Materialism movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant materialism movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, humorous, suspense, serious, captivating and semi serious films and TV shows about / with materialism, greed, nude, lifestyle, society, bare chested male, storytelling, adaptation, family relations and satire plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Crime genres shot in USA, UK, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as materialism: Soulless (2012), The Joneses (2009), Mr Selfridge (2013), American Psycho (2000), Crazy Rich Asians (2018), Silicon Valley (2014), Intergirl (1989), American Gigolo (1980), Beauty Water (2020), The War of the Roses (1989).
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List of materialism movies
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
It's a story of 29-year-old top-manager Max who is really sure he is absolutely successful. All his life is around earning and spending money. But one day he meet a girl who is from another, real, world. And his own world starts to crash down.
Style:
serious, captivating, uplifting, emotional, dramatic ...
Plot:
materialism, banker, bittersweet, social differences, fall in love, high society, manager, cocaine, celebrity, cancer, drug, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
moscow russia, st. petersburg russia, russia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A seemingly perfect family moves into a suburban neighborhood, but when it comes to the truth as to why they're living there, they don't exactly come clean with their neighbors.
Style:
satirical, teen, romantic, melancholic, cynical ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
advertising, materialism, envy, marketing, closeted homosexual, suburban life, dysfunctional family, destiny, satire, stereotypes, manipulation, unhappy marriage ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
georgia, usa
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Mr. Selfridge recounts the real life story of the flamboyant and visionary American founder of Selfridge's, London's lavish department store. Set in 1909 London, when women were reveling in a new sense of freedom and modernity, it follows ...
Style:
stylized, captivating, costume drama, serious, period piece ...
Plot:
businessman, high society, rise to the top, visionary, department store, success, materialism, lifestyle, ambitious, career, boss, manager ...
Time:
1900s, edwardian era, 1910s, 20th century, victorian era
Place:
england, london, britain
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, psychological thriller, bloody, twist ending ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, insanity, sociopath, satire, violence, dark humor, psycho killer, materialism, yuppie, nihilism, millionaire ...
Time:
year 2000, 80s, 2000s, year 1987, y2k ...
Place:
new york, yale university, manhattan new york city, america, seattle ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, China
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
An American-born Chinese economics professor accompanies her boyfriend to Singapore for his best friend's wedding, only to get thrust into the lives of Asia's rich and famous.
Style:
romantic, rom com, feel good, sincere, light ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
wedding, wealthy family, infidelity, luxury, rich man poor woman, materialism, chinawoman, chinaman, domineering mother, aeroplane, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, marriage proposal ...
Time:
2010s, year 1995, 21st century
Place:
singapore, taiwan, xian, new york, asia ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 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, computer genius, startup, computers and web, computer system, workplace situations, businessman, friends, workplace, ambition ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
california, usa, san francisco, bay area, palo alto california
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union, Sweden
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
A hospital nurse becomes an "international girl", a prostitute who caters to foreigners with hard currency.
Style:
realistic, cynical, serious, touching, tragic ending ...
Plot:
prostitute, materialism, loveless marriage, perestroika, couples, society, culture clash, sexual attraction, sex, marriage for money, foreigner, money ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
europe, ussr, russia, soviet union
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Julian makes a lucrative living as an escort to older women in the Los Angeles area. He begins a relationship with Michelle, a local politician's wife, without expecting any pay. One of his clients is murdered and Detective Sunday begins ...
Style:
neo noir, sexy, retro, erotic, stylized ...
Plot:
murder, sex, pimp, frame up, gigolo, prostitute, sex scene, love affair, sensuality, infidelity, nudity, redemption ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1980, 70s
Place:
los angeles, california, palm springs california, malibu california, usa ...
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Beauty Water looks like a common skin cosmetic. But unlike other cosmetics, people can sculpt their skin with it like molding clay and change their appearance. An ordinary girl, Yaeji, comes across the 'Beauty Water' by chance, and her ...
Style:
melancholic, allegory, suspense, supernatural thriller, korean anime ...
Plot:
brutality, fashion, psychology, high maintenance, greed, manipulation, cruelty, materialism, dishonesty, femme fatale, identity, encounter ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
The Roses, Barbara and Oliver, live happily as a married couple. Then she starts to wonder what life would be like without Oliver, and likes what she sees. Both want to stay in the house, and so they begin a campaign to force each other to leave. In ...
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, satirical, psychological, cynical ...
Plot:
divorce, battle of the sexes, lawyer, dark humor, dysfunctional family, marriage, divorce lawyer, dysfunctional marriage, relationships, death, greed, married couple ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
washington d.c., harvard university
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A crew of savvy former strip club employees band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street clients.
Style:
sexy, unusual plot structure, erotic, social, entertaining ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
stripper, strip club, seduction, shopping, money, pole dancing, exploitation, dancer, male nudity, sex worker, female protagonist, hypocritical woman ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, year 2007, year 2019, year 2014 ...
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Because of her past, 17-year-old Rio lives her days filling the emptiness in her heart with money--until one day, she meets a university professor named Kouki and falls in love.
Style:
romantic, sincere, captivating, shoujo, anime ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
sexy girl, feminine wiles, sexy teenager, japanese schoolgirl, hot chick, goddess, pretty woman, skirt, teenage girl, relationships, japanese teenager, older man younger woman relationship ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
Gossip Girl is an American teen drama television series based on the book series of the same name written by Cecily von Ziegesar. The series, created by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, originally ran on The CW for six seasons from September 19, ...
Style:
romantic, sexy, soap opera, teen, talky ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
high school, popularity, gossip and rumors, teenager, youth, high school life, teenage love, adolescence, friends, lifestyle, coming of age, love triangle ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Nada, a down-on-his-luck construction worker, discovers a pair of special sunglasses. Wearing them, he is able to see the world as it really is: people being bombarded by media and government with messages like "Stay Asleep", "No ...
Style:
cult classic, homoerotic, suspenseful, serious, black comedy ...
Plot:
conspiracy, alien invasion, dystopia, alien, distopia, mind control, social commentary, anti conformity, violence, resistance, evil alien, capitalism ...
Time:
future, 20th century, year 1988, 80s
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Follows the misadventures of four irreverent grade-schoolers in the quiet, dysfunctional town of South Park, Colorado.
Style:
adult animation, animated comedy, parody, dark comedy, adult cartoon ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama, adult
Plot:
gross out humor, social satire, satire, elementary school, young kid, gay slur, young heroes, mischievous children, political humor, adult humor, dysfunctional society, social criticism ...
Time:
20th century, 2010s, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
colorado, nova scotia, usa, north america
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss Alps but soon suspects that the spa's miraculous treatments are not what they ...
Style:
gothic, psychological, dark, suspense, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
therapist, cure, patient, capitalism, health, slut, capitalist, nubile girl, sauna, hospital, spa, lust ...
Time:
year 2016, future, year 2017, 2010s
Place:
swiss alps, switzerland, alps, america, germany ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
That '80s Show is an American sitcom that aired from January through May 2002. Despite having a similar name, show structure, and many of the same writers and production staff, it is not considered a direct spin-off of the more successful That ...
Style:
sitcom, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
materialism, lifestyle, battle of the sexes, buddies, youth, love and romance, clubbing, punk, car salesman, young adult, friends, couples ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
california, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Inside a snowflake exists the magical land of Whoville. In Whoville, live the Whos, an almost mutated sort of Munchkin-like people. All the Whos love Christmas, yet just outside of their beloved Whoville lives the Grinch. The Grinch is a nasty ...
Style:
fairy tale, funny, sweet, stylized, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
christmas, redemption, xmas, imaginary kingdom, dog, village, burglary, santa claus, little girl, fantasy world, surrealism, christmas time ...
Time:
year 2000, y2k, 2000s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Amy and David are two underachievers from suburbia. Amy has had a rough life raised by her neglectful drug addicted single mother. David has been raised in a more conventional family, but his lack of motivation has driven his father crazy. When Amy ...
Style:
realistic, surreal, touching, controversial, independent film ...
Plot:
materialism, unwanted pregnancy, lifestyle, family relations, mental illness, drug abuse, parents and children, single parent, society, life is a bitch, couples, surrealism ...
Time:
21st century
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, captivating, gloomy
Plot:
slut, lifestyle, troubled youth, introspection, materialism, youth, love and romance, nightlife, fall in love, shopping, abortion, slutty attitude ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france
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Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Flea was a basketball player, happy with his subtle hustle, until a Dominican connect introduced him to a new way to spread the work and make money.
Style:
crime drama, tense, dark, hood
Plot:
drug dealing, rap, hip hop, urban, cocaine, materialism, power, business, money, african american, urban setting, drug trade ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
brooklyn new york city, harlem, new york city, manhattan new york city, harlem, new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A young man sells drugs to rich kids, but finding love gives him reason to leave the gritty life. However, the gritty life has trouble letting go.
Style:
realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, cult classic ...
Plot:
going straight, juvenile delinquency, materialism, destiny, society, drug abuse, life is a bitch, urban ghetto life, drug dealing, fight scenes, urban ghetto, transplant ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, south america, usa, california, chicago
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Netherlands
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
If global economy came to a sudden stop what would be the effect on families worldwide? People in different countries or continents might not seem to be interrelated but there is more than meets the eye and we might be more connected than we ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, contemplative ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
politics, international crisis, society, materialism, state affairs, life is a bitch, family relations, adaptation, rivalry, globalization, financial crisis, unemployment ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Eddie Murphy stars as an over-the-top television evangelist who finds a way to turn television home shopping into a religious experience, and takes America by storm.
Style:
touching, satirical, humorous, clever, intense ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
guru, satire, life philosophy, justice, religion, materialism, media, workplace, love affair, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, screwball ...
Time:
90s
Place:
florida, miami
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Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Second-hand car sales man Willenbrock has everything that he could ever wish for. He is married, has two lovers, a cottage in the German city Grünen, and a BMW. Yet one day while at his cottage he gets mugged and his life is drastically changed. ...
Style:
psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, serious ...
Plot:
car salesman, infidelity, night watchman, obsession, robbery, couple relations, materialism, country house, dishonesty, businessman, security, berlin wall ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, europe, east germany
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Wojnar is a wealthy man who is marrying off his beautiful daughter Kasia, in a small town in present day Poland. Wojnar had to bribe the groom with a fancy car, since Kasia was pregnant by another man. At the end of the ceremony, the car is ...
Style:
captivating, semi serious, humorous, dark comedy, black comedy ...
Plot:
wedding, nothing goes right, cons and scams, gangster, disorder, dark humor, dishonesty, comedy of errors, parents and children, materialism, bribery, father daughter relationship ...
Place:
poland, europe
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
humorous, not serious, entertaining, feel good, funny ...
Plot:
slacker, life turned upside down, fish out of water, rags to riches, society, youth, disorder, cons and scams, siblings relations, adolescence vs adulthood, materialism, dishonesty ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
latin america, mexico, mexico city
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A talented but self-absorbed surgeon starts questioning his purpose in life when he is visited by the spirit of his deceased ex-wife.
Style:
uplifting, sincere, touching, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
medical, hospital, afterlife, supernatural romance, ghost, teaching the ways of the world, supernatural, surgery, life turned upside down, good deed, hopes, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Drama, History
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, period piece, stylized, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
fashion, workplace situations, rise to the top, high society, success, workplace, love affair, nouveau riche, love and romance, department store, hot and sexy, workplace problem ...
Time:
19th century, 1900s, victorian era, 1870s, 20th century ...
Place:
england, britain
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Upon retirement, cranky control freak Kamal Kishore Khosla obsesses about procuring a plot of land in Delhi, where he plans to build his dream house. After investing his entire life's savings to acquire the land, he discovers the plot's ...
Style:
realistic, feel good, semi serious, humorous, offbeat ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
businessman, obsession, betrayal, parents and children, deception, greed, materialism, corruption, success, false identity, revenge plot, police ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
new delhi, india, asia
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