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.

Leaving Las Vegas

Movie · 7.3 / 10 · 27 Oct 1995 · English

Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.

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.

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.

Rounders

Movie · 7.0 / 10 · 11 Sept 1998 · English

Poker addict Mike McDermott knows the game inside out, but loses his money one night in a game to Russian-American gangster Teddy KGB. Promising his partner Jo he'll give up, he meets up with best friend Lester 'Worm' Murphy, just out of prison and owing lots of money to the wrong kind of people. McDermott becomes his co-guarantor and now there's only one way to raise the money, the pair have to get back into the game.

Atlantic City

Movie · 6.8 / 10 · 3 Sept 1980 · English

In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.

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.

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.

Sanctuary

Movie · 6.1 / 10 · 2 Mar 2023 · English

Confined to a claustrophobic hotel room, the heir to a hotel empire and the dominatrix who has primed him for success become locked in a battle of wits and wills as he tries to end his relationship with her.

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.

On Swift Horses

Movie · 6.2 / 10 · 21 Apr 2025 · English

In the 1950s, a seemingly sensible newlywed and her wayward brother-in-law undertake parallel journeys of risk, romance, and self-discovery.

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.