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1. Caddyshack (1980)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Sport
An exclusive golf course has to deal with a flatulent new member and a destructive dancing gopher.
Director: Harold Ramis | Stars: Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Bill Murray, Ted Knight
Votes: 127,394 | Gross: $39.85M
2. Giant (1956)
G | 201 min | Drama, Western
Sprawling epic covering the life of a Texas cattle rancher and his family and associates.
Director: George Stevens | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Carroll Baker
Votes: 42,310
3. Black Cat, White Cat (1998)
R | 127 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
Matko and his son Zare live on the banks of the Danube river and get by through hustling and basically doing anything to make a living. In order to pay off a business debt Matko agrees to marry off Zare to the sister of a local gangster.
Director: Emir Kusturica | Stars: Bajram Severdzan, Srdjan 'Zika' Todorovic, Branka Katic, Florijan Ajdini
Votes: 56,462 | Gross: $0.35M
4. Down to Their Last Yacht (1934)
Passed | 64 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
After losing their fortune in the Great Depression, a wealthy family embarks on a yacht voyage to the South Seas, leading to screwball antics. A musical comedy.
Director: Paul Sloane | Stars: Mary Boland, Polly Moran, Ned Sparks, Sidney Fox
Votes: 295
5. Laugh and Get Rich (1931)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy
Man takes his wife's stashed money and is conned into investing it in an oil well.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Edna May Oliver, Hugh Herbert, Dorothy Lee, Russell Gleason
Votes: 298
6. Il grande giorno (2022)
90 min | Comedy
In a villa on Lake Como, everything is ready to celebrate Elio and Caterina's wedding, but a newcomer strikes like a tornado, putting in a series of very expensive gaffes and accidents.
Director: Massimo Venier | Stars: Aldo Baglio, Giovanni Storti, Giacomo Poretti, Antonella Attili
Votes: 1,503
7. Silver Dollar (1932)
TV-G | 83 min | Biography, Drama
Yates and Sarah Martin are barely getting by in a Colorado boom town grocery store. Sudden wealth leads to greater prosperity and political power. In Denver Yates buys a mansion and builds ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Bebe Daniels, Aline MacMahon, DeWitt Jennings
Votes: 471
8. The Hardys Ride High (1939)
Passed | 81 min | Comedy, Family
Judge Hardy and family travel to Detroit to claim an inheritance where they experience life as millionaires and learn the cost of riding high.
Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden
Votes: 471
9. Bons baisers... à lundi (1974)
94 min | Comedy, Crime
Three thieves, Henri-Pierre, Bob and Dimitri decide to take on Frankie Strong, a wealthy businessman.
Director: Michel Audiard | Stars: Jean Carmet, Bernard Blier, Maria Pacôme, Evelyne Buyle
Votes: 166
10. Manhattan Love Song (1934)
Approved | 73 min | Comedy, Romance, Drama
After having been swindled out of all their money by a crooked business manager, formerly wealthy socialites Jerry and Carol discover that they owe their chauffeur and maid back wages they ... See full summary »
Director: Leonard Fields | Stars: Robert Armstrong, Dixie Lee, Nydia Westman, Franklin Pangborn
Votes: 80
11. Tráfico (1998)
112 min | Comedy
Unexpected events occur in a single day: a boy makes his parents rich when he finds the hidden and forbidden treasure of the Earth; two priests close their church for lack of parishioners ... See full summary »
Director: João Botelho | Stars: Joaquim Oliveira, Rita Blanco, Adriano Luz, Branca de Camargo
Votes: 210
12. Nós os Ricos (1996–1999)
Comedy
Comic portrait of the life of Berto, a new rich, his sister and his butler.
Stars: Fernando Mendes, Rosa do Canto, Carlos Areia, Filipe Soares
Votes: 59
13. The Big Shot (1937)
Approved | 60 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
A small-town veterinarian inherits $2 million from his uncle, whom he hasn't seen for years. He decides to use some of his new-found wealth to fund a clean-up crusade against the gangster ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Killy | Stars: Guy Kibbee, Cora Witherspoon, Dorothy Moore, Gordon Jones
Votes: 187
14. Grandpa Called It Art (1944)
10 min | Documentary, Short, History
Americans as a collective were known as being artistically challenged. During Grandpa's time, art in America was looked at a bit differently than it is today. Typical of the American ideal ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Hart | Stars: John Nesbitt, Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, Thomas Hart Benton, Charles Burchfield
Votes: 90
15. Home (1916)
50 min | Comedy, Drama
Bessie Wheaton returns from Europe to find that her nouveau-riche family has adopted and magnified the worst characteristics of the upper class. Her father spends all of his time at the ... See full summary »
Director: Raymond B. West | Stars: Bessie Barriscale, Charles Ray, Clara Williams, George Fisher
16. The Usurper (I) (1919)
50 min | Drama
John Maddox, a man who has little use for women, travels out West to make his fortune. On the way he rescues a pretty young woman from a narrow ledge just below a steep cliff. She turns out... See full summary »
Director: James Young | Stars: Earle Williams, Louise Lovely, Bob Russell, Frank Leigh
17. The Silver King (1919)
50 min | Drama
When British gentleman Wilfred Denver weds the beautiful Nellie, he earns the undying hatred of Nellie's former sweetheart, Geoffrey Ware. After several years of cozy matrimonial contentment, Denver finds himself heavily in debt.
Director: George Irving | Stars: William Faversham, Barbara Castleton, Nadia Gary, Lawrence Johnson
18. The Self-Made Wife (1923)
50 min | Drama
Tim Godwin and his wife Corrie are living in poverty when Tim's oil well strikes it rich. He soon works his way to the top of the social scale, but Corrie doesn't change at all--she stays a... See full summary »
Director: John Francis Dillon | Stars: Ethel Grey Terry, Crauford Kent, Virginia Ainsworth, Phillips Smalley
19. The Lady of the Photograph (1917)
Comedy, Drama
When Lord Latimer dies leaving nothing to his wanton son, young Ferdy is left penniless. Although his cousin, Eric Latimer, offers to show Ferdy a loophole in the will in exchange for a ... See full summary »
Director: Ben Turbett | Stars: Shirley Mason, Raymond McKee, Royal Byron, Dudley Hill
20. Pride (1917)
50 min | Drama
Eve Leslie is sent to boarding school. Proud of the fortune that has come to her she feels herself above Adam Moore, who loves her. Eugene D'Arcy, a powerful banker, who also suffers from ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Ridgely | Stars: Holbrook Blinn, Shirley Mason, George LeGuere, Helen Strickland
21. A Kiss for Susie (1917)
50 min | Comedy, Drama
Susie is the daughter of a very good bricklayer. The lad who loves her is a very rich lad, as all lads should be, but, alas are not. To win her, he poses as a hod-carrier, certainly an ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Thornby | Stars: Vivian Martin, Tom Forman, John Burton, Jack Nelson
22. Cupid by Proxy (1918)
Comedy, Drama
The Browns and the Stewarts are neighbors and good friends until Mr. Stewart makes a fortune manufacturing clothespins. Now socially ambitious, Mrs. Stewart urges her daughter Jane ( ... See full summary »
Director: William Bertram | Stars: Marie Osborne, Minnie Danvers, J.N. McDowell, Mae Talbot
23. Jack Straw (1920)
Approved | 50 min | Comedy
Jack Straw, an iceman, falls in love with the voice of Ethel Parker Jennings which he is accustomed to hearing down the dumbwaiter shaft of his Harlem flat. When the Jennings family ... See full summary »
Director: William C. de Mille | Stars: Robert Warwick, Carroll McComas, Charles Ogle, Irene Sullivan
24. Real Folks (1918)
50 min | Comedy, Drama
Suspecting that his California farmland is rich in oil, transplanted Irishman Pat Dugan spends his last penny on prospecting and is richly rewarded when his oil shaft finally gushes. ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Edwards | Stars: Francis McDonald, Alberta Lee, J. Barney Sherry, Fritzi Ridgeway