Top 100 Gambling Movies List

#100 Gambling Movie

Honeymoon in Vegas (1992) PG-13

On her deathbed, a mother makes her son promise never to get married, which scars him with psychological blocks to a commitment with his girlfriend. They finally decide to tie the knot in Vegas, but a wealthy gambler arranges for the man to lose $65K in a poker game and offers to clear the debt for a weekend with his fiancée.

Director:

Andrew Bergman

Writers:

Andrew Bergman

Stars:

James Caan, Nicolas Cage, Sarah Jessica Parker

#99 Gambling Movie

Sour Grapes (1998) R

Two cousins and friends, Richie and Evan, go to Atlantic City to gamble. Richie loses all he has at slot machines and asks Evan for two more coins for a last attempt. That last attempt brings a $400,000 jackpot for Richie. No wonder Evan turns greedy and jealous.

Director:

Larry David

Writers:

Larry David

Stars:

Steven Weber, Craig Bierko, Jack Burns

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#98 Gambling Movie

Holy Rollers: The True Story of Card Counting Christians (2011)

Holy Rollers follows the rise of arguably the largest and most well-funded blackjack team in America-made up entirely of churchgoing Christians. While they succeed in taking millions from casinos, how will they manage to find a place for faith and God in the arena of high stakes gambling?

Director:

Bryan Storkel

Stars:

Ben Crawford, Brad Currah, David Drury

#97 Gambling Movie

Player 5150 (2008) R

A day trader (Embry) and his fiancée (Robertson) get caught up in high stakes gambling.

Director:

David Michael O'Neill

Writers:

Shawn T (story), David Michael O'Neill

Stars:

Ethan Embry, Kathleen Robertson, Christopher McDonald

#96 Gambling Movie

Zigs (2001) R

Four young compulsive gamblers come up with a radical plan to get out of debt with a fixed game.

Director:

Mars Callahan

Writers:

Mars Callahan, Doug Klein

Stars:

Jason Priestley, Peter Dobson, Kane Picoy

#95 Gambling Movie

Follow the Bitch (1996) R

A group of single guys meet for their weekly, all male, all-night poker game. One of the regulars invites a woman to join and she turns out to be a very good player. Things get more complicated when two of the guys confide to a third that they're having affairs with each other's girlfriends. The host tries to keep his weekly ritual intact as it begins to crumble around him.

Director:

Julian Stone

Writers:

Julian Stone

Stars:

Michael Cudlitz, Ray Porter, Dion Luther

#94 Gambling Movie

Funny Man (1994) R

When Max Taylor wins the ancestral home of Callum Chance in a game of Poker, little does he realise that the game is far from over... One by one, Max's family are murdered by the Funny Man, a demonic jester with a varied and imaginative repertoire of homicidal techniques and an irreverent sense of humour.

Director:

Simon Sprackling

Writers:

Simon Sprackling

Stars:

Tim James, Christopher Lee, Benny Young

#93 Gambling Movie

Finder's Fee (2001) R

A man finds a wallet containing a winning lottery ticket worth $6 million.

Director:

Jeff Probst

Writers:

Jeff Probst, Jim Gulian

Stars:

Erik Palladino, Ryan Reynolds, Dash Mihok

#92 Gambling Movie

Saint John of Las Vegas (2009) R

An ex-gambler is lured back into the game by a veteran insurance-fraud investigator.

Director:

Hue Rhodes

Writers:

Hue Rhodes

Stars:

Steve Buscemi, Romany Malco, Sarah Silverman

#91 Gambling Movie

Bob le Flambeur (1956) PG

Bob, an old gangster and gambler is almost broke, so he decides in spite of the warnings of a friend, a high official from the police, to rob a gambling casino in Dauville. Everything is planned exactly, but the police is informed about the planned coup. Meanwhile in the Casino Bob starts to gamble.

Director:

Jean-Pierre Melville

Writers:

Jean-Pierre Melville

Stars:

Roger Duchesne, Isabelle Corey, Daniel Cauchy

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#90 Gambling Movie

Guns, Girls and Gambling (2012) R

This story throws Elvis impersonators, Native Americans, a cowboy, a drop dead beautiful blond assassin, a frat boy, two corrupt sheriffs, the girl next door and a prostitute into a chase for a million dollar Native American artifact stolen during a poker game at a casino.

Director:

Michael Winnick

Writers:

Michael Winnick

Stars:

Christian Slater, Powers Boothe, Dane Cook

#89 Gambling Movie

The Poker Club (2008) R

Four friends discover and accidentally kill a burglar -- who may not be alone -- in the kitchen during their weekly poker night.

Director:

Tim McCann

Writers:

Richard Chizmar), Johnathon Schaech

Stars:

Johnny Messner, Michael Risley, Jana Kramer

#88 Gambling Movie

The Music of Chance (1993) R

Two men face the consequences of gambling after playing with men beyond their league.

Director:

Philip Haas

Writers:

Paul Auster, Belinda Haas

Stars:

James Spader, Mandy Patinkin, M. Emmet Walsh

#87 Gambling Movie

Lucky You (2007) PG-13

A hotshot poker player tries to win a tournament in Vegas, but is fighting a losing battle with his personal problems.

Director:

Curtis Hanson

Writers:

Eric Roth, Curtis Hanson

Stars:

Eric Bana, Drew Barrymore, Robert Duvall

#86 Gambling Movie

Lesser Prophets (1997) R

The police have three bookies under surveillance, but they escape and set up shop elsewhere. By chance, one of the police finds them; instead of turning them in, he demands money that his brother, now a suicide, had lost to them. An odd guy named Leon, not entirely compus mentus, knows one of the bookies, brings them a tip on a sure thing, and they bet the farm.

Director:

William DeVizia

Writers:

Paul Diomede

Stars:

Michael Badalucco, Zachary Badalucco, Amy Brenneman

#85 Gambling Movie

Indecent Proposal (1993) R

A billionaire offers $1,000,000 to a young married couple for one night with the wife.

Director:

Adrian Lyne

Writers:

Jack Engelhard, Amy Holden Jones

Stars:

Robert Redford, Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson

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#84 Gambling Movie

Big Shot: Confessions of a Campus Bookie (2002) R

Moyher's good boy Benny Silman from Brooklyn becomes an economics student at Arizona State University for the sun, sexy girls and the proximity of gambling paradise, Las Vegas.

Director:

Ernest R. Dickerson

Writers:

Michael Ritchie, Jason Keller

Stars:

David Krumholtz, Tory Kittles, Carmine Giovinazzo

#83 Gambling Movie

Even Money (1987)

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

Director:

Mark Rydell

Writers:

Robert Tannen

Stars:

Kim Basinger, Forest Whitaker, Nick Cannon

#82 Gambling Movie

Runner Runner (2013) R

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.

Director:

Brad Furman

Writers:

Brian Koppelman, David Levien

Stars:

Ben Affleck, Justin Timberlake, Gemma Arterton

#81 Gambling Movie

Factotum (2005) R

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.

Director:

Bent Hamer

Writers:

Charles Bukowski (novel), Bent Hamer

Stars:

Matt Dillon, Lili Taylor, Marisa Tomei

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