Rags to riches movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant rags to riches movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, feel good, cult classic, inspirational, serious and entertaining films and TV shows about / with rags to riches, ambition, business, love, hopes, society, entrepreneur, wealth, couples and money plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as rags to riches: Limitless (2011), Itaewon Class (2020), The Rookie (2002), The Founder (2016), The Invention of Lying (2009), We Are the Nobles (2013), Lord of War (2005), It Could Happen to You (1994), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Trading Places (1983).

List of rags to riches movies

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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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Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker (2020)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 191 min.
TV show
Story: This limited series chronicles the incredible true story of Madam C.J. Walker, who was the first African American self-made millionaire.
Style: inspirational, thought provoking, feel good, captivating, period piece ...
Plot: entrepreneur, rags to riches, american dream, hair, black, women, black history, black lives matter, biopic, social climbing, strong female lead, ambitious man ...
Time: edwardian era, 19th century
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 8.2
 19K
Itaewon Class (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story: In a colorful Seoul neighborhood, an ex-con and his friends fight a mighty foe to make their ambitious dreams for their street bar a reality.
Style: dorama, romantic, suspense, captivating, uplifting ...
Plot: rags to riches, revenge, restaurant, faithfulness, love, inheritance, restaurant owner, friendship, lgbtq, asian, workplace, co worker co worker relationship ...
Place: seoul, thailand, south korea
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 6.9
 37K
The Rookie (2002)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Jim Morris never made it out of the minor leagues before a shoulder injury ended his pitching career twelve years ago. Now a married-with-children high-school chemistry teacher and baseball coach in Texas, Jim's team makes a deal with him: if ...
Style: feel good, inspirational, sentimental, touching, uplifting ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, adult, preschool
Plot: baseball, underdog, father son relationship, high school, human spirit, teacher, rags to riches, following a dream, family relations, baseball coach, against the odds, grownups ...
Time: 20th century, year 2002, 90s, 80s
Place: texas, austin texas, midwest, usa, orlando florida
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 7.2
 175K
The Founder (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Greece
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, factual, cerebral ...
Audience: family friendly, teens
Plot: business, fast food, businessman, capitalism, rags to riches, greed, money, salesman, ambition, entrepreneurship, entrepreneur, biopic ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 2016, 2010s, year 1929 ...
Place: america, usa, california, milwaukee wisconsin, minnesota ...
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The Invention of Lying (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Set in a world where the concept of lying doesn't exist, a loser changes his lot when he invents lying and uses it to get ahead.
Style: philosophical, funny, humorous, romantic, satirical ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, teen drama
Plot: atheism, society, alternate reality, rags to riches, love and romance, misfit, truth, love triangle, satire, life after death, life philosophy, existentialism ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 13th century, 21st century
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We Are the Nobles (2013)
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, fish out of water, life turned upside down, rags to riches, youth, society, disorder, materialism, siblings relations, adolescence vs adulthood, cons and scams, dishonesty ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: latin america, mexico, mexico city
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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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It Could Happen to You (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Charlie Lang is a simple, kindhearted New York City cop. When he realizes he has no money to tip waitress Yvonne Biasi, Lang offers her half the winnings of his lottery ticket. Amazingly, the ticket happens to be a winner, in the sum of $4 million. ...
Style: romantic, feel good, sweet, light, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: generosity, greed, lottery ticket, love and romance, love story, love triangle, gambling, destiny, marital problem, rags to riches, lottery winner, hopes ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
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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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 7.5
 165K
Trading Places (1983)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
Style: funny, hilarious, feel good, laugh out loud, light ...
Audience: adult
Plot: stock market, prostitute, switching roles, fish out of water, beggar, wrongful arrest, social satire, wager, rags to riches, poverty, investor, christmas ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1983
Place: pennsylvania, philadelphia, arizona, usa, manhattan new york city ...
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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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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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 5.8
 152K
Mr. Deeds (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased uncle, he quickly begins rolling in a different kind of dough. Moving to the big city, Deeds finds himself besieged by opportunists all gunning for ...
Style: funny, entertaining, humorous, hilarious, romantic comedy ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot: inheritance, justice, love and romance, rags to riches, greed, happy ending, rise to the top, small town life, fall in love, dishonesty, disorder, betrayal ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: new hampshire, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Coco Before Chanel (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story: 2009 biopic about the early life of Coco Chanel. Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Chanel finds herself working in a provincial bar both. She's both a seamstress for the performers ...
Style: stylized, inspirational, sexy, costume drama, period piece ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: fashion, high society, fashion designer, women, designer, rise to the top, feminist, feminism, rags to riches, dressmaker, social climbing, fashion model ...
Time: 19th century, 1900s, 1920s, edwardian era, ancient times ...
Place: france, paris france, europe
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Straight Outta Compton (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 147 min.
Story: In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: their music. Taking us back to where it all began, ...
Style: realistic, intense, hood, lyrical, suspense ...
Audience: manly
Plot: hip hop, racism, music, gangster, rags to riches, ghetto, profanity, rap, rapper, african american, biopic, fighting the system ...
Time: 90s, 2010s, year 2015, 80s, year 2016 ...
Place: los angeles, california, milwaukee wisconsin, usa, texas ...
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The Great Gatsby (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche ...
Style: stylized, sentimental, bad ending, romantic, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night, adult
Plot: obsession, high society, social differences, love triangle, loneliness, love story, millionaire, unfulfilled love, love and romance, love, destructive relationship, infidelity ...
Time: 1920s, year 2013, 90s, 1900s, 2010s ...
Place: new york, usa, los angeles, long island, midwest
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 8.8
 2.2M
Forrest Gump (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events - in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. Yet, despite all the things he has attained, his one true love eludes ...
Style: inspirational, touching, feel good, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience: date night, kids, chick flick, girls' night, family outing ...
Plot: life & death, philosophy, life philosophy, mentally challenged, destiny, love, rise to the top, human spirit, selflessness, storytelling, life, journey ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 70s, 50s, 1950s ...
Place: usa, washington d.c., vietnam, china, alabama ...
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Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Jamal Malik is an impoverished Indian teen who becomes a contestant on the Hindi version of ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’ but, after he wins, he is suspected of cheating.
Style: touching, uplifting, realistic, motivational, feel good ...
Audience: date night, teens, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot: poverty, childhood, rags to riches, destiny, orphan, society, against the odds, life is a bitch, love, street life, cheating, ambition ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 20th century, 90s, year 2005 ...
Place: india, mumbai india, asia, britain, taj mahal
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The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A biopic of 20-year-old Francis Ouimet who defeated his golfing idol and 1900 US Open Champion, Harry Vardon.
Style: motivational, inspirational, captivating, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, family outing, chick flick, teens, family friendly ...
Plot: golf, rags to riches, underdog, working class, athlete's life, prodigy, human spirit, lifestyle, ambition, social differences, struggle, talented ...
Time: 1910s, year 2005, 20th century
Place: massachusetts, usa
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 6.4
 202
Shirley (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
Story: Shirley is the youngest of eight children from a mixed race marriage. By the time she is a toddler the family have moved to the all white area of Splott and by the time she is 12 Shirley has discovered she has an extraordinary voice and can earn ...
Style: sincere, realistic, serious
Plot: rags to riches, family relations, interracial relations, nightclub, baby, rising to stardom, musician's life, ambition, youth, artists and showbiz, society, teenage life ...
Time: 1930s, 60s, 1940s, 50s, 20th century ...
Place: wales, england, glasgow scotland, europe
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Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Music
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.
Style: hood, harsh, stylized, serious, rough ...
Plot: hip hop, ghetto, rapper, rap, gangster, urban ghetto life, redemption, music, urban, rags to riches, gang, going straight ...
Time: year 2005, 80s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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Maid in Manhattan (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Marisa Ventura is a struggling single mom who works at a posh Manhattan hotel and dreams of a better life for her and her young son. One fateful day, hotel guest and senatorial candidate Christopher Marshall meets Marisa and mistakes her for a ...
Style: romantic, light, sweet, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, adult
Plot: love story, love and romance, fall in love, class differences, opposites attract, cinderella story, couples, hotel, mistaken identity, eligible bachelor, single mother, social differences ...
Time: year 2002, 70s, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, brooklyn new york city
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 7.1
 358K
Pretty Woman (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: When a millionaire wheeler-dealer enters a business contract with a Hollywood sex worker Vivian Ward, he loses his heart in the bargain.
Style: feel good, romantic, sweet, sentimental, romantic comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, family friendly ...
Plot: love, love story, love and romance, prostitute, fall in love, character change, hotel, opposites attract, cinderella story, rich man poor woman, social differences, rags to riches ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 20th century, year 1990
Place: los angeles, beverly hills, madagascar, usa, san francisco ...
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Great Expectations (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: 'Great Expectations' opens with Pip as a boy (played as an young man by newcomer Douglas Booth, 'The Pillars of the Earth') on the marshes near his home, where he encounters the desperate escapee Magwitch (Winstone). Pip is ...
Style: atmospheric, historical drama, serious, realistic, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: generosity, victorian england, charles dickens, lovers, rags to riches, orphan, convict, stranger, society, redemption, obsession, hopes ...
Time: 19th century, 1820s, victorian era, regency period
Place: britain, london, england
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Mrs. Winterbourne (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Connie Doyle is eighteen and pregnant her boyfriend has kicked her out. She accidentaly ends up on a train where she meets Hugh Winterbourne and his wife Patricia who is pregnant. The train wrecks and she wakes up in the hosptial to find out that ...
Style: touching, romantic, sweet, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: mistaken identity, love and romance, pregnancy, women, rags to riches, enemies to lovers, rise to the top, fall in love, society, couple relations, dishonesty, couples ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: boston, usa, massachusetts
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Two for the Money (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A former college athlete joins forces with a sports consultant to handicap football games for high-rolling gamblers.
Style: intense, tense, serious, stylized, suspenseful ...
Plot: gambling, american football, greed, football, father son relationship, cons and scams, addiction, rags to riches, manipulation, dishonesty, workplace, bookies ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: new york, puerto rico, las vegas
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 5.3
 40K
Annie (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Ever since her parents left her as a baby, little Annie has led a hard-knock life with her calculating foster mother, Miss Hannigan. However, all that changes when hard-nosed billionaire and mayoral candidate Will Stacks takes her in on the ...
Style: emotional, touching, feel good, teen, sincere ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, chick flick, family friendly
Plot: adoption, father daughter relationship, foster child, orphan, rags to riches, music, hopes, rich and poor, parents and children, friends, kids and family, dancing ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, harlem
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 8.0
 14K
Start-Up (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 80 min.
TV show
Story: Young entrepreneurs aspiring to launch virtual dreams into reality compete for success and love in the cutthroat world of Korea's high-tech industry.
Style: uplifting, dorama, thought provoking, touching, romantic
Plot: computer genius, pen pal, computers and web, rags to riches, ambition, life philosophy, youth, first love, creator, faithfulness, character study, rivalry ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: seoul
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 7.0
 200K
A Knight's Tale (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: William Thatcher, a peasant, is sent to apprentice with a Knight named Hector as a young boy. Urged by his father to "change his Stars", he assumes Sir Hector's place in a tournament when Hector dies in the middle of it. He wins. With ...
Style: feel good, period piece, romantic, inspirational, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, teens, family outing, date night ...
Plot: medieval, knight, sword fight, jousting, against the odds, sword duel, love and romance, love, love story, writers, underdog, fall in love ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times, year 2001, ancient times, 2000s ...
Place: england, europe, france, london, paris france
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