The Cheat (1915), Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders (2006), The Wild Pear Tree (2018), Mother India (1957), The Big Short (2015), Hell or High Water (2016), Peepli Live (2010), Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Debt movies.
Storyline: French author Gustave Flaubert is on trial for writing the "indecent" novel "Madame Bovary." To prove that he wrote a moral tale, Flaubert narrates the story of beautiful Emma Bovary, an adulteress who destroyed the lives of everyone she came in contact with.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, literary adaptation, 19th century, france, marriage, female protagonist ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Little Martha Jane, aka Little Miss Marker is left with the bookmaker Sorrowful Jones by her dad as part of a bet on a horse race. Sorrowful and his group of fellow bookies take to her, reluctantly at first, but their cynical ways start to rub off on her. Will a party set at Camelot bring back her faith in humanity?—Miss Eli
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, family, classic, black and white, 1930s, american film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Around the world everyone knows that honest hard work gets you nowhere. In sunny Orlando, Florida, construction worker Dennis Nash learns this the hard way when he is evicted from his home by a charismatic, gun-toting real-estate broker, Rick Carver. Humiliated and homeless, Nash has no choice but to move his mom and nine-year old son into a shabby, dangerous motel. All is lost. Until an unexpected opportunity arises for Nash to strike a deal with the devil - he begins working for Carver in a desperate attempt to get his home back. Carver seduces Nash into a risky world of scamming and stealing from the banks and the government; he teaches Nash how the rich get richer. Living a double life, Nash hides his new boss and job from his family. He rises fast and makes real money; he dreams bigger. But there is a cost. On Carver's orders, Nash must evict honest families from their homes - just as it happened to him. Nash's conscience starts tearing him apart... but his son needs a home. In a...
Plot Keywords: drama, thriller, real estate, moral dilemma, working class, corruption, survival ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Dan Mahowny (Philip Seymour Hoffman) was a rising star at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. At twenty-four, he was Assistant Manager of a major branch in the heart of Toronto's financial district. To his colleagues, he was a workaholic. To his customers, he was astute, decisive, and helpful. To his friends, he was a quiet, but humorous man who enjoyed watching sports on television. To his girlfriend, he was shy but engaging. None of them knew the other side of Dan Mahowny, the side that executed the largest single-handed bank fraud in Canadian history, grossing over ten million dollars in eighteen months to feed his gambling obsession.
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, thriller, true story, gambling, addiction, canada ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Bank clerk William Marble is desperate for money to pay his family's bills. When his wealthy nephew visits, Marble asks him for a loan, but the young man refuses. Marble decides to kill his nephew. It is a twisted path to justice after Marble is transformed by the crime he committed and the wealth he gains.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, thriller, film noir, mystery, family, moral dilemma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Some guys get all the luck, whether they like it or not. Chili Palmer happens to be in Hollywood collecting a gambling debt when he's struck by lightning (not literally). Called a natural for the movie business, he's snagged up by a producer. The rest is history.
Plot Keywords: crime, comedy, gangster, hollywood, satire, black comedy, adaptation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Bamako. Melé is a bar singer, her husband Chaka is out of work and the couple is on the verge of breaking up... In the courtyard of the house they share with other families, a trial court has been set up. African civil society spokesmen have taken proceedings against the World Bank and the IMF whom they blame for Africa's woes... Amidst the pleas and the testimonies, life goes on in the courtyard. Chaka does not seem to be concerned by this novel Africa's desire to fight for its rights...—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: drama, social, political, africa, courtroom, poverty, globalization ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In nineteenth-century France, the romantic daughter of a country squire (Emma Rouault) marries a dull country doctor (Charles Bovary). To escape boredom, she throws herself into love affairs with a suave local landowner (Rodolphe Boulanger) and a law student (Leon Dupuis), and runs up ruinous debts. This film version closely follows Flaubert's novel and includes most of the famous scenes, such as the wedding, the ball, the agricultural fair, the operation on the clubfoot, and the opera in Rouen.—English Showalter <showalte@crab.rutgers.edu>
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, literary adaptation, french, 19th century, marriage, female protagonist ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Michael is a perpetual waster. He owes money to Perrier, a local thug. When two enforcers demand payment by nightfall, Michael does a burglary with two others but won't be paid till morning. All he has to do is stay away from the thugs until he can get the money then give it to Perrier. But the lads catch Michael and start to deliver a beating, but Brenda, Michael's suicidal neighbor, shoots one. Now they must run for their lives, accompanied by Jim, Michael's estranged father who claims to be dying and has come to reconcile with his son. Will any of the trio see the sun rise? And can Michael become enlightened, become a better man?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: crime, comedy, black comedy, gangster, on the run, violence, revenge ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Down on his luck and facing financial hardship, Gerry teams up with a younger, charismatic poker player named Curtis in an attempt to change his luck. The two set off on a road trip through the South with visions of winning back what has been lost.
Plot Keywords: gambling, road movie, friendship, adventure, self-discovery, american south, luck ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Bright, educated, handsome Conor O'Neill's promising future was wrecked by his gambling addiction, which dragged him into heavy drinking and petty crime, but worst of all, the stifling grip of loan-shark bookies. Desperate for a loan, he agrees to stand in for lawyer friend Jimmy Fleming as coach of a Chicago ghetto Little League baseball team. His sense of pride, becoming the boys' sole idol, and competition, plus their attractive teacher, motivate Conor. But the crushing loan problem rather requires leaving town.
Plot Keywords: sports, inspirational, chicago, inner city, youth, teamwork, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Henrietta Robins works out of her home and her husband Pete drives a cab to try to support her. When Pete gets a tip from one of his fellow drivers that a deal will be made by the Americans and the Soviets over pork bellies, he decides to invest in the market, but needs to $3000 to invest. Henrietta then goes to extreme lengths to get the money by dealing with first a loan shark, then a madame, then the mob and finally cattle rustlers. All this in the name of love.—Brian Washington <Sargebri@att.net>
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, barbra streisand, 1970s, american film, marital relationship, misunderstanding ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An elderly shop-keeper and his grand-daughter are threatened by the rich, mean-spirited dwarf Quilp, and decide to flee across England to escape him. They are pursued both by Quilp and by the shop-keeper's long-lost brother, who wants to find them for a different reason.—Snow Leopard
Plot Keywords: drama, classic, british literature adaptation, charles dickens, 1930s, black and white, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Wayne Dobie is a shy police photographer who saves the life of crime boss Frank Milo. Greatful, Milo insists on being Wayne's friend, offering him the companionship of "Glory", one of his employees. Wayne is thus in a difficult situation: he can't be seen to be fraternising with criminals, and he's unsure about how to deal with Glory.
Plot Keywords: crime, comedy, drama, black comedy, gangster, romance, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Well respected local good guy, Feet Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to settle the bill is by selling his body to an ambitious doctor who agrees to allow him one last month to live life to the fullest, then kill himself.—Silast
Plot Keywords: comedy, crime, gangster, satire, american, 1930s, classic ...
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