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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.
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 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.
A letter is found by a demolition worker that reveals a cover up and a murder that is over 30 years old. The victim is the author of the letter that also contains evidence that leads to the killers. The demolition worker and his wife complicate things when they decide to blackmail the killers, who are wealthy and upstanding citizens of the community, of course.
A polo-playing grandmother and her broke brood get back in the money with a Wall Street bet.
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.
A wealthy, callous moneylender finds a terrifying way to learn about money's limitations.
The management of touring ice show faces mounting debts.
A masseuse's journey to find the human touch.
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.
The MGM crime reporter introduces Norman Kennedy, District Attorney of a large city, he who talks about the general want for money, and the extraordinary lengths some will go to to get it. The loan sharking business has that want for money on both sides. He tells the story of one such loan shark, Stephen Hanley, who tried to pass his company off as a legitimate loan business, but who charged exorbitant rates, and used extortion and fraud to get out of his customers even more than what they may have owed on paper.