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Neither of these is the better film. They are just at opposite ends.
11 films tagged gambling
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2025 · Drama
An Irish financier hiding in Macau under a borrowed title lives between hotels and baccarat tables, drinking, running out of money and waiting for his luck to turn. Slow, sweaty and mostly one man.
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2025 · Action
A wedding on an island is raided and a retired thief's partner is taken hostage, so his old crew has to break into a casino and empty a penthouse safe to get her back. A heist run under orders, watched every step.
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2006 · Action
A newly promoted British agent is sent to out-play a banker to terrorists at a very expensive poker table in Montenegro. The card game runs long, and the chases around it are done with real bodies and real buildings.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2017 · Drama
A former skier ends up running the highest-stakes private poker game in America, and years later has to explain herself to a lawyer and the FBI. Fast, dense talk and voiceover, almost non-stop.
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2012 · Comedy
A man comes out of a psychiatric hospital set on winning his wife back, moves in with his parents, and meets a young widow who offers him a deal involving a dance contest. Loud families, and everyone talking over each other.
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2019 · Crime
A New York diamond dealer with a gambling habit juggles bets, buyers, loan sharks and his family over a few days. Everybody talks over everybody, and it does not let up.
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2000 · Crime
A stolen diamond, an unlicensed boxing promoter and a bare-knuckle fighter nobody can understand all end up chasing the same few objects around London. Told fast, with a large cast and a lot of doubling back.
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1998 · Crime
Four friends lose half a million pounds in a rigged card game and have a week to find it, so they plan to rob the neighbours who are busy robbing someone else. Several groups end up after the same two antique shotguns.
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1988 · Drama
A car dealer discovers he has an autistic older brother who has inherited the family money, and takes him across America in a Buick. Mostly two men in a car.
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2021 · Drama
A man who learned to count cards in a military prison moves between casinos, and a young man asks him for help with a revenge. Very still, and mostly hotel rooms.
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1978 · War
Three steelworkers from a Pennsylvania town go to Vietnam, and the film spends an hour on the wedding before they leave. Very long, and the middle section is hard to watch.
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