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Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A Princeton graduate student, Richie, believes he has been tricked online by a fellow gambler. He travels to Costa Rica to meet Ivan Block, an online gambling tycoon. When the FBI tries to pressure Richie to help bring down Block, Richie faces his biggest gamble ever.
2) The house
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Scott and Kate Johansen lose their daughter's college fund, they become desperate to earn it back so she can pursue her dream of attending a university. With the help of their neighbor Frank, they decide to start an illegal casino in his house.
Series
Criterion collection volume 399
Language
English
Description
A woman psychiatrist, trying to help a patient whose life has been threatened, is drawn into the dangerous but provocative underworld of a smooth-talking con man.
Pub. Date
2003, ©1949, ©1945.
Language
English
Description
DEAD OF NIGHT: An architect is caught up in an endless series of recurring dreams, during which he is told other people's supernatural experiences. He finally murders the psychiatrist who is trying to help him. ; QUEEN OF SPADES: Herman tries to learn the secret to winning money so he can afford to court Lisa. He fails tragically, and Herman, Lisa, and her mysterious grandmother all die.
8) Volunteers
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Lawrence Bourne III escapes the bookies to whom he owes $28,000 by swapping places with a friend and going to Thailand with the Peace Corps.
10) Let it ride
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
A chronic race track gambler gets a tip on a longshot that "can not lose".
13) Hallelujah
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Infused with spirituals, folk songs, blues, and jazz, Hallelujah follows the fortunes of Zeke, a poor cotton farmer. Love, loss, passion, redemption, and brilliant moviemaking, this cinematic milestone is the first all-black feature from a major studio.
14) The house: DVD
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
After Scott and Kate Johansen lose their daughter's college fund, they become desperate to earn it back so she can pursue her dream of attending a university. With the help of their neighbor Frank, they decide to start an illegal casino in his house.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The Kid thinks he's the best 5-card stud player in town, but The Man has never been beaten. It is therefore inevitable that they go head-on, and what a game it will be: a non-stop, stud poker duel-to-the-death to decide who will be the reigning king of the New Orleans gambling world.
16) Owning Mahowny
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Based on real events that occurred in between 1980 and 1981. Dan Mahowney is a quiet, unassuming assistant manager at a bank in Toronto. He is a compulsive gambler and runs up a massive debt with his bookie. Dan's bank responsibilities include approving loans. Needing to cover his debts, Dan starts approving loans to non-existent clients and adding hundreds of thousands of dollars to other accounts. As Dan's debts begin to grow into the seven figure...
17) Intacto
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen version (16:9).
Language
Español
Description
Considered "lucky" after surviving a plane crash, a thief is recruited into an underground gambling ring where death and luck intermingle. Sam is the ring leader of a gang who discovers the theif's luck and attempts to "steal" it from him.
19) Mr. Lucky
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Spirited comedy of a professional gambler trying to raise a new bankroll by fleecing a wealthy young woman.
20) For love of Ivy
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A wealthy family, afraid of losing their housekeeper to a secretarial career, fix her up with a man-about-town, who is secretly involved in illegal gambling.
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