Highest-Rated Movies about 'Bad Luck'

Pather Panchali (1955), Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Captain Phillips (2013), Airplane! (1980), Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987), The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941), The Lighthouse (2019), The Princess and the Warrior (2000) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Bad Luck movies.

#16. The Rescuers Down Under (1990)

Storyline: Cody, a 9-year-old boy from Mugwomp Flats responds to a distress call about a trapped giant Golden Eagle called Marahute. Freeing her, he gains a close friendship with the bird. However, Cody is soon abducted by the murderous poacher, Percival McLeach, who is after that bird which is of a highly endangered species and therefore an extremely profitable quarry. In a panic, a mouse Cody freed from one of McLeach's traps sends a desperate call for help to the Rescue Aid Society in New York City who assigns their top agents, Miss Bianca and Bernard, to the task. With transportation provided by the goofy albatross, Wilbur, the agents arrive in Australia and link up with the RAS' local field operative, Jake the Kangaroo Rat. Together, the trio must race against time to find Cody, stop McLeach, and save Marahute.

Plot Keywords: poacher, australia, rope, falling into water, single mother, romantic rivalry, presumed dead ...

Movie Details Click Here!

#17. The Mask (1994)

Storyline: Stanley Ipkiss (Jim Carrey) is a bank clerk that is an incredibly nice man. Unfortunately, he is too nice for his own good and is a pushover when it comes to confrontations. After one of the worst days of his life, he finds a mask that depicts Loki, the Norse night god of mischief. Now, when he puts it on, he becomes his inner, self: a cartoon romantic wild man. However, a small time crime boss, Dorian Tyrel (Peter Greene), comes across this character dubbed "The Mask" by the media. After Ipkiss's alter ego indirectly kills his friend in crime, Tyrel now wants this green-faced goon destroyed.

Plot Keywords: pantyhose, cult film, high heels, female stockinged feet, camera shot of feet, super villain, alter ego ...

Movie Details Click Here!

#18. Hot Shots! (1991)

Storyline: Topper Harley, a top gun fighter pilot, is recalled to serve on the SS Essess. Topper's mission is to destroy Saddam Hussein's nuclear plants. Unfortunately, Topper is psychologically imbalanced and is sure to crack under pressure.

Plot Keywords: 1990s, reference to jesus christ, reference to humphrey bogart, native american, fighter jet, parody, fighter pilot ...

Movie Details Click Here!

#19. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011)

Storyline: A visionary sheik believes his passion for the peaceful pastime of salmon fishing can enrich the lives of his people, and he dreams of bringing the sport to the not so fish-friendly desert. Willing to spare no expense, he instructs his representative to turn the dream into reality, an extraordinary feat that will require the involvement of Britain's leading fisheries expert who happens to think the project both absurd and unachievable. That is, until the Prime Minister's overzealous press secretary latches on to it as a 'good will' story. Now, this unlikely team will put it all on the line and embark on an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the impossible, possible.

Plot Keywords: fishing, fish, desert, dam, based on novel, airplane, tv news ...

Movie Details Click Here!

#20. U Turn (1997)

Storyline: When Bobby's car breaks down in the desert while on the run from some of the bookies who have already taken two of his fingers, he becomes trapped in the nearby small town where the people are stranger than anyone he's encountered. After becoming involved with a (unbeknownst to him) young married woman, her husband hires Bobby to kill her. Later, she hires Bobby to kill the husband.

Plot Keywords: arizona, police officer shot, incest, shot to death, scorpion, rough sex, native american ...

Movie Details Click Here!

#21. Ceiling Zero (1935)

Storyline: War veteran pilots Dizzy Davis, Texas Clark and Jake Lee are working in an airline in Newark. Dizzy is flirting with the girlfriend of a younger pilot and, due to this, he feigns illness to get Texas to take his flight assignment to Cleveland. Returning from Cleveland to Newark, Texas' plane crashes attempting to land on the airfield under extremely bad weather circumstances and he dies from this accident. Dizzy feels guilty for his friend's death and takes the next flight to Cleveland under even worse circumstances, testing a new anti-ice device on the plane.—Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>

Plot Keywords: biplane, airplane, pilot, lightning, limousine, lobster, loudspeaker ...

Movie Details Click Here!

#22. Castle on the Hudson (1940)

Storyline: Mobster Tommy Gordon isn't worried about being sentenced to Sing Sing prison because his political pals have promised him a quick parole. A troublesome prisoner, he finally concedes that his friends have deserted him, and he makes an effort to reform. When his girlfriend Kay is injured in an accident, Warden Long gives Tommy a pass to go see her. But trouble erupts when Tommy encounters the man responsible for his imprisonment.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>

Plot Keywords: based on book, self defense, convict, suicide, murder, priest, new york city ...

Movie Details Click Here!

#23. Me and Orson Welles (2008)

Storyline: In November 1937, high school student and aspiring thespian Richard Samuels takes a day trip into New York City. There, he meets and begins a casual friendship with Gretta Adler, their friendship based on a shared love and goal of a profession in the creative arts. But also on this trip, Richard stumbles across the Mercury Theatre and meets Orson Welles, who, based on an impromptu audition, offers Richard an acting job as Lucius in his modern retelling of Julius Caesar, which includes such stalwart Mercury Theatre players as Joseph Cotten and George Coulouris. Despite others with official roles as producer John Houseman, this production belongs to Welles, the unofficial/official dictator. In other words, whatever Welles wants, the cast and crew better deliver. These requests include everything, even those of a sexual nature. Welles does not believe in conventions and will do whatever he wants, which includes not having a fixed opening date, although the unofficial opening date is in ...

Plot Keywords: inspired by true events, based on novel, 1930s, new york city, theatre, based on real person, reference to shakespeare's hamlet ...

Movie Details Click Here!

#24. EuroTrip (2004)

Storyline: Ohio high school student Scott Thomas is a good student and nice guy - albeit a little predictable - who is about to graduate and go into pre-med. He is unceremoniously dumped by his whorish girlfriend Fiona on graduation day. Among the people he turns to in his hour of despair is his German pen pal, Mike. Scott and Mike seem to have a special connection. After Mike makes advances to Scott now that he and Fiona are not seeing each other, Scott abruptly sends Mike a message saying he never wants to hear from him again. However, Scott learns shorty thereafter that Mike is actually a beautiful girl named Mieke. By this time, Mieke has blocked his messages. Thinking that Mieke is actually who he was meant to be with, Scott, impulsively for a change, decides to go to Berlin to be with her. Along for the ride is Scott's best friend, the girl crazy Cooper Harris. They manage only to get a flight into London, and thus have to make their way from London to Berlin. Along the way in Paris, they ...

Plot Keywords: public nudity, nudist, nudity, incestuous kiss, female frontal nudity, male frontal nudity, sex club ...

Movie Details Click Here!

#25. Pennies From Heaven (1981)

Storyline: In Chicago during the 1930s Depression, sheet-music salesman Arthur Parker is trying to sell his products, but it's not easy to convince unwilling music-store owners to buy them. Although he's already married to the somewhat drab Joan, when he meets schoolteacher Eileen in a music store, he falls in love with her.—Mattias Thuresson

Plot Keywords: sheet music, singing, singer, infidelity, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, adultery ...

Movie Details Click Here!

#26. The Great Buck Howard (2008)

Storyline: When a law school dropout answers an advertisement to be a personal assistant he unknowingly signs on to work for a belligerent has-been magician struggling to resurrect his career. This leads to a journey across the country staging the comeback of a lifetime.

Plot Keywords: photograph, autograph, publicity, publicist, telephone call, cell phone, money ...

Movie Details Click Here!

#27. The Producers (2005)

Storyline: New York, 1959. Max Bialystock was once the king of Broadway, but now all his shows close on opening night. Things turn around when he's visited by the neurotic accountant Leo Bloom, who proposes a scheme tailor-made for producers who can only make flops: raise far more money than you need, then make sure the show is despised. No one will be interested in it, so you can pocket the surplus. To this end, they produce a musical called Springtime for Hitler written by escaped Nazi Franz Liebken. Then they get the insanely flamboyant Roger De Bris to direct. Finally, they hire as a lead actress the loopy Swedish bombshell Ulla (whose last name has over 15 syllables). As opening night draws near, what can go wrong? Well, there's no accounting for taste...

Plot Keywords: scheme, based on film, based on stage musical, audition, remake, playwright, new york city ...

Movie Details Click Here!

#28. Employee of the Month (2004)

Storyline: "Employee of the Month" is about a guy whose day spirals from bad to worse when he gets fired from his dream job at the bank and is dumped by his fiancée Sara. David's best friend Jack tries to convince him it's for the best, but the opposite occurs when bank robberies and millions of dollars become part of his day from hell.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: surprise ending, racial slur, bad luck, betrayal, burnt face, car accident, death ...

Movie Details Click Here!

#29. How to Rob a Bank (2007)

Storyline: Jinx has coasted through life oblivious to the world around him and without a care in the world. His life is thrown into a spin when he gets caught in the middle of a bank heist and is forced to arbitrate this intense situation between the thieves and the police.—Archlight Films

Plot Keywords: surprise ending, bad luck, blood splatter, blood, bullet hole, cell phone, corpse ...

Movie Details Click Here!