Movies: Debt

Mildred Gower (Alma Rubens), in order to save her extravagant mother, Mrs. Elton Gower (Eugenie Besserer), from bankruptcy and the associated shame and scandal, is forced to accept the proposal Lemuel Sidall (William Welsh), a wealthy man she loathes...

Gustav finds it challenging running the family's funeral home in a little town where no one dies. One day a mysterious man occurs....

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In an audacious campaign to demand better borrowing, Michael Sheen buys £1m of debt from hundreds of people in Wales, and then he writes it all off...

A group of people are recruited by the brain of a band of robbers to commit the theft of some gold bars. Each character has a particular problem why he needs the money, but all are pretty sloppy....

Disasters happen when orphans who grow up together are thrown into the independent life....

Gardoni, a down-on-his-luck vaudeville performer, is taken in by a fellow performer, a clown who has a bicycle riding act. Gardoni shows his appreciation by stealing the clown's act and his girlfriend, whom he marries....

When the world’s financial bubble blew, the solution was to lower interest rates and pump trillions of dollars into the sick banking system. But what happens when the solutions are identical to the mistakes that caused the very crisis?...

With the country's debt growing out of control, Americans by and large are unaware of the looming financial crisis. This documentary examines several of the ways America can get its economy back on the right track. In addition to looking at the feder...

The film is set in a restaurant, and the tragicomic events that befall a restaurant owner who is in debt to a mafia boss....

The film is about a thief, who is arguably the best in the game. He is in debt to the Mafia led by Ringo, so he has to pull off one last big heist to pay them back. He recruits Rocky, a thief who is relatively new in the game with a promising track r...

Inspired by true events, DoubleDown is the story of Ali, a student struggling with money, his relationship and his crippling gambling addiction. Ali promises his girlfriend, Lea, that his next game will be his last and he must fight the temptation to...

Debtocracy seeks the causes of the Greek debt crisis and proposes solutions sidelined by the government and the dominant media. It follows countries like Ecuador that created debt Audit Commissions and tracks this process in Greece....

Bailouts, stimulus packages, debt piled upon debt…Where will it all end? How did we get into a situation where there has never been more material wealth & productivity and yet everyone is in debt to bankers? And now, all of a sudden, the bankers ...

Petr is a courier, a messenger as a matter of fact. He is one of those young men who believe that on their bikes they have become part and parcel of the atmosphere of modern cities. He is a non-conformist who refuses to settle into today‘s deformed ...

With breathtaking clarity, renowned University of Massachusetts Economics Professor Richard Wolff breaks down the root causes of today's economic crisis, showing how it was decades in the making and in fact reflects seismic failures within the struct...

Forced by her poor father to live with a well-off man, a young girl must find a way to escape her new abusive home....

Wayward London youth Jason, seduced by the lure of fast money and unlimited cocaine, becomes a gangster's runner who struggles to survive within London's criminal underworld where his only escape hinges on whether he can kill another to save himself....

Two brothers are going through financial difficulties to pay for their mother's medical treatment. One of them also has a significant debt that endangers his life....

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