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Movies Like The Devil Wears Prada 2: Sharp, Stylish Comedies
By Jordan A. · · 5 min read
Nobody had a comedy sequel arriving twenty years late as the sixth-biggest movie of 2026. The Devil Wears Prada 2 opened on May 1 and has taken north of $690 million worldwide, most of it from outside the United States, in a year otherwise owned by Spider-Man and Greek myth.
It works because David Frankel and Meryl Streep understood the assignment: Miranda Priestly is no longer terrifying because she has power, she's terrifying because print is dying and she refuses to be pitied about it. Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci are all back. Kenneth Branagh, Lucy Liu and Justin Theroux are new. Critics were friendly rather than adoring, and the audience did not care.
So if you left the theater wanting more of that exact gloss and meanness, here's the shelf.
Fashion films worth the runtime
The September Issue is the documentary that Prada fans should have watched years ago. Ninety minutes inside Vogue's biggest issue, and the actual star turns out to be creative director Grace Coddington, who fights Anna Wintour over every page and occasionally wins. Every single Miranda beat in these films makes more sense afterward.
Phantom Thread is the opposite temperature: Paul Thomas Anderson, Daniel Day-Lewis as a London couturier, and a relationship that becomes a war fought with mushrooms and breakfast noise. It's about craft and control. Also, quietly, one of the funniest films of the last decade.
Zoolander exists at the other end of the spectrum and I refuse to apologize for including it. The 2001 version of the fashion world's absurdity has aged into something close to documentary.
House of Gucci is a mess. It's also Lady Gaga and Jared Leto making wildly different films inside the same movie, and if you enjoy watching enormous actors swing enormous bats, it's a great time with a bottle of wine.
Workplace satire with actual teeth
Working Girl (1988) is the ancestor of the entire Andy Sachs arc. Melanie Griffith's secretary steals her boss's idea and her identity, Sigourney Weaver is magnificently awful, and Mike Nichols directs it like a thriller about ambition. The Staten Island Ferry shot still gets me.
Broadcast News is the smartest movie ever made about loving your job more than the people in it. James L. Brooks lets all three leads be right and wrong in turn, and Holly Hunter's crying-on-schedule routine is the truest thing about workaholism ever filmed.
The Assistant is the film that makes The Devil Wears Prada uncomfortable, and it should be watched second. Julia Garner spends one day doing entry-level tasks at a production company, the abuse is entirely offscreen, and it's quietly devastating. Eighty-seven minutes. No score. No relief.
Nine to Five (1980) is the fantasy version: Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton kidnapping their sexist boss and running the office better without him. It's broad and radical and it has aged remarkably well.
Office Space belongs here for the other half of the feeling: the flat panic of a job that means nothing. Different class, same rage.
If you're in it for Meryl
Postcards from the Edge gives you Streep and Shirley MacLaine as an actress and her impossible movie-star mother, written by Carrie Fisher about her own life. It's sharper and funnier than its reputation.
Julie and Julia is her Julia Child, and it's the warmest performance on this list. The scenes in Paris are a different, better movie than the blogging half, which everyone knows and nobody minds.
Doubt is Streep as a nun going to war with Philip Seymour Hoffman's priest, and if what you like about Miranda is watching a woman use certainty as a weapon, this is the undiluted version.
Legacy sequels that justified themselves
Twenty-year-later sequels usually exist because a rights window opened. These didn't.
Top Gun: Maverick is the gold standard and the reason studios keep trying this. It respects the original without cosplaying it, and the flying is real. Our Barbie recommendations cover the other side of that theatrical boom.
Blade Runner 2049 did the impossible: a sequel to an untouchable film that is arguably better shot than its predecessor. Roger Deakins finally got his Oscar for it.
Creed takes the Rocky story and hands it to a new lead without disrespecting anyone. Michael B. Jordan and Ryan Coogler made the template every legacy film has copied since.
Freakier Friday brought Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis back twenty-two years later and had the good sense to be silly about it. It's the closest tonal match to what Prada 2 pulls off.
Where to stream everything
The original The Devil Wears Prada moves between Hulu and Disney+ and is always available to rent, and it's the correct rewatch before or after the sequel. Prime Video added the unrated cut of Bridesmaids on August 1, and Netflix added Something's Gotta Give the same day, which together make a perfectly good Saturday. The September Issue, Working Girl, Broadcast News and Nine to Five are usually rentals. The Assistant turns up on the free ad-supported services more often than you'd expect.
Our best comedies of last year covers what else has been worth the price of a ticket recently.
TV with the same bite
The 2026 Emmy comedy field is unusually strong for this exact mood. Hacks set a record with 24 nominations in its final season, more than any comedy has ever received in a single year, and its Deborah Vance is Miranda Priestly's blood relative: a woman who is cruel because the alternative was being erased. Only Murders in the Building, Shrinking and The Bear round out the field with Abbott Elementary, Nobody Wants This, Margo's Got Money Troubles and Widow's Bay. Our best comedy shows of 2026 has the full picture.
None of that helps at 9pm when you've got four services open and no decision. Tell BingeNext's movie recommendation engine that The Devil Wears Prada 2 was your kind of night, add one more film you love, and it'll rank what's streaming for you specifically. The iPhone app does it in the time it takes to make popcorn.
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About the author
Jordan A., Founder, BingeNext
Jordan A. is the founder of BingeNext and writes every guide on this site. He built the recommendation engine after one too many nights lost to the streaming menu, and he still tests every pick the hard way: by watching it.