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Starz
83
8.2
/612076/
81
/12489/
79
/6336/
4.2
/673119/
79
/77/
93
/12204/
73
/17/
cc age 18+

Casino (1995)
In Las Vegas, two best friends--a casino executive and a Mafia enforcer--compete for a gambling empire and a fast-living, fast-loving socialite.
poster
Kanopy
82
7.7
/12809/
70
/244/
75
/252/
3.9
/19162/
93
/44/
86
/308/

Pandora's Box (1929)
The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.
poster
MGM Plus
79
7.2
/25497/
71
/527/
68
/331/
3.7
/24354/
93
/30/
79
/463/
78
/13/

House of Games (1987)
A psychiatrist comes to the aid of a compulsive gambler and is led by a smooth-talking grifter into the shadowy but compelling world of stings, scams, and con men.
poster
Criterion Channel
78
7.0
/11226/
68
/311/
69
/160/
3.7
/25870/
95
/40/
77
/200/
78
/10/

Lost in America (1985)
David and Linda Howard are successful yuppies from LA. When he gets a job disappointment, David convinces Linda that they should quit their jobs, liquidate their assets, and emulate the movie Easy Rider, spending the rest of their lives traveling around America...in a Winnebago.
poster
75
7.1
/7090/
69
/184/
67
/122/
3.7
/13708/
82
/11/
77
/51/
65
/6/

The Gambler (1974)
New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that threatens to destroy him.
poster
75
7.0
/15941/
71
/331/
67
/187/
3.6
/10067/
78
/96/
75
/329/
70
/29/

Owning Mahowny (2003)
Dan Mahowny was a rising star at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. At twenty-four he was assistant manager of a major branch in the heart of Toronto's financial district. To his colleagues he was a workaholic. To his customers, he was astute, decisive and helpful. To his friends, he was a quiet, but humorous man who enjoyed watching sports on television. To his girlfriend, he was shy but engaging. None of them knew the other side of Dan Mahowny--the side that executed the largest single-handed bank fraud in Canadian history, grossing over $10 million in eighteen months to feed his gambling obsession.
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Kanopy
72
71
7.2
/17194/
71
/434/
68
/314/
3.5
/14371/
79
/421/

Northanger Abbey (2007)
A young woman's penchant for sensational Gothic novels leads to misunderstandings in the matters of the heart.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
70
6.7
/63192/
70
/3865/
67
/1927/
3.4
/105462/
84
/314/
71
/499/
73
/46/
cc age 14+

Battle of the Sexes (2017)
The true story of the 1973 tennis match between world number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs.
poster
69
6.7
/9657/
68
/189/
70
/220/
3.6
/18993/
72
/109/
66
/667/
67
/25/

Rudo & Cursi (2008)
Tato and Beto are poor stepbrothers living on a banana plantation in Mexico. Both are talented soccer players, but their dreams lay elsewhere: tone-deaf Tato wants to be a singer, while Beto is content to remain on the plantation. One day, a sports agent sees the two young men playing soccer and offers to take one of them to Mexico City for a chance at sports stardom.
poster
69
6.7
/14867/
68
/346/
65
/251/
3.7
/22325/
71
/35/
75
/382/
61
/23/

Mo' Better Blues (1990)
Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he is forced to come to the aid of his manager and childhood friend, Bleek finds his world more fragile than he ever imagined.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
73
68
7.3
/9066/
71
/189/
70
/140/
3.7
/8373/
79
/14/
75
/90/

Kansas City Confidential (1952)
An ex-convict sets out to uncover who framed him for an armored car robbery.
poster
fuboTV
67
6.5
/122005/
66
/4154/
63
/2229/
3.0
/64465/
75
/165/
60
/3280/
66
/36/
cc age 14+

Premium Rush (2012)
In Manhattan, a bike messenger picks up an envelope that attracts the interest of a dirty cop, who pursues the cyclist throughout the city.
poster
66
6.9
/120587/
70
/4091/
66
/2294/
3.1
/48755/
68
/183/
62
/1789/
61
/37/
cc age 18+

Trance (2013)
A violent gang enlists the help of a hypnotherapist in an attempt to locate a painting which somehow vanished in the middle of a heist.
poster
72
66
7.0
/7841/
70
/187/
65
/128/
3.4
/7936/
88
/8/
71
/81/

The Glass Key (1942)
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
poster
Kanopy
64
7.0
/54329/
72
/1558/
67
/678/
3.2
/12664/
63
/51/
67
/713/
50
/15/

Kill the Irishman (2011)
Over the summer of 1976, thirty-six bombs detonate in the heart of Cleveland while a turf war raged between Irish mobster Danny Greene and the Italian mafia. Based on a true story, Kill the Irishman chronicles Greene's heroic rise from a tough Cleveland neighborhood to become an enforcer in the local mob.
poster
Kanopy
79
62
7.7
/4051/
72
/70/
74
/141/
3.9
/3447/
90
/10/
87
/18/

General Della Rovere (1959)
The Gestapo forces con man Victorio Bardone to impersonate a dead partisan general in order to extract information from his fellow inmates.
poster
Criterion Channel
71
62
7.2
/4738/
69
/108/
67
/187/
3.8
/18619/
76
/6/

Bay of Angels (1963)
A bank clerk is drawn into the risky world of a gorgeous gambling addict.
poster
72
62
7.1
/3785/
70
/58/
64
/47/
3.5
/4069/
81
/48/
80
/86/

Cabin in the Sky (1943)
When compulsive gambler Little Joe Jackson dies in a drunken fight, he awakens in purgatory, where he learns that he will be sent back to Earth for six months to prove that he deserves to be in heaven. He awakens, remembering nothing and struggles to do right by his devout wife, Petunia, while an angel known as the General and the devil's son, Lucifer Jr., fight for his soul.
poster
74
60
7.3
/5100/
73
/88/
71
/74/
3.6
/1460/
86
/340/

A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966)
A naive traveler in Laredo gets involved in a poker game between the richest men in the area, jeopardizing all the money he has saved for the purpose of settling with his wife and child in San Antonio.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
59
6.4
/21026/
64
/377/
62
/285/
3.2
/9604/
40
/57/
54
/313/
50
/33/

Flawless (1999)
An ultraconservative police officer suffers a debilitating stroke and is assigned to a rehabilitative program that includes singing lessons - with the drag queen next door.
poster
74
57
6.9
/2943/
69
/69/
66
/63/
3.8
/4776/
100
/7/
65
/16/

Canyon Passage (1946)
In 1850s Oregon, a businessman is torn between his love of two very different women and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the line.
poster
Hoopla
58
53
6.8
/7260/
70
/198/
63
/92/
3.3
/3701/
30
/10/
76
/190/
33
/9/

Let It Ride (1989)
An average kind of guy who has a slight problem with gambling goes to the track, and mystically, it seems as though he can't lose, no matter how he bets; and he has an incredible day.
poster
66
50
6.4
/2275/
68
/157/
68
/77/
3.2
/2016/

Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler (2009)
Kaiji Ito moves to Japan after graduating from high school. Unable to find a job and frustrated with society at large, Kaiji spends his days gambling, vandalizing cars, and drinking booze. Two years later and his life is no better. A debt collector named Endo arrives to collect money owed. The debt collector offers two choices to Kaiji: spend 10 years paying off his loan or board a gambling boat for one night to repay his debt & possibly make a boat load of money. Could the debt collector Endo actually be setting up Kaiji? One way or another, for Kaiji it's going to be the night of his life.
poster
47
46
5.9
/21567/
57
/303/
56
/280/
2.8
/3745/
28
/139/
28
/2933/
49
/29/
cc age 14+

Lucky You (2007)
A professional poker player whose astounding luck at the table fails to translate into his lonesome love life attempts to win the World Series of Poker while simultaneously earning the affections of a beautiful Las Vegas singer.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
53
42
5.8
/2485/
59
/171/
56
/245/
3.0
/4638/
67
/12/
19
/5/

How to Be a Good Wife (2020)
Paulette Van Der Beck and her husband have been running the housekeeping school of Bitche in Alsace for many years. Their mission is to train teenage girls to become the perfect housewives at a time when women were expected to be subservient to their husband. After the sudden death of her husband, Paulette discovers that the school is on the verge of bankruptcy and has to take her responsibilities. But while preparations are underway for the best housekeeping competition TV show, she and her lively students start questioning their beliefs as the nation-wide protests of May 1968 transform society around them. Reunited with her first love, André, and with the help of her eccentric stepsister Gilberte and strict nun Marie-Therese, Paulette joins forces with the schoolgirls to overcome their suppressed status and become liberated women.
poster
62
37
6.6
/2691/
59
/63/
63
/24/
3.3
/550/
60
/105/

Real Time (2008)
Real Time is a comedic drama about a compulsive gambler given one hour to live by the man hired to kill him.
poster
MGM Plus
60
33
6.3
/1928/
67
/53/
51
/27/
3.2
/1041/
59
/30/

The Facts of Life (1960)
Middle-class suburbanites Larry and Kitty grow bored with their lives and respective marriages. Although each always found the other's manner grating, they fall in love when thrown together--without their spouses--on vacation. On returning home they try to break things off, only to grow closer. A holiday together will finally settle whether they should end their marriages.
poster
59
31
6.4
/1744/
66
/20/
64
/24/
3.1
/1024/
42
/73/

King of the Underworld (1939)
Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her innocence or the Medical Board will revoke her license. When Gurney seeks her out for treatment after being shot, it could be the break Nelson needs. Now she has a chance to use her medical know-how to outwit Gurney and his goons and reestablish her professional reputation.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
66
29
6.7
/1679/
63
/24/
77
/23/
3.2
/1111/
59
/11/

A Hazard of Hearts (1987)
When compulsive gambler Sir Giles Staverley has lost his estate and all his money playing dice, he realises that he only has one thing left of value: his daughter Serena. In a final game, he stakes his daughter's hand in marriage, convinced that this time he will not lose. Unfortunately, however, he does lose; to the evil Lord Wrotham. Unable to return home and tell his daughter that he has lost her in a game of dice, Sir Giles kills himself there and then. Lord Vulcan, who has witnessed the events, takes pity on Serena Staverley, although they have never met. He challenges Lord Wrotham to a game of dice in which the winner takes both Staverley Court and Miss Serena.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
38
28
3.5
/2343/
47
/295/
43
/98/
2.3
/728/
21
/29/
cc age 15+

The Survivalist (2021)
A year and a half after the fall of civilization from a virus outbreak, a former FBI agent is forced to protect a young woman, who is immune to the disease, from a dangerous gang hunting her led by a psychopath who believes he’s going to use her to save the world.
poster
63
28
6.6
/1773/
66
/21/
66
/21/
3.3
/1182/
51
/12/

The Great Sinner (1949)
A young man succumbs to gambling fever.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
45
27
5.3
/2975/
52
/52/
47
/42/
2.8
/730/
19
/35/

Quicksand (2003)
The workaholic head of the compliance section of a New York bank flies to Monaco to investigate unusual deposits from an offshore bank and meets a down-on-his-luck international film star who has become embroiled in criminal activities.
poster
60
25
6.3
/917/
58
/40/
64
/53/
3.4
/653/
50
/7/

Don't Be Afraid (2011)
Silvia is a young girl marked by a dark childhood. When she is barely twenty-five, she decides to start over and to face the people, feelings and emotions that keep her bound to the past. In her fight against adversity and against herself, she will learn to control her fears and become an adult, responsible for her own actions.
poster
63
23
6.8
/783/
63
/21/
62
/70/
3.3
/276/
58
/12/

Night Bus (2007)
Valerio Mastandrea is Franz, a night bus driver on the airport route who owes a lot of money from poker debts. He's stumbled upon by the variously named Leila, a thief who has accidentally become wrapped up in a secretive blackmail deal involving the President. As the film unfolds, a secret war between factions of the Security Services, a series of confusions among the various criminal fraternities whose activites have been touched upon by the deal, and Leila's past all complicate the situation.
poster
57
23
6.6
/1200/
66
/28/
60
/33/
3.2
/877/
29
/3/

The Lady Gambles (1949)
When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the casino manager, she gets hooked on gambling, to the point where she "borrows" David's expense money to pursue her addiction. This finally breaks up their marriage, but David continues trying to help her.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
60
22
6.4
/1549/
64
/41/
54
/29/
3.1
/348/
60
/9/

Lucky Girl (2001)
Katlin is a high school student whose obsession with gambling leads to her accumulating a mountain of debt. Her habit also causes a high degree of family tension.
poster
54
21
5.7
/1160/
58
/7/
54
/17/
3.2
/641/
35
/49/

The Only Game in Town (1970)
Fran walks into a piano bar for pizza. She comes back home with Joe, the piano player. Joe plans on winning $5,000 and leave Las Vegas. Fran waits for something else. Meanwhile, he moves in with her.
poster
57
18
6.9
/1321/
61
/21/
69
/12/
3.4
/594/
14
/7/
62
/9/

Any Number Can Play (1949)
When illegal casino owner Charley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend more time with his family. However, he finds it difficult to keep his work separate from his life at home. His son, Paul, feels ashamed of Charley's career and gets into a fight at his prom because of it. Meanwhile, Charley's brother-in-law, Robbin, who works at the casino, begins fixing games due to his extreme gambling debts.
poster
Criterion Channel
57
18
6.2
/668/
53
/12/
48
/21/
3.3
/761/

Cheaters (1984)
Swaying between pleasure and despair, Elric throws himself into his pathological passion for the casino. Meeting Suzie could have saved him, but the young woman also sinks into gambling hell. The couple then start getting involved in the fearsome world of professional cheaters.
poster
51
16
5.6
/886/
61
/14/
53
/13/
35
/27/

The Hard Easy (2006)
Two separate teams of jewel thieves, one low-rent and one upscale, both desperate, converge on the same score at the exact same time, and a simple job turns out very complicated and very bloody.
poster
62
11
6.5
/759/
70
/9/
45
/7/
3.3
/298/
57
/10/

The House on 56th Street (1933)
A beautiful chorine marries a handsome rich socialite, but her idyllic life ends when she visits a dying old beau and is charged when he commits suicide.
poster
?
5.6
/72/
20
/1/
40
/1/

High Stakes (1997)
A former news reporter marries and tries to adjust to the life of a house wife and mother. However, her need for an adrenaline high is overpowering and she becomes a gambling addict.
poster
36
?
5.5
/198/
10
/1/
38
/5/

Family Prayers (1993)
This coming of age story set in the 1960s takes a look at the effects of a couple's break-up on a sensitive, thirteen year old Jewish boy in the 1960s.
poster
?
6.7
/67/
40
/2/
60
/1/

Playing to Win: A Moment of Truth Movie (1998)
A young girl is taken with a boy that she meets, but he leads her into gambling where she begins losing money, becomes desperate, and starts to steal.
poster
?
4.4
/18/
10
/1/
50
/1/

Happy Partner (1993)
Yin lives with his uncle, a compulsive gambler who's piling up debts. Both love May. Yin chauffeurs for the shady Mr. Tanakawa who's selling a stolen missile guidance system. Two young thieves seem to know all Tanakawa's moves. Who's tipping them off? Meanwhile, a ghost whom Tanakawa raped and murdered 40 years before wants revenge and enlists the help of an apprentice Taoist priest. Yin, the ghost, the young thieves, and the apprentice must rescue the kidnaped May and face the forces of guns and magic that Tanakawa musters.
poster
36
?
5.7
/247/
16
/3/

The Halo Effect (2004)
Fatso is the proprietor of what may be the worst eaterie in the city, and is struggling to keep a sinking ship afloat. His compulsive gambling is getting the better of him and he has to contend with an endless succession of loan sharks and debt collectors. He employs hopelessly incompetent staff and generally manages to keep the entire community around him ticking over. However just as Fatso seems to be getting everything under control, he is faced with a dilemma that could destroy him for good.
poster
39
?
4.2
/111/
44
/5/
32
/4/

Superbad (2016)
Contemporary Moscow. Danya, a struggling actor, has just lost his girlfriend. His troubles soon multiply when his younger brother Dima shows up at his apartment with a friend who has a bullet in his stomach.
poster
?
6.4
/34/
25
/2/
40
/1/

The Boy Who Stole the Elephant (1970)
A frontier huckster, Colonel Ryder, and a young orphan, Davey, operate a travelling tent show. They are loaned an elephant by an old friend, Molly, who is also a rival circus owner. Davey trains the elephant and the two soon become inseparable. When the Colonel loses the elephant in gambling, Davey steals the elephant and begins a 20-mile search for Molly, the rightful owner.


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