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, thrilling, disturbing, satirical and tense films and TV shows about / with needing money, money problems, money, family relations, female protagonist, family problems, social problems, satire, lifestyle and life is a bitch plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, South Korea, France and other countries.
needing money
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needing money movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as needing money: Melody (2014), Second Chances (2013), The Investigator (2008), Lea (2011), The Gravedigger's Wife (2021), Katha Ankahee (2022), Al Thaman (2023), Happiness for Sale (2013), Twinkle Twinkle (2011), Squid Game (2021).

List of needing money movies

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 6.3
 259
Melody (2014)
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, hairdresser, homeless, pregnancy, follow your dream, money, baby, social differences, social relations, hopes, women, swimming pool ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england, belgium
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Second Chances (2013)
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: feel good, sentimental, touching, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: single mother, firefighter, boy, good deed, therapy, male female relationship, needing money, chore, love and romance, everyday life, family relations, second chance ...
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The Investigator (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hungary, Sweden, Ireland
Duration: 107 min.
Story: This multi-award winning film tells the story of precise and silent, Tibor Malkáv – your average 37 year-old man, who though not rich, leads a comfortable and uncomplicated life. All this changes when he finds out his mother is dying of cancer ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, enigmatic, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: murder mystery, murder, needing money, murderer, hitman, money problems, attempted murder, secret identity, criminal, cat, asexual, lesbian ...
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 4.8
 432
Lea (2011)
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, serious, realistic, sincere, touching ...
Plot: strong sexual content, real sex, nightlife, introspection, hopes, youth, lifestyle, human nature, strong female presence, student life, student, needing money ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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The Gravedigger's Wife (2021)
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: suspense, captivating, disturbing, psychological
Plot: illness, family problems, life is a bitch, social problems, money problems, family relations, fighting illness, needing money, husband wife relationship, money, afro
Place: africa, somalia
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 8.8
 696
Katha Ankahee (2022)
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
Plot: single parent, family problems, life is a bitch, needing money, relationships, mother son relationship, money problems, social problems, single mother, family relations, problem, ultimatum ...
Place: india
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 6.2
 253
Al Thaman (2023)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Lebanon
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: suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, psychological, children's story
Plot: wealthy family, cancer, changing lives, money, needing money, fighting illness, life is a bitch, child illness, lifestyle change, family relations, blackmail, relationships ...
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Happiness for Sale (2013)
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: disturbing, entertaining, captivating, satirical
Plot: money, needing money, family business, money problems, female protagonist, father daughter relationship, satire, lifestyle, store, family relations
Place: korea
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Twinkle Twinkle (2011)
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: body swapping, twins separated at birth, needing money, rich and poor, financial problem, destiny, female protagonist, money, money problems, bonding, irony of fate, wealthy family ...
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 8.0
 532K
Squid Game (2021)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 55 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, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: survival, game of death, prize, brutality, violence, cruelty, game, most dangerous game, sole survivor, contests and competitions, poverty, graphic violence ...
Time: 2020s, 70s, 80s, 21st century
Place: south korea
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 7.6
 1K
Chicks (2020)
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, uplifting, sad, thought provoking, realistic ...
Plot: business venture, women, provincial life, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, prostitute, new life, parents and children, life is a bitch, misery, woman in danger, country girl, dream ...
Place: russia
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 7.0
 293
Miracle Apples (2013)
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: psychological, captivating, satirical, semi serious
Plot: orchard, gardening, coping, garden, lifestyle, financial problem, satire, gardener, husband wife relationship, family relations, needing money, relationships ...
Place: japan
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 7.9
 69
Baker Boys (2011)
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: satirical, psychological, captivating, thrilling
Plot: bakery, small town, money, loss of job, satire, needing money, job seeking, money problems, fired from the job, social issues, social problems
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Apple Mortgage Cake (2014)
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: thrilling, psychological, captivating, inspirational
Plot: hardship, financial problem, single mother, financial difficulty, social problems, money problems, coping, cookery, single parent, needing money, female protagonist, baking ...
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 6.7
 18K
Quiz Lady (2023)
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: funny, entertaining, semi serious, captivating, satirical ...
Plot: sister sister relationship, sister, gambling, female protagonist, family relations, friendship, social satire, family problems, lifestyle, money, financial problem, satire ...
Place: pennsylvania, philadelphia
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Mrs. Fitzgerald Is Missing (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story: Fiona Fitzgerald is a woman with early onset Alzheimer's Disease who goes missing. Is she wandering around in an Alzheimer's haze or did something go very wrong with husband Kevin's drug dealing business. The only cop he can turn to, ...
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot: social problems, mental illness, female protagonist, drug, mysterious disappearance, drug dealer, investigation, needing money, money problems, private investigation, alzheimer's disease, woman ...
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 4.7
 156
Exposed (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Annie has a plan for her 300k student loans: become a porn star.
Style: thrilling, psychological, captivating
Plot: student, female student, prostitute, sister sister relationship, prostitution, needing money, sister, money problems, lifestyle, sisters, money, female protagonist ...
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Romantic Getaway (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: A normal married couple trying to be criminals; all for the sake of their one wish to have a family. As they face the all too familiar struggle for many couples - trying to fall pregnant - the pair embark on the IVF process, but the twists and turns ...
Style: satirical, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating, psychological
Plot: doubt, male female relationship, relationship problems, problem, satire, relationships, wanting a baby, family life, married couple, family relations, couples, needing money ...
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 5.8
 149
Bank Attack (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Desperate for money to save his sick daughter's life, a father decides to rob a bank.
Style: psychological, semi serious, thrilling, captivating, satirical
Plot: bank robbery, heist, heist gone wrong, burglar, attempted robbery, robbery, social problems, money, bandit, needing money, bank robber, problem ...
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 6.9
 55
Kate Brasher (2001)
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: thrilling, psychological, captivating
Plot: single mother, parents and children, family problems, relationships, lifestyle, needing money, female protagonist, money problems, family relations, life is a bitch, single parent, social problems ...
Place: california, los angeles
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Oh My Goodness! (2022)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Five nuns set their sights on winning the cash prize in a major cycling race to raise money to renovate a dilapidated hospice. The only hitch is that none of them can ride a bicycle.
Style: entertaining, semi serious, captivating, satirical
Plot: cycling, nun, women, monastery, female protagonist, bicycle, ambition, money problems, satire, cyclist, needing money, money
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 8.2
 22
The Princess (2022)
Genre: Action
Country: Mexico
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Refusing to marry a drug lord, Grecia is determined to pay her father's debt herself. To earn the money, she decides to bet in the Sinaloa palenques, where she meets Armando. He is immediately captivated by her beauty and fearless attitude. ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling
Plot: couple relations, in love, male female relationship, problem, fall in love, money problems, love and romance, love interest, threat, money, battles, needing money ...
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 6.5
 118
Las Vega's (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Chile
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The women of the Vegas family are full of debts, for this reason they decide to hire a group of male strippers and open a night club dedicated to the female audience.
Style: satirical, erotic, semi serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: strip club, nightclub, striptease, male stripper, dancing, double life, seductive woman, family business, family secret, seduction, needing money, satire ...
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 6.3
 2K
Cleaning Up (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: This characterful drama focuses on an ordinary working class woman, Sam, who is caught between two worlds - the everyday life of a devoted and loving Mum and the darker, dangerous world of insider trading. While struggling with an online gambling ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling
Plot: insider trading, gambling, debt collector, mother daughter relationship, working class, addiction, female protagonist, gambler, money problems, cleaning lady, information leak, escapades ...
Time: 2010s
Place: london
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 6.6
 207
At Stake (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Four brothers Ibra, Elzan, Amar, and Ical attempting to collect money for their father's medical bills. Always in stalemate, the brothers eventually took a very reckless decision.
Style: suspense, captivating, disturbing
Plot: gang, money, brothers, brother brother relationship, illness, needing money, criminal gang, brother, money problems, sick father, bandit, family problems ...
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 6.0
 16
EXIT (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story: Kang Soo is a loan shark that tries to get by day to day in his depressing reality. His father's abuse lead to his mother running away from home. Thanks to his father's crippling debt, he began to work under Hwang Tae Bok. Happiness ...
Style: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: life is a bitch, social issues, criminal, needing money, escape from reality, violence, stolen money, social problems, money problems, family problems
Place: korea
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Trava: Fist Planet (2003)
Genre: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration: 52 min.
Story: Ace pilot Trava and his personal mechanic buddy Shinkai, on their way to mark an out-of-the-way planet, pick up Mikuru, a girl with no memory. The three are about to discover that the planet is more than it seems. A four-part OVA that was part of ...
Style: anime, exciting, captivating, tense
Plot: space mission, distant planet, martial arts, championship, fight, master warrior, mission, space travel, battles, teamwork, robot, fistfight ...
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 6.2
 2K
Sneakerheads (2020)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Family man Devin falls back into his sneaker obsession after his pal Bobby talks him into a wheeling-dealing scheme to score a mythical pair of kicks.
Style: semi serious, light, buddy comedy, feel good, satirical ...
Plot: collector, hobby, friend, rivalry, escapades, risk, debt, satire, money problems, friends, silly humor, needing money ...
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 4.4
 3K
Ra Cha (2012)
Genre: Action
Country: India
Duration: 143 min.
Story: 'Betting' Raj (Ram Charan Teja) is a local happy-go-lucky guy who makes his living by betting. He lives along with his adopted parents (M. S. Narayana and Sudha) who support his means of living. Tragedy strikes the family in the form of ...
Style: serious, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: bet, evil businessman, kidnapping, gambler, money problems, love interest, trap, needing money, love affair, relationships, one man army, evil man ...
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 5.6
 2K
Ida Red (2021)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Ida Red may not survive her 20-year prison sentence for armed robbery. She turns to her son, Wyatt, for one last job and a chance to regain her freedom.
Style: disturbing, suspense, tense, captivating
Plot: female prisoner, criminal, crime family, prison, terminal illness, crime boss, money, robbery, family relations, confined, organized crime, heist ...
Time: year 2010
Place: oklahoma
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