Movies: Rags to riches

  • 1973
    River Of Fury

    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...

    River Of Fury
  • 2014
    Manny

    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...

    Manny
  • 1963
    Tom Jones

    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?...

    Tom Jones
  • 2003
    Overnight

    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....

    Overnight
  • 2008
    Coco Chanel

    Coco Chanel (2008)

    Coco Chanel

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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, ...

    Coco Chanel
  • 2019
    I Am Richard Pryor

    I Am Richard Pryor (2019)

    I Am Richard Pryor

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    The life story of Richard Pryor (1940-2005), the legendary performer and iconic social satirist who transcended racial and social barriers with his honest, irreverent and biting humor....

    I Am Richard Pryor
  • 2009
    Mao’s Last Dancer

    Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)

    Mao’s Last Dancer

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    At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he falls in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed t...

    Mao’s Last Dancer
  • 1952
    The Card

    The Card (1952)

    The Card

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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....

    The Card
  • 2019
    I Am Durán

    I Am Durán (2019)

    I Am Durán

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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...

    I Am Durán
  • 1945
    Kitty

    Kitty (1945)

    Kitty

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    Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later decides to use her for his benefit....

    Kitty
  • 2014
    Mr. Dynamite - The Rise of James Brown

    Mr. Dynamite - The Rise of James Brown (2014)

    Mr. Dynamite - The Rise of James Brown

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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...

    Mr. Dynamite - The Rise of James Brown
  • 2017
    Becoming Cary Grant

    Becoming Cary Grant (2017)

    Becoming Cary Grant

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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....

    Becoming Cary Grant
  • 1976
    The Astrologer

    The Astrologer (1976)

    The Astrologer

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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...

    The Astrologer
  • 1956
    Death of a Scoundrel

    Death of a Scoundrel (1956)

    Death of a Scoundrel

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    A Czech refugee uses women to advance his business interest....

    Death of a Scoundrel
  • 1987
    I Carry the World

    I Carry the World (1987)

    I Carry the World

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    A riches story amidst the filth and squalor of the Smokey Mountain. A scavenger among the garbage who had to carry her crippled mother on her back while begging on the steps of the Manila Cathedral. Raped by an unknown man she left her poverty laden ...

    I Carry the World
  • 2023
    Jelly Roll: Save Me

    Jelly Roll: Save Me (2023)

    Jelly Roll: Save Me

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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...

    Jelly Roll: Save Me
  • 1949
    Trottie True

    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...

    Trottie True
  • 1943
    Two Weeks to Live

    Two Weeks to Live (1943)

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    When Abner is mistakenly diagnosed as having only two weeks to live, his partner gets the idea that they can make a ton of money by having Abner perform all kinds of dangerous stunts....

    Two Weeks to Live
  • 2011
    Ballplayer: Pelotero

    Ballplayer: Pelotero (2011)

    Ballplayer: Pelotero

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    Two top baseball prospects in the Dominican Republic face fierce competition and corruption as they chase their big league dreams....

    Ballplayer: Pelotero
  • 2011
    Shirley

    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...

    Shirley