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Plot Summary:
A young gambler makes a large, risky bet on a horse race. When the odds turn in his favour, more than one party has sudden interest in the winning betting slip, and they'll do anything to get their hands on it.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Silent Partner (2001)
Plot Summary:
Two friends train a greyhound together.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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Studierektorns sista strid (1986)
Plot Summary:
Principal Bertilsson plan the perfect crime, for who would suspect a Principal?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Sweden
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags:
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Red Devil (2019)
Plot Summary:
An intertwining tale of sex, drugs, rock and woe. Lives criss-cross and converge thanks to the most addictive drug in human history, Red Devil—which also happens to be the title of Savvas D. Michael’s tale of sex, drugs, and guns. An anonymous voice at the start of the film warns, “Once you’ve tasted the devil’s cum, everything else is dull and numb.” The current problem with the Red Devil drug is the supply has dried up. Addicts are so desperate for it they’re willing to kill for it…and they do.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Longshot (1986)
Plot Summary:
Four losers borrow money from gangsters to bet on a "sure thing", but lose. The gangsters go after them to get their money.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 711
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, humorous, realistic
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Tazza: The High Rollers (2006)
Plot Summary:
A guy with a talent for cards makes his way into the dangerous world of underground gambling in this crime thriller from South Korea. Go-ni (Jo Seung-woo) is a small-town guy with a big appetite for gambling. Convinced he's on a hot streak one evening during a card game, Go-ni bets his life savings on a hand of hwatu, only to lose to a crooked cardsharp. Determined to get revenge, Go-ni sets out to find the guy who cheated him and win back his money.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir
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The Baltimore Bullet (1980)
Plot Summary:
A tale of two hustlers trying to set up a big game.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 565
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: independent film, freeze frame
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Who's Got the Action? (1962)
Plot Summary:
A lawyer begins to win after his wife secretly becomes his bookie to save their money.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious
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Little Miss Marker (1980)
Plot Summary:
Sorrowful Jones is a cheap bookie in 1930's. When a gambler leaves his daughter as a marker for a bet, he gets stuck with her. His life will change a great deal with her arrival and his sudden love for a woman also involved in gambling operations.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: family comedy, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious
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Mississippi Grind (2015)
Plot Summary:
Gerry is a talented but down-on-his-luck gambler whose fortunes begin to change when he meets Curtis, a younger, highly charismatic poker player. The two strike up an immediate friendship and Gerry quickly persuades his new friend to accompany him on a road trip to a legendary high stakes poker game in New Orleans. As they make their way down the Mississippi River, Gerry and Curtis manage to find themselves in just about every bar, racetrack, casino, and pool hall they can find, experiencing both incredible highs and dispiriting lows, but ultimately forging a deep and genuine bond that will stay with them long after their adventure is over.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: road movie, tense, depressing, humorous, semi serious, cult classic, realistic, exciting, neo noir, entertaining
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The Con Is On (2018)
Plot Summary:
In an effort to avoid paying off a massive gambling debt to a notorious mobster in England, a couple flees to Los Angeles and hatch a jewel theft plot.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: absurd, humorous, entertaining
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Kaleidoscope (1966)
Plot Summary:
Romantic comedy which has Barney Lincoln and Angel McGinnis as a pair of amorous adventurers in the gambling places of London and the Riviera. Barney Lincoln is a rambling gambling man who scores sensational wins at poker and chemin de fer because he has succeeded in marking the original plates for the backs of all the playing cards manufactured in a plant in Geneva and used in all the gambling joints in Europe. In his gambling depredation, Barney is spotted by Angel McGinnis, the daughter of a Scotland Yard Inspector 'Manny' McGinnis on the lookout for a man to do a job. The inspector enlists Barney's help in playing poker with a shady London character whom Scotland Yard wants to force to financial ruin.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 862
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, feel good, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious
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Christmas Rematch (2004)
Plot Summary:
17 years after Regalo di Natale the same 5 players for a new challenge. Who can trust who?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 900
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, humorous, captivating, satirical, disturbing
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Things Change (1988)
Plot Summary:
Jerry, a misfit Mafia henchman, is assigned the low-level job of keeping an eye on Gino, a shoe repairman fingered by the Mob to confess to a murder he didn't commit. But Gino's mistaken for a Mafia boss, and the two are suddenly catapulted to the highest levels of mobster status. Only friendship will see them through this dangerous adventure alive!.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: clever, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, surprise ending, psychological, tense, light, noir
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Cold Deck (2015)
Plot Summary:
When a poker player hits rock bottom he enlists his best friend to pull off a high-stakes heist.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: captivating, cynical, psychological, tense, suspense
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Teen Patti (2010)
Plot Summary:
Perci Trachtenberg, widely regarded as the world's greatest living mathematician, meets Venkat, a reclusive math genius from India, at a high rolling casino in London. Venkat tells Perci about an equation that could not only change the dialogue on mathematics forever, but one that has already left an indelible impression of guilt - for many painful reasons - on Venkat's life.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating
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Dead Heat (2002)
Plot Summary:
Boston cop Pally is forced into early retirement, putting a strain on his marriage. Pally's stepbrother, Ray, attempts to lift his spirits by tipping him off to a sure-bet racehorse. But their attempts to secure the champion equine are thwarted by a local mob boss, who steals the horse as repayment for a gambling debt. With their investment on the line, Pally and Ray become entangled in a web of underworld crime and murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Gambler (1974)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, clever, intense, neo noir, realistic, serious, suspenseful, cynical, psychological
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The Last Casino (2004)
Plot Summary:
A University teacher finds three bright students and decides to teach them how to count cards to make lots of money. As they learn how to play the casinos, things get tricky when the debt owing teacher informs them that their front man wants restitution for loses in about a weeks time. The three students decide to hit all the major casinos in Ontario and Quebec until discovered.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, captivating, exciting
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Wise Guys (1986)
Plot Summary:
Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they lose $250,000, they are set up to kill each other. But they run off to Atlantic City and comedy follows.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy, feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, black comedy, dark comedy, fast, cult film
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Sorrel Flower (1967)
Plot Summary:
Catherine is left unmarried and pregnant when her mobster sweetheart is killed in this gangster comedy. With the help of another unmarried mother-to-be, Catherine goes looking for the stash of cash buried by her lover before his death. Soon other thugs and her suspicious neighbors are following their every move in an attempt to recover the lost loot.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Bony a klid (1988)
Plot Summary:
Martin is an innocent lad from small-town Mlada Boleslav who comes to big-city Prague, hoping to exchange his krona for deutschemarks so that he can visit Germany. A local spiv named Robert obliges Martin, but at an unfair exchange rate. When Martin finds out he was rooked, he plans revenge on Robert ... but then decides to join Robert's gang instead.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Bookies (2003)
Plot Summary:
Four college friends become small-time bookies, only to find their world spinning dangerously out of control when their greed attracts the attention of organized crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, realistic
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Deal (2008)
Plot Summary:
As an ex-gambler teaches a hot-shot college kid some things about playing cards, he finds himself pulled into the world series of poker, where his protégé is his toughest competition.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, psychological, humorous, semi serious
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Owning Mahowny (2003)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, melancholic, enigmatic, sincere, suspenseful, independent film, thought provoking, serious, realistic
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Snatch (2000)
Plot Summary:
The second film from British director Guy Ritchie. Snatch tells an obscure story similar to his first fast-paced crazy character-colliding filled film “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.” There are two overlapping stories here – one is the search for a stolen diamond, and the other about a boxing promoter who’s having trouble with a psychotic gangster.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 894000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: entertaining, funny, witty, clever, dark comedy, humorous, neo noir, non-linear, black comedy, cynical
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The Sting (1973)
Plot Summary:
Set in the 1930s this intricate caper deals with an ambitious small-time crook and a veteran con man who seek revenge on a vicious crime lord who murdered one of their gang.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 275000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: entertaining, atmospheric, witty, humorous, captivating, clever, suspense, twisted, surprise ending, twist ending
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Rounders (1998)
Plot Summary:
A young man is a reformed gambler who must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 158000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: neo noir, clever, suspense, psychological, serious, talky, rough, feel good, independent film, inspirational
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The Runner (1999)
Plot Summary:
A compulsive gambler finds his new family's safety seriously threatened by a ruthless gambling boss.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Even Money (2006)
Plot Summary:
Gambling addiction bring the stories of three otherwise unconnected people together as it destroys each of their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense, gloomy
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99 (2009)
Plot Summary:
99 is an original story inspired by real events. It is as much "What could have been" as it is "What really happened." In other words, it is historical fiction - fiction being the keyword. It spans a few genres; it is slick, fast-paced, realistic and, importantly, very funny.In this "smart comedy" set in 1999, all the characters are found by a common feeling of being stuck at 99 in life - just one short of a 'century' - that elusive thing called "making it" in life!99 is an unpredictable and hilarious ride spread over two cities with colorful characters, unbelievable circumstances, small-time crooks, big-time conspiracies, fateful car crashes, loads of coffee, a briefcase full of money, a budding romance....... And a historical controversy brewing in the background!.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, surprise ending, black comedy, freeze frame, dark comedy, cult film