Items16The creator’s order
  1. 1It Could Happen to You (1994)It Could Happen to You (1994) 6.4/10 on IMDbReleased Jul 16, 1994Comedy. A Queens cop who can't cover a tip promises the waitress half of his lottery ticket, then it wins a $4 million share of the jackpot. The premise borrows from a real 1984 case in Yonkers, which gives the central question real teeth: would you honor a promise made as a joke? Nicolas Cage…0
  2. 2Waking Ned (1998)Waking Ned (1998) 7.3/10 on IMDbReleased Nov 20, 1998Comedy. In a tiny Irish village of 52 people, the lottery winner is found dead from shock with the ticket still in his hand, and his neighbors decide the prize should not go to waste. What follows is a whole community talking itself into fraud, one pint at a time. Ian Bannen and David Kelly carry…0
  3. 3A Simple Plan (1998)A Simple Plan (1998) 7.5/10 on IMDbReleased Dec 11, 1998Cautionary thriller. Two brothers and a friend find a crashed plane in snowy Minnesota woods with $4.4 million in cash aboard, and agree to hide it until the snow melts and see whether anyone comes looking. Sam Raimi, better known then for horror, films the slow slide from that agreement into…0
  4. 4Millions (2005)Millions (2005) 6.8/10 on IMDbReleased Apr 8, 2005Fable. A bag of stolen cash lands next to a grieving nine-year-old by the train tracks, and he and his 12-year-old brother have days to spend it before Britain's fictional switch to the euro makes it worthless. Danny Boyle turns the deadline into a sweet, funny argument between two kinds of…0
  5. 5Shallow Grave (1994)Shallow Grave (1994) 7.2/10 on IMDbReleased Dec 22, 1994Cautionary thriller. Three smug Edinburgh roommates find the stranger they have just taken in dead, with a suitcase full of money in his room, and decide to dispose of him and keep it. Danny Boyle's first feature is the nastiest movie here and the funniest about it, all black comedy and sharp…0
  6. 6No Country for Old Men (2007)No Country for Old Men (2007) 8.2/10 on IMDbReleased Nov 9, 2007Cautionary thriller. A hunter in 1980 West Texas stumbles on a drug deal gone wrong and a case holding $2 million, and his choice to take it brings Javier Bardem's Anton Chigurh after him. The Coen brothers' Cormac McCarthy adaptation won four Oscars, Best Picture among them. It belongs here…0
  7. 7Brewster's Millions (1985)Brewster's Millions (1985) 6.5/10 on IMDbReleased May 22, 1985Comedy. A minor league pitcher can inherit $300 million from a great-uncle he never knew, but only if he spends $30 million in 30 days, ends up with nothing to show for it and tells no one why. Richard Pryor and John Candy make the impossible spree a joy to watch, from hiring everyone in sight to…0
  8. 8Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) 7.8/10 on IMDbReleased Apr 9, 1936Fable. A small-town greeting card poet inherits $20 million from an uncle and is promptly circled by lawyers, reporters and hangers-on in New York. Gary Cooper plays Longfellow Deeds as a man whose good sense looks like madness to everyone who wants a piece of him, and Frank Capra won the Best…0
  9. 9Christmas in July (1940)Christmas in July (1940) 7.3/10 on IMDbReleased Oct 25, 1940Comedy. An office clerk is tricked by coworkers into believing he has won $25,000 in a coffee slogan contest, and spends like a winner before anyone realizes the telegram was a prank. Preston Sturges wrote and directed it right after The Great McGinty, and at 67 minutes it is the quickest watch…0
  10. 10The Million Pound Note (1954)The Million Pound Note (1954) 6.8/10 on IMDbReleased Jan 7, 1954Fable. In 1903 London, two rich brothers hand a penniless American sailor a single million-pound banknote to settle a bet. He can't spend it, since nobody can change it, yet the mere sight of it gets him credit, tailoring, a hotel suite and a seat at society's table. Gregory Peck plays the sailor…0