Number 37 (2018), Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders (2006), Rocky (1976), Wild Tales (2014), American Hustle (2013), Unleashed (2005), Bandwagon (1996), The Addams Family (1991) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Loan Shark movies.
Storyline: Professor Ned Brainard's discovery of flubber hasn't quite brought him - or his college - the riches he thought. The Pentagon has declared his discovery to be top secret and the IRS has slapped him with a huge tax bill, even if he has yet to receive a cent. He thinks he may have found the solution in the form of flubbergas, which can change the weather. It also helps Medfield College's football team to win a game. At home, his wife Betsy is jealous of the attention lavished on him by an old high school girlfriend.—garykmcd
Plot Keywords: professor, scientist, wife, student, loan shark, government official, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A loan shark gives ex-con Nick a period of 24 hours in order to pay back the money he owes. Up against it, Nick involves his best mate on a multi-part mission in order to raise the cash before it's too late for them both.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: loan shark, godfather, thrilling, london, time, debt, pursuit ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Kevin Franklin is a con man whose mouth is bigger than him, but it doesn't help him much when he's in with the mob for $50,000. Trying to avoid a gambling addict boss, and his two stupid henchmen, Kevin poses as a childhood friend to Gary Young, a workaholic father whose own life is in turmoil in an affluent Pennsylvania suburb.—MonkeyKingMA
Plot Keywords: con artist, lawyer, wife, child, loan shark, thug, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jim Bennett is a risk taker. Both an English professor and a high-stakes gambler, Bennett bets it all when he borrows from a gangster and offers his own life as collateral. Always one step ahead, Bennett pits his creditor against the operator of a gambling ring and leaves his dysfunctional relationship with his wealthy mother in his wake. He plays both sides, immersing himself in an illicit, underground world while garnering the attention of Frank, a loan shark with a paternal interest in Bennett's future. As his relationship with a student deepens, Bennett must take the ultimate risk for a second chance.
Plot Keywords: professor, gambler, gangster, loan shark, student, creditor, confident ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Las Vegas, Huck Cheever is a poker player, brilliant but also prone to let emotion take over. It's the week of the poker world series, and Huck must come up with the $10,000 entry fee, which he wins, loses, borrows, and loses - and even steals part of from Billie Offer, an earnest young woman who's new in town and who catches Huck's eye. By the time the tournament starts, Huck owes everyone. Complicating things is the arrival of Huck's father, whom Huck detests for having left his mother, a champion player in town to win. Can Huck learn to play poker the way he lives and to live the way he plays poker? Or is his only flush the sound of his life going down the toilet?
Plot Keywords: poker player, love interest, father, singer, sister, loan shark, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Bank teller Johnny Dalton, too poor to marry his sweetheart 'Mibs' Goodhug, saves a big-time bookie from a beating and receives a munificent reward...which just happens to match a mysterious shortage at the bank! Will Johnny's pal, eccentric waiter Emile, get him out of trouble...or in so deep he'll never get out?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: bank teller, waiter, bookie, girlfriend, loan shark, detective, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Robert DeNiro and Jessica Lange are the most impossible couple. He's a failed lawyer. She's a common waitress. Together they get in a downward spiral, as they can't seem to deal with their problems. The lawyer just failed winning a case in court against a famous boxing organizer and he wants revenge by catching the organizer on his own territory: boxing. Although he knows nothing about boxing, with his fine talk he finds the help of a couple of people like the brother of his new enemy. But the relationship with his waitress doesn't make things double as hard.—info@edwinvanoorschot.nl
Plot Keywords: lawyer, promoter, waitress, loan shark, bar owner, boxer, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the bosom of Suburbicon--a family-centred, all-white utopia of manicured lawns and friendly locals--a simmering tension is brewing, as the first African-American family moves in the idyllic community, in the hot summer of 1959. However--as the young patriarch, Gardner Lodge, and his family start catching a few disturbing glimpses of the once-welcoming neighbourhood's dark underbelly--seemingly random acts of unprecedented violence paired with a gruesome death will blemish, irreparably, Suburbicon's picture-perfect facade. Who would have thought that darkness resides even in Paradise?
Plot Keywords: father, son, aunt, mysterious man, detective, loan shark, disturbing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A romantic comedy: Alex is an author whose writer's block and gambling debts have landed him in a jam. In order get loan sharks off his back, he must finish his novel in 30 days or wind up dead. To help him complete his manuscript he hires stenographer Emma. As Alex begins to dictate his tale of a romantic love triangle to the charming yet somewhat opinionated stenographer, Emma challenges his ideas at every turn. Her unsolicited yet intriguing input begins to inadvertently influence Alex and his story and soon real life begins to imitate art.
Plot Keywords: writer, stenographer, love interest, novelist, loan shark, young man, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Like many adolescent boys, Roy Darpinian had the hots for movie divas, and one in particular was his wet dream as half of America's in the 1950s: Marilyn Monroe. The difference is, one summer holiday he actually decided to enlist his spineless buddies, Scott Foreman and Ned Bleuer, to actually drive all the way to Hollywood and make as many desperate attempts as it takes to meet her or get arrested trying, and no setback or embarrassment (even publicly bare-ass) can stop or distract him. Against all odds, he finally even got a chance to help her...—KGF Vissers
Plot Keywords: young man, best friend, nerd, loan shark, father, marilyn monroe, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A cop (Ray Liotta) with a big gambling debt gets three buddies involved in a deadly crime to pay off the bookie.
Plot Keywords: cop, partner, bookie, loan shark, love interest, rousing, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Faced with the daunting task of supporting seven children by herself, Irish widow Agnes Browne (Anjelica Huston) struggles to break even. In addition to selling produce at a nearby market, she borrows heavily from a local moneylender, the greedy Mr. Billy (Ray Winstone). It's a bleak reality, brightened somewhat by the support of her best friend Marion Monks (Marion O'Dwyer). Eventually, a glimmer of hope materializes when she's invited to a Tom Jones concert as the date of a smitten Frenchman.
Plot Keywords: widow, loan shark, friend, frenchman, child, emotional, playful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A gambler is drawn into a life of money and power to make a quick buck, but he quickly realizes he is part of a setup that could cost him his life.
Plot Keywords: gangster, poker player, loan shark, thrilling, suspenseful, united states, poker tournament ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When the loan business of her father, Andy (Rudy Challenger), is trashed by thugs looking to force a sale, Chicago private investigator Sheba Shayne (Pam Grier) travels back to her hometown of Louisville, Ky., to even the score. Together with old flame Brick Williams (Austin Stoker), she attacks the henchmen of local loan shark Pilot (D'Urville Martin), but a retaliation leaves Andy dead. Blind with rage, Sheba vows to take out Pilot's boss, mob kingpin Shark (Dick Merrifield).
Plot Keywords: private detective, old flame, loan officer, loan shark, mobster, intense, fiery ...
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