Self made man movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant self made man movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, suspense, stylized, visually appealing and captivating films and TV shows about / with self made man, culture clash, corruption, mentor, chase, storytelling, dialogue, dishonesty, adaptation and businessman plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as self made man: Seabiscuit (2003), Wild Orchid (1989), I, Mattoni (2016), MotherFatherSon (2019), Coco (2009), Moon Over Miami (1993), Disappeared (2004), Mommilan veriteot 1917 (1973), Atlas Shrugged: Part I (2011), My 5 Wives (2000).
List of self made man movies
Genre: Drama, History, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation.
Style:
feel good, sentimental, inspirational, emotional, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
horse, horse race, racehorse, follow your dream, underdog, jockey, against the odds, marriage, self made man, racing, abuse, life philosophy ...
Time:
1940s, year 1938, 2000s, year 2003, 1920s ...
Place:
california, pasadena california, los angeles, chicago, albuquerque new mexico ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A woman lawyer becomes mesmerized by a self-made millionaire during an encounter in Rio setting off a series of erotic encounters.
Style:
erotic, sexy, sexual, sensual, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, adult
Plot:
erotica, sex scene, sexual pleasure, forbidden love, dangerous attraction, sexual relations, strong sexual content, voyeurism, lust, passion, femme fatale, female nudity ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s
Place:
brazil, rio de janeiro, south america, latin america, new york
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic
TV show
Story:
Biographical series about Heinrich Mattoni, capitalist of the early period of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, founder of the world-famous mineral water bottling company, a man of a dynamic and controversial fate.
Style:
family saga, semi autobiographical, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
family business, self made man, husband wife relationship, flashback, ambition, biopic, capitalism, entrepreneurship, mogul, ambitious man, businessman, male female relationship ...
Time:
19th century, turn of the century
Place:
central europe, czech republic
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 57 min.
TV show
Story:
Max is a charismatic self-made American businessman with media outlets in London and around the world. When the self-destructive lifestyle of his 30 year-old son, Caden, spirals out of control, the devastating consequences threaten the future of ...
Style:
captivating, psychological thriller, entertaining
Plot:
businessman, journalism, investigation, self made man, family crisis, british police, privilege, media, political party, family relations, father son relationship, drug ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Coco is a French comedy released in 2009 and produced by Gad Elmaleh. This is the first embodiment of the actor, adapted from a sketch in the show La Vie Normale. Coco talks about organizing a Bar Mitzvah.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, captivating, light hearted ...
Plot:
rise to the top, ambition, hopes, life turned upside down, society, redemption, disorder, self made man, bar mitzvah, jewish culture, adaptation, identity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Moon Over Miami is a short-lived American comedy series that aired on ABC.
Style:
detective, buddy comedy, lighthearted, crime drama, tropical ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
private investigator, investigation, justice, opposites attract, crime solving, partner, fish out of water, self made man, class differences, urban, glamour, partnership ...
Time:
90s
Place:
miami, florida, usa
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Harry Sands is a self made man, happily married with two children. When he learns that his daughter has gone missing in Istanbul, he flies out to find her. To Harry's horror, he discovers from Olivia's best friend, that the two of them ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, disturbing, realistic, suspense ...
Plot:
missing person, father daughter relationship, chases and races, parents and children, abduction, nightclub, investigation, paranoia, family crisis, deception, double life, urban ...
Place:
istanbul turkey, turkey
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Finland
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
On the eve of a civil war, the film follows the last days of Alfred Kordelin, the richest man in Finland.
Style:
pre war
Plot:
finnish civil war, self made man, birthday, blood, murder, autumn, rich man, master servant relationship, businessman, working class, confusion, bourgeoisie ...
Time:
year 1917
Place:
finland, russia
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A powerful railroad executive, Dagny Taggart, struggles to keep her business alive while society is crumbling around her. Based on the 1957 novel by Ayn Rand.
Style:
philosophical, stylized, serious, futuristic, talky ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
libertarian, capitalism, politics, distopia, dystopia, totalitarianism, capitalist, greed, corruption, idealism, society, workplace ...
Time:
future, year 2016, year 2017
Place:
usa, new york, colorado, russia
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A three times divorced real estate tycoon, who thought he was through with love. Gets more then he bargained for when he invests in some property for a ski resort in Utah.
Style:
humorous, not serious, independent film, realistic, surprise ending
Plot:
polygamy, gangster, wedding, small town, culture clash, land developer, lust, feminist, greed, voice over narration, banker, skiing ...
Time:
90s
Place:
utah, las vegas, los angeles, california, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
A visiting city reporter's assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionaire, whom he befriends.
Style:
atmospheric, gothic, southern gothic, suspense, enigmatic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
courtroom, lawyer, closeted homosexual, gay interest, investigation, murder, murder trial, journalism, voodoo, gay, justice, american south ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1997
Place:
savannah georgia, southern usa, usa, georgia, new orleans
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Hackman plays a New York professor who wants a change in his life, and plans to get married to his girlfriend and move to California. His mother understands his need to get away, but warns him that moving so far away could be hard on his father. ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, gloomy, sincere ...
Plot:
parent child relationship, father son relationship, professor, introspection, aging, elderly, dysfunctional family, father, aged person, domineering father, widower, loss of wife ...
Time:
year 1970, 60s
Place:
california, new york
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story:
Just after he is released from prison after 25 years, New York mafia capo Dwight “The General” Manfredi is unceremoniously exiled by his boss to set up shop in Tulsa, Okla. Realizing that his mob family may not have his best interests in mind, ...
Style:
harsh, dramatic, crime drama, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, mobster, crime family, fish out of water, criminal, team, boss, prison, city, empire, gangster ...
Place:
midwest, oklahoma city, oklahoma
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
20-year-old Jing Hao came to Shenzhen to live with his young sister alone. The siblings live a warm yet straitened life. In an effort to pay for his sister's expensive surgery, Jing Hao gets an opportunity by chance, thinking that a better life ...
Style:
emotional, captivating, disturbing, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
sister, surgery, sacrifice, desperation, family drama, sibling relationship, fighting illness, brother sister relationship, adolescence vs adulthood, changing lives, escapades, slice of life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Hart to Hart is an American television series, starring Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers as Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a wealthy couple who moonlight as amateur detectives. The series was created by writer Sidney Sheldon and produced by Aaron ...
Style:
clever, realistic, suspenseful, serious, detective ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
amateur detective, partner, cons and scams, partners against crime, love and romance, couple relations, danger, husband wife relationship, team, journalist, theft, millionaire ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 70s
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise ...
Style:
inspirational, motivational, realistic, cerebral, uplifting ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens
Plot:
business, businessman, fast food, capitalism, rags to riches, entrepreneurship, entrepreneur, salesman, money, marketing, greed, food ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, 2010s, year 2016, year 1954 ...
Place:
usa, america, california, arizona, illinois ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Henry Roubier, a French promoter, and Enrico Mazzini, an Italian, have signed an agreement guaranteeing them a stranglehold on European highways. While driving on the roads of the south, Roubier takes two young hitchhikers, but an unfortunate swerve ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, ambiguous ending, crying ...
Plot:
hitchhiking, tree, rescue, canyon, woman in danger, love triangle, rivalry, danger, television reporter, bribery, trapped in a car, cycling ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe, riviera
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Eugene is a teenage nerd who lives in a small Russian town. He sits in front of his computer all day long, playing games and surfing the Internet. He decides to run a small porn website and soon as he earns his first money from e-commerce. His life ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, captivating, unusual plot structure, suspense ...
Plot:
porn, family relations, teenage protagonist, student, socially awkward, friendship between men, flash forward, teenage boy, friendship between boys, best friend, father son relationship, interview ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A gloomy vision of the possibility of decent relations between whites and blacks anywhere, including the South. Undertaker L.B. Jones, the richest black man in his county of Tennessee, is divorcing his wife for infidelity with a white policeman. ...
Style:
social, serious, realistic, gloomy, bleak ...
Plot:
racism, sexual assault, white male black female relationship, racial issues, interracial romance, racial tension, rape, blaxploitation, lawyer, sexual abuse, murder, adultery ...
Time:
60s
Place:
tennessee, southern usa, america, usa
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The Persuaders! is a 1971 action/adventure series, produced by ITC Entertainment for initial broadcast on ITV and ABC. It has been called "the last major entry in the cycle of adventure series that had begun eleven years earlier with Danger Man ...
Style:
detective, realistic, semi serious, humorous, buddy comedy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
fandom, 007, police, investigation, city, spy, law enforcement, private detective, chases and races, tough law enforcer, undercover, rivalry ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
europe, england, france, french riviera, italy ...
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Tom Logan is a horse thief. Rancher David Braxton has horses, and a daughter, worth stealing. But Braxton has just hired Lee Clayton, an infamous "regulator", to hunt down the horse thieves; one at a time.
Style:
tense, spaghetti western, cult classic, grim, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
eccentricity, horse ranch, killed during sex, train robbery, hanging, death of friend, river, outlaw, ranch, love, murder, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
1880s, year 1976, 19th century, 70s
Place:
montana, canada, missouri, usa, wyoming ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
F.Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.
Style:
stylized, realistic, captivating, sentimental, retro ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
filmmaking, hollywood, producer, introspection, ambition, film industry, showbiz, fall in love, great depression, loneliness, literary, bare breasts ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 1920s, 70s
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
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Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A young but bright former window cleaner rises to the top of his company by following the advice of a book about ruthless advancement in business.
Style:
funny, stylized, humorous, witty, technicolor ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
business, broadway, satire, advertising, greed, marketing, economics, workplace, ambition, workplace romance, book, dance ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 1920s
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to obsession ...
Style:
period piece, stylized, captivating, visual, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
infidelity, love and romance, society, longing, love triangle, lost love, fall in love, love affair, literary, fashion, american history, power of love ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, post world war one, 70s
Place:
rhode island, long island, new york, usa, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Mock documentary about an upstart candidate for the U.S. Senate written and directed by actor Tim Robbins. Bob Roberts is a folksinger with a difference: He offers tunes that protest welfare chiselers, liberal whining, and the like. As the ...
Style:
mockumentary, political, witty, cynical, satirical ...
Plot:
political satire, election campaign, politics, satire, journalism, political campaign, manipulation, republican, conspiracy, senator, ambition, campaign ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, nicaragua, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Following his ruin in the latest banking crisis, a self-made millionaire reluctantly re-unites with his estranged freewheeling brother to re-open the abandoned fish and chip shop they shared in their youth.
Style:
feel good, humorous, light, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
restaurant, starting over, workplace, family business, family life, hopes, down on your luck, life turned upside down, food, coming of age, greek, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The global economy is on the brink of collapse. Brilliant creators, from artists to industrialists, continue to mysteriously disappear. Unemployment has risen to 24%. Gas is now $42 per gallon. Dagny Taggart, Vice President in Charge of Operations ...
Style:
philosophical, thought provoking, exciting, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
politics, self fulfillment, libertarian, rebellion, ambition, visionary, radical, workplace, lifestyle, idealism, rebelliousness, human spirit ...
Time:
future, year 2012
Place:
usa
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