Avarice movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant avarice movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, humorous, weird, stylized and atmospheric films and TV shows about / with avarice, greed, death, family relations, sex, society, murder, revenge, dishonesty and drunkenness plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Action genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as avarice: Wonder Woman 1984 (2020), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), The Cost of Living (2003), Wind and Cloud (2002), K.C. Undercover (2015), Jean de Florette (1986), The Room (2003), The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021), Anna Nicole Smith: Exposed (1998), Bathory (2008).

List of avarice movies

Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 151 min.
Story: Wonder Woman comes into conflict with the Soviet Union during the Cold War in the 1980s and finds a formidable foe by the name of the Cheetah.
Style: entertaining, intense, emotional, enigmatic, feminist film ...
Audience: kids, chick flick
Plot: superhero, female protagonist, superheroine, wonder woman character, woman fights a man, female fighter, female warrior, superhuman powers, heroes, amazon, strong female lead, fight scenes ...
Time: 80s, year 1984
Place: los angeles, washington d.c., russia, egypt, new york ...
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Germany
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, feel good, sweet, stylized ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot: christmas, santa claus, imaginary kingdom, dog, villain turns good, magic, surrealism, silly humor, farce, holiday, thief, loneliness ...
Time: 2000s
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The Cost of Living (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Une héritière qui n'arrive pas à hériter, un radin qui ne peut rien dépenser, un petit garçon qui trouve un billet dans la rue, un restaurateur prodigue qui ne fait que donner... Tels sont, entre autres, les personnages de ce film ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, clever
Audience: date night
Plot: rich and poor, looking for love, satire, restaurant owner, love and romance, workplace, society, human nature, workplace situations, generosity, bankruptcy, money ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
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 6.3
 179
Wind and Cloud (2002)
Genre: Action, Fantasy
Country: China
TV show
Style: captivating, disturbing, tense
Plot: martial arts, battles, master warrior, competitor, heroes, avarice, teacher student relationship, prediction, warrior, fight, prophecy, fight for supremacy
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K.C. Undercover (2015)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: K.C. Cooper, a high school math whiz and karate black-belt, learns that her parents are spies when they recruit her to join them in the secret government agency, The Organization. While she now has the latest spy gadgets at her disposal, K.C. has a ...
Style: exciting, sitcom, humorous, not serious, realistic
Audience: pre-teens, kids, boys' night, teens
Plot: high school, youth, working undercover, teenage life, state affairs, parents and children, spy, child spy, secret identity, secret agents, espionage, young heroes ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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Jean de Florette (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Switzerland, Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In a rural French village, an old man and his only remaining relative cast their covetous eyes on an adjoining vacant property. They need its spring water for growing their flowers, and are dismayed to hear that the man who has inherited it is ...
Style: thought provoking, emotional, atmospheric, sexy, realistic ...
Plot: village life, farm, conspiracy, inheritance, countryside, society, life is a bitch, parents and children, village, greed, female protagonist, catastrophe ...
Time: 19th century, 20th century, 1920s
Place: provence, europe, paris france, france
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 3.6
 91K
The Room (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Johnny is a successful banker with great respect for and dedication to the people in his life, especially his future wife Lisa. The happy-go-lucky guy sees his world fall apart when his friends begin to betray him one-by-one.
Style: campy, absurd, realistic, semi serious, funny ...
Plot: infidelity, betrayal, breast cancer, suicide, flower shop, seduction, american football, friendship, strange behavior, surprise party, psychologist, room ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco
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Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker and dashing captain Han Solo team together with the loveable robot duo R2-D2 and C-3PO to rescue the ...
Style: exciting, saga, futuristic, entertaining, epic ...
Audience: kids, date night, girls' night, chick flick, family outing ...
Plot: star wars, space, space opera, robot, rebellion, space wars, princess, space travel, alien, sword fight, space and aliens, good versus evil ...
Time: future, 70s
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The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: In the 1970s and ’80s, Tammy Faye and Jim Bakker rose from humble beginnings to create the world’s largest religious broadcasting network and a theme park, and were revered for their message of love, acceptance, and prosperity.
Style: cynical, disturbing, realistic, serious, talky ...
Plot: televangelist, rise and fall, adultery, unfaithful husband, religion, lgbt, family relations, lie, secret, greedy man, entrapment, scandal ...
Time: year 1969, year 1988, year 1979, year 1980, year 1965 ...
Place: minnesota, minneapolis minnesota, palm springs california
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Anna Nicole Smith: Exposed (1998)
Genre: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 54 min.
Story: Anna Nicole Smith as herself describe a "normal" day of her life and shows what she think and feel about any person or anything in her daily life. From male servant to female servant, from cook to driver, from friends to lawyers, from ...
Style: erotic, sexploitation film
Plot: playboy, model, blonde, mansion, maid, sexual fantasy, recording studio, flashback, chauffeur, photographer, masturbation, chef ...
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 5.8
 5K
Bathory (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Fantasy, History
Country: Slovakia, Hungary, Czech Republic, UK, France
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Bathory is based on the legends surrounding the life and deeds of Countess Elizabeth Bathory known as the greatest murderess in the history of mankind. Contrary to popular belief, Elizabeth Bathory was a modern Renaissance woman who ultimately fell ...
Style: realistic, stylized, suspenseful, bleak, perverse ...
Plot: countess, healing power, dishonesty, society, intrigue, political intrigue, torture, manipulation, state affairs, serial killer, legend, witch ...
Time: 17th century, 16th century
Place: hungary, europe, vienna, transylvania
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God Bless America (2011)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Fed up with the cruelty and stupidity of American culture, an unlikely duo goes on a killing spree, killing reality TV stars, bigots and others they find repugnant in this black comedy.
Style: thought provoking, cynical, talky, funny, intense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: killing spree, female killer, mass murder, serial killer, vigilante, stupidity, dark humor, society, rage, media, partners, life is a bitch ...
Time: 70s, 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa
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 6.2
 35
Motel (1984)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The discovery of the mutilated body of a wealthy woman leads a detective to an isolated motel.
Style: neo noir
Plot: hotel, sex scene, rich woman, motel, murder, husband wife relationship, death, investigation, suicide, storm, greed, old woman ...
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 7.2
 11K
The Club (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Chile
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In a secluded house in a small seaside town live four unrelated men and the woman who tends to the house and their needs. All former priests, they have been sent to this quiet exile to purge the sins of their pasts, the separation from their ...
Style: atmospheric, melancholic, bleak, cynical, disturbing ...
Plot: priest, clergy, suspense, introspection, isolation, haunted by the past, altar boy, religion, child abuse, small town, tragic event, secret ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chile, latin america, pacific ocean, santiago chile, vatican
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The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins (1971)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins is a 1971 British comedy film directed and produced by Graham Stark. Its title is a conflation of The Magnificent Seven and the seven deadly sins. It comprises a sequence of seven sketches, each representing a sin ...
Style: not serious, witty, humorous, anthology
Plot: satire, disorder, friends, misfit, society, greed, gluttony, wrath, pride, chauffeur, avarice, envy ...
Time: 70s
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 7.3
 667
Silas Marner (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Adaption of George Eliot's novel. When a respectable weaver is wrongfully accused of theft, he becomes a virtual hermit until his own fortune is stolen and an orphaned child is found on his doorstep.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, stylized, emotional ...
Plot: women, village, adoption, legal action, society, dishonesty, orphan, self discovery, babies and infants, life is a bitch, redemption, rivalry ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, 19th century
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 6.9
 510
Stevie (1978)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Portrayal of British poet/author Stevie Smith and her life with her beloved aunt through direct dialogue with the audience by Stevie, as well as flashbacks, and narration by a friend. The movie mainly focuses on her relationship with her aunt, ...
Style: sexy, uplifting, serious, realistic, emotional ...
Plot: writers, poet, loneliness, drowning, art, medical, girl, friendship, family relations, adolescence, social decay, forbidden love ...
Time: 70s
Place: moscow russia, paris france, london, yorkshire, england ...
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 5.0
 248
My Ghost Dog (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Dog's ghost returns to help boy win a custody battle, fight bullies and find his loving but shy step-dad a nice girlfriend.
Style: semi serious, exciting, sentimental, touching, feel good ...
Audience: preschoolers, family outing
Plot: dog, youth, family relations, rescue, heroes, ghost, supernatural ability, blind ambition, disorder, animal life, friends, wizards and magicians ...
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 6.2
 3K
Citizen Khan (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Family-based sitcom set in the capital of British Pakistan - Sparkhill, Birmingham. Citizen Khan follows the trials and tribulations of loud-mouthed, tight-fisted, self-appointed community leader Mr Khan and his long suffering family, wife Mrs Khan ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, light, feel good, captivating ...
Plot: muslim, family life, satire, family relations, society, parents and children, social relations, immigrants, ethnic, family man, sports fan, avarice ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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The Promised Land (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 170 min.
Story: The Polish film based on the book of the same name by Wladyslaw Reymont. Taking place in the nineteenth century town of Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional ...
Style: biting, realistic, serious, epic
Plot: revolution, friendship, jewish, revenge, fire, adultery, factory worker, arsonist, brutality, railway, artist, capitalist ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, turn of the century
Place: poland, eastern europe, berlin germany, europe, vienna ...
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The Children of the Century (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 135 min.
Story: True tale of the tumultuous love affair between two French literary icons of the 19th Century, novelist George Sand and poet Alfred de Musset. But their affair falls apart during an excursion to Venice, Italy where Musset is distracted by drugs and ...
Style: sexy, captivating, stylized, atmospheric, romantic ...
Plot: sex, love affair, writers, lifestyle, love and romance, destructive relationship, sexuality, forbidden love, infidelity, poet, erotica, making love ...
Time: 19th century, 1830s, 1820s
Place: paris france, italy, venice, europe, france ...
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Let Joy Reign Supreme (1975)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France
Duration: 119 min.
Story: France, 1719. Louis 14th died four years ago, Philippe d'Orleans is the regent. He is a liberal and a libertine. His right-hand man, Dubois, an atheistic and cupid priest, as libertine as Philippe, tries to take advantage of a little rebellion ...
Style: serious, realistic, anthology, weird
Plot: royal family, libertine, female nudity, amputation, cannibal, scandal, priest, prisoner, deportation, time travel, french revolution, french royalty ...
Time: 18th century
Place: france, versailles, europe, africa, louisiana ...
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The Pirates of Blood River (1962)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A group of ruthless pirates attack a 17th Century Huguenot settlement on the Isle of Devon in search of treasure and will stop at nothing to obtain it.
Style: exciting, entertaining, captivating, tense, light ...
Plot: pirate, treasure hunt, escapades, rivalry, infidelity, village, island, gold, greed, swashbuckler, ancient, penal colony ...
Time: 17th century
Place: caribbean
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Killer: A Journal of Murder (1995)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Carl Panzram is sent to Leavenworth Prison for burglary. While there, he is brutally beaten by a guard. Neophyte guard Henry Lesser feels sympathy for Panzram, befriends him, and gets him to write his life story. Lesser learns that Panzram's ...
Style: disturbing, unusual plot structure, melancholic, bloody, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, death row, prison rape, prison, murder, killer, death sentence, true crime, violence, gangsters, greed, guilt ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s, 20th century
Place: israel, new jersey, california, minnesota, africa
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 5.5
 103K
Ghost Ship (2002)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After discovering a passenger ship missing since 1962 floating adrift on the Bering Sea, salvagers claim the vessel as their own. Once they begin towing the ghost ship towards harbor, a series of bizarre occurrences happen and the group becomes ...
Style: scary, slasher, atmospheric, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, ghost, ship, ghost ship, survival, supernatural horror, macabre, twists and turns, suspense, death, monster, ocean ...
Time: year 1962, 60s, 21st century
Place: usa, alaska
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The Crucifer of Blood (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A beautiful young woman asks Holmes to help her father, a former army captain and hopeless opium addict break free of the curse surrounding a stolen treasure.
Plot: curse, sherlock holmes, death of father, diamonds, avarice, train station, treasure, opium, greed, morphine, jewelry, leper ...
Time: 1880s, victorian era
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Ugly, Dirty and Bad (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Giacinto lives with his wife, their ten children and various other family members in a shack on the hills of Rome. Some time ago he has lost his left eye while at work, and got a consistent sum of money from the insurance company, which he keeps ...
Style: disturbing, dark, realistic, humorous, ironic ...
Plot: sexual promiscuity, family relations, greed, poverty, insanity, satire, suspense, social problems, incest, melancholy, hitman, dark hero ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: rome italy, italy, europe
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 6.3
 170K
Beowulf (2007)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story: 6th-century Scandinavian warrior, Beowulf embarks on a mission to slay the manlike ogre Grendel, a descendant of Cain.
Style: epic, adult animation, fairy tale, dark fantasy, exciting ...
Audience: kids, boys' night
Plot: viking, monster, mythology, dragon, heroic mission, legends and myths, magic, beast, good versus evil, sword fight, supernatural, obsessive quest ...
Time: middle ages
Place: denmark, germany, europe
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 6.6
 3K
The Bank (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The Bank, a world ripe with avarice and corruption, where O'Reilly and his ilk can thrive and honest Aussie battlers lose everything. Enter Jim Doyle a maverick mathematician who has devised a formula to predict the fluctuations of the stock ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, captivating, cynical, thought provoking ...
Plot: stock exchange, greed, business, mathematician, finance, computer genius, rise to the top, ambition, fighting the system, workplace, money, cons and scams ...
Time: 70s, 2000s
Place: australia
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 6.5
 1K
Vision (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Hildegard von Bingen was truly a woman ahead of her time. A visionary in every sense of the word, this famed 12th-century Benedictine nun was a Christian mystic, composer, philosopher, playwright, poet, naturalist, scientist, physician, herbalist ...
Style: sincere, atmospheric, serious, captivating, emotional ...
Plot: nun, gender, healing power, visionary, seer, medieval, prodigy, convent, catholic church, human nature, monastery, hopes ...
Time: 12th century, middle ages
Place: germany, europe, rome italy
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