Comedy, Thriller
JACKPOT THE SET UP - Jackpot is a fast-paced thriller con, with sharp comic one-liners and crazy characters, set entirely in Goa against the backdrop of casino boats. The film goes back and forth in time, capturing one Goan monsoon of Full Jhol. Its a card game between the players in the con. Who will come out Aces and who will end up being the Joker? An amateur gang of young Goans plan the perfect con - no nuksaan, no pareshan. However, all good plans often It doesn't take long for them to discover that a reverse con has been played back on them - by the very people they were trying to con. In doing so, the five members of the gang split and start suspecting each other. After all, when there is cash in a briefcase, and a beautiful woman with a gun, things tend to go horribly wrong.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
A Night in Casablanca
Lost in America
Wake in Fright
House of Games
Lo scoiattolo
The Deep End
4 Kings
The Poker Club
Nuts
Palm Springs
Mesrine: Killer Instinct
The Aura
Blackbeard's Ghost
God of Gamblers
Echelon Conspiracy
The Last Casino
Wild Card
Dirty Deeds
Rover Dangerfield
Trouble Man
SIMILAR MOVIES
A Night in Casablanca
IMDB 6.8 | May , 1946
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IMDB 6.9 | Feb , 1985
David and Linda Howard are successful yuppies from LA. When he gets a job disappointment, David convinces Linda that they should quit their jobs, liquidate their assets, and emulate the movie Easy Rider, spending the rest of their lives traveling around America...in a Winnebago.Wake in Fright
IMDB 7.3 | Jul , 1971
A schoolteacher, stuck in a teaching post in an arid backwater, stops off in a mining town on his way home for Christmas. Discovering a local gambling craze that may grant him the money to move back to Sydney for good, he embarks on a five-day nightmarish odyssey of drinking, gambling, and hunting.House of Games
IMDB 6.8 | Oct , 1987
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.Lo scoiattolo
IMDB 5 | Oct , 1979
The Deep End
IMDB 6.1 | Jan , 2001
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IMDB 6 | Jan , 2014
Sian is a conman who makes and sells fake Buddhist amulets. His nephew Riang is a chip off the old block, with many generations of gamblers' blood running through his veins. When they loose big time to an underworld kingpin, they come up with a plan to cheat the kingpin and win back all their money by recruiting Todd, a social-climbing card-sharp magician. But, even with Todd's ability to change cards with a wave of his hand, they still need Sri, a curvy female accomplice to distract their mark.The Poker Club
IMDB 4.4 | Oct , 2008
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IMDB 7 | Jan , 2017
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IMDB 0 | Jun , 1936
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IMDB 7.3 | Oct , 2008
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IMDB 7 | Sep , 2005
A quiet, epileptic taxidermist plans the perfect crime. All he needs is the right opportunity. An accident, perhaps…Blackbeard's Ghost
IMDB 6.7 | Feb , 1968
The eponymous wraith returns to Earth to aid his descendant, elderly Emily Stowecroft. The villains want to kick Emily and her friends out of their group home so that they can build a crooked casino. Good guy Steve Walker gets caught in the middle of the squabble after evoking Blackbeard's ghost.God of Gamblers
IMDB 7.3 | Dec , 1989
Ko Chun is an extremely talented and well known gambler. On the eve of a big confrontation with a famous Singaporean gambler, Ko walks into a trap set by Knife, an avid but a so-so gambler, meant for an Indian neighbour. Struck on the head, Ko suffers from amnesia and regresses to a child-like state. Knife takes care of Ko and begins to exploit Ko's gambling talents.Echelon Conspiracy
IMDB 6.3 | Feb , 2009
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IMDB 6.9 | Jun , 2004
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IMDB 5.7 | Jan , 2015
When a Las Vegas bodyguard with lethal skills and a gambling problem gets in trouble with the mob, he has one last play… and it's all or nothing.Dirty Deeds
IMDB 5.7 | Jul , 2002
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IMDB 5.3 | Jul , 1991
Rover, a street-smart dog owned by a Las Vegas showgirl is dumped off Hoover Dam by the showgirl's boyfriend. Rather than drowning, Rover winds up in your basic idyllic farm in a classic city-boy-in-country shtick.Trouble Man
IMDB 6.2 | 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.