Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "social-status"

1. The Faculty (1998)

R | 104 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

When Casey Connor, Herrington High School's newspaper photographer, witnesses the murder of a nurse and sees her alive again, he decides to investigate the bizarre happenings.

Director: Robert Rodriguez | Stars: Jordana Brewster, Clea DuVall, Laura Harris, Josh Hartnett

Votes: 134,949 | Gross: $40.06M

2. War & Peace (2016)

TV-14 | 63 min | Drama, History, Romance

As the Russian conflict with Napoleon reaches its peak, five aristocratic families face the possibility of their lives being changed forever.

Stars: Paul Dano, James Norton, Lily James, Adrian Edmondson

Votes: 26,565

3. Keeping Up Appearances (1990–1995)

TV-PG | 60 min | Comedy

A snobbish housewife is determined to climb the social ladder, in spite of her family's working class connections and the constant chagrin of her long suffering husband.

Stars: Patricia Routledge, Clive Swift, Geoffrey Hughes, Judy Cornwell

Votes: 17,838

4. The Age of Innocence (1993)

PG | 139 min | Drama, Romance

A tale of nineteenth-century New York high society in which a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder, Linda Faye Farkas

Votes: 67,694 | Gross: $32.20M

5. Victoria & Abdul (2017)

PG-13 | 111 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.

Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Judi Dench, Ali Fazal, Tim Pigott-Smith, Eddie Izzard

Votes: 38,185 | Gross: $22.25M

6. The Great Gatsby (1974)

PG | 144 min | Drama, Romance

A Midwesterner becomes fascinated with his nouveau riche neighbor, who obsesses over his lost love.

Director: Jack Clayton | Stars: Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Bruce Dern, Karen Black

Votes: 26,841 | Gross: $6.74M

7. Over the Edge (1979)

PG | 95 min | Crime, Drama

A group of bored teenagers rebel against authority in the community of New Granada after the death of one of their own.

Director: Jonathan Kaplan | Stars: Matt Dillon, Michael Eric Kramer, Pamela Ludwig, Vincent Spano

Votes: 8,116

8. The Boxtrolls (2014)

PG | 96 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

A young orphaned boy raised by underground cave-dwelling trash collectors tries to save his friends from an evil exterminator.

Directors: Graham Annable, Anthony Stacchi | Stars: Ben Kingsley, Jared Harris, Nick Frost, Richard Ayoade

Votes: 61,462 | Gross: $50.84M

9. Merlí (2015–2018)

TV-MA | 58 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Meet the renegade philosophy teacher who's not afraid to speak his mind and break the rules to revolutionize his students' lives, including the son he barely knows and a student with a severe social phobia.

Stars: Francesc Orella, Pere Ponce, Carlos Cuevas, Marta Marco

Votes: 9,879

10. Regarding Henry (1991)

PG-13 | 108 min | Drama, Romance

After being shot, a lawyer loses his memory and must relearn speech and mobility, but he has a loving family to support him.

Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Harrison Ford, Annette Bening, Michael Haley, Stanley Swerdlow

Votes: 34,344 | Gross: $43.00M

11. Coco Before Chanel (2009)

PG-13 | 105 min | Biography, Drama

The story of Coco Chanel's rise from obscure beginnings to the heights of the fashion world.

Director: Anne Fontaine | Stars: Audrey Tautou, Benoît Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola, Marie Gillain

Votes: 42,081 | Gross: $6.11M

12. Alpha and Omega (2010)

PG | 90 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Two young wolves at opposite ends of their pack's social order are thrown together into a foreign land and need each other to return home, but love complicates everything.

Directors: Anthony Bell, Ben Gluck | Stars: Hayden Panettiere, Christina Ricci, Justin Long, Dennis Hopper

Votes: 15,193 | Gross: $25.08M

13. Sodom and Gomorrah (1962)

G | 154 min | Adventure, Drama, History

Sex, torture, and betrayal in Biblical Sodom and Gomorrah. Lot, leader of the Hebrews, believes that his people can co-exist with the Sodomites--a disastrous decision.

Directors: Robert Aldrich, Sergio Leone | Stars: Stewart Granger, Pier Angeli, Stanley Baker, Rossana Podestà

Votes: 2,181 | Gross: $5.45M

14. Good Morning (1959)

Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Two boys begin a silence strike to press their parents into buying them a television set.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga, Chishû Ryû, Kuniko Miyake

Votes: 10,997

15. Merlí. Sapere Aude (2019–2021)

TV-MA | 50 min | Comedy, Drama

When Pol enrolls in university in pursuit of a philosophy degree, he's challenged and enticed by new friends and an intimidating professor.

Stars: Carlos Cuevas, María Pujalte, Pablo Capuz, Boris Ruiz

Votes: 3,592

16. Waiting for the Hearse (1985)

94 min | Comedy

Each member of this family tries to endorse someone else to care for the old Mother.

Director: Alejandro Doria | Stars: Luis Brandoni, China Zorrilla, Antonio Gasalla, Julio De Grazia

Votes: 7,262

17. Dime Quién Soy: Mistress of War (2020–2021)

TV-MA | 426 min | Drama, Thriller

We revisit the history of the 20th century through the eyes of a woman: Amelia Garayoa.

Stars: Irene Escolar, Oriol Pla, Pierre Kiwitt, Maria Pia Calzone

Votes: 925

18. Sarabhai V/S Sarabhai (2004–2017)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

The show revolves around the lives of the members of an Uber Wealthy - High Society Gujarati family of Cuffe Parade - South Mumbai, whose daughter-in-law is from a middle class Delhi background.

Stars: Satish Shah, Ratna Pathak Shah, Sumeet Raghavan, Rupali Ganguly

Votes: 18,146

19. Dante's Inferno (1935)

Passed | 89 min | Drama, Romance

Jim Carter moves in on the McWade's carnival concession which shows scenes from Dante's "Inferno". He makes it a going concern, marrying Betty along the way. An inspector calls the ... See full summary »

Director: Harry Lachman | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Claire Trevor, Henry B. Walthall, Alan Dinehart

Votes: 915

20. Potiche (2010)

R | 103 min | Comedy

A housewife and grandma takes over the family business 1977, after her husband is hurt during a strike.

Director: François Ozon | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Fabrice Luchini, Karin Viard

Votes: 11,353 | Gross: $1.62M

21. I Was Born, But... (1932)

Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Drama

Two young brothers throw a tantrum when they discover that their father isn't the most important man in his workplace.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Tatsuo Saitô, Tomio Aoki, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Hideo Sugawara

Votes: 6,200

22. Pretty Woman (1991)

93 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Nightclub hostess Mimin is hired to impersonate her lookalike Hsin, an office worker who was murdered.

Director: Chi-Kin Yeung | Stars: Veronica Yip, Alex Fong, Siu-Wah Chan, Shao-Lung Chen

Votes: 160

23. Something for Everyone (1970)

R | 112 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

In post-war Austria, young, handsome country lad Konrad Ludwig (Michael York) charms his way into a butler position at the castle of the widowed (and destitute) Countess von Ornstein (... See full summary »

Director: Harold Prince | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Michael York, Anthony Higgins, Heidelinde Weis

Votes: 1,074 | Gross: $0.30M

24. Nasdrovia (2020–2022)

Action, Comedy, Drama

Edurne and Julián are two successful lawyers. They decided to quit their careers and open a Russian restaurant: the Nasdrovia. Unfortunately, it's so great that it becomes a favorite of the Russian mafia.

Stars: Leonor Watling, Hugo Silva, Luis Bermejo, Anton Yakovlev

Votes: 386

25. The Skin Game (1931)

TV-G | 85 min | Drama

An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village and almost destroy each other.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Jill Esmond, C.V. France, Helen Haye

Votes: 3,552

26. Brother Orchid (1940)

Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.

Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sothern, Donald Crisp

Votes: 3,167

27. Gloria Mundi (2019)

106 min | Drama

In Marseille, a family gathers for the birth of baby Gloria. But despite the joy, the young parents have fallen on tough times. As they try to make ends meet, they reconnect with Gloria's ex-convict grandfather.

Director: Robert Guédiguian | Stars: Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gérard Meylan, Anaïs Demoustier

Votes: 937

28. My Forbidden Past (1951)

Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Barbara Beaurevel lives with her aunt and cousin in New Orleans in the late 1800s. In love with Mark Lucas, a research doctor at Tulane University, her plans to marry him are thwarted. ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas, Lucile Watson

Votes: 1,157

29. The American Meme (2018)

TV-MA | 98 min | Documentary

Social media stars Paris Hilton, Josh Ostrovsky, Brittany Furlan and Kirill Bichutsky hustle to build online empires - and face the pitfalls of fame.

Director: Bert Marcus | Stars: Kirill Bichutsky, Hailey Bieber, Amanda Cerny, Dane Cook

Votes: 14,810

30. Carmen from Kawachi (1966)

89 min | Comedy

Like a girl runaway, Tsuyu moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a model school, Yoko, and seriously thinks about becoming a fashion model. Yoko tells her that she... See full summary »

Director: Seijun Suzuki | Stars: Yumiko Nogawa, Kôji Wada, Tamio Kawaji, Chikako Miyagi

Votes: 175

31. You're Telling Me! (1934)

Passed | 66 min | Comedy

A hard-drinking, socially-awkward inventor wrecks his daughter's chances of marriage into a rich family and bungles his own chances of success by selling one of his more practical inventions.

Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: W.C. Fields, Joan Marsh, Buster Crabbe, Adrienne Ames

Votes: 1,181

32. Welcome to Blood City (1977)

96 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A group of people find themselves as slaves in what looks like a Wild West town, but with no memory of who they are or how they got there. In this town, people advance through killing ... See full summary »

Director: Peter Sasdy | Stars: Jack Palance, Keir Dullea, Samantha Eggar, Barry Morse

Votes: 542

33. Virtual Hero (2018–2020)

22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Rubius in search of the sphere traveling through the Game Worlds, to save Sakura, the girl he has just fallen in love with, from the claws of the enigmatic and evil Trollmask, in order to ... See full summary »

Stars: Jenny Beacraft, Alex Warner, Rubén Doblas Gundersen, Sergi Zamora

Votes: 205

34. Soldiers: Story from Ferentari (2017)

119 min | Drama

Adi (40), a shy and introverted anthropologist, who got recently dumped by his girlfriend, moves to Ferentari, the poorest and most notorious neighborhood of Bucharest. He wants to write a ... See full summary »

Director: Ivana Mladenovic | Stars: Dan Bursuc, Sorin Cocis, Cezar Grumazescu, Kana Hashimoto

Votes: 862

35. Bandoleros (2021)

250 min | Adventure, Drama, History

In the 19th century, Lucía known as "The Plainswoman" leaves prison with her son, born there, after 17 years. The young one's father, the famous bandit "Lizard", soon enters the picture.

Stars: Isak Férriz, Bebe, Jason Fernández, Xabier Deive

Votes: 212

36. It's a Girl! (2012)

Not Rated | 64 min | Documentary

Every year in India and China, millions of babies are killed, neglected or abandoned simply because they are girls.

Director: Evan Grae Davis

Votes: 535

37. Distant Thunder (2010)

97 min | Drama

Zhao Po, a nerdy college student from a lowly background, is obsessed with social status. In spite of his awkwardness he finds a nice girlfriend, who is however not a college student as he ... See full summary »

Director: Jiarui Zhang | Stars: Siyan Huo, Xiaoran Guo, Siran Ge, Zhigang Zhao

Votes: 48

38. From Soup to Nuts (1928)

20 min | Comedy, Short

Inexperienced waiters (Laurel & Hardy) are hired for a swank dinner party.

Directors: Edgar Kennedy, Leo McCarey | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Tiny Sandford, Dorothy Coburn

Votes: 1,147

39. The Clandestine Marriage (1998)

90 min | Comedy

A period movie, set around an English country house whose owners want to arrange a marriage of convenience between their elder daughter and an aristocratic heir of a hard-up noble family. ... See full summary »

Director: Christopher Miles | Stars: Nigel Hawthorne, Joan Collins, Timothy Spall, Tom Hollander

Votes: 397

40. 42 Up (1998 TV Movie)

139 min | Documentary, Biography

Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a seven-year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.

Director: Michael Apted | Stars: Bruce Balden, Jacqueline Bassett, Symon Basterfield, Andrew Brackfield

Votes: 2,805 | Gross: $0.26M

41. Fame Is the Spur (1947)

96 min | Drama

A British politician finds that his intense liberal views become more conservative with his rise to power.

Director: Roy Boulting | Stars: Michael Redgrave, Rosamund John, Bernard Miles, Carla Lehmann

Votes: 225

42. Repossession (2019)

96 min | Drama, Horror

50-year-old Jim has constructed a perfect life in the world's most expensive city. When he is unexpectedly laid off, he desperately clings onto the symbols of his success, while wrestling with resurfacing demons from his past.

Directors: Ming Siu Goh, Scott C. Hillyard | Stars: Gerald Chew, Amy Cheng, Sivakumar Palakrishnan, Rachel Wan

Votes: 61

43. Older Brother, Younger Sister (1953)

86 min | Drama

In Older Brother, Younger Sister, director Mikio Naruse's adaptation of an oft-filmed popular novel by Saisei Murô, the eldest daughter (Machiko Kyô) of a rural family comes home pregnant, ... See full summary »

Director: Mikio Naruse | Stars: Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Yoshiko Kuga, Yûji Hori

Votes: 485

44. Unmade Beds (1997)

R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama

A black comedy about vanity and lust in contemporary America. In the middle of the sexual jungle of New York's singles' world, two men and two women try to achieve their dreams.

Director: Nicholas Barker | Stars: Aimee Copp, Michael De Stefano, Brenda Monte, Mikey Russo

Votes: 336 | Gross: $0.25M

45. Unnatural Causes (2008– )

Documentary

"Why do some of us get sicker more often and die sooner, and what causes us to become sick in the first place? This limited series explores the apparent link between a person's health and ... See full summary »

Stars: Llewellyn M. Smith, S. Leonard Syme, David Williams, Ana Diez-Roux

Votes: 31

46. Laissez-faire (2015)

80 min | Documentary, History, War

A historical perspective to understand Neoliberalism and to understand why this ideology today so profoundly influences the choices of our governments and our lives.

Director: Ruggero Arenella | Stars: Stefano Accomo, Giovanni Agnelli, Jaime Roldós Aguilera, Salvador Allende

Votes: 14

47. Dead Man Working (2016 TV Movie)

88 min | Drama, Thriller

Much to everyone's surprise, a powerful financier at the peak of his career jumps off the bank's rooftop. As the markets react violently, it's up to his protégé to shed light on this obscure case. Was it a suicide or a premeditated murder?

Director: Marc Bauder | Stars: Benjamin Lillie, Wolfram Koch, Jördis Triebel, Manfred Zapatka

Votes: 191

48. Big Fish, Little Fish (1971 TV Movie)

135 min | Comedy

Twenty years ago, William was considered a brilliant young academic, but he was involved in a scandal. Now, he scrapes a mediocre living working for a publishing firm.

Director: Daniel Petrie | Stars: Martine Bartlett, Bill Bixby, Jeff Corey, Severn Darden

49. The Dancing Hawk (1977)

98 min | Drama

Michal Toporny is a poor country boy whose determination and hard work help him climb the social ladder and become the head of a large factory in the city. But at what cost?

Director: Grzegorz Królikiewicz | Stars: Franciszek Trzeciak, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Beata Tumkiewicz, Czeslaw Przybyla

Votes: 120

50. The Gap Year Paedophile (2017 TV Movie)

60 min | Documentary

Reporter Bronagh Munro investigates how a teenage gap year student became one of Britain's worst ever paedophiles.

Director: John Martin | Stars: Bronagh Munro, Richard Huckle, Jim Gamble, Keith Niven

Votes: 47