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10 Best Movies Like Ambitious

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

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#1
Gutierritos

Gutierritos

1959★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ambitious for fans of . It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Timid, browbeaten salaryman becomes famous author overnight....

#2
Secrets of Palace coup d'etat. Russia, 18th century. Film №5. Second Bride Emperor

Secrets of Palace coup d'etat. Russia, 18th century. Film №5. Second Bride Emperor

2003★ 6.2

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

As a result of a successful conspiracy against Menshikov, Peter II is prematurely recognized as an adult and is in a hurry to be crowned in Moscow. The Dolgoruky brothers gather fo...

#3
No End

No End

1985★ 7.0

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

1982, Poland. A translator loses her husband and becomes a victim of her own sorrow. She looks to sex, to her son, to law, and to hypnotism when she has nothing else in this time o...

#4
Ride Away

Ride Away

2025★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ambitious for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

From the Atlantic to the Black Sea, Mathias and Philippe, two old friends, embark on a bicycle journey that Mathias’s son made before his tragic death. The two men ride through the...

#5
Queens of Drama

Queens of Drama

2024★ 8.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ambitious for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

It's 2055 and Steevyshady, an obsessive Mimi Madamour stan, tells us of their idol’s mad destiny from the very peak of her career in 2005, all the way down to the pits of hell, a d...

#6
Jim's Story

Jim's Story

2024★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ambitious for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Aymeric runs into Florence, a former coworker, one evening in Saint-Claude in the Haut-Jura. She is six months pregnant and single. When she gives birth to Jim, Aymeric is there. T...