New York. Charlie Lang n'a d'autre ambition dans la vie que d'être un bon flic et un chic type. Muriel, son épouse, est coiffeuse. Lasse de son existence étriquée, elle entretient des rêves de réussite sociale en jouant à la loterie. Un jour, dans une cafétéria, Charlie fait la connaissance d'une jolie serveuse, Yvonne, acculée à la ruine par les frasques de son mari. A court de monnaie, il lui propose en guise de pourboire de partager ses gains à la loterie si ses numéros sortent. Quand il apprend qu'il vient de gagner 4 millions de dollars, il entend tenir sa promesse. Mais c'est compter sans Muriel.
Five down-on-their-luck strangers must band together to steal back winning lottery tickets worth millions from a wicked mafia boss.
A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.
A comedy film about North and South Korean soldiers vying for a winning lotto ticket that crossed the demarcation line because of the strong wind.
A financial struggle between owners of a go-go club threatens its future.
Adventurous comedy about a bunch of people hunting the winning lottery ticket.
Two blue-collar buddies search the underworld for a winning lottery ticket lost in a nightclub holdup.
A young tearaway wins the lottery, but risks losing it all when he becomes embroiled in a toxic love triangle with a pair of recovering scam artists.
Peter and Delilah are a married couple running a roadside café in Nevada. Their stable partnership turns rocky, though, with the arrival of the sultry Sally, a waitress who catches Peter's wandering eye. Delilah strikes back by hiring Sally's boyfriend as a waiter. Sally is initially dismissive of Peter's advances, but when he wins $40,000 in a lottery, she quickly pounces, turning on the charm and eyeing the easy life.
The short film that Napoleon Dynamite was based on shows a day in the life of Seth, supernerd extraordinaire, rocking the megalopolis of Preston, Idaho, and soon the world, with his illegal ninja moves and his sweet fanny pack. GOSH!
A 1925 Soviet comedy sponsored by the Soviet Finance Ministry, with a plot promoting the new economy. A small-town tailor, Petya Petelkin (Ilyinsky), bought a lottery ticket and handed it to his landlord, widow Shirinkina (Deykun) who wants to marry him. Petya is a hard-working tailor trying to start his own business. He is also in love with Katya (Maretskaya), whom he wants to marry. He has to survive a cascade of funny situations in the unstable Soviet reality, before his romance with Katya comes to a happy ending.
John Silver's ship has been repossessed; the Captain and the Kids have won $100,000 in a lottery. Silver dresses as an old lady and pretends to faint on the Captain's porch. He is taken inside and soon finds the winning ticket. Meanwhile, the kids spotted him outside and dress themselves as a young lady and come on to Silver, eventually handcuffing him to a batch of fireworks.
When overworked diner waitress gets tipped a lottery ticket by her scumbag ex and wins, they fight it out for the jackpot in this colorful comedy short.
A group of lottery employees plan the biggest fraud in Mexican history using a powerful weapon: the magic of television.
Three children, two brothers and their friend, win a lottery ticket at sports forecasting. Upon deciding not to tell their parents in order to buy a ship, two criminals find out about this and try to steal their money.
A penniless, fast-thinking musician buys a lottery ticket which he glues to his back door, in hopes of eventually retrieving his instrument from his exasperating landlady. —but the ticket wins...
Five stories that tell the tale of winning the lottery in Mexico and how it changes lives.
Abuela's Luck is a story about appreciation and a lesson on luck. Some of us may not realize it, but luck can stem from our own past and have a direct affect on our future. We are introduced to Raymond, a 19 year-old Dominican-American who is asked by his Abuela to cash out what she assumes is a winning scratch off. Once at the bodega, we learn that Raymond has other plans in mind. And so does fate.
Cheque and Lucas are two friends who, after winning the biggest lottery in the country, are ready to take the leap into their new life, the new rich millionaire life.