The Middleman (1976), The Princess of Montpensier (2010), Match Point (2005), The Young Philadelphians (1959), Page 3 (2005), The Damned Don't Cry (1950), Easy A (2010), Some Kind of Wonderful (1987) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Social Climbing movies.
Storyline: Successful Montréal-based writer Joshua Shapiro, in middle age, is facing both professional and personal crises, which make him reflect on his unusual life bringing him to where he is today. That success belies having grown up in the working class Jewish district of the city with his multi-career father, Reuben Shapiro (with most of those careers veering into the realm of the illegal), and his mother, Esther Shapiro, whose penchant for performing, which she demonstrated much to the delight of Joshua's friends at his bar mitzvah, took her into her own highly "exposed" career. Wanting to go to Spain to cover the conflict there in his younger years, he initially went to London instead, where he met arguably two of who would be the most important people in his life. The first is writer Sidney Murdoch, the two who eventually came up with a money making scheme at that time which is now the cause for one of those crises. The other is who was named Pauline Fraser (née Hornby) at the time of their initial meeting, she and her husband Colin Fraser left wing activists, which belied her blood blood WASP upbringing in Canada, the daughter of a Canadian senator. Love at first sight for Joshua, he was able to steal Pauline away from Colin for her to become Mrs. Joshua Shapiro. Beyond Pauline wanting an identity of her own beyond being Mrs. Joshua Shapiro or being mother to their eventual children, Pauline being devoted to her irresponsible jet setting brother, Kevin Hornby, is the cause for another of those crises.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: jew, writer, father, mother, stripper, wife, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An innocent Russian call girl believes that she would make use of her influential contacts to get Swiss nationality.
Plot Keywords: prostitute, russian, attorney, fashion designer, beautiful girl, offbeat, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A beauty parlor manager has her sister help her with interesting results.
Plot Keywords: beautician, sister, social climber, daughter, boyfriend, husband, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Dark comedy about a seaside Punch and Judy man driven to distraction by his social climbing wife and his hatred for the snobbery of local government. He is persuaded to go to the Mayor's gala evening but it's all too much for him.
Plot Keywords: puppeteer, performance artist, entertainer, shopkeeper, hilarious, madcap, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When teen debutante Kelly (Denise Richards) fails to attract the attention of her hunky guidance counselor, Sam (Matt Dillon), she cries rape, igniting a scandal that results in his arrest. Sam appeals to Ken (Bill Murray), a hack personal-injury lawyer who has never handled a case that couldn't be helped by a prop neck brace. Soon, a second victim, Suzie (Neve Campbell), comes forward, and Detective Duquette (Kevin Bacon) discovers that the unfolding case is far from what it seems.
Plot Keywords: counselor, socialite, high-school student, mother, lawyer, detective, hedonistic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A married architect, stuck in a loveless marriage, due to his daughter, has an an affair with a dress designer (Natalie). Just when he's ready to ask his wife for a divorce, his daughter falls in love with Natalie's brother.
Plot Keywords: wife, mistress, architect, brother, daughter, designer, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Daughter of a wealthy family decides to marry a poor working man.
Plot Keywords: manager, boss, daughter, friend, mother, old flame, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Luke McNamara, a college senior from a working class background joins a secret elitist college fraternity organization called "The Skulls", in hope of gaining acceptance into Harvard Law School. At first seduced by the club's trapping of power and wealth, a series of disturbing incidents, such as his best friends suicide, leads Luke to investigate the true nature of the organization and the truth behind his friends supposed suicide. He starts realizing that his future and possibly his life is in danger.
Plot Keywords: college student, girlfriend, wealthy man, friend, detective, father, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Frankie Fane has clawed his way to the top of the Hollywood heap. Now, as he's preparing to win his Oscar, his friend Hymie Kelly reminisces over their life together, and Frankie's ruthless struggle to the top and the people he's stepped on (i.e., everyone else in the movie) to make it there.—<crow_steve@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: actor, friend, public relations specialist, cabaret performer, girlfriend, private investigator, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A sassy female cattle rancher, Cleo Borden (Mae West), wants nothing more than to sashay her way into the moneyed class.
Plot Keywords: cattle rancher, aristocrat, husband, saloon girl, femme fatale, british man, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It's the 1980s, and it's the moment that Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne meet. The two individuals are seen by many as 'special', and become best friends as soon as they meet. Principal Collins and his lover, the lunch lady Ms. Heller, want to make as much money out of scams, and their next idea is to create a special needs class. Ms. Heller is the teacher, and they have assigned Harry and Lloyd to round the special students up. School News Reporter Jessica is suspicious though, and desperately tries to find out the truth, even if it means gaining Harry and Lloyd's help.
Plot Keywords: teenager, student, janitor, principal, bully, foreign exchange student, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Single mother Diana Armstrong (LisaRaye) takes to sliding down a stripper pole in order to pay for college -- and make a better life for her child. But taking off her clothes for a paying audience is the easy part at the Player's Club. More challenging for Diana is staying on the good side of motormouthed club owner Dolla Bill (Bernie Mac), avoiding the club's unsavory cast of characters and helping her newbie stripping cousin, Ebony (Monica Calhoun), stay on the straight and narrow.
Plot Keywords: stripper, club owner, deejay, cousin, boyfriend, child, sultry ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Blue-collar bartender Tony Angelo (George Raft) longs to live in the soaring heights of San Francisco's affluent Nob Hill. Angelo ignores the affections of torch singer Sally Templeton (Vivian Blaine) to court heiress Harriet Carruthers (Joan Bennett). When Carruthers accepts his proposal, the two marry and Angelo's dream seems to be coming true. But, once immersed in high society, Angelo must suppress his personality to fit in -- and finds himself struggling to escape a growing depression.
Plot Keywords: bartender, daughter, singer, gambler, district attorney, heiress, melodramatic ...
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