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Merchant Samson Silych Bolshov borrowed a large sum of money. And, not wanting to return it, declared bankruptcy. He transferred all his property to the name of the clerk Lazar Podkhalyuzin, for whom - for his own peace of mind - he marries his daughter Lipochka. But Podkhalyuzin has a secret plan...

Ellis Cripper has lost his money and his memory; in different ways he tries to make sense of his situation.

Sean Quinn was the world's biggest single loser in the 2008 global financial collapse. He'd gambled his business empire on a single investment and lost everything. Now he wants it all back, no matter the cost.

Family members reminisce about a dark period of their collective history: when beanie babies took over their lives.

A Bankrupt Honeymoon is a 1926 American silent comedy film starring Harold Goodwin and featuring Oliver Hardy.

In the era of ubiquitous doomscrolling, Aristarkh is learning the classic art of humor in order to play the comedian Igor Igorevich Tarletsky at a stand-up performance in Voronezh. The second concert by Russia's most modest comedian.

Detroit U.S.A.: Once the most prosperous city in America. With a booming manufacturing sector and cultural magnetism, the city had bright horizons after World War II. But as the 1960′s rolled in, the marriage of Big Business and Big Government overtook Detroit. The central planners in government needed the powerful corporations, and the powerful corporations came to depend on the bureaucracy, too. The marriage worked well for the politicians and for their corporate cronies, but Detroit itself entered a decades-long decline. America watched as Detroit slowly bled people, jobs and revenue. Politicians tried spending money. They tried raising taxes. The more they taxed and spent, the faster the city declined. And most importantly, it asks "What is next for the Motor City?"

#2 in the King of Minami series. The relentless Osaka loan shark Ginjiro Manda and his apprentice, Ryuichi, attempt to collect from a failed AV producer, setting into motion a complex series of events involving the yakuza, planned bankruptcy schemes and a wily stockbroker named Yasuda.

#9 in the series, after "Lovers Contract."

#53 in the series, following "Agent of Darkness"

#30 in the King of Minami series, introducing Ginjiro Manda's new sidekick Kohei. This installment explores the fatal effects of bankruptcy on the loan shark profession, when a young business owner gets tricked into declaring bankruptcy in order to escape from his massive loan debts, prompting Manda to seek revenge on the wily financial advisor behind it all.

Facing off against corrupt businessmen and politicians lurking in the shadows of great evil, the members of the Tiger of Naniwa take a stand.

Once heralded as the spirit of American manufacturing, music, and democracy, Detroit kicked its fiscal can down the road for decades plummeting into insolvency, culminating in the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. GRADUALLY, THEN SUDDENLY is the inside story of how a state-appointed Emergency Manager and the people of this iconic American city- confronting financial ruin-followed a treacherous path towards a new beginning.

Seon Woo is a poor loan shark who raises his daughter alone. He is swindled by his cousin Min Woo, and even his life is in danger. The solution that came out of his head is YouTube! Gathering debtors who couldn't pay their debts and aiming for a jackpot! Hungry Monk, a former chef who is in debt due to COVID-19, Vivian, who failed while trying to focus on her boyfriend, Muscle Rabbit, who became penniless while investing to escape his first single life, even Manju, a fraud programmer from Seoul National University. All kinds of people gathered for the YouTube production! They're going to make a hit on YouTube as planned. Will he be able to escape his detestable life?

Two filmmakers meet after a gap of fifteen years. As one of them narrates a script of a film to the another, the past catches up with them - the question of success, of failures and of a subtle comparison of individual achievements arise. The duo by the end of the film realize that they are as bankrupt as ever - literally, and in all sense of the word.

After World War I jazz music unites the divided countries of Europe. The new formed Jazz Republic introduces an unlimited amount of Eurobonds for all Europeans to live upon the interest of one's money. It leads to a complete bankruptcy. This film is an adaptation of a screenplay that the Flemish poet Paul van Ostaijen wrote in Berlin and Antwerp between 1919 and 1921.

Numerous incidents and accidents that go up and down the newspaper every day. However, no matter how terrible events and accidents are, if they are routine, then tolerance develops. Around 2000, news of social killings without criminals or suspects began to overflow in Korea's morning newspapers and evening news.

You may not think of atheism as a religion, but it truly is. It offers a way to think about the world that denies any type of supernatural intervention. While there are hard and soft atheists, the rejection of the Bible as a standard of authority is unanimous among them.

Germany's economic movers and shakers get a thorough going-over in Friedl's docu-fiction hybrid, which doesn't hesitate to point fingers at those partially responsible for Europe's financial woe.

How to Enrich Yourself by Driving Women Into Emotional and Financial Bankruptcy

On the brink of losing her childhood home, Maddie discovers an intriguing job listing: wealthy helicopter parents looking for someone to “date” their introverted 19-year-old son, Percy, before he leaves for college. To her surprise, Maddie soon discovers the awkward Percy is no sure thing.

After Dick Harper loses his job at Globodyne in an Enron-esque collapse, he and his wife, Jane, turn to crime in order to handle the massive debt they now face. Two intelligent people, Dick and Jane actually get pretty good at robbing people and even enjoy it – but they have second thoughts when they're reminded that crime can hurt innocent people. When the couple hears that Globodyne boss Jack McCallister actually swindled the company, they plot revenge.

A lifetime of taking shots has ended Rocky’s career, and a crooked accountant has left him broke. Inspired by the memory of his trainer, however, Rocky finds glory in training and takes on an up-and-coming boxer.

In early 19th-century England, dire financial straits reacquaint the aristocratic Anne Elliot with her wealthy ex-fiance Frederick Wentworth. The two must choose between either putting the past behind them or listening to their hearts.

A car magnate watches his personal and professional life hit the skids because of his business and romantic indiscretions.

Young women in a small Japanese town look to revive their home's declining fortunes by building a Hawaiian village tourist attraction.

After running out of funds, Henry Graham, a carefree playboy, plots to marry and murder wealthy botanist Henrietta Lowell.

Two spoiled Beverly Hills sisters who have been left penniless after their father's sudden death are forced to move in with their estranged aunt in East Los Angeles.

Texan Charles Farmer left the Air Force as a young man to save the family ranch when his dad died. Like most American ranchers, he owes his bank. Unlike most, he's an astrophysicist with a rocket in his barn - one he's built and wants to take into space. It's his dream. The FBI puts him under surveillance when he tries to buy rocket fuel, and the FAA stalls him when he files a flight plan – but Charles is undeterred.

When the wife of a 17th-century Kyoto scrollmaker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find themselves truly falling for one another.

A New Mexico cattle man and his strong-willed daughter clash over land and love.

An aging, decadent landlord’s passion for music becomes the undoing of his legacy as he sacrifices his wealth in order to compete with the opulent music room of his younger, richer neighbour.

A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.

A penniless countess falls in love with a cad, unaware that he is also involved on the side with her beautiful daughter.

A teenager's millionaire father goes bankrupt, and rumors about the girl's family finances make the school day a painful struggle.

When Miss Vicki's father dies, she becomes the world's greatest philanthropist. Unfortunately, she is flat broke! Her loyal butler, Claude Fitzwilliam, leads the household staff to rob from various businesses by charging goods to various wealthy people and misdirecting the shipments, all to keep Miss Vicki's standard of living.

When ex-con artist Harry claims that a secret treasure is hidden inside Candleshoe, an English estate, he creates an elaborate plan to find and steal the prize. By convincing a girl named Casey to impersonate the estate owner's long-lost granddaughter, Harry hopes to uncover the treasure's location. But when Casey has a change of heart, she must follow the clues and find the treasure, in order to save Candleshoe and stop Harry before it is too late.

When Shane inherits a gentleman's club from his estranged uncle, he leaves his Midwestern home for Los Angeles. Run by a booze hound and employing a dozen out of control strippers, Shane must do everything he can to save the club from bankruptcy and maybe make history in the process.

This experimental documentary circulates around interviews with four veterans who worked all their lives in analogue (=celluloid) film laboratories and animation studios in Mumbai, and who all lost their businesses and jobs around 2012–14, when the Hindi film industry went through a drastic shift to digital production. They reflect on the loss of their craftsmanship, but also on the philosophies of their handmade film practice versus readymade digital solutions. While the film drifts into various related and unrelated scenarios, shot on the streets of Mumbai, we learn about the art of living and working under precarious conditions in India and survival strategies in one of the most crowded and commercial cities in the world. Finally everything results in a futile collage of nostalgia and memories, mashed up with the absurd aesthetics of AI slop. An expanded multi-genre documentary within the constraints of the so-called Masala Formula, popularly known from Indian cinema.

Fred P. Chaney receives as inheritance after the death of his mother a speaking horse that also has good knowledge about the stock-market. With the help of this horse Fred gains a lot at the stock-market of Chicago.

Alone in Madness celebrates intergenerational queer community with a collaboration between Montréal's Lesbians on Ecstasy & next gen Lucy's Delirium, in this playful video. An ode to Le Cagibi, a longstanding queer cafe, co-op and performance space recently shuttered, Alone in Madness follows a robot getting their nerve up to play an open mic night to a dubious crowd.