Highest-Rated Movies about 'Gambling House', Sort by Popularity

Johnny Gaddaar (2007), Rounders (1998), Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), Little Miss Marker (1934), Midnight Mary (1933), Hollow Triumph (1948), Street of Chance (1930), Smart Money (1931) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Gambling House movies.

#1. Johnny Gaddaar (2007)

Storyline: Plain-clothed police officers, on patrol in a police van in Mumbai's Khar Danda area, recount the story of five crooks: Sheshadari, Shiva, Prakash, Vikram, Shardul, and their Police Inspector friend, Kalyan. The tale revolves around a bag containing 2.5 Crore Rupees that goes missing - resulting in lies, deception, betrayal, and death.

Plot Keywords: criminal, partner, corrupt cop, mother, dancer, wife, cool ...

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#2. Rounders (1998)

Storyline: John Dahl directed this exploration of New York private clubs devoted to high-stakes poker, with first-person narration from the film's central figure, law student Mike McDermott (Matt Damon), who loses his entire savings to Russian club owner Teddy KGB (John Malkovich). Mike then turns away from cards, devoting his attentions to his law studies and his live-in girlfriend Jo (Gretchen Mol), who's concerned when Mike's former gambling buddy Worm (Edward Norton) is released from prison. She has good reason to worry, since it takes Worm only a matter of minutes to draw Mike back into poker action. When she learns Mike has returned to the poker clubs, she moves out, and Mike begins to lose interest in his studies. Worm has a prison debt, and the threatening Grama (Michael Rispoli) wants the money. Mike not only indulges the irresponsible Worm, he gets involved in Worm's debts. When Grama demands $15,000 on a five-day deadline, the two buddies go into high gear with a non-stop, no-sleep ...

Plot Keywords: gambler, gangster, girlfriend, professor, friend, ex-convict, cool ...

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#3. Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)

Storyline: After a long career as a lawman that made him a legend, Wyatt Earp decides to quit and join his brothers in Tombstone, Arizona. There he would see them in a feud with the Clantons, a local clan of thugs and cattle thieves. When the showdown becomes inevitable, the help will come from Doc Holliday, a terminally-ill gambler who happens to be another Wild West legend.

Plot Keywords: lawman, gunslinger, sheriff, thief, criminal, love interest, intense ...

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#4. Little Miss Marker (1934)

Storyline: Little Martha Jane, aka Little Miss Marker is left with the bookmaker Sorrowful Jones by her dad as part of a bet on a horse race. Sorrowful and his group of fellow bookies take to her, reluctantly at first, but their cynical ways start to rub off on her. Will a party set at Camelot bring back her faith in humanity?—Miss Eli

Plot Keywords: little girl, girlfriend, gangster, gambler, bookie, father, charming ...

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#5. Midnight Mary (1933)

Storyline: A young woman is on trial for murder. In flashback, we learn of her struggles to overcome poverty as a teenager -- a mistaken arrest and prison term for shoplifting and lack of employment lead to involvement with gangsters. In a brothel, she meets a young lawyer, scion of a wealthy and prestigious family, who falls for her and helps her turn around her life. But her past catches up with her, and she must face the music rather than cause him scandal.—GoblinHairedGuy

Plot Keywords: young woman, criminal, lawyer, socialite, friend, clerk, melodramatic ...

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#6. Hollow Triumph (1948)

Storyline: John Muller, medical school dropout and brilliant crook, plans a holdup which goes a little bit wrong, and finds vindictive gambler Rocky Stansyck after him. At the end of his tether, he stumbles onto a lucky chance to assume an impenetrable new identity as psychiatrist Victor Bartok. But irony piles on as Muller finds it's out of the frying pan, into the fire.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>

Plot Keywords: gangster, henchman, rival, secretary, brother, girlfriend, dark ...

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#8. Smart Money (1931)

Storyline: Nick Venizelos, an immigrant Greek barber, has an uncommon affinity for poker and other sorts of wagering and a group of his friends bankroll him in a big game, where his weakness for pretty blondes is taken advantage of by sleazy operator Sleepy Sam who cleans him out in a rigged game. Nick accepts help from his buddy Jack as they turn the tables on the grifters, but triumph soon changes to tragedy.—Gabe Taverney (duke1029@aol.com)

Plot Keywords: barber, best friend, woman, district attorney, police officer, criminal, melodramatic ...

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#9. State's Attorney (1932)

Storyline: Attorney Tom Cardigan is the discontented "mouthpiece" for Vanny Powers' mob. When Tom takes sweet June Perry as his mistress, she tries in vain to redeem him. But Powers decides Tom would be even more useful to him as District Attorney, which he arranges with surprising ease...despite Tom's warning that "if I go on the other side, I'll stay there." Soon, Tom's ambition leads him to ditch June for the daughter of political boss Ulric. The crisis arrives when Powers goes on trial for a killing...witnessed by June.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>

Plot Keywords: attorney, governor, mobster, prostitute, client, gritty, engaging ...

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#10. Sporting Blood (1931)

Storyline: Valued thoroughbred mare Southern Queen slips and falls in a mud puddle, breaking her leg. Before she is destroyed, she gives birth to Tommy Boy, who becomes the favorite of his owner, horse breeder Jim Rellence. Ultimately a reluctant Rellence is forced to sell the one-year old to a prominent sportsman, and Tommy enters the world of high stakes racing. He goes through a variety of owners, all of whom have their own selfish agenda for the horse. Ultimately he ends up with Ruby, the mistress of a murdered racketeer, who wants Tommy to fulfill his true potential as a stakes horse and enters him in the Kentucky Derby.—duke1029@aol.com

Plot Keywords: ranch hand, horse owner, wife, gambler, card dealer, girlfriend, engaging ...

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#11. Cimarron (1931)

Storyline: When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his family there from Wichita. A newspaperman, lawyer, and just about everything else, Cravat soon becomes a leading citizen of the boom town of Osage. Once the town is established, however, he begins to feel confined once again, and heads for the Cherokee Strip, leaving his family behind. During this and other absences, his wife Sabra must learn to take care of herself and soon becomes prominent in her own right.—George S. Davis <mgeorges@prodigy.net>

Plot Keywords: editor, wife, prostitute, servant, outlaw, native american, rousing ...

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#12. Grand Old Girl (1936)

Storyline: Miss Bayles (May Robson) has been trying to close down a business operated by Clarence (Alan Hale). Clarence runs a crooked gambling operation in the back room. Miss Bayles uses Clarence's crooked dice to beat him and uses her winnings to open a respectable business for her students to use. Her business gets closed down after a fight in her establishment and the school board replaces her as principal of the town's school. Clarence is feeling pretty good about his victory over Miss Bayles until she tells him she also lost her pension. Clarence sends a fellow classmate and former student of Miss Bayles a telegram. The former student happens to be the President of the United States and he comes to town to honor Miss Bayles.—Harold Thornton

Plot Keywords: principal, superintendent, teen girl, student, political boss, corrupt businessman, melodramatic ...

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