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Rags to Riches Movies

Name: Rags to Riches Movies
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Underdog success stories from poverty to wealth — the rags-to-riches dream on screen.

Rags To Riches Movies — 11 entries in the movies category, sortable by Title, Year, Director. Every row is ranked by community votes, giving you a crowd-sourced perspective you won't find on Wikipedia or IMDb.

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Title↕	Year↕	Director↕	IMDB Rating↕	Genre↕	Country↕	Runtime (min)↕	Overview↕
There Will Be Blood	2007	Paul Thomas Anderson	8.1	Drama	United States of America	158	Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainview'...
Citizen Kane	1941	Orson Welles	8	Mystery, Drama	United States of America	119	Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
The Greatest Showman	2017	Michael Gracey	7.9	Drama	United States of America	105	The story of American showman P.T. Barnum, founder of the circus that became the famous traveling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
Straight Outta Compton	2015	F. Gary Gray	7.8	Drama, Music, History	United Kingdom	147	In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: their music. Taking us back to where it all began, Straight Outta Compton tells the true story of ho...
Boogie Nights	1997	Paul Thomas Anderson	7.6	Drama	United States of America	156	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 o...
Ray	2004	Taylor Hackford	7.4	Drama, Music	United States of America	152	Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern musical circuit, the soulful singer gained a rep...
Trading Places	1983	John Landis	7.2	Comedy	United States of America	116	A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
Aladdin	2019	Guy Ritchie	7.1	Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Family	United States of America	127	A kindhearted street urchin named Aladdin embarks on a magical adventure after finding a lamp that releases a wisecracking genie while a power-hungry Grand Vizier vies for the same lamp that has the power to make their deepest wishes come true.
Far and Away	1992	Ron Howard	6.8	Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western	United States of America	140	In director Ron Howard’s period epic, a young free-spirited Irish woman from an affluent Protestant family spontaneously befriends a street-smart commoner gypped by her family’s hostile land takeovers before the two escape together to America for a new life during the 19th century Oklahoma land r...
Hillbilly Elegy	2020	Ron Howard	6.7	Drama	United States of America	117	An urgent phone call pulls a Yale Law student back to his Ohio hometown, where he reflects on three generations of family history and his own future.
Cocktail	1988	Roger Donaldson	6.1	Romance, Drama, Comedy	United States of America	104	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 l...

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