Highest-Rated Movies about 'Luck', Sort by Popularity

A Band Called Impaled Rektum (2018), Sugar (2008), The Girl on the Bridge (1999), Maelstrom (2000), Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987), Stranger Than Paradise (1984), 29th Street (1991), Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema (2008) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Luck movies.

#2. Sugar (2008)

Storyline: Like many young men in the Dominican Republic, 19-year-old Miguel "Sugar" Santos (Algenis Perez Soto) dreams of winning a slot on an American baseball team. Indeed, his talents as a pitcher eventually land him a slot on a single-A team in Iowa, but culture shock, racism and other curveballs threaten to turn Sugar's dream sour.

Plot Keywords: coach, baseball player, baseball pitcher, farmer, mother, friend, engaging ...

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#3. The Girl on the Bridge (1999)

Storyline: One chilly night, on a Paris bridge, a girl leans out over the Seine with tears in her eyes, contemplating the icy waters below. Suddenly, a stranger with a penetrating gaze emerges out of the darkness, a man who will change her life. It is Gabor, a once brilliant but now fading performer in need of a partner. He has set his sights on this luckless but oddly alluring Adele, a girl with nowhere to go who is shifting nervously on the edge of a decision.

Plot Keywords: young woman, performance artist, stranger, groom, love interest, sultry, disheartening ...

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#4. Maelstrom (2000)

Storyline: Bibiane (Marie-Josée Croze), a wealthy part-time model, questions her seemingly perfect life after she has a traumatic abortion. She succumbs to substance abuse and, while driving drunk one night, strikes a pedestrian and drives off. The next morning, she learns of a man who died after a hit-and-run. Wracked with guilt, she attends the man's funeral. There, she meets his son, Evian (Jean-Nicolas Verreault), and the pair begin a romance. But Bibiane is afraid to tell Evian her dark secret.

Plot Keywords: shop owner, rich girl, fisherman, mother, son, model, dark ...

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#5. Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)

Storyline: All that Neal Page wants to do is to get home for Thanksgiving. His flight has been cancelled due to bad weather, so he decides on other means of transport. As well as bad luck, Neal is blessed with the presence of Del Griffith, shower curtain ring salesman and all-around blabbermouth who is never short of advice, conversation, bad jokes, or company. And when he decides that he is going the same direction as Neal....

Plot Keywords: salesman, husband, wife, thief, police officer, madcap, endearing ...

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#6. Stranger Than Paradise (1984)

Storyline: A self-styled New York hipster is paid a surprise visit by his younger cousin from Budapest. From initial hostility and indifference a small degree of affection grows between the two. Along with a friend, they eventually end up visiting their aunt in the wastelands of Cleveland and then proceed to Florida where they lose all their money gambling before unwittingly gaining a fortune.

Plot Keywords: slacker, best friend, cousin, gambler, aunt, drug dealer, offbeat ...

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#7. 29th Street (1991)

Storyline: Frank Pesce is the luckiest man alive in spite of his bad luck. Based on a true story, a man growing up in a tough New York neighborhood has a gift for finding himself in the worst possible jams...and always getting out. He is the first New York Lottery winner.—Steve Richer <sricher@sympatico.ca>

Plot Keywords: father, son, mother, mobster, puerto rican, brother, charming ...

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#8. Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema (2008)

Storyline: Starting off with simple smash and grabs, and petty crime, Lucky Kunene quickly graduates to more aggressive heists such as armed robbery and carjacking. Soon, Lucky realizes he needs a bigger score to fulfill his goals of making it big, and escaping from the slums, to a dream house by the sea. Kunene hatches an elaborate and violent plan to make his fortune - hijacking buildings from landlords of Johannesburg tenements by winning the favor of the tenants and then holding their rent hostage from the landowners. His high-profile real estate acquisitions attract the attention of the local police force who have no qualms about using unprovoked brutality to bring him down. His trouble with the law, coupled with an escalating war between a local drug lord, creates a tense standoff: both sides are closing in, and Kunene must stay one step ahead--or his empire, and his life, will come crashing down.

Plot Keywords: gangsters, petty criminal, boy, thrilling, raw, johannesburg, south africa, luck ...

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#9. Across the Bridge (1957)

Storyline: On the run from the US police after being charged with embezzlement, a billionaire attempts to flee to Mexico by stealing the identity of a stranger. However, his life is made much more difficult when he finds out that that man is a wanted Mexican criminal.—themadmovieman

Plot Keywords: industrialist, assassin, police chief, scotland yard agent, wife, passenger, crafty ...

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#10. 11:14 (2003)

Storyline: A few incidents that happen at 11:14 p.m. in the town of Middleton are seen from five different perspectives, each of the players who generally works toward self interest, not caring about the consequence to other people, and in the process exacerbating the situations by his or her actions. Jack, in town to meet someone, is a chronic drinker and driver, he still doing so despite having his license temporarily suspended. Teens Mark, Eddie, and Tim are out for a joyride in Mark's van, they generally causing havoc all in the name of having fun, that is until something goes wrong. Frank, out for a walk with his dog, stumbles across something which makes him jump to a conclusion about his daughter, to whom he is both overprotective and overly trusting. Duffy, who works as a clerk at Lloyd's EZZZ Stop convenience store, goes to the store just as it is closing to ask his friend, the clerk on duty, Buzzy, for a favor, which may be difficult for her to grant based on her own needs, and Cheri ...

Plot Keywords: teen girl, police officer, drunk, paramedic, mother, daughter, tense ...

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#11. The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)

Storyline: That famous jewel, The Pink Panther, has once again been stolen and Inspector Jacque Clouseau (Peter Sellers) is called in to catch the thief. The Inspector is convinced that "The Phantom" has returned and utilizes all of his resources, himself and his oriental manservant, to reveal the true identity of "The Phantom".

Plot Keywords: police detective, police chief, thief, lady, madcap, hilarious, paris ...

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#13. Slacker (1990)

Storyline: Presents a day in the life in Austin, Texas among its social outcasts and misfits, predominantly the twenty-something set, using a series of linear vignettes. These characters, who in some manner just don't fit into the establishment norms, move seamlessly from one scene to the next, randomly coming and going into one another's lives. Highlights include a UFO buff who adamantly insists that the U.S. has been on the moon since the 1950s, a woman who produces a glass slide purportedly of Madonna's pap smear, and an old anarchist who sympathetically shares his philosophy of life with a robber.

Plot Keywords: slacker, anarchist, musician, philosopher, friend, taxi driver, offbeat ...

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#14. Miracles (1989)

Storyline: Jackie Chan's Hong Kong variation of Frank Capra's "A Pocketful of Miracles" set in the 1930s. Jackie plays a country boy who rescues a gang boss. Jackie becomes the head of a gang through the purchase of some lucky roses from an old lady. Jackie and a singer at the gang's nightclub try to do a good deed for the old rose-seller when her daughter comes to visit, all this while battling a rival gang.—Ronald Strong <rs080455@pacbell.net>

Plot Keywords: godfather, country boy, gang leader, amusing, hong kong, village, miracles ...

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#15. Three Strangers (1946)

Storyline: According to a legend, if three strangers gather before an idol of Kwan Yin (the Chinese goddess of fortune and destiny) on the night of the Chinese New Year and make a common wish, Kwan Yin will open her eyes and her heart and grant the wish. In London 1938 on the Chinese New Year, Crystal Shackleford has such an idol and decides to put the legend to the test. She picks two random strangers off the street, and puts the proposition to them. They decide that an ideal wish would be for a sweepstakes ticket they buy equal shares in to be a winner. After all, everyone needs money and a pot is very easy to divide equally, right?—Ken Yousten <kyousten@bev.net>

Plot Keywords: wife, embezzler, drunk, widow, girlfriend, stranger, eerie ...

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