Passion (1919), Brahmachari (1968), The Donovan Affair (1929), Trishna (2011), Tiger Girl (2017), Spitfire (1934), A Little Trip to Heaven (2005), The Divine Lady (1929) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Poor Woman movies.
Storyline: The story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.
Plot Keywords: poor woman, louis xv, mistress, minister, cardinal richelieu, soldier, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Of unknown parentage, as he was abandoned as a child, calling himself Brahmachari (Shammi Kapoor) lives in a heavily mortgaged house, with twelve other young orphans, and a servant/former thief (Mohan Choti). He struggles everyday to make ends meet. He cons the neighbouring landlord (Asit Sen)into forcibly giving him money so that they do not make any noise when he is showing the house to prospective tenants. One day he rescues Sheetal Choudhary (Rajshree) from killing herself. She was killing herself as her childhood betrothed, Ravi Khanna (Pran), is refusing to marry now that she is poor and the Khannas are wealthy. Brahmachari commits himself to helping groom and educate Sheetal so that she can meet with the high standards of Ravi and thus win his heart. In turn she must pay him enough money to clear the mortgage loan from his house. In this process he falls in love with her, but is committed to the children more than ever before, and Sheetal is determined to win back Ravi at any cost.—rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)
Plot Keywords: orphan, landlord, neighbor, poor woman, emotional, endearing, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The lights go out at a high-society dinner party and one of the guests is murdered. The police are summoned and Inspector Killian shows up, with his assistant Carney. In order to get a clear picture of what took place, Killany decides to have the crime re-enacted (with a substitute for the murdered man.) The lights are turned out, and another man is murdered. This doesn't faze the Inspector one little bit, and he asks for a third re-enactment. The suspect list dwindles.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: queen, poor woman, lord, lieutenant, wealthy man, charming, fascinating ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based on Thomas Hardy's classic novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles, 'Trishna' tells the story of one woman whose life is destroyed by a combination of love and circumstances. Set in contemporary Rajasthan, Trishna (Freida Pinto) meets a wealthy young British businessman Jay Singh (Riz Ahmed) who has come to India to work in his father's hotel business. After an accident destroys her father's Jeep, Trishna goes to work for Jay, and they fall in love. But despite their feelings for each other, they cannot escape the conflicting pressures of a rural society which is changing rapidly through industrialisation, urbanisation and, above all, education. Trishna's tragedy is that she is torn between the traditions of her family life and the dreams and ambitions that her education has given her.—Revolution Films
Plot Keywords: indian, girl, poor woman, emotional, countryside, jeep, romance ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Having failed to get into the police force, Margarete takes up training as a security guard. One night she runs into a sexually aggressive ex-colleague who insists on hailing a taxi to take her home to his place. Enter Tiger: short brown hair, a tough girl and a fighter, the cab driver. Realizing that the situation is far from consensual, Tiger speeds off with Margarete, leaving her companion standing in the street. It won't be the last time she rushes to Margarete's aid. Tiger lives in an attic flat with two men. She knows how to wield a baseball bat. Stealing a uniform from security and renaming Margarete 'Vanilla', she begins to steer her life in a completely different direction.—AnonymousB
Plot Keywords: fighter, young woman, poor woman, villain, woman, victim, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Mountain girl Trigger Hicks, a fierce loner equally handy with a rock or a prayer, is in danger of having her faith-healing mistaken for witchcraft by the neighbors. She shows a vulnerable side when John Stafford, a philandering engineer working on a new dam, is attracted to her. Matters come to a head when Trigger "rescues" an abused baby from its parents, and seeks help from the engineers.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: poor woman, neighbor, engineer, partner, father, wife, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Insurance investigator Abraham Holt (Forest Whitaker) travels to a tiny town in rural Minnesota to look into a particularly unusual insurance claim stemming from a horrific car accident. As Holt examines the scene of the wreck, it all seems a bit too perfect. And when he interviews Isold Mcbride (Julia Stiles) and her shifty husband, Fred (Jeremy Renner) -- the impoverished beneficiaries of the massive, recently initiated life-insurance policy -- he begins to suspect that something is amiss.
Plot Keywords: insurance investigator, husband, poor woman, son, boss, con artist, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In this dialogue-free film, Emma Hart (Corinne Griffith), a young woman of lowly birth, is courted by rich Charles Greville (Ian Keith). But, after he grows tired of Hart, he sends her to live in Naples, Italy, with his uncle, Lord Hamilton (H.B. Warner), whom she marries. Despite living peaceably with her new husband, Hart is drawn to Capt. Horatio Nelson (Victor Varconi), who she meets while serving as confidante to the queen of Naples. The two begin an affair with risky social consequences.
Plot Keywords: queen, poor woman, lord, lieutenant, wealthy man, charming, fascinating ...
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