Gambling Movies

List of the best gambling movies selected by site users: Two for the Money, A Prayer Before Dawn, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, The Card Counter, The Gambler, 21, Rounders, Ocean's Eleven, Molly's Game, The Hangover Part II.

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

Genre
Country
Markimdb: 6.3
Genredrama, crime, sport
CountryUSA
Duration02:02

A former college athlete joins forces with a sports consultant to handicap football games for high-rolling gamblers.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genreaction, drama, crime, biography, sport
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, China, Cambodia, USA, Germany
Duration02:05

The true story of Billy Moore, an English boxer incarcerated in Thailand's most notorious prison. Thrown into a world of drugs and violence, he finds his best chance to escape is to fight his way out in Muay Thai tournaments.

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
Genreaction, thriller, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, China, USA

William Tell just wants to play cards. His spartan existence on the casino trail is shattered when he is approached by Cirk, a vulnerable and angry young man seeking help to execute his plan for revenge on a military colonel. Tell sees a chance at redemption through his relationship with Cirk. But keeping Cirk on the straight-and-narrow proves impossible, dragging Tell back into the darkness of his past.

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: 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: 7.3
Genredrama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration02:01

A young man is a reformed gambler who must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrethriller, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:56

Less than 24 hours into his parole, charismatic thief Danny Ocean is already rolling out his next plan: In one night, Danny's hand-picked crew of specialists will attempt to steal more than $150 million from three Las Vegas casinos. But to score the cash, Danny risks his chances of reconciling with ex-wife, Tess.

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: 6.4
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA, Thailand
Duration01:42

The Hangover crew heads to Thailand for Stu's wedding. After the disaster of a bachelor party in Las Vegas last year, Stu is playing it safe with a mellow pre-wedding brunch. However, nothing goes as planned and Bangkok is the perfect setting for another adventure with the rowdy group.

Markimdb: 8.3
Genrecomedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration02:09

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.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genredrama, crime
CountryUSA, Germany
Duration01:53

Gambling addiction bring the stories of three otherwise unconnected people together as it destroys each of their lives.

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: 7
    Genrecomedy, adventure, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:07

    Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them. He needs an additional three thousand dollars in order to enter a Winner Take All poker game that begins in a few days. He tries to win some, tries to collect a few debts, and recover a little loot for the reward. He joins forces with a woman gambler with a marvelous southern accent as the two both try and enter the game.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrethriller, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:42

    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.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genreaction, melodrama, drama, military, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration03:03

    The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes is immediately put on hold when they find themselves at the center of Japan's devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

    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
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryCanada
    Duration01:22

    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.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:42

    Revolves around the relationship between a gambling addict and a young woman who falls madly in love with him and will stop at nothing to win his heart.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryCanada, United Kingdom
    Duration02:01

    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.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:41

    Bernie works at a Las Vegas casino, where he uses his innate ability to bring about misfortune in those around him to jinx gamblers into losing. His imposing boss, Shelly Kaplow, is happy with the arrangement. But Bernie finds unexpected happiness when he begins dating attractive waitress Natalie Belisario.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genremelodrama, drama, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:04

    While filing for a divorce, beautiful ex-stripper Roslyn Taber ends up meeting aging cowboy-turned-gambler Gay Langland and former World War II aviator Guido Racanelli. The two men instantly become infatuated with Roslyn and, on a whim, the three decide to move into Guido's half-finished desert home together. When grizzled ex-rodeo rider Perce Howland arrives, the unlikely foursome strike up a business capturing wild horses.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genreaction, thriller, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:34

    Some of Sin City's most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with a few of its more reviled inhabitants.

    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genrefantasy, adventure
    CountryRussia
    Duration02:00

    Contemporary Moscow. A talented gambler gathers a team of people with supernatural powers to win big at a casino. But they find a much stronger mystical rival.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom, France, Germany
    Duration01:34

    Jack Manfred is an aspiring writer who to make ends meet, takes a job as a croupier. Jack remains an observer, knowing that everything in life is a gamble and that gamblers are born to lose. Inevitably, he gets sucked into the world of the casino which takes its toll on his relationships and the novel he is writing.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genremelodrama, drama, sport
    CountryUSA, Germany, Australia
    Duration02:04

    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.

    Markimdb: 3.6
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountryUSA

    A professional poker player falls deep into underworld when he takes an unexpected wager from a mysterious high roller.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:00

    A college dropout gets a job as a broker for a suburban investment firm, which puts him on the fast track to success, but the job might not be as legitimate as it sounds.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
    Duration01:48

    The tale of two brothers with serious financial woes. When a third party proposes they turn to crime, things go bad and the two become enemies.

    Markimdb: 8.4
    Genreaction, comedy, drama, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:45

      With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:44

      After assuming his dead cellmate's identity to get with his girlfriend, an ex-con finds himself the reluctant participant in a casino heist.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrehorror, fantastic, fantastic, thriller, thriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:44

      Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24 hours into the future and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, Argentina
      Duration02:24

      Nicky, a veteran con artist, takes a novice named Jess under his wing. While Nicky teaches Jess the tricks of the trade, the pair become romantically involved; but, when Jess gets uncomfortably close, Nicky ends their relationship. Three years later, Nicky is in Buenos Aires working a very dangerous scheme when Jess -- now an accomplished femme fatale -- unexpectedly shows up. Her appearance throws Nicky for a loop at a time when he cannot afford to be off his game.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genredrama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:41

      A stranger mentors a young Reno gambler who weds a hooker and befriends a vulgar casino regular.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA, Norway, Germany, France, Italy
      Duration01:34

      This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of "Factotum" author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, CA trying to live off jobs which don't interfere with his primary interest, which is writing. Along the way, he fends off the distractions offered by women, drinking and gambling.

      Markimdb: 8.2
      Genredrama, crime
      CountryFrance, USA
      Duration02:51

      The life of the gambling paradise – Las Vegas – and its dark mafia underbelly.

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genredrama, adventure, military, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration03:04

      An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, transforming himself from the humble Redmond Barry into the noble Barry Lyndon.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genredrama, crime, sport
      CountryUSA

      Gabriel Caine has just been released from prison when he sets up a bet with a business man. The business man owns most of a boxing-mad town called Diggstown. The bet is that Gabe can find a boxer that will knock out 10 Diggstown men, in a boxing ring, within 24 hours. "Honey" Roy Palmer is that man - although at 48, many say he is too old.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genreaction, comedy, drama
      CountryHong Kong
      Duration02:06

      Chow Yun-Fat plays Ko Chun, an extremely talented and well known gambler. On the eve of a big confrontation with a famous Singaporean gambler, Ko walks into a trap set by Knife, an avid but a so-so gambler (Andy Lau), meant for an Indian servant. Struck on the head, Ko suffers from amnesia and regresses to a child-like state. Knife takes care of Ko and begins to exploit Ko's gambling talents.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:42

      An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.

      Markimdb: 8
      Genredrama, sport
      CountryUSA

      Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the legendary Minnesota Fats to a high-stakes match.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genredrama, crime, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:29

      New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life, the movies, and most of all strong-willed Virginia Hill detain him while his family wait back home. Then a trip to a run-down gambling joint at a spot in the desert known as Las Vegas gives him his big idea.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genreaction, fantasy, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:31

      Captain Jack Sparrow works his way out of a blood debt with the ghostly Davey Jones, he also attempts to avoid eternal damnation.

      Markimdb: 3.8
      Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, western
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:46

      The year is 1879. Gunfighters from the far reaches of the globe descend on Religion, AZ to compete in a legendary poker tournament. Drawn by the gold prize, the players come to realize that in this game, their very souls are at stake.

      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
      Genrecomedy, drama, sport
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

      A woman moves into a retirement community and starts a cheerleading squad with her fellow residents.

      Markimdb: 4
      Genrecomedy, adventure
      CountryRussia, USA
      Duration01:26

      Four Russian friends come from Moscow to Las Vegas to get 5 million dollars they've won in lottery. But everything goes wrong, when they discover that someone stole their winning ticket.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genredrama, crime, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:51

      The story of a teenager, Richard Wershe Jr., who became an undercover informant for the police during the 1980s and was ultimately arrested for drug-trafficking and sentenced to life in prison.

      Markimdb: 4.8
      Genrefantastic, thriller
      CountryUSA

      Joshua Lazarus (Nick Stahl) is a telepath who has been raised in a NSA foster home. Lazarus helps the government by using his abilities. He is told by the agency that the telepathy is a side effect of Widmann's Disease, and that he will become insane in time and eventually die from the illness. However, Lazarus meets a woman with similar powers (Taryn Manning) who does not have any sign of the disease, launching Lazarus to confront the lies he has been told

      Markimdb: 3.5
      Genrehorror, comedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:26

      Home with their newly-formed family, happy parents Dan and Jody are haunted by sinister, paranormal activities. Determined to expel the insidious force, they install security cameras and discover their family is being stalked by an evil dead demon.




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