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Publisher
Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A compulsive gambler attempts to cure his addiction by moving from Las Vegas to Albuquerque and working at an auto insurance company, only to find old temptations cropping up once again when he's sent out to investigate a dubious car accident just outside of Sin City.
2) Ten Benny
Publisher
Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ray has big dreams. All he needs is $10,000 to bet on a horse--a sure thing--and everything he ever wanted will be his.
3) The house
Formats
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
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on real events that occurred in between 1980 and 1981. Dan Mahowney is a quiet, unassuming assistant manager at a bank in Toronto. He is a compulsive gambler and runs up a massive debt with his bookie. Dan's bank responsibilities include approving loans. Needing to cover his debts, Dan starts approving loans to non-existent clients and adding hundreds of thousands of dollars to other accounts. As Dan's debts begin to grow into the seven figure...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 86 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
At a charity gambling benefit aboard the S.S. Fortune, the tables are hot, the jazz is hotter and before you know it, a bandleader's body is growing cold. They're playing your song Nick & Nora Charles!
6) Rounders
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Master poker player Mike gives up gambling for law school but is lured back into the game when his friend gets out of prison and is in over his head with a ruthless Russian card shark.
7) Hard eight
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sydney, a poker-faced professional gambler plays guardian angel to unlucky John and his girlfriend. When John's and his bride's honeymoon night leads to a disastrous hostage situation, the gambler takes care of it as usual. But when a slick casino pro threatens to reveal a secret from Sydney's past, Sydney decides to hedge his bets and not leave anything to chance.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (186 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The bride wore boots: A bookish husband tries to win back the affections of his horse-breeding wife.
The lady gambles: A novice gambler bets it all and loses, and is thrust into a downward spiral from which only her devoted husband can save her.
9) Volunteers
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Lawrence Bourne III escapes the bookies to whom he owes $28,000 by swapping places with a friend and going to Thailand with the Peace Corps.
Publisher
Ditributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
11) Bookies
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three college buddies enter the high-stakes betting racket and when their greed gets in their way, they run afoul of the mob.
12) The gambler
Publisher
Wellspring
Pub. Date
2002, c1997
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on a true episode in literary history - this is a tale of the strange circumstances that led Dostoyevsky to write his novel "The gambler". A young woman, in desperate need of money, takes a job as a stenographer while Dostoyevsky dictates his novel to her. The terms of her employment are extraodinary - she must stay in his apartment during the next month. As the novel unfolds, she discovers that she must come face to face with her own eroticism....
13) Dollar
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (77 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Comedy film about three rich married men who have been close friends since childhood. Their wives have become friends as well, but their relationship is strained.
14) 7 días
Publisher
Xenon Pictures
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A man decides to gamble a large sum of money to raise an even bigger sum--he wants to bring the world's biggest band, U2, to Mexico to play a concert.
Un promotor de recitales hace una apuesta con el capo mafioso para recaudar dinero para llevar al súper estelar conjunto U2 a su ciudad de Monterrey, y la pierde. Ahora tiene sólo siete días para pagar su deuda, pero a medida que se acerca el plazo, debe enfrentarse a una competencia implacable...
15) The gambler
Publisher
Paramount
Formats
Description
Both an English professor and a high-stakes gambler, Jim Bennett bets it all when he borrows from a gangster and offers his own life as collateral. Always one step ahead, Bennett pits his creditor against the operator of a gambling ring and leaves his dysfunctional relationship with his wealthy mother in his wake. He plays both sides, immersing himself in an illicit, underground world while garnering the attention of Frank, a loan shark with an interest...
16) UHF
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When an out-of-work loser inherits a UHF TV station, he creates his own programming and draws in huge ratings.
17) House of games
Series
Criterion collection volume 399
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
A therapist and best-selling author must confront her own demons when she meets a man who has gambling debts and she feels compelled to help him.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
3 blu-rays (114 min., 123 min., 103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Bullitt: Bullitt needs to keep a trial's star witness, Johnny Ross, out of sight and out of danger for 48 hours. However, before the night is out, the witness is dying of gunshot wounds in a San Francisco hospital.
Getaway: A convict leaves jail on parole and promptly joins his wife in a bank robbery.
Cincinnati Kid: 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...
20) Player 5150
Publisher
First Look Studios
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Joey is a successful day trader at a high-end brokerage house with a beautiful fiance?e and a home on the beach. Now the gambling addiction that has plagued him for years has him on the run and he must put everything on the line-- including his life.
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