Raktažodis Gambling

Las Vegasas yra dviveidis – puikioji ir žiaurioji jo pusės. Ace Rothsteinas ir Nicky Santoro atvyko gyventi šiame pašėlusiame kazino pasaulyje. Tačiau gyvenimas čia yra pavojingas – narkotikai, smurtas.

Epiška anglų literatūros klasiko Williamo Makepeace’o Thackeray’aus kūrinio ekranizacija, pasižyminti ypatingu vaizdiniu sprendimu, estetizmu, operatoriaus ir dailininko meistriškumu. Šis Stanley Kubrick’o filmas – vienas svarbiausių jo kūrybinėje biografijoje, kartu ir svarbus pasaulinio kino etapas. Pasakojimas apie airį, kosmopolitiškoje XVIII a. Europoje tampantį Prūsijos karaliaus tarnu, režisieriui tapo pretekstu pasvarstyti apie kultūros vertybes.

Nikas Vaildas (akt. Jasonas Stathamas) – azartiškas lošėjas, niekaip negalintis atsikratyti savo priklausomybės. Vyrukas dirba apsauginiu ir imasi visokių keistų darbų, kad tik būtų arčiau savo aistros. Kartą Nikas sulaukia pagalbos prašymo iš savo bičiulės Holės, eskorto paslaugas teikiančios merginos. Mėlynių nusėta mergina papasakoja, kad ją vakar išniekino ir sumušė trys vyrai. Nikas suranda kaltininką – gangsterį DeMarko ir sumuša jį bei jo parankinius, ir nors Nikas labai treniruotas, jis neįsivaizduoja, į kokį pavojingą klaną įžengė gindamas savo draugę. Šįkart tai ne kazino, tačiau ant kortos yra pastatyta viskas. O pakėlęs statymą maksimaliai Nikas rizikuoja laimėti aukso puodą arba beviltiškai pralošti savo gyvenimą.

Ankstyvajame Holivude vienų veikėjų laukė didžiuliai užmojai ir staigi sėkmė iškilimas, o kitų – siaubingas nuosmukis ir viską apimantis egzistencinis skurdas. Filmas pasakoja apie ryškius personažus ir jų neeilinius nuotykius „laukiniame“ Holivude.

Smulkaus narkotikų prekeivio Fransua patėvis (akt. Vincent'as Casselis) ką tik grįžo iš kalėjimo, mama (akt. Isabelle Adjani) yra Paryžiaus kišenvagių gaujos vadeiva, o širdies draugė – tai pačiai gaujai priklausanti vaikystės meilė. Visų jų laukia dar viena nešvari misija, kurios pasekmių nuspėti neįmanoma.

Kaiji Itou is a good-for-nothing loiterer who spends his days drinking beer and stealing hubcaps—that is, until he ends up being tricked by his former co-worker. Unable to suddenly repay his friend's huge debt all by himself, Kaiji is offered a shady deal to participate in an illegal underground gamble on a cruise ship. This turns out to be nothing more than the beginning of his new life of hell—thrown headlong into a life-threatening roller coaster of mind games, cheating, and deceit.

The story of the early days of Deadwood, South Dakota; woven around actual historic events with most of the main characters based on real people. Deadwood starts as a gold mining camp and gradually turns from a lawless wild-west community into an organized wild-west civilized town. The story focuses on the real-life characters Seth Bullock and Al Swearengen.

This sweeping saga chronicles the hopes and dreams of a Korean immigrant family across four generations as they leave their homeland in an indomitable quest to survive and thrive.

Bored with life and considering the real world to be just a “crappy game,” savvy sibling shut-ins Sora and Shiro have withdrawn into their own fantasy world filled with video games. However, one day they find themselves summoned to another world by a boy who calls himself “God,” their abilities are about to be put to the ultimate test! Now not only their fates — but the fate of all of humanity — will be decided by a series of games that may just be the hardest these super-geniuses have ever faced!

Run by a corrupt and sadistic school council, the “system” at Hyakkaou is based on gambling, with losers who cannot cover their debts being demeaned by their peers and forced to serve their debtholders. And if that’s not terrifying enough, some games can result in losing an eye, one’s fingernails, or even their life! But the system is shocked when transfer student Yumeko Jabami arrives. Dark, mysterious and attractive, she’s a wildcard who plays for the thrill of it…

A rising-star restaurateur is forced into New York's criminal underworld when his chaotic brother returns to town with loan sharks on his trail.

Kimimaro works two jobs to make ends meet. He could go from pauper to prince in a parallel world called the Financial District—if he’ll invest his future as collateral in a dangerous game. Winning gets you more wealth, but losing could erase you from existence. When the destructive forces at play compel Kimimaro to confront the most powerful player, can he save the real world from total collapse?

Fourland Kingdom is an island nation in the North Atlantic. In this country, there are 52 X-Playing Cards, considered the origin of playing cards. A card with a unique supernatural ability can gift its abilities to a qualified person: the player. One day, the X-Playing Cards in government's custody were spread all over Fourland leading to troubles caused by the supernatural abilities of the players with cards across the country. The king secretly assigns Pinochle, one of the top corporations of the nation, to a mission, to collect the cards that are causing all the chaos in the country.

Nangou is a compulsive gambler who has accumulated debt over three million yen. In a last ditch attempt to clear his record, he decides to wager his life on a game of mahjong with the mafia. Unfortunately, as the game progresses, Nangou only moves further from the prize and closer to death. When all hope seems lost, the game parlor is suddenly intruded upon by Shigeru Akagi, a young boy on the run from the police. Desperate to turn the game around, Nangou hands the game over to Akagi after teaching him a few of the rules. The mafia can only smirk as Akagi sits down to play. However, they soon come to learn that Akagi is a natural born gambler. An imposing figure who does not fear death. One who is destined to become a legend.

London cop and compulsive gambler Harry Clayton is on the verge of losing everything. On the night when his huge debts are to be called in, he meets the enigmatic Eve, who gives him a mysterious bracelet said to endow the wearer with immense luck. Harry's fortunes suddenly begin to shift, but he also soon finds himself sucked into a sinister crime wave sweeping through the city.

There is a place after death that’s neither heaven nor hell. A bar that serves you one chance to win. You cannot leave until the game is over, and when it is, your life may be too.

At a private school where gambling determines social status, a skillful new student with a mysterious past is shaking things up — and betting on revenge.

Chai Foon-Cheung has not won a single game since his defeat in the World Poker Championship twenty years ago. It is the bad luck he has had all these years that has earned him a job in the casino. Ironically, the man who hires him is one of his then competitors Kiu Ching-Cho.

Mr. Lucky is a CBS adventure/drama television series that aired from October 24, 1959, to June 18, 1960, with repeats until September 3. Blake Edwards developed the program as a retooling of his Willie Dante character from Four Star Playhouse, where the role was played by studio boss Dick Powell. In the 1960–1961 season, Howard Duff assumed the role of Willie Dante in the NBC adventure/drama series Dante. Mr. Edwards directed and co-wrote the first episode of Mr. Lucky, and the credits of the first eighteen episodes included "Entire production supervised by Blake Edwards." Jack Arnold produced the show and directed fifteen of the thirty-four episodes. Henry Mancini's smooth theme music for the show reached Number 21 in the US singles charts. He released two successful LP's based on the show, Mr. Lucky and Mr. Lucky Goes Latin.

When a judicial apprentice goes behind bars while on an undercover job, he plays the hand he’s dealt to survive prison and get his payback.

Children from influential families in politics and businesses attend the Hyakkaou Private Academy. There, the hierarchy of the students are classified by a series of games. Students that win the games are on the ruling side and the students who lose become slaves. One day, a mysterious girl, Yumeko Jabami (Minami Hamabe), is transferred to Hyakkaou Private Academy. She looks pure and pretty, but she is actually a compulsive gambler and seeks out the thrill of taking calculated risks.

A drama set in the world of horse racing focusing on lives of owners, jockeys, trainers and gamblers who are all tied to the same horse track.

An action-packed Las Vegas thriller about a former military operative turned security expert who is drawn into a high-stakes game where an organization of wealthy individuals gamble on his ability to stop some of the biggest crimes imaginable from playing out. Can he take them down from the inside and get revenge for the death of his wife, or is it true what they say: the House always wins.

The Duchess of Duke Street is a British television period drama created and written by John Hawkesworth, loosely based on the real-life career of Rosa Lewis, and produced by the BBC and Time-Life Television Productions for BBC One. The programme ran for two series from 1976 to 1977. In Victorian London, Louisa Leyton works her way up from servant to renowned cook to proprietress of the upper-class Bentinck Hotel in Duke Street, St James's.