rags to riches

Trading Places | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
7.5 (129459 votes)
Budget
15,000,000.00$
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.

Genre
IMDB
5.9 (76658 votes)
Budget
20,000,000.00$
After being discharged from the Army, Brian Flanagan moves back to Queens and takes a job in a bar run by Doug Coughlin, who teaches Brian the fine art of bar-tending. Brian quickly becomes a patron favorite with his flashy drink-mixing style, and Brian adopts his mentor's cynical philosophy on life and goes for the money.

Genre
IMDB
7 (4540 votes)
Budget
550.00$
Alternately hilarious and horrifying, Overnight chronicles one man's misadventures of making a Hollywood movie. It starts out as a rags to riches story as Troy Duffy, a Boston-bred bartender, sells his first screenplay for The Boondock Saints.

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IMDB
7.1 (2141 votes)
From abject poverty to becoming a ten-time boxing world champion, congressman, and international icon, Manny Pacquiao is the true definition of a Cinderella story. In the Philippines, he first entered the ring as a sixteen-year-old weighing ninety-eight pounds with the goal of earning money to feed his family. Now, almost twenty years later, when he fights, the country of 100 million people comes to a complete standstill to watch. Regarded for his ability to bring people together, Pacquiao entered the political arena in 2010. As history’s first boxing congressman, Pacquiao now fights for his people both inside and outside of the ring. Now at the height of his career, he is faced with maneuvering an unscrupulous sport while maintaining his political duties. The question now is, what bridge is too far for Manny Pacquiao to cross?

Boogie Nights | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
7.9 (227589 votes)
Budget
15,000,000.00$
Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner discovers Eddie Adams, a hot young talent working as a busboy in a nightclub, and welcomes him into the extended family of movie-makers, misfits and hangers-on that are always around. Adams' rise from nobody to a celebrity adult entertainer is meteoric, and soon the whole world seems to know his porn alter ego, "Dirk Diggler". Now, when disco and drugs are in vogue, fashion is in flux and the party never seems to stop, Adams' dreams of turning sex into stardom are about to collide with cold, hard reality.

The Sidelong Glances of a Pigeon Kicker | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
6.1 (89 votes)
After a young man graduates from a prestigious college, he rebels by preferring a carefree existence rather than the life of fighting the rungs within the treacherous American corporate ladder. For his means of survival he becomes a New York cab driver.

Genre
IMDB
7.2 (522 votes)
The story of four-time World Champion Panamanian boxer Roberto Durán. A one man wrecking-ball who took on the world, transcended his sport and helped inspire a nation to rise up against its CIA funded dictator to achieve independence. From his days shining shoes on the street, to packing out arenas across the world, this is the story of modern Panama and its most celebrated child.

Genre
IMDB
7.1 (160,305 votes)
Budget
183,000,000.00$
A kindhearted street urchin and a power-hungry Grand Vizier vie for a magic lamp that has the power to make their deepest wishes come true. A live-action retelling of the 1992 Disney film of the same name.

Genre
IMDB
7.0 (197,562 votes)
Budget
183,000,000.00$
A live-action retelling of the 1992 Disney film of the same name.

Straight Outta Compton | United States of America
Genre
Budget
28,000,000.00$
The group NWA emerges from the mean streets of Compton in Los Angeles, California, in the mid-1980s and revolutionizes Hip Hop culture with their music and tales about life in the hood. MOVIE IN ENGLISH, WITHOUT SUBTITLES. The film will be demonstrated within film festival "Spektrs".