A psychiatrist comes to the aid of a compulsive gambler and is led by a smooth-talking grifter into the shadowy but compelling world of stings, scams, and con men.
Casts Lindsay Crouse, Joe Mantegna, Mike Nussbaum, Lilia Skala, J. T. Walsh, Steven Goldstein, Jack Wallace, Ricky Jay, William H. Macy, Meshach Taylor
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
52 Pick-Up
Across the Hall
I Live in Fear
Nighthawks
The Brothers Bloom
Trouble Man
Walking Tall
High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story
Access Denied
Hellhole
Communion
Save Me
The Missing Person
The Embalmer
The Goodbye Kiss
Time Out
Cure
The Swindle
Obsession
The Phenix City Story
SIMILAR MOVIES
52 Pick-Up
IMDB 6 | Nov , 1986
Harry Mitchell is a successful Los Angeles manufacturer whose wife is running for city council. His life is turned upside down when three blackmailers confront him with a videotape of him with his young mistress and demand $100,000. Fearing that the story will hurt his wife's political campaign if he goes to the police, Harry pretends that he will pay the men, but does not follow through.Across the Hall
IMDB 5.9 | Aug , 2009
Convinced that his fiancee is cheating on him, a man follows her to a hotel and calls his best friend to help him avoid a calamity.I Live in Fear
IMDB 7.3 | Nov , 1955
Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an imminent nuclear war, and resolves to move his family to safety in Brazil. His family decides to have him ruled incompetent and Dr. Harada, a Domestic Court counselor, attempts to arbitrate.Nighthawks
IMDB 6.4 | Mar , 1981
When one of Europe's most lethal terrorists shows up in New York, an elite undercover cop is assigned to take him down by any means necessary.The Brothers Bloom
IMDB 6.6 | Sep , 2008
The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust and intrigue. Now they've decided to take on one last job – showing a beautiful and eccentric heiress the time of her life with a romantic adventure that takes them around the world.Trouble Man
IMDB 6.1 | Nov , 1972
It seems that masked men are knocking over the floating crap games of Chalky and Pete. Chalky and Pete hire the cool, loose, elegant Mr. T to fix things. Then, the masked manipulators set up the death of a collector for a rival gang lord. It looks like it's up to T to hold a gang war from breaking out, keep the police off his back, and earn his fee from Chalky and Pete.Walking Tall
IMDB 6.6 | Feb , 1973
Ex-wrestler and Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser walks tall and carries a big stick as he tussles with county-wide corruption and moonshining thugs.High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story
IMDB 6.3 | May , 2003
Based on the true story of the rise and fall of poker legend Stu "The Kid" Ungar.Access Denied
IMDB 1 | Apr , 1996
A beautiful computer programmer is framed by her fraudulent lover and sent to prison. When she gets out she agrees to cooperate with a scheme of a fellow-inmate to defraud a bank, in order to have enough money to escape from her (by then) ex-lover.Hellhole
IMDB 4.9 | Mar , 1985
An unlucky woman’s mother is murdered by a scarf-wielding killer named Silk, leaving the woman injured, traumatised and suffering from amnesia. She’s committed to a mental institution, where Silk follows her, looking for the papers he was trying to get from her mother. And Silk’s only the beginning of her problems, since the asylum is run by a mad doctor, performing experiments in chemical lobotomies!Communion
IMDB 5.4 | Nov , 1989
A novelist's wife and son see him changed by an apparent encounter with aliens in the mountains.Save Me
IMDB 4.5 | Mar , 1994
An accountant beleaguered by personal and professional problems gets involved with a femme fatale and her mysterious psychiatrist.The Missing Person
IMDB 5.6 | Jan , 2009
John Rosow drinks to forget. He is a former New York City cop turned Chicago-based private investigator. At the last minute, he is hired by someone he's never met to follow a middle-aged male subject on the soon-departing California Zephyr train to Los Angeles.The Embalmer
IMDB 7.2 | Sep , 2002
Peppino is an aging taxidermist constantly ridiculed for being short and somewhat creepy. He meets Valerio, a handsome young man fascinated by Peppino's work. Peppino, in turn, becomes entranced by Valerio and offers him a large salary to come work as his assistant. But when Valerio meets Deborah, their fledgling romance is threatened by an insanely jealous third wheel.The Goodbye Kiss
IMDB 6.8 | Feb , 2006
Leftist radical-turned-terrorist Giorgio—who fled to Latin America in the '70s to escape justice—decides to surrender after hearing about the fall of the Berlin Wall. Determined to lead a comfortable, bourgeois life in his native Italy, he cuts a deal with a shady police chief, getting his sentence reduced in exchange for ratting out former comrades. Once released, Giorgio obsessively pursues his dream of becoming a "respectable" citizen, even if the way is paved with larceny, pimping, drug-dealing, rape, heist, and murder...Time Out
IMDB 6.6 | Sep , 2001
An unemployed man finds his life sinking more and more into trouble as he hides his situation from his family and friends.Cure
IMDB 7.6 | Dec , 1997
A detective starts spiraling out of control when a wave of gruesome murders with seemingly similar bizarre circumstances is sweeping Tokyo.The Swindle
IMDB 7.3 | Oct , 1955
Aging small-time conman Augusto works with two younger men: Roberto, who desires to become the Italian Johnny Ray, and Carlo, nicknamed Picasso. Through a series of mishaps and personal entanglements, things go badly for Augusto.Obsession
IMDB 6.8 | Aug , 1949
A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover.The Phenix City Story
IMDB 6.6 | Jul , 1955
A crime-busting lawyer and his initially reluctant attorney father take on the forces that run gambling and prostitution in their small Southern town.