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* The villain in the live-action adaption of ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'', Larry Quinn, is this, masquerading as a successful businessman, but secretly an unemployed slob in debt and wanting to marry Joan to sponge off of her and send Conrad to military school. It is throughout the course of the film, Conrad sees him for who and what he really is.
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* Mrs. Quickly in ''Film/NannyMcPhee'' is, at first, willing to marry Mr. Brown simply because she is turning into an old maid, and he's available. However, when his children's efforts make her think that all he wants is sex, she leaves in a huff. When the kids beg her to return, they reveal that their late mother's wealthy aunt has promised to support the family if Mr. Brown re-marries. Realizing this, Mrs. Quickly [[IncrediblyLamePun quickly]] comes back to accept Mr. Brown's proposal and later sucks up to Lady Adelaide Stitch.
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* In ''Film/{{Golden Balls|1993}}'', protagonist Benito González (Creator/JavierBardem) concocts several {{Get Rich Quick Scheme}}s to fund his gargantuan real estate project, including [[GoldDigger marrying the daughter of a billionaire banker]].
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* ''Film/ItHappenedOneNight'': Played with a twist. King Westley, a vain aviator, is marrying Ellie Andrews, a young socialite, for her wealth. During the wedding ceremony Ellie realizes that King is wrong for her and that she's in love with another man so she [[RunawayBride runs off]]. However, by this point she and King are legally married, but her father comes up with an effective solution: He pays her jilted groom $100,000[[note]] $2 Million today [[/note]] to not contest the annulment. So even though King doesn't end up married to Ellie, he ''does'' end up with the money he was seeking after all!
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* ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'': A rare gender inversion with Sir Robert King and his Azeri wife; Robert married her to gain access to oil-rich lands near the Caspian Sea that her family owned. According to Elektra, her father was nothing before he married her mother. As a British man with a foreign wife, he was able to seize control of the assets which should've rightfully belonged to Elektra's mother, but the sexism and racism which existed at the time meant that she couldn't reclaim what her husband stole.
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* The Creator/PeterSellers movie ''The Bobo'' has Creator/BrittEkland as a young lady who keeps company with a well-to-do man until she gets what she wants from him, then dumps him painfully. She had gotten a posh city apartment and a custom Maserati from two suckers.
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* ''Out to Sea'' (a comedy starring Creator/JackLemmon and Creator/WalterMatthau) has broke Charlie seeking a rich woman on a cruise. He meets Liz, [[spoiler:who he thinks is one, but it turns out she's trying to bag a rich man herself]].
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* ''Film/TheParentTrap1961'' has Mitch's young, opportunistic fiancée Vicki, who is only interested in Mitch's money. ''Film/TheParentTrap1998'' has ''Nick's'' young, opportunistic fiancée ''Meredith'', who is only interested in Nick's money.
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* ''Film/TheParentTrap1998'' has ''Nick's'' young, opportunistic fiancée ''Meredith'', who is only interested in Nick'smoney.money.
* ''Film/TheParentTrap1998'' has ''Nick's'' young, opportunistic fiancée ''Meredith'', who is only interested in Nick's
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* ''Film/LeoTheLast'': Leo's fiancée Margaret doesn't actually like him, but she's desperate to marry him because he's descended from deposed royalty, he's still very wealthy, and she hopes that someday he'll take back the throne, although he has no actual interest in ruling.
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* ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'': A rare gender inversion with Sir Robert King and his Azeri wife; Robert married her to gain access to oil-rich lands near the Caspian Sea that her family owned. According to Elektra, her father was nothing before he married her mother. As a British man with a foreign wife, he was able to seize control of the assets which should've rightfully belonged to Elektra's mother, but the sexism and racism which existed at the time meant that she couldn't reclaim what her husband stole.
* ''Film/LeoTheLast'': Leo's fiancée Margaret doesn't actually like him, but she's desperate to marry him because he's descended from deposed royalty, he's still very wealthy, and she hopes that someday he'll take back the throne, although he has no actual interest in ruling.
* ''Film/LeoTheLast'': Leo's fiancée Margaret doesn't actually like him, but she's desperate to marry him because he's descended from deposed royalty, he's still very wealthy, and she hopes that someday he'll take back the throne, although he has no actual interest in ruling.
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* ''Film/LeoTheLast'': Leo's fiancée Margaret doesn't actually like him, but she's desperate to marry him because he's descended from deposed royalty, he's still very wealthy, and she hopes that someday he'll take back the throne, although he has no actual interest in ruling.stole.
* ''Film/LeoTheLast'': Leo's fiancée Margaret doesn't actually like him, but she's desperate to marry him because he's descended from deposed royalty, he's still very wealthy, and she hopes that someday he'll take back the throne, although he has no actual interest in ruling.
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** ** Bob, a rare male example. Part of Mary's appeal is Bob's a mid-level accountant, and Mary is an extremely successful author -to the point where she has it in her contract that she can break it at ''any time'' and go to another publisher. That's Rowling and King level successful.
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* Although laughable in contrast to some other characters on this page, Olivia Honey (Maria Pitillo) openly admits to being one in ''Film/SheDevil'', saying in her interview video that she wants to find a rich man and marry him. Ruth uses that to her advantage to ruin her ex-husband Bob by sending Olivia to him through her employment agency. When Olivia confesses her love to Bob, he fires her, even though he's been sleeping with her for a while. When Olivia is telling Ruth about it, she also mentions that Bob skims off the top of his clients' accounts and sends it to a Swiss bank account. [[spoiler:Olivia still has her keys to Bob's workplace, and she and Ruth sneak in and make Bob's embezzling a little more... obvious.]]
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** Although laughable in contrast to some other characters on this page, Olivia Honey (Maria Pitillo) openly admits to beingone in ''Film/SheDevil'', one, saying in her interview video that she wants to find a rich man and marry him. Ruth uses that to her advantage to ruin her ex-husband Bob by sending Olivia to him through her employment agency. When Olivia confesses her love to Bob, he fires her, even though he's been sleeping with her for a while. When Olivia is telling Ruth about it, she also mentions that Bob skims off the top of his clients' accounts and sends it to a Swiss bank account. [[spoiler:Olivia still has her keys to Bob's workplace, and she and Ruth sneak in and make Bob's embezzling a little more... obvious.]]]]
** ** Bob, a rare male example. Part of Mary's appeal is Bob's a mid-level accountant, and Mary is an extremely successful author -to the point where she has it in her contract that she can break it at ''any time'' and go to another publisher. That's Rowling and King level successful.
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** ** Bob, a rare male example. Part of Mary's appeal is Bob's a mid-level accountant, and Mary is an extremely successful author -to the point where she has it in her contract that she can break it at ''any time'' and go to another publisher. That's Rowling and King level successful.
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* Although laughable in contrast to some other characters on this page, Olivia Honey (Maria Pitillo) openly admits to being one in ''Film/SheDevil'', saying in her interview video that she wants to find a rich man and marry him. Ruth uses that to her advantage to ruin her ex-husband Bob by sending Olivia to him through her employment agency. [[spoiler:When When Olivia confesses her love to Bob, he fires her, and even though he's been sleeping with her for a little more prodding from Ruth, while. When Olivia is telling Ruth about it, she also mentions that Bob skims off the two top of them gather evidence of him his clients' accounts and sends it to a Swiss bank account. [[spoiler:Olivia still has her keys to Bob's workplace, and she and Ruth sneak in and make Bob's embezzling from his clients to get him in jail.a little more... obvious.]]
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* ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'': A rare gender inversion with Sir Robert King and his Azeri wife; Robert married her to gain access to oil-rich lands near the Caspian Sea that her family owned. According to Elektra, her father was nothing before he married her mother. As a British man with a foreign wife, he was able to seize control of the assets which should've rightfully belonged to Elektra's mother, but the sexism and racism which existed at the time meant that she couldn't reclaim what her husband stole.
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* ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'': A rare gender inversion with Sir Robert King and his Azeri wife; Robert married her to gain access to oil-rich lands near the Caspian Sea that her family owned. According to Elektra, her father was nothing before he married her mother. As a British man with a foreign wife, he was able to seize control of the assets which should've rightfully belonged to Elektra's mother, but the sexism and racism which existed at the time meant that she couldn't reclaim what her husband stole.stole.
* ''Film/LeoTheLast'': Leo's fiancée Margaret doesn't actually like him, but she's desperate to marry him because he's descended from deposed royalty, he's still very wealthy, and she hopes that someday he'll take back the throne, although he has no actual interest in ruling.
* ''Film/LeoTheLast'': Leo's fiancée Margaret doesn't actually like him, but she's desperate to marry him because he's descended from deposed royalty, he's still very wealthy, and she hopes that someday he'll take back the throne, although he has no actual interest in ruling.
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* ''Film/{{The Parent Trap|1961}}'' has Mitch's young, opportunistic fiancée Vicki, who is only interested in Mitch's money.
* ''Film/{{The Parent Trap|1998}}'' has Nick's young, opportunistic fiancée Meredith, who is only interested in Nick's money.
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* ZigZagged by Mary Jane in the ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'', who's accused of being this by Norman Osborn. While money and status weren't the ''only'' thing she was after it appeared to be a big motivator as she dated the most popular JerkJock in school, the heir to a billion-dollar corporation, a celebrity astronaut, and ComicBook/SpiderMan back to back. She never gave Peter the time of day in high school but [[LovesMyAlterEgo after learning he was Spider-Man]] she almost immediately drops her DisposableFiance ''[[RunawayBride at their wedding]]'' without even giving him a proper explanation.
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* ''Film/{{Ajnabee}}'': A Male example with Vicky, who is actually married to a rich woman, the real Sonia, who lives far away while he lives with his girlfriend and true love Neeta, the "fake" Sonia that Raj and Priya meet. His EvilPlan is [[BlackWidow to kill the real Sonia]] while framing Raj for it so he and Neeta and get her [[InsuranceFraud life insurance money]].
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* Reconstructed in the 2019 reimagining of ''Film/LittleWomen2019''. In an era where women are considered second to men, cannot make their own fortune due to salary differences, and lose everything they earn to their husbands once the rings are exchanged, Amy knows that marrying a wealthy man is the best option for a woman of her time, and [[TheDutifulDaughter the best way to help her family live better]]. Besides that, she is told at a young age that she is the only one of her sisters who has a chance at landing a rich husband, since the other three are unfit or unwilling to do so.
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* Reconstructed in the 2019 reimagining of ''Film/LittleWomen2019''. In an era where women are considered second to men, cannot make their own fortune due to salary differences, and lose everything they earn to their husbands once the rings are exchanged, Amy knows that marrying a wealthy man is the best option for a woman of her time, and [[TheDutifulDaughter the best way to help her family live better]]. Besides On top of that, she is told at a young age that she is the only one of her sisters who has a chance at landing a rich husband, since the other three are unfit or unwilling to do so.
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* In ''Film/TheBigCube'', Johnny pretends to be in love with teenage heiress Lisa. When her father dies, Johnny plots her stepmother's murder so the two will be the sole heirs to his fortune.
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* Discussed in ''Film/GentlemenPreferBlondes''. Lorelei Lee (played by Creator/MarilynMonroe) is an overt gold digger and defends it from criticism in the film.
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* ''Film/{{Parasite|2019}}'' centers on a poor family of four scamming a rich family of also four by manipulating them into hiring them for the services of chauffeuring, housekeeping, English tutoring and psychological therapy. The rich family's so-called matriarch Yon-kyo is a [[TheDitz ditzy moron]] who has no idea how to be a good mother and appears to have only married her husband for his money. She is usually seen cuddling her dogs and eating gourmet food or setting up and attending fun events such as parties rather than being a proper housewife.
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* ''Film/{{Valentine}}'': Dorothy's boyfriend Campbell is a male example; Dorothy is a [[LonelyRichKid lonely rich young woman]] who's never had anyone interested in her, so she quickly fell for Campbell, who's a ConMan only interested in her father's money. Her friends and stepmother point out that she's only known Campbell for a month and she doesn't know his last name. Shortly after Campbell is revealed to be a Gold Digger, [[spoiler:[[AssholeVictim he winds up murdered]] by the killer]].
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* Debbie Jellinsky from ''[[Film/TheAddamsFamily Addams Family Values]]'' is a BlackWidow who marries men for their money and then murders them. Her final husband is Uncle Fester, who is a lot [[MadeOfIron harder to kill]] than her previous victims.
* The protagonist of ''Film/BabyFace''. After her abusive father (who had been letting men pay to sleep with her since she was 14) dies, she is left without money and uses wealthy men to gain money and power. She makes a HeelFaceTurn at the end when she falls in love.
* The titular ''Film/BadTeacher'' is this to a "T" -- she's only with the boyfriend we meet at the beginning of the movie for his money and he dumps her when he finally realizes this. We learn that she spent the subsequent TimeSkip trying to seduce various pro athletes in order to wrangle child support out of them, but they were always wary and savvy enough to make sure that their condoms worked and to take them with them after the deed was completed. She then spends most of the movie trying to snag the new teacher on staff once she hears that he's rich.
* Played for laughs in ''Film/BestInShow'' with Sherri Ann's husband, an incredibly old man who doesn't speak and is confined to a wheelchair but, according to Sherri Ann, is still a horndog. As it turns out, Sherri Ann [[spoiler:is actually in love with her female dog trainer]].
* The Creator/PeterSellers movie ''The Bobo'' has Creator/BrittEkland as a young lady who keeps company with a well-to-do man until she gets what she wants from him, then dumps him painfully. She had gotten a posh city apartment and a custom Maserati from two suckers.
* In ''Film/TheCandySnatchers'', Candy's WickedStepfather admits that he married her mother solely for her fortune.
* ''Film/{{Casino}}'': Ginger [=McKenna=], although she never lies about her intentions. Ace still thinks he can make an honest woman out of her. What are the chances this works out?
%%* The villain in the live-action adaption of ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'', Larry Quinn, is all but said to be this. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
* ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'': It's heavily implied through her somewhat flirtatious behavior towards him that this is [[StageMom Mrs. Beauregarde's]] backup plan is in case her daughter fails to impress Willy Wonka.
* Played with in ''Film/TheColorOfMoney''. Carmen stays with Vincent and clearly benefits from his pool-playing skills, but it's never clear how much genuine affection she has for him.
* ''Film/TheComedyOfTerrors'': When Amaryllis accuses Trumbull of only marrying her for her father's business, he doesn't deny it.
* 1964 BMovie ''Film/DevilDoll'' features evil ventriloquist/hypnotist The Great Vorelli, who plans to marry a rich young woman, kill her, and inherit her fortune.
* ''Film/DialMForMurder'': A male example is Tony Wendice; he only married his wife, Margot, for her money, and coldly plans to kill her when he thinks that she wants to leave him. For added bonus, she's young and beautiful (she's played by Creator/GraceKelly).
* One villain in ''Film/{{Freaks}}'' is the trapeze artist Cleopatra, who marries Hans (a sideshow performer with dwarfism) with the intent to kill him for his fortune and then marry the strongman Hercules. When the other members of TheFreakshow catch on, [[spoiler:boy does she get her comeuppance: they ''mutilate her body to make her one of them'']].
* Discussed in ''Film/GentlemenPreferBlondes''. Lorelei Lee (played by Creator/MarilynMonroe) is an overt gold digger and defends it from criticism in the film.
* The movie ''Film/GoldDiggersOf1933'' is, oddly enough, a movie-long subversion. When Polly the actress starts dating a millionaire, his friends assume this is going on, but in fact she didn't know he was rich. Polly's friends are a little peeved by the suggestion, however, so they decide to play it straight, and take the men for all they're worth. It is however also played straight when Polly's friend Trixie goes Gold Digging after another millionaire, and lands him.
* ''Film/TheGoldRush'' has Georgia, a saloon girl who is largely upfront that she is looking for a rich husband, so her love has a price even though she is also fond of Charlie. Regardless, Charlie understands and is willing to pay that price when he strikes it rich, which is that much easier to do when she [[WhatYouAreInTheDark reveals her true kind nature]] when Charlie is momentarily mistaken as a stowaway on a ship and she offers to pay his way.
* In ''Film/{{Greedy}}'', "Uncle Joe's" nurse is an attractive young woman without any actual medical degrees who seems to be kept around to look pretty. She is seen as this by Joe's greedy family members (who are vying for his inheritance), and she seems to be slowly sinking into the role, culminating in her announcing her plan to cement her relationship by sleeping with Joe. This, however, leads her to a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment, and she leaves rather than allow herself to completely succumb to the trope. [[spoiler:She might also have been putting on the entire persona as an act to help Joe effectively test the loyalty of his family; she comes back at the end, but whether her actions were all part of the show or whether Joe tracked her down and explained his game after she left is not explained.]]
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* ''Film/HandsAcrossTheTable'': {{Justified}} because it makes sense why Regi wants to marry a rich guy for security during the time of the Depression, and watching her parents' marriage dissolve due to being poor.[[GenderInverted Ted]], on the other hand, has been wrecked by the Depression, so having money again is his number one goal as well.
* ''Film/{{Heartbreakers}}'' is about a con artist played by Creator/SigourneyWeaver who marries men for money, then gets her daughter Creator/JenniferLoveHewitt to seduce them (not knowing she's her daughter) so she can divorce them and take their money.
%%* Harken's wife in ''Film/{{Horrible Bosses}}'' is implied to be this. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
* Master Leung Chun-yu in ''Film/{{Hex}}'' started off as a DomesticAbuser who treats his tuberculosis-stricken wife Lady Chan like crap, but later reveals that he's actually after the wife's family heirloom, a priceless collection of jade antiques worth millions, which can only be claimed by the Chan family's living relatives. He sadistically arranged for his wife's death and shows zero remorse as he collects all the jade for himself.
* Burke's fiancee[[note]]played by a pre-Morticia Creator/CarolynJones[[/note]] in ''Film/HouseOfWax1953''. {{Justified}} in that during TheGildedAge (the film's time setting) this was perceived as totally normal.
* ''Film/HowToMarryAMillionaire'' centers on not one, not two, but three women trying to be gold diggers. [[spoiler:Creator/LaurenBacall's character succeeds -- unwittingly at first -- and the remaining two fail, but all are happier for it.]]
* The film ''Film/IKnowWhereImGoing'' has Joan Webster, who's marrying a rich industrialist, Robert Bellinger for [[OnlyInItForTheMoney his money and the security that it will bring her]]. But a change of plans soon occurs...
* Willie Scott in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'', completely PlayedForLaughs. She's interested in getting to know the wealthy Majahrajah of Pankot Palace, but is disappointed to find out he is no older than Short Round, Indy's eleven-year-old sidekick.
* In ''Film/{{In Name Only|1939}}'', Maida is a GoldDigger of the cruel variety: She doesn't care for her husband, Alec, and won't divorce him when he asks her to.
* Marilyn Rexroth in ''Film/IntolerableCruelty'' is TheChessmaster of this trope. After champion divorce attorney Miles Massey foils her attempt to gouge her wealthy first husband, she sets out to ruin him at his own game. Her intricate scheme involves [[spoiler:faking an entire second marriage to an oil tycoon, leaving her a MockMillionaire, and then kindling Massey's attraction to her until he proposes himself]]. It backfires when [[spoiler:her first husband dies before changing his will, leaving everything to her. Suddenly, Massey is the one who demands half of her new assets. In the end, they decide to try married life again, for real this time.]]
* Clarice Kensington of ''Film/{{It Takes Two|1995}}'' is a socialite who is engaged to Alyssa Callaway's father Roger and only wants to marry Roger for his money.
* Creator/VeronicaLake's character in ''Film/IWantedWings'' only wants to marry Jeff for his money.
* ''Film/TheJerk'' lampshades it with the TrophyWife of Harry Hartounian (played by Jackie Mason), who knows full well that if anything happened to his business, she'd leave him in a second. She happily nods in agreement.
* ''Film/KnivesOut'' has two examples.
** Linda's husband Richard is a rare male example. It's clear he only married Linda for her and her family's money. He and Linda never seem particularly close, Richard is rude and crass to most of her family, and Linda's siblings clearly only tolerate him for her sake. Even Harlan refers to him as a deadbeat in his final letter to Linda.
** Joni is a more classic gold digger who siphons from her daughter's educational fund, hangs around the family only for money even after her husband's death, and seems mostly interested in maintaining her lifestyle.
* Deconstructed in ''Film/LegallyBlonde''. Elle points out that the new wife of a septuagenarian millionaire who is used to getting divorced on a whim has to work extremely hard to ''stay'' married to the septuagenarian millionaire. It's also pointed out that the wife was already superrich before she married the guy, due to being a health-and-fitness guru who made loads of money off of exercise/workout videos. The man's wife also makes it very clear that her husband had [[BiggerIsBetterInBed other, much more interesting qualities besides his vast wealth]].
* Samantha Cole in ''Film/LiarLiar'' is a clear example of this coupled with the inability to keep it in her pants. The whole divorce case stems from her husband finding out that she repeatedly cheated on him with... seven other men. Since they have a prenup, the fact that she was unfaithful pretty much leaves her with nothing. However, when she goes to the protagonist's law firm, he convinces her that ''she'' is the victim here, not her husband (who appears to be a pretty decent guy and a loving father), and that she was "pushed into the arms of another man" ("Seven other men" "Whatever"). She believes him, and demands half of her husband's assets. After the protagonist, an AmoralAttorney, wins the case (by complete accident, though), she demands to fight over the custody of the children, despite the fact that she's not much of a mother and doesn't really care about them. All she wants is more money.
* In ''Film/MadeasBigHappyFamily'', although Byron is not rich, his "baby mama" Sabrina uses their son to claim money from him. His girlfriend Renee is just as bad, as she pressures Byron to sell drugs to earn money.
* Claire Ormond in ''Film/TheMadMagician''. She was originally married to Don Gallico, but divorced him and married his boss Ross Ormond when she realized he could furnish her with the wealthy lifestyle she craved. Subsequently, she spends half of each year gallivanting around Europe spending her husband. After Gallico murders Ormons, she tries to make up with him again, knowing that she will inherit Ormond's money.
* Played with in ''Film/{{Magnolia}}'' - Julianne Moore's character initially married the elderly television executive played by Jason Robards with gold digger intentions. The twist is that, after marrying him, she found herself genuinely falling in love with him instead, to the extent that when he's on his deathbed with cancer, she actually tries to have his will changed so that she ''won't'' inherit his millions out of guilt.
* ''Film/TheManWithTwoBrains'' has Creator/KathleenTurner playing a gold-digger who is introduced while trying to give her old rich husband a heart attack, only for him to reveal as he's dying that he altered his will. She changes her attention to Creator/SteveMartin's character, a famous brain surgeon, after he hits her with a car.
* Sabel, of ''Film/TheMarriageChronicles'', married her husband entirely because he had the money that could support her lifestyle. Their house is in foreclosure over the debts she's racked up [[spoiler:and she's got even more money socked away in offshore bank accounts, unbeknownst to her husband]].
* Groucho Marx in most of the Creator/MarxBrothers movies. His usual rich woman is the wonderful Margaret Dumont. "Will you marry me? Did he [your ex-husband] leave you any money? Answer the second question first."
* Chris from Creator/WoodyAllen's ''Film/MatchPoint'' essentially marries the aristocratic Chloe for the wealth and influence her family possesses. Even when he falls madly in love with (and impregnates) another woman he is decidedly reluctant to leave his wife or tell her the truth as he has "grown accustomed to a certain standard of living".
* Eve Peabody from ''Film/{{Midnight 1939}}'' is a self-proclaimed gold digger, and doesn't have any problem with this.
* ''Film/{{Mousehunt}}'': Lars's wife April has shades of this. She leaves him (read: kicks him out of the house) after learning that his late father left him nothing but a string factory in his will (which he wouldn't sell even when given the chance), but returns and seduces him after discovering that his brother was left an antique house that the pair are about to auction off. And, when the deal goes south, [[spoiler:she leaves him for the richest potential buyer attending the auction]].
* Mrs. Quickly in ''Film/NannyMcPhee'' is, at first, willing to marry Mr. Brown simply because she is turning into an old maid, and he's available. However, when his children's efforts make her think that all he wants is sex, she leaves in a huff. When the kids beg her to return, they reveal that their late mother's wealthy aunt has promised to support the family if Mr. Brown re-marries. Realizing this, Mrs. Quickly [[IncrediblyLamePun quickly]] comes back to accept Mr. Brown's proposal and later sucks up to Lady Adelaide Stitch.
* Lynette from ''Film/AnOfficerAndAGentleman''. [[spoiler:She [[TheBabyTrap fakes being pregnant to force Sid to marry her]], but dumps him when he quits the aviator program to do so.]]
* ''Out to Sea'' (a comedy starring Creator/JackLemmon and Creator/WalterMatthau) has broke Charlie seeking a rich woman on a cruise. He meets Liz, [[spoiler:who he thinks is one, but it turns out she's trying to bag a rich man herself]].
* Miss Trixie in ''Film/PaperMoon'', who openly admits to Addie that she's only with Moses for what she can squeeze out of him.
* ''Film/{{The Parent Trap|1961}}'' has Mitch's young, opportunistic fiancée Vicki, who is only interested in Mitch's money.
* ''Film/{{The Parent Trap|1998}}'' has Nick's young, opportunistic fiancée Meredith, who is only interested in Nick's money.
* The TV movie ''Revenge of the Bridesmaids'' has a mother-daughter duo. Olivia [=McMann=] gets married three times, all ending in divorce, and all to keep her and her daughter Caitlyn in their fancy mansion, Belle Fountane. When Olivia runs out of money and can't snag husband number four, Caitlyn takes over her mom's gold-digging duties. Drawing inspriration from Lynette from ''An Officer and a Gentleman'', as mentioned above, Caitlyn tricks the rich ex-boyfriend of one of her best friends, who's still madly in love with him, into thinking she's pregnant from their impulsive, regretted one night stand to trick him into marrying her. The whole plot of the movie centers around her three angered friends doing all they can to stop the wedding. [[spoiler:They succeed.]]
* Elvira in ''Film/{{Scarface 1983}}''. Initially she is Frank's mistress, and she seems purely concerned with the material benefits. With her coke-stoked pokerface it's hard to know for sure exactly why she becomes Tony's wife -- there's a suggestion of real romance. But gold digging is a very natural explanation for her.
* ''Film/SecondhandLions'' has the "get written in the will" variety. Word is that the two uncles Hub and Garth have millions stashed away somewhere. Walter was sent there to get in good with them, the other relatives have been trying for quite some time, and near the end Walter's mother and her fiancé come back to just plain ''take'' the money. In the end, [[spoiler:Walter gets it all]].
* Although laughable in contrast to some other characters on this page, Olivia Honey (Maria Pitillo) openly admits to being one in ''Film/SheDevil'', saying in her interview video that she wants to find a rich man and marry him. Ruth uses that to her advantage to ruin her ex-husband Bob by sending Olivia to him through her employment agency. [[spoiler:When Olivia confesses her love to Bob, he fires her, and with a little more prodding from Ruth, the two of them gather evidence of him embezzling from his clients to get him in jail.]]
* Starla in ''Film/{{Slither}}'' is blatantly said to be this in regards to her marriage to Grant. Ironically though, the film portrays ''her'' as the victim in the loveless marriage.
* ''Film/SomeLikeItHot'' plays with it: Creator/TonyCurtis pretends to be a rich man to woo Marilyn Monroe, while Jack Lemmon pretends to be a woman to woo a rich man.
* In ''Film/SupermanReturns'', Comicbook/LexLuthor's EstablishingCharacterMoment is sitting by the deathbed of an elderly, rich woman who apparently got him out of prison sometime during the TimeSkip. She agrees that yes, he deserves ''everything'' for how good of a husband he's been since then. Meanwhile all her relatives are pounding on the door, screaming for her not to go through with this. She dies signing her will; Lex quickly finishes writing her signature and kicks everyone else out of the house.
* Ricky Bobby's wife in ''Film/TalladegaNightsTheBalladOfRickyBobby''. She's been married to Ricky for over ten years, but the day that he's fired from the team, she dumps him and gets together with [[spoiler:his best friend, Cal]]. She even makes it clear that she is married to a driver and she does not work.
* ''Film/ThoroughlyModernMillie'' (and its [[AllMusicalsAreAdaptations stage adaptation]]) is about a girl from Kansas who moves to UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity with hopes of working for a rich man as a stenographer and then marrying him.
* In 1914 slapstick comedy ''Film/TilliesPuncturedRomance'', the bad guy, upon hearing that the naive girl he robbed and dumped is about to come into a large fortune, hurriedly finds her, makes up, and marries her.
* ''Film/TommyBoy'' has Tommy's father marrying a woman who only wants his money. When Tommy's father dies at the wedding party, she and her son from a previous marriage ([[spoiler:actually her husband, making her marriage to Tommy's father illegal]]) comment how it's better than her original plan of living with him for one year and then divorcing him. [[spoiler:In the end, she sets her eyes on another target.]]
* ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'': A rare gender inversion with Sir Robert King and his Azeri wife; Robert married her to gain access to oil-rich lands near the Caspian Sea that her family owned. According to Elektra, her father was nothing before he married her mother. As a British man with a foreign wife, he was able to seize control of the assets which should've rightfully belonged to Elektra's mother, but the sexism and racism which existed at the time meant that she couldn't reclaim what her husband stole.
* ''Film/{{Parasite|2019}}'' centers on a poor family of four scamming a rich family of also four by manipulating them into hiring them for the services of chauffeuring, housekeeping, English tutoring and psychological therapy. The rich family's so-called matriarch Yon-kyo is a [[TheDitz ditzy moron]] who has no idea how to be a good mother and appears to have only married her husband for his money. She is usually seen cuddling her dogs and eating gourmet food or setting up and attending fun events such as parties rather than being a proper housewife.
* The protagonist of ''Film/BabyFace''. After her abusive father (who had been letting men pay to sleep with her since she was 14) dies, she is left without money and uses wealthy men to gain money and power. She makes a HeelFaceTurn at the end when she falls in love.
* The titular ''Film/BadTeacher'' is this to a "T" -- she's only with the boyfriend we meet at the beginning of the movie for his money and he dumps her when he finally realizes this. We learn that she spent the subsequent TimeSkip trying to seduce various pro athletes in order to wrangle child support out of them, but they were always wary and savvy enough to make sure that their condoms worked and to take them with them after the deed was completed. She then spends most of the movie trying to snag the new teacher on staff once she hears that he's rich.
* Played for laughs in ''Film/BestInShow'' with Sherri Ann's husband, an incredibly old man who doesn't speak and is confined to a wheelchair but, according to Sherri Ann, is still a horndog. As it turns out, Sherri Ann [[spoiler:is actually in love with her female dog trainer]].
* The Creator/PeterSellers movie ''The Bobo'' has Creator/BrittEkland as a young lady who keeps company with a well-to-do man until she gets what she wants from him, then dumps him painfully. She had gotten a posh city apartment and a custom Maserati from two suckers.
* In ''Film/TheCandySnatchers'', Candy's WickedStepfather admits that he married her mother solely for her fortune.
* ''Film/{{Casino}}'': Ginger [=McKenna=], although she never lies about her intentions. Ace still thinks he can make an honest woman out of her. What are the chances this works out?
%%* The villain in the live-action adaption of ''Film/TheCatInTheHat'', Larry Quinn, is all but said to be this. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
* ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'': It's heavily implied through her somewhat flirtatious behavior towards him that this is [[StageMom Mrs. Beauregarde's]] backup plan is in case her daughter fails to impress Willy Wonka.
* Played with in ''Film/TheColorOfMoney''. Carmen stays with Vincent and clearly benefits from his pool-playing skills, but it's never clear how much genuine affection she has for him.
* ''Film/TheComedyOfTerrors'': When Amaryllis accuses Trumbull of only marrying her for her father's business, he doesn't deny it.
* 1964 BMovie ''Film/DevilDoll'' features evil ventriloquist/hypnotist The Great Vorelli, who plans to marry a rich young woman, kill her, and inherit her fortune.
* ''Film/DialMForMurder'': A male example is Tony Wendice; he only married his wife, Margot, for her money, and coldly plans to kill her when he thinks that she wants to leave him. For added bonus, she's young and beautiful (she's played by Creator/GraceKelly).
* One villain in ''Film/{{Freaks}}'' is the trapeze artist Cleopatra, who marries Hans (a sideshow performer with dwarfism) with the intent to kill him for his fortune and then marry the strongman Hercules. When the other members of TheFreakshow catch on, [[spoiler:boy does she get her comeuppance: they ''mutilate her body to make her one of them'']].
* Discussed in ''Film/GentlemenPreferBlondes''. Lorelei Lee (played by Creator/MarilynMonroe) is an overt gold digger and defends it from criticism in the film.
* The movie ''Film/GoldDiggersOf1933'' is, oddly enough, a movie-long subversion. When Polly the actress starts dating a millionaire, his friends assume this is going on, but in fact she didn't know he was rich. Polly's friends are a little peeved by the suggestion, however, so they decide to play it straight, and take the men for all they're worth. It is however also played straight when Polly's friend Trixie goes Gold Digging after another millionaire, and lands him.
* ''Film/TheGoldRush'' has Georgia, a saloon girl who is largely upfront that she is looking for a rich husband, so her love has a price even though she is also fond of Charlie. Regardless, Charlie understands and is willing to pay that price when he strikes it rich, which is that much easier to do when she [[WhatYouAreInTheDark reveals her true kind nature]] when Charlie is momentarily mistaken as a stowaway on a ship and she offers to pay his way.
* In ''Film/{{Greedy}}'', "Uncle Joe's" nurse is an attractive young woman without any actual medical degrees who seems to be kept around to look pretty. She is seen as this by Joe's greedy family members (who are vying for his inheritance), and she seems to be slowly sinking into the role, culminating in her announcing her plan to cement her relationship by sleeping with Joe. This, however, leads her to a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment, and she leaves rather than allow herself to completely succumb to the trope. [[spoiler:She might also have been putting on the entire persona as an act to help Joe effectively test the loyalty of his family; she comes back at the end, but whether her actions were all part of the show or whether Joe tracked her down and explained his game after she left is not explained.]]
%%* ''Film/TheGreeksHadAWordForThem'' (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
* ''Film/HandsAcrossTheTable'': {{Justified}} because it makes sense why Regi wants to marry a rich guy for security during the time of the Depression, and watching her parents' marriage dissolve due to being poor.[[GenderInverted Ted]], on the other hand, has been wrecked by the Depression, so having money again is his number one goal as well.
* ''Film/{{Heartbreakers}}'' is about a con artist played by Creator/SigourneyWeaver who marries men for money, then gets her daughter Creator/JenniferLoveHewitt to seduce them (not knowing she's her daughter) so she can divorce them and take their money.
%%* Harken's wife in ''Film/{{Horrible Bosses}}'' is implied to be this. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
* Master Leung Chun-yu in ''Film/{{Hex}}'' started off as a DomesticAbuser who treats his tuberculosis-stricken wife Lady Chan like crap, but later reveals that he's actually after the wife's family heirloom, a priceless collection of jade antiques worth millions, which can only be claimed by the Chan family's living relatives. He sadistically arranged for his wife's death and shows zero remorse as he collects all the jade for himself.
* Burke's fiancee[[note]]played by a pre-Morticia Creator/CarolynJones[[/note]] in ''Film/HouseOfWax1953''. {{Justified}} in that during TheGildedAge (the film's time setting) this was perceived as totally normal.
* ''Film/HowToMarryAMillionaire'' centers on not one, not two, but three women trying to be gold diggers. [[spoiler:Creator/LaurenBacall's character succeeds -- unwittingly at first -- and the remaining two fail, but all are happier for it.]]
* The film ''Film/IKnowWhereImGoing'' has Joan Webster, who's marrying a rich industrialist, Robert Bellinger for [[OnlyInItForTheMoney his money and the security that it will bring her]]. But a change of plans soon occurs...
* Willie Scott in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'', completely PlayedForLaughs. She's interested in getting to know the wealthy Majahrajah of Pankot Palace, but is disappointed to find out he is no older than Short Round, Indy's eleven-year-old sidekick.
* In ''Film/{{In Name Only|1939}}'', Maida is a GoldDigger of the cruel variety: She doesn't care for her husband, Alec, and won't divorce him when he asks her to.
* Marilyn Rexroth in ''Film/IntolerableCruelty'' is TheChessmaster of this trope. After champion divorce attorney Miles Massey foils her attempt to gouge her wealthy first husband, she sets out to ruin him at his own game. Her intricate scheme involves [[spoiler:faking an entire second marriage to an oil tycoon, leaving her a MockMillionaire, and then kindling Massey's attraction to her until he proposes himself]]. It backfires when [[spoiler:her first husband dies before changing his will, leaving everything to her. Suddenly, Massey is the one who demands half of her new assets. In the end, they decide to try married life again, for real this time.]]
* Clarice Kensington of ''Film/{{It Takes Two|1995}}'' is a socialite who is engaged to Alyssa Callaway's father Roger and only wants to marry Roger for his money.
* Creator/VeronicaLake's character in ''Film/IWantedWings'' only wants to marry Jeff for his money.
* ''Film/TheJerk'' lampshades it with the TrophyWife of Harry Hartounian (played by Jackie Mason), who knows full well that if anything happened to his business, she'd leave him in a second. She happily nods in agreement.
* ''Film/KnivesOut'' has two examples.
** Linda's husband Richard is a rare male example. It's clear he only married Linda for her and her family's money. He and Linda never seem particularly close, Richard is rude and crass to most of her family, and Linda's siblings clearly only tolerate him for her sake. Even Harlan refers to him as a deadbeat in his final letter to Linda.
** Joni is a more classic gold digger who siphons from her daughter's educational fund, hangs around the family only for money even after her husband's death, and seems mostly interested in maintaining her lifestyle.
* Deconstructed in ''Film/LegallyBlonde''. Elle points out that the new wife of a septuagenarian millionaire who is used to getting divorced on a whim has to work extremely hard to ''stay'' married to the septuagenarian millionaire. It's also pointed out that the wife was already superrich before she married the guy, due to being a health-and-fitness guru who made loads of money off of exercise/workout videos. The man's wife also makes it very clear that her husband had [[BiggerIsBetterInBed other, much more interesting qualities besides his vast wealth]].
* Samantha Cole in ''Film/LiarLiar'' is a clear example of this coupled with the inability to keep it in her pants. The whole divorce case stems from her husband finding out that she repeatedly cheated on him with... seven other men. Since they have a prenup, the fact that she was unfaithful pretty much leaves her with nothing. However, when she goes to the protagonist's law firm, he convinces her that ''she'' is the victim here, not her husband (who appears to be a pretty decent guy and a loving father), and that she was "pushed into the arms of another man" ("Seven other men" "Whatever"). She believes him, and demands half of her husband's assets. After the protagonist, an AmoralAttorney, wins the case (by complete accident, though), she demands to fight over the custody of the children, despite the fact that she's not much of a mother and doesn't really care about them. All she wants is more money.
* In ''Film/MadeasBigHappyFamily'', although Byron is not rich, his "baby mama" Sabrina uses their son to claim money from him. His girlfriend Renee is just as bad, as she pressures Byron to sell drugs to earn money.
* Claire Ormond in ''Film/TheMadMagician''. She was originally married to Don Gallico, but divorced him and married his boss Ross Ormond when she realized he could furnish her with the wealthy lifestyle she craved. Subsequently, she spends half of each year gallivanting around Europe spending her husband. After Gallico murders Ormons, she tries to make up with him again, knowing that she will inherit Ormond's money.
* Played with in ''Film/{{Magnolia}}'' - Julianne Moore's character initially married the elderly television executive played by Jason Robards with gold digger intentions. The twist is that, after marrying him, she found herself genuinely falling in love with him instead, to the extent that when he's on his deathbed with cancer, she actually tries to have his will changed so that she ''won't'' inherit his millions out of guilt.
* ''Film/TheManWithTwoBrains'' has Creator/KathleenTurner playing a gold-digger who is introduced while trying to give her old rich husband a heart attack, only for him to reveal as he's dying that he altered his will. She changes her attention to Creator/SteveMartin's character, a famous brain surgeon, after he hits her with a car.
* Sabel, of ''Film/TheMarriageChronicles'', married her husband entirely because he had the money that could support her lifestyle. Their house is in foreclosure over the debts she's racked up [[spoiler:and she's got even more money socked away in offshore bank accounts, unbeknownst to her husband]].
* Groucho Marx in most of the Creator/MarxBrothers movies. His usual rich woman is the wonderful Margaret Dumont. "Will you marry me? Did he [your ex-husband] leave you any money? Answer the second question first."
* Chris from Creator/WoodyAllen's ''Film/MatchPoint'' essentially marries the aristocratic Chloe for the wealth and influence her family possesses. Even when he falls madly in love with (and impregnates) another woman he is decidedly reluctant to leave his wife or tell her the truth as he has "grown accustomed to a certain standard of living".
* Eve Peabody from ''Film/{{Midnight 1939}}'' is a self-proclaimed gold digger, and doesn't have any problem with this.
* ''Film/{{Mousehunt}}'': Lars's wife April has shades of this. She leaves him (read: kicks him out of the house) after learning that his late father left him nothing but a string factory in his will (which he wouldn't sell even when given the chance), but returns and seduces him after discovering that his brother was left an antique house that the pair are about to auction off. And, when the deal goes south, [[spoiler:she leaves him for the richest potential buyer attending the auction]].
* Mrs. Quickly in ''Film/NannyMcPhee'' is, at first, willing to marry Mr. Brown simply because she is turning into an old maid, and he's available. However, when his children's efforts make her think that all he wants is sex, she leaves in a huff. When the kids beg her to return, they reveal that their late mother's wealthy aunt has promised to support the family if Mr. Brown re-marries. Realizing this, Mrs. Quickly [[IncrediblyLamePun quickly]] comes back to accept Mr. Brown's proposal and later sucks up to Lady Adelaide Stitch.
* Lynette from ''Film/AnOfficerAndAGentleman''. [[spoiler:She [[TheBabyTrap fakes being pregnant to force Sid to marry her]], but dumps him when he quits the aviator program to do so.]]
* ''Out to Sea'' (a comedy starring Creator/JackLemmon and Creator/WalterMatthau) has broke Charlie seeking a rich woman on a cruise. He meets Liz, [[spoiler:who he thinks is one, but it turns out she's trying to bag a rich man herself]].
* Miss Trixie in ''Film/PaperMoon'', who openly admits to Addie that she's only with Moses for what she can squeeze out of him.
* ''Film/{{The Parent Trap|1961}}'' has Mitch's young, opportunistic fiancée Vicki, who is only interested in Mitch's money.
* ''Film/{{The Parent Trap|1998}}'' has Nick's young, opportunistic fiancée Meredith, who is only interested in Nick's money.
* The TV movie ''Revenge of the Bridesmaids'' has a mother-daughter duo. Olivia [=McMann=] gets married three times, all ending in divorce, and all to keep her and her daughter Caitlyn in their fancy mansion, Belle Fountane. When Olivia runs out of money and can't snag husband number four, Caitlyn takes over her mom's gold-digging duties. Drawing inspriration from Lynette from ''An Officer and a Gentleman'', as mentioned above, Caitlyn tricks the rich ex-boyfriend of one of her best friends, who's still madly in love with him, into thinking she's pregnant from their impulsive, regretted one night stand to trick him into marrying her. The whole plot of the movie centers around her three angered friends doing all they can to stop the wedding. [[spoiler:They succeed.]]
* Elvira in ''Film/{{Scarface 1983}}''. Initially she is Frank's mistress, and she seems purely concerned with the material benefits. With her coke-stoked pokerface it's hard to know for sure exactly why she becomes Tony's wife -- there's a suggestion of real romance. But gold digging is a very natural explanation for her.
* ''Film/SecondhandLions'' has the "get written in the will" variety. Word is that the two uncles Hub and Garth have millions stashed away somewhere. Walter was sent there to get in good with them, the other relatives have been trying for quite some time, and near the end Walter's mother and her fiancé come back to just plain ''take'' the money. In the end, [[spoiler:Walter gets it all]].
* Although laughable in contrast to some other characters on this page, Olivia Honey (Maria Pitillo) openly admits to being one in ''Film/SheDevil'', saying in her interview video that she wants to find a rich man and marry him. Ruth uses that to her advantage to ruin her ex-husband Bob by sending Olivia to him through her employment agency. [[spoiler:When Olivia confesses her love to Bob, he fires her, and with a little more prodding from Ruth, the two of them gather evidence of him embezzling from his clients to get him in jail.]]
* Starla in ''Film/{{Slither}}'' is blatantly said to be this in regards to her marriage to Grant. Ironically though, the film portrays ''her'' as the victim in the loveless marriage.
* ''Film/SomeLikeItHot'' plays with it: Creator/TonyCurtis pretends to be a rich man to woo Marilyn Monroe, while Jack Lemmon pretends to be a woman to woo a rich man.
* In ''Film/SupermanReturns'', Comicbook/LexLuthor's EstablishingCharacterMoment is sitting by the deathbed of an elderly, rich woman who apparently got him out of prison sometime during the TimeSkip. She agrees that yes, he deserves ''everything'' for how good of a husband he's been since then. Meanwhile all her relatives are pounding on the door, screaming for her not to go through with this. She dies signing her will; Lex quickly finishes writing her signature and kicks everyone else out of the house.
* Ricky Bobby's wife in ''Film/TalladegaNightsTheBalladOfRickyBobby''. She's been married to Ricky for over ten years, but the day that he's fired from the team, she dumps him and gets together with [[spoiler:his best friend, Cal]]. She even makes it clear that she is married to a driver and she does not work.
* ''Film/ThoroughlyModernMillie'' (and its [[AllMusicalsAreAdaptations stage adaptation]]) is about a girl from Kansas who moves to UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity with hopes of working for a rich man as a stenographer and then marrying him.
* In 1914 slapstick comedy ''Film/TilliesPuncturedRomance'', the bad guy, upon hearing that the naive girl he robbed and dumped is about to come into a large fortune, hurriedly finds her, makes up, and marries her.
* ''Film/TommyBoy'' has Tommy's father marrying a woman who only wants his money. When Tommy's father dies at the wedding party, she and her son from a previous marriage ([[spoiler:actually her husband, making her marriage to Tommy's father illegal]]) comment how it's better than her original plan of living with him for one year and then divorcing him. [[spoiler:In the end, she sets her eyes on another target.]]
* ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'': A rare gender inversion with Sir Robert King and his Azeri wife; Robert married her to gain access to oil-rich lands near the Caspian Sea that her family owned. According to Elektra, her father was nothing before he married her mother. As a British man with a foreign wife, he was able to seize control of the assets which should've rightfully belonged to Elektra's mother, but the sexism and racism which existed at the time meant that she couldn't reclaim what her husband stole.
* ''Film/{{Parasite|2019}}'' centers on a poor family of four scamming a rich family of also four by manipulating them into hiring them for the services of chauffeuring, housekeeping, English tutoring and psychological therapy. The rich family's so-called matriarch Yon-kyo is a [[TheDitz ditzy moron]] who has no idea how to be a good mother and appears to have only married her husband for his money. She is usually seen cuddling her dogs and eating gourmet food or setting up and attending fun events such as parties rather than being a proper housewife.
