altman being Altman, there are about forty characters and half the storylines, but the industry satire still bites.

The Bold Type (2017–2021) — Technically a television series, but this Freeform show about three women working at a fashion magazine captures the warmth and ambition of the Prada franchise with a younger, more inclusive lens. Four seasons of genuinely satisfying character arcs.