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1) The gamble
Publisher
DSSP Inc
Pub. Date
p2004
Language
English
Description
When young wanderer Francesco (Matthew Modine) returns to his Venice home with the hope that the family fortune will still be there to support him, he finds himself caught up in a tangled web of greed and deception. He soons discovers that his wealthy father has squandered the family's money on gambling and owes very penny to a ruthless and cruel German Countess (Faye Dunaway). With nothing to lose and everything to gain, the Countess decides that...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"When Princeton grad student Richie Furst ... believes he's been swindled by an online poker site, he heads to Costa Rica to confront gambling tycoon Ivan Block..., the man he things is responsible. But Richie will soon face the ultimate power play as he finds himself caught between Block's promises of unlimited wealth and the zealous FBI agent ... trying to bring him down"--Container.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Joy is dumped by her boyfriend and her friends recommend she take a vacation to Las Vegas to get him out of her mind. After Jack gets fired by his dad from the family business, he ends up in Vegas too. After a night of drinking, the two wake up the following morning to discover they have gotten married. One of them wins a $3 million jackpot - using the quarter of the other. Both want to end the marriage and keep the money. The unhappy pair tries to...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1965
Language
English
Description
The Kid thinks he's the best 5-card stud player in town, but The Man has never been beaten. It is therefore inevitable that they go head-on, and what a game it will be: a non-stop, stud poker duel-to-the-death to decide who will be the reigning king of the New Orleans gambling world.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A Princeton graduate student, Richie, believes he has been tricked online by a fellow gambler. He travels to Costa Rica to meet Ivan Block, an online gambling tycoon. When the FBI tries to pressure Richie to help bring down Block, Richie faces his biggest gamble ever.
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When a gambler named Jack is down on his luck, he makes a deal with a slick-talking, wealthy man in Las Vegas to make some quick money in order to repay his debts. When the deal turns deadly, Jack must learn to play smarter in order to get ahead of the game.
7) The house
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
After Scott and Kate Johansen lose their daughter's college fund, they become desperate to earn it back so she can pursue her dream of attending a university. With the help of their neighbor Frank, they decide to start an illegal casino in his house.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When retiree Jerry Selbee discovers a mathematical loophole in the Massachusetts lottery, he and his wife Marge go on an exciting multi-million dollar winning spree to revive their small Michigan town. But when a selfish college student cheats the system, Jerry must find a way to make the game fair for all.
10) Harvard man
Publisher
Studio Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
Alan is an all-star Harvard man. He's ambitious, intelligent and star of the college basketball team, juggling two girlfriends. Girlfriend no. 1, his Philosophy professor, Chesney. Girlfriend no. 2, Cindy, a sexy college cheerleader and mob boss daughter with all the right moves, including the beauty, money and power to lure Alan right where she wants him. Needing money, Alan agrees to fix the basketball games. The scheme works until the FBI cathes...
12) Dinner rush
Publisher
Access Motion Picture Group
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
At New York's hottest restaurant, things are really heating up. Owner and bookie Louis Cropa lost a friend to a mob hit and now his chef's gambling problem has brought the unwelcome mobsters into their restaurant.
Author
Series
Publisher
[Midwest Tape]
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
A collection of DVDs all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night. One more time: Rattling around in his mansion in the Hamptons, faded Sinatra-esque crooner and notorious ladies man, Paul Lombard stews over the acclaim that eluded him in his career and the trail of romantic wreckage he left in his wake. Two for the money: When Brandon Lang becomes the protege of sports gambling's power-player Walter Abrams, he swiftly becomes the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009, 1935
Language
English
Description
A stuffy British butler, Marmaduke Ruggles, is traded in a poker game from an English Duke to a wealthy and rowdy American, Egbert Floud. Ruggles' new home is Red Gap, Washington, where he is introduced by Egbert as "Colonel" Ruggles. The town ladies are quite taken by the sophisticated servant in disguise as he enamors them with fictitious stories of battles gone by. Ruggles proves his newfound patriotism in one of the best scenes of the film, his...
15) The hustler
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp
Pub. Date
©2002
Language
English
Description
New York. Ames Billiards, with high ceilings and air of hushed concentration, is a church of pool. "Fast" Eddie Felson enters as an innocent con man and leaves with a taste of what the world can do, that talent alone will only get him so far, and that a man's search for "character," that hard-to-define quality that is simultaneously elusive and essential, could last a lifetime. Having come to take on pool legend Minnesota Fats, Eddie is soundly beaten...
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
"The Color of Money" is a decades-later sequel to "The Hustler." 25 years on, Fast Eddie is now a nattily dressed, silver-haired liquor salesman working the Midwest in his white Cadillac. His neat mustache and smiling deviltry are also employed in his other profession--stake horse to up and coming pool hustlers. One night he sees a kid playing who is so good that Eddie's laboriously buried memories are stirred. Vincent and his girlfriend Carmen have...
Publisher
Binge box
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A collection of DVDs all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night.
One more time: Rattling around in his mansion in the Hamptons, faded Sinatra-esque crooner and notorious ladies man, Paul Lombard stews over the acclaim that eluded him in his career and the trail of romantic wreckage he left in his wake.
Two for the money: When Brandon Lang becomes the protege of sports gambling's power-player Walter Abrams, he swiftly becomes...
20) Show boat
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Company
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Musical extravaganza which celebrates the loves and heartbreaks of a Mississippi riverboat troupe, starting with a young girl whose heart is stolen by a dashing gambler.