Films about the poor and the rich

Films about the poor and the rich
List of the best films about the poor and the rich, selected by visitors to our site: The Proposal, A Princess for Christmas, Rich in Love, All the Money in the World, The Upside, Emancipation, The Ninth Gate, Iron Man 2, El Infierno, The Prince & Me: A Royal Honeymoon.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:48

    When she learns she's in danger of losing her visa status and being deported, overbearing book editor Margaret Tate forces her put-upon assistant, Andrew Paxton, to marry her.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, family
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:28

    After her sister and brother-in-law's tragic death, an American woman who is the guardian for her young niece and nephew is invited to a royal European castle for Christmas by her late brother-in-law's father, the Duke of Castlebury. Feeling out of place as a commoner, she is determined to give her family a merry Christmas and surprises herself when she falls for a handsome prince.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryBrazil

    Working incognito at his rich dad's company to test his own merits, Teto falls for Paula and tells her he grew up poor, a lie that spins out of control.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, biography
    CountryUSA, Italy, United Kingdom, China
    Duration02:08

    The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:00

    Phillip is a wealthy quadriplegic who needs a caretaker to help him with his day-to-day routine in his New York penthouse. He decides to hire Dell, a struggling parolee who's trying to reconnect with his ex and his young son. Despite coming from two different worlds, an unlikely friendship starts to blossom.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genreaction, thriller
    CountryUSA

    A runaway slave forges through the swamps of Louisiana on a tortuous journey to escape plantation owners that nearly killed him.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrethriller, fantasy, detective
    CountryFrance, Spain, USA
    Duration02:13

    An all-expenses-paid international search for a rare copy of the book, 'The Nine Gates of the Shadow Kingdom' brings an unscrupulous book dealer deep into a world of murder, double-dealing and satanic worship.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrefantastic, action, adventure
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration02:05

    With the world now aware of his dual life as the armored superhero Iron Man, billionaire inventor Tony Stark faces pressure from the government, the press and the public to share his technology with the military. Unwilling to let go of his invention, Stark, with Pepper Potts and James 'Rhodey' Rhodes at his side, must forge new alliances – and confront powerful enemies.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genreaction, comedy, drama, western, crime
    CountryMexico
    Duration02:25

    Benjamin Garcia, Benny is deported from the United States. Back home and against a bleak picture, Benny gets involved in the drug business, in which he has for the first time in his life, a spectacular rise surrounded by money, women, violence and fun. But very soon he will discover that criminal life does not always keep its promises.

    Markimdb: 4.1
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, family
    CountryUSA, Czech Republic
    Duration01:30

    At last! The newly crowned King of Denmark, Edward, and his wife and Queen, Dr. Paige Morgan, find time to fly to Belavia for their secret honeymoon. What better way to spend the Christmas holidays than at a fabulous ski resort? But as they take a tour of Belavia's natural beauty, Eddie and Paige discover that the evil Prime Minister Polonius has given orders to bulldoze the precious forests - to drill for oil. Then, the couple bump into Paige's ex-boyfriend, Scott. Eddie immediately becomes jealous - furthermore he suspects Scott cannot be trusted. Paige and Eddie must do everything they can to save the forest, even if it means putting aside their honeymoon.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genremelodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:00

    A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider whom takes the youth under his wing.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Sweden, Belgium
    Duration01:52

    During the last two years of her life, Princess Diana campaigns against the use of land mines and has a secret love affair with a Pakistani heart surgeon.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryRussia, France, Germany
    Duration02:08

    During the Gorbachev years, Platon Makovski and his four buddies are university students who jump on the private capitalism movement. Fast-forward 20 years, Platon finds himself the richest man in Russia, having sacrificed his friends to get to the top. But with this cynical rise, comes a brutal fall.

    Markimdb: 4.5
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:22

    Believing they have left behind shadowy figures from their past, newlyweds Christian and Ana fully embrace an inextricable connection and shared life of luxury. But just as she steps into her role as Mrs. Grey and he relaxes into an unfamiliar stability, new threats could jeopardize their happy ending before it even begins.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
    Duration02:09

    Pride & Prejudice is a humorous story of love and life among English gentility during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters. If Mr. Bennet dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genredocumentary, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:58

    Zeitgeist: the Movie is a 2007 documentary film by Peter Joseph examining possible historical and modern conspiracies surrounding Christianity, the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the Federal Reserve bank. It was officially released online on June 18, 2007 on www.ZeitgeistMovie.com

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:56

    A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrefantasy, drama, adventure, family
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:58

    Two boys - the prince Edward and the pauper Tom - are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace garden, he meets the prince. They change clothes with one another before the guards discover them and throw out the prince thinking he's the urchin. No one believes them when they try to tell the truth about which is which. Soon after, the old king dies and the prince will inherit the throne.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:25

    It's a hot summer day in 1933 in South Philly, where 12-year old Gennaro lives with his widowed mom and his ailing grandpa, who sits outside holding tight to his last quarter, which he's promised to Gennaro and which Gennaro would like to have to buy a ticket to the plush new movie theater. But grandpa's not ready to pass on the quarter or pass on to his final reward: he has some unfinished business with a woman from his past, and he enlists Gennaro to act as his emissary.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:50

    Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York, but once in New York, he learns that jobs - and girls - are hard to get. When Brantley visits his uncle, Howard Prescott, who runs a multi-million-dollar company, he is given a job in the company's mail room.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:20

    The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in a dump by the East River. Irene hires Godfrey as a servant for her riotously unhinged family, to the chagrin of her spoiled sister, Cornelia, who tries her best to get Godfrey fired. As Irene falls for her new butler, Godfrey turns the tables and teaches the frivolous Bullocks a lesson or two.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrecomedy
    CountryMexico
    Duration01:48

    Tells the "riches to rags" story of the Nobles, three upper-class twenty-somethings that appear to have no limits to their checkbooks, and no direction in their lives. Until one day, their father tries to teach them a lesson by staging a financial scandal that forces the whole family to escape to an old house in the poor side of town, and leads the "kids" to do what they haven't done before: get jobs.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:05

    Jack's lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery store holdup and disarms the gunman. The next morning he wakes up in bed lying next to Kate, his college sweetheart he left in order to pursue his career, and to the horrifying discovery that his former life no longer exists. As he stumbles through this alternate suburban universe, Jack finds himself at a crossroad where he must choose between his high-power career and the woman he loves.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:36

    Jackson and Helen are in love and about to have their first child when they move in with Jackson's mother, Martha, in order to take care of the family estate. But all is not well in this household. Martha is jealous of her son's affection for Helen, and, despite her Southern smile, she's starting to act strangely. As Helen tries to create a happy home life, Martha attempts to divide the family so that Jackson will become hers alone.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genrecomedy, family
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:33

    Jed Clampett and kin move from Arkansas to Beverly Hills when he becomes a billionaire, after an oil strike. The country folk are very naive with regard to life in the big city, so when Jed starts a search for a new wife there are inevitably plenty of takers and con artists ready to make a fast buck

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration03:14

    Adaptation of the Dickens novel.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryFrance, Belgium, Italy
    Duration02:40

    It's mid 19th century, north of France. The story of a coal miner's town. They are exploited by the mine's owner. One day the decide to go on strike, and then the authorities repress them

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy
    CountryRussia

    Young major Grisha played in a beautiful life and decided that everything was permissible for him. He has done a lot of things, and now he faces a prison. To correct his son, a desperate oligarch-father goes to extreme measures. Together with his old friend, a psychologist, he comes up with a unique project: the atmosphere of the nineteenth century is being created on the basis of an abandoned village. Grisha gets into a custom-made accident and is allegedly transferred to the past. In fact, a sophisticated psychological experiment is being conducted on him - a spoiled major is turned into the usual servant Grishka, who lives in a stable in the territory of a manor’s estate. He is surrounded by actors whose goal is to change his life and personality. Each of his movements is closely monitored by a team of psychologists using a variety of cameras. Grisha will have to re-learn how to communicate with people, appreciate simple pleasures, work, and also find true love.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:35

    When Francois, a journalist, tours a big store for an article, he is chosen by the son of the newspaper's owner, Rambal-Cochet, as his new toy. Needing money and unwilling to quit his job, Francois agrees to this ridiculous assignment. Gradually befriending the spoiled boy, he induces him to play at making a newspaper, unveiling publicly the tyrannical way of life of the father. The powerful emotional climax we experience with the child astonishes both men.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, drama, musical
    CountryIndia
    Duration02:45

    This is a story of a handsome young taxi driver, Raja, who falls in love with a beautiful rich girl, Aarti. Despite her family's disapproval Aarti marries Raja and goes to live with him in his village. Aarti's stepmother, uncle and cousin weave a web of deception to split them apart. Will Aarti realize that her stepmother is deceiving her? Will Raja and Aarti ever get back together?

    Markimdb: 8
    Genredrama
    CountryTurkey, France, Germany
    Duration03:16

    Aydin, a retired actor, owns a small hotel in central Anatolia with his young wife Nihal and his sister Necla, who is coping with her recent divorce. During the winter, snow covers the ground and boredom brings the return of old memories, pushing Aydin to flee…

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genredrama, history
    CountryFrance

    In France during World War II, a poor and illiterate man, Henri Fortin (Jean-Paul Belmondo), is introduced to Victor Hugo's classic novel Les Misérables and begins to see parallels between the book and his own life.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy
    CountryItaly
    Duration01:27

    The story of a father and a son. An on the road trip from South to North.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountryChile, Spain, United Kingdom, France

    Santiago, capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious "collegio" (Catholic prep school) St. Patrick to allow free admission of some proletarian kids. One of them is Pedro Machuca, slum-raised son of the cleaning lady in Gonzalo Infante's liberal-bourgeois home. Yet the new classmates become buddies, paradoxically protesting together as Gonzalo gets adopted by Pedro's slum family and gang. But the adults spoil that too, not in the least when general Pinochet's coup ousts Allende, and supporters such as McEnroe.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrecomedy, drama, family
    CountryItaly

    A bureaucratic snafu sends Marco Tullio Sperelli, a portly, middle-aged northern Italian, to teach third grade in a poor town outside Naples

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genreaction, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA

    While monitoring an emergency line, a vigilant FBI agent answers a call that plunges him into a deadly conspiracy involving a mole at the White House.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryItaly, France
    Duration02:21

    Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, western, military
    CountryAustralia, United Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:39

    Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by Japanese forces firsthand.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryItaly, France
    Duration01:55

    Internationally released Director's Cut of "Loro 1" and "Loro 2", which were released separately as two movies in Italy. The film talks about the group of businessmen and politicians – the Loro (Them) from the title – who live and act near to media tycoon and politician Silvio Berlusconi in the years between 2006 and 2009.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genredrama, crime, biography
    CountrySpain, Bulgaria, USA
    Duration02:30

    The film chronicles the rise and fall of the world's most feared drug lord Pablo Escobar and his volatile love affair with Colombia's most famous journalist Virginia Vallejo throughout a reign of terror that tore a country apart.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrethriller, drama, short
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:47

      A thriller that revolves around the key people at an investment bank over a 24-hour period during the early stages of the financial crisis.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrecomedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:32

      Molly Gunn, the freewheeling daughter of a deceased rock legend, is forced to get a job when her manager steals her money. As nanny for precocious Ray, the oft ignored daughter of a music executive she learns what it means to be an adult while teaching Ray how to be a child.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrecomedy, melodrama
      CountryFrance, Belgium
      Duration01:44

      Jocelyn is a selfish and misogynist businessman. He tries to seduce a young pretty woman by pretending to be handicapped, till the day he meets her sister, who is also in a wheelchair.

      Markimdb: 4
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:38

      Two wealthy sisters, both heiresses to their family's cosmetics fortune, are given a wake-up call when a scandal and ensuing investigation strip them of their wealth.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genreaction, melodrama, adventure
      CountrySpain
      Duration01:44

      Mikel will marry Julia, owner of a major jewelry he inherited from his parents. During the party in announcing their commitment, Mikel meets Ari, one of the waitresses catering. The attraction that arises between them will make Mikel is interested in the world of Ari: illegal motor racing. Then, the protagonist of this story decides to leave Julia without knowing the true intentions of the person who has seduced. Ari and her boyfriend, Navas, have hatched a plan to get around Mikel jewelry made ​​with his ex-girlfriend.




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