Miller's Crossing (1990), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976), Bad Lieutenant (1992), Little Miss Marker (1934), The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936), Saloon Bar (1940), The Grifters (1990), The Way Out (1956) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Bookie movies.
Storyline: Norman Hackett (Norman Wisdom) works in a jewellers workshop and fantasises (in the nicest way) about meeting the window dresser across the road from his workshop. He wants to buy her a diamond pendant but calculates it will take him over one hundred years to save up for it. He is talked into betting a pound on a six horse accumulator at the Goodwood races with a slightly shady bookmaker. When he has won on the first five races, the bookie owes him over sixteen thousand pounds sterling and everyone begins to worry. Everyone's future depends on a single race. What can be done?—Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: assistant, love interest, bookie, secretary, partner, jockey, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Centers on four college friends who become small-time bookies, only to find their world spinning dangerously out of control when their greed attracts the attention of organized crime.
Plot Keywords: college student, friend, computer expert, girlfriend, mobster, bookie, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Bank teller Johnny Dalton, too poor to marry his sweetheart 'Mibs' Goodhug, saves a big-time bookie from a beating and receives a munificent reward...which just happens to match a mysterious shortage at the bank! Will Johnny's pal, eccentric waiter Emile, get him out of trouble...or in so deep he'll never get out?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: bank teller, waiter, bookie, girlfriend, loan shark, detective, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Milo Boyd, a down-on-his-luck bounty hunter, gets his dream job when he is assigned to track down his bail-jumping ex-wife, reporter Nicole Hurly. He thinks all that's ahead is an easy payday, but when Nicole gives him the slip so she can chase a lead on a murder cover-up, Milo realizes that nothing ever goes simply with him and Nicole. The exes continually one-up each other - until they find themselves on the run for their lives. They thought their promise to love, honor and obey was tough - staying alive is going to be a whole lot tougher.
Plot Keywords: bounty hunter, reporter, singer, bookie, police officer, coworker, frenetic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Tom Harrigan raises orphaned Benny McNeil to be a first-rate jockey, but fails to bridle the lad's healthy ego. When Benny receives too many rebukes for unsportsman-like conduct from the racing commission, Tom decides to sell his contract to Garnet before he, too, is censured. Tom also reasons that, by having Benny with a top outfit, he can manipulate his races and make a fortune on the betting. But Benny, thanks to the humanizing influence of Mr. Garnet, has a different idea....—Chris Stone <jstone@bellatlantic.net>
Plot Keywords: jockey, trainer, bookie, rival, horse breeder, retiree, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After con artist Eddie Sullivan (Feuerstein) incurs a large debt with a local criminal ringleader, he creates a get-rich-quick scheme and enlists a sweet gentle giant named Walter (Wight) as his unwitting accomplice. Walter's orphanage -- the only home he's ever known -- also needs funds desperately. Upon overhearing Walter's predicament, Eddie convinces the no-nonsense head nun, Sister Francesca (Malick), that Walter can win the money as a fighter and pay off the church's debts. Eddie's plan: travel from town to town with Walter and enter small, unsanctioned fighting competitions for prize money Sister Francesca dispatches Mary (Hardin) as a chaperone for both Walter and the money and gives Eddie a week - and a prayer - to make it happen. During their journey across the south to the annual Pro-Am MMA tournament in New Orleans, Walter discovers what life is like outside the orphanage, while Eddie becomes morally conflicted over whether to take all the loot for himself or keep his promise to Walter, the one person he can actually call a friend.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: con artist, fighter, nun, chaperone, bookie, lighthearted, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the 1930s, cantankerous bookie Sorrowful Jones (Walter Matthau) reluctantly takes a young child (Sara Stimson) as collateral for a wager, but finds he's stuck with the adorable waif when her penniless father drowns himself. When Jones' Mafia boss nemesis Blackie (Tony Curtis) forces him to be a partner in an illegal casino hidden in the home of indebted heiress Amanda (Julie Andrews), he struggles to outmaneuver the dangerous kingpin, all the while making a bumbling attempt at fatherhood.
Plot Keywords: bookie, orphan, crime boss, heiress, assistant, judge, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A cop (Ray Liotta) with a big gambling debt gets three buddies involved in a deadly crime to pay off the bookie.
Plot Keywords: cop, partner, bookie, loan shark, love interest, rousing, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: As a surprise, two horse owners decide to ride their animals in a steeplechase. But Bill Davidson's (Ian Hogg's) horse "Admiral" behaves weirdly, and falls hard after an obstacle. Bill dies from his injuries. His friend Alan York (Scott Antony) suspects the animal was doped by unscrupulous bookies and starts to investigate. He doesn't know how serious his opponents are, and that he's in danger to suffer the same fate as his friend.—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Plot Keywords: horse owner, widow, jockey, friend, bookie, dark, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A wealthy man (Tim Roth) turns the tables on two detectives (Chris Penn, Michael Rooker) grilling him about a prostitute's brutal murder.
Plot Keywords: heir, police detective, partner, wife, prostitute, bookie, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A funeral rockets John into the orbit of the flamboyant Solange, a B-movie actress best known in Europe for her roles in '80s Italian horror movies. As John follows her into heady whirlwind romances with cute French pop stars and deadly (but hot!) Milanese model managers, he begins to realize that Solange's world is far more complex and dangerous than he could possibly have imagined.
Plot Keywords: prostitute, enthusiast, bookie, local, boxer, intense, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Gambling destroys the lives of various people who are either addicted to it or involved in its promotion. Carol (Kim Basinger) hides her addiction from her family, who believe she is writing a novel rather than pulling slots in a casino. Clyde (Forest Whitaker) convinces his brother to shave points in his basketball games, and Murph (Nick Cannon) tries unsuccessfully to keep his girlfriend (Carla Gugino) from finding out he works as a bookie.
Plot Keywords: wife, husband, girlfriend, gambler, brother, bookie, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Maxwell Webster (Glenn Ford) practices law in Montana, where he lives a staid existence with his wife, Julie (Ruth Roman), and their kids. He eventually opts for a drastic change and moves his family to California to start over. Studying to pass the state's bar exam, Maxwell endures numerous hardships while trying to make ends meet, even becoming involved in questionable schemes. When he gets into trouble for being associated with a bookie, Maxwell has to use his legal skills to defend himself.
Plot Keywords: lawyer, wife, daughter, son, bookie, emotional, spirited ...
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