Best "mortgage" Movies of All Time

The life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle—a bike which helped him set the land-speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.

Directed by Roger Donaldson - With Anthony Hopkins, Diane Ladd, Jessica Cauffiel, Christopher Lawford, Paul Rodriguez, Walton Goggins, ...

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99 Homes(2015)

| 1h 52min | Drama

3.4/5 (with 325 votes)

After his family is evicted from their home, proud and desperate construction worker Dennis Nash tries to win his home back by striking a deal with the devil and working for Rick Carver, the corrupt real estate broker who evicted him.

Directed by Ramin Bahrani - With Andrew Garfield, Cullen Moss, Michael Shannon, Laura Dern, Tim Guinee, Noah Lomax, ...

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Babes in Toyland(1934)

| 1h 13min | Comedy, Kids & Family, Fantasy

3.3/5 (with 53 votes)

Ollie Dee and Stanley Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe and keep it and Little Bo Peep from the clutches of the evil Barnaby. When that fails, they trick Barnaby into marrying Stanley Dum instead of Bo Peep. Enraged, Barnaby unleashes the bogeymen from their caverns to destroy Toyland.

Directed by Gus Meins, Charley Rogers, Gordon Douglas - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Billy Bletcher, Baldwin Cooke, Jean Darling, Scotty Beckett, ...

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The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio(2005)

1h 39min | Drama

3.4/5 (with 35 votes)

A Midwestern housewife supports her large family by entering contests for ad slogans sponsored by consumer product companies, while dealing with abuse from her alcoholic husband. Based on a true story.

Directed by Jane Anderson - With Julianne Moore, Woody Harrelson, Laura Dern, Dan Lett, Erik Knudsen, Frank Chiesurin, ...

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Apple Mortgage Cake(2014)

| 1h 30min | Drama, TV Movie

2.9/5 (with 7 votes)

The inspirational true story of a woman who decides to bake 100 apple cakes and sell them at $40 each in order to save her home – and how this idea completely changes her and her family.

Beanstalk(1994)

| 1h 18min | Comedy, Kids & Family, Fantasy

2.7/5 (with 4 votes)

A young boy finds a crate of green beans. When they're planted, they grow a beanstalk to the clouds, where a castle of giants are habited.

Directed by Michael Davis - With Margot Kidder, J. D. Daniels, Patrick Renna, Stuart Pankin, Richard Moll, Richard Paul, ...

She Wronged Him Right(1934)

6min | Animation, Comedy

2.7/5 (with 5 votes)

Betty Boop appears on stage with Freddie in an old-fashioned mortgage melodrama.

Directed by Dave Fleischer

Phantom Rancher(1940)

| 1h 1min | Western, Romance / Love

1.7/5 (with 2 votes)

Cowboy puts on a black mask and a black outfit to fight a gang of land-grabbing crooks.

Directed by Harry L. Fraser

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Down on the Farm(1920)

50min | Comedy

2.7/5 (with 3 votes)

The day starts off as any normal day on Roach's farm, where Teddy, the farmhouse dog, is doing more productive work than everyone else combined. But the day changes when Roach's farmhand sees an opportunity to be the knight in shining armor to Louise, Roach's daughter, who he wants to marry.

Directed by Erle C. Kenton, Ray Grey, F. Richard Jones - With Bert Roach, Harry Gribbon, Jimmy Finlayson, Louise Fazenda, Billy Armstrong, Eva Thatcher, ...

Hit Parade of 1941(1940)

1h 28min | Music, Comedy, Romance / Love

2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

In this musical, the second entry in a five-film series, a thrift shop owner sells his business and buys a small time radio station. He begins looking for sponsors. He finds one with a department store owner who will only lend him the money if he will allow his daughter, an aspiring tap-dancer and singer, to perform on the air. This is unfortunate as she is tone-deaf. To compensate, the owner hires a real singer to dub the daughter's voice. The singer and the owner's nephew fall in love and mayhem ensues. Songs include: the Oscar nominated "Who Am I?," "Swing Low Sweet Rhythm," "In The Cool of the Evening," "Make Yourself at Home," "The Swap Shop Song," "The Trading Post," "Sally," "Ramona," "Sweet Sue," "Dinah," "Margie," and "Mary Lou.".

Directed by John H. Auer - With Kenny Baker, Frances Langford, Hugh Herbert, Mary Boland, Ann Miller, Patsy Kelly, ...

The Show Off(1926)

1h 22min | Comedy, Drama

3.8/5 (with 1 vote)

A blowhard who poses as a railroad executive (but is really just a $30-a-week clerk) catches a young bride and then drives her family's finances to the brink of ruin.

Directed by Malcolm St. Clair - With Ford Sterling, Lois Wilson, Louise Brooks, Claire McDowell, Joseph W. Smiley

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The Flaw(2011)

1h 18min | Documentary

3.1/5 (with 5 votes)

The story of the credit bubble that caused the financial crash. Through interviews with some of the world's leading economists, including housing expert Robert Shiller, Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, and economic historian Louis Hyman, as well as Wall Street insiders and victims of the crash including Ed Andrews - a former economics correspondent for The New York Times who found himself facing foreclosure - and Andrew Luan, once a bond trader at Deutsche Bank now running his own Wall Street tour guide business, the film presents an original and compelling account of the toxic combination of forces that nearly destroyed the world economy.

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Black Oxfords(1924)

20min | Comedy

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

In this Mack Sennett comedy, a mother and daughter fear foreclosure because their mortgage payment is due and they're unable to pay it. Meanwhile, the family's son Jack, who's in prison, unexpectedly finds himself free of captivity.

Friends, Romans and Leo(1917)

12min | Comedy

1.9/5 (with 1 vote)

The plot and setting is actually a bit like Keaton's The Three Ages will be in 1923. But less sophisticated: The Roman Emperor Mulius Caesar borrows more money than he should. The loan shark is all over him and exploits this to get near the emperor's daughter. A slave falls in love with the daughter and sends the loan shark in a rage – unless the slave is sent to Colosseum he will foreclose the emperor's mortgage.

Prairie Gunsmoke(1942)

| 56min | Western

"Wild" Bill Elliot is the star of Prairie Gunsmoke. This time Elliot is paired with Tex Ritter, both of whom prove the bane of the bad guys' existence. It's fun to watch Ritter swing into action the moment he finishes singing, though Elliot may not have been overly pleased at sharing the spotlight. The leading lady is Virginia Carroll, one of Hollywood's best horsewomen.

Directed by Lambert Hillyer

Hurricane Hutch(1921)

5h | Adventure, Action

Story concerns a paper mill, a mortgage and the struggle to obtain the lost formula for making paper from seaweed. Star is given opportunity to introduce many daredevil features.

Directed by George B. Seitz - With Charles Hutchison, Warner Oland

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