Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "winning-the-lottery"

1. Jerry and Marge Go Large (2022)

PG-13 | 96 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

Based on the true story about long-married couple Jerry and Marge Selbee, who win the lottery and use the money to revive their small town.

Director: David Frankel | Stars: Bryan Cranston, Annette Bening, Rainn Wilson, Larry Wilmore

Votes: 24,806

2. It Could Happen to You (1994)

PG | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A police officer promises to share his lottery ticket with a waitress in lieu of a tip.

Director: Andrew Bergman | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Bridget Fonda, Rosie Perez, Wendell Pierce

Votes: 44,618 | Gross: $37.80M

3. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

Passed | 126 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

Two down-on-their-luck Americans searching for work in 1920s Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.

Director: John Huston | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Bruce Bennett

Votes: 132,394 | Gross: $5.01M

4. Welcome to Me (2014)

R | 87 min | Comedy, Drama

When Alice Klieg wins the Mega-Millions lottery, she immediately quits her psychiatric meds and buys her own talk show.

Director: Shira Piven | Stars: Kristen Wiig, James Marsden, Linda Cardellini, Wes Bentley

Votes: 19,635 | Gross: $0.61M

5. Winners & Losers (2011–2016)

60 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The lives of four friends Bec, Sophie, Jenny and Frances are intertwined since their high school days when they were called losers. A reunion makes them realise that they are actually winners.

Stars: Melissa Bergland, Virginia Gay, Melanie Vallejo, Tom Wren

Votes: 1,211

6. Kiss Me Softly (2012)

16 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

The son of a schlager singer wants to sing the song his own way.

Director: Anthony Schatteman | Stars: Ezra Fieremans, Tim Bogaerts, Marijke Pinoy, Luc van Autreve

Votes: 599

7. Winning Ticket (2018)

86 min | Comedy

The life of a Finnish couple changes after they win the lottery.

Director: Lenka Hellstedt | Stars: Elsa Saisio, Antti Luusuaniemi, Lotta Lindroos, Jenni Kokander

Votes: 379

8. Le Million (1931)

Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Musical

An impoverished painter and his rival engage in a race across Paris to recover a jacket concealing a winning lottery ticket.

Director: René Clair | Stars: Annabella, René Lefèvre, Jean-Louis Allibert, Paul Ollivier

Votes: 3,840

9. Valami Amerika (2002)

115 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance

Tamás is a young, Budapest-based director of video clips and commercials who dreams of directing his first feature film with the title 'The Guilty City'. He has already written the script ... See full summary »

Director: Gábor Herendi | Stars: Tibor Szervét, Csaba Pindroch, Gyözö Szabó, Eszter Ónodi

Votes: 5,219

10. Lucky Christmas (2011 TV Movie)

G | 86 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

A terminally unlucky single mother wonders if she will ever be lucky as Christmas approaches.

Director: Gary Yates | Stars: Elizabeth Berkley, Jason Gray-Stanford, Mitchell Kummen, Mike Bell

Votes: 1,314

11. Happenstance (2000)

R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

How, thanks to what's known as the "Butterfly theory" (a random series of unlinked events), can a young woman and a young man meet ?

Director: Laurent Firode | Stars: Audrey Tautou, Faudel, Eric Savin, Nathalie Besançon

Votes: 3,948 | Gross: $0.13M

12. Everything's Gone Green (2006)

R | 95 min | Comedy, Crime

Ryan, a good-natured slacker, is tempted into a money laundering scheme while working for a lottery magazine. A capitalistic comedy that asks the question - when is "enough" enough?

Director: Paul Fox | Stars: Paulo Costanzo, Steph Song, JR Bourne, Aidan Devine

Votes: 2,064

13. Dearest Sister (2016)

Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Horror

A village girl travels to the Lao capital, Vientiane, to care for her rich cousin who has lost her sight and gained the ability to communicate with the dead.

Director: Mattie Do | Stars: Amphaiphun Phommapunya, Vilouna Phetmany, Tambet Tuisk, Manivanh Boulom

Votes: 476

14. Le gagnant (1979)

95 min | Comedy, Music

A plumber finally meets the woman of his dreams. But as her uptight family tries to keep him away, he wins the lottery and starts plotting his revenge.

Director: Christian Gion | Stars: Philippe Ruggieri, Michel Galabru, Stéphane Audran, Henri Guybet

Votes: 113

15. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985–1989)
Episode: The Big Spin (1989)

TV-PG | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A sleazy womanizing New York taxi driver gets a winning lottery ticket worth a million dollars but how to cash it in when it also proves that he murdered someone?

Director: Al Waxman | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Erik Estrada, Kathleen Laskey, Guylaine St-Onge

Votes: 94

16. CSI: NY (2004–2013)
Episode: Dancing with the Fishes (2005)

TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A young girl lands on the windshield of the car. Her feet tell Stella that she was a dancer. Lindsay Monroe works solo on the death of an old tram driver. She soon realizes that her case is... See full summary »

Directors: John Peters, John Peters | Stars: Gary Sinise, Melina Kanakaredes, Carmine Giovinazzo, Anna Belknap

Votes: 319

17. The Fall Guy (1981–1986)
Episode: The Lucky Stiff (1986)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A loser whose money making schemes always go wrong, is thrown out by his wife. And wanting to make it up to her he takes out a contract on himself so that his wife could get his insurance. ... See full summary »

Director: Georg Fenady | Stars: Lee Majors, Douglas Barr, Heather Thomas, Rebecca Balding

Votes: 42

18. The Littlest Hobo (1979–1985)
Episode: Winner Take All (1983)

Adventure, Drama, Family

An immigrant the Hobo previously met, now works as a retail clerk and wins the lottery, which attracts the attention of two lowlifes who are willing to resort to kidnapping to get it.

Director: Allan Eastman | Stars: London, Matt Craven, Jan Filips, Mimi Kuzyk

Votes: 12

19. Only Fools and Horses (1981–2003)
Episode: The Unlucky Winner Is... (1989)

TV-14 | 50 min | Comedy

Rodney wins a prize in a competition he didn't even know he'd entered, and he Cassandra are going to sunny Spain as a prize. However, Del Boy's coming too... and not as his brother.

Director: Tony Dow | Stars: David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Buster Merryfield, Gwyneth Strong

Votes: 748

20. Oz (1997–2003)
Episode: Wheel of Fortune (2002)

TV-MA | 59 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Robson stirs up problems between White and Said. Meanwhile, Pancamo's illness might save some work for his enemies, Schillinger makes a friendly but suspicious overture towards Beecher, and... See full summary »

Director: Terry Kinney | Stars: Kirk Acevedo, Ernie Hudson, Terry Kinney, Rita Moreno

Votes: 1,879

21. Power Rangers S.P.D. (2005)
Episode: Shadow: Part 1 (2005)

TV-Y7-FV | 23 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Disturbed by nightmarish daydreams of a battle he once fought against Gruumm, Commander Cruger has become exceedingly cranky and difficult to live with. Emperor Gruumm decides to target ... See full summary »

Director: Mark Beesley | Stars: Brandon Jay McLaren, Chris Violette, Matt Sadowski, Monica May

Votes: 78

22. Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode: The Bitterest Pill (1986)

TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

When an undeserving couple win the lottery, they're rude to their inventor friend and they ridicule his invention, which happens to be superior intellect pills. Too lazy to clean up the spilled pills, they leave their son to the task.

Director: Bryan Michael Stoller | Stars: Mark Blankfield, Joe Carafello, Catherine Battistone, Jason Horst

Votes: 234

23. Eve (2003–2006)
Episode: The Price of Friendship (2005)

TV-PG | 20 min | Comedy

After gaining weight and being unable to fit into her own gown, Shelly wears a client's dress on a date with Jalen (San Antonio Spurs basketball player ROBERT HORRY) to the Black and White ... See full summary »

Director: Mary Lou Belli | Stars: Eve, Jason George, Ali Landry Monteverde, Natalie Desselle Reid

Votes: 13

24. Timon & Pumbaa (1995–1999)
Episode: You May Have Already Won Six Million Bakra/My Meteor, My Friend (1999)

TV-Y | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Pumbaa wins the lottery but Timon refuses to ask for his help despite living in poverty. / Pumbaa befriends an odd meteor after Timon tries to abuse their friendship one too many times.

Director: Brad Neave | Stars: Ernie Sabella, Kevin Schon, Jess Harnell, Tress MacNeille

Votes: 48

25. Royal Pains (2009–2016)
Episode: Whole Lotto Love (2010)

TV-PG | 42 min | Comedy, Drama

Hank treats a lottery winner with hand trouble, and a kidney transplant recipient with pain and stomach issues, while suspecting a sly purpose behind Eddie's party.

Director: Tawnia McKiernan | Stars: Mark Feuerstein, Paulo Costanzo, Jill Flint, Reshma Shetty

Votes: 150

26. Lost Girl (2010–2016)
Episode: (Dis)Members Only (2010)

TV-14 | 45 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

A friend from Kenzi's past asks for her help in finding out what happened to a missing relative. To do so, Bo and Dyson pose as a married couple to investigate a country club while Kenzi ... See full summary »

Director: Steve DiMarco | Stars: Anna Silk, Kris Holden-Ried, Ksenia Solo, K.C. Collins

Votes: 342

27. The Office (2005–2013)
Episode: Lotto (2011)

TV-PG | 23 min | Comedy

After the entire warehouse staff wins the lottery and quits their job, Darryl becomes depressed and demands to be fired. Meanwhile, the office staff is forced to load the truck for their orders themselves.

Director: John Krasinski | Stars: Rainn Wilson, John Krasinski, Jenna Fischer, B.J. Novak

Votes: 4,498

28. Cattivik (2008–2009)
Episode: Gratta e perdi (2009)

5 min | Animation, Comedy

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29. Moving On (2009– )
Episode: The Signature (2014)

TV-PG | 43 min | Drama

With her husband Ken suffering from MS mother of two Moira is the family bread-winner, working both as a dinner lady and in a corner shop. Finances are tight so that when the Polish Anna, a... See full summary »

Director: David Whitney | Stars: Lisa Riley, Graeme Hawley, Olivia Tomlinson, Sammy Oliver

Votes: 22

30. EastEnders (1985– )
Episode: Episode #1.5063 (2015)

TV-PG | 28 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Alfie surprises Kat with a trip to London. The lives of one Walford couple change forever. Sonia frantically tries to paper over her actions from the night before.

Director: John Howlett | Stars: Jessie Wallace, Shane Richie, Lacey Turner, James Bye

31. Sol de tentacion (1996–2001)
Episode: Episode #1.96 (1996)

48 min | Drama, Romance

Alina, Armando and Emilio give blood. Rildo is a millionaire. Sol ends up in a straight jacket. Marta hits rock bottom. Borregales notices Robustiana acting weird.

Directors: Rafael Gómez, Luis Gaitán, Omar Hurtado | Stars: Natalia Streignard, Miguel de León, Fabiola Colmenares, Aroldo Betancourt