Movies: Rags to riches
- 1963
Tom Jones (1963)
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Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they find a way through the mayhem to be true to love?...
- 2014
Manny (2014)
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From abject poverty to becoming a ten-time boxing world champion, congressman, and international icon, Manny Pacquiao is the true definition of a Cinderella story. In the Philippines, he first entered the ring as a sixteen-year-old weighing ninety-ei...
- 2003
Overnight (2003)
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Alternately hilarious and horrifying, Overnight chronicles one man's misadventures of making a Hollywood movie. It starts out as a rags to riches story as Troy Duffy, a Boston-bred bartender, sells his first screenplay for The Boondock Saints....
- 1952
The Card (1952)
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A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing - some honest, some not quite so. If he can just manage to avoid a certain very predatory woman....
- 2014
Mr. Dynamite - The Rise of James Brown (2014)
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James Brown changed the face of American music forever. Abandoned by his parents at an early age, James Brown was a self-made man who became one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, not just through his music, but also as a social ac...
- 2019
I Am Durán (2019)
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The story of four-time World Champion Panamanian boxer Roberto Durán. A one man wrecking-ball who took on the world, transcended his sport and helped inspire a nation to rise up against its CIA funded dictator to achieve independence. From his days s...
- 2000
The Way of the Gun (2000)
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Two criminal drifters without sympathy get more than they bargained for after kidnapping and holding for ransom the surrogate mother of a powerful and shady man....
- 2005
Two Sons of Francisco (2005)
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The story of Francisco, a very simple and poor man whose dream was to see his children become country music stars, and who made all the efforts to make it happen....
- 2008
Coco Chanel (2008)
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Fashion icon Coco Chanel, steeped in wealth and fame, still issues game-changing designs and collections. The audience is taken backwards in time to the woman's upbringing in an orphanage, and traces her path to ubiquity as it winds through poverty, ...
- 2023
Jelly Roll: Save Me (2023)
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An inside look as the 38-year-old prepares to perform at the famed Bridgestone Arena in his hometown of Nashville, featuring never-before-seen tour footage and interviews with the musician and those closest to him. It also shows how Jelly Roll balan...
- 1956
Death of a Scoundrel (1956)
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A Czech refugee uses women to advance his business interest....
- 2017
Becoming Cary Grant (2017)
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For the first time one of Hollywood's greatest stars tells his own story, in his own words. From a childhood of poverty to global fame, Cary Grant, the ultimate self-made star, explores his own screen image and what it took to create it....
- 2011
Shirley (2011)
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Shirley is the youngest of eight children from a mixed race marriage. By the time she is a toddler the family have moved to the all white area of Splott and by the time she is 12 Shirley has discovered she has an extraordinary voice and can earn mone...
- 1970
The Sidelong Glances of a Pigeon Kicker (1970)
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After a young man graduates from a prestigious college, he rebels by preferring a carefree existence rather than the life of fighting the rungs within the treacherous American corporate ladder. For his means of survival he becomes a New York cab driv...
- 1949
Trottie True (1949)
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Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to riches, who loses her heart to the pure-and-true blue balloonist, Sid Skinner, but continues her upward search on improving her social status. She fin...
- 2025
Kuberaa (2025)
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Upcoming Political Thriller starring Dhanush & Nagarjuna...
- 2011
Ballplayer: Pelotero (2011)
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Two top baseball prospects in the Dominican Republic face fierce competition and corruption as they chase their big league dreams....
- 1973
River Of Fury (1973)
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River Of Fury presents the self-discovery and awakening of a young man (Danny Lee), who has been exposed and fallen for the lucrative powers of wealth. Lily Ho played a role in sharp contrast with Lee, which has helplessly fallen prey to the irresist...
- 1949
The Lord from the Lane (1949)
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The poor photographer Tibbe turns out to be the heir of the recently deceased count Silfverbåge. But he can only get the money on one condition: he must stop seeing his old friends, including his fiancée Maja....
- 1976
The Astrologer (1976)
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Craig Alexander, a con-man "psychic" on the carnival circuit receives the opportunity to pilfer some legendary rubies in Kenya. His luck holds and he winds up the sole beneficiary of the ill-gotten wealth, which he parlays into an astrological broadc...