Bankruptcy movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant bankruptcy movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, captivating, serious, humorous, feel good and semi serious films and TV shows about / with bankruptcy, family relations, society, couples, money, parents and children, love and romance, business, couple relations and rivalry plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Crime genres shot in USA, France, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as bankruptcy: Margin Call (2011), Blood from a Stone (2011), The Jewel (2011), Don't Think About It (2007), Too Big to Fail (2011), Changing Lanes (2002), Fun with Dick and Jane (2005), Blow (2001), The Crocodiles Strike Back (2010), Fun with Dick and Jane (1977).

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 7.1
 143K
Margin Call (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A thriller that revolves around the key people at an investment bank over a 24-hour period during the early stages of the financial crisis.
Style: suspense, realistic, serious, captivating, political ...
Plot: stock market, financial crisis, wall street, greed, economics, businessman, stock market crash, corporation, finance, corporate america, investments, bankruptcy ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 2000s, year 2008, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
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Blood from a Stone (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The day his bank refuses to finance him, Georges will do everything he can to save his shipyard and his employees.
Style: thought provoking, realistic, cynical, serious, captivating ...
Plot: bankruptcy, save the day, workplace, rivalry, factory, labor union, working class, society, boss and employee, workplace situations, employer, strike ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, mediterranean sea, provence
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 6.7
 1K
The Jewel (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Amanzio Rastelli appointed several of his relations to managerial positions in his firm. They decided to think internationally and now business is heavily in debt. Luckily for the Rastellis, Bolta the accountant uses all the tricks of his art to ...
Style: serious, realistic, thought provoking, clever, tense ...
Plot: family business, rise and fall, bribery, dishonesty, legal, bankruptcy, family relations, unfulfillment, corporate crime, stock broker, bankrupt, ambition ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: italy, europe
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Don't Think About It (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: captivating, feel good, humorous, light, realistic ...
Plot: bankruptcy, small town, dysfunctional family, family relations, homecoming, family life, family business, unfulfillment, lifestyle, parents and children, friendship, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
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Too Big to Fail (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Based on the bestselling book by Andrew Ross Sorkin, 'Too Big to Fail' offers an intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a few ...
Style: factual, tense, political, suspenseful, sincere ...
Plot: financial crisis, wall street, finance, politics, greed, economic crisis, economics, business, stock broker, stock market, bankruptcy, moral dilemma ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., new york, usa
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 6.5
 74K
Changing Lanes (2002)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A rush-hour fender-bender on New York City's crowded FDR Drive, under most circumstances, wouldn't set off a chain reaction that could decimate two people's lives. But on this day, at this time, a minor collision will turn two ...
Style: psychological, harsh, realistic, psychological thriller, suspense ...
Plot: lawyer, revenge, legal, court, courtroom, justice, drug addict, custody battle, business, corruption, brutality, character study ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After Dick Harper loses his job at Globodyne in an Enron-esque collapse, he and his wife, Jane, turn to crime in order to handle the massive debt they now face. Two intelligent people, Dick and Jane actually get pretty good at robbing people and ...
Style: funny, light, humorous, feel good, satirical ...
Audience: family outing, teens, teen drama
Plot: unemployment, robbery, heist, caper, loss of job, bankruptcy, business, gangster, husband wife relationship, satire, greed, couples ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.5
 274K
Blow (2001)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes ...
Style: depressing, touching, emotional, serious, epic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug addiction, drug lord, drug abuse, drug dealing, friendship, drug, drug dealer, drug cartel, rise and fall, addiction, gangster, drug use ...
Time: 70s, year 2001, 20th century, 80s, near future ...
Place: latin america, colombia, california, mexico, usa ...
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The Crocodiles Strike Back (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: New summer adventure of the Crocodiles, who set up their detective skills to find out who is behind the accidents of the factory where Ollie and Mary's parents work , which could mean the closure of the plant, the move of the family and the ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, fast, feel good
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: teenage love, juvenile delinquency, bankruptcy, best friend, friendship, teenage life, investigation, chase, rivalry, buddies, disorder, mine ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, europe
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Fun with Dick and Jane (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.
Style: humorous, feel good, intense, light, semi serious ...
Plot: heist, unemployment, unlikely criminals, bank robbery, police investigation, couples, robbery, bankruptcy, cons and scams, survival, couple relations, kids and family ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa
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 6.6
 144K
Joy (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A story based on the life of a struggling Long Island single mom who became one of the country's most successful entrepreneurs.
Style: inspirational, stylized, emotional, motivational, intense ...
Plot: entrepreneur, business, businesswoman, career woman, inventor, entrepreneurship, strong female lead, ambition, divorce, career, women, female protagonist ...
Time: 80s, year 2015, 2010s, 20th century, 70s ...
Place: boston, usa, california, new jersey, new york state ...
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 8.5
 144K
Schitt's Creek (2015)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Formerly filthy rich video store magnate Johnny Rose, his soap star wife Moira, and their two kids, über-hipster son David and socialite daughter Alexis, suddenly find themselves broke and forced to live in Schitt's Creek, a small depressing ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, ironic, light ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, family outing, teens
Plot: small town, motel, life turned upside down, lgbtq, riches to rags, family relations, class differences, eccentric family, parents and children, cafe, friendship, gay relationship ...
Time: 2010s, future, 2020s, 21st century
Place: canada
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Dal-Ri and Gamjatang (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story: An ignorant but strong-willed man and an upper-class woman who struggles through life, work to fall in love.
Style: disturbing, sincere, captivating, romantic comedy
Plot: opposites attract, bankruptcy, art gallery, couple relations, male female relationship, love story, love and romance, romantic relationship, romancing partners, love affair, relationships, class differences ...
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 6.1
 4K
Bastards (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Marco returns to Paris after his brother-in-law's suicide, where he targets the man his sister believes caused the tragedy - though he is ill-prepared for her secrets as they quickly muddy the waters.
Style: neo noir, realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: bankruptcy, uncover truth, family problems, rivalry, family business, love and romance, hidden identity, parents and children, family relations, suicide of father, sex scene, female nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
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Séraphin: Heart of Stone (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Séraphin unfolds against the severe and achingly beautiful landscape of rural Quebec in 1889, where young lovers are torn from each other when a bankrupt shopkeeper forces his daughter into an arranged marriage to save his business. But true love ...
Style: serious, sentimental, realistic, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: greed, true love, bankruptcy, couples, love and romance, small town, family relations, young lovers, couple relations, village life, parents and children, marriage of convenience ...
Time: 19th century
Place: canada, quebec
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Superclásico (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Christian is a Copenhagen wine seller on the brink of bankruptcy. Equally unsuccessful in just about every other aspect of life, it has been 17months since his wife Anna left him. Anna works as a soccer agent in Buenos Aires and now lives a life of ...
Style: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, clever ...
Plot: sexual content, starting over, parents and children, rivalry, bankruptcy, win over, fish out of water, hopes, disorder, husband wife relationship, love triangle, divorce ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, buenos aires argentina, latin america
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Saint Martyrs of the Damned (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A reporter goes to a mysterious village to investigate mysterious disappearances until one night, his friend gets abducted and every citizen wants him dead.
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, captivating, mind bending ...
Plot: missing person, small town, bankruptcy, ghost, media, journalism, mystery woman, investigation, ufo, hotel, small town life, village life ...
Time: 21st century
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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: looking for love, rich and poor, satire, restaurant owner, workplace situations, generosity, workplace, society, love and romance, human nature, bankruptcy, money ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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The Work and the Glory III: A House Divided (2006)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Joshua Steed returns to Missouri a wealthy man with a beautiful wife; however, the past has a way of catching up. Soon Joshua is tangled in a web of rumors, deception and betrayal that threatens to tear his family apart. Back in Kirtland, financial ...
Style: uplifting, serious, realistic, emotional
Audience: teens
Plot: mormon, family in danger, religions or cults, bankruptcy, danger, hopes, dishonesty, redemption, rivalry, society, religious, discrimination ...
Time: 19th century, 1830s
Place: missouri, usa, ohio
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 5.7
 16K
The Love Punch (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Retirement at last! Middle-aged and divorced, company owner Richard Jones is looking forward to a worry-free existence as he arrives at his office on his last day of work. Much to his dismay, he discovers that the management buyout of his company ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, realistic, light ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: couples, heist, reluctant partners, unlikely partners, bankruptcy, vengeance, renewed love, disorder, dishonesty, love and romance, couple relations, caper ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: europe, paris france, french riviera, england, cannes
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 4.5
 957
Americathon (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In a story told in narrative flashbacks, a young TV consultant is hired by the President of a bankrupt USA to organize a telethon in order to prevent the country from being repossessed by wealthy Native Americans.
Style: psychotronic, political, slapstick, slapstick comedy
Plot: native american, political satire, conspiracy, voice over narration, satire, bankruptcy, sabotage, ventriloquist, arab, government, rock, adultery ...
Time: future, year 1979, 90s
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 4.7
 201
A Cut Above (2022)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 90 min.
Story: With his mom's salon on the brink of bankruptcy, a dedicated son rolls up his sleeves to help and discovers himself as the coolest barber on the block.
Style: entertaining, semi serious, satirical, captivating, spiritual
Plot: hairdresser, bankruptcy, satire, mother son relationship, financial problem, social problems, barbershop, coping, money problems, family relations, son
Place: brazil
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Don't Read This on a Plane (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, Romania, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal
Duration: 93 min.
Story: As novelist Jovana Fey attempts to check into the first hotel of her 3-week European book tour, she learns that her publisher has gone bankrupt. Penniless and stranded, she decides to continue the tour regardless.
Style: semi serious, psychological, thrilling, captivating, funny
Plot: writers, hitchhiking, open relationship, road trip, bankruptcy, female writer, problem, hitchhiker, satire, writer's life, female protagonist, married couple ...
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You Complete Me (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
TV show
Story: Gao Shan is a dangerous lover scheming revenge for the sake of his father. Lin Wo is his girlfriend with high IQ. Was their meeting due to an ulterior motive or an uncontrollable romance? Gao Shan's father went bankrupt during the 1990's ...
Style: captivating, romantic, entertaining, dramatic, exciting
Plot: revenge, bankruptcy, business, male female relationship, fall in love, love and romance, love, couples, couple relations, love affair, relationships, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
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A Model Family (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: After unwittingly stealing money from a cartel, a cash-strapped professor finds the only way to save his broken family is by working as a drug courier.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: secret, organized crime, bankruptcy, professor, money, gang, criminal, drug dealing, problem, money problems, life is a bitch, threat ...
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Live Nude Girls (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When Shane inherits a gentleman's club from his estranged uncle, he leaves his Midwestern home for Los Angeles. Run by a booze hound and employing a dozen out of control strippers, Shane must do everything he can to save the club from ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot: stripper, strip club, drug use, workplace, workplace situations, lap dance, female nudity, bankruptcy, boss and employee, disorder, nightclub, save the day ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
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 6.7
 499
A Simple Curve (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Caleb is 27, and was raised in the majestic Kootenays by his bush hippie parents. He loves his father Jim and understands his reverence for wood working, coriander and Soya products, but he just doesn't get Jim's determined effort to ...
Style: serious, touching, sincere, emotional, independent film ...
Plot: family business, parents and children, hopes, human nature, youth, lifestyle, family in crisis, small town, bankruptcy, forgery, old friend, father son relationship ...
Time: future
Place: canada
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This Is Martin Bonner (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Two men, at opposite ends of the social spectrum, find themselves starting new lives in the same, small town and form an unlikely friendship.
Style: serious, realistic, atmospheric, emotional, independent film ...
Plot: estrangement, rehabilitation, friendship, starting over, redemption, one more chance, haunted by the past, betrayal, dishonesty, society, hopes, gain trust ...
Time: 21st century
Place: nevada, usa, reno nevada
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Kings of South Beach (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: This fact-based crime thriller details the downfall of Miami's hottest nightclub. Chris Troiano owns the trendiest nightclub in all of South Beach; a place where the line always winds down the block and only the most beautiful people make it ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Plot: downfall, lifestyle, gangster, nightclub, nightlife, bankruptcy, criminal heroes, drinking, addiction, false identity, abuse, drinking alcohol ...
Time: 90s
Place: miami, usa, florida
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 7.0
 20K
Melissa & Joey (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Melissa & Joey is an ABC Family original television series starring Melissa Joan Hart and Joey Lawrence that premiered on ABC Family on August 17, 2010. The series follows local politician Mel Burke and Joe Longo, whom Mel hires to look after ...
Style: realistic, feel good, humorous, not serious, hilarious ...
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: nanny, family relations, politician, parents and children, adolescence, custody, couples, child care, job seeking, family life, fish out of water, bankruptcy ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, ohio
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