The Lottery of Life
Jul 25, 2013 | IMDB 10
34 min Watch NowDrama, Comedy
David Cole is a twenty-something man trying to make ends meet. His wannabe actor roommate Steve isn't making things any easier for him. But when a nasty string of bad luck turns his life upside down, only then can he realize that he may not be as unlucky as he thinks.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Best Man
Off Course
Micmacs
The Survivors
A Dog's Life
Limelight
That Sinking Feeling
Between Two Worlds
Wake in Fright
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
Sorcerer
As Luck Would Have It
Fate
De Wind
De Waarheid
Lovers: A True Story
Music from Another Room
The Case of Charlie Gordon
The Adversary
Lucky Coin!
SIMILAR MOVIES
Best Man
IMDB 0 | Jun , 2025
A desperate actor circling the drain of his failed dreams takes one last shot at greatness.Off Course
IMDB 6.3 | Mar , 2015
Two young Spanish men, with a university education, are tired of unemployment and decide to move to Germany. But soon they will find out that finding a better living is not as easy as they expected.Micmacs
IMDB 6.6 | Oct , 2009
While standing in the doorway of the video shop where he works, Bazil is inadvertently shot in the head. Now homeless and jobless, he is taken in by a troupe of misfits who live in a giant mound of trash. There Bazil begins his quest for revenge against the people who produced the gun that shot him.The Survivors
IMDB 5.6 | Jun , 1983
Having both lost their jobs, two strangers become unlikely friends after a run in with a would be robber, who is actually a hitman with a grudge against the two.A Dog's Life
IMDB 7.3 | Apr , 1918
The Tramp and his dog companion struggle to survive in the inner city.Limelight
IMDB 0 | Jun , 2022
After failing an audition, a self-conscious actress finds herself in a terrifying role.That Sinking Feeling
IMDB 6.1 | Oct , 1980
Ronnie, Wal, Andy and Vic are four bored, unemployed teens in dreary, rainy Glasgow. Ronnie comes up with a great idea. He has noticed that stainless steel sinks are worth a lot of money and comes up with a complicated scheme: to steal sinks from a warehouse dressed as girls and using a stop-motion-potion.Between Two Worlds
IMDB 7.1 | May , 1944
Passengers on an ocean liner can't recall how they got onboard or where they are going. Soon it becomes apparent that they all have something in common.Wake in Fright
IMDB 7.2 | Jul , 1971
A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
IMDB 7 | Mar , 1995
71 scenes revolving around multiple Viennese residents who are by chance involved with a senseless gun slaughter on Christmas Eve.Sorcerer
IMDB 7.4 | Jun , 1977
Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous jungle terrain.As Luck Would Have It
IMDB 5.6 | Dec , 2002
Jean-Pierre is a literature professor in Switzerland. Due to the vagarities of Swiss law, he is selected, basically at random, to be the guardian of a parentless teenage boy named Antoine. Conflict comes into the story as Jean-Pierre, who has just accepted a major promotion, must now deal with caring for a teenage boy he doesn't want to care for, as well as handling his own jealous boyfriend. Then his wife steps into the picture. Things get complicated from there as Jean-Pierre tries to get out of his guardianship.Fate
IMDB 7.2 | Feb , 2001
Musa, a customs clerk, sees life as absurd. He drifts with events; his mother's death, though loved, brings him strange joy.De Wind
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2014
De Waarheid
IMDB 0 | Mar , 2026
Lovers: A True Story
IMDB 6.4 | Feb , 1991
A torrid affair between a recently discharged serviceman and an attractive widow leads to murder.Music from Another Room
IMDB 5.6 | Apr , 1998
Music From Another Room is a romantic comedy that follows the exploits of Danny, a young man who grew up believing he was destined to marry the girl he helped deliver as a five year old boy when his neighbor went into emergency labor. Twenty-five years later, Danny returns to his hometown and finds the irresistible Anna Swann but she finds it easy to resist him since she is already engaged to dreamboat Eric, a very practical match. In pursuit of Anna, Danny finds himself entangled with each of the eccentric Swanns including blind, sheltered Nina, cynical sister Karen, big brother Bill and dramatic mother Grace as he fights to prove that fate should never be messed with and passion should never be practical.The Case of Charlie Gordon
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1939
A dramatized documentary portraying youth unemployment and state-supported training initiatives in 1930s Canada.The Adversary
IMDB 7.1 | Oct , 1970
Siddhartho Chowdhury, a brilliant young medical student, is forced to leave his studies after his father's sudden demise. He is forced to navigate the high unemployment rate and the communist socio-political climate of 1960s Calcutta in search of a job. He lives in a flat with his younger, employed sister, revolutionary brother and widowed mother. The strain of the situation ultimately causes him to hallucinate.Lucky Coin!
IMDB 10 | Dec , 2022
About a college student who believes he's constantly failing a course because of "bad luck" and tries to break "bad luck" by an extraordinary way to pass the course.