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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Canada, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After a failed swindle, two con-men end up with a map to El Dorado, the fabled "city of gold," and an unintended trip to the New World. Much to their surprise, the map does lead the pair to the mythical city, where the startled ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, entertaining, road movie, witty ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, toddlers, preschool
Plot:
friendship, treasure hunt, jungle, native american, treasure, greed, indians, adventurer, sword fight, magic, gold, high priest ...
Time:
16th century, year 2000, y2k
Place:
spain, central america, mexico, latin america, south america ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Down-on-his-luck gambler Bill (George Segal) links up with free spirit Charlie (Elliott Gould) at first to have some fun, but then gets into debt when Gould takes an unscheduled trip to Tijuana. As a final act of desperation, he pawns most of his ...
Style:
grim, talky, cynical, witty, clever ...
Plot:
gambling, poker, casino, transvestism, friendship, loneliness, gambler, female nudity, card playing, drug, stoner, gambling addiction ...
Time:
year 1974, 70s, 20th century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, las vegas, reno nevada
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In the 1950s, a seemingly sensible newlywed and her wayward brother-in-law undertake parallel journeys of risk, romance, and self-discovery.
Style:
lgbt cinema, romantic, queer cinema, wistful
Plot:
gay relationship, gay, gay interest, gay sex, gay bar, male nudity, gambling, casino, secret life, husband wife relationship, gay love, husband ...
Time:
year 1957, 1950s
Place:
san diego california, nevada, california, las vegas, tijuana mexico ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A River Runs Through is a cinematographically stunning true story of Norman Maclean. The story follows Norman and his brother Paul through the experiences of life and growing up, and how their love of fly fishing keeps them together despite varying ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, period piece, inspirational, thought provoking ...
Plot:
coming of age, fishing, father son relationship, childhood, river, brother brother relationship, beautiful scenery, self discovery, brothers, wilderness, death of brother, gambling ...
Time:
1900s, 1920s, 1910s, year 1992, 1930s ...
Place:
montana, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of the early days of Deadwood, South Dakota; woven around actual historic events with most of the main characters based on real people. Deadwood starts as a gold mining camp and gradually turns from a lawless wild-west community into an ...
Style:
tense, serious, atmospheric, clever, period piece ...
Plot:
sheriff, old west, violence, power struggle, shooting, society, gold rush, gunfight, prostitute, dishonesty, lifestyle, profanity ...
Time:
1870s, 19th century, y2k, year 2004, victorian era ...
Place:
south dakota, usa, hawaii
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202K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 185 min.
Story:
In the Eighteenth Century, in a small village in Ireland, Redmond Barry is a young farm boy in love with his cousin Nora Brady. When Nora engages to the British Captain John Quin, Barry challenges him for a duel of pistols. He wins and escapes to ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, epic, visually appealing, atmospheric ...
Plot:
nobility, rise and fall, aristocracy, opportunist, duel, card playing, british army, pistol duel, wealth, soldier, social climber, literary ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era, 20th century, year 1975, 19th century ...
Place:
ireland, england, prussia, berlin germany, britain ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Children from influential families in politics and businesses attend the Hyakkaou Private Academy. There, the hierarchy of the students are classified by a series of games. Students that win the games are on the ruling side and the students who lose ...
Style:
social, suspense, serious, stylized, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
gambling, gambler, one last chance, direction and purpose, high school, society, love and romance, social differences, wealth, luxury, academy, fighting the system ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country.
Style:
road movie, inspirational, sincere, uplifting, touching ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
autism, road trip, redemption, disability, mentally challenged, brother brother relationship, siblings relations, runaway, self discovery, mathematics, psychiatry, life changing ...
Time:
20th century, year 1988, 80s
Place:
las vegas, california, ohio, cincinnati ohio, columbus ohio ...
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story:
Genius gamer siblings (plus being NEET & hikikomori) Sora and Shiro are known as the undefeatable “__” (blank). Their talents and skills are so good they are considered as urban legend. One day, a young boy named Tet appears before them, ...
Style:
anime, humorous, exciting, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
parallel world, youth, isekai, game, rivalry, strategy, danger, computers and web, contests and competitions, unstoppable, gambling, cyberspace ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 36 min.
TV show
Story:
The Liar Game is a Japanese manga series originally written and illustrated by Shinobu Kaitani. The manga was first serialized in 2005 in the Japanese manga magazine Weekly Young Jump, published by Shueisha. It was adapted into a TV series, which ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, suspense, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
mind game, betrayal, genius, gambling, game, scam, deception, lie, psychology, greed, con men, revenge ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Drama, History, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
The great Chicago White Sox team of 1919 is the saddest team to ever win a pennent. The team is bitter at their penny pincher owner, Charles Comiskey, and at their own teammates. Gamblers take advantage of this opportunity to offer some players $ to ...
Style:
realistic, inspirational, factual, atmospheric, talky ...
Audience:
teens, family outing
Plot:
baseball, gambling, friendship, major league, scandal, historical figure, sport team, society, ambition, contests and competitions, baseball coach, dishonesty ...
Time:
20th century, year 1988, 1910s, year 1919, edwardian era ...
Place:
chicago, usa, cincinnati ohio, boston, california
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Sport
Country: Italy
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
This movie is about a navy Lieutenant named Johnny Firpo who is ordered to work with the Miami Police force to help stop a gang of crooked card sharks. He needs the help of a pro gambler-now retired named Charlie Firpo. Charlie won't help ...
Style:
slapstick, exciting, realistic, not serious, humorous ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens, boys' night
Plot:
gambling, casino, poker, truck driver, organized crime, punched in the face, fistfight, brawl, gambling debt, mafia, pretending to be blind, mobster ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
florida, usa, miami
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Turkey, UK, Kazakhstan
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A Turkish small time black marketeer wants to enter the cell phone business. To get enough money, he promises the local doctor to get medicine for sick children.
Style:
semi serious, touching, realistic, witty, clever
Plot:
gambling, ambition, disorder, partner, nothing goes right, odd couple, satire, doctor, medicine, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, road trip ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
asia, turkey, kazakhstan, azerbaijan
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A television producer with a penchant for drinking and gambling is sent to Las Vegas to convince his troubled niece to enter rehab.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, clever, hilarious ...
Plot:
niece, prostitution, rehabilitation, gambling, couple relations, obsessive quest, love and romance, rescue, redemption, couples, nothing goes right, lifestyle ...
Time:
year 2008
Place:
usa, nevada, las vegas
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Fourland Kingdom is an island nation in the North Atlantic. In this country, there are 52 X-Playing Cards, considered the origin of playing cards. A card with a unique supernatural ability can gift its abilities to a qualified person: the ...
Style:
anime, entertaining, tense, exciting, captivating ...
Plot:
gambling, blood, mafia, supernatural, sword, poker, violence, supernatural power, casino, power, fight, politics ...
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, Lithuania
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Four friends become stranded in Eastern Europe and have to become hit men, prostitutes, corrupt cops, smugglers and more to make it home.
Style:
clever, humorous, exciting, harsh, factual ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
dark humor, partners in crime, cons and scams, escapades, friends, disorder, smuggling, twists and turns, murder, gambling, crime gone awry, cop ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
lithuania, middle east, britain, europe, berlin germany ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent by his boss, the psychopathic "Bones" Barboni, to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror films. When Chili meets Harry's leading lady, ...
Style:
clever, funny, humorous, cult classic, intense ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
debt, hollywood, movie business, producer, gangster, filmmaking, gambling, dark humor, mobster, organized crime, loan shark, mafia ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place:
miami, los angeles, california, florida, usa ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
With the innocent dropping of a few coins into a video poker machine, Laura Bancroft's world is about to change forever. Inspired by true events, Going for Broke is the compelling, hard-hitting story of one woman's overwhelming addiction ...
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, captivating, intense, crime drama ...
Plot:
gambling, female protagonist, deception, gambling addiction, casino, stolen money, compulsive gambler, gambler, financial problem, money problems, needing money, relationship problems ...
Place:
las vegas, reno nevada
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
To escape his life of crime, a Paris drug dealer takes on one last job involving Spain, unhinged gangsters, his longtime crush and his scheming mother.
Style:
exciting, humorous, captivating, light, tense ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
heist, gambling, gang, drug trade, drug, money, family relations, rivalry, danger, society, kidnapping, dog ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Ryota is an unpopular writer although he won a literary award 15 years ago. Now, Ryota works as a private detective. He is divorced from his ex-wife Kyoko and he has an 11-year-old son Shingo. His mother Yoshiko lives alone at her apartment. One ...
Style:
thought provoking, semi serious, sincere, melancholic, touching ...
Plot:
father son relationship, private detective, lottery ticket, writers, gambling, slice of life, novelist, money problems, easy woman, mother son relationship, storm, family relations ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
east asia, japan, india
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The year is 1879. Gunfighters from the far reaches of the globe descend on Religion, AZ to compete in a legendary poker tournament. Drawn by the gold prize, the players come to realize that in this game, their very souls are at stake.
Style:
captivating, tense, disturbing, intense, suspense ...
Plot:
gambling, poker, old west, shootout, competitor, poker player, money, shooter, frontier town, greed, anti hero, mining town ...
Time:
19th century, 1870s
Place:
arizona
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Six people, each of them is on the road to self-destruction. They wake up in cells in a surreal facility, without knowing how they got there or why.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, serious, emotional, scary ...
Plot:
captivity, deathtrap, gambling, confined, life is a bitch, self discovery, danger, secret movement, haunted by the past, survival, mind game, abduction ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Boston cop Pally is forced into early retirement, putting a strain on his marriage. Pally's stepbrother, Ray, attempts to lift his spirits by tipping him off to a sure-bet racehorse. But their attempts to secure the champion equine are thwarted ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gambling, mob boss, starting over, gangster, betrayal, crime gone awry, criminal's revenge, rivalry, family problems, jockey, estrangement, disorder ...
Place:
usa, boston
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A compulsive gambler finds his new family's safety seriously threatened by a ruthless gambling boss.
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, independent film
Plot:
gambling, casino, gambling addiction, card playing, poker, gambler, pregnancy, gangster, addiction, bookies, dishonesty, survival ...
Time:
90s
Place:
las vegas, usa
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3K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Born lucky, Karim Moussa takes to exploiting it instead of focusing on studies. Now a wealthy gambler, he decides to recruit about a dozen lucky people to participate in a deadly game of survival.
Style:
exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Plot:
gambling, rivalry, danger, dishonesty, prodigy, obsession, bet, desert, survival, game of death, small community, chance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Chi Mo Sai (Yuen Wah) meets Wong (Roger Kwok) in Auntie Fei's (Yuen Qiu) cafe and learns that Wong has photographic memory. He decides to exploit this skill by teaching Wong how to play Mahjong, but Fei, Wong's boss, strongly objects to ...
Style:
exciting, humorous, entertaining, captivating, feel good ...
Plot:
gambling, mahjong, martial arts, rivalry, gang, dishonesty, contests and competitions, ambition, cons and scams, kung fu, gangster, legends and myths ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong
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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:
cult classic, neo noir, realistic, aesthetic, cynical ...
Plot:
casino, gangster, gambling, murder, older man younger woman relationship, drug, voyeurism, mafia, mobster, cocaine, passion, redemption ...
Time:
year 1980, 20th century, 70s
Place:
new jersey, philadelphia, atlantic city new jersey, atlantic city, california ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A group of young people awake, locked inside a warehouse with cameras screwed into their heads. It becomes apparent that they are unwilling competitors in a deadly game, and they will need to murder each other if they hope to survive.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, bleak, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
gambling, murder, trapped, mind game, competition, survival, survivor, fear, isolation, rivalry, deathtrap, chaos ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 185 min.
TV show
Story:
Vitthal Tripathi is a man from humble origins and an exceptional skill with playing cards. He is a gambler no one can defeat, winning games against all his opponents. However, when he decides to join the big leagues, get a taste of city life, his ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
gambling, gambler, ambition, risk, poker player, poker, money, escapades, ambitious man, problem, village life, strategy ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Seguito de Febbre da cavallo!
Style:
feel good, captivating, humorous, funny, satirical ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
gambling, money problems, friendship, satire, money, bet, escapades, friends, humour, needing money, heist, scheming ...
Place:
rome italy
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