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Follows Maxine Simmons in her efforts to secure her seat at America's most exclusive table: Palm Beach high society.

Laura wants for nothing. She has a glittering career, a loving husband, Howard, and, above all, she has Daniel, her precious only son. But Laura's seemingly perfect life is blown apart when Daniel brings home Cherry, the girlfriend who changes everything. After an uncomfortable first meeting, Laura grows convinced that Cherry isn't who she says she is. While no one else can see what she sees, Laura refuses to stand by and watch Daniel be deceived. She'll do anything to protect him. As things go from bad to deadly, the question is, is Cherry a manipulative social climber? Or is Laura paranoid and possessive? The truth is a matter of perspective.

Gwyneth Hughes' adaptation of Thackeray's literary classic is set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, and follows Becky Sharp as she attempts to claw her way out of poverty and scale the heights of English Society. Her story of "villainy, crime, merriment, lovemaking, jilting, laughing, cheating, fighting and dancing", takes her all the way to the court of King George IV, via the Battle of Waterloo, breaking hearts and losing fortunes as she goes.

To be the hero of your own story, you sometimes have to be the villain in others'. Marquise de Merteuil, betrayed by Valmont, embarks on a daring journey to become Paris' leading courtesan.

This was one of the best and most popular British sitcoms of all time. Patricia Routledge played Hyacinth Bucket, a woman who pretended to be upper-class but wasn't.

Penthouse: War in Life tells the story of a woman who strives to achieve her goal of entering high society by becoming the "queen" in the 100th floor penthouse in Gangnam, the pinnacle of success in her eyes, as well as women who had no choice but to become villains in order to protect themselves.

After her wealthy husband leaves her with nothing, a high-society Warsaw snob is forced to use the only survival skills she has left - her sharp wit.

The picture tells of a mother who wants all her very best for her daughters. Fazilet, who always dreamed of a rich life, realized that the way to wealth lies through daughters. She will use her daughters to fulfill her dreams in the mansion of Aimen, will be satisfied with past grievances and beggarly life. On one side is a chic mansion, standing on the edge of the Bosphorus, and on the other - the most beggarly, vulgar area with Fazilet and her daughters.

Middle-aged Linda, accustomed to the good life, is completely betrayed both in love and financially. Driven by shame and unreasonable debts, she sticks her little finger out on the other side of the law and stays there. Linda harnesses her talents to the construction and renovation business and, by stretching her morals, manages to climb to the top.

Follow the incredible journey of Louisa Leyton, a kitchen maid who becomes the most famous cook in England in this captivating period drama. Set in the early 1900s, The Duchess of Duke Street is a tale of ambition, love, and betrayal, as Louisa navigates through the complex world of high society and strives to achieve her dreams.

George and Mildred is a spin-off of the hit British series Man About the House...the landlords, George and Mildred Roper, have moved on to a new life in suburbia. Mildred is keen to climb the social ladder, whilst George is perpetually unemployed - much to the disgust of their new neighbours.

First screened on BBC in 2001, The Way We Live Now will surprise those who know Anthony Trollope through the subtleties of his Barsetshire novels. This story of ambition centers around Augustus Melmotte, an Austrian Jewish financier who takes the London money markets and social scene by storm in his efforts to become an "English country gentleman." His rise and fall is followed with remorseless logic by Trollope, and David Yates's direction keeps this in focus against a wealth of subplots and character interaction. The cast is a strong one, with David Suchet's Melmotte gripping in his recklessness, climaxing in the theatrical magnificence of his departure in disgrace from the House of Commons. Shirley Henderson is magnetic as his put-upon daughter Marie, courted by the cream-of-society bachelors for her dowry rather than her person.

This show follows the exploits of a group of teens (and one high school principal) as they attempt to climb the social ladder by any means possible, even if they have to use sex, lies, and murder to get there. It won't be easy in a school where everyone has a dark secret, and one mysterious teen is out to expose every one of them.

Feriha, a girl from a poor family, wins a scholarship to an elite university when she lies about her social standing. She falls in love with a rich playboy and gets trapped in her own web of lies.

Justo Gil arrives as a migrant in the city, his great charisma will allow him to socialize with the youngsters from the gauche divine but an unexpected turn of events makes him become an informer for the Franco political police.

Hands down, Dokgo Ma-te is the prettiest man in the world. And he knows it! Coupled with his ambitions of power, riches and splendor, Ma-te sets out to use his good looks for equally good money. Along the way, he meets Hoon Yoo-ra, an ex-heiress who senses a kindred gold digger in Ma-te and thus agrees to be his mentor in social climbing. Yoo-ra sets Ma-te on a diabolically comical mission to seduce 10 vastly different women: after "conquering" each woman, Ma-te absorbs their individual, specialized abilities. But when the poor, but adorable Kim Bo-tong surfaces with a huge crush on Ma-te, the rules of the game change.

"I am poor and put upon," concedes Becky Sharp during the first episode of Vanity Fair, but it rapidly becomes clear that she intends to change this situation, scrambling up the social ladder by exploiting her guile, good looks and the gullibility of doting males. In the light of her selfish, single-minded resolve to achieve success, Sharp may be viewed as an optimistic dreamer, pragmatic schemer, proto-feminist or a coquettish combination of all three.

Ambitious and adventurous fifth-year student of the Altai University of Tourism and Recreation Ksenia Zavgorodnyaya wants to work in the hotel business and open her own hotel. But the obsessive attention of the rector threatens not only Ksusha's plans, but also her further education at the university. The girl finds the brave, at the same time very scandalous way out of the situation, after which she has to flee from her native Barnaul. In Moscow, Ksyusha expects to get a job at the hotel "Grand Lion", where her father works. However, in the capital's hotel the girl encounters confusion: in connection with the arrival of a new eccentric owner everything changes from management to the name. Taking advantage of the turmoil, enterprising Xenia appears to be a certified specialist and tries to get into a hotel for a high position. Cheating is exposed quickly and the girl has only one chance to get a job - to become a washerwoman, starting a career from the very bottom step of the hotel social ladder. Can Ksenia curb the adventurous character, stay away from the new owner and become his own in a well-coordinated team of the hotel?

Catalina is a young, beautiful girl living in extreme poverty with her brother, Byron and her mother, Hilda, in Pereira, Colombia. She becomes obsessed with getting breast implants in order to escape poverty and gain social status and money. She abandons her boyfriend, Albeiro and, guided by her best friend, Yésica, a ruthless pimp who has also involved into this business Catalina's other friends, Ximena, Paola and Vanesa, aims to reach drug traffickers who pay for sexual services.