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Movies about poker

In a network you can download these movies about poker (link under the title):

  • Cincinnati Kid / The Cincinnati Kid / 1965
  • 30 of the last century. Steve McQueen as the Cincinnati Kid – a young and ambitious player in stud poker. He had already considered the best in New Orleans. But the city comes Lance Howard (Edward Gee. Robinson) – the greatest living players. Their meeting was inevitable, and soon with the participation of a dealer Arrow (Carl Melden), it is organized …

  • Affair / The Sting / 1973, Paul Newman, Robert Redford
  • USA, 30-ies, two inveterate swindlers trying to avenge mafia bosses for the death of their mutual friend with one of the most unexpected of scams in the history of cinema, which also ends with a surprising and amusing manner. With poker in the film is connected only one episode, but the movie is good.

  • Poker California / California Split / 1974
  • In this brilliant satire under the distribution pleased sacred cow of American bourgeois – lucky players scoop, without which cost almost no true Hollywood intrigue. You can win a lot of money and be unhappy. Bill Denny and Charlie Waters – pathological gamblers, which is as pathologically unlucky. Accidentally met in a bar, they realize that they must act as a team and go to one of the most luxurious casinos of America. There, they will be able to beat the legendary player Amarillo Slim, which, however, does not bring them happiness. But in this masterly history, oddly enough, the process is more important than the result. Bill and Charlie were playing cards just because they like it.

  • Ace / 1981, Adriano Celentano
  • Poker a bit in the beginning. Professional Card cardsharp nicknamed Ace on the eve of the wedding to announce its decision tie. But unexpectedly finds himself involved in a bigger game with Marseilles. Young’s wife releases him for this game. Desperately bluffing, he break the bank, but the game continues. He begins to hunt and kill his assassin, and then an ace turns into a ghost that can not see anyone except his wife. Having gained such a tragic way new possibilities, it tries to attach his widow and revenge

  • Maverick / Maverick / 1994, Mel Gibson and Jodie Foster
  • Cuperskoe movie. Events taking place on the “wild west”. Bret Maverick (Mel Gibson) – a cute loser – is going to the famous card tournament to participate in which you want to collect a tidy sum – $ 25 000, and lacks only three thousand. But he has debtors, friends, and as it turns out, the enemies. And yet there is a charming friend (Jodie Foster), which at each subsequent meeting of Maverick pulls out the purse. And the main character, enduring the highs and lows, helping the weak and defending against the strong, gathers the necessary amount, and travels to the tournament. And then it turns out that the grand prize must not just win. After that, the money needed to find, select, do not allow to be stolen from you, but just to stay alive and healthy at all stages of this complex ways …

  • Rounders / Rounders / 1998, Matt Damon, Edward Norton
  • In the underground clubs of New York is a big game. Here, its rules and special rates. Here you can lose everything, but if you’re lucky to secure the future. Mike and worm known each other for a long time and were good friends. Mike has a terrific flair and chic brains. The worm was grated Schuler and turned the deck like a god. He just got out of prison and he demanded within five days to pay an old debt. Between friends there was only one way too risky – to play a dirty game …

  • Player / High Roller – The Stu Ungar Story / 2003
  • Awesome movie. In the 14 years he was the best gambler in the darkest corners of New York. In the 20 years of desperate genius fled to Las Vegas from the Mafia and debts. There he became the youngest world champion of poker and soon lost everything. Stu Unger shuffled his life like cards because the cards were his entire life. On this day in underground clubs and at the prestigious tournament legends about how the fallen to the bottom, Stu has done the impossible, and again rose to the top. He took risks and made frantic rate, defying the changing fortune. But he forgot that the price of great triumph always too high.

    Stu Ungar won all three championships in the WSOP who has played.

  • Dexterous hand / Shade / 2004, Melanie Griffith, Sylvester Stallone
  • Disrupt the mother lode alone is almost impossible. This requires a multipass scam. And now some people thought of the unthinkable: a great game against the legendary Stevens! Thus, the genius of Charlie Miller, fraud, card virtuoso Vernon and blackleg Larry Jennings met not by accident. For each of them cheating – and the means of the threat. Indeed, in the criminal world price of life is negligible compared with the amounts of loss of someone!

  • Game Wah Bank / All In / 2006
  • Another young girl, Alicia Anderson’s father taught mathematics at the Texas poker game. But the world has come to an end when his father was killed in a car accident. Years later, enrolling in medical school, she will remember all the things her father taught. Her fellow students are joining forces to create the ideal machine for playing poker. But when rates rise, Alicia understands something that taught her father – in order to survive, you need to go through.

  • Casino Royale / 2006
  • The first film about Dames Bond, Daniel Craig which replaces Pierce Brosnan. At this time the job leads him to no one banker, through whose hands pass the money major international terrorist organization. They decide shlestnutsya poker, the stakes are expected to be extremely high. Financial cover for Bond’s money are the national treasury, beyond which looks charming Bond girl.

  • Lucky / Lucky You / 2007, Drew Barrymore
  • The film takes place in the world of professional poker. The protagonist of tape – the player Huck Cheever, who spares no effort to win and not afraid to take risks. In private life, on the contrary, behaves intelligently and carefully, avoiding emotional outbursts and no obligation. When Huck is taken to win the World Championship of Poker in 2003, and simultaneously fascinate young singer from Bakersfield Billie Offer, he meets along the way only one obstacle – in the face of his father, the legendary poker player. As a result, father and son are rivals not only in lives but also at the card table …
    Great movie, unexpected ending. Set poker stars in the episode.

  • Card debt / Pistol Whipped / 2007, Steven Seagal
  • The life of an elite ex-cop Matt (Steven Seagal) is rolling on an inclined plane. Craving for alcohol, gambling, gambling debts – pernicious passion, do not release from their bondage. But there is something for which he is still afloat – his daughter and a passionate desire to become more than a decent father. And when he was a lucky chance to get back to normal life, without a doubt, Matt grabs him. A stranger buys all of his gambling debts in exchange for Matt’s skills and muscles. Matt is caught in a deadly game. His card debt he has to work the murder of significant criminal authorities of the city. Poker a few hands at the beginning.

  • Stuck / The Grand / 2008, Woody Harrelson
  • Mockumentary comedy about a poker tournament, where all participating actors were free to improvise at the table. Six players, six different fates, Mrs Luck and a table covered with green baize. Ladies and gentlemen, the stakes are done!

  • Players / Deal / 2008, Burt Reynolds
  • Professional poker player is taken to teach the secrets a young upstart. And after a while he gets sucked into the world championship of poker, where his protégé is his main and most difficult opponent …