Topic: What is your favorite gambling movie? - page 4. (Read 914 times)

Even its not a gambling movie, 21 is still the best. It portrays how you can hack card games using only numbers, logic and probability. I love how the game works and how it ended. But it still made me think if that strategy really works or not. But to think that it really does work, my memory cannot cope up with the tactic. Sadlife. Haha.

Ocean's 11 is not a gambling movie, its more of an action flick. It does take place in a casino but there is almost no gambling in it.

Casino Royale is not a gambling movie either, its just the name of the film. It does however have one gambling scene but like Ocean's 11 its more of an action flick.

In my opinion the best gambling films are 21 and Rounders, you can watch them multiple times and never get bored.

21 and Ocean’s eleven is a great gambling movie and you can really see their how gambling works. We also have movies locally here in my place about gambling but I don’t remember the title of that one. This great movies showing that in gambling the owners will always win and those who cheat on casinos will always be caught. I wish to watch new gambling movies in the future that will tackle more about the risk, to discourage young people from gambling.

Rounders and 21 are the best movie that I like the most, though the story is quite a bit different they do have similarities in some of the plot of the story. It tells you that playing in gambling can make you lose all of your money if you get addicted to it. Even if you cheat, gambling owners know already their weaknesses. So do not ever try to cheat on them, you will be caught.

Casino Royale,which is the most favourite movie for me which looks very detailed about the casinos.And there are some movie casino in my local languages which give pretty information about cheating involves in casinos between the players.

Quite an old thread which the last reply was on January of this year. It isnt bad to make some new thread regarding on this matter.

My Favorite Movies:

Casino Royal
Ocean's Eleven

This topic is already been discussed here in the forum last year.
Why not continue your discussion from here about this topic? https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/best-gambling-movie-1794375

Anyway, my one of favorite gambling movie which is best for me is "Now You SEE me 1 and 2" and Ocean Eleven.

Ok, it depends on which side you are looking at things, on the side of "the house" I think Molly's game is interesting and realistic. On the side of the players, you are right, it is not the most appropriate suggestion. 100% correct about Ocean's 11, not even sure why this movie was suggested in the first place (and it is very very average if you ask me ).

Molly's game is not really a "gambling" movie to be honest, the main premise is the woman not the game. Gambling movies have that sort of trouble to begin with, they do not provide you gambling as the main plot of the movie, they just make it a part of the movie.

If you watch it closely you will see that its about her and not the poker game she runs, it goes on to Russian mafia and all that very quickly and not really focus on the game after a while. All "gambling" movies are based on a story and not the gambling aspect directly.

All ocean movies are about stealing, 21 is not about blackjack but a young persons life troubles, Gambler is about a carefree dude getting out of debt, runner runner is about Justin Timberlake getting out of a shady casino world and many more examples. I haven't seen a proper "gambling" movie that focuses on gambling more than any other plot.

Molly's game as well for me. As much as I like the movie Casino with Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone and co. it's not really a movie about gambling. Molly's game is pretty realistic, you can get very rich in this field if you manage to become an agent.

Another movie which is pretty realistic is Runner Runner, takes place in Costa Rica, mafia involved, not a great movie per se but interesting with a lot of truth inside.

Some good ones are Rounders, Rain Man, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Casino and more recently Mississipi Grind.

I don't know if you call it a gambling movie but one of the best that I watched is Bugsy by Warren Beatty and Annette Bening. It was released in 1991. Movie is about Bugsy Siegel and how the Flamingo Casino resort started. It also shows gangsters like Lucky Luciano and Mayer Lansky. Movie portrays how casinos in Las Vegas started.

I can not remember many. I watch a lot of movies and most of the times I really don't remember the names.

- Ocean's Eleven
- 21
- Casino Royal
- Molly's Game

I have one more in mind which I found very entertaining.

- Now You See Me
- Now You See Me 2

These two are not like traditional gambling type but more of based on Magic. 

My favorite one is 'Molly's Game'. It's a high-rated and Oscar-nominated movie from last year about poker games. I have a friend who's really into poker, and he also enjoyed watching it. The movie is not focused on poker, though, but rather on trying to earn money on organizing poker games, but it's still nice and has lessons for gamblers as well. For instance, it shows that even the best player can lose if he/she doesn't 'crack' the strategy of the opponent. I am sure that decades from now this movie will be classic when the topic of gambling is discussed.

The movie that I always think about when someone asks about gambling flicks is of Casino Royale, just because it was so good, but I also can recommend 21 if you haven't seen it. I liked Kevin Spacey ever since I saw him in The Usual Suspects. His role in 21 is definitely not a disappointment and the whole movie is action packed so you won't be bored. I've always been fascinated by card counting which made this movie even more enjoyable.

OP , my favorite movie would be God of Gambler ,(1989) where   Ko Chun (Chow Yun-fat) is a world-famous gambler, so renowned and talented at winning various games of chance that he is referred to as the "God of Gamblers". He keeps his identity secret from the public (and avoids taking photos so his face is not recognized), but is known for three characteristics: his slick-backed hairstyle, his love of Feodora brand chocolate and his jade pinky ring.

During the climax of the movie , with his ability to see the markings on the cards, Chan Kam-Sing (bad guy) dominates the first two rounds. After losing all of Tanaka's (A friend) money, Ko Chun puts up his entire personal portfolio of wealth and holdings against Chan's wealth. Chan, using his glasses to see that Ko Chun has an inferior hand, agrees, showing his cards and gloating over his victory. Ko Chun, in turn, reveals that he actually has the superior hand and has won the game, having secretly altered the markings of the deck and using special contact lenses to read them.

He literally turn the match into his advantage from very beginning. Anyway the movie is so well accepted that it 8 more movies under God of gamblers or From Macau to Vegas  were created in the following years using the same/ partial/different cast . This chatting is making me want to going to compete  at Vegascasino.io since its offering a Range Rover Evoque as main prize or that new Macbook air for new Christmas event

I haven't watched many movies which are only about gambling, so I can't name whis is best. I watched movies like Casino Royale, The Gambler, Lay the favourite or Maverick, but I can't say that any of these movies would stuck in my mind, maybe because I'm not gambler. Now I opened list of gambling related movies, maybe it's worth to try watch something.

Well there is this two movies I've watched but it don't really revolve around gambling since it is just a part of the movie. That movie is the Hang Over, the first one of the three series. There is this part where Alan is gambling for completing the money they needed using the book that he read. It is amazing but for me, if that happened to me, that is a dream come true since that is not really true.

I watched one movie before, it's quite an old movie related to gambling and that was a Chinese film. I barely remember the title of that movie but it seems the protagonist is facing the leader of a big gambling syndicate.

The main cast's character has a very charming and very lucky in gambling. I forgot that title but its one of the movies that I like because it has some comedy in it.

I haven't seen many of them but I have seen Casino Royale and I think everybody else have also watched it. It is a beautiful movie but I will take reason from this post to go and check gambling movies list in the Internet. I also remember that Chinese movies regarding gambling are some of the best but a bit difficult to find them easily on the Internet. For the moment my favourite is Casino Royale but only for the moment.