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Poker Movies
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Rounders (Collector's Edition) (1998)
Starring: Matt Damon, Edward Norton; Director: John Dahl
A law school student (Matt Damon) loses his tuition money and everything else he has saved in a high stakes poker game. Learning his lesson (he thinks), he vows to his girl friend (Mol Gretchen) to give up playing forever. That lasts until his best friend (Edward Norton), a notorious card shark, is released from prison and drags him back into the circuit to pay debts he has incurred to a Russian mobster (John Malkovich). John Turturro also appears as a career poker player and Martin Landau plays a law professor who understands his student's need to be something other than what is dictated to him. |
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The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
Starring: Steve McQueen, Edward G. Robinson; Director: Norman Jewison.
In New Orleans, an up-and-coming poker player takes on a long-time master of the game. Not only is there a small fortune at stake, but also the status of being the top player. But the trusted dealer has been blackmailed into rigging the game. |
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The Sting (Legacy Series Edition) (1973)
Starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford; Director: George Roy Hill
When a mutual friend is killed by a mob boss: two con men, one experienced and one younger, try to get even by pulling off the big con on the mob boss. The story unfolds with several twists and last minute alterations. |
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Maverick (1994)
Starring: Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster; Director: Richard Donner
Maverick is recreated from the character James Garner created in the 1950s TV program. Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them. He needs an additional three thousand dollars in order to enter a Winner Take All poker game that begins in a few days. He tries to win some, tries to collect a few debts, and recover a little loot for the reward, all with a light hearted air. He joins forces with a woman gambler with a marvelous, though fake, southern accent as the two both try and enter the game. |
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Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels (Ws) (1999)
Starring: Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher; Director: Guy Ritchie
Four Jack-the-lads find themselves heavily - seriously heavily - in debt to an East End hard man and his enforcers after a crooked card game. Overhearing their neighbours in the next flat plotting to hold up a group of out-of-their-depth drug growers, our heros decide to stitch up the robbers in turn. In a way the confusion really starts when a pair of antique double-barrelled shotguns go missing in a completely different scam. |
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The Gambler (1980)
Starring: Kenny Rogers, Bruce Boxleitner |
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Luckytown (2000)
Starring: Kirsten Dunst; Director: Lutz Schaarwächter
If you find your dad, what happens next? When she turns 18, unhappy Lidda Daniels leaves Southern California to look for Charlie, her father, a professional gambler who abandoned her years before. On her way to Vegas, she picks up Colonel, a video store clerk whom she finds attractive even though they've never spoken. He's is happy to go, in part because he sees himself as a great poker player. It takes Lidda time to track down Charlie, who's involved in his own tangles: he's freshly back in Vegas for high-stakes poker with Tony, an old nemesis. Tony is jealous of Charlie over a woman, plus Tony has a new habit of hiring a hit man to kill anyone who beats him. Can anyone win? |
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Loaded Pistols (1948)
Starring: Gene Autrey, Jason Flemyng |
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