Gambling Movies

List of the best gambling movies selected by site users: Molly's Game, The Gambler, Runner Runner, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, 21, Casino Royale, Going in Style, Calamity Jane, Only For One Night, Journey to the End of the Night.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Country
Markimdb: 7.4
Genredrama, crime, biography
CountryUSA, Canada, China
Duration02:08

Molly Bloom, a young skier and former Olympic hopeful becomes a successful entrepreneur (and a target of an FBI investigation) when she establishes a high-stakes, international poker game.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:51

Literature professor Jim Bennett leads a secret life as a high-stakes gambler. Always a risk-taker, Bennett bets it all when he borrows from a gangster and offers his own life as collateral. Staying one step ahead, he pits his creditor against the operator of an illicit gambling ring while garnering the attention of Frank, a paternalistic loan shark. As his relationship with a student deepens, Bennett must risk everything for a second chance.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genrethriller, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:28

    When a poor college student who cracks an online poker game goes bust, he arranges a face-to-face with the man he thinks cheated him, a sly offshore entrepreneur.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genreaction, comedy, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:47

    A card shark and his unwillingly-enlisted friends need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. To do this they decide to pull a heist on a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:57

    Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent, student at M.I.T. in Boston who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine with the desire to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the four to five years of schooling as he comes from a poor, working-class background. But one evening, Ben is introduced by his unorthodox math professor Micky Rosa into a small but secretive club of five. Students Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Fisher, who are being trained by Professor Rosa of the skill of card counting at blackjack.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genreaction, thriller, adventure
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Czech Republic, USA, Germany, Bahamas
    Duration02:19

    Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his winnings to establish his financial grip on the terrorist market. M sends Bond – on his maiden mission as a 00 Agent – to attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. With the help of Vesper Lynd and Felix Leiter, Bond enters the most important poker game in his already dangerous career.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA

    Three senior citizens in their 70s who live together are slowly decaying in endless days with nothing to do but feed the birds. One of them comes up with an idea - rob a bank. They certainly could use the money if they get away with it and if they are caught, what could happen to three old men?

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:41

    Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok fuss, feud and fall in love. At first, Calamity is too busy fighting Indians and cracking a bullwhip to pay attention to such girlie things as dresses and perfume. She soon changes her mind when Katie Brown arrives in town.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryChina
    Duration01:50

    A married womans husband with a perfect life cheats with her sister with extreme consequences befalling them all.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, Germany, Brazil

    In a dark and decadent area of São Paulo, the exiled Americans Sinatra and his son Paul own a brothel. Paul is a compulsive gambler addicted in cocaine and his father is married with the former prostitute Angie, and they have a little son. When a client is killed by his wife in their establishment, they find a suitcase with drugs.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:02

    A band of murderous cowboys have imposed a reign of terror on the town of Warlock. When the sheriff humiliatingly run out of town the residents hire the services of Clay Blaisedell as facto town marshal. He arrives along with his friend Tom Morgan and sets about restoring law and order on his own terms whilst also overseeing the establishment of a gambling house and saloon.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genredrama, crime, film noir
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:07

    Al Roberts, a New York nightclub pianist, hitchhikes to Hollywood to meet his girlfriend Sue. The gambler he's riding with, Charles, unexpectedly dies. Afraid the police wouldn't believe the truth, Al takes the man's identity. In a gas station, he gives a lift to Vera, a woman that knew Charles and blackmails Al with tragic consequences.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genreaction, comedy
    CountryUSA

    It's the near future: You're dead. Your kids are probably dead. Your grandkids (if they're alive) are playing video games. Why? Because professional gaming is the biggest sport on earth. Around the world, millions of players duke it out in fighters, RTS’s, First Person Shooters and more. To the victors go the spoils: glory, clan contracts and million dollar endorsements. The best young gamers are recruited by elite boarding schools to sharpen their skills. The best of the best go to VGHS: VIDEO GAME HIGH SCHOOL.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble behind closed doors on the lives of other men.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, crime, film noir
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:00

    In a desperate attempt to get out of debt, career gambler Dan Milner agrees to rendezvous with a mysterious contact at a distant Mexican resort in exchange for $50,000. Upon arriving, Milner meets his fellow guests, including a plastic surgeon, a philandering movie star and his beautiful girlfriend. Soon Milner discovers that the man who hired him may be the ruthless gangster Nick Ferraro -- a deported crime boss looking to re-enter the USA.

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genreaction, comedy
    CountryChina, Hong Kong
    Duration01:35

    The world renowned “Invincible Hand” Ken could identify not only mahjong tiles, but also cards with his fingers which had made him a legend. Upon his retirement as the Chief Security Consultant in Las Vegas, Ken returned to his hometown Macau, where he met his old friend Benz, and Benz’s son Cool and nephew Karl. Both Cool and Karl wanted to follow Ken. Ken claimed that if Cool could successfully cheat him once or win over him, he would then accept Cool as his protégé. Cool’s step brother Lionel, an undercover agent, had disguised his identity in an international gambling mafia which had planned to form an alliance with mafias in illegal gambling from all over the world to control the result of soccer matches. Lionel had recorded the entire conference, with the criminal evidence kept in an imitated eye. The eye was coincidentally given to Rainbow, Ken’s only daughter, which put her in danger. The retired Ken was forced to use his “Magic Hand” once again to uncover the evil plan…

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:29

    Career criminal Youngblood Priest wants out of the Atlanta drug scene, but as he ramps up sales, one little slip up threatens to bring the whole operation down before he can make his exit.

    Markimdb: 3.3
    Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, adventure, family
    CountryUSA, Australia

    George and Ursula now have a son, George Junior, so Ursula's mother arrives to try and take them back to "civilization".

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:26

    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.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama
    CountryChina

    At her 70th birthday celebration, the aged mother of the Gu family suffers from a stroke, which precipitates her decline into dementia. Who will take care of her? The four brothers face crucial changes in their relationships to one another, as they deal with their own family problems. Their destinies, linked by love and challenged by questions and dilemmas, unfold over the course of the four seasons, as it would in an ancient Chinese scroll painting.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrehorror, fantastic, fantasy, comedy, drama
    CountryUSA

    Boxer Tommy Nelson is accused of killing his manager. While detectives Bud and Lou investigate they come across an invisibility formula with which Tommy injects himself rather than face the police. This sparks an idea for trapping gangster Morgan by having Lou fight champ Rocky Hanlon, with Tommy's invisible help

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genredrama, crime, music
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:38

    Rich Bower is an up-and-coming star in the hip-hop world. Everyone wants to be around him, including Raven and her fellow upper-class white high school friends. The growing appeal of black culture among white teens fascinates documentary filmmaker Sam Donager, who sets out to chronicle it with her husband, Terry. But before Bower was a rapper, he was a gangster, and his criminal past comes back to haunt him and all those around him.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrethriller, crime
    CountryNew Zealand, USA
    Duration01:43

    A struggling architect, being sued for divorce by his wife and struggling with booze and gambling, finds work remodeling a friend's strip club, the Paradise. There he meets a transsexual stripper who is bothered by accurate, but extremely violent visions of future events. The increasingly violent visions start including the architect, who doesn't believe in the prophesy. One who does however is a psychiatrist who is seeing both the stripper and the architect and is sleeping with the ex-wife. He uses the prophecies for his own financial gain. Finally the scenes from the vision move into reality amidst many plot turns.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genredrama, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:01

    The more you love, the harder you fight.The world looks at Billy Flynn and sees a has-been who seemingly never was, an ex-boxing champion slammed to the mat years ago by booze and gambling. But Billy's son TJ sees what the world doesn't. He knows his flawed but loving father is, was and always will be The Champ.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genreaction, drama, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:41

    Tommy Riley has moved with his dad to Chicago from a 'nice place'. He keeps to himself, goes to school. However, after a street fight he is noticed and quickly falls into the world of illegal underground boxing - where punches can kill.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:47

    Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA, West Germany
    Duration01:29

    Rootless Hungarian émigré Willie, his pal Eddie, and visiting sixteen-year-old cousin Eva always manage to make the least of any situation, whether aimlessly traversing the drab interiors and environs of New York City, Cleveland, or an anonymous Florida suburb.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:50

    A petty car thief in a small Southern Ohio town gets involved in an underground game of life and death.

    Markimdb: 3.9
    Genreaction, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:42

    Robbers Ace and Scratch are caught in the act of robbing a casino vault and are caught after a long chase by the owner of the casino, who chooses not to send them to jail but instead hires them on as security consultants. The current head of security at the casino is not happy, but casino exec Amber couldn't be happier.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrecomedy, drama, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:58

    Billy Hoyle and Sidney Deane are an unlikely pair of basketball hustlers. They team up to con their way across the courts of Los Angeles, playing a game that's fast dangerous - and funny.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:59

    A con man on the run from a vicious gangster takes cover from his past by assuming the identity of his prison cellmate, Pete, “reuniting” with Pete’s estranged family, a colorful, dysfunctional group that threatens to drag him into a world just as dangerous as the one he’s trying to escape - and, just maybe, give him a taste of the loving family he’s never had.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrethriller, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    Tiffany, Charlie and Vernon are con artists looking to up the ante from their typical scams. They figure a good way of doing this is taking down Dean "The Dean" Stevens, a well-known cardsharp, in a rigged game. However, they first need enough money to enter a game with Stevens, so they decide to strike a deal with fellow crook Larry Jennings to scam a local gangster -- which turns out to be a bad idea.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genredrama, sport
    CountryUSA

    Anthony Keller, star of his NYC high school basketball team, is riding his way to Cornell on a sports scholarship. But he can only maintain his popular jock facade for so long, as his troubled father Lee has a gambling addiction that threatens to derail his dreams both on and off the court.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrethriller, detective, film noir
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:39

    Wealthy, sheltered Lina McLaidlaw is swept off her feet by charming ne'er-do-well Johnnie Aysgarth. Though warned that Johnnie is little more than a fortune hunter, Lina marries him anyway and remains loyal to her irresponsible husband as he plows his way from one disreputable business scheme to another. Gradually Lina comes to the conclusion that Johnnie intends to kill her in order to collect her inheritance. The suspicion seems confirmed when Johnnie's business partner dies under mysterious circumstances.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:22

    A common friend's sudden death brings three men, married with children, to reconsider their lives and ultimately leave together. But mindless enthusiasm for regained freedom will be short-lived.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, Mexico
    Duration01:35

    A drama based on an ancient Chinese proverb that breaks life down into four emotional cornerstones: happiness, pleasure, sorrow and love. A businessman bets his life on a horse race; a gangster sees the future; a pop star (Gellar) falls prey to a crime boss; a doctor must save the love of his life.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genremelodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:06

    Some thirty years after Arlis witnesses his father murdering a family, he runs into Kay, who happens to be the family's baby who was spared. Kay and Arlis suspect nothing about each other, but when his father returns, old wounds are reopened.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
    CountryUSA, Chile

    Gloria is a free-spirited divorcée who spends her days at a straight-laced office job and her nights on the dance floor, joyfully letting loose at clubs around Los Angeles. After meeting Arnold on a night out, she finds herself thrust into an unexpected new romance, filled with both the joys of budding love and the complications of dating, identity, and family.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:50

    Based on the true story of the rise and fall of poker legend Stu "The Kid" Ungar.

    Markimdb: 8.3
    Genreaction, comedy, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:42

    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.

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