After losing a high-stakes poker game, a man is forced into indentured servitude and becomes trapped in a model town built by an eccentric millionaire. He seeks revenge and forms an unlikely alliance with a card shark to escape.
A frivolous middle aged socialite is suddenly put upon to have her daughter live with her. Her conniving paramour dumps her for the daughter, leaving the young boyfriend crushed.
During the Algerian War, a French soldier disobeys orders and is captured by mercenaries. After his escape, he returns home to face accusations of treason and must defend himself in court.
Charilaos Maraziotis owns a store and owes so much money both to his lenders and to the state, that he is in danger of going to jail. He decides to pretend to be a psychopath and is sent to an asylum. His lenders, upon hearing the news about his mental health, change their attitude towards him and release him from his debts.
A mechanic and his partner come up with a cunning plan to search for a hidden treasure in an old house in Athens, Greece. They encounter various obstacles and comedic situations along the way.
An adaptation of Margaret Atwood's book examining the metaphor of indebtedness.
When the actress he loves seems to be infatuated with a frivolous count, an actor disguises himself as the count's real interest, a wealthy Spanish woman whom the count has never seen before but wants to hoodwink into marrying him.
In a town called Hope on the edge of Britain's empire, desperations clash: the beautiful Dorothea Brook is desperate to free her pregnant sister Rose from the clutches of Fraser, a fortune hunter. A local politician, William Poyner, is desperate for cash and thinks marriage to Dorothea will save him. Dorothea hires Lawrence Hayes, a rough but handsome Argonaut, to bribe Fraser with jewels and to marry Rose; Hayes desperately loves Dorothea and may marry Rose to stay close to her. But Dorothea has a lover, the ravishing Anne Cooper, who encourages the match with Poyser to give the lovers cover. Are these remedies, each desperate in its turn, going to make anyone happy?
In war-torn Athens, a schoolteacher with a golden hair navigates through love, loss, and the hardships of teaching during wartime. She becomes entangled in a web of secrets and struggles to maintain her integrity and protect her students.
Abbas, known as "Abbas Chakhan," is a driver’s apprentice who is alone and has a stutter, constantly weaving tall tales. One night, he accidentally meets Banafsheh, who has ended up in a notorious neighborhood in search of her dreams, yet she is still determined to free herself from that place and have a home of her own. Abbas promises Banafsheh that he will help her. After she learns that Abbas has been imprisoned due to a small debt, she borrows money from a loan shark named Mohammad, known as "Mohammad the Dagger," to free Abbas.
After the loss of her father, a young woman takes on a third job to make ends meet in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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