Best "tycoon" Movies of All Time

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Giant(1956)

3.8/5 (with 286 votes)

Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She marries Benedict, but she is shocked by the racial bigotry of the White Texans against the local people of Mexican descent. Rink discovers oil on a small plot of land, and while he uses his vast, new wealth to buy all the land surrounding the Benedict ranch, the Benedict's disagreement over prejudice fuels conflict that runs across generations.

Directed by George Stevens - With Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Carroll Baker, Jane Withers, Mercedes McCambridge, ...

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Intolerable Cruelty(2003)

PG-13

| 1h 40min | Crime, Comedy, Romance / Love

3.0/5 (with 648 votes)

A revenge-seeking gold digger marries a womanizing Beverly Hills lawyer with the intention of making a killing in the divorce.

Directed by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen - With George Clooney, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Geoffrey Rush, Billy Bob Thornton, Cedric the Entertainer, Richard Jenkins, ...

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Guru(2007)

PG-13

| 2h 46min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.4/5 (with 52 votes)

Gurukant Desai hails from Idhar, a small village in Gujarat, but dreams of setting up his own business in Mumbai. After he returns from Turkey, he marries Sujatha for getting the dowry and arrives in Mumbai to start his business. This film chronicles the obstacles he meets, his subsequent rise and the huge backlash he receives when it is revealed that he used unethical means to rise in the business circuit.

Directed by Mani Ratnam - With Abhishek Bachchan, Mithun Chakraborty, Arjan Bajwa, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Neena Kulkarni, R. Madhavan, ...

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Cronos(1993)

| 1h 34min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

3.3/5 (with 283 votes)

Faced with his own mortality, an ingenious alchemist tried to perfect an invention that would provide him with the key to eternal life. It was called the Cronos device. When he died more than 400 years later, he took the secrets of this remarkable device to the grave with him. Now, an elderly antiques dealer has found the hellish machine hidden in a statue and learns about its incredible powers. The more he uses the device, the younger he becomes...but nothing comes without a price. Life after death is just the beginning as this nerve-shattering thriller unfolds and the fountain of youth turns bloody.

Directed by Guillermo del Toro - With Federico Luppi, Ron Perlman, Claudio Brook, Margarita Isabel, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Jorge Martínez de Hoyos, ...

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You Can't Take It with You(1938)

| 2h 6min | Comedy, Romance / Love

3.8/5 (with 163 votes)

Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.

Directed by Frank Capra - With Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Edward Arnold, Mischa Auer, Ann Miller, ...

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Born Yesterday(1950)

| 1h 43min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Drama

3.6/5 (with 66 votes)

Uncouth, loud-mouth junkyard tycoon Harry Brock descends upon Washington D.C. to buy himself a congressman or two, bringing with him his mistress, ex-showgirl Billie Dawn.

Directed by George Cukor - With Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden, Grandon Rhodes, Claire Carleton

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The Devil and Miss Jones(1941)

| 1h 32min | Comedy, Romance / Love

3.9/5 (with 20 votes)

The wealthiest man in the world, John P. Merrick, is a private person who likes to stay anonymous. One of his many assets is Neeley's Department Store. There is labor unrest at the store, and the employees' anger is directed at him, who they hang in effigy outside the store despite not knowing what he looks like. Merrick, not happy at what he sees going on, decides to mete out the rabble-rousers. So he goes undercover as a sales clerk in the shoe department.

Directed by Sam Wood - With Jean Arthur, Charles Coburn, Robert Cummings, Edmund Gwenn, Spring Byington, S. Z. Sakall, ...

Walker(1987)

| 1h 34min | Drama, History, Western

3.2/5 (with 29 votes)

William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat.

Directed by Alex Cox - With Ed Harris, Peter Boyle, Richard Masur, René Auberjonois, Keith Szarabajka, Xander Berkeley, ...

Life Without Principle(2011)

1h 47min | Action, Thriller, Crime

3.3/5 (with 28 votes)

A criminal, a bank clerk and a police officer find their destinies entwined when a loan shark gets assaulted after having withdrawn $10 million from the bank in the midst of the world financial crisis.

Directed by Johnnie To - With Cheung Siu-fai, Lau Ching-Wan, Richie Jen, Denise Ho, Stephanie Che, Felix Wong, ...

Drop Dead Sexy(2005)

1h 23min | Comedy, Crime

2.4/5 (with 21 votes)

When their money scam runs aground, a group of would-be thieves turn to kidnapping in an attempt to blackmail their target.

Directed by Michael Philip - With Jason Lee, Crispin Glover, Lin Shaye, Xander Berkeley, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Amber Heard, ...

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The Greek Tycoon(1978)

| 1h 47min | Drama

2.9/5 (with 12 votes)

A lusty Greek shipping magnate courts the widow of an assassinated U.S. president.

Directed by J. Lee Thompson - With Anthony Quinn, Jacqueline Bisset, James Franciscus, Raf Vallone, Camilla Sparv, Marilù Tolo, ...

If I Had a Million(1932)

1h 28min | Drama, Comedy

3.3/5 (with 14 votes)

An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch, Norman Taurog, Stephen Roberts, Norman Z. McLeod, James Cruze, William A. Seiter, ... - With Charles Laughton, May Robson, Gary Cooper, George Raft, Jack Oakie, Richard Bennett, ...

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Inspector Palmu's Error(1960)

1h 47min | Comedy, Crime

3.5/5 (with 12 votes)

A closed room mystery begins when an infamous tycoon is found dead in his bath tub. The famous police lieutenant Palmu is summoned to investigate.

Directed by Matti Kassila - With Joel Rinne, Matti Ranin, Leo Jokela, Jussi Jurkka, Leevi Kuuranne

You've Been Trumped(2012)

1h 35min | Documentary

3.3/5 (with 16 votes)

In this David and Goliath story for the 21st century, a group of proud Scottish homeowners take on celebrity tycoon Donald Trump as he buys up one of Scotland's last wilderness areas to build a golf resort.

Directed by Anthony Baxter - With Donald Trump

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Barbary Coast Gent(1944)

| 1h 27min | Western, Comedy

2.3/5 (with 2 votes)

Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and headed for the gold rush region of Nevada. He discovers a real mine which lead to several complications.

Directed by Roy Del Ruth - With Wallace Beery

Seduced(1985)

2h | TV Movie, Mystery, Drama

Cybill Shephard stars as Vicky, a woman married to a rich old man, who has one foot in the grave. Gregory Harrison plays Mike Riordon a district attorney, who is young, handsome and living at home with his Irish mom for the most. Vicky's husband Arthur gets Mike involved in a merger of two companies...or something like that even though he knows that Mike and Vicky were a couple and that she had dumped him. Whilst Mike and Vicky are attending a party, Arthur is alone at home when a burglar appears out of nowhere and shoots him point blank.

Taiwan Canasta(1985)

1h 30min | Drama, Comedy

3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

A frustrated and unemployed architect experiences flashbacks of his youth and 1968 protests while the life passes by. Unable to adapt and to accept the reality, he’s constantly getting into conflicts with the people around him.

Directed by Goran Marković - With Boris Komnenić, Neda Arnerić, Gordana Gadžić, Miki Manojlović, Petar Božović, Borivoje Todorović, ...

Captive(1986)

1h 38min | Crime, Thriller

0.8/5 (with 1 vote)

The daughter of an international tycoon is kidnapped by a trio of abductors who seek to mold her to their lifestyle.

Directed by Paul Mayersberg - With Oliver Reed

The Match King(1932)

| 1h 19min | Drama

3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipulation, he gradually attains a monopoly on the matchstick market in several countries and becomes an influential international figure. Based on the true story of Ivar Kreuger.

Directed by William Keighley, Howard Bretherton - With Warren William, Lili Damita

The Young Tycoon(1978)

1h 40min | Crime

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Paul Dellis, a young self-made shipowner, has no time for anything other than high class call girls in a luxurious resort. The girl suppliers are a photographer and owner of a model agency, Werner, and his girlfriend Samantha. A rich woman, Tina, who spends her time at the same resort, fascinated by Paul arranges to visit him taking the place of Samantha. When Samantha is found dead, Tina disappears and all suspicions fall on Paul.

Piccadilly Jim(1936)

| 1h 35min | Comedy, Romance / Love

3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Jim's father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at a club, he falls for her even though she is with Lord Priory. He meets her the next day at the riding path, but she quickly loses him. He searches all over for her, not knowing that his father's hopeful fiancée is her Aunt. As his caricature work suffers as he searches, he is fired from his paper. But he makes a comeback with the comics 'Rags to Riches' which is based upon the Pett's. But this upsets the Pett's so much that they go back to New York, and he follows, being careful not to let them know that he is the one who draws the strip that parodies them.

Directed by Robert Z. Leonard - With Robert Montgomery, Frank Morgan

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Wild and Woolly(1917)

1h 12min | Comedy, Western

3.3/5 (with 6 votes)

A rich Easterner who has always wanted to live in "the Wild West" plans to move to a Western town. Unknown to him, the town's "wild" days are long gone and it is an orderly and civilized place now. The townsmen, not wanting to lose a rich potential resident, contrive to make over the town to suit the young man's fantasy.

Directed by John Emerson - With Douglas Fairbanks, Eileen Percy, Tom Wilson, Edward Burns, Monte Blue, Adolphe Menjou, ...

Cigarette Girl(1947)

1h 7min | Music, Comedy

A young man and woman base their love on lies that eventually manage to come true.

Directed by Gunther von Fritsch

Dubai(2001)

3h 18min | Thriller

1.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Major Ravi, who tries to expose the evil plans of a politician, is framed in a murder. Upon release, he moves to Dubai and becomes a business tycoon; however, his rivals are out to destroy his empire.

Directed by Joshiy - With Mammootty, N. F. Varghese, Biju Menon, Nirmal Pandey, Anjala Zaveri

The Old School of Capitalism(2009)

2h 2min | Documentary

2.6/5 (with 3 votes)

A mixture of documentary and fiction examines the new god of Capitalism offered to the Serbs with the ending of state socialism. We look at a number of strikes in Belgrade during the late 2000s and these introduce us to several characters playing themselves. Employees dressed in American football helmets and pads square up with employers' heavies in their bullet-proof vests, resulting in explosive situations. A visit from the Russian tycoon's representative and vice president Joe Biden's arrival further complicates the proceedings.

Directed by Želimir Žilnik

The Night of January 16th(1941)

| 1h 20min | Mystery, Crime, Drama

2.4/5 (with 2 votes)

Accused of killing her employer, financier Bjorn Faulkner, Kit is championed by wisecracking sailor-on-leave Steve Van Ruyle, who has a vested interest in the outcome of the trial.

Directed by William Clemens

Alive on Saturday(1957)

58min

A tycoon is conned into believing a homeless man is in actuality the exiled prince of a Balkan nation. The tycoon agrees to bank roll the revolution that is needed to reinstall the prince onto his rightful throne.

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