Nøkkelord Gambling

Når en Las Vegas livvakt med dødelige ferdigheter og et spilleproblem kommer i trøbbel med mafiaen, har han en siste stykket... og det er alt eller ingenting.

Las Vegas 1973 er bakgrunnen for denne gripende og faktabaserte historien om Mafiaens milliardforretning, Casinoet. Oscar-vinnerne Robert De Niro og Joe Pesci spiller hovedrollene sammen med Sharon Stone i Martin Scorseses fengslende skildring av hvordan blind ambisjon, glødende begjæring og 24 karats grådighet styrtet et imperium.

Diamantranerne forkledd som rabbinere, en skruppelløs boksepromotor og grisefarmer som forer sine svin med lik, en totalt uforståelig bokser med jernnever, ranere med en IQ under skostørrelsen sin og et par forvirrede hovedpersoner. Miks og rist, så får du den villeste filmcocktailen. Hovedpersonen Turkish får store problemer da hans nyoppdagede, kraftig tatoverte og campingvogn-galde bokser (Brad Pitt), feier enhver motstander ut av ringen. Han er bare få dager fra å bli svineføde i gangsteren og boksepromoteren "Brick Top's" stall. Dette er bare noen av de personene som har en avgjørende rolle i Guy Ritchies nye film.

Åtte år gamle Calogero blir adoptert av en lokal gangster etter at han har gjort bossen en tjeneste,noe hans bussjåfør far missliker.Første halvdel av filmen skildrer Bronx anno 1960, andre halvdel hopper vi til 1968 og 16 åringen rives fortsatt mellom familie og mafiaen.

I Barry Lyndon tar Kubrick utypisk nok utgangspunkt i en 1800-talls roman og ønsker å lage et periodedrama, men som alltid på sin måte. Tiden er det sene 1700-tall i England og Irland, der en karaktersvak opportunists fremgang og fall portretteres. Etter 7 år i utlendighet kommer bondegutten og eventyreren Barry tilbake til England og får innpass i aristokratiet. Ved hjelp av diverse taskenspilleri lykkes han med å gifte seg med en av de rikeste enkene i landet. Deretter går det imidlertid bare en vei...

Ben Campbell er en sjenert, men briljant M.I.T student. Han sliter med å finansiere studiene sine, og finner løsningen gjennom kortspill. Han rekrutteres til å være med i en gruppe av skolens mest begavede studenter som drar til Las Vegas hver helg utstyrt med falsk identitet og viten om hvordan de skal snu oddsene i Black Jack i sin favør. Med den uortodokse matteprofessoren og statistikkgeniet Micky Rosa som leder, klarer de å knekke koden. Ved å telle kort og benytte et intrikat system av tegn greier de å slå kasinoene "big time". Forført av pengene, Vegas' livsstil og hans smarte og sexy lagkamerat, Jill Taylor, begynner Ben å flytte grenser. Selv om det ikke er ulovlig å telle kort, står mye på spill og utfordringen er ikke bare å holde styr på tallene, men også hele tiden å ligge et skritt foran kasinoets truende overvåker og "vaktbikkje" Cole Williams.

En kald morgen i et industristrøk i utkanten av Buffalo, New York, blir Billy Brown sluppet ut av fengselet etter fem års soning. Før han drar hjem pønsker Billy ut en respektabel årsak til at han har vært fraværende så lenge; fra en strålende karriere som hemmelig agent og et ekteskap med en nydelig kvinne som heter Wendy. Impulsivt velger han seg en ung stepdanser, som han trekker med seg og tvinger til å spille sin kone. Foreldrene lar seg fascinere, og Layla finner seg til rette i den "nye" familien.

Wes Anderson har regissert denne Oscar-berømte filmatiseringen av Roald Dahls novelle om en rik gambler med en usedvanlig evne til å jukse i kortspill.

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 organized wild-west civilized town. The story focuses on the real-life characters Seth Bullock and Al Swearengen.

Kaiji Itou is a good-for-nothing loiterer who spends his days drinking beer and stealing hubcaps—that is, until he ends up being tricked by his former co-worker. Unable to suddenly repay his friend's huge debt all by himself, Kaiji is offered a shady deal to participate in an illegal underground gamble on a cruise ship. This turns out to be nothing more than the beginning of his new life of hell—thrown headlong into a life-threatening roller coaster of mind games, cheating, and deceit.

Follow the hopes and dreams of four generations of a Korean immigrant family beginning with a forbidden love and crescendos into a sweeping saga that journeys between Korea, Japan and America to tell the unforgettable story of war and peace, love and loss, triumph and reckoning.

Hyakkaou Private Academy. An institution for the privileged with a very peculiar curriculum. You see, when you're the sons and daughters of the wealthiest of the wealthy, it's not athletic prowess or book smarts that keep you ahead. It's reading your opponent, the art of the deal. What better way to hone those skills than with a rigorous curriculum of gambling? At Hyakkaou Private Academy, the winners live like kings, and the losers are put through the wringer. But when Yumeko Jabami enrolls, she's gonna teach these kids what a high roller really looks like!

There is a place after death that’s neither heaven nor hell. A bar that serves you one chance to win. You cannot leave until the game is over, and when it is, your life may be too.

Online gamer siblings are thrust into a new realm where they must play to take over the world.

Nangou is a compulsive gambler who has accumulated debt over three million yen. In a last ditch attempt to clear his record, he decides to wager his life on a game of mahjong with the mafia. Unfortunately, as the game progresses, Nangou only moves further from the prize and closer to death. When all hope seems lost, the game parlor is suddenly intruded upon by Shigeru Akagi, a young boy on the run from the police. Desperate to turn the game around, Nangou hands the game over to Akagi after teaching him a few of the rules. The mafia can only smirk as Akagi sits down to play. However, they soon come to learn that Akagi is a natural born gambler. An imposing figure who does not fear death. One who is destined to become a legend.

Chai Foon-Cheung has not won a single game since his defeat in the World Poker Championship twenty years ago. It is the bad luck he has had all these years that has earned him a job in the casino. Ironically, the man who hires him is one of his then competitors Kiu Ching-Cho.

When a judicial apprentice goes behind bars while on an undercover job, he plays the hand he’s dealt to survive prison and get his payback.

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 become slaves. One day, a mysterious girl, Yumeko Jabami (Minami Hamabe), is transferred to Hyakkaou Private Academy. She looks pure and pretty, but she is actually a compulsive gambler and seeks out the thrill of taking calculated risks.

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 player. One day, the X-Playing Cards in government's custody were spread all over Fourland leading to troubles caused by the supernatural abilities of the players with cards across the country. The king secretly assigns Pinochle, one of the top corporations of the nation, to a mission, to collect the cards that are causing all the chaos in the country.

Kimimaro works two jobs to make ends meet. He could go from pauper to prince in a parallel world called the Financial District—if he’ll invest his future as collateral in a dangerous game. Winning gets you more wealth, but losing could erase you from existence. When the destructive forces at play compel Kimimaro to confront the most powerful player, can he save the real world from total collapse?

After a 20-year prison sentence in the Philippines, gambling king Gao Zhang returns to Hong Kong hoping to reunite with his family. However, his wife He Qi Jiao refuses to forgive him and demands that he leave immediately. Gao Zhang's sincere efforts eventually touch Qi Jiao's heart, and she allows him to stay at home for a month on the condition that he doesn't reveal his true identity as a gambler. Gao Zhang is relieved to see his eldest son Zhi Jun, twin daughters Bao Bao, and third son Yao Jiu successful in their careers. But he can't shake off his resentment towards the persistent advances of their landlord, Wen Tian Xiang, who has pursued Qi Jiao for 20 years. Gao Zhang tries various methods to prove that he has changed and hopes to rekindle their family bonds. During this time, Zhi Jun, driven by his pursuit of glamour, engages in speculative business ventures and accumulates a massive debt...

Mr. Lucky is a CBS adventure/drama television series that aired from October 24, 1959, to June 18, 1960, with repeats until September 3. Blake Edwards developed the program as a retooling of his Willie Dante character from Four Star Playhouse, where the role was played by studio boss Dick Powell. In the 1960–1961 season, Howard Duff assumed the role of Willie Dante in the NBC adventure/drama series Dante. Mr. Edwards directed and co-wrote the first episode of Mr. Lucky, and the credits of the first eighteen episodes included "Entire production supervised by Blake Edwards." Jack Arnold produced the show and directed fifteen of the thirty-four episodes. Henry Mancini's smooth theme music for the show reached Number 21 in the US singles charts. He released two successful LP's based on the show, Mr. Lucky and Mr. Lucky Goes Latin.

London cop and compulsive gambler Harry Clayton is on the verge of losing everything. On the night when his huge debts are to be called in, he meets the enigmatic Eve, who gives him a mysterious bracelet said to endow the wearer with immense luck. Harry's fortunes suddenly begin to shift, but he also soon finds himself sucked into a sinister crime wave sweeping through the city.

An action-packed Las Vegas thriller about a former military operative turned security expert who is drawn into a high-stakes game where an organization of wealthy individuals gamble on his ability to stop some of the biggest crimes imaginable from playing out. Can he take them down from the inside and get revenge for the death of his wife, or is it true what they say: the House always wins.

A drama set in the world of horse racing focusing on lives of owners, jockeys, trainers and gamblers who are all tied to the same horse track.

The winner of a secret survival game stands to win a large sum of money. However, one player does not seem to be in the game for the money.

In 1890s Malacca, Li Lan finds herself in the afterlife and becomes mired in a mystery linked to the sinister, deceased son of a wealthy family.