The Cincinnati Kid (1965), Rounders (1998), The Other Side of Hope (2017), Thursday's Game (1974), The Poker House (2008), God Forgives, I Don't (1967), The Loner (2016), Lucky You (2007) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Poker movies.
Storyline: In 1930s New Orleans, the Cincinnati Kid, a young stud poker player who travels from one big game to the next, stopping along the way up with various girls, is pitted against the legendary champion card-sharp Lancey Howard in a high-stakes poker game.
Plot Keywords: gambler, friend, girlfriend, competitor, wife, suspenseful, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!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 ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Khaled, syrian refugee stows away on a freighter to Helsinki. Meanwhile, Wikström is a traveling salesman who wins big at a poker table and buys himself a restaurant with the proceeds. When the authorities turn down his application for asylum, Khaled is forced underground and Wikström finds him sleeping in the yard behind his restaurant. He offers him a job and a roof over his head and, for a while, they form a Utopian union with the restaurant's waitress, the chef and his dog.—AnonymousB
Plot Keywords: refugee, syrian, restaurant manager, emotional, intense, disheartening, profound ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Harry Evers (Gene Wilder) and Marvin Ellison (Bob Newhart) are part of a regular Thursday night poker game that provides them a much needed respite from the drudgery of their daily lives. But when Harry and Marvin are kicked out of the group over an argument, they decide not to tell their wives, but rather to find other diversions. Over the course of a few outings together, the men find themselves growing close -- until their wives discover the deception.
Plot Keywords: television producer, fashion designer, wife, poker player, amusing, playful, new york city ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A documentary on the life, musings, and sexual escapades of writer Samuel Delany.
Plot Keywords: lot, single mother, prostitute, amusing, house, home, poker ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In this violent spaghetti western a murderous robber hijacks a payroll train, murders everyone aboard and then stashes his loot. A gunslinger learns about it and decides he wants the money for himself and so hatches an elaborate plot to get at it. He lures the crook into a rigged poker game, and afterward a gunfight ensues. The quick-drawing gunman makes short work of the robber, then teams up with an insurance agent to look for the hidden fortune. Unbeknownst to them, the robber had an ace up his sleeve...—Ørnås
Plot Keywords: bandit, gunslinger, card sharp, cowgirl, henchman, insurance investigator, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the Persian and Russian underworld of Los Angeles, an Iranian gangster must hunt down stolen drugs after being wrongly accused of stealing from his former boss.
Plot Keywords: mobster, real estate agent, poker player, soldier, brooding, intense, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Las Vegas, Huck Cheever is a poker player, brilliant but also prone to let emotion take over. It's the week of the poker world series, and Huck must come up with the $10,000 entry fee, which he wins, loses, borrows, and loses - and even steals part of from Billie Offer, an earnest young woman who's new in town and who catches Huck's eye. By the time the tournament starts, Huck owes everyone. Complicating things is the arrival of Huck's father, whom Huck detests for having left his mother, a champion player in town to win. Can Huck learn to play poker the way he lives and to live the way he plays poker? Or is his only flush the sound of his life going down the toilet?
Plot Keywords: poker player, love interest, father, singer, sister, loan shark, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Rome, after the abduction of a British tourist, the police inspector Anna Mari is contacted by the criminal, who self-entitles The Card Player, challenging the police department to dispute a video poker with him where the prize would be the life of the victim. The Chief of Police refuses to participate and the victim is tortured and killed in front of an Internet web cam. The British detective John Brennan is assigned to investigate the case and when another woman is kidnapped, they invite the addicted player Remo to play for the police. Anna and John lead the investigation trying to disclose who might be the serial-killer.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: detective, police officer, italian, killer, victim, police chief, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Four outlaws are on the run from a Texas Ranger (Adam West). Unable to stop his pursuit, they frame him for a crime he never committed.
Plot Keywords: bounty hunter, rogue lawman, wife, cattle baron, police officer, bleak, gutsy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In an effort to avoid paying off a massive gambling debt to a notorious mobster in England, a couple flee to Los Angeles and hatch a jewel theft plot.
Plot Keywords: con artist, con man, couple, gangster, former lover, lighthearted, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A gambler is drawn into a life of money and power to make a quick buck, but he quickly realizes he is part of a setup that could cost him his life.
Plot Keywords: gangster, poker player, loan shark, thrilling, suspenseful, united states, poker tournament ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Prankish Harry (George Burns), the devil, puts a musician's (Ted Wass) mind in the body of a rock star, and vice versa.
Plot Keywords: musician, god, satan, wife, agent, executive, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A former cardsharp (Burt Reynolds) finds a way to get back in the game by forming an alliance with an up-and-coming poker player (Bret Harrison).
Plot Keywords: card sharp, wife, call girl, gambler, mentor, protégé, engaging ...
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