Success movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant success movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, entertaining, serious, inspirational, captivating and stylized films and TV shows about / with success, ambition, entrepreneur, business, female nudity, profanity, money, entrepreneurship, inspiration and friendship plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Biography genres shot in USA, Germany, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as success: The Pursuit of Happyness (2006), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), The Devil's Advocate (1997), Limitless (2011), The Social Network (2010), The Aviator (2004), Lord of War (2005), Middle Men (2009), Amelie (2001), 8 Mile (2002).

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The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.
Style: inspirational, emotional, sentimental, uplifting, motivational ...
Audience: family outing, chick flick, teens, family friendly
Plot: homeless, life, human spirit, life philosophy, family drama, rags to riches, success, rise to the top, single father, against the odds, life is a bitch, down on your luck ...
Time: 80s, year 2006, 2010s, 20th century
Place: usa, san francisco, bay area, california, america
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The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.
Style: clever, captivating, motivational, cynical, dramatic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: money, corruption, business, wall street, rise and fall, greed, stock market, addiction, success, stock broker, wealth, rags to riches ...
Time: 80s, year 2013, 90s, 2010s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, usa, america, geneva switzerland, italy ...
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The Devil's Advocate (1997)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story: A hotshot lawyer gets more than he bargained for when he learns his new boss is Lucifer himself.
Style: psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, surprise ending, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: lawyer, devil, supernatural, satan, deal with the devil, law firm, courtroom, greed, demon, law, courtroom drama, ambition ...
Time: year 1997, 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, florida, southern usa, madison square garden manhattan new york city ...
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 7.4
 609K
Limitless (2011)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A paranoia-fueled action thriller about an unsuccessful writer whose life is transformed by a top-secret "smart drug" that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract ...
Style: clever, thought provoking, philosophical, intellectual, captivating ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, chick flick
Plot: intelligence, success, drug, drug abuse, creativity, ambition, rags to riches, rise to the top, life turned upside down, prodigy, experimental drug, overnight success ...
Time: year 2011, future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
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The Social Network (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room as a small site among ...
Style: clever, intellectual, realistic, witty, inspirational ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: entrepreneur, programmer, business, geek, facebook, computers and web, hacker, inventions and discoveries, rise to the top, computer genius, success, college ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 20th century, year 2003, 2000s ...
Place: harvard university, california, boston, usa, san francisco ...
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 7.5
 382K
The Aviator (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 170 min.
Story: A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe ...
Style: realistic, epic, stylized, period piece, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: success, mental illness, aviation, biopic, filmmaking, entrepreneur, corruption, test pilot, entrepreneurship, businessman, character study, obsessive compulsive disorder ...
Time: 1930s, year 2004, 1920s, 20th century, 1940s ...
Place: los angeles, california, new york, connecticut, usa ...
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 7.6
 335K
Lord of War (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Germany, France, Zambia, Italy, Denmark, UK
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Yuri Orlov is a globetrotting arms dealer and, through some of the deadliest war zones, he struggles to stay one step ahead of a relentless Interpol agent, his business rivals and even some of his customers who include many of the world's most ...
Style: clever, suspense, realistic, thought provoking, dark comedy ...
Audience: kids, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: business, greed, corruption, arms dealer, cold war, arms dealing, millionaire, gunrunner, rags to riches, smuggling, human nature, rise and fall ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 20th century, 80s, year 2001 ...
Place: africa, bolivia, new york, odessa ukraine, sierra leone ...
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 6.8
 38K
Middle Men (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Chronicles Jack Harris, one of the pioneers of internet commerce, as he wrestles with his morals and struggles not to drown in a sea of conmen, mobsters, drug addicts, and pornstars.
Style: entertaining, erotic, humorous, stylized, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, internet, success, bare breasts, porn industry, business, stripper, nudity, female nudity, porn star, strip club, entrepreneur ...
Time: year 2009, 90s, 20th century, year 1997, year 1990 ...
Place: usa, texas, los angeles, las vegas, houston texas ...
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 8.3
 791K
Amelie (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 122 min.
Story: At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie (Audrey Tautou) accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as a matchmaker, guardian angel, and all-around do-gooder. But when she bumps into a ...
Style: feel good, inspirational, touching, sweet, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: loneliness, love, magic realism, fall in love, imagination, female protagonist, cafe, love and romance, optimism, lifestyle change, surrealism, life ...
Time: year 2001, 70s, 90s, year 1974, 20th century ...
Place: paris france, france, europe, montmartre paris, quebec
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 7.2
 318K
8 Mile (2002)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The setting is Detroit in 1995. The city is divided by 8 Mile, a road that splits the town in half along racial lines. A young white rapper, Jimmy "B-Rabbit" Smith Jr. summons strength within himself to cross over these arbitrary ...
Style: inspirational, serious, realistic, harsh, hood ...
Audience: girls' night, boys' night
Plot: hip hop, underdog, music, follow your dream, rap, urban ghetto life, success, urban ghetto, musician, rapper, poverty, street gang ...
Time: 90s, year 2002, y2k, 2000s, year 1995 ...
Place: detroit, michigan, america, los angeles, usa
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 8.1
 510K
Rush (2013)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A biographical drama centered on the rivalry between Formula 1 drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda during the 1976 Formula One motor-racing season.
Style: inspirational, realistic, motivational, suspense, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: racing, race, car race, race car, racecar driver, rise to the top, motor sport, success, formula 1, car racing, world champion, rivalry ...
Time: 70s, year 2013, 2010s, year 1976, year 1970 ...
Place: europe, britain, australia, usa, monte carlo ...
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 7.6
 461K
Moneyball (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: The story of Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball team on a budget, by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.
Style: inspirational, feel good, realistic, captivating, motivational ...
Plot: baseball, mathematics, underdog, success, rise to the top, strategy, biopic, motivation, entrepreneur, business, leadership, entrepreneurship ...
Time: 80s, year 2011, 2010s, 70s, 2000s ...
Place: california, boston, usa, san francisco, bay area ...
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 9.5
 2.1M
Breaking Bad (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: When Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live, he becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure his family's ...
Style: serious, captivating, tense, psychological, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: criminal, cancer, peril, life turned upside down, drug dealing, drug cartel, unlikely partners, drug lord, master criminal, family problems, life is a bitch, drug ...
Time: y2k, year 2008, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new mexico, albuquerque new mexico, usa
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 6.9
 101K
A Good Year (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Failed London banker Max Skinner inherits his uncle's vineyard in Provence, where he spent many childhood holidays. Upon his arrival, he meets a woman from California who tells Max she is his long-lost cousin and that the property is hers.
Style: feel good, romantic, sentimental, inspirational, romantic comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: wine, vineyard, fall in love, countryside, character change, love story, love and romance, starting over, doubts and hesitations, workaholic, inheritance, self discovery ...
Time: year 2006, 20th century, 80s, 21st century
Place: provence, france, europe, england, london
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 8.4
 473K
Suits (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: While running from a drug deal gone bad, Mike Ross, a brilliant young college-dropout, slips into a job interview with one of New York City's best legal closers, Harvey Specter. Tired of cookie-cutter law school grads, Harvey takes a gamble by ...
Style: stylized, captivating, witty, serious, talky ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, date night, family outing
Plot: lawyer, legal, law firm, photographic memory, hotshot lawyer, ambition, boss, success, corporate world, workplace situations, lawsuit, ambitious ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, chicago, syria
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 6.2
 127K
Just Friends (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany, USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: While visiting his hometown during Christmas, a man comes face-to-face with his old high school crush whom he was best friends with – a woman whose rejection of him turned him into a ferocious womanizer.
Style: feel good, romantic, light, funny, humorous ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot: true love, best friends in love, christmas, love and romance, holiday, friends in love, male female friendship, love, friendship, couples, fall in love, snow ...
Time: year 2005, year 1995, 2000s, 90s, 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa, los angeles
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The Billionaire (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 131 min.
Story: The Billionaire tells the story of Aitthipat Kulapongvanich and how he, at the age of nineteen, dropped out from university to launch a packaged fried seaweed business that is now Taokaenoi Food & Marketing and became one of Thailand's ...
Style: inspirational, motivational, realistic, captivating, thought provoking ...
Audience: teens
Plot: rise to the top, entrepreneur, teenage protagonist, success, business, dream, coping, get rich quick scheme, rags to riches, direction and purpose, billionaire, career change ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand
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 7.6
 24K
Mildred Pierce (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 336 min.
TV show
Story: A newly divorced, uniquely independent woman struggles to carve out a new life for herself and her family in Depression-era California.
Style: emotional, serious, costume drama, atmospheric, period piece ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: housewife, single parent, tragic event, struggle, divorce, depression, friendship, ambitious, family relations, social differences, heroine, suffering ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s, year 2011, 2010s, 20th century
Place: california, los angeles, usa, glendale california
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 6.8
 91K
Goon (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Doug Glatt, a slacker who discovers he has a talent for brawling is approached by a minor league hockey coach and invited to join the team as the "muscle." Despite the fact that Glatt can't skate his best friend, Pat, convinces him to ...
Style: feel good, entertaining, funny, humorous, witty ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: ice hockey, hockey, dimwit, underdog, success, fame, bouncer, misfit, love story, relationships, fight scenes, friendship ...
Time: y2k, 21st century
Place: nova scotia, nova scotia, canada, canada, quebec
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The Greatest Showman (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The story of American showman P.T. Barnum, founder of the circus that became the famous traveling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
Style: inspirational, captivating, uplifting, costume drama, motivational ...
Audience: family outing, teens, chick flick, kids, date night
Plot: circus, social outcast, giant, singing, dancing, romantic relationship, taboo, children, success, father daughter relationship, love, outcast ...
Time: 2010s, 19th century, year 2017, victorian era, 1800s ...
Place: new york, london, buckingham palace
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 8.5
 165K
Silicon Valley (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story: In the high-tech gold rush of modern Silicon Valley, the people most qualified to succeed are the least capable of handling success. Partially inspired by Mike Judge’s own experiences as a Silicon Valley engineer in the late ‘80s, Silicon Valley ...
Style: realistic, humorous, entertaining, clever, witty ...
Audience: teens
Plot: computer, geek, programmer, startup, computers and web, computer genius, workplace situations, ambition, computer system, workplace, businessman, ambitious ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: california, usa, san francisco, bay area, palo alto california
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 7.7
 25K
Guru (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 162 min.
Story: Gurukant Desai hails from Idhar, a small village in Gujarat, but dreams of setting up his own business in Mumbai. After he returns from Turkey, he marries Sujatha for getting the dowry and arrives in Mumbai to start his business. This film ...
Style: realistic, captivating, touching, serious, inspirational ...
Plot: couples, society, research, ambition, rise to power, industrialist, idealism, newspaper, success, doubts and hesitations, businessman, entrepreneurship ...
Time: 60s, 50s, year 2007, 70s, 20th century ...
Place: asia, india, istanbul turkey, mumbai india, turkey
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The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.
Style: feel good, light, surreal, cult classic, visually stunning ...
Plot: success, business, corruption, fighting the system, secretary, economics, industry, dark humor, christmas, journalism, newspaper, psychiatrist ...
Time: 1950s, year 1994, 90s, 50s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, usa, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
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 8.0
 86K
The Hustler (1961)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the legendary Minnesota Fats to a high-stakes match.
Style: black and white, atmospheric, suspense, psychological, cynical ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: billiards, gambling, hustler, suicide, success, ambition, lifestyle, rivalry, championship, cons and scams, obsession, idealism ...
Time: 20th century, year 1961, 60s
Place: usa, california, louisville kentucky, san francisco, kentucky
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 7.3
 164K
Wall Street (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: 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.
Style: realistic, intense, political, suspense, talky ...
Audience: manly
Plot: wall street, stock broker, stock market, stock exchange, capitalism, businessman, yuppie, entrepreneur, business, greed, success, workplace ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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 7.7
 13K
The Paradise (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: An intoxicating love story set in England's first department store in the 1870s. The Paradise revolves around the lives of the people who live and work in the store, each bound in their own way by the power of the world they live in, and the ...
Style: captivating, costume drama, stylized, realistic, period piece ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: fashion, workplace situations, rise to the top, high society, ambition, workplace, nouveau riche, love affair, love and romance, department store, success, workplace problem ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1900s, 1870s, 20th century ...
Place: england, britain
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 8.0
 819K
Black Swan (2010)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A ballet dancer wins the lead in "Swan Lake" and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan - Princess Odette - but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan.
Style: psychological, suspense, cerebral, atmospheric, surreal ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: ballet, mental illness, obsession, psychology, insanity, dancing, character study, surrealism, hallucination, mother daughter relationship, paranoia, showbiz ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, bolivia, manhattan new york city
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 7.6
 358K
The Blind Side (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Oversized African-American, Michael Oher, the teen from across the tracks and a broken home, has nowhere to sleep at age 16. Taken in by an affluent Memphis couple, Michael embarks on a remarkable rise to play for the NFL.
Style: inspirational, touching, emotional, sentimental, motivational ...
Audience: family outing, chick flick, teens, kids, family friendly ...
Plot: american football, adoption, life, african american, human spirit, family drama, christian, interracial relations, football, rising to stardom, racism, interracial adoption ...
Time: year 2009, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, tennessee, america, boston, mississippi ...
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 8.1
 52K
Power (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: James “Ghost” St. Patrick has it all: a beautiful wife, a gorgeous Manhattan penthouse, and the hottest, up-and-coming new nightclub in New York. His club, Truth, caters to the elite: the famous and infamous boldface names that run the city that ...
Style: serious, tense, realistic, captivating, erotic ...
Plot: nightclub, nightlife, drug dealing, ambition, nightclub owner, businessman, organized crime, money laundering, sexual activity, drug lord, double life, criminal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Singer Dewey Cox overcomes adversity to become a musical legend.
Style: funny, humorous, parody, stylized, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: music, rock, farce, hip hop, stupidity, success, drug abuse, rock and roll, addiction, drug, divorce, team ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 60s, 70s, 90s ...
Place: usa
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