Movies: Debt

Golrokh, an Iranian author, struggles to settle her husband's debts caused by a business partner who left him to bear the consequences....

Two brothers, the honest Michalis and the swindler Nontas, are forced to resort to bank robberies in order to pay off the latter's entanglements with the mafia. Michalis' love for a secret police officer, a strange couple of her colleagues and Nontas...

Bailouts, stimulus packages, debt piled upon debt…Where will it all end? How did we get into a situation where there has never been more material wealth & productivity and yet everyone is in debt to bankers? And now, all of a sudden, the bankers ...

In an audacious campaign to demand better borrowing, Michael Sheen buys £1m of debt from hundreds of people in Wales, and then he writes it all off...

Three friends go overboard with a celebration and accidentally set a local mobster's new car wash on fire. With only 30 days to pay for the damages, they decide to find a better-paying job — becoming male strippers....

Leandros is a night club owner who is trying to avoid imprisonment by searching for money to pay the insurance contributions. Along with his debts, he has to withstand the pressures of his beloved for marriage....

A single banknote travels through town and clears all debts. Where does it end up?...

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 Elviz's mother's property on the Turkish Riviera otherwise. But Elviz knows how to make money quickly these day...

Wayward London youth Jason, seduced by the lure of fast money and unlimited cocaine, becomes a gangster's runner who struggles to survive within London's criminal underworld where his only escape hinges on whether he can kill another to save himself....

With the country's debt growing out of control, Americans by and large are unaware of the looming financial crisis. This documentary examines several of the ways America can get its economy back on the right track. In addition to looking at the feder...

Debtocracy seeks the causes of the Greek debt crisis and proposes solutions sidelined by the government and the dominant media. It follows countries like Ecuador that created debt Audit Commissions and tracks this process in Greece....

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Longline: A struggling artist has 24 hours to sell her painting and pay off a ruthless debt collector....

Paul Grignon's 47-minute animated presentation of "Money as Debt" tells in very simple and effective graphic terms what money is and how it is being created...

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 wealthy man leads her to discover that she can earn far more from one-night stands. Money trumps cons...

Two friends get tangled up in debt with the local mafia called The Unit. As they look for ways to pay the debt before The Unit comes to collect, they find out there in deeper waters than they thought....

A debt-ridden martial artist is forced to work for a gangster, who then murders his family....

Essam takes a loan from a contractor to buy a house, but the contractor starts blackmailing and threatening him to pay his debt....

Chandran, a circus performer, and Thankam are in love. The circus team borrows some money from Thankam's father, Paithal Nair. When they are unable to repay, Paithal Nair takes away their animals....

War By Other Means is a 1992 television documentary by John Pilger and David Munro concerning loans to developing countries from the World Bank which cause them to pay more interest then they ever receive in international aid ("debt as a weapon"). It...