Highest-Rated Movies about 'Las Vegas Nevada'

The Godfather (1972), The Godfather: Part II (1974), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Casino (1995), Million Dollar Baby (2004), Sullivan's Travels (1941), Rain Man (1988), Facing Ali (2009) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Las Vegas Nevada movies.

#16. Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008)

Storyline: Fueled by a raging libido, Wild Turkey, and superhuman doses of drugs, Thompson was a true "free lance, " goring sacred cows with impunity, hilarity, and a steel-eyed conviction for writing wrongs. Focusing on the good doctor's heyday, 1965 to 1975, the film includes clips of never-before-seen (nor heard) home movies, audiotapes, and passages from unpublished manuscripts.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: infidelity, iraq war, irony, las vegas nevada, lawyer, limousine, lizard ...

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#17. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

Storyline: The big-screen version of Hunter S. Thompson's seminal psychedelic classic about his road trip across Western America as he and his large Samoan lawyer searched desperately for the "American dream"... they were helped in large part by the huge amount of drugs and alcohol kept in their convertible, The Red Shark.

Plot Keywords: drugs, hallucination, 1970s, based on novel, based on true story, psychedelia, casino ...

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#18. Gun Crazy (1950)

Storyline: Since he was a child, Bart Tare has always loved guns. After leaving the army, his friends take him to a carnival, where he meets the perfect girl; Annie, a sharp-shooting sideshow performer who loves guns as much as he. The 2 run off and marry, but Annie isn't happy with their financial situation, so at her behest the couple begins a cross-country string of daring robberies. Never one to use guns for killing, Bart's dragged down into oblivion by the greedy and violent nature of the woman he loves.

Plot Keywords: sharpshooter, murder, fugitive, lovers on the lam, mother son relationship, mother daughter relationship, montana ...

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#19. Leaving Las Vegas (1995)

Storyline: Because his wife left him and took his son with her, screenwriter Ben Sanderson has started drinking, a lot. He's getting more and more isolated and he troubles women in bars because he wants to have sex with them. When he gets fired, he decides to leave everything behind and move to Las Vegas and drink himself to death. In Las Vegas he meets Sera, a prostitute with some problems as well who he moves in with.

Plot Keywords: prostitute, alcoholism, alcoholic, las vegas nevada, based on novel, tragedy, sex ...

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#20. Midnight Run (1988)

Storyline: Bounty hunter Jack Walsh (Robert De Niro) is sent to find and return bail jumper and former Mafia accountant, Jonathan "The Duke" Mardukas (Charles Grodin). The FBI has had no success in locating The Duke, so when Jack finds him in next to no time, they are a little embarrassed. In order to collect his $100,000 fee, Jack must take The Duke from New York to Los Angeles. However, the Mafia and the FBI have other ideas, as does Marvin Dorfler (John Ashton), a rival bounty hunter. On their long cross-country trip to LA, the two get to know each other and they build up a strange friendship.

Plot Keywords: mafia, corrupt lawyer, police corruption, road movie, exploding helicopter, telephone booth, smoking ...

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#21. Southpaw (2015)

Storyline: As tragedy strikes him in his prime, famed boxer, Billy Hope, begins to fall into a great depression. Once the decision regarding the custody of his daughter is under question, Billy decides to get his life back on track by getting back into the ring.

Plot Keywords: boxer, boxing ring, death of wife, death of mother, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, madison square garden manhattan new york city ...

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#22. Up in the Air (2009)

Storyline: Ryan Bingham is a corporate downsizing expert whose cherished life on the road is threatened just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles, and just after he's met the frequent-traveller woman of his dreams.

Plot Keywords: on the road, travel, airport, business trip, fired from the job, motivational speaker, unemployment ...

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#23. Harry and Tonto (1974)

Storyline: Harry is a retired teacher in his 70s living in the Upper West Side of New York City, where his late wife and he raised his children, where he's lived all of his life. When the building, in which he lives, is torn down to make way for a parking garage, Harry and his beloved cat Tonto begin a journey across the U.S., visiting his children, seeing a world he never seemed to have the time to see before, making new friends, and saying goodbye to old friends.—Gary Dickerson <slug@mail.utexas.edu>

Plot Keywords: stock market, retirement, manhattan new york city, widower, violin, traveling salesman, taxi ...

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#24. The Misfits (1961)

Storyline: Dpressed divorcèe, Roslyn Tabor (Monroe), and Gay Langland (Gable), an aging ex-cowboy, who survives by rounding up and catching mustangs (and sselling them to slaughterhouses Wallach plays Guido, Langland's pilot partner, and Clift plays Perce Howland, a drifter rodeo rider.

Plot Keywords: ranch, divorcee, doctor, pet food, donation, ex husband ex wife relationship, extramarital affair ...

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#25. Eye in the Sky (2015)

Storyline: Colonel Katherine Powell is a UK-based military officer in command of a top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya. Through remote surveillance and on-the-ground intel, Powell discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from "capture" to "kill." But as American pilot Steve Watts (Aaron Paul) is about to engage, a nine-year old girl enters the kill zone triggering an international dispute, reaching the highest levels of US and British government, over the moral, political, and personal implications of modern warfare.

Plot Keywords: war on terrorism, moral dilemma, analyst, technology, bazaar, suspense, child in peril ...

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#26. Now You See Me (2013)

Storyline: Four magicians each answer a mysterious summons to an obscure address with secrets inside. A year later, they are the Four Horsemen, big time stage illusionists who climax their sold-out Las Vegas show with a bank apparently robbed for real. This puts F.B.I. Agents Dylan Rhodes and Interpol Agent Alma Dray on the case to find out how they did it. However, this mystery proves to be difficult to solve, even with the insights of professional illusion exposer Thaddeus Bradley. What follows is a bizarre investigation where nothing is what it seems to be, with illusions, dark secrets, and hidden agendas galore as all involved are reminded of a great truth in this puzzle: the closer you look, the less you see.

Plot Keywords: magician, heist, con artist, bank robbery, flashback, deception, carousel ...

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#27. Creed II (2018)

Storyline: Years after Adonis Creed made a name for himself under Rocky Balboa's mentorship, the young boxer becomes the Heavyweight Champion of the World. While life is good with that victory and his marriage to Bianca, trouble comes to Philadelphia when Ivan Drago, the Russian boxer who killed Adonis' father, Apollo, arrives with his son, Viktor, to challenge Adonis. Against Rocky's advice, Adonis accepts the challenge without his mentor's participation and pays the price in a punishing bout he wins only by a technicality. Now injured and demoralized, Adonis cannot bring himself to back into the game, leaving his spirit and title in jeopardy. Together, Adonis' family and Rocky must find a way to rekindle Adonis' fighting spirit to face the future in whatever choice he makes. Meanwhile, the Drago family have its own troubles trying to regain the respect in their homeland that they lost at Rocky's hands as they wonder whether is it truly worth it.

Plot Keywords: baby, sequel, boxing ring, training montage, boxer, boxing match, cemetery ...

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#28. Hard Eight (1996)

Storyline: John has lost all his money. He sits outside a diner in the desert when Sydney happens along, buys him coffee, then takes him to Reno and shows him how to get a free room without losing much money. Under Sydney's fatherly tutelage, John becomes a successful small-time professional gambler, and all is well, until he falls for Clementine, a cocktail waitress and sometimes hooker.

Plot Keywords: niagara falls, prologue, flashback, bar, drink, drinking, flash forward ...

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#29. Pay It Forward (2000)

Storyline: Young Trevor McKinney, troubled by his mother's alcoholism and fears of his abusive but absent father, is caught up by an intriguing assignment from his new social studies teacher, Mr. Simonet. The assignment: think of something to change the world and put it into action. Trevor conjures the notion of paying a favor not back, but forward--repaying good deeds not with payback, but with new good deeds done to three new people. Trevor's efforts to make good on his idea bring a revolution not only in the lives of himself, his mother and his physically and emotionally scarred teacher, but in those of an ever-widening circle of people completely unknown to him.

Plot Keywords: abusive husband, teacher student relationship, social injustice, drug addiction, disfigurement, charity, interview ...

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#30. Rango (2011)

Storyline: Rango is a pet chameleon always on the lookout for action and adventure, except the fake kind, where he directs it and acts in it. After a car accident, he winds up in an old western town called Dirt. What this town needs the most is water, but they also need a hero and a sheriff. The thirsty Rango instantly takes on the role of both and selfishly agrees to take on the case of their missing water.

Plot Keywords: water, posse, robbery, tortoise, owl, cactus, turtle ...

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