The Big Short

The Big Short 2015

7.40

The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.

2015

The World's Fastest Indian

The World's Fastest Indian 2005

7.60

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.

2005

99 Homes

99 Homes 2015

6.77

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.

2015

Babes in Toyland

Babes in Toyland 1934

6.40

Ollie Dee and Stannie 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, enraging him.

1934

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio 2005

6.68

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.

2005

Lay That Rifle Down

Lay That Rifle Down 1955

5.50

A story about a girl from the sticks doing drudge work at a hotel and dreaming of a better life.

1955

Apple Mortgage Cake

Apple Mortgage Cake 2014

5.70

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.

2014

Beanstalk

Beanstalk 1994

5.00

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.

1994

Black Oxfords

Black Oxfords 1924

5.00

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.

1924

Phantom Rancher

Phantom Rancher 1940

3.50

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

1940

The Flaw

The Flaw 2011

6.50

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.

2011

The Show Off

The Show Off 1926

7.20

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.

1926

Hit Parade of 1941

Hit Parade of 1941 1940

5.30

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."

1940

Down on the Farm

Down on the Farm 1920

5.50

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.

1920

She Wronged Him Right

She Wronged Him Right 1934

5.40

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

1934

Hurricane Hutch

Hurricane Hutch 1921

6.00

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.

1921

Friends, Romans and Leo

Friends, Romans and Leo 1917

3.80

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.

1917

Prairie Gunsmoke

Prairie Gunsmoke 1942

1

To win possession of the ranches he holds mortgages on, crooked banker Jim Kelton has his henchmen raid the ranches and stampede the cattle herds thereby ensuring the ranchers can't meet their notes. U. S. Marshal Wild Bill Hickok arrives...

1942

Jon Richardson Grows Up

Jon Richardson Grows Up 2014

8.00

This three-part series follows comedian Jon Richardson and his friend Matt Forde as they face up to the adult realities of mortgages, marriage and parenthood.

2014