Movies Like The Apprentice

If you liked The Apprentice (1971), a romance and comedy movie directed by Larry Kent, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Too Shy to Try (1978)
★ 6.4/10Also romance and comedy
Pierre is a hotel cashier in Vichy, so shy that he answers an ad from the Psychology Institute and can't say no to the salesman, Aldo; he spends 6,000 francs on tapes, books, and a punching bag. Soon after, he's…
2
The Art of Love (2011)
★ 5.9/10Also romance and comedy
Several interconnected chapters follow a variety of Parisian couples navigating love, desire, and relationships. Isabelle, frustrated by a year of celibacy, rejects her friend Zoé’s offer to "borrow" her husband and…
3
Yoh! Bestie (2026)
★ 6.3/10Also romance and comedy
Thando is perpetually unlucky in love, but when her bestie returns from his travels with a fiancée in tow, she's forced to face a new emotion — jealousy.
4
¿Quieres ser mi hijo? (2023)
★ 8.4/10Also comedy and romance
Lu, a conformist woman in her forties, learns that her 15-year partner has been having extramarital affairs. Starting from scratch, she gets involved in an unexpected relationship with a young womanizer.
5
Fanfan (1993)
★ 6.3/10Also romance and comedy
After seeing the initial passion and romance fade into a series of routine and boring relationships, Alexandre (Vincent Perez) concludes that romance ends when sex enters into a relationship. Determined to prevent this…
6
Picnic on the Grass (1959)
★ 6.3/10Also romance and comedy
New Europe presidential candidate Etienne Alexis is a scientist promoting artificial insemination for social betterment and therapy to eliminate passion. To celebrate his engagement to a cousin, he hosts an aseptic…
7
Love, Weddings & Other Disasters (2020)
★ 6/10Also romance and comedy
A fussy celebrity caterer, a blind woman, a tour-bus guide and an inexperienced wedding planner search for love.
8
The List (2023)
★ 5.9/10Also romance and comedy
After her fiance sleeps with a celebrity on his free pass list, Abby Meyers, with nothing but five names and a fantasy shared by millions, sets out for Los Angeles to sleep with someone from hers.
9
The Right Kind of Wrong (2013)
★ 5.9/10Also romance and comedy
A stubborn idealist spies a bride on her way to her wedding and immediately falls in love with her.
10
Desperados (2020)
★ 6/10Also comedy and romance
A panicked young woman and her two best friends fly to Mexico to delete a ranting email she sent to her new boyfriend. On arrival, they run into her former beau, who soon gets caught up in their frantic scheme.
11
What's Love Got to Do with It? (2023)
★ 6.1/10Also romance and comedy
Two childhood friends now in their thirties must decide whether to follow their heads or their hearts once the man decides to follow his parents' advice and enter into an arranged marriage in Pakistan.
12
The Incredible Jessica James (2017)
★ 6.1/10Also romance and comedy
Burned by a bad breakup, a struggling New York City playwright makes an unlikely connection with a divorced app designer she meets on a blind date.
13
Love Is in the Air (2013)
★ 6/10Also comedy and romance
Antoine is a lawyer living in New York. On his way back to France for the final round of a job interview, Antoine finds himself sitting right next to his ex-girlfriend Julie. With a seven-hour flight ahead of them…
14
French Girl (2024)
★ 6.2/10Also romance and comedy
Sweet Gordon, an affable English teacher in Brooklyn, has beaten the odds; a French Girl has fallen in love with him and he’s fallen even harder back. But their future is thrown into limbo when she interviews for an…
15
Love Is in the Air (2023)
★ 6.2/10Also romance and comedy
A fiercely independent pilot fighting to keep her family business afloat starts to fall for the man sent by corporate to ground her operation forever.
16
Hard Shell, Soft Shell (2021)
★ 6.8/10Also romance and comedy
Az works for an oyster farmer in Sète. He knows oysters by heart, he opens them by the hundreds. In one of them, Az decides to hide a ring, to ask his girlfriend Jess to marry him. She doesn't say yes. Fortunately, his…
17
Wedding Unplanned (2017)
★ 6.1/10Also romance and comedy
When she discovers a wedding planer's business card, Alexia instantly says, "YES" to Mathias unaware that it belongs to his mistress. The groom is now trapped between his bride, and his lover who in charge of his…
18
Christmas with You (2022)
★ 5.9/10Also romance and comedy
Feeling career burnout, pop star Angelina escapes to grant a young fan's wish in small-town New York, where she not only finds the inspiration to revitalize her career but also a shot at true love.
19
Let's Make Love (1960)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and romance
When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful star of the show, Amanda Dell.
20
This Little Love of Mine (2021)
★ 6.1/10Also romance and comedy
Laura Price is a successful San Francisco lawyer on the cusp of promotion – a far cry from her childhood growing up on a tropical island with best friends Chip and Gem. When the firm’s biggest client – Chip’s…