The Asphalt Jungle (1950), Silver Linings Playbook (2012), The Natural (1984), Buffalo '66 (1998), Kaminey (2009), Nil by Mouth (1997), Cry Danger (1951), St. Vincent (2014) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Bookie movies.
Storyline: A man is murdered. Two men witness it. A blind man who hears the killer, and a deaf man who sees them. The police don't think they're credible witnesses, but the killers don't want to take any chances. The two men must now work together to save themselves and bring the killers to justice.
Plot Keywords: deaf, blind man, penis joke, deafness, disability, friendship, blindness ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A telephone repairman in Los Angeles uses his knowledge of electronics to help a bookie set up a betting operation. When the bookie is murdered, the greedy technician takes over his business. He ruthlessly climbs his way to the top of the local crime syndicate, but then gangsters from a big East Coast mob show up wanting a piece of his action.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: independent film, organized crime, alibi, horse race, recording, bet, police detective ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Allen claims he his being executed for the wrong murder. Flashbacks show him working with Clark as a riveter. When he makes a killing on the horses he meets Shirley and gets married. When Clark tells him Shirley is unfaithful they fight and Clark falls to his death. Later he finds that Clark was telling the truth.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: prison guard, murder trial, manhattan new york city, justice of the peace, blind date, bookie, dance hall ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Charlie B. Barkin (Burt Reynolds), a rascally German Shepherd with a shady past, breaks out of the New Orleans Dog Pound with the help of his faithful friend Itchy (Dom De Luise), a nervously hyperactive dachshund. He then makes tracks to reunite with his gambling casino partner Carface Malone (Vic Tayback), a shifty pitbull who has planned a dastardly, and potentially deadly, double cross. Suddenly, Charlie finds himself at the Pearly Gates, face to face with the Heavenly Whippet (Melba Moore). Charlie weasels his way back to earth and reunites with Itchy. He plots his revenge against Carface and, along the way, acquires help from a little girl named Anne-Marie (who can talk to animals). After a series of fiendish schemes, close scrapes and unexpected adventures, both Charlie and Anne Marie find their lives at stake. Only one can be saved and the outcome is in Charlie's paws...
Plot Keywords: dog, gong, fedora, beard, beer, drunk, duet ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Struggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams finds himself embroiled in a recruiting scandal at the tiny Catholic college he is trying to save from closure with a winning program.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: catholic, college, college football, american football, bar, dancing, party ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Danny Haley's bookie operation is shut down, so he and his pals need money; when Danny meets Arthur Winant, a sucker from out of town, he decoys him into a series of poker games where eventually Winant loses $5000 that isn't his. But it seems Winant had a shadowy, protective elder brother who believes in personal revenge. And each of the card players in turn feels a faceless doom inexorably closing in. Dark streets and sexy torch-singer Fran lend ambience.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: suicide, police raid, police, psychopath, reunion, singer, veteran ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up the sham, he hires dim-witted Ellen Grant as his secretary figuring she won't suspect any criminal goings-on. When Ellen learns of some friends who are about to lose their homes, she unwittingly drafts her boss into developing a new low-cost housing development.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: surname in title, horse race, judge, niece, fiance, year 1948, screwball comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After Katrina, police sergeant Terence McDonagh rescues a prisoner, hurts his back in the process and earns a promotion to lieutenant plus an addiction to cocaine and painkillers. Six months later, a family is murdered over drugs; Terence runs the investigation. His drug-using prostitute girlfriend, his alcoholic father's dog, run-ins with two old women and a well-connected john, gambling losses, a nervous young witness, and thefts of police property put Terence's job and then his life in danger. He starts seeing things. He wants a big score to get out from under mounting debts, so he joins forces with drug dealers. The murders remain unsolved. A bad lieutenant gets worse.
Plot Keywords: lieutenant, flood, hallucination, murder investigation, nude photograph, national anthem, new orleans louisiana ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Ranvir and Rajiv are half brothers who own a huge stud farm in South Africa. Ranvir is a very shrewd and aggressive man while Rajiv is laid back, and a chronic alcoholic. Sophia, Ranvir's personal secretary adores and loves him. Ranvir is unaware of her feelings. Shaina, an Indian ramp model in Durban loves Ranvir but through a twist of fate gets married to his younger brother Rajiv. When she discovers that Rajiv is a chronic alcoholic, her world is shattered. Ranvir too is disturbed as he has sacrificed his love for his younger brother because Rajiv had promised to leave alcohol for good if he marries Shaina. In a weak moment Ranvir and Shaina come very close to each other. When Rajiv starts suspecting, all hell breaks loose. A murder is committed, a contract killing is issued. A sharp tongued detective R.D., getting wise on the proceedings, starts an intriguing investigation with his brainless bimbo assistant Mini.
Plot Keywords: hitman, jockey, presumed dead, insurance, surveillance footage, sexy woman, faked death ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Opens with Bleek as a child learning to play the trumpet, his friends want him to come out and play but mother insists he finish his lessons. Bleek grows into adulthood and forms his own band - The Bleek Gilliam Quartet. The story of Bleek's and Shadow's friendly rivalry on stage which spills into their professional relationship and threatens to tear apart the quartet.—David <DGOWERS6@CHECLABA.SCU.EDU.AU>
Plot Keywords: jazz, african american, bookie, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, french, credit card, saxophone ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the casino manager, she gets hooked on gambling, to the point where she "borrows" David's expense money to pursue her addiction. This finally breaks up their marriage, but David continues trying to help her.—Mike Rogers <MICHAELPEM@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: compulsive gambler, sibling rivalry, holiday, told in flashback, mexico, first person narration, bookie ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Homicide detective Mike Conovan investigates the shooting of fellow detective Monigan, who apparently was moonlighting as a guard for a bookie. He finds that all the bookies in town are being robbed, upsetting the racket bosses who can't get normal police protection. Mike encounters blind alleys and double crosses and is distracted by his wife's growing disenchantment.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: police officer, handcuffs, whiskey, breaking a mirror, fear, bathrobe, pajamas ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A hard-luck limo driver struggles to go straight and pay off a debt to his bookie. He takes on a job with a crazed passenger, whose sought-after ledger implicates some seriously dangerous criminals.
Plot Keywords: female nudity, los angeles california, money falling through the air, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, limousine driver, slow motion scene, sex scene ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Mitch and Sam have to come up with $50,000 and fast! The only problem is neither one can hold down a job. Mitch finds a way to money by exploiting the only talents the two have, by opening a "Revenge For Hire" business.
Plot Keywords: title spoken by character, doctor, dream, drug deal, dumpster, fish, gambler ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Disgraced ex-England captain (Danny 'Mean Machine' Meehan) is thrown in jail for assaulting two police officers. Whilst in jail, he doesn't recieve any favours because of his celebrity status in the outside world. He is out numbered and many prisoners constantly barrage him with insults for letting down his country in a crucial World Cup game. He keeps his head down and has the opportunity to forget everything and change the lives of the prisoners. These prisoners have the chance to put one over the evil guards. The prisoners are lead by Danny and the whole of the prison, guards aside, are behind them. Game on......
Plot Keywords: title spoken by character, fistfight, funeral, head butt, humiliation, karate, male bonding ...
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