30 Movies & TV Shows about Assistants
Here is a list of TV shows and movies about Personal Assistants and Executive Assistants.
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The list of assistant TV shows and movies
The order of these titles is listed by the year they were made.
- All About Eve (1950) A classic movie with Bette Davis. The assistant tries to take her boss's job in the theatre.
- 9 to 5 (1980) Working in corporate America (Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton).
- The Secret of My Success (1987: Michael J. Fox): Rumored to be inspired by the actual Steven Spielberg story.
- Working Girl (1988) Trying to move up the corporate ladder (Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford).
- The Remains of the Day (1993) A movie about servants for the ultra-rich (Anthony Hopkins).
- Swimming with Sharks (1994) The ups and downs of working in Hollywood.
- The Associate (1996) A comedy about making it on Wall Street (Whoopi Goldberg).
- Secretary (2002) Mature content - A secretary and her boss have an affair (Maggie Gyllenhaal, James Spader).
- Two Weeks' Notice (2002) She works for a very demanding boss, but she can't take it (Sandra Bullock, Hugh Grant).
- The Assistant (2004) Celebrity PA needed for TV and movie actor (Andy Dick).
- The Devil Wears Prada (2006) Working for a mean boss in fashion (Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway).
- The Nanny Diaries (2007) A nanny assists a high-net-worth family in NYC (Scarlett Johansson).
- The Perfect Assistant (2008) An assistant gets emotionally involved with her boss.
- I Want to Work for Diddy (2008: aka Sean John Combs) A contest about getting to win a spot working for the icon.
- The Proposal (2009) A boss forces her assistant to get married (Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds).
- The Assistants (2009) TV show about four college students who are assistants in Hollywood.
- The Assistants (2009) When you're an assistant in Hollywood, sometimes you're making other people's dreams come true instead of your own (Joe Mantegna, Jane Seymour).
- Downton Abbey (2010 - 2015) Inspired by a real-life aristocratic family in Europe.
- Assistants to the Super Rich (2010: ABC News 20/20) Documentary about PAs to UHNW families.
- MTV's "MADE" (2012) creates a celebrity assistant by cultivating a newbie to work for a major TV star.
- To My Future Assistant (2013): About assistants in a New York Law Firm who have very bad bosses.
- Assistance (2013): Krysten Ritter stars in NBC's project about personal assistants.
- Clouds of Sils Maria (2014) A movie star that become too dependent on her PA (Kristen Stewart, Juliette Binoche).
- The Intern (2015) A retired man (Robert DeNiro) becomes an intern to a much younger CEO (Anne Hathaway).
- You're My Boss (2015) A female boss and a male assistant have tension at work, but will they get together?
- Personal Shopper (2017) It's about a fashionista who assists a celebrity (Kristen Stewart).
- Set it up (2018) A Netflix original movie about two assistants who try to get their bosses to fall in love.
- The High Note (2020) An assistant to a music star wants to produce her boss's music (Dakota Johnson).
- The Assistant (2020) A behind the scenes look at the business of being a PA in Tinseltown (Julia Garner).
- Swimming with Sharks (TV show 2022) The dark, behind-the-scenes workings of being an assistant in Hollywood.
Additional resources about assistants
Personal assistants have long been part of the legacy of the super-rich and famous. The new "it" thing is a PA on your arm. For decades the "right hands" of the powerful have always brought prestige to the scene, and everyone dreams one day of having their own assistant -- who wouldn't? In the bygone days, PAs were called secretaries, and they were menial positions. Nowadays, these elite gatekeepers command hefty salaries.
