Movies and TV shows set in las vegas – page 4

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Heartbreak Hotel (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When a teen tries to set up a band at his school, his mother who was a big fan of Elvis Presley gets in a wreck he and his band members decides to kidnap Elvis and have him hooked up with his mother.
Style: entertaining, surreal, road movie, light, humorous ...
Plot: elvis presley, rock and roll, twists and turns, storytelling, unlikely friendships, odd couple, missing person, teenage life, partner, kidnapping, teenage boy, musician ...
Time: 70s
Place: las vegas
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 6.0
 755
Delusion (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A man who has just embezzled money from his company is driving through the Nevada desert. He picks up a pretty girl and her seemingly goofy boyfriend. The girl is a Las Vegas showgirl and the boyfriend turns out to be a professional killer, and he ...
Style: neo noir, road movie, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: stranded in the desert, desert, crime gone awry, money, motorcycle, hitchhiker, deception, revenge, showgirl, terror, on the road, disorder ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: las vegas, nevada, america
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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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Six-String Samurai (1998)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In a post-apocalyptic world where the Russians have taken over a nuked USA and Elvis is king of Lost Vegas, Buddy is a '50s rocker and wandering warrior rolled into one, too-cool package. Armed with his six-string in one hand and his sword in ...
Style: surreal, futuristic, entertaining, apocalyptic, humorous ...
Plot: desert, martial arts, post apocalypse, apocalypse, post apocalyptic, road trip, alternate history, rock and roll, danger, heroes, chaos, medieval ...
Time: 20th century, 50s
Place: las vegas
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The Electric Horseman (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Sonny Steele used to be a rodeo star, but his next appearance is to be on a Las Vegas stage, wearing a suit covered in lights, advertising a breakfast cereal. When he finds out they are going drug the horse in case its too frisky, he rides off into ...
Style: light, captivating, feel good, sincere, road movie ...
Plot: horse, cowboy, redemption, desert, freedom, obsessive quest, hopes, escapades, journalist, modern western, modern west, female journalist ...
Time: 20th century, year 1979, 70s
Place: usa, las vegas, utah, nevada
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 6.1
 10K
Duets (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Duets is a road-trip comedy which revolves around the little known world of karaoke and the whimsical characters who inhabit it. All roads lead to Omaha, site of a national karaoke competition where this motley group of singers and stars come ...
Style: touching, sentimental, entertaining, humorous, road movie ...
Audience: date night
Plot: partner, road trip, family relations, love and romance, contests and competitions, ambition, musician, singing competition, on the road, father daughter relationship, singer, con men ...
Time: 90s
Place: las vegas, usa, nevada, utah
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 5.6
 3K
Heat (1986)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Reynolds plays an ex-soldier-of-fortunish character in Vegas, taking "Chaperone" jobs, fighting with the mob, and trying to get enough money together to move to Venice, Italy.
Style: neo noir, independent film, exciting, tense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: bodyguard, prostitute, gambling, killer, casino, fistfight, tough guy, psychopath, hotel room, rape, gambler, male bonding ...
Time: year 1986, 80s
Place: las vegas, nevada, usa, venice, italy
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Going in Style (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Three senior citizens in their 70s who live together are slowly decaying in endless days with nothing to do but feed the birds. One of them comes up with an idea - rob a bank. They certainly could use the money if they get away with it and if they ...
Style: light, realistic, touching, humorous, entertaining ...
Plot: heist, senior citizen, robbery, caper, aging, elderly, bank, bittersweet, bank robber, thief, twin towers, hidden treasure ...
Time: year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place: las vegas, usa, new york, new york state
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 6.2
 166K
Next (2007)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him: he can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child and the interest of the government and medical establishment in his power, he lies ...
Style: mind bending, exciting, stylized, action packed, serious ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: time travel, psychic, foreknowledge, destiny, changing the past or future, danger, save the day, twists and turns, supernatural ability, terrorism, a vision, precognition ...
Time: future, year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, las vegas, usa, arizona
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The Center of the World (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A couple checks into a suite in Las Vegas. In flashbacks we see that he's a computer whiz on the verge of becoming a dot.com millionaire, she's a lap dancer at a club. He's depressed, withdrawing from work, missing meetings with ...
Style: erotic, sexy, sexual, enigmatic, emotional ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sex, erotica, women, male female relationship, lifestyle, nudity, love and romance, dangerous attraction, destructive relationship, coitus, sexual fantasy, sexual relations ...
Time: year 2001
Place: las vegas, usa, california, iowa, nevada ...
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Dance with Me (1998)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Young Cuban Rafael just buried his mother, and comes to Houston to meet his father John for the first time. The difficult part is that John doesn't know he is Rafael's father. John runs a dance studio, and everyone prepares for the World ...
Style: romantic, light, entertaining, exciting, feel good ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: dancing, music, dancer's life, ballroom dancing, dance, follow your dream, mentor, hopes, ambition, social differences, teachers and students, contests and competitions ...
Time: year 1998
Place: las vegas, austin texas, cuba, usa, texas ...
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Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A jealous piano teacher Orville Spooner sends his beautiful wife, Zelda, away for the night while he tries to sell a song to a famous nightclub singer Dino, who is stranded in town
Style: biting, clever, witty, retro, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: small town, prostitute, satire, transformation, fishing village, village, sexual content, playboy, womanizer, nightclub, mistaken identity, gas station ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: las vegas, usa, nevada
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Feeling Minnesota (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Sam Clayton's (Vincent D'Onofrio) marriage to ex-stripper Freddie (Cameron Diaz) comes about when she's strong-armed into the match by Red (Delroy Lindo), a club proprietor who once did her a favor. But Freddie falls in love with ...
Style: dark comedy, independent film, black comedy, talky, clever ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, corruption, murder, gangster, wedding, love triangle, stripper, family relations, elopement, motel, presumed dead, framed for murder ...
Time: 90s
Place: minnesota, las vegas, usa
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Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When her great aunt dies famed horror hostess Elvira heads for the uptight new England town to Falwell to claim her inheritance of a haunted house a witches cookbook and a punk rock poodle. But once the stuffy locals get an eyeful of the scream ...
Style: gothic, parody, spoof, black comedy, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: witchcraft, goth, inheritance, magic, hostess, witch, small town, female protagonist, good versus evil, demon, halloween, big breasts ...
Time: 80s
Place: las vegas, usa, new england, massachusetts
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Kill Me Again (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After Faye and her psychotic boyfriend, Vince, successfully rob a mob courier, Faye decides to abscond with the loot. She heads to Reno, where she hires feckless private investigator Jack Andrews to help fake her death. He pulls the scheme off and ...
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, detective, surprise ending, offbeat ...
Plot: private detective, lovers on the run, femme fatale, chase, casino, desert, organized crime, murder, cop, caper, private investigator, serial killer ...
Time: year 1989, 20th century, 80s
Place: las vegas, usa, nevada, arizona, reno nevada
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Machine Gun McCain (1969)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After serving 12 years behind bars for armed robbery, tough guy Hank McCain finds himself the pawn of a ruthless mob runt's rebellion against a high level don. When McCain discovers that he's been betrayed and abandoned by his new ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, casino, on the run, crime gone awry, politics, gang, prison, betrayal, criminal heroes, rivalry, love affair, gambling ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
Place: las vegas, long beach california, san francisco
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 5.3
 19K
Tomcats (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: College buddies chip in and promise that the group's last unmarried man will collect a cash pot. Seven years later, the kitty is worth $500,000 -- money Michael needs to pay a gambling debt. Problem is, the only other single guy is a hopeless ...
Style: sex comedy, humorous, not serious, parody, teen ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: group of friends, one night stand, bachelor, loss of virginity, looking for sex, nudity, friendship, goofy hero, fall in love, lifestyle, singleness, disorder ...
Time: year 2001
Place: las vegas, usa
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 6.7
 4K
Funny Bones (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Tommy Fawkes wants to be a successful comedian but his Las Vegas debut is a failure. He goes back to Blackpool, UK, where his father, also a comedian started and where he spent the summers of his childhood. He starts to search for a partner, a comic ...
Style: surreal, humorous, touching, clever, entertaining ...
Plot: comedian, eccentricity, farce, creativity, self discovery, friendship, actor's life, introspection, parents and children, haunted by the past, father son relationship, clown ...
Time: 90s
Place: las vegas, england, europe, usa
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 5.6
 34K
Sleepless (2017)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Undercover Las Vegas police officer Vincent Downs is caught in a high stakes web of corrupt cops and the mob-controlled casino underground. When a heist goes wrong, a crew of homicidal gangsters kidnaps Downs’ teenage son. In one sleepless night ...
Style: suspense, neo noir, disturbing, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: organized crime, undercover cop, kidnapping, police corruption, tough cop, female warrior, rescue, father son relationship, brutality, race against time, police detective, car chase ...
Time: year 2017
Place: las vegas
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Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When megalomaniacal White Goodman, the owner of a trendy, high-end fitness center, makes a move to take over the struggling local gym run by happy-go-lucky Pete La Fleur, there's only one way for La Fleur to fight back: dodgeball. Aided by a ...
Style: humorous, funny, hilarious, slapstick, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: underdog, against the odds, dumb, coach, tournament, competition, cheerleader, pirate, redemption, rivalry, contests and competitions, gym ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: las vegas, usa, nevada, california, los angeles
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 5.9
 21K
Lucky You (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA, Germany, Australia
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A professional poker player whose astounding luck at the table fails to translate into his lonesome love life attempts to win the World Series of Poker while simultaneously earning the affections of a beautiful Las Vegas singer.
Style: clever, exciting, entertaining, suspense, feel good ...
Plot: poker, gambling, addiction, golf, gangster, twists and turns, bet, life philosophy, underdog, couples, ambition, rivalry ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, year 2003, 21st century
Place: las vegas, usa
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Date in Vegas (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A charismatic advertising manager Artem and his charming business rival Oksana are removed from the flight to Las Vegas after Artem tries to prank her to get rid of the competition. This turns an official journey into a romantic adventure.
Style: entertaining, captivating, disturbing, semi serious, romantic
Plot: casino, dating, unlikely couple, escapades, couple relations, love and romance, relationships, unlikely friendships, love story, romantic relationship, love affair, competitor ...
Place: las vegas, nevada, usa, ukraine
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 7.0
 816
Tilt (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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Story: Young poker players must navigate their past along with the best players in the world to win.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, suspense
Plot: gambling, poker, casino, rivalry, ambition, contests and competitions, cons and scams, vengeance, buddies, supportive spouse, gambler, sin ...
Time: 21st century
Place: las vegas, nevada, usa, miami, florida ...
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Paradise (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: After surviving a plane crash a young conservative woman suffers a crisis of faith.
Style: realistic, cynical, humorous, captivating, psychological ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: self discovery, friendship, coming of age, church, female protagonist, car accident, society, radical, bartender, prostitute, plane crash, conservative ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, las vegas
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 4.7
 896
The Winner (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A long lucky streak makes a nice guy the target of opportunists like his brother, his girlfriend, and some guys from New Jersey.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, neo noir
Plot: casino, hitman, brother brother relationship, death of father, loss of loved one, shootout, blonde, femme fatale, debt, gambling, seduction, betrayal ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: las vegas, usa, nevada
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Things Change (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Jerry, a misfit Mafia henchman, is assigned the low-level job of keeping an eye on Gino, a shoe repairman fingered by the Mob to confess to a murder he didn't commit. But Gino's mistaken for a Mafia boss, and the two are suddenly ...
Style: clever, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous ...
Plot: organized crime, hitman, gangster, friendship, murder, mobster, mafia, casino, scapegoat, mistaken identity, sensuality, criminal heroes ...
Time: 80s
Place: chicago, las vegas, usa
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 5.5
 498
Sparkler (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Melba is a Californian trailer-park girl who is told to look for three kings by a phone psychic, and when she meets three guys - Trent, Brad and Joel traveling to Las Vegas, she decides they are those kings and joins them on a trip. In Vegas she ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous, stylized ...
Plot: truck driver, psychic, trailer park, friendship, on the road, gambling, drag queen, reunited friends, stripper, partner, best friend, couples ...
Time: 90s
Place: las vegas, nevada, usa, los angeles
Is relevant ?
 4.3
 9K
Jury Duty (1995)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When jobless Tommy Collins discovers that sequestered jurors earn free room and board as well as $5-a-day, he gets himself assigned to a jury in a murder trial. Once there, he does everything he can to prolong the trial and deliberations and make ...
Style: humorous, funny, light, not serious, witty ...
Plot: jury, unemployment, courtroom, hotel, murder trial, serial killer, stupidity, legal, lawyer, justice, life philosophy, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, las vegas
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The Marrying Man (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Charley Pearl, wealthy heir and gadabout, is slated to marry Adele, the daughter of a Hollywood tycoon. But, during a wild bachelor party in Las Vegas, Charley strikes up a flirtation with nightclub crooner Vicki Anderson that soon leads to her ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, light, humorous, erotic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: love story, destiny, love triangle, twists and turns, nightclub, lovers reunited, love affair, unlikely couple, looking for love, wedding, playboy, love and romance ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: las vegas, los angeles, usa
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 4.4
 247
Las Vegas Lady (1975)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In Las Vegas, Lucky and two of her girlfriends, Carol and Lisa, plan to steal half a million dollars from the sadistic manager of the Circus Circus Casino. A shadowy man is their contact and organizer. Each of the women could be a weak link in a ...
Style: grindhouse, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: female nudity, heist, casino, swing, exploitation, call girl, strong female presence, unlikely criminals, dishonesty, crime gone awry, criminal heroes, gang ...
Time: year 1975, 70s
Place: las vegas
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