Top 100 Gambling Movies List

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels movie dvd

#20 Gambling Movie

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) R

A botched card game in London triggers four friends, thugs, weed-growers, hard gangsters, loan sharks and debt collectors to collide with each other in a series of unexpected events, all for the sake of weed, cash and two antique shotguns.

Director:

Guy Ritchie

Writers:

Guy Ritchie

Stars:

Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran

#19 Gambling Movie

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) R

An oddball journalist and his psychopathic lawyer travel to Las Vegas for a series of psychedelic escapades.

Director:

Terry Gilliam

Writers:

Hunter S. Thompson, Terry Gilliam

Stars:

Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro, Tobey Maguire

#18 Gambling Movie

The Grfters (1990) R

A small-time conman has torn loyalties between his estranged mother and new girlfriend--both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles to play.

Director:

Stephen Frears

Writers:

Jim Thompson, Donald E. Westlake

Stars:

Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, Annette Bening

#17 Gambling Movie

The Hangover (2009) R

Three buddies wake up from a bachelor party in Las Vegas, with no memory of the previous night and the bachelor missing. They make their way around the city in order to find their friend before his wedding.

Director:

Todd Phillips

Writers:

Jon Lucas, Scott Moore

Stars:

Zach Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper, Justin Bartha

#16 Gambling Movie

Bugsy (1991) R

The story of how Bugsy Siegel started Las Vegas.

Director:

Barry Levinson

Writers:

James Toback, Dean Jennings

Stars:

Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Harvey Keitel

#15 Gambling Movie

Casino Royale (2006) PG-13

Armed with a licence to kill, Secret Agent James Bond sets out on his first mission as 007 and must defeat a weapons dealer in a high stakes game of poker at Casino Royale, but things are not what they seem.

Director:

Martin Campbell

Writers:

Neal Purvis, Robert Wade

Stars:

Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Judi Dench

#14 Gambling Movie

High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story (2003) R

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

Director:

A.W. Vidmer

Writers:

A.W. Vidmer

Stars:

Al Bernstein, Andrew N.S. Glazer, Michael Imperioli

#13 Gambling Movie

Revolver (2005) R

Gambler Jake Green enters into a game with potentially deadly consequences.

Director:

Guy Ritchie

Writers:

Luc Besson, Guy Ritchie

Stars:

Jason Statham, Ray Liotta, Vincent Pastore

#12 Gambling Movie

Ocean's Thirteen (2007) PG-13

Danny Ocean rounds up the boys for a third heist, after casino owner Willy Bank double-crosses one of the original eleven, Reuben Tishkoff.

Director:

Steven Soderbergh

Writers:

Brian Koppelman, David Levien

Stars:

George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon

#11 Gambling Movie

Ocean's Twelve (2004) PG-13

Daniel Ocean recruits one more team member so he can pull off three major European heists in this sequel to Ocean's 11.

Director:

Steven Soderbergh

Writers:

George Nolfi, George Clayton Johnson

Stars:

George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts

#10 Gambling Movie

Ocean's Eleven (2001) PG-13

Danny Ocean and his eleven accomplices plan to rob three Las Vegas casinos simultaneously.

Director:

Steven Soderbergh

Writers:

George Clayton Johnson, Jack Golden Russell

Stars:

George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts

#9 Gambling Movie

Owning Mahowny (2003) R

A bank manager with: (a) a gambling problem and (b) access to a multimillion dollar account gets into a messy situation. Based on the story of the largest one-man bank fraud in Canadian history.

Director:

Richard Kwietniowski

Writers:

Gary Stephen Ross, Maurice Chauvet

Stars:

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Minnie Driver, John Hurt

#8 Gambling Movie

21 (2008) PG-13

"21" is the fact-based story about six MIT students who were trained to become experts in card counting and subsequently took Vegas casinos for millions in winnings.

Director:

Robert Luketic

Writers:

Peter Steinfeld, Allan Loeb

Stars:

Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth, Kevin Spacey

#7 Gambling Movie

Maverick (1994) PG

Bret Maverick, needing money for a poker tournament, faces various comic mishaps and challenges, including a charming woman thief.

Director:

Richard Donner

Writers:

Roy Huggins, William Goldman

Stars:

Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, James Garner

#6 Gambling Movie

The Hustler (1961)

An up-and-coming pool player plays a long-time champion in a single high-stakes match.

Director:

Robert Rossen

Writers:

Sidney Carroll, Robert Rossen

Stars:

Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie

#5 Gambling Movie

The Color of Money (1986) R

Fast Eddie Felson teaches a cocky but immensely talented protégé the ropes of pool hustling, which in turn inspires him to make an unlikely comeback.

Director:

Martin Scorsese

Writers:

Walter Tevi, Richard Price

Stars:

Paul Newman, Tom Cruise, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

#4 Gambling Movie

The Gambler (2014) R

Literature professor and gambler Jim Bennett's debt causes him to borrow money from his mother and a loan shark. Further complicating his situation, is his relationship with one of his students. Will Bennett risk his life for a second chance?

Director:

Rupert Wyatt

Writers:

William Monahan, James Toback

Stars:

Mark Wahlberg, Jessica Lange, John Goodman

#3 Gambling Movie

The Sting (1973) R

In Chicago in September 1936, a young con man seeking revenge for his murdered partner teams up with a master of the big con to win a fortune from a criminal banker.

Director:

George Roy Hill

Writers:

David S. Ward

Stars:

Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw

#2 Gambling Movie

Rounders (1998) R

A young man is a reformed gambler who must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks, while balancing his relationship with his girlfriend and his commitments to law school.

Director:

John Dahl

Writers:

David Levien, Brian Koppelman

Stars:

Matt Damon, Edward Norton, Gretchen Mol

#1 Gambling Movie

Casino (1995) R

Greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two best friends: a mafia underboss and a casino owner, for a trophy wife over a gambling empire.

Director:

Martin Scorsese

Writers:

Nicholas Pileggi

Stars:

Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci

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