Casino (1995), House of Games (1987), Michael Clayton (2007), The Gambler (1974), Kill the Irishman (2011), Owning Mahowny (2003), The Glass Key (1942), Cabin in the Sky (1943) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Compulsive Gambler movies.
Storyline: Middle-class suburbanites Larry and Kitty grow bored with their lives and respective marriages. Although each always found the other's manner grating, they fall in love when thrown together--without their spouses--on vacation. On returning home they try to break things off, only to grow closer. A holiday together will finally settle whether they should end their marriages.—scgary66
Plot Keywords: airplane, doctor, drive in theater, dry cleaning, extramarital affair, falling into water, false name ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Niles and Carole Nelson are married doctors who save one of gang lord Gurney's men. Gurney exploits them, then kills Niles leaving Carole to take the fall. He next kidnaps writer Bill Stephens to write his biography. Knowing Bill will be killed when the biography is finished, Carole takes matters into her own hands.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: blindfold, compulsive gambler, district attorney, art deco, flat tire, death of husband, police interrogation ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The scrap of the Shakespeare manuscript is priceless. Nick Torrent owns it and is selling it. But then he is murdered and the manuscript is stolen. Joel Sloane is a rare book dealer and part time detective. Since he was trying to buy the manuscript for Mr. Oates, he is a suspect so he tries to solve the case. As the bodies pile up, Joel must solve the case or else Garda will be wearing black.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: reference to william shakespeare, detective, henchman, song, femme fatale, 1930s, cigarette smoking ...
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 $10,000 entry fee, which he wins, loses, borrows, and loses - and even steals part of from Billie Offer, an earnest young woman who's new in town and who catches Huck's eye. By the time the tournament starts, Huck owes everyone. Complicating things is the arrival of Huck's father, whom Huck detests for having left his mother, a champion player in town to win. Can Huck learn to play poker the way he lives and to live the way he plays poker? Or is his only flush the sound of his life going down the toilet?
Plot Keywords: male female relationship, jazz combo, nightclub, motorcycle, betting, singing, diner ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Los Angeles, the gambler Paul Weston is a loser, and owes a lot of money to the dangerous mobster Freddie. When he is brutally beaten and the life of his former wife is threatened by the Freddie, his acquaintance bartender Vinnie sends him to Dr. Charlie Brooks first and then he convinces him to participate of a heist in the jewelry district with the professional thief Gene to raise the necessary money to pay his debt. Meanwhile, the stock market broker Roger Hargitay finds that the company where he works embezzled US$ 5,000,000.00 from their clients and he will be arrested in a couple of days. His boss Ed Koster convinces Roger and two co-workers to participate in an easy robbery of a jewelry planned by an inside man. On Saturday morning, both gangs arrive in the same jewelry for the same heist at the same time.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: ex wife, double cross, doctor, diamonds, desert, compulsive gambler, broken finger ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: While waiting in vain for her married lover to get a divorce, Fran Walker (Dame Elizabeth Taylor), a lonely chorus girl approaching middle age, falls for Joe Grady (Warren Beatty), a frustrated musician and compulsive gambler who dreams of escaping Las Vegas for fame and fortune in New York City.—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: title spoken by character, jukebox, fishing rod, television set, alarm clock, watching television, casino ...
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