Rags To Riches Movies

From abject poverty to becoming a ten-time boxing world champion, congressman, and international icon, Manny Pacquiao is the true definition of a Cind...

At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during...

Fashion icon Coco Chanel, steeped in wealth and fame, still issues game-changing designs and collections. The audience is taken backwards in time to t...

A poor New York resident, who is of Indian origin, dreams of becoming a fast car race driver. He endeavors, and his efforts are rewarded when he selec...

Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later deci...

Craig Alexander, a con-man "psychic" on the carnival circuit receives the opportunity to pilfer some legendary rubies in Kenya. His luck holds and he...

The story of four-time World Champion Panamanian boxer Roberto Durán. A one man wrecking-ball who took on the world, transcended his sport and helped...

Alternately hilarious and horrifying, Overnight chronicles one man's misadventures of making a Hollywood movie. It starts out as a rags to riches stor...

James Brown changed the face of American music forever. Abandoned by his parents at an early age, James Brown was a self-made man who became one of t...

For the first time one of Hollywood's greatest stars tells his own story, in his own words. From a childhood of poverty to global fame, Cary Grant, th...

A Czech refugee uses women to advance his business interest.

An inside look as the 38-year-old prepares to perform at the famed Bridgestone Arena in his hometown of Nashville, featuring never-before-seen tour fo...

After a young man graduates from a prestigious college, he rebels by preferring a carefree existence rather than the life of fighting the rungs within...

Shirley is the youngest of eight children from a mixed race marriage. By the time she is a toddler the family have moved to the all white area of Splo...

The life story of Richard Pryor (1940-2005),the legendary performer and iconic social satirist who transcended racial and social barriers with his ho...

Isaac is a janitor whose livelihood is in jeopardy when his boss tries to cut his job in order to save money. When it seems he has finally gotten the...

Destroyed during a fire that ravaged Sampaguita’s archives. Gilda tells the story of a poor squatter who carried her invalid mother while begging on t...

A North Korean coal miner struggles to realize her dream of becoming a circus acrobat.

Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to riches, who loses her heart to the pure-and-true b...

A tramp learns that even honesty won't help him overcome his struggles to prosper. After a man tells him that he needs to smile in order to succeed, h...