social climbing movies

Match Point (2005)
7.365 / 10

Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance

Chris, a former tennis player, looks for work as an instructor. He meets Tom Hewett, a wealthy young man whose sister Chloe fall in love with Chris....

Jawbreaker (1999)
6.3 / 10

Comedy, Crime

When an exclusive clique of teenage socialites accidentally murder their best friend on the morning of her birthday, the three girls responsible...

Red-Headed Woman (1932)
6.5 / 10

Comedy, Romance, Drama

Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force...

Darling (1965)
6.663 / 10

Drama, Romance

The swinging London, early sixties. Beautiful but shallow, Diana Scott is a professional advertising model, a failed actress, a vocationally bored...

Georgetown (2019)
5.934 / 10

Crime, Drama

Ulrich Mott is an eccentric and versatile social climber with grandiose plans to affect United States foreign policy. Encouraged in his attempts by...

Half a Sixpence (1967)
6 / 10

Music, Drama, Romance

"If I had the money, I'd buy me a banjo!" says struggling sales clerk Arthur Kipps. Soon he'll inherit enough to buy a whole bloomin' orchestra. But...

An American Tragedy (1931)
6.1 / 10

Crime, Drama, Romance

A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.

Floating City (2012)
6.8 / 10

Drama

Set in Hong Kong in the 1980s, the film follows a fisherman’s son who rises to become a powerful tai pan.

Nana (1926)
6.6 / 10

Drama, Romance

Count Moffat becomes infatuated with Nana, a presumptuous stage actress, vulgar, hypocritical and promiscuous, willing to do anything to succeed.

Bright Eyes (1921)
0 / 10

Comedy

An oil heir and the daughter of a social climbing family are set to marry.

Laugh Your Blues Away (1942)
0 / 10

Comedy

Hired actors posing as Russian royalty complicate a social-climbing mother's efforts to fix up her son with the daughter of a wealthy Texas rancher.

Neet Generation (2024)
0 / 10

In a not so fictional Italy trying to solve the N.Ε.Ε.Τ. problem, the government decides to reintroduce compulsory conscription for one million...

Selfish Desires (1984)
0 / 10

Drama

A story of an young girl who tries to escape from memories of the past and while doing so she alienates herself from her family. Since she was a...

The Climber (1966)
6.5 / 10

Drama

A young, ambitious man employs every means necessary in order to climb to the top of the social ladder. But the whirlpool of compromises and...

Gesprengte Ketten (1915)
0 / 10

Drama

A young woman's life has very little going for her, her mother having died and her alcoholic father having abandoned her. Nevertheless, she climbs...