Gaming/Gambling
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Asso
On his wedding night, of all times, a husband appropriately named "Ace" (Adriano Celentano) gambles away the night at a local bar, and wins a handy amount of money. As Ace heads home to his waiting bride Silvia (Edwige Fenech), he is killed by a hired gun. When he reappears to see his wife, he has a hard time convincing her...Start your free trial to watch -
The Bet Collector
Amy, the family matriarch, makes ends meet by running a small convenience store out of her home. In a struggling economy, customers are scarce and without the help of her husband or pregnant daughter, she is forced to supplement the family income by collecting bets for an illegal numbers game. In this...Start your free trial to watch -
Bet to Basic
Gambling, luck and romance all come together in this hilarious comedy starring superstar Jordan Chan (INITIAL D) and Yuen Wah (KUNG FU HUSTLE)! Down-on-his-luck gambler Flying Dragon pairs up with his unbelievably lucky cousin, Roy, in order to halt his losing streak. When a ruthless mahjong rival schemes to defeat Roy and...Start your free trial to watch
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The Chess Players
In the kingdom of Awadh, rich landowners Meer (Saeed Jaffrey) and Mirza (Sanjeev Kumar) pour every ounce of passion into a never-ending game of chess. At the same time, an ambitious British General (Sir Richard Attenborough) plots his own moves against Awadh's King (Amjad Khan) and Prime Minister (Victor...Start your free trial to watch -
The Decoy
A rather complex interweaving of romance and crime is squeezed into one reel. A "respectable" couple of city "card sharpers" invite a distant country relative to visit, then use her as a pretty, unwitting decoy to lure rich victims. They flee town a step ahead of the law. At a resort, the innocent girl falls in love with the...Start your free trial to watch
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Dr. Mabuse the Gambler
A truly legendary silent film, DR. MABUSE THE GAMBLER had a major impact on the development of the crime thriller, building upon the work of the pioneering French film serialist Louis Feuillade and firmly establishing it as a significant film genre. This epic two-part tale was originally released as two...Start your free trial to watch -
The Gambler and the Lady
A gambling kingpin's goal is to be accepted by high society. He leaves his girlfriend for a socialite, is swindled in a scam, then strong-armed by gangsters and ends up as a hood ornament on his jilted lover's sedan! Peter Jenkins directed THE GAMBLER AND THE LADY for Hammer Films (though it was rumored...Start your free trial to watch -
Ghost of a Chance
In the casino there is only one queen: the small ball that spins on the roulette table. None of the players pay the slightest attention to the female dealers. But Takis, a medical student, doesn't go to the casino to win millions but rather to earn a day's wages. Vera works in a gym but gets a second job...Start your free trial to watch
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Kung Fu Mahjong
Yuen Wah and Yuen Qiu, Landlord and Landlady from Stephen Chow's blockbuster hit KUNG FU HUSTLE, are together again in this laugh-out-loud action comedy directed by Wong Jing (GOD OF GAMBLERS)! Gambling fanatic West (Wah) meets Wong, a waiter who could remember the locations of all 144 mahjong tiles while playing the game....Start your free trial to watch -
Kung Fu Mahjong II
The punchy husband-wife duo from KUNG FU HUSTLE are coming right back at you in KUNG FU MAHJONG II! In this side-splitting sequel to KUNG FU MAHJONG, Yuen Wah and Yuen Qiu return as West and Auntie Fei. They take pity on the downtrodden Fanny after her husband leaves her for Curvy, the sexy vixen who has...Start your free trial to watch -
Kung Fu Mahjong III
The third time is the charm in this final installment of the KUNG FU MAHJONG series! Ken is expected to inherit the fortunes of his father Uncle Man, known as the Grandmaster of Kung Fu Mahjong. When Uncle Man suffers a heart attack, his mistress Sophie persuades him to leave his heritage and title to her...Start your free trial to watch
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Lake Consequence
This erotic drama from producer Zalman King hews to the 9 1/2 WEEKS and RED SHOE DIARIES' creator's formula of placing sexy people in very sexy situations (yet it is also ultimately more ambivalent and complex than one might expect). Ex-model Joan Severance plays a suburban wife and mother unsettled by the...Start your free trial to watch -
The Luckiest Man
Mr. Ho, "King of Gambling," makes himself rich by gambling and is the leader of the Hong Kong Mahjong industry in the 1950s. He has three wives, two sons and one daughter. Though it appears that the three wives are living in harmony, they actually compete against each other for the family's wealth. Since...Start your free trial to watch -
Outlaw Women
Meet the babes who shoot to thrill and make the coyotes howl! In this offbeat Western yarn, the town of Las Mujertes is run by women and controlled by saloon owner Iron Mae McLeod (Marie Windsor). But male visitors (including Jackie Coogan as a gunslinger!) create complications.Start your free trial to watch
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Rimfire
James Millican, a Secret Service captain working undercover in the Old West, leads the fight against crooked gamblers in a frontier town. A "who's who" supporting cast (Henry Hull, Victor Kilian, Fuzzy Knight, Chris-Pin Martin, Glenn Strange, Stanford Jolley and more) make this one stand far above the rest of the B-Western...Start your free trial to watch -
Roaring City
Private eye Dennis O'Brien (Hugh Beaumont) will do anything for a dame or a dollar, tackling two more assignments filled with pistol-point suspense. The first involves a "fixed" fight, double-crosses and, of course, murder. Later, his reward for hiring out to pose as a young beauty's husband is a knockout blow to the head and...Start your free trial to watch -
Storm
Twelve year-old Freddie lives with his father, a police officer. Freddie has no friends and is bullied. One day, when Freddie sees a dog being mistreated by his owner, he decides to do something about it. During a terrible storm, he abducts the dog and calls it Storm. Storm is an unusually fast runner so Freddie brings him to...Start your free trial to watch




