Avainsana Rags To Riches

Disneyn animaatioklassikko Aladdin on loihdittu uudelleen valkokankaalle elokuvan energisenä ja jännittävänä live action -versiona. Aladdin on ollut yksi kuuluisimmista ja suosituimmista Tuhannen ja yhden yön tarujen satukertomuksista 1700-luvulta asti. Se on kertomus pennittömästä katurotasta Aladdinista, rohkeasta ja päättäväisestä sulttaanin tyttärestä, prinsessa Jasminesta ja Hengestä, joka voi olla heidän tulevaisuutensa avainAladdin on innokas jättämään pikkurikollisen elämänsä Agraban kaduilla taakseen ja uskoo olevansa tarkoitettu suurempiin asioihin. Hän löytää toivomuksia täyttävän hengen asuttaman taikalampun ja käyttää sitä voittaakseen Jasminen sydämen kieron velhon heittäessä kapuloita rattaisiin.

Tämä on lumoava tositarina P.T. Barnumista, yhdestä historian legendaarisimmista viihdyttäjistä. Hän oli visionääri, joka perusti tyhjästä sirkusspektaakkelin, joka lumosi miljoonia ihmisiä ympäri maailmaa.

Upporikkaat Duken veljekset lyövät vetoa siitä, mitä tapahtuu jos koditon mies kadulta ottaa rikkaan miehen paikan ja päinvastoin. Uhreiksi valikoituvat menestyvä pörssimeklari Louis Winthorpe III ja kerjäläinen Billy Ray Valentine.

Straight Outta Compton kertoo todellisen tarinan siitä, miten viisi nuorta kulttuurikapinallista - aseinaan vain sanoituksensa, rehvastelunsa, uhmakkuutensa ja lahjakkuutensa - nousi vastustamaan auktoriteetteja, joiden tarkoituksena oli vaimentaa heidät. Nuoret perustivat maailman vaarallisimman yhtyeen nimeltä N.W.A. kun he kertoivat turvattomasta elämästä ghetossa, he panivat alulle sosiaalisen vallankumouksen, jonka vaikutukset tuntuvat yhä tänäkin päivänä.

Kohutun uuden ohjaajan Paul Thomas Andersonin värikäs elokuva Kalifornian pornoteollisuuden alkuvuosista svengaavalla 70-luvulla on koskettavan hauska kuvaus joukosta elokuvantekijöitä, jotka ovat kuin yhtä suurta perhettä niin työssä kuin vapaallakin. Hervottoman juhlinnan ja huumekokeilujen taustalla soi 70-luvun herkullinen musiikki.

Ray on todella epätavallinen ja inspiroiva kertomus vastoinkäymisten voittamisesta. Vaatimattomista oloista aloittanut Ray Charles ylitti mahdottomatkin esteet ja nousi kansainväliseksi tähdeksi muuttaen musiikin olemusta vuosikymmeniksi.

Nuori ja kunnianhimoinen Brian Flanagan unelmoi menestyksestä pörssimeklarina. Hän huomaa kuitenkin, että baarimikkona voi tienata enemmän - varsinkin, jos tutustuu varakkaisiin naisiin. Hän törmää Dough Coughliniin, ja heistä tulee pian kaupungin suosituimmat baarimikot, joiden show tiskin takana ei jätä ketään kylmäksi! Kaikki muuttuu, kun Brian rakastuu tarjoilija Jordan Mooneyhin ja joutuu laittamaan elämänsä arvot uuteen järjestykseen.

Rikkaan intialaisperheen kunnianhimoinen kuski pakenee älynsä ja oveluutensa avulla köyhyydestä ja ryhtyy yrittäjäksi. Elokuva perustuu menestysromaaniin.

Parker ja Longbaugh, kaksi väkivaltaista taparikollista tekee elämänsä keikan: he kidnappaavat raskaana olevan sijaisäidin, joka odottaa lasta rikkaalle gangsteripariskunnalle. Kidnappaajien esittäessä lunnasvaatimuksensa he saavat tappajat peräänsä. Kidnappaajat pakenevat Meksikoon, mutta eivät voi välttää takaa-ajajia. Alamaailman välienselvittely on hengästyttävää puuhaa ja lyijymyrkytykset yleisiä...

Makunouchi Ippo is an ordinary high school student in Japan. Since he spends most of his time away from school helping his mother run the family business, he doesn't get to enjoy his younger years like most teenagers. Always a target for bullying at school (the family fishing business grants him a distinct odor), Ippo's life is one of hardship. One of these after-school bullying sessions turns Ippo's life around for the better, as he is saved by a boxer named Takamura. He decides to follow in Takamura's footsteps and train to become a boxer, giving his life direction and purpose. Ippo's path to perfecting his pugilistic prowess is just beginning...

A loving heart trapped beneath an ugly facade, ignored and unappreciated by those who fail to see beyond what is skin-deep. She is a woman whose only desire is to feel a little affection from the world that has deprived her of everything she has always longed for.

To escape her cruel stepmother, Lu Zhen enters the palace and rises through the ranks with her pottery skills. Despite capturing the heart of Crown Prince Gao Zhan, social barriers and jealous enemies prevent their union. She dedicates herself to politics, helping him thwart a coup, and is eventually honored with the position of female prime minister.

Zhou Ying is sold to the powerful Shen family by her foster father, yet successfully escapes by sneaking into merchant Wu Ping’s palanquin. The Wu family agreed to take her in after witnessing her remarkable business acumen, and she ends up marrying Wu Ping. The drama will chronicle the life of the Qing Dynasty's richest female merchant, and her struggles to keep the Wu family business afloat during the last years of the Qing Dynasty. Shen Xingyi is a happy-go-lucky young sir who has never known hardship in his life. After meeting Zhou Ying, he eventually decides to change his ways and becomes a mature noble who is willing to protect his country and family from disaster. He has a seemingly unrequited love for Zhou Ying.

In a cutthroat world where the life you’re born into decides your success, three aspiring youths are determined to change that perception as they fight for their dreams.

In a colorful Seoul neighborhood, an ex-con and his friends fight a mighty foe to make their ambitious dreams for their street bar a reality.

From when she was young, Qing Ling grew up in an orphanage. She is a kind, cheerful and helpful girl with a perfect sense of smell. Due to her sensitivity to smells, she started to develop perfume. Qing Ling's dream is to create a perfume to pay back the orphanage and help society. In order to realize this dream, Qing Ling persevered through all sorts of adversity. While chasing her dream, she received Xu Qinglun, Duan Tian Lang, Duan Yi Hua and others help. With Duan Tian Lang, they went from friends to lovers. During this period, she also found her family and reconnected with them. After experiencing lots of frustration, she finally, with her own effort and everyone's help, produced her own perfume brand, realized her dream and obtained love.

Maria da Paz is a committed baker who becomes a wealthy businesswoman twenty years after a tragedy strikes on the day of her wedding to Amadeu. From this broken union a baby is born, Jô, who seeks power and despises her mother’s humble origins. Afraid that her parents’ reunion might spoil her plans, Jô starts an alliance with the charming Régis to convince Maria to marry him and, together, they plan to steal all of Maria’s fortune. In this exciting telenovela written by Emmy Awards winner Walcyr Carrasco, Maria’s optimism must be stronger than Jô’s ambition when the baker finds out about the betrayal and her own daughter’s dangerous secrets.

Set in Jiudaowan, this story follows a group of young people over 40 years of reform and opening up. Through life's struggles, the twists and turns of love, and the challenges of their careers, these true friends face it all together, growing and maturing into adulthood.

A man dies in a car crash, but awakes with the spirit of another person. He becomes the head of two families and he agonizes over his two different wives.

"Sparkling Girls" centers around three young and beautiful, hard-working housekeepers who reach stardom instantly when an online video clip of them singing, surprisingly becomes a hit. Their success provokes the wrath of a glamorously gaudy and outspoken famous singer who will do anything to ruin the girls' friendship and career. With humor, romance, over the top characters, and bright, glittery stage performances set to catchy tunes, "Sparkling Girls" delivers all of the expected delights and shows that dreams really do come true.

The Thorn Birds is a 2011 South Korean television series where one woman forsakes her love and family for her ambition while another woman embraces with love all that the former had left behind. Fates of a bit part actress Seo Jung-eun and a film producer Han Yoo-kyung who chose success are intertwined and resolved gradually as their mutual stories progress. The "thorn birds" of the title refers to Jung-eun's character, who only brings out her best at the cost of great pain. A thornbird is a mythical bird who searches for a thorn tree from the day it is born. When it finds it, the bird impales itself upon the sharpest thorn, and rises above the agony to sing the most beautiful song ever heard.

Tired of just scraping by, an ambitious janitor scams and schemes his way to the good life in 1980s Poland amid changing regimes and personal chaos.

A home-searching romance story about a man who buys houses and a woman who lives in one. It follows the diverse stories of the editors of a home magazine.

Mildred Pierce depicts an overprotective, self-sacrificing mother during the Great Depression who finds herself separated from her husband, opening a restaurant of her own and falling in love with a man, all the while trying to earn her spoiled, narcissistic daughter's love and respect.

The life of an orphan is changed by the providential intervention of a mysterious benefactor.

The sweeping rags to riches story of the Hardacres, a working-class family in 1890s Yorkshire who strike it rich and move from a grimy fish dock to a vast estate.

Pasan Ko Ang Daigdig is a Philippine drama that airs on GMA Network. This is the fourth instalment of Sine Novela. The original movie was released back in 1987. For the TV remake of the movie GMA negotiated with Viva films that they would keep the elements of the old movie but use the comic elements of Pablo Gomez to make the story more fitting for its TV remake.