Greed movies and TV shows – page 3

List of greed movies

The Art of More (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A working-class social climber finagles his way into the world of New York City auction houses by using the smuggling skills he learned as a soldier in Iraq.
Style: crime drama, disturbing, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Plot: art collector, smuggling, greed, betrayal, smuggler, forgery, criminal, money, organized crime, art, partners in crime, ex soldier ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
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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, sentimental, light ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: generosity, destiny, love and romance, greed, lottery ticket, love, honest, love story, justice, hopes, gambling, lottery ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
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 7.8
 661K
Nightcrawler (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: When Lou Bloom, desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. Aiding him in his effort is Nina, a TV-news veteran.
Style: neo noir, psychological, disturbing, suspense, atmospheric ...
Audience: adult
Plot: character study, sociopath, journalism, obsession, cynicism, psychopath, manipulation, morality, journalist, violence, deception, ethics ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, near future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, venice beach california, america ...
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The Last Seduction (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Looking to escape her unhappy marriage, villainous femme fatale Bridget Gregory (Linda Fiorentino) convinces her husband, Clay (Bill Pullman), to sell cocaine, then steals the profits and runs out on him. She stops in a small town en route to ...
Style: sexy, erotic, neo noir, black comedy, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: femme fatale, small town, couples, private detective, manipulation, murder, profanity, greed, sociopath, love triangle, infidelity, betrayal ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: new york, usa, miami, boston, chicago ...
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 3.2
 31K
Rollerball (2002)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: USA, Germany, Canada, Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In this fast action-packed thriller, Jonathan, Marcus, and Aurora compete in a dangerous, fierce sport called Rollerball. Although, Johnathan and Marcus try to quit, cruel and vindictive promoter Alexi Petrovich encourages them to still participate.
Style: stylized, serious, suspenseful, action packed, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: rebellion, greed, corruption, motorcycle, rivalry, contests and competitions, murder, revenge, car chase, riot, betrayal, celebrity ...
Time: future, year 2002, near future, year 2005, 2000s ...
Place: san francisco, california, usa, texas
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 6.7
 209K
The Ninth Gate (1999)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Spain, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: An all-expenses-paid international search for a rare copy of the book, 'The Nine Gates of the Shadow Kingdom' brings an unscrupulous book dealer deep into a world of murder, double-dealing and satanic worship.
Style: gothic, satanic, dark, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: occult, devil, supernatural, collector, investigation, obsession, satanic ritual, curses spells and rituals, chase, danger, secret society, book ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: paris france, europe, france, portugal, spain ...
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Ruthless People (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A couple, cheated by a vile businessman, kidnap his wife in retaliation, without knowing that their enemy is delighted they did.
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, raunchy comedy, funny, hilarious ...
Plot: kidnapping, videotaped sex, greed, extramarital affair, husband wife relationship, farce, businessman, misunderstanding, ransom, revenge, fashion, stockholm syndrome ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, los angeles, seattle, santa monica california
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 7.3
 70K
Pale Rider (1985)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A small gold mining camp is terrorised by a ruthless land owner wanting to take their land. Clint Eastwood arrives riding a pale horse just as a young girl is praying to God to help the miners. He is revealed to be a preacher with mysterious and ...
Style: spaghetti western, suspense, realistic, tense, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: small town, teenage girl, mysterious stranger, greed, courage, murder, drifter, revenge, gunfight, wild west, u.s. marshal, man with no name ...
Time: 20th century, 1800s, year 1985, 80s, 1880s ...
Place: california, sacramento california
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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Eccentric candy man Willy Wonka prompts a worldwide frenzy when he announces that golden tickets hidden inside five of his delicious candy bars will admit their lucky holders into his top-secret confectionary. But does Wonka have an agenda hidden ...
Style: feel good, visually stunning, light, surreal, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, family outing, teens, girls' night ...
Plot: chocolate, children, teacher, overweight child, tour guide, mischievous children, inventor, child protagonist, childhood, surrealism, child, river ...
Time: 20th century, 1900s, 90s, 70s, year 1971
Place: germany, europe, west germany, paraguay, arizona ...
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 7.8
 343K
The Fugitive (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Wrongfully accused of murdering his wife, Richard Kimble escapes from the law in an attempt to find her killer and clear his name. Pursuing him is a team of U.S. marshals led by Deputy Samuel Gerard, a determined detective who will not rest until ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, neo noir, detective, sexy ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, boys' night
Plot: on the run, conspiracy, betrayal, escape, framed for murder, fugitives, death row, manhunt, doctor, murder, uncover truth, corruption ...
Time: 20th century, year 1993, 90s
Place: chicago, usa, illinois, washington d.c.
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 5.6
 95K
The Bling Ring (2013)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK, France, Germany, Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Inspired by actual events, a group of fame-obsessed teenagers use the Internet to track celebrities' whereabouts in order to rob their homes.
Style: sexy, stylized, teen, dark comedy, absurd ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: heist, youth, burglary, teenage life, celebrity, teenage girl, juvenile delinquency, coming of age, high school, mansion, high society, greed ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa, beverly hills, new jersey ...
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 6.7
 121K
Primer (2004)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Friends and fledgling entrepreneurs invent a device in their garage which reduces the apparent mass of any object placed inside it, but they discover that it has some highly unexpected capabilities - ones that could enable them to do and to have ...
Style: philosophical, independent film, mind bending, confusing, surreal ...
Plot: time travel, time machine, time loop, science, changing the future, parallel universe, changing the past or future, inventor, invention, time, time traveler, experiment gone awry ...
Time: future, year 2004, distant future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: texas
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 6.1
 21K
Willard (2003)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Desperate for companionship, the repressed Willard befriends a group of rats that inhabit his late father's deteriorating mansion. In these furry creatures, Willard finds temporary refuge from daily abuse at the hands of his bedridden mother ...
Style: suspense, atmospheric, dark comedy, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: rat, brutality, psychopath, misfit, loner, dangerous animal, vengeance, workplace, greed, obsession, boss and employee, blood ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 210 min.
Story: A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.
Style: road movie, humorous, funny, hilarious, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: treasure hunt, on the road, race, car chase, treasure, road trip, competition, chase, greed, money, twists and turns, disorder ...
Time: 60s, year 1963, 20th century, year 1916, 70s
Place: california, usa
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High Plains Drifter (1973)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago. After gunning down three gunmen who tried to kill him, the townsfolk decide to hire the Stranger to hold off three outlaws who are on their way.
Style: suspense, atmospheric, spaghetti western, black comedy, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: old west, revenge, small town, anti hero, desert, greed, justice, murder, rape, mysterious man, vengeance, gang ...
Time: 19th century, year 1973, 1880s
Place: arizona, usa, california
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 7.9
 56K
The Borgias (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA, Hungary, Ireland, Canada
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Set in 15th century Italy at the height of the Renaissance, The Borgias chronicles the corrupt rise of patriarch Rodrigo Borgia to the papacy, where he proceeds to commit every sin in the book to amass and retain power, influence and enormous wealth ...
Style: serious, costume drama, epic, clever, captivating ...
Plot: historical character, intrigue, sex scene, brother sister incest, siblings relations, medieval, renaissance, brother sister sex, incest, clergy, lust, power struggle ...
Time: 15th century, middle ages, ancient times, medieval times, 16th century
Place: rome italy, italy, ireland, europe, florence
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 7.3
 145K
Matchstick Men (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A phobic con artist and his protege are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the con artist's teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly.
Style: dramatic, entertaining, emotional, psychological thriller, twisted ...
Plot: twists and turns, con artists, mental illness, heist, cons and scams, plot twist, greed, partner, con men, life philosophy, slick, psychology ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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 7.0
 16K
Owning Mahowny (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Dan Mahowny was a rising star at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. At twenty-four he was assistant manager of a major branch in the heart of Toronto's financial district. To his colleagues he was a workaholic. To his customers, he was ...
Style: psychological, suspense, melancholic, enigmatic, thought provoking ...
Plot: gambling addiction, casino, gambling, gambler, poker, addiction, embezzlement, greed, relationships, banker, police investigation, compulsive gambler ...
Time: 80s, year 2003, 20th century
Place: las vegas, atlantic city, atlantic city new jersey, toronto ontario canada, new jersey ...
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Nicholas Nickleby (2002)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: The Charles Dickens story of Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life for his recently torn-apart family. A young compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly grasping ...
Style: period piece, costume drama, emotional, humorous, touching ...
Audience: family outing, girls' night
Plot: charles dickens, greed, vengeance, fall in love, family reunited, happy ending, dysfunctional family, betrayal, uncle nephew relationship, victorian england, family relations, rescue ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1850s, year 2002, 1830s ...
Place: london, europe, liverpool, yorkshire, england
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Deepwater Horizon (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
Style: tense, exciting, suspense, emotional, suspenseful ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, survival, catastrophe, courage, oil, oil rig, sea, trapped, destruction, heroism, rescue ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, year 2010, 70s, 21st century
Place: louisiana, boston, california, usa
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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A card shark and his unwillingly-enlisted friends need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. To do this they decide to pull a heist on a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door.
Style: humorous, clever, dark comedy, witty, black comedy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: twists and turns, heist, dark humor, gangster, crime gone awry, disorder, organized crime, nothing goes right, scheme, friends, violent, rivalry ...
Time: 20th century, year 1998, 90s
Place: london, britain, united kingdom, england, europe ...
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 6.1
 22K
Burke & Hare (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, History, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Two 19th-century opportunists (Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis) become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist (Tom Wilkinson).
Style: stylized, dark comedy, black comedy, romantic, visually appealing ...
Plot: dark humor, serial killer, greed, anti villain, fall in love, death, cruelty, adaptation, friends, partner, culture clash, doctor ...
Time: 19th century, 1820s, edwardian era, 1800s, 18th century
Place: scotland, england, ireland, europe, britain ...
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The Hateful Eight (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 168 min.
Story: Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.
Style: captivating, talky, bloody, stylized, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: bounty hunter, winter, stagecoach, prisoner, gang, cold weather, old west, murder, snow, dark humor, brutality, twists and turns ...
Time: 19th century, year 2015, 2010s, victorian era, year 2016
Place: wyoming, usa
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 7.8
 136K
The Best Offer (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Virgil Oldman is a world renowned antiques expert and auctioneer. An eccentric genius, he leads a solitary life, going to extreme lengths to keep his distance from the messiness of human relationships. When appointed by the beautiful but emotionally ...
Style: twist ending, surprise ending, psychological, atmospheric, enigmatic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: twists and turns, art, painting, art collector, loneliness, forgery, art theft, collector, obsession, age difference, solitude, young woman ...
Time: year 2013, y2k, 2010s, 18th century, 21st century
Place: vienna, europe, berlin germany, prague, italy
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Water for Elephants (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In this captivating Depression-era melodrama, impetuous veterinary student Jacob Jankowski joins a celebrated circus as an animal caretaker but faces a wrenching dilemma when he's transfixed by angelic married performer Marlena.
Style: romantic, sexy, emotional, touching, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot: circus, love story, forbidden love, older woman younger man relationship, love and romance, couple relations, performer's life, lovers, couples, love affair, animal abuse, artists and showbiz ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 50s, 20th century, 1920s ...
Place: usa
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Torture Garden (1967)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Five people visit a fairground sideshow run by the sinister Dr. Diabolo. Having shown them a handful of haunted-house-style attractions, he promises them a genuinely scary experience if they will pay extra.
Style: anthology, slasher, scary, rough, serious ...
Plot: murder, greed, inheritance, cursed object, surgeon, hypnosis, jealousy, uncle nephew relationship, supernatural, good versus evil, woman in danger, supernatural ability ...
Time: future, 60s
Place: california
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The War of the Roses (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: The Roses, Barbara and Oliver, live happily as a married couple. Then she starts to wonder what life would be like without Oliver, and likes what she sees. Both want to stay in the house, and so they begin a campaign to force each other to leave. In ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, satirical, psychological, cynical ...
Plot: divorce, battle of the sexes, lawyer, dark humor, dysfunctional family, marriage, divorce lawyer, dysfunctional marriage, relationships, death, greed, married couple ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: washington d.c., harvard university
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 7.2
 402K
The Substance (2024)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, France
Duration: 141 min.
Story: A fading celebrity decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.
Style: atmospheric, dark comedy, grim, psychological horror, absurd ...
Plot: experimental drug, fountain of youth, body horror, celebrity, drug, disfigurement, female monster, dark secret, narcissism, moral dilemma, rivalry, fight to the death ...
Place: california, los angeles
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 6.2
 159K
Casper (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Furious that her late father only willed her his gloomy-looking mansion rather than his millions, Carrigan Crittenden is ready to burn the place to the ground when she discovers a map to a treasure hidden in the house. But when she enters the ...
Style: sweet, fairy tale, light, humorous, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, teen fantasy ...
Plot: friendship, halloween, ghost, haunted house, single father, supernatural, afterlife, father daughter relationship, childhood, teenage girl, mischievous children, daughter ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1995, 80s
Place: maine, new england, usa, new mexico, santa fe new mexico
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The Vault of Horror (1973)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The sequel to Tales from the Crypt. Five strangers trapped in a basement vault converse about their recurring nightmares. Their stories include vampires, bodily dismemberment, east Indian mysticism, an insurance scam, and an artist who kills by ...
Style: anthology, surprise ending, slasher, spooky, classic horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vampire, painting, cemetery, nightmare, uxoricide, buried alive, greed, strangled to death, painter, revenge, punishment, elevator ...
Time: 70s
Place: india, haiti, london
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