Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "professional-gambler"

1. Poseidon (2006)

PG-13 | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

On New Year's Eve, the luxury ocean liner Poseidon capsizes after being swamped by a rogue wave. The survivors are left to fight for their lives as they attempt to escape the sinking ship.

Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Kurt Russell, Emmy Rossum, Josh Lucas

Votes: 110,516 | Gross: $60.67M

2. Guys and Dolls (1955)

Not Rated | 150 min | Comedy, Crime, Musical

In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for each other, and the bet has a hidden motive to finance a crap game.

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine

Votes: 19,406 | Gross: $13.00M

3. The Card Counter (2021)

R | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

William Tell is an ex-military interrogator living under the radar as a low-stakes gambler. When he encounters a young man looking to commit revenge against a mutual enemy, he takes him on the casino circuit to set him on a new path.

Director: Paul Schrader | Stars: Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish, Tye Sheridan, Willem Dafoe

Votes: 43,110

4. Hard Eight (1996)

R | 101 min | Crime, Drama

Professional gambler Sydney teaches John the tricks of the trade. John does well until he falls for cocktail waitress Clementine.

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | Stars: Philip Baker Hall, John C. Reilly, Gwyneth Paltrow, Samuel L. Jackson

Votes: 54,972 | Gross: $0.22M

5. The Cincinnati Kid (1965)

TV-14 | 102 min | Drama

An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.

Directors: Norman Jewison, Sam Peckinpah | Stars: Steve McQueen, Ann-Margret, Edward G. Robinson, Karl Malden

Votes: 18,265 | Gross: $15.26M

6. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)

R | 120 min | Drama, Western

A gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene.

Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Rene Auberjonois, William Devane

Votes: 27,704 | Gross: $8.20M

7. Lay the Favorite (2012)

R | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Ex-private dancer Beth aspires to be a Las Vegas cocktail waitress, when she falls in with Dink, a sports gambler. Sparks fly as she proves to be something of a gambling prodigy--much to the ire of Dink's wife, Tulip.

Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Rebecca Hall, Bruce Willis, Vince Vaughn, Catherine Zeta-Jones

Votes: 12,078 | Gross: $0.02M

8. Trinity Is Still My Name (1971)

G | 117 min | Comedy, Western

Bambino tries to teach his brother Trinity how to become an outlaw, but the two wind up saving a pioneer family and breaking up an arms ring instead.

Director: Enzo Barboni | Stars: Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Yanti Somer, Enzo Tarascio

Votes: 17,440

9. The Music of Chance (1993)

R | 98 min | Drama

A thrill seeker agrees to help a shady professional gambler win a high stakes poker game. However, they lose and become captives of two eccentric rich men who decide to forcibly keep them on their remote gated ranch as indentured servants.

Director: Philip Haas | Stars: James Spader, Mandy Patinkin, M. Emmet Walsh, Charles Durning

Votes: 2,563 | Gross: $0.31M

10. The Hanging Tree (1959)

Approved | 107 min | Western

Unusual western about a doctor with a dark past, whose life is complicated and ultimately redeemed by a young thief, and a pretty Swiss immigrant whom he nurses back to health.

Directors: Delmer Daves, Karl Malden, Vincent Sherman | Stars: Gary Cooper, Maria Schell, Karl Malden, George C. Scott

Votes: 4,761

11. 5 Card Stud (1968)

Approved | 103 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

The players in an ongoing poker game are being mysteriously killed off, one by one.

Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Dean Martin, Robert Mitchum, Inger Stevens, Roddy McDowall

Votes: 4,417

12. All Through the Night (1942)

Approved | 107 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Runyonesque Broadway gamblers turn patriotic when they stumble onto a cell of Nazi saboteurs.

Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt, Karen Verne, Jane Darwell

Votes: 4,939

13. Eva (1962)

Not Rated | 107 min | Drama, Romance

A raw Welsh novelist in Venice is humiliated by a money-loving Frenchwoman who erotically ensnares him.

Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Stanley Baker, Virna Lisi, James Villiers

Votes: 2,065

14. Mr. Lucky (1943)

Approved | 100 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

A gambler has plans to swindle money from a charity program, but starts to have second thoughts when he falls for a rich society girl.

Director: H.C. Potter | Stars: Cary Grant, Laraine Day, Charles Bickford, Gladys Cooper

Votes: 3,545

15. Dark City (1950)

Not Rated | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Gamblers who "took" an out-of-town sucker in a crooked poker game feel shadowy vengeance closing in on them.

Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott, Viveca Lindfors, Dean Jagger

Votes: 2,706

16. Johnny O'Clock (1947)

Passed | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A high-class crook gets in trouble with the law.

Director: Robert Rossen | Stars: Dick Powell, Evelyn Keyes, Lee J. Cobb, Ellen Drew

Votes: 2,666

17. Canyon Passage (1946)

Passed | 92 min | Western

Businessman Logan Stuart is torn between his love of two very different women in 1850's Oregon and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the line.

Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Dana Andrews, Brian Donlevy, Susan Hayward, Patricia Roc

Votes: 2,658

18. Bay of Angels (1963)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Romance

Jean is a clerk in a bank. His colleague Caron is a gambler and gives him the virus. In the casinos, Jean meets Jackie. Their love affair will follow their luck at the roulette.

Director: Jacques Demy | Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Claude Mann, Paul Guers, Henri Nassiet

Votes: 4,234 | Gross: $0.09M

19. Action (2019– )

TV-MA | Documentary

This four-part docu-series explores the legalization of sports gambling and its evolving impact on the gambling community. It chronicles professional gamblers, bookies, oddsmakers and documents effects of legalization through their eyes.

Stars: Bill Krackomberger, Kelly Stewart, Dave Oancea, Todd Wishnev

Votes: 155

20. Any Number Can Play (1949)

Approved | 112 min | Drama, Romance

Gambling-house owner finds himself estranged from his wife and son.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Clark Gable, Alexis Smith, Wendell Corey, Audrey Totter

Votes: 1,150

21. Mister Cory (1957)

Approved | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A street-smart young man from the Chicago slums dreams of cajoling with the rich and powerful, no matter the cost.

Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Tony Curtis, Martha Hyer, Charles Bickford, Kathryn Grant

Votes: 576

22. The Foxes of Harrow (1947)

Passed | 117 min | Action, Drama, Romance

In pre-Civil War New Orleans, Louisiana, roguish Irish gambler Stephen Fox (Sir Rex Harrison) buys his way into society, something he couldn't do in his homeland because he is illegitimate.

Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Rex Harrison, Maureen O'Hara, Richard Haydn, Victor McLaglen

Votes: 570

23. A Talent for Loving (1973)

R | 110 min | Comedy, Western

A professional gambler is trapped into marrying within a Mexican family under an Aztec curse.

Director: Richard Quine | Stars: Richard Widmark, Topol, Geneviève Page, Cesar Romero

Votes: 181

24. Lady Luck (1946)

Approved | 97 min | Comedy, Drama

A woman marries a gambler with the hopes of reforming him, but things don't quite work out the way she planned.

Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Robert Young, Barbara Hale, Frank Morgan, James Gleason

Votes: 402

25. Play Girl (1932)

Unrated | 60 min | Drama, Romance

A young woman's financial problems continue through a troubled marriage to a gambler.

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Winnie Lightner, Loretta Young, Norman Foster, Guy Kibbee

Votes: 368

26. Girls' School (1950)

Approved | 62 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Peggy Donovan enters an exclusive but financially-strapped finishing school for girls operated by Colonel Matthews and his sister Emily. Student Lucille Farnsworth discovers the Peggy ... See full summary »

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Joyce Reynolds, Ross Ford, Kasey Rogers, Julia Dean

Votes: 22

27. The Gambler Wore a Gun (1961)

Passed | 66 min | Western

A gambler tries to help track down the men who hanged a rancher when he tried to thwart their cattle rustling operations by selling his ranch.

Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Jim Davis, Merry Anders, Mark Allen, Addison Richards

Votes: 222

28. Monarch (1979)

84 min | Documentary

The film takes a look at a professional gambler, who very successfully specialized on the German version of the slot machine.

Directors: Johannes Flütsch, Manfred Stelzer | Stars: Diethard Wendtland, Ilse Bahrs, Paul Gauselmann, Ekkehard Hoffmann

Votes: 97

29. The House on 56th Street (1933)

Passed | 68 min | Drama, History

Peggy Martin chooses to marry young, wealthy Monty, who she loves. They have a child together and an amazing relationship...until Peggy visits her ailing ex-boyfriend, Fiske, who threatens to commit suicide if she won't take him back.

Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Kay Francis, Ricardo Cortez, Gene Raymond, John Halliday

Votes: 737

30. Gambling Daughters (1941)

Approved | 67 min | Crime, Mystery

A couple of rich girls at a private boarding school find themselves mixed up in gambling and blackmail, and must steal from their parents to pay their gambling debts.

Director: Max Nosseck | Stars: Cecilia Parker, Roger Pryor, Robert Baldwin, Gale Storm

Votes: 33

31. #LasVegas No. 1: The Mandalay Bay Massacre (2017 Video)

News

Sargon examines what we know - and what we don't know - so far about the Las Vegas shooting.

Stars: Carl Benjamin, Eric Paddock, Joe Lombardo, Brianna

32. Nimmo in Las Vegas (1972 TV Special)

56 min | Documentary, Talk-Show

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Stars: Derek Nimmo, Les Bluebell Girls, Sean Connery, Elvis Presley

33. The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962–1965)
Episode: A Piece of the Action (1962)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Duke Marsden is a compulsive gambler and is about to lose his wife because of it. She gives him an ultimatum to either give up poker or else she's gone. He agrees, but there's one last thing he has to do first.

Director: Bernard Girard | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Gig Young, Martha Hyer, Gene Evans

Votes: 709

34. Here Come the Brides (1968–1970)
Episode: A Hard Card to Play (1968)

TV-G | 60 min | Adventure, Western

Professional gamblers come to Seattle, but the Bolts are unaware that they were brought by Aaron Stemple to get them and their fellows into gambling debt trouble.

Director: Bob Claver | Stars: Robert Brown, Bobby Sherman, David Soul, Bridget Hanley

Votes: 39

35. Little Men (1998–1999)
Episode: Home for Christmas (1999)

TV-PG | 44 min | Drama, Family

Nick is accused of murder, and the residents of Plumfield think his brother Ben is behind the crime.

Director: Robert Malenfant | Stars: Michelle Burke, Spencer Rochfort, Corey Sevier, Trevor Blumas

Votes: 10

36. The Rifleman (1958–1963)
Episode: Tinhorn (1962)

TV-PG | 30 min | Family, Western

Mark and Milly are shocked when Lucas begins gambling. They don't know that Lucas is "undercover" trying to catch a man at cheating. Lucas must do this in order to save his friend's farm.

Director: Lawrence Dobkin | Stars: Chuck Connors, Johnny Crawford, Paul Fix, Joan Taylor

Votes: 119

37. Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode: The Stung (1975)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

Tired of Lamont telling him he's a loser at cards, Fred and his professional gambler friend play a prank on Lamont and his poker pals. But will Fred be left holding the dead man's hand?

Director: Alan Rafkin | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Gregory Sierra, Nathaniel Taylor

Votes: 117

38. The Young Riders (1989–1992)
Episode: The Keepsake (1989)

TV-PG | 48 min | Drama, Romance, Western

A girl comes to Sweetwater to con Teaspoon into believing she's his daughter.

Director: Daniel Attias | Stars: Stephen Baldwin, Josh Brolin, Brett Cullen, Travis Fine

Votes: 40

39. The Mentalist (2008–2015)
Episode: Red-Handed (2008)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The severed hand of a hotel casino owner is found on the California-Nevada state line. While the CBI suspects it's a mob hit, Patrick uses the opportunity to win big by counting cards.

Director: Chris Long | Stars: Simon Baker, Robin Tunney, Tim Kang, Owain Yeoman

Votes: 1,964

40. Decoding the Unknown (2021– )
What Happened to Lord Lucan? (2022 Podcast Episode)

50 min | Talk-Show

Whistler discusses the disappearance of the 7th Lord Lucan who disappeared after being accused of murdering his children's nanny in 1974.

Star: Simon Whistler

41. Hustling America (2013)
Episode: Las Vegas (2013)

45 min | Documentary

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Director: Martin Turner | Stars: Alexis Conran, Bill Rudolph, Martin Turner, Brian Zembic

42. American old west facts (2023– )
Episode: 10 Facts About Wyatt Earp You May Not Know (2024)

32 min | Documentary, History

A biography of Wyatt Earp in the top ten list format. Raised in a farming family Earp soon found law enforcement more to his liking serving as a lawman, and professional gambler, in several towns in the American West.