The Gambler

Movie · 6.7 / 10 · 2 Oct 1974 · English

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.

Molly's Game

Movie · 7.2 / 10 · 7 Dec 2017 · English

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.

Casino

Movie · 8.0 / 10 · 22 Nov 1995 · English

In Las Vegas, two best friends--a casino executive and a Mafia enforcer--compete for a gambling empire and a fast-living, fast-loving socialite.

Hard Eight

Movie · 6.8 / 10 · 28 Feb 1997 · English

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

House of Games

Movie · 6.8 / 10 · 11 Oct 1987 · English

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.

Killing Them Softly

Movie · 6.0 / 10 · 30 Jul 2012 · English

Jackie Cogan is an enforcer hired to restore order after three dumb guys rob a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse.

Ballad of a Small Player

Movie · 5.8 / 10 · 15 Oct 2025 · English

Amid the glittering casinos of Macau, a gambler running from his past—and his debts—becomes fascinated by an enigmatic woman at the baccarat table.

A Bronx Tale

Movie · 7.9 / 10 · 1 Oct 1993 · English

Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss. Complicating matters is the youngster's growing attraction - forbidden in his neighborhood - for a beautiful black girl.

Little Odessa

Movie · 6.5 / 10 · 28 Oct 1994 · English

Long separated from his family, hitman Joshua returns to Brighton Beach for a contract killing for the Russian Mafia. His abusive father, Arkady, banned him from returning after Joshua committed his first murder. He takes up residence in a hotel, and soon everyone knows he has returned. He goes home to visit his dying mother, Irina, and prepares for the assassination, getting drawn back into the criminal community he left behind.

Once Upon a Time in America

Movie · 8.4 / 10 · 23 May 1984 · English

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

Bugsy

Movie · 6.4 / 10 · 10 Dec 1991 · English

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.

Nightmare Alley

Movie · 7.0 / 10 · 2 Dec 2021 · English

An ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychologist who is even more dangerous than he is.