Movies tagged as "gambler"

007 Dr. No [1962, UK ] starting from $1.99

NOW meet the most extraordinary gentleman spy in all fiction!...JAMES BOND, Agent 007!

Genres: Action, Adventure, Thriller Actors: Sean Connery, Bernard Lee, Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman, Jack Lord, Eunice Gayson, John Kitzmiller, Margaret Le Wars, Zena Marshall, Directors: Terence Young Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   An agent of the British Secret Service, James Bond (007), is sent out to the West Indies in order to find out why another of his number was killed. His arrival is not welcomed by everyone, but it is not long before he is on the trail of the killer. The trail leads to a secretive scientist, Dr. No, but the discovery has wider implications...

Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man [1951, USA ] starting from $1.99

It's all NEW and a RIOT too!

Genres: Comedy, Sci-Fi Actors: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Nancy Guild, Arthur Franz, Adele Jergens, Sheldon Leonard, William Frawley, Gavin Muir, Sam Balter, John Daheim, Paul Maxey, Walter F. Appler, Howard Banks, Bobby Barber, Richard Bartell, Directors: Charles Lamont Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Boxer Tommy Nelson is accused of killing his manager. While detectives Bud and Lou investigate they come across an invisibility formula with which Tommy injects himself rather than face the police. This sparks an idea for trapping gangster Morgan by having Lou fight champ Rocky Hanlon, with Tommy's invisible help.

Cooler, The [2003, USA ] starting from $1.99

When your life depends on losing... the last thing you need is lady luck.

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance Actors: William H. Macy, Alec Baldwin, Maria Bello, Shawn Hatosy, Ron Livingston, Paul Sorvino, Estella Warren, Arthur J. Nascarella, Joey Fatone, M.C. Gainey, Ellen Greene, Don Scribner, Tony Longo, Richard Israel, Timothy Landfield, Directors: Wayne Kramer Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   The Cooler is Bernie Lootz, and THE COOLER is a love story about the changing fortunes of this down-at-heels loser who has made a career out of spreading his virulent bad luck on the floor of Las Vegas' aging Shangri-La casino. When Bernie falls for a gorgeous cocktail waitress his bad luck is thrown into reverse.

Cry Danger [1951, USA ] starting from $1.99

Powell's on the Prowl!

Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir Actors: Dick Powell, Rhonda Fleming, Richard Erdman, William Conrad, Regis Toomey, Jean Porter, Jay Adler, Joan Banks, Gloria Saunders, Hy Averback, Renny McEvoy, Lou Lubin, Benny Burt, Robert Bice, Ralph Brooks, Directors: Robert Parrish Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   "Rocky" Mulloy is framed for a murder and a holdup he didn't commit and pulls a five year stretch in prison. He is finally pardoned when a friend returns from overseas to corroborate his testimony in court. "Rocky" then goes hunting for the real culprits so this his prison buddy, believed to be innocent, can also be pardoned. Nancy Morgan, wife of his friend, falls in love with him along the way, and he also has a few bullets fired at him by an oily character. "Rocky" finds the guilty party in a place he didn't think about looking.

Good Thief, The [2002, France, UK, Ireland, Canada ] starting from $1.99

He doesn't want money. He wants what money can't buy.

Genres: Crime, Drama Actors: Nutsa Kukhianidze, Ouassini Embarek, Marc Lavoine, Nick Nolte, Tchéky Karyo, Gérard Darmon, Saïd Taghmaoui, Patricia Kell, Julien Maurel, Emir Kusturica, Roland Munter, Warren Zavatta, Théo Trifard, Sarah Bridges, Nicolas Dromard Directors: Neil Jordan, Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Set against the glitzy backdrop of the French Riviera, aging gambler Bob Montagnet is about to gamble it all on the casino heist of a lifetime; a spectatcular sleight of hand—two heists, one real, one not, but which is which? Under the watchful eye of Roger, a policeman who would as soon save his longtime opponent as arrest him, Montagnet assembles a team that consists of partners Paulo and Raoul, technical mastermind Vladimer, former-drug-dealer-turned-informant Said, Anne, a young Eastern girl Montagnet rescued from prostitution, and the perfect complement to a double theft—identical twins Albert and Bertram.

Guys and Dolls [1955, USA ] starting from $1.99

Genres: Comedy, Crime, Musical, Romance Actors: Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine, Robert Keith, Stubby Kaye, B.S. Pully, Johnny Silver, Sheldon Leonard, Danny Dayton, George E. Stone, Regis Toomey, Kathryn Givney, Veda Ann Borg, Mary Alan Hokanson, Directors: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   All the hot gamblers are in town, and they're all depending on Nathan Detroit to set up this week's incarnation of "The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York"; the only problem is, he needs $1000 to get the place. Throw in Sarah Brown, who's short on sinners at the mission she runs; Sky Masterson, who accepts Nathan's $1000 bet that he can't get Sarah Brown to go with him to Havana; Miss Adelaide, who wants Nathan to marry her; Police Lieutenant Brannigan, who always seems to appear at the wrong time; and the music/lyrics of Frank Loesser, and you've got quite a musical. Includes the songs: Fugue for Tinhorns, "Luck Be a Lady", "Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat".

Indecent Proposal [1993, USA ] starting from $1.99

A husband. A wife. A millionaire. A proposal

Genres: Drama, Romance Actors: Robert Redford, Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson, Seymour Cassel, Oliver Platt, Billy Bob Thornton, Rip Taylor, Billy Connolly, Joel Brooks, Pierre Epstein, Danny Zorn, Kevin West, Pamela Holt, Tommy Bush, Mariclare Costello, Directors: Adrian Lyne Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   A young couple very much in love are married and have started their respective careers, she as a real estate broker, he as an architect. She finds the perfect spot to build his dream house, and they get loans to finance it. When the recession hits, they stand to lose everything they own, so they go to Vegas to have one shot at winning the money they need. After losing at the tables, they are approached by a millionaire who offers them a million dollars for a night with the wife. Though the couple agrees that this is a way out of their financial dilemma, it threatens to destroy their relationship.

Lucky You [2007, USA ] starting from $1.99

Change your game. Change your life.

Genres: Comedy, Drama Actors: Eric Bana, Horatio Sanz, Drew Barrymore, Joey Kern, Debra Messing, Jean Smart, Charles Martin Smith, Robert Duvall, Robert Downey Jr., Yetta Gottesman, Saverio Guerra, Danny Hoch, Kenny Cau, Lindsay MacFarland, Bill May, Directors: Curtis Hanson Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   A hotshot poker player tries to win a tournament in Vegas, but is fighting a losing battle with his personal problems.

Owning Mahowny [2003, Canada, UK ] starting from $1.99

To some it's a game. To others it's a habit. But to Dan Mahowny -- beating the odds is everything

Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller Actors: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Minnie Driver, John Hurt, Maury Chaykin, Ian Tracey, Sonja Smits, K.C. Collins, Jason Blicker, Vince Corazza, Roger Dunn, Eric Fink, Mike 'Nug' Nahrgang, Tanya Henley, Brona Brown, Philip Craig, Directors: Richard Kwietniowski Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Based on the true story of a Toronto bank manager, Dan Mahowny is addicted to gambling. Horses and sports are only a few of his interests. Eventually, he creates dummy accounts at his bank and uses that money to fly to Atlantic City to gamble. He seems to get little joy from winning and his addiction is such that he is unable to stop in any event. Even if he wins huge amounts - which he does - he simply continues to play until he has lost it all. It's a frighteningly lonely experience that cannot include friends or anyone else around him. In the end, his hours and hours at the tables give him nothing and as his embezzlement catches up to him, he is arrested and sent to jail.

Plainsman, The [1936, USA ] starting from $1.99

Cecile B. DeMille brings you Gary and Jean in their grandest picture...the story of Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane, the hardest boiled pair of lovers who ever rode the plains...a glorious romance set against the whole flaming pageant of the Old West...

Genres: Biography, War, Western Actors: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, James Ellison, Charles Bickford, Helen Burgess, Porter Hall, Paul Harvey, Victor Varconi, John Miljan, Frank McGlynn Sr., Granville Bates, Frank Albertson, Purnell Pratt, Fred Kohler, Pat Moriarity, Directors: Cecil B. DeMille Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   With the end of the North American Civil War, the manufacturers of repeating rifles find a profitable means of making money selling the weapons to the North American Indians, using the front man John Lattimer to sell the rifles to the Cheyenne. While traveling in a stagecoach with Calamity Jane and William "Buffalo Bill" Cody and his young wife Louisa Cody that want to settle down in Hays City managing a hotel, Wild Bill Hickok finds the guide Breezy wounded by arrows and telling that the Indians are attacking a fort using repeating rifles. Hickok meets Gen. George A. Custer that assigns Buffalo Bill to guide a troop with ammunition to help the fort. Meanwhile the Cheyenne kidnap Calamity Jane, forcing Hickok to expose himself to rescue her.

Uncle Buck [1989, USA ] starting from $1.99

OH NO! IT'S...

Genres: Comedy, Drama Actors: John Candy, Jean Louisa Kelly, Gaby Hoffmann, Macaulay Culkin, Amy Madigan, Elaine Bromka, Garrett M. Brown, Laurie Metcalf, Jay Underwood, Brian Tarantina, Mike Starr, Suzanne Shepherd, William Windom, Dennis Cockrum, Joel Robinson, Directors: John Hughes Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Bob Russel, his wife Cindy Russel, and their three kids, 8-year-old Miles, 6-year old Maizy, and 15-year-old Tia, recently moved from Indianapolis to Chicago, and Tia resents Bob and Cindy for it because Tia, Miles, and Maizy were perfectly happy living in Indianapolis. Bob and Cindy are in bed one night when Cindy's aunt calls and tells them that Cindy's father has had a heart attack. Bob and Cindy immediately make plans to go to Indianapolis to visit Cindy's father. After hearing this, Tia angrily tells Cindy that Tia would have a heart attack too if her family moved away from her, then Tia slams her bedroom door in Cindy's face. With Cindy and Bob going to Indianapolis, the problem is who the babysitter will be. Even though Cindy doesn't like the idea, they choose Bob's brother Buck to babysit Tia, Miles, and Maizy. Cindy doesn't like Buck because she thinks Buck is a sloppy person who doesn't know how to do anything. While Cindy and Bob are in Indianapolis, Buck takes over the house, and Buck tries to do the best he can with the kids while he's having problems with Chanice Kobolowski, who has been his girlfriend for the past 8 years. Buck bonds with Miles and Maizy and wins their love, but Buck has problems with Tia as he tries to protect Tia from her boyfriend Bug, because unknown to Tia, Bug only wants Tia for one reason sex.