Movies and TvShows featuring "bill-collector" theme.
Set in post-war Japan, a young woman named Noriko is faced with the pressures of marriage and family expectations. She must decide between following tradition or seeking her own path in life.
In Arizona, a realtor named Cassie is held captive by a man named Sonny, who blames her for his financial troubles. As Cassie tries to escape, she must navigate a dangerous game of cat and mouse while dealing with her own personal issues.
Lorenzo Adams works at a bill collection agency in Norfolk. When an old debt of his own suddenly comes, Lorenzo has less than three weeks to payback $150,000.
A banker gets stranded in a small town during a snowstorm and falls in love with a widow. Together, they overcome the challenges of the holiday season and discover the true meaning of Christmas.
Street Scene takes place in a New York City tenement where various residents interact with each other. The story revolves around the Morningside family and their neighbors, as they navigate issues of love, infidelity, gossip, and prejudice. Set during a heatwave, tensions rise and secrets are revealed, leading to tragic consequences.
A group of farmers face financial hardship and eviction during the Great Depression, but with the help of collective farming and self-governance, they triumph over adversity.
A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.
Ginger, an orphan, is living with her foster-uncle, Rexford Whittington, a broken-down Shakesperian actor. Although denied the love of a mother and father, Ginger looks after her uncle, gives him lectures, loves him, defends him and keeps house for him. But, through a meddling do-gooder, she is placed in the home of the Parkers, and clashes immediately with the pampered young son, Hamilton.
Frank Faylen and Charlie Hall (a longtime Laurel & Hardy foil) star as Dolan and Doolittle, a pair of goofy druggists who join the army to escape the wrath of bill collector Mulligan
Ambitious non-starter gets a job as a bill-collector at a beauty-products company and tries to bluff his way into a management position, then tries a couple of other business schemes with minimal success.
The title of Grand Caesar in the Ancient Order of Noblest Romans of Wakefield, Indiana keeps Jim "Pop" Helton so involved and distracted that he forgets to pay the family's bills, nearly makes a shambles of a real estate deal his oldest daughter, Ethel is working on, almost wrecks her romance with Captain Tom Drayson, and gets involved in a game with a pool shark in an effort to raise the remaining $75 of the $6,750 needed (that they didn't have) by the Wakefield Lodge to host the national convention of the Noblest Romans.
A model posing as a school teacher at Jones Beach causes chaos when her true identity is revealed. The two must navigate their complicated relationship amidst deception and public scrutiny.
Broadway producer Nickie North and press agent Scoop Trimble find an investor for their next show who insists that they cast his ex-girlfriend, Clarice Sheldon, in the lead role and rehearse out of town. The crew set up on a family farm, and all is well until the leading man falls for the farmer's daughter, Patience Bingham. When flighty starlet Sheldon finds out he has a new girlfriend, she takes off, leaving North and Trimble to find a new leading lady.
A wealthy, callous moneylender finds a terrifying way to learn about money's limitations.
In this comedy sci-fi movie, an English professor named Woodrow Wilson Smith purchases a new television set called the Twonky. However, he soon discovers that the television set is not an ordinary one, as it takes control of his life and starts to exert its influence over him. The Twonky starts to interfere with Woodrow's relationships, job, and even his freedom. As things escalate, Woodrow must find a way to regain control and overcome the power of the Twonky.
A top-hatted bill collector is given the unenviable assignment of collecting the debts of a bad-tempered innkeeper.
Tom Kennedy joins a shooting contest over at the Acme Gun Club.
Moe, Rose and Lee Baumler are members of an upper class family who find the world completely changed when they lose everything in the stock market crash of 1929. Lee, a college-age young man, who now faces no possibility of entering college, decides to go on the road to see what is happening to the rest of the country.
Saturday's Children tells the story of a group of individuals living in New York City who are facing various challenges in their personal and professional lives. The movie explores themes of love, ambition, and the complexities of human relationships.