Debt Movies

$avy investigates the historical, cultural, and societal norms around women and money.

Elli is a biology student who likes to party and sleep around. Her part-time cleaning job doesn't even cover her rent, but a chance encounter with a...

In order to save her extravagant mother from bankruptcy, shame and scandal, young society girl Mildred Gower is forced to accept the proposal of...

Pillai, a moneylender, encounters a predicament when his younger brother falls in love and marries a girl from the rival family. Though his brother...

After 20 years of no contact with his father, Jack McCarthy (played by Hurley) travels from New York to his father Larry's death bed in Cork. Upon...

Nelson puts his criminal ways behind him, having spent years as a first-rate safecracker. This resolution lasts until his brother finds himself owing...

A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget.

An ex-chorus girl lives on the Riviera, supported by a married man she doesn't know is a crook.

In post-war Japan, it is difficult for private business to stay afloat. The small atelier has a debt of several million yen. To get a loan, his...

3 brothers live in Singapore, each leading a different lifestyle. They discover the deeper meanings in life as tragedies unfold, with comedy & tears...

A kindly but desperate Alsatian innkeeper named Mathias murders and robs a rich Jewish merchant staying at his inn, but the ghost of his victim will...

A late-night plan among three friends takes an unexpected turn when one of them steps out to score some weed, but the endeavour grows darker with...

With the country's debt growing out of control, Americans by and large are unaware of the looming financial crisis. This documentary examines several...

On-the-run from the London mafia, Omi returns to his ancestral village – a place he’d flown from with his grandad’s money and...

Peggy Wilson has recently become an orphan and a ward of the Waston family. She’s also inherited the late Robert Wilson’s vast fortune,...

The village commune is struggling with huge debt incurred by it's overambitious mayor, who once suffered a personal tragedy. Did this affect his...

Let’s Make Money is an Austrian documentary by Erwin Wagenhofer released in the year 2008. It is about aspects of the development of the world...

The film is set in a restaurant, and the tragicomic events that befall a restaurant owner who is in debt to a mafia boss.

23-year-old Elviz from Hamburg-Altona is in a tight spot: his uncle wants the 50,000 euros he once lent Elviz back — he promises to seize...

A former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts.