Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "destitution"

1. Schitt's Creek (2015–2020)

TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy

8.5

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After being a victim of fraud, Johnny Rose and his family go from extremely wealthy to penniless overnight. The only asset left to them is a small, unsophisticated town: Schitt's Creek. They relocate there. Culture shock ensues.

Stars: Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Dan Levy, Annie Murphy

Votes: 147,390

2. Tulip Fever (2017)

R | 105 min | Drama, History, Romance

6.2

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38 Metascore

An artist falls for a young married woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait during the Tulip mania of seventeenth century Amsterdam.

Director: Justin Chadwick | Stars: Alicia Vikander, Dane DeHaan, Jack O'Connell, Holliday Grainger

Votes: 23,038 | Gross: $2.43M

3. Modern Times (1936)

G | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

8.5

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96 Metascore

The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.

Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Tiny Sandford

Votes: 260,373 | Gross: $0.16M

4. The Golden Glove (2019)

Not Rated | 115 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

6.7

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38 Metascore

A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.

Director: Fatih Akin | Stars: Jonas Dassler, Vasiliki Georgina Pseimada, Christine Jensen, Greta Sophie Schmidt

Votes: 18,410

5. Tesla (I) (2020)

PG-13 | 102 min | Biography, Drama

5.1

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67 Metascore

A freewheeling take on visionary inventor Nikola Tesla, his interactions with Thomas Edison and J.P. Morgan's daughter Anne, and his breakthroughs in transmitting electrical power and light.

Director: Michael Almereyda | Stars: Ethan Hawke, Eve Hewson, Eli A. Smith, Josh Hamilton

Votes: 10,585

6. A Christmas Carol (1984 TV Movie)

PG | 100 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy

7.8

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A bitter old miser who rationalizes his uncaring nature learns real compassion when three spirits visit him on Christmas Eve.

Director: Clive Donner | Stars: George C. Scott, Frank Finlay, Angela Pleasence, Edward Woodward

Votes: 18,380

7. Wendy and Lucy (2008)

R | 80 min | Drama

7.1

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80 Metascore

Over the summer, a series of unfortunate happenings triggers a financial crisis for a young woman and she soon finds her life falling apart.

Director: Kelly Reichardt | Stars: Michelle Williams, Lucy, David Koppell, Max Clement

Votes: 19,817 | Gross: $0.86M

8. Storm in a Teacup (1937)

Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Romance

6.6

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A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.

Directors: Ian Dalrymple, Victor Saville | Stars: Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison, Cecil Parker, Sara Allgood

Votes: 1,134

9. Een goed leven (2015 TV Movie)

50 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

6.8

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A Good Life is about the unusual relationship between Helen, a widow who ends up in dire financial straits from one day to the next, and the student, Joeri, who finances his wild and luxurious lifestyle by working as a gay escort.

Director: Aaron Rookus | Stars: Ariane Schluter, Jonas Smulders, Olga Louzgina, Mattias Van de Vijver

Votes: 110

10. The Dawn Rapists (1978)

18+ | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

4.5

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A gang of four out of control adolescent ruffians egg each other on, to take hostage, torture, and brutally rape several girls, whilst on the run from the law.

Director: Ignacio F. Iquino | Stars: Mireia Ros, Linda Lay, Eva Lyberten, Alicia Orozco

Votes: 322

11. The Sun Shines Bright (1953)

Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Western

6.9

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William Pittman Priest has to use all his wiles to retain his position as judge in his Kentucky hometown, while continuing to be a voice for the town's underclass and for democratic values.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Charles Winninger, Arleen Whelan, John Russell, Stepin Fetchit

Votes: 1,820

12. The Ladies of the Bois de Boulogne (1945)

Not Rated | 86 min | Drama, Romance

7.2

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A society lady engineers a marriage between her lover and a cabaret dancer who is essentially a prostitute.

Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: Paul Bernard, María Casares, Elina Labourdette, Lucienne Bogaert

Votes: 4,849

13. The Man in Possession (1931)

Passed | 84 min | Comedy

6.9

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A charming bailiff's assistant poses as a young woman's butler until she can pay her debts.

Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Charlotte Greenwood, Irene Purcell, C. Aubrey Smith

Votes: 405

14. La Marseillaise (1938)

Not Rated | 130 min | Drama, History, Music

7.0

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A news-reel like movie about early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of individual people, citizens of Marseille, counts in German exile and, of course the king Louis XVI, ... See full summary »

Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Pierre Renoir, Lise Delamare, Louis Jouvet, Léon Larive

Votes: 1,396

15. Oscar Wilde (1960)

Not Rated | 96 min | Biography, Drama, History

6.8

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Playwright Oscar Wilde's homosexuality is exposed when he brings a libel action against his lover's father, leading to his own prosecution.

Director: Gregory Ratoff | Stars: Robert Morley, Phyllis Calvert, Ralph Richardson, John Neville

Votes: 633

16. Tom Thumb (2001)

90 min | Family, Fantasy, Drama

5.3

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Poucet is a kid from a family of numerous children. The parents, too poor to feed them, decide to abandon them in the forest. There, the brothers try to find their way out making fantastic ... See full summary »

Director: Olivier Dahan | Stars: Nils Hugon, Raphaël Fuchs-Willig, William Touil, Pierre-Augustin Crenn

Votes: 964

17. The Ballad of Berlin (1948)

Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Musical

7.2

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After he has luckily survived the war, Otto tries to build up his new life in the remains of Berlin.

Director: Robert A. Stemmle | Stars: Gert Fröbe, Tatjana Sais, Ute Sielisch, Aribert Wäscher

Votes: 231

18. The Wings of the Kirin (2011)

129 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

6.5

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A man is stabbed to death in Tokyo's Nihonbashi area. The victim staggers with the knife still in the wound for eight minutes before collapsing under the winged statues of two Kirin on the ... See full summary »

Director: Nobuhiro Doi | Stars: Hiroshi Abe, Yui Aragaki, Junpei Mizobata, Tôri Matsuzaka

Votes: 889

19. Mamba (1930)

Passed | 78 min | Drama

5.9

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August Bolte, the richest man in a settlement in German East Africa in the period before World War I, is called "Mamba" by the locals, which is the name of a deadly snake. Despised by the ... See full summary »

Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Jean Hersholt, Eleanor Boardman, Ralph Forbes, Claude Fleming

Votes: 109

20. Alibi Mark (1937)

Approved | 13 min | Short, Drama, Crime

5.8

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When an out-of-work Chicagoan travels west as a hobo on a freight train, he finds himself falsely accused of murder.

Director: Joseph Henabery | Stars: Floyd Gibbons, Dennis Moore, Cliff Storey, Fred Whitehouse

Votes: 89

21. The Magic Skin (1915)

60 min | Drama, History

4.6

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Ralph Valentine and his father are musicians of proud and aristocratic ways and are so wrapped up in their art as to be oblivious of their poverty. Their faithful servant, Joseph, has been ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Ridgely | Stars: Everett Butterfield, Mabel Trunnelle, Bigelow Cooper, Frank A. Lyons

Votes: 19

22. Beware (1946)

Approved | 54 min | Music, Romance

5.9

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Ware College is a small Black college in Ware, Ohio. Once prominent, it is now low in attendance, low in enrollment and low on money.

Director: Bud Pollard | Stars: Louis Jordan, Frank H. Wilson, Emory Richardson, Valerie Black

Votes: 91

23. Freezing (2016)

98 min | Drama, Family

7.2

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In earlier times Chinese families were expected to take care of their aged parents. However, nowadays family ties have been fraying. The 70-year-old Liu becomes its victim. Mr. Liu was ... See full summary »

Director: Shigang Peng | Stars: Wenli Liu, Fengzhi Pan, Xishan Liu, Yonghui Liu

Votes: 15

24. Eleanor's Catch (1916)

Unrated | 15 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

5.6

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Eleanor, who earns her living working with her mother as a laundress, is courted by a bad man who will try to induct her into crime. Surprising finale. One of the few Cleo Madison surviving films.

Director: Cleo Madison | Stars: Cleo Madison, Lule Warrenton, William V. Mong, Edward Hearn

Votes: 128

25. In This Cold Place (2017)

3 min | Animation, Short, Music

7.3

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Moby's music video with Steve Cutts animation.

Director: Steve Cutts | Star: Moby

Votes: 68

26. Alice & the Giant Emptiness (2014)

Animation, Short

5.9

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A contemporary tale about a destitute young girl living with the burden of disadvantage, who overcomes a negative self-image and the taunts of classmates to live a life full of possibility.

Director: Danny Lachevre

Votes: 8