| Even Money (2006) | 5.8 | |
| Cool Runnings (1993) | 7.0 | |
| Men in Trees (2006) | 7.3 | |
| Man About Dog (2004) | 6.4 | |
| Bookies (2003) | 5.9 |
Bookies movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant bookies movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, suspense, tense, captivating and suspenseful films and TV shows about / with bookies, gambling, dishonesty, betrayal, bet, gangster, money, casino, rivalry and corruption plots mostly in Drama, Crime and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as bookies: Bookies (2003), Even Money (2006), Two for the Money (2005), The Gambler (1974), Who's Got the Action? (1962), Flutter (2011), Man About Dog (2004), Unlucky Stars (2015), Bookie (2023), 7 Times Lucky (2004).
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List of bookies movies
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Four college friends become small-time bookies, only to find their world spinning dangerously out of control when their greed attracts the attention of organized crime.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, captivating, realistic
Plot:
gambling, bookies, college, unlikely criminals, friendship, crime gone awry, betrayal, buddies, fish out of water, cons and scams, gambling addiction, card playing ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Gambling addiction bring the stories of three otherwise unconnected people together as it destroys each of their lives.
Style:
realistic, serious, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
gambling, addiction, obsession, bookies, destructive relationship, moral dilemma, couple relations, cons and scams, gangster, betrayal, dishonesty, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 2006
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A former college athlete joins forces with a sports consultant to handicap football games for high-rolling gamblers.
Style:
inspirational, intense, tense, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
gambling, football, american football, greed, father son relationship, cons and scams, addiction, money, rags to riches, manipulation, workplace, dishonesty ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
new york, puerto rico, las vegas, boston, new jersey ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that threatens to destroy him.
Style:
suspense, tense, intense, realistic, neo noir ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gambling addiction, college, addiction, gambler, poker, gambling debt, character study, bookies, hopes, gangster, casino, bet ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, bronx new york city, usa, las vegas, harvard university ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A lawyer begins to win after his wife secretly becomes his bookie to save their money.
Style:
light hearted, romantic comedy, feel good, period piece, satirical ...
Plot:
gambling, bookies, horse race, bet, deception, money problems, farce, female empowerment, screwball, casino, domestic drama, urban ...
Time:
60s
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Chancer John lives for playing the odds - and he's always willing to take a calculated risk. But when he meets the mysterious and beautiful female bookie Stan, he discovers there's much more to gambling than just greyhounds and horses. ...
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological, serious, crime drama ...
Plot:
gambling, bet, bookies, risk, obsession, husband wife relationship, life turned upside down, rescue, money, femme fatale, manipulation, deception ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Three pedigree chumps learn that every underdog has its day in this freewheeling Irish comedy. In hock to the tune of £50,000 to a Belfast bookie and saddled with a dopey greyhound that wouldn't run if its backside was on fire, the likely lads ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, captivating, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
ambition, disorder, gambling, bookies, buddies, dishonesty, male bonding, friendship between men, male friendship, dog, road trip, partner ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, europe
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When Peru's Biggest Action Film Star and Jordan's newest rising talent find themselves pursued by a notorious Bookie, a couple of private investigators are forced to choose between their job and their conscience.
Style:
satirical, captivating, psychological, disturbing, semi serious ...
Plot:
private investigator, bookies, moral dilemma, martial arts, money problems, money, satire, private detective, coworker, escapades, investigation, danger ...
Place:
peru, jordan, latin america, middle east
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
A veteran bookie struggles to survive the impending legalization of sports gambling, increasingly unstable clients, family, co-workers, and a lifestyle that bounces him around every corner of Los Angeles, high and low.
Style:
satirical, captivating, semi serious, feel good, buddy comedy
Plot:
gambling addiction, bookies, money problems, gambling, gambler, debt collector, debt, bet, satire, escapades, male nudity, female nudity ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, southern california
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A self-proclaimed dating expert tries to get his best friend, who lost his wife two years earlier, back into the dating scene, with disastrous results.
Style:
humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, independent film ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
restaurant, gambling, bookies, looking for love, couples, disorder, unlikely couple, womanizer, fall in love, dating, bet, russian mafia ...
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Moyher's good boy Benny Silman from Brooklyn becomes an economics student at Arizona State University for the sun and sexy girls- and the proximity of gambling paradise Las Vegas. Benny aces his studies, being a mathematical genius, but the one ...
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, captivating
Plot:
gambling, bookies, friendship, lifestyle, ambition, couples, culture clash, college life, follow your dream, youth, fall in love, buddies ...
Place:
usa, nevada, arizona, las vegas, new york
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An aging con-man and a beautiful, ambitious student cross paths in a scam that promises to make them both rich.
Style:
witty, suspenseful, serious, realistic, surprise ending
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
bookies, crime gone awry, criminal's revenge, mind game, cons and scams, gangster, femme fatale, rivalry, betrayal, dishonesty, heist, gambling ...
Place:
winnipeg, canada
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story:
Anesio Gebara is well known in Rio de Janeiro: he owns a samba school and he bankrolls an illegal lottery. This drama series follows this man--who is seen throughout the city as a mob boss and probable drug trafficker--his family and his complicated ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, rough, bleak ...
Plot:
bookies, family in crisis, dealing with death, family problems, ambition, dishonesty, family relations, dance school, favoritism among siblings, self discovery, siblings relations, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil, latin america
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Joey (Ethan Embry, Can't Hardly Wait) is a successful day trader at a high-end brokerage house, he has a beautiful fiancée and a home on the beach. He has it all and a lot to lose. Now the gambling addiction that has plagued him for years has ...
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, exciting, serious ...
Plot:
gambling, obsession, addiction, bookies, dishonesty, rise and fall, rivalry, danger, card playing, game, mental health, casino ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.
Style:
neo noir, atmospheric, tense, stylized, cynical ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
organized crime, betrayal, mafia, corruption, gangster, shootout, irish mob, loyalty, love triangle, blackmail, mobster, prohibition era ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1990, 1920s
Place:
usa, new orleans, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The second film from British director Guy Ritchie. Snatch tells an obscure story similar to his first fast-paced crazy character-colliding filled film “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.” There are two overlapping stories here – one is the ...
Style:
witty, funny, clever, humorous, dark comedy ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
heist, caper, organized crime, gambling, gangster, sarcasm, underground fighting, twists and turns, group of criminals, cons and scams, master criminal, criminal heroes ...
Time:
90s, year 2000, 2000s, 20th century
Place:
england, london, britain, antwerp, belgium ...
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298K
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Set in the 1930s this intricate caper deals with an ambitious small-time crook and a veteran con man who seek revenge on a vicious crime lord who murdered one of their gang.
Style:
witty, captivating, entertaining, surprise ending, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
gambling, revenge, con artists, murder, twists and turns, caper, con man, gangster, chase, cons and scams, casino, organized crime ...
Time:
1930s, year 1936, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
chicago, usa, persia, new york, illinois
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A young gambler makes a large, risky bet on a horse race. When the odds turn in his favour, more than one party has sudden interest in the winning betting slip, and they'll do anything to get their hands on it.
Style:
tension, suspense, intense, independent film, fast paced ...
Plot:
gambling, bookies, risk, cash, luck, greed, confrontation, cat and mouse, suspicion, desperation, pursuit, urban ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Vinnie's a bookie, happily married, running his operation for 30 years out of his bar in Brooklyn. Times change, the boys up the chain want a bigger profit, so Vinnie's expendable He's assigned a hotheaded kid, Tony, the nephew of a ...
Style:
serious, bleak, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gambling, bookies, loser, bet, dishonesty, life is a bitch, down on your luck, disorder, unlikely criminals, unlikely partners, moral dilemma, gangster ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, florida, brooklyn new york city
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16K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Norway, USA, Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of "Factotum" author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, CA trying to live off jobs which don't interfere with his primary interest, which is writing. Along ...
Style:
dark comedy, philosophical, humorous, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
unemployment, gambling, alcoholic, alcoholism, writer's life, alcohol abuse, drinking, lifestyle, down on your luck, life is a bitch, society, bookies ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Frankie McCoy (Ken Shorter) is a born loser from the Sydney suburb of Newtown, and a gambler and a bit of an SP bookie. When he's conscripted into the army to fight in the Vietnam war, he deserts, but in pursuit of money, he falls into debt ...
Style:
bleak, crime drama, tense, period piece, noir
Plot:
conscription, bookies, gambling, murder, anti hero, debt, urban, realism, desertion, moral ambiguity, working class, tragedy ...
Time:
60s
Place:
vietnam, australia
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In 2007, when NBA referee Tim Donaghy got caught betting on games he worked, he said two men associated with the Gambino crime family - a bookie named Baba Battista and a drug dealer named Tommy Martino - threatened to kill his family if he ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, realistic, captivating, tension ...
Plot:
basketball, scandal, bet, organized crime, corruption, basketball coach, bookies, con artists, basketball player, problem, caper, criminal ...
Time:
2000s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A financial struggle between owners of a go-go club threatens its future.
Style:
sexy, realistic, humorous, semi serious, erotic ...
Plot:
nightclub, strip club, striptease, stripper, maiden, nymph, female nudity, couples, dancer's life, starting over, disorder, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
Vinayak and his 4 team members rob a booty of 500 crores INR. Trouble starts when two of the team betrays them.
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, rough, entertaining ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, gambling, betrayal, faked death, anti hero, law enforcement, bookies, dishonesty, tough law enforcer, gang, chases and races, bad cop ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, india
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A Hollywood agent finds himself in debt to a powerful bookie. To make a fast buck, he creates a team of exceptionally talented skateboarders and enters them in a downhill race. If they win, they will get $20,000
Style:
independent film
Plot:
skateboard, competition, gambling debt, bookies, friendship, street racing, loyalty, skater, betrayal, coming of age, celebrity culture, agent ...
Time:
70s, year 1978
Place:
southern california, california
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Paul Keller (Steven Pasquale - "Rescue Me") is a hedge fund manager with a gambling problem who is fired after a bad deal costs his firm millions. Shut out of the job market, he and his wife Vicky (Caroline Dhavernas - ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
friendship, gambling, couple relations, prodigy, couples, partner, dishonesty, life turned upside down, character study, fired from the job, addiction, bookies ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, brooklyn new york city, new york
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Dan Mahowny was a rising star at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. At twenty-four he was assistant manager of a major branch in the heart of Toronto's financial district. To his colleagues he was a workaholic. To his customers, he was ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, melancholic, enigmatic, thought provoking ...
Plot:
gambling addiction, casino, gambling, gambler, poker, addiction, embezzlement, greed, relationships, banker, police investigation, compulsive gambler ...
Time:
80s, year 2003, 20th century
Place:
las vegas, atlantic city, atlantic city new jersey, toronto ontario canada, new jersey ...
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A depressed and destitute Nick Irons, a tennis pro banned from the tour for slugging a player during a TV match, agrees to coach a bookie's "head case" son, Joel, who wants to turn pro. The bookie wants his son to get out of tennis ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, independent film
Plot:
tennis, underdog, second chance, redemption, coaching, championship, rivalry, father son relationship, family conflict, bookies, resilience, corruption ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Gambling fever -- along with a brutal bookie -- leads three crooked cops into a double-dealing scheme that lands them in hot water way over their heads.
Style:
neo noir, independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
gambling, addiction, dirty cop, redemption, police corruption, betrayal, crime gone awry, crooked cop, cop, casino, police officer, death of protagonist ...
Time:
year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, arizona, phoenix arizona, new jersey, california
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
Ranvir and Rajiv are half brothers who own a huge stud farm in South Africa. Ranvir is a very shrewd and aggressive man while Rajiv is laid back, and a chronic alcoholic. Sophia, Ranvir's personal secretary adores and loves him. Ranvir is ...
Style:
realistic, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
horse ranch, rivalry, betrayal, love triangle, investigation, family relations, vengeance, dishonesty, law enforcement, danger, siblings relations, murder ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
south africa, africa, cape town south africa, india
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