10 Drab-to-Fab Films to Watch If You Love The Devil Wears Prada

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Fatima Castillo
By Fatima CastilloFilm & TV Writer

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  • Primary Subject: Fashionable Transformation Movies Like The Devil Wears Prada
  • Key Update: Most of these style-centric classics have shifted to Disney+ and Max as of April 2026, though a few remain available only for digital rental.
  • Status: Available via Streaming & Digital VOD
  • Last Verified: April 13, 2026
  • Quick Answer: Most fashion films like Cruella and Confessions of a Shopaholic are on Disney+, while classics like Clueless and 13 Going on 30 rotate through Paramount+.

Whether you're in it for sharp-tongued mentors, the dramatic career shifts, or that one "Chanel boots" moment, fashion movies provide the ultimate escape through self-reinventions. From the high-stakes newsrooms of Manhattan to the gritty, couture-filled outbacks of Australia, here are 10 drab-to-fab movies like The Devil Wears Prada and where to watch them, seeing as the sequel, The Devil Wears Prada 2, hits theatres next month!

The Dressmaker (2015)

It's The Devil Wears Prada meets revenge! The Dressmaker follows Tilly Dunnage (Kate Winslet), a glamorous dressmaker, who returns to her tiny, dusty Australian hometown to right the wrongs of her past. Like Andy, Tilly uses fashion as a weapon and a shield. Armed only with her sewing machine and Parisian haute couture, she transforms the local women into style icons as she seeks her revenge.

13 Going on 30 (2004)

Jenna literally works Andy's dream job in 13 Going on 30. After a disastrous 13th birthday, Jenna Rink wishes she were "thirty, flirty, and thriving." She wakes up as a high-powered fashion magazine editor in Manhattan, only to realize her adult self isn't as nice as she hoped.

Working Girl (1988)

Before Meryl Streep's Miranda Priestly, there was Sigourney Weaver's Katharine Parker, aka the 80s blueprint for horrible, ruthless bosses. In Working Girl, we follow Tess McGill, a secretary with a "head for business and a bod for sin." When her treacherous boss, Parker, steals her idea, Tess assumes her boss's identity and wardrobe to close a major deal.

The Intern (2015)

If Anne Hathaway had gotten Miranda Priestly's job instead of Meryl Streep.

The Intern follows 70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker (Robert De Niro), who takes a "senior" internship at a fast-paced fashion e-commerce site run by the stressed Jules Ostin (Anne Hathaway). Take The Intern like watching Andy Sachs ten years later if she became the boss in the fashion industry.

Funny Face (1957)

Funny Face centers on a fashion photographer (Fred Astaire), who discovers a shy, "plain" bookstore clerk (Audrey Hepburn) and whisks her away to Paris to be the face of a new fashion campaign. Did we mention it also features the original "Think Pink" magazine editor, Maggie Prescott (played by Kay Thompson), who is every bit as terrifying and visionary as Miranda Priestly?

Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009)

Rebecca Bloomwood (Isla Fisher) is a fashion-obsessed journalist who lands a job at a finance magazine, the irony being that she is $16,000 in debt. Like Andy, though, Rebecca is a writer trying to navigate a world she doesn't quite fit into, while being constantly tempted by the latest designer trends.

While Rebecca starts "fab", her journey is more about a lifestyle transformation, in which she learns that true style isn't about the labels you own but how you manage your own life.

Cruella (2021)

Set in 1970s London, Estella is a young grifter determined to make it in the fashion world. She catches the eye of the Baroness, a fashion legend who is as brilliant as she is cruel. The Baroness (Emma Thompson) is essentially Miranda Priestly if she were a 70s haute couture designer with a murderous streak.

The mentor-mentee rivalry is giving The Devil Wears Prada energy, too.

Bratz the Movie (2007)

Bratz the Movie follows four best friends as they head to high school, where they find themselves pressured to join different social cliques that threaten to tear their friendship apart. Taking the "Runway" philosophy of conformity, the girls have to choose between fitting into the "fashionable" elite or staying true to their own unique, eclectic styles.

Clueless (1995)

Cher Horowitz is essentially the Miranda Priestly of her high school, the younger, optimistic version of her, wherein her digital closet and "selective" intelligence mirror the perfectionism seen in the Runway offices. As the queen bee of Beverly Hills High School, she spends her days matchmaking and giving "socially challenged" students makeovers.

The September Issue (2009)

The September Issue is not a fictional story like the rest on this list, but it's the real story that inspired similar movies like The Devil Wears Prada.

The documentary follows real-life Vogue editor Anna Wintour as she prepares the biggest issue of the year. The September Issue shows Wintour interacting with her staff. Think of it like a documentary on how Miranda Priestly's mind works and boggles the minds of those working under her.

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