Movies and TV shows set in atlantic city

The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in atlantic city ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, humorous, neo noir, suspenseful and suspense films and TV shows about / with casino, dishonesty, murder, gambling, mafia, gangster, husband wife relationship, love and romance, money and profanity plots mostly in Crime, Drama and Comedy genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as atlantic city: Wetlands (2017), Murder Eleven (2013), Mancation (2012), Owning Mahowny (2003), Wise Guys (1986), Five Star Day (2010), Wedding Daze (2006), Gunshy (1998), Hard Eight (1996), Suicide Kings (1997).

List of movies set in atlantic city

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 4.4
 616
Wetlands (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A man attempts to make a new start in Atlantic City with the help of his daughter and a new business partner.
Style: neo noir
Plot: strip club, lesbian sex, man hits a woman, telephone call, father daughter relationship, lesbian couple, dead girl, drug dealing, murder, cheating wife, lesbian relationship, moaning woman ...
Place: atlantic city
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 3.8
 245
Murder Eleven (2013)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A serial killer is loose on the streets of Atlantic City. His ten victims are prostitutes, his methods are ruthless and yet his motives are unknown. Two embattled homicide detectives, Mayfield and Jesse, are in a race against time to catch this ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, slasher ...
Plot: serial killer, homicide detective, race against time, police investigation, law enforcement, amateur detective, murder, who done it, tough heroes, partners against crime, police officer, prostitute ...
Time: 21st century
Place: atlantic city, atlantic city new jersey
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 3.4
 823
Mancation (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Vince has carefully planned out every aspect of his seemingly successful life until his plans come crashing down around him just one day after his wedding, leaving his three under-qualified friends to pick up the pieces. As they head to Atlantic ...
Style: realistic, not serious, humorous, captivating, witty ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: adultery, wedding, father in law son in law relationship, florist, stripper, strip club, closeted lesbian, friends, disorder, lifestyle, buddies, nightlife ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa, atlantic city, atlantic city new jersey
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 7.0
 14K
Owning Mahowny (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
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, suspenseful ...
Plot: gambling, gambling addiction, addiction, business, embezzlement, poker, casino, greed, police investigation, gambler, banker, embezzler ...
Time: 80s, year 2003, 20th century
Place: las vegas, atlantic city, toronto ontario canada, new jersey, atlantic city new jersey ...
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 5.6
 6K
Wise Guys (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they lose $250,000, they are set up to kill each other. But they run off to Atlantic City and comedy follows.
Style: buddy comedy, semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, gambling, hitman, gangster, buddies, frame up, criminal heroes, dishonesty, goofy hero, siblings relations, cons and scams, heist ...
Time: 80s
Place: atlantic city, atlantic city new jersey
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 5.7
 850
Five Star Day (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: One man's journey to disprove the theory of astrology leads him to answer some bigger question about life, love, fate and destiny.
Style: realistic, sentimental, road movie, psychological, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: self discovery, introspection, unfulfillment, destiny, astrologer, journey, love and romance, society, horoscope, astrology, disorder, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, atlantic city, chicago, new york ...
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 5.6
 17K
Wedding Daze (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After losing the woman of his dreams, Anderson is convinced he'll never fall in love again. But at the urging of his best friend, he spontaneously proposes to a dissatisfied waitress named Katie and an innocent dare evolves into the kind of ...
Style: witty, semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching ...
Audience: date night, teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: wedding, couple relations, couples, proposal, fall in love, marriage proposal, eccentric family, marriage, jail, love and romance, hopes, prison escape ...
Time: year 2006
Place: atlantic city, new jersey, atlantic city new jersey
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 5.9
 1K
Gunshy (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When the New York journalist Jake Bridges catches his girlfriend with another guy, he goes to Atlantic City to drink himself to oblivion. He is saved from a bar brawl by a small-time mobster Frankie, and Jake falls in love with Frankie's ...
Style: neo noir, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: infidelity, reporter, erotica, mobster, journalist, writer's life, unlikely criminals, love and romance, dishonesty, journalism, fall in love, twists and turns ...
Time: 90s
Place: atlantic city, new york, usa, atlantic city new jersey
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 7.1
 55K
Hard Eight (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A stranger mentors a young Reno gambler who weds a hooker and befriends a vulgar casino regular.
Style: neo noir, cult classic, noir, independent film, clever ...
Plot: gambling, blackmail, redemption, casino, prostitute, hotel, kindness, mentor protege relationship, dark past, motel, secret, father figure ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, 20th century
Place: las vegas, atlantic city, nevada, usa, atlantic city new jersey ...
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 6.9
 29K
Suicide Kings (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Christopher Walken shines in this cult-favorite dark comedy as Charlie, a former mobster who is abducted by five privileged young men (Sean Patrick Flanery, Johnny Galecki, Jay Mohr, Jeremy Sisto, Henry Thomas) desperate to raise a $2 million ransom ...
Style: dark comedy, tense, suspenseful, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, hostage, mafia, manipulation, gangster, twists and turns, mobster, organized crime, mansion, nothing goes right, confined, disorder ...
Time: 90s, year 1997, 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, atlantic city, atlantic city new jersey, new york
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 6.4
 66K
Basic (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A DEA agent investigates the disappearance of a legendary Army ranger drill sergeant and several of his cadets during a training exercise gone severely awry.
Style: twist ending, surprise ending, twisted, suspense, confusing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: twists and turns, military, army investigation, life philosophy, corruption, secrets, murder mystery, investigation, conspiracy, missing person, plot twist, police investigation ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: atlantic city, panama
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 6.3
 4K
$5 a Day (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After being released from jail, the son of a con man joins his father on the road.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, entertaining ...
Plot: betrayal, on the road, family relations, dishonesty, cons and scams, terminal illness, estrangement, parents and children, father son relationship, road trip, loss of job, inheritance ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: atlantic city, new mexico, brooklyn new york city, albuquerque new mexico, los angeles ...
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 6.1
 86K
Snake Eyes (1998)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: All bets are off when corrupt homicide cop Rick Santoro witnesses a murder during a boxing match. It's up to him and lifelong friend and naval intelligence agent Kevin Dunne to uncover the conspiracy behind the killing. At every turn, Santoro ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, exciting, neo noir, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: boxing, assassination, conspiracy, investigation, dishonesty, twists and turns, mentor, brutality, political activism, law enforcement, assassin, conspiracy theory ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, new jersey, atlantic city, atlantic city new jersey
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 7.3
 18K
Atlantic City (1980)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Lou, a small time gangster who thinks he used to be something big, meets and falls for a sexy casino employee named Sally. She needs his help realizing her dream of going to Monte Carlo, a symbol of the glamorous life that she has been looking for ...
Style: neo noir, cult classic, realistic, aesthetic, cynical ...
Plot: casino, gangster, gambling, mobster, older man younger woman relationship, drug, murder, mafia, redemption, bittersweet, age difference, voyeurism ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 20th century
Place: new jersey, atlantic city, philadelphia, atlantic city new jersey
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 7.3
 159K
Rounders (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A young man is a reformed gambler who must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks.
Style: neo noir, clever, suspense, psychological, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: gambling, poker, addiction, friendship, law student, debt, mafia, gambling debt, poker player, prison, underdog, ex convict ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, atlantic city, usa, atlantic city new jersey
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Howie Mandel Presents Howie Mandel at the Howie Mandel Comedy Club (2019)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min.
Story: After being a mainstay on the comedy circuit for 40 years, Howie takes the stage at the comedy club that bears his name in Atlantic City for his first stand up comedy special in over 20 years.
Style: ironic, light, witty, humorous
Plot: stand up comedian, comedian, monologue, adult humor, dark humor, storytelling, absurd humor, sexual humor, comedy club, stand up comedy, stand up, bald hero ...
Place: atlantic city
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 6.3
 28K
Cat's Eye (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Three short stories by shock-meister Stephen King are linked by a stray cat that roams from one tale to the next in this creepy triptych that begins as Dick (James Woods) tries to quit smoking by any means necessary. Next, we meet Johnny, an ...
Style: scary, anthology, psychological, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: life & death, cat, monster, supernatural, revenge, multiple storylines, demon, child in peril, girl, cure, transformation, danger ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, new jersey, atlantic city, atlantic city new jersey
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Boardwalk Empire (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
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Story: Boardwalk Empire is a period drama focusing on Enoch "Nucky" Thompson (based on the historical Enoch L. Johnson), a political figure who rose to prominence and controlled Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the Prohibition period of the ...
Style: serious, costume drama, captivating, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, gangster, mob boss, organized crime, prohibition, smuggling, criminal heroes, corruption, politician, mobster, female nudity, american history ...
Time: 1920s, 2000s, 2010s, 1900s, year 2010 ...
Place: new jersey, usa, cuba, atlantic city new jersey, atlantic city ...
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 7.7
 614K
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Less than 24 hours into his parole, charismatic thief Danny Ocean is already rolling out his next plan: In one night, Danny's hand-picked crew of specialists will attempt to steal more than $150 million from three Las Vegas casinos. But to ...
Style: clever, witty, exciting, entertaining, suspense ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night, boys' night, teens
Plot: heist, caper, casino, thief, cons and scams, perfect crime, outsmarting, con artists, twists and turns, deception, scheme, organized crime ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: las vegas, iran, atlantic city, usa, los angeles ...
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 5.7
 3K
Sour Grapes (1998)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Richie, a sneaker sole designer, and his cousin Evan, a brain surgeon, are spending this weekend with their girlfriends in Atlantic City. When one of them ends up with a $436,000 jackpot, sour grapes is what results. Even though Richie uses two ...
Style: humorous, intense, semi serious, witty, dark comedy ...
Plot: gambling, casino, greed, friendship, unlikely friendships, stupidity, partner, dishonesty, nothing goes right, change of luck, dark humor, vengeance ...
Time: 90s, year 1998
Place: new jersey, atlantic city, atlantic city new jersey, bulgaria
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 7.1
 54K
Marnie (1964)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Marnie is a beautiful kleptomaniac who is in love with businessman Mark Rutland. Marnie who is a compulsive thief is being watched by her new boss Mark who suspects her of stealing from him and thus decides to blackmail her in the most unusual way. ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, psychological thriller, enigmatic ...
Plot: kleptomania, sexual abuse, psychology, robbery, obsession, twists and turns, rape, blackmail, marriage, amnesia, mysterious character, cons and scams ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: philadelphia, baltimore, new jersey, maryland, usa ...
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 7.2
 499K
American Hustle (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, China
Duration: 138 min.
Story: A con man, Irving Rosenfeld, along with his seductive partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for a wild FBI agent, Richie DiMaso, who pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia.
Style: clever, tense, period piece, suspense, intense ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, adult
Plot: partners in crime, fbi, mafia, organized crime, heist, cons and scams, political corruption, con artists, strip club, politics, sexual attraction, manipulation ...
Time: 70s, year 2013, 2010s, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: new jersey, usa, boston, atlantic city new jersey, new york ...
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The Godfather Part III (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 162 min.
Story: In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sins while taking a young protege under his wing.
Style: epic, saga, visually appealing, bad ending, suspense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: mafia, organized crime, gangster, mobster, cosa nostra, revenge, italian mafia, murder, guilt, violence, catholic church, assassination ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 80s, 60s, year 1990 ...
Place: italy, new york, sicily, palermo italy, atlantic city new jersey ...
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Penn & Teller Get Killed (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Penn & Teller enjoy playing jokes on each other. When Penn says on an interview show that he wishes he has someone threatening his life so that he "wouldn't sweat the small stuff," each of them begins a series of pranks on the ...
Style: humorous, surreal, absurd, dark comedy, disgusting ...
Plot: magic, murder, creativity, brutality, prankster, psychopath, danger, dark humor, stalking, prank, faked death, chase ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: atlantic city, atlantic city new jersey
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Nothing But Trouble (1991)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: While attempting to seduce gorgeous lawyer Diane Lightson, wealthy gadabout Chris Thorne agrees to drive her to Atlantic City, N.J. But, when some reckless driving draws the attention of a deeply critical cop, they and the flamboyant ...
Style: humorous, dark comedy, melancholic, disturbing, not serious ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: chase, small town, dysfunctional family, justice, on the run, hip hop, eccentric family, disorder, buddies, nothing goes right, danger, goofy hero ...
Time: 90s, year 1991, 20th century
Place: new jersey, usa, atlantic city, atlantic city new jersey
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 6.7
 61K
Empire Records (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The employees of an independent music store learn about each other as they try anything to stop the store being absorbed by a large chain.
Style: teen, cult classic, funny, aesthetic, comedy drama ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, music, rock and roll, workplace, rock, high school, teenager, sexuality, promiscuous woman, sex, teenage sex, nymphet ...
Time: 90s
Place: atlantic city new jersey, seattle, atlantic city
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Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Roberta is a bored suburban housewife who is fascinated with a woman, Susan, she only knows about by reading messages to and from her in the personals section of the newspaper. This fascination reaches a peak when an ad with the headline ...
Style: light, feel good, humorous, funny, clever ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: mistaken identity, fish out of water, farce, obsession, female protagonist, intrigue, adultery, magician's assistant, amnesia, women, on the run, feminist ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1985
Place: new york, new jersey, usa, atlantic city new jersey, atlantic city
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Delivering Milo (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A guardian angel has 24 hours to convince a soul that life on Earth is worth the effort.
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: guardian angel, pregnancy, family relations, ghost, redemption, hopes, family life, death, love, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, angel ...
Place: new york, usa, atlantic city, atlantic city new jersey, manhattan new york city
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The Bounty Hunter (2010)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Milo Boyd is a bounty hunter whose latest gig is rather satisfying, as he finds out that the bail-skipper he must chase down is his own ex-wife, Nicole -- but she has no intention of getting nabbed without a fight. Complicating matters, ...
Style: romantic, funny, light, sexy, rom com ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, boys' night, date night, chick flick ...
Plot: battle of the sexes, bounty hunter, love story, love and romance, enemies to lovers, ex husband ex wife relationship, divorce, escapades, reporter, murder, relationships, marriage ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, 21st century
Place: new jersey, new york, usa, atlantic city, atlantic city new jersey
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 4.8
 4K
Blackjack (1998)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: After saving Casey, a daughter of his friend, from hired assassins, Jack Devlin is hit with a strange phobia - fear of white color. But when his other friend, who works as a bodyguard for a supermodel, is wounded, Jack decides to step in for him. ...
Style: suspense, fast, serious, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, tough heroes, terrorism, manhunt, witness, gangster, one man army, assassination attempt, danger, heroes, chase, scarecrow ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: atlantic city, atlantic city new jersey, new york
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