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: Directed by Satyajit Ray. An innocent youth takes a job in a profession where one must break the rules to succeed.
Plot Keywords: sister, best friend, businessman, taxi driver, college graduate, prostitute, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 16th-century France, Marie de Mezières marries for her father's political gain, and when war breaks out, she becomes exposed to sexual and political intrigues of court.
Plot Keywords: marquis, prince, soldier, heiress, mother, father, tender ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: From a humble background and with traditional values, Irish Chris Wilton is still struggling financially despite being a recently retired high ranked tennis pro. He has taken a job as a tennis instructor at an upscale London tennis club, although he knows there is a better life for him somewhere down the road. He is befriended by one of his students, wealthy Tom Hewett. Chris starts to date Tom's sister, Chloe Hewett, a girl-next-door type who is immediately attracted to Chris. Chloe quickly knows she wants to marry Chris, and through her businessman father, Alec Hewett, tries to help Chris and their future by getting him an executive job in Alec's company. In his life with the Hewetts, Chris begins to enjoy the finer things in life. Through it all however, Chris cannot help thinking about Nola Rice, a struggling American actress who he meets at the Hewett estate and who is Tom's unofficial fiancée. Nola is vivacious, and she knows the effect she has on men, including Chris. Unlike ...
Plot Keywords: tennis player, student, sister, father, wife, girlfriend, somber ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Up and coming, young lawyer Anthony Lawrence faces several ethical and emotional dilemmas as he climbs the Philadelphia social ladder. His personal and professional skills are tested as he tries to balance the needs of his fiance Joan, the expectations of his colleagues and his own obligation to defend his friend Chester on a murder count.—Mike Welsch <mike.welsch@bull.com>
Plot Keywords: lawyer, mother, sweetheart, alcoholic, birth father, melodramatic, fiery ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Madhavi is a newspaper journalist in Mumbai whose task is to fill the Page 3 column. Her job consists of attending parties among the socialite and small-time celebrity circle and reporting on it. Her roommates are Pearl, an air-hostess who wants to marry a rich man and settle down to a life of comfort; and Gayatri, a struggling actress. Gayatri is seduced by a leading married actor Rohit Kumar. When she finds out that she is pregnant, he advises her to abort the baby. Dejected, Gayatri tries to commit suicide but Madhavi and Pearl save her. She loses the baby and leaves Mumbai. Madhavi's job of interacting with shallow high-society people is depressing her. She wants to do some substantial reporting for a change, so she is assigned to the Crime beat alongwith veteran reporter Vinayak Mane.—Soumitra
Plot Keywords: reporter, makeup artist, editor, roommate, socialite, friend, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The murder of gangster Nick Prenta touches off an investigation of mysterious socialite Lorna Hansen Forbes, who seems to have no past, and has now disappeared. In flashback, we see the woman's anonymous roots; her poor working-class marriage, which ends in tragedy and her determination to find "better things." Soon finding that sex appeal is her only salable commodity, she climbs from man to man toward the center of a nationwide crime syndicate...a very perilous position.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: beautiful woman, mobster, accountant, husband, thug, son, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After a little white lie about losing her virginity gets out, a clean cut high school girl sees her life paralleling Hester Prynne's in "The Scarlet Letter," which she is currently studying in school - until she decides to use the rumor mill to advance her social and financial standing.
Plot Keywords: teen girl, rival, best friend, virgin, teacher, parent, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young tomboy, Watts, finds her feelings for her best friend, Keith, run deeper than just friendship when he gets a date with the most popular girl in school. Unfortunately, the girl's old boyfriend, who is from the rich section of town, is unable to let go of her, and plans to get back at Keith.
Plot Keywords: artist, popular girl, friend, ex-boyfriend, outcast, tomboy, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sabine vows to give up married lovers, and is determined to find a good husband. Her best friend Clarisse introduces her to her cousin Edmond, a busy lawyer from Paris. Sabine pursues Edmond, with the encouragement of Clarisse, but Edmond does not seem very interested.—Will Gilbert
Plot Keywords: college student, best friend, married man, boyfriend, attorney, witty, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Horace Vendig shows himself to the world as a rich philanthropist. In fact, the history of his rise from his unhappy broken home shows this to be far from the case. After being taken in by richer neighbours he started to exhibit an obsessive and selfish urge to make more and more money, loving and leaving women at will to further this end.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: millionaire, childhood friend, childhood sweetheart, father, love interest, businessman, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jim's father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at a club, he falls for her even though she is with Lord Priory. He meets her the next day at the riding path, but she quickly loses him. He searches all over for her, not knowing that his father's fiancée is her Aunt. As his caricature work suffers as he searches, he is fired from his paper. But he makes a comeback with the comics 'Rags to Riches,' which is based upon the aunt's family. This upsets them so much that they go back to New York, and he follows, being careful not to let them know that he is the one who draws the strip that parodies them.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: cartoonist, father, valet, fiancée, sister, wealthy woman, playful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Several years after leaving the orphanage to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Chanel finds herself working in a provincial bar. She's both a seamstress for the performers and a singer, adopting the nickname Coco from her father in early childhood. A liaison with Baron Balsan gives her an entrée into French society and a chance to develop her gift for designing increasingly popular hats. When she falls in love with English businessman Arthur Capel further opportunities open up, though life becomes ever more complicated.
Plot Keywords: fashion designer, seamstress, cabaret performer, businessman, lover, engaging, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Alfred Eaton, an ambitious young executive, climbs to the top of New York's financial world as his marriage crumbles. At the brink of attaining his career goals, he is forced to choose between business success, married to the beautiful, but unfaithful Mary and starting over with his true love, the much younger Natalie.—Mike Welsch <m.welsch@az05.bull.com>
Plot Keywords: careerist, socialite, sweetheart, financier, magnate, business partner, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Writer Georges Duroy (George Sanders) is one social-climbing S.O.B. who does most of his climbing over the warm (and cold) bodies of women. He begins with Rachel (Marie Wilson), a hanger-on in the cafés and Folies Bergere crowd, and then moves on to dally with Clotilde de Morelle (Dame Angela Lansbury). Always striving to move upward on the social scale, he ditches her to marry Madeleine Forestier (Ann Dvorak). Now he gets on the fast track. He persuades Madame Walter (Katherine Emery), the wife of his publisher, to fall in love with him, and then compromises Madeleine to frame a divorce, so he can pursue Madame Walter's daughter, Suzanne (Susan Douglas Rubes). He moves along so well that ere long he is in legal position to usurp the title of one of France's most noble houses. The moral, at the end, is it is okay to mess with French women, but triffling with French titles is going too far.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: womanizer, widow, daughter, nobleman, journalist, wife, crafty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Amber St Clair means to get on in life and despite a poor background knows she has the assets to do it. Husbands, lovers, prison and a liaison with King Charles II form a tapestry of apparently calculating ups and downs, although in fact the one love of her life, Bruce Carlton, is never far from Amber's thoughts.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: courtesan, soldier, king charles ii, earl, highwayman, emotional, passionate ...
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