Movies and TvShows featuring "wheel-of-fortune" theme.

Test plot summary for Wheel of Fortune (1983)

Hosted by Pat Sajak and Vanna White, celebrity contestants spin the wheel and solve word puzzles for a chance to win up to one million dollars for charity.

In 'The Maiden Heist,' three security guards at a museum become obsessed with the artworks they protect. When the museum decides to move their favorite pieces to another location, the guards come up with a plan to steal them and replace them with replicas. As they recruit a ragtag team of amateurs, they must overcome their own insecurities and work together to pull off the heist. Hilarity ensues as they navigate through a series of misadventures, mix-ups, and close calls.

A game of wits, strategy and high stakes as contestants try to avoid the iconic WHAMMY for a chance at life-changing cash and prizes.

In 'Funhouse', a reality show takes a dark turn when the contestants find themselves being hunted down by a killer. As they try to survive, they face gruesome deaths, dismemberment, and torture. The competition turns into a fight for their lives as they are trapped inside the show's twisted game. With video surveillance capturing every terrifying moment, the contestants must rely on their wits and cunning to outsmart their sinister captor. 'Funhouse' is a thrilling horror movie that explores the dark side of reality TV.

After dying, the hapless accountant Fantozzi finds himself in Heaven, where he faces various challenges and encounters comedic situations. As he navigates his new existence, Fantozzi learns important lessons about life, relationships, and the meaning of true happiness.

The film follows a 17-year-old boy who navigates various challenges during his summer vacation at a lake, including a nose job, a part-time job, and a budding romance.

In 'Easy Come, Easy Go,' a navy veteran turned treasure hunter sets out on a comedic adventure to find sunken treasure. Along the way, he encounters various obstacles, including a locked chest, underwater photography, and a betrayal.

A man with amnesia named Steve Rawley undergoes brain surgery to remove a bullet from his head. After the surgery, he is asked by the police to help them find the hidden loot from a past robbery. As Steve tries to piece together his memories, he becomes suspicious of those around him and starts planning a heist of his own. With the help of his girlfriend Peg, Steve must outwit the police and his own forgotten past to pull off the perfect crime.

Things Change is a comedy crime drama about an old man named Gino, who becomes involved in the criminal activities of the mob. Gino is mistaken for a mafia hitman and is offered a large sum of money to kill a government witness. Despite his initial reluctance, Gino eventually agrees because he believes he has nothing left to lose. However, his interactions with the witness and the mobsters begin to change his perspective, leading to unexpected outcomes.

Gina is young, recently married and bored. On a trip to Lake Tahoe she discovers the game of blackjack. Increasingly obsessed with gambling, she keeps hoping her lucky streak will last.

Contestants are pit against a colossal, spinning 40-foot wheel that holds large sums of cash prizes in its rotation. Throughout the game, players answer trivia questions – where the correct answer adds more cash in the wheel’s wedges and the incorrect answer adds more dangerous wedges that could instantly bring their total back to zero.

An electric shock enables Satch to predict numbers, so the Bowery Boys are off to Las Vegas to win enough money at the roulette wheels to let their landlady buy an apartment building. Witnessing his winning streak, some gangsters decide to move in and find out his "system" for beating the odds.

The original version of Wheel was a network daytime series that ran on NBC from January 6, 1975, to June 30, 1989, and subsequently aired on CBS from July 17, 1989, to January 11, 1991; it returned to NBC on January 14, 1991, and was cancelled that year, ending on September 20, 1991.

Milton Haskins, a math genius known for his infallibility with numbers, quits his job with an insurance company when he discovers he made a mistake, and hooks up with a traveling carnival. His knowledge of mathematics makes him a natural as an assistant at the wheel of fortune. His fiancée begs him to return to his job but he refuses, so she joins the carnival and becomes a striptease artist. When Milton attempts to drag her off the stage, a brawling mêlée breaks out and the entire troupe is arrested by the local police. The carnival is sold but Milton reveals that the new owner has conspired to defraud the insurance company. The insurance company has to accept the carnival in lieu of the money owed, and they allow Milton and his fiancée, Vivian, to stay with and help run the carnival.

A wealthy old man dies and leaves his holdings--including a brothel and a gambling den, racing greyhounds and a sleazy bar--to his eccentric Aunt Clara. Clara vows to "clean up" her new establishments, but complications ensue when she visits the crooked gambling den--just as it's being raided by the police.

Part AC/DC, part Jacques Derrida. An experimental film made as a response to the critical theory aspects of the filmmakers degree and academic film criticism.

A devil appears on the shoulder of a man who has been down on his luck since his Friday-the-13th birthday. The green-suited tempter convinces him to gamble away his last dime.