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51. Compulsion (2022– )
60 min | Drama
After surviving a tragedy, paramedic Jenny Challoner struggles with PTSD. Concealing her suffering from husband Chris, friend Alison and daughter Rosie, Jenny's life spirals out of control.
Stars: Leanne Best, Danny Ashok, Krissi Bohn, Anna Chancellor
Votes: 313
52. Monster Hunt 2 (2018)
Not Rated | 110 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
The story continues with Wuba after he parts way with his human parents Tian and Lan for his own journey. Peace has not been restored in the monster world after the death of the evil monster king.
Director: Raman Hui | Stars: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Baihe Bai, Boran Jing, Yuchun Li
Votes: 2,038 | Gross: $0.71M
53. The Black Marble (1980)
PG | 113 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A romantic comedy which explores the pressures on police officers.
Director: Harold Becker | Stars: Robert Foxworth, Paula Prentiss, Harry Dean Stanton, Barbara Babcock
Votes: 906
54. The Champ (I) (1931)
Passed | 86 min | Drama, Family, Sport
An alcoholic ex-boxer struggles to provide a good living for his son.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich, Roscoe Ates
Votes: 3,640
55. The Iron Mistress (1952)
Passed | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
The exploits of nineteenth-century pioneer Jim Bowie after settling in New Orleans.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Alan Ladd, Virginia Mayo, Joseph Calleia, Phyllis Kirk
Votes: 986
56. 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: 1,655
57. Le plongeur (2023)
127 min | Drama
-Montreal (in Canada), winter 2002. Stéphane, a 19-year-old metal fan and graphic design student, dreams of becoming an illustrator. But for months he has been caught up in a downward ... See full summary »
Director: Francis Leclerc | Stars: Henri Richer-Picard, Charles-Aubey Houde, Joan Hart, Maxime de Cotret
Votes: 530
58. 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: 4,242 | Gross: $0.09M
59. Dirty Linen (2023)
TV-MA | Action, Crime, Drama
Four houseworkers of a well-known aristocratic family mysteriously vanished one by one without a trace, meanwhile four people are out to get their hellish revenge against the prominent family itself.
Stars: Zanjoe Marudo, Francine Diaz, Janine Gutierrez, John Arcilla
Votes: 186
60. Treat Me Like Fire (2018)
105 min | Crime, Drama
When Ella meets Abel, her life changes. In the wake of this elusive lover, the girl will discover the cosmopolitan Paris and underground gaming circles, where adrenaline and money reign. ... See full summary »
Director: Marie Monge | Stars: Tahar Rahim, Stacy Martin, Bruno Wolkowitch, Karim Leklou
Votes: 686
61. 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: 1,628
62. I Am Sartana, Your Angel of Death (1969)
Not Rated | 103 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Sartana is framed for a bank robbery, and must find the culprits to clear his name.
Director: Giuliano Carnimeo | Stars: Gianni Garko, Frank Wolff, Ettore Manni, Sal Borgese
Votes: 1,188
63. The Allnighter (2023)
79 min | Comedy, Drama
When an astrophysics student working towards his PhD loses priceless research to an auto theft, he makes a bargain with a woman at a local pawn shop in order to get it back.
Director: Aimee Graham | Stars: Owen Beckman, Gretchen Lodge, Sylva Kelegian, David Koechner
Votes: 148
64. The Gambler (1997)
R | 97 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Sir Michael Gambon) must write a novel in twenty-seven days in a deal to pay off his gambling debts, and feverishly dictates the novel "The Gambler".
Director: Károly Makk | Stars: Michael Gambon, Jodhi May, Polly Walker, Dominic West
Votes: 446 | Gross: $0.01M
65. 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: 1,376
66. Quick (1993)
R | 94 min | Action, Crime
Quick is an assassin with a corrupt cop boyfriend. She's hired to bring a mob accountant back to the mob after he's taken $3,000,000 and turned himself in to LAPD as witness. It doesn't go as planned.
Director: Rick King | Stars: Teri Polo, Martin Donovan, Jeff Fahey, Robert Davi
Votes: 474
67. The Old Curiosity Shop (2007 TV Movie)
93 min | Drama
A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.
Director: Brian Percival | Stars: Derek Jacobi, Toby Jones, Sophie Vavasseur, Gina McKee
Votes: 781
68. Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (2011)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama
A vulnerable teenager with a deep perception of the world and no idea how to live in it.
Director: Roberto Faenza | Stars: Toby Regbo, Marcia Gay Harden, Peter Gallagher, Lucy Liu
Votes: 2,783
69. Altes Geld (2015– )
45 min | Comedy
A family blessed with richness and power is desperately seeking a liver for their father, who wants to hand down his wealth to the one who obtains the organ for him.
Stars: Udo Kier, Sunnyi Melles, Nicholas Ofczarek, Edita Malovcic
Votes: 601
70. Inside Out (I) (2005)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Families in an idyllic suburban neighborhood are taunted by a mysterious doctor who moves in to town and spins a web of psychological chaos that changes their lives forever.
Director: David Ogden | Stars: Eriq La Salle, Steven Weber, Russell Wong, Tyler Posey
Votes: 549
71. The Seduction of Gina (1984 TV Movie)
94 min | Drama
Gina is young, recently married and bored. On a trip to Lake Tahoe she discovers the game of blackjack. Increasingly obsessed with gambling, she keeps hoping her lucky streak will last.
Director: Jerrold Freedman | Stars: Valerie Bertinelli, Michael Brandon, Fredric Lehne, Ed Lauter
Votes: 228
72. My Way (2012)
148 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A biopic of French pop star Claude François, most famous for co-writing the song 'My Way'. Tracing his life from childhood in Egypt through success in France to his untimely death in Paris in 1978.
Director: Florent-Emilio Siri | Stars: Jérémie Renier, Benoît Magimel, Monica Scattini, Sabrina Seyvecou
Votes: 3,185
73. Strippers & Gigolos (2022)
Drama
To save a strip-club from failure a drag-queen needs to transform an ex-gigolo into a professional dancer capable of convincing investors but soon she'll have to deal with a word of machismo and disloyalty.
Stars: Anis Gharbi, Stefania Visconti, Alessia Bergamo, Yara Costa
Votes: 13
74. 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: 1,409
75. 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: 1,068
76. Married Single Other (2010)
Drama
A story of several people living in England not all are related however all are closely intertwined with each other. This programme highlights personal problems and challenges that need be overcome by people of different ages.
Stars: Shaun Dooley, Lucy Davis, Dean Lennox Kelly, Jack Scanlon
Votes: 422
77. Lucky (2003)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama
A dark comedy dealing with the lives and addictions of compulsive gamblers set in Downtown Las Vegas.
Stars: John Corbett, Billy Gardell, Craig Robinson, Ever Carradine
Votes: 318
78. Murder in Martigues (2016 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Elisabeth Richard, a district attorney, and Paul Jansac, a police officer are in charge of the investigation of the death of Pierre Saint-Florent whose corpse was found in a beach near Martigues.
Director: Claude-Michel Rome | Stars: Florence Pernel, Vincent Winterhalter, Florence Coste, Bernard Crombey
Votes: 129
79. No Beast So Fierce (2016)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama, Thriller
An ex-convict returns home to find his estranged son missing. He teams up with a rogue officer to search for the son, pursued by a ruthless gang leader. Their lives converge in a climactic twist ending.
Director: Tim McCann | Stars: Dylan Baker, Bailey Chase, Kathryn Erbe, Amy Spanger
Votes: 279
80. Omar Killed Me (2011)
85 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
In the summer of 1991 an elderly woman Ghislaine Marchal is found murdered in the basement of her home with the message "Omar M'a Tuer" (Omar has kill me) written beside in her own blood. ... See full summary »
Director: Roschdy Zem | Stars: Sami Bouajila, Denis Podalydès, Maurice Bénichou, Salomé Stévenin
Votes: 1,614
81. Tout ça... pour ça! (1993)
PG-13 | 120 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
Marie, a young lawyer, leaves with her husband Fabrice and a couple of friends, Francis and Alessandra. They are engaged in a dangerous sentimental game together, from which their relations will not come out unseemly.
Director: Claude Lelouch | Stars: Marie-Sophie L., Francis Huster, Fabrice Luchini, Alessandra Martines
Votes: 822
82. Kitchen with Apartment (1993)
94 min | Comedy, Drama
Martine and Jacques knew their friend before he became an important television personality, but have not seen him for over ten years. They are hospitable people - witness the fact that they... See full summary »
Director: Philippe Muyl | Stars: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Agnès Jaoui, Zabou Breitman, Sam Karmann
Votes: 1,997
83. Sole (2019)
102 min | Drama
Lena is seven months pregnant and she's ready to sell the baby in her belly. Ermanno agrees to pretend to be the father. Fabio, the uncle of Ermanno, will pay them to buy the child that he ... See full summary »
Director: Carlo Sironi | Stars: Claudio Segaluscio, Sandra Drzymalska, Bruno Buzzi, Marco Felli
Votes: 864
84. Secrets of Three Hungry Wives (1978 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
When a millionaire playboy is murdered, suspicion falls on three married women, each of whom had an affair with him.
Director: Gordon Hessler | Stars: Jessica Walter, Gretchen Corbett, Eve Plumb, Heather MacRae
Votes: 63
85. 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: 596
86. 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
87. 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: 335
88. Hustle (2004 TV Movie)
90 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
An addiction to gambling dims baseball legend Pete Rose's star.
Director: Peter Bogdanovich | Stars: Tom Sizemore, Dash Mihok, George DiCenzo, Melissa DiMarco
Votes: 461
89. Yus My Dear (1976)
30 min | Comedy
Stars: Arthur Mullard, Queenie Watts, Mike Reid, Valerie Walsh
Votes: 57
90. Black Hair, Velvet Soul (1982)
66 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Drunk husband who is addicted to gambling get into trouble with local Yakuza. Unable to pay his debt, he deed his wife Izumi' in order to stay out of trouble with the thugs.
Director: Mamoru Watanabe | Stars: Izumi Shima, Kumiko Hayano, Kazuyo Ezaki, Jun Etô
Votes: 42
91. Soul Santa (2021)
Comedy, Romance
A shopping mall Santa Claus is the disguise of a businessman that got into trouble with mob's money.
Director: Terri J. Vaughn | Stars: David Mann, Tamela J. Mann, Brooke Monroe Conaway, Christopher Gurr
Votes: 131
92. The Wise Guys (1965)
G | 128 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
An ex-con with ulterior motives convinces the struggling inheritor of a sawmill to use convicts as affordable lumberjacks.
Director: Robert Enrico | Stars: Bourvil, Lino Ventura, Marie Dubois, Jess Hahn
Votes: 1,145
93. Bord de mer (2002)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
Seaside takes place in a small coastal town on the Bay of Somme. The year-round inhabitants find ways to make their lives work; Paul, a lifeguard in the summer, works at the grocery all ... See full summary »
Director: Julie Lopes-Curval | Stars: Hélène Fillières, Jonathan Zaccaï, Bulle Ogier, Ludmila Mikaël
Votes: 321 | Gross: $0.01M
94. Winner Take All (1975 TV Movie)
97 min | Drama
An average American housewife who is addicted to gambling gradually destroys her "ideal" suburban life and that of her family.
Director: Paul Bogart | Stars: Shirley Jones, Laurence Luckinbill, Sam Groom, Joyce Van Patten
Votes: 116
95. Tricheurs (1984)
94 min | Comedy, Drama
Exploring themes of addiction, sexual power games, and compulsive behavior, a powerfully impudent look into the world of gambling addicts, Suzie is cast among a stylish milieu of gamblers on a Portuguese island.
Director: Barbet Schroeder | Stars: Jacques Dutronc, Bulle Ogier, Leandro Vale, Roger Sarbib
Votes: 633
96. West of Sunshine (2017)
78 min | Crime, Drama
A father has less than a day to pay back a debt to a violent loan shark, while looking after his young son.
Director: Jason Raftopoulos | Stars: Damian Hill, Ty Perham, Arthur Angel, Kat Stewart
Votes: 777
97. 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: 194
98. Family Prayers (1993)
PG | 108 min | Drama
Coming-of-age story of a 13-year-old Jewish boy in the 1960s whose parents decide to break up.
Director: Scott M. Rosenfelt | Stars: Joe Mantegna, Anne Archer, Tzvi Ratner-Stauber, Julianne Michelle
Votes: 189
99. Gambling with Souls (1936)
Unrated | 70 min | Drama
Young girls are cheated in rigged gambling games and then forced into prostitution to pay off their debts.
Director: Elmer Clifton | Stars: Martha Chapin, Wheeler Oakman, Bryant Washburn, Gay Sheridan
Votes: 213
100. Fung lau yuen gwai (1984)
84 min | Horror
A woman is raped and murdered during World War 2. Forty years later she returns to haunt her persecutors from the Tao Tao Mansion. A professor and his family move into the house, only to have the spirits take their son.
Directors: Chun Keung Chiu, Tai-Heng Li | Stars: Tony Liu, Wai Yee Chin, Mabel Kwong, Kuan-Chung Ku
Votes: 64