The Measure of a Man (2015), Make Way for Tomorrow (1937), Where Is Kyra? (2017), Cinderella Man (2005), The White Balloon (1995), Shadows in Paradise (1986), King of the Hill (1993), A Brief Vacation (1975) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Financial Hardship movies.
Storyline: The Professor dispenses the wisdom of the ages and does not make a living wage. The sons of the rich and powerful are students lacking any motivation. The next door neighbor of the Professor, businessman Olsen, has money and lots of food, while the Griggs have hardly any. Both Peter Olsen and Reverend Gates are taken by the beauty of young Amelia Griggs. When rich son Phil West falls for Amelia Griggs and befriends the poor Reverend Gates, he finally sees the difference in his life and theirs and tries to do something to change that.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: silent film, black and white, drama, social issues, class conflict, poverty, family struggle ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A family. Rose and Norah, in Albuquerque, lost their mother when they were young. Rose is responsible - a housecleaner, raising her seven-year-old son Oscar. She's also having an affair with Mac, a married cop, her high-school sweetheart. Norah can't hold a job. Their dad, Joe, is quirky. When Oscar is expelled for odd behavior, Rose wants to earn enough to send him to private school. Mac suggests she clean up after crime scenes, suicides, and deaths that go undiscovered for awhile. Rose enlists Norah, and Sunshine Cleaners is born. Norah bonds with the dead, Rose finds out that it's a regulated business, and complications arise. Can a family marked by tragedy sort things out?
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, family, independent film, female lead, entrepreneurship, american film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After the death of her father and the loss of his fortune, Selina takes a job teaching school in the Dutch community of New Holland. She stays with the Pools and teaches young Roelf piano. He has a crush on her, but it is Pervus she marries. Dirk is their only child. After a few years Pervus dies. With a young child and only the farm, Selina begins her quest to grow high quality vegetables. She wants more for Dirk and guides his life until he graduates from college as an architect. As her vegetable label prospers, she sees Paula control Dirk's life as he moves away from creating and into sales, which is not where he wants to go.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: drama, family, farm life, female coming-of-age, novel adaptation, motherhood, struggle ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: James Francis "Ginger" Coffey has no luck finding a job in his native Ireland and him being a dreamer, he decides the place to find a job is Canada. He moves his wife, Vera, and 14-year old daughter, Paulie, to Montreal in hopes of a better life. After six months nothing has changed and his family despise their new surroundings. The Coffey's do have one thing in their favor: a rich friend named Tom who lands Ginger a job at a Newspaper. It's a dream come true for Ginger who always fancied himself a journalist and he waltzes in expecting a reporting gig and a by-line on his first day. The blow to his pride is almost too much for him when he discovers the job is as a proofreader but he accepts it begrudgingly. The job does not pay enough and Ginger is forced to take a second job as a delivery man for a diaper-laundering service. Just when things are going well, Ginger's pigheadedness and unfounded self-importance cause him to make poor choices and his life begins to spiral downward again.—pr1mal_1
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, family, unemployment, midlife crisis, dreams, failure ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Vivian's family are penniless nomads, moving from one cheap flat to another in Beverly Hills so she and her brothers can attend the city's schools. Uncle Mickey sends them money to survive. When Mickey's daughter Rita runs away from an asylum, Vivian's dad offers shelter to her if Mickey will pay for a plush flat. Vivian must babysit her adult cousin, making sure she gets to nursing school and avoids pills and booze. But Vivian has her own problems: she's curious about sex, likes an older neighbor kid, has inherited her mother's ample breasts, and wants a family that doesn't embarrass her. Can she help Rita, keep Uncle Mickey happy, and feel OK about her body and her family?
Plot Keywords: coming of age, family, comedy, adolescence, usa, 1990s, poverty ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 'Kit Kittredge: An American Mystery' centers around a young girl living in the struggles of the Great Depression. 10 year old Kit lives in a boarding house her parents own in Cincinnati, Ohio. She has a passion for writing, & dreams of having something of hers put in the local paper someday. With the help of her friends, Sterling & Ruthie, will her dream finally come true?—wgdpink
Plot Keywords: family, children, historical, drama, american, great depression, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Nellie Rimplegar has to tell her grown children that due to her bungled handling of their finances, the family has been wiped out by the Stock Market crash. Friend and family doctor, Alan Stevens, tells them they'll all need to eliminate their extravagant ways and get jobs. Stevens also rents a room in their house more as a way to be near pretty Elizabeth Rimplegar, than to help their finances. Stevens faces competition from Elizabeth's beau, Ronald, a free-loading writer who remains oblivious to her money woes.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, family, great depression, mother-daughter relationship, sibling bond, love ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Manager Dick Harper and his attractive young wife Jane are used to a comfortable lifestyle. They just build a swimming-pool when Dick is fired very unexpectedly - leaving him with $70,000 debt on the house. They try to hide this from the neighbors and just cut down their expenses, but soon it's obvious: living from unemployment bonus drives them crazy, it's uncertain if they can keep the house. Dick doesn't see another way out than robbing drug stores - but this takes more skill than expected! Only as a team Dick and Jane can succeed.—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Plot Keywords: comedy, satire, unemployment, crime, middle class, social issues, humor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A poor but honest and hardworking waitress from way across the tracks meets and falls in love with a college student from the upper-stuffy class, but the Mama of the intended objects to the romance. Her objections even lead her to having the waitress framed and sent to a prison work-farm for three months. Upon her release, the waitress finds instant stardom in the show business...and the social class she was lacking. Big Mama withdraws her objections.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, classic, black and white, 1930s, american film, romantic comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Doug, an aspiring country singer, has spent his life as a loser in a non-descript small town with nobody believing in his heartbreaking voice and talent as a musician. His wife has left him and only his best friend believes in him. But he has one last chance to make it...—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: drama, independent film, american film, low budget film, family drama, small town life, social outcasts ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Men Without Jobs is a comedy about Ish and Oz - best friends and roommates whose main goal in life is to avoid work at all costs. Ish is a graffiti artist who dreams of starting his own hip-hop band. Oz is an obnoxious loudmouth, addicted to gambling and cooking shows. When Ish collects several thousand dollars in a lawsuit settlement stemming from a childhood accident, Oz tries to convince him to invest the money in a pyramid scam in order to help him pay off a debt to a sadistic loan shark. The stakes are raised when Ish's girlfriend Veronica gives him an ultimatum to either get a job or get lost. Ultimately, the two eccentric slackers are forced to wake up and realize that sooner or later, everybody has to get a job!—Matthewz, Mad
Plot Keywords: comedy, unemployment, male perspective, social satire, indie film, dark humor, midlife crisis ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two brothers who are forced off their farm in the debt stricken mid-west become folk heroes when they begin robbing the banks that have been foreclosing on farmers.—Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca>
Plot Keywords: drama, crime, family, brothers, farm, fugitive, 1980s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Working-class model Dorothy Haley (Sally Eilers) deflects unwanted passes by claiming she's married to a boxer, but when hard-boiled radio salesman Eddy Collins (James Dunn) shows no interest in her charms, it piques her curiosity. Their ensuing rocky marriage founders due to the couple's Depression-era poverty and Eddy's proud belief that he should be his family's only breadwinner. But, when Dorothy gets pregnant and Eddy loses his job, he goes into prizefighting to support his wife and child.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, melodrama, social issues, family, marriage, pregnancy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The owner (Serge Thériault) of a Montreal gas station/cafe deals with three sons, customers and the changing times.
Plot Keywords: bar, family, father-son relationship, music, canadian film, independent film, drama ...
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