Needing money movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant needing money movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, psychological, disturbing, tense, thrilling and suspense films and TV shows about / with needing money, money problems, money, female protagonist, family problems, desperation, family relations, life is a bitch, friendship and social problems plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in South Korea, Japan, USA and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as needing money: Lea (2011), Melody (2014), Second Chances (2013), Tomodachi Game (2022), The Gravedigger's Wife (2021), Katha Ankahee (2022), Al Thaman (2023), Happiness for Sale (2013), Twinkle Twinkle (2011), Squid Game (2021).
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Léa lives in Le Havre, where she attends college whilst taking care of her elderly grandmother. To make ends meet, she works as a waitress in a night club. Her admittance to the Institute of Political Studies in Paris offers her new ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, serious, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
old woman, strong sexual content, youth, hopes, human nature, lifestyle, introspection, nightlife, strong female presence, student life, student, needing money ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
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273
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Melody, 28 years old, a confused child born under the name X, decides to rent out her body in order to get the money she needs to realize her dream: opening a hair-dressing salon. To do so, she accepts to carry the child of Emily, a rich English ...
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot:
surrogate mother, pregnancy, hairdresser, homeless, follow your dream, money, baby, social differences, social relations, hopes, locked in, women ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, belgium, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Jenny McLean is a single mom working at a 911-call center struggling to make ends meet and raise her two kids, Elsie and Luke. Although still reeling from her divorce, Jenny can’t help but flirt when she gets emergency calls from Jeff, a local ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, feel good, sincere, cute ...
Plot:
firefighter, boy, single mother, good deed, therapy, chore, male female relationship, needing money, love and romance, everyday life, life philosophy, single parent ...
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story:
Yuuichi Katagiri believes that friends are more important than money, but he also knows the hardships of not having enough funds. He works hard to save up in order to go on the high school trip, because he has promised his four best friends that ...
Style:
anime, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
friendship, game, betrayal by friend, friends, money, betrayal, group of friends, mind game, survival, anti hero, needing money, money problems ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Germany, France, Somalia, Qatar
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Guled and Nasra are a loving couple, living in the outskirts of Djibouti city with their teenage son, Mahad. However, they are facing difficult times: Nasra urgently needs an expensive surgery to treat a chronic kidney disease. Guled is already ...
Style:
emotional, suspense, psychological, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
illness, family problems, social problems, money problems, family relations, husband wife relationship, fighting illness, needing money, life is a bitch, realism, resilience, sacrifice ...
Place:
africa, somalia
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Katha, a single parent, is in need of funds for her son's medical treatment. She comes across Viaan, who offers help but his conditions put her in an awkward situation.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, psychological, romantic drama
Plot:
single parent, single mother, life is a bitch, needing money, family problems, relationships, child illness, family drama, money problems, ultimatum, illness, mother son relationship ...
Place:
india
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404
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Lebanon, Syria
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
As a last resort to afford her son’s cancer treatment, a widowed mother asks her manager for money, but the latter poses one condition: she must spend the night with him.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating, tension ...
Plot:
cancer, illness, blackmail, family drama, wealthy family, moral dilemma, desperation, parent child relationship, sacrifice, motherhood, single mother, changing lives ...
Place:
middle east
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Mi-na takes over a small stationery store from her father when he suddenly falls down. She wants to sell the store because it seems only troublesome to her. But it is not as easy as she thought. The store's regular costomers force her not to ...
Style:
captivating, satirical, disturbing, entertaining, feel good ...
Plot:
female protagonist, money, family business, needing money, money problems, family drama, community, father daughter relationship, satire, family relations, lifestyle, store ...
Place:
korea
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story:
This drama tells the success story of Han Jung Won, a workaholic careerwoman who is determined to make her own way in life without the help of her family, which has garnered considerable wealth from their publishing company. Her life is turned ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
rich and poor, needing money, twins separated at birth, irony of fate, escapades, change of luck, women, bonding, financial problem, wealthy family, money problems, female protagonist ...
Place:
korea
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744K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
"Round Six" is a story of people who fail at life for various reasons, but suddenly receive a mysterious invitation to participate in a survival game to win ten million US dollars. The game takes place at an unknown location, and the ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, saga, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
survival, game of death, cruelty, prize, brutality, game, sole survivor, contests and competitions, graphic violence, violence, violent man, most dangerous game ...
Time:
2020s, 80s, 70s, 21st century
Place:
south korea, korea, asia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story:
In the south of Russia, where roadside cafes alternate with ripe fruit ruins, three friends of Sveta, Marina and Lyudka work in a brothel. Their former colleague - enterprising Jeanne - went to conquer Moscow, but returned to the girls with a ...
Style:
touching, sad, uplifting, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
women, business venture, provincial life, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, new life, misery, parents and children, prostitute, woman in danger, country girl, friendship, dream ...
Place:
russia
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story:
A father turned clumsy kidnapper and a genius child get tangled in unexpected circumstances.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, suspense, dark comedy ...
Plot:
kidnapping, child kidnapping, sick child, criminal, escapades, child abduction, money problems, needing money, ransom, kidnapped girl, problem, clumsy ...
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275
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Darren, Lou, Jo and Mas live a meager existence on the fringes of poverty. Indebted to the criminal kingpin of their social housing development, they routinely fear for their lives. On the other side of town, the already wealthy Marcus and his ...
Style:
suspenseful, dread, scary, tense, captivating
Plot:
home invasion, lottery ticket, poverty, debt, poor, lottery, money problems, money, beggar, misery, financial difficulty, needing money ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
What happens when an innocent 18-year-old girl has to work in the adult video industry? Find out the hilarious results in Rinko Eighteen, based on the comic by Matsumoto Taka. In her first starring role, gravure model Tashiro Sayaka stars as Rinko, ...
Style:
captivating, satirical, semi serious, psychological, thrilling ...
Plot:
adult filmmaking, behind the scenes, female protagonist, satire, porn industry, awkwardness, young woman, money problems, filmmaking, needing money, film set, workplace ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
tokyo
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A deadbeat drunk and a junkie hooker join forces to take on the city, each other, and their own personal shortcomings while trying to scam $98 for bus tickets out of town.
Style:
dark comedy, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical ...
Plot:
satire, desperation, addiction, drug addiction, alcoholism, social problems, needing money, teamwork, escapades, money problems, prostitute, drunkard ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Kimi faces financial difficulties by taking an illegal loan to pay off her father’s medical fee, but he passed away. She is emotionally exhausted for being demanded every day for the payment of debts. One day, Kimi takes her friend Masami’s ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, disturbing, dark, thrilling ...
Plot:
debt, murder, female protagonist, raped woman, zombie, sex scene, rape, supernatural, haunting, violence, ghost, sexual abuse ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India, Namibia
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
The film is an emotional journey of a common man to an unknown place with the hope to come home and lead a better life. The film revolves around a story of human survival adapted from a newspaper article of a real-life crisis event, when three oil ...
Style:
suspenseful, emotional, disturbing, suspense, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
hostage, abduction, fisherman, kidnapping, resilience, male female relationship, money, problem, needing money, kidnapped, hopes, longing ...
Place:
sudan
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Just when Timo is trying to win back his ex-girlfriend by convincing her with his new and improved life, he and his friends are caught up in a drugs conflict. To stay alive, four ordinary guys need to sell 22 kilos of drugs within a week.
Style:
humorous, funny, feel good, entertaining, semi serious ...
Plot:
drug, stranded, escapades, drug dealing, flatmate, criminal, cocaine, mafia, money, drug dealer, humour, roommate ...
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Akinori Kimura (Sadao Abe) and his wife Mieko (Miho Kanno) opens an apple orchard in their hometown of Hirosaki in Aomori Prefecture. Due to Meiko's allergic reaction to pesticides, Akinori Kimura has to grow his apples without the aid of ...
Style:
semi serious, psychological, captivating, satirical, emotional ...
Plot:
gardener, food, orchard, hopes, miraculous event, family drama, perseverance, resilience, determination, inspiration, agriculture, coping ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Baker Boys is an English-language Welsh television drama series, produced by BBC Wales and broadcast on BBC One Wales. The series was written by Helen Raynor and Gary Owen. Torchwood creator Russell T Davies also had a role as creative consultant, ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, satirical, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
bakery, small town, money, blue collar, social problems, social issues, money problems, loss of job, needing money, satire, job seeking, fired from the job ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The inspirational true story of a woman who decides to bake 100 apple cakes and sell them at $40 each in order to save her home – and how this idea completely changes her and her family.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, uplifting, inspirational
Plot:
single mother, baking, hardship, financial problem, family drama, motherhood, foreclosure, cooking and food, social problems, female protagonist, single parent, lifestyle ...
Time:
2000s
Is relevant?
25K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A brilliant but tightly wound, gameshow-obsessed young woman, Anne, and her estranged, train-wreck of a sister Jenny, must work together to help cover their mother’s gambling debts. When Anne’s beloved dog is kidnapped, they set out on a wild, ...
Style:
semi serious, entertaining, satirical, funny, captivating ...
Plot:
sister, gambling, sister sister relationship, family relations, female protagonist, friendship, women, money, lifestyle, social satire, family problems, satire ...
Time:
year 1996, year 1998, year 2002, year 1999
Place:
pittsburgh, malibu california, pennsylvania, philadelphia
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Kate Brasher is an American dramatic television series that was broadcast by CBS. It premiered at 9:00pm ET/PT on Saturday, February 24, 2001 and was cancelled after six episodes.
The title character was the single mother of teenaged sons Daniel ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, compassionate, emotional ...
Plot:
single mother, female protagonist, family relations, social worker, family drama, parents and children, needing money, life is a bitch, family problems, money problems, single parent, lifestyle ...
Place:
los angeles, santa monica california, california
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Genre: Action, Drama, Family
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Gang-cheol is a legendary street fighter in Busan who cleaned up his act to care for his sick mother. Knowing he's desperate for money for his mother's operation, Sang-gon proposes that Gang-cheol works for him.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, tense, captivating
Plot:
yakuza, money problems, gangster, gang war, life is a bitch, fight, wrestler, needing money, organized crime, murderer, criminal, gang ...
Place:
busan, east asia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
With the innocent dropping of a few coins into a video poker machine, Laura Bancroft's world is about to change forever. Inspired by true events, Going for Broke is the compelling, hard-hitting story of one woman's overwhelming addiction ...
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, captivating, intense, crime drama ...
Plot:
gambling, female protagonist, deception, gambling addiction, casino, stolen money, compulsive gambler, gambler, financial problem, money problems, needing money, relationship problems ...
Place:
las vegas, reno nevada
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Rabbit and Rongo, two dumb but kind-hearted criminals, want to help a young girl get the medical treatment she needs. Inspired by true crimes around the world, they attempt to raise money through a series of dumb plans and hopeless schemes.
Style:
entertaining, satirical, semi serious, captivating, buddy comedy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
heist gone wrong, criminal as protagonist, criminal, friendship between men, scheme, illness, lack of money, plan gone wrong, money, bandit, needing money, burglar ...
Is relevant?
557
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
One of the city's last decent tow truck drivers risks everything on a desperate quest to become king of the road and provide for his struggling family.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
working class, family drama, family problems, money problems, truck driver, life is a bitch, criminal underworld, needing money, driver, criminal, desperation, poverty ...
Place:
toronto ontario canada
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Story:
Away from school, during the winter holidays, three stories take place while the Las Encinas students celebrate Christmas.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, teen, tension ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
friendship, eviction, male protagonist, eviction notice, lifestyle, money problems, needing money, escapades, financial problem, problem, friends, social problems ...
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
When her boyfriend loses a mobster's cash, Savi races against the clock to save the day — if only she can break out of a curious cycle of dead ends.
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, romantic
Plot:
hostage, female protagonist, race against time, money problems, couple relations, money, needing money, debt, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, space, lgbtq, friend ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Fujisaki Aya is a young college student whose family is 150 million yen in debt after her father's corporation went bankrupt. To earn the money, she enters the Hostess Grand Prix.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, sensual
Plot:
debt, female protagonist, money, money problems, needing money, family problems, competitor, power struggle, competition, ambition, rivalry, female rivalry ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
tokyo
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