Most Similar Movies to The Gambler (1974)
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Owning Mahowny (2003), The Gambler (2014), The Sting (1973), Rounders (1998), Payback (1999), Lay the Favorite (2012), Wild (2014) ... Let's take a look at the following list...
Owning Mahowny (2003)
A bank manager with: (a) a gambling problem and (b) access to a multimillion dollar account gets into a messy situation. Based on the story of the largest one-man bank fraud in Canadian history.
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The Gambler (2014)
Literature professor and gambler Jim Bennett's debt causes him to borrow money from his mother and a loan shark. Further complicating his situation, is his relationship with one of his students. Will Bennett risk his life for a second chance?
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Rounders (1998)
A young, reformed gambler must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks, while balancing his relationship with his girlfriend and his commitments to law school.
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Payback (1999)
After a successful heist, Porter is shot by his wife and his best friend. They leave him there to die but when he recovers, he seeks revenge and wants his share of the money.
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Lay the Favorite (2012)
Ex-private dancer Beth aspires to be a Las Vegas cocktail waitress, when she falls in with Dink, a sports gambler. Sparks fly as she proves to be something of a gambling prodigy--much to the ire of Dink's wife, Tulip.
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Wild (2014)
Driven to the edge by the dissolution of her marriage and the death of her mother, a woman (Reese Witherspoon) undertakes a solo hike of more than 1,000 miles along the Pacific Crest Trail.
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Tru Confessions (2002)
A teenager (Clara Bryant) gets closer to her developmentally disabled twin (Shia LaBeouf) while producing a documentary about him.
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The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
A proud strip club owner is forced to come to terms with himself as a man, when his gambling addiction gets him in hot water with the mob, who offer him only one alternative.
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Wild (2014)
A chronicle of one woman's one thousand one hundred mile solo hike undertaken as a way to recover from a recent personal tragedy.
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Croupier (1998)
A broke writer (Clive Owen) gets a job as a croupier and becomes involved with a woman (Alex Kingston) who wants to rob his casino.
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Mississippi Grind (2015)
Down on his luck and facing financial hardship, Gerry teams up with younger charismatic poker player, Curtis, in an attempt to change his luck. The two set off on a road trip through the South with visions of winning back what's been lost.
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The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984)
Two cousins (Eric Roberts, Mickey Rourke) try to get rich quick with a racehorse and mob money in New York's Little Italy.
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Knockaround Guys (2001)
The wannabe sons of mobsters go to a remote town in the Midwest, and get themselves into more trouble than anyone could anticipate.
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The Hard Easy (2006)
Two separate teams of jewel thieves, one low-rent and one upscale, both desperate, converge on the same score at the exact same time, and a simple job turns out very complicated and very bloody.
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Wild Card (2015)
When a Las Vegas bodyguard with lethal skills and a gambling problem gets in trouble with the mob, he has one last play...and it's all or nothing.
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State of Grace (1990)
An undercover officer (Sean Penn) returns to his Irish-mobster buddies (Ed Harris, Gary Oldman) and their sister in New York's Hell's Kitchen.
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Pusher (2012)
In London, a street dealer's life spins out of control over the course of one week after he borrows money from his supplier on what's supposed to be a sure thing.
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