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1. Bob the Gambler (1956)

PG | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

After losing big, an aging gambler decides to assemble a team to rob a casino.

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville | Stars: Roger Duchesne, Isabelle Corey, Daniel Cauchy, Guy Decomble

Votes: 13,380 | Gross: $0.02M

2. Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)

Approved | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

In need of quick money, a fallen former cop recruits a hard-bitten ex-con and a debt-ridden nightclub singer to pull off a bank job. But as the animosity between them boils over, the entire plan threatens to implode.

Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame, Shelley Winters

Votes: 5,572

3. The Glass Key (1942)

Passed | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Brian Donlevy, Bonita Granville

Votes: 7,407

4. The Great Sinner (1949)

Approved | 110 min | Drama

In the 1860s, in the casino resort town of Wiesbaden, Germany, a reformed gambling addict, Pauline Ostrovsky, tenderly nurses the talented Russian writer Fedja, who is a physical wreck.

Directors: Robert Siodmak, Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas, Walter Huston

Votes: 1,625

5. The Iron Mistress (1952)

Passed | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Biography

The life of nineteenth-century pioneer Jim Bowie is portrayed.

Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Alan Ladd, Virginia Mayo, Joseph Calleia, Phyllis Kirk

Votes: 983

6. The Lady Gambles (1949)

Approved | 99 min | Drama, Film-Noir

A desperate husband tries to find help for his wife suffering from addictive gambling.

Director: Michael Gordon | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Preston, Stephen McNally, Edith Barrett

Votes: 1,062

7. Let's Make It Legal (1951)

Not Rated | 77 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The Halsworths' nearly-final divorce suddenly gets complicated when Miriam's old flame comes to town.

Director: Richard Sale | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Macdonald Carey, Zachary Scott, Barbara Bates

Votes: 1,372

8. Christmas Holiday (1944)

Not Rated | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A young femme fatale-type woman realizes that the man she married is an incorrigible wastrel.

Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Gene Kelly, Richard Whorf, Dean Harens

Votes: 1,649

9. Macabre (1958)

Passed | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A doctor's daughter is kidnapped and buried alive, and he is given just five hours to find and rescue her.

Director: William Castle | Stars: William Prince, Jim Backus, Christine White, Jacqueline Scott

Votes: 1,404

10. Hungry Hill (1947)

92 min | Drama

Story of a feud that has gone on between two Irish families for more than 50 years.

Director: Brian Desmond Hurst | Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Dennis Price, Cecil Parker, Dermot Walsh

Votes: 595

11. Affair in Monte Carlo (1952)

Approved | 75 min | Drama, Romance

A writer tells a crowd in a café about a woman he knows, who once feel deeply in love with a desperate, compulsive gambler.

Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Merle Oberon, Richard Todd, Leo Genn, Stephen Murray

Votes: 193

12. The Luckiest Guy in the World (1947)

Passed | 21 min | Short, Crime, Drama

Charles Vurn is always looking for a way for big money the easy way, which in his case usually means gambling. He does so at the possible expense of his job as an insurance salesman - money... See full summary »

Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: Barry Nelson, Eloise Hardt, George Travell, Milton Kibbee

Votes: 333

13. Ângela (1951)

95 min | Drama, Romance

A woman marries a gambler, thinking she could straighten him up, but he loses all their assets, even their own house, and tries to commit suicide. But one of the winners falls for his stepdaughter, and this could change the situation.

Directors: Tom Payne, Abilio Pereira de Almeida | Stars: Eliane Lage, Alberto Ruschel, Mário Sérgio, Abilio Pereira de Almeida

Votes: 31

14. Blondie's Holiday (1947)

Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Family

Dagwood gets in trouble with bookies and winds up in jail. Bank manager Samuel Breckinridge comes to his rescue to thank Dagwood for getting compulsive gambler Mrs. Breckinridge out of the casino just before the police raid.

Director: Abby Berlin | Stars: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Marjorie Ann Mutchie

Votes: 201

15. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode: On the Nose (1958)

TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery

Fran is a gambling-addicted housewife who has to repay a $25 loan by 5 o'clock in the afternoon.

Director: James Neilson | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Jan Sterling, David Opatoshu, Karl Swenson

Votes: 548

16. Danger (1950–1955)
Episode: The System (1952)

Drama

A garage mechanic, desperate for money, tries his luck at a shabby, gangster-owned gambling den with what he thinks is a sure formula for predicting dice throws.

Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Eli Wallach, Kim Stanley, Salem Ludwig, Martin Kingsley