New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that threatens to destroy him.
Casts James Caan, Paul Sorvino, Lauren Hutton, Morris Carnovsky, Jacqueline Brookes, Burt Young, Carmine Caridi, Carl W. Crudup, Stuart Margolin, Vic Tayback
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Uptown Saturday Night
Let's Do It Again
Falling Up
Confessions of a Thug
Death in Love
Al's Lads
PVT Chat
Reaper
The Kitchen
Marriage Story
Malevolence
The Phenix City Story
New York Confidential
Girl in the Cadillac
Fatal Attraction
Wonder Boys
The Barbarian Invasions
Taxi
City Hall
Greta
SIMILAR MOVIES
Uptown Saturday Night
IMDB 6.1 | Jul , 1974
Two blue-collar buddies search the underworld for a winning lottery ticket lost in a nightclub holdup.Let's Do It Again
IMDB 6.9 | Oct , 1975
Clyde Williams and Billy Foster are a couple of blue-collar workers in Atlanta who have promised to raise funds for their fraternal order, the Brothers and Sisters of Shaka. However, their method for raising the money involves travelling to New Orleans and rigging a boxing match.Falling Up
IMDB 5.2 | Sep , 2009
A nursing student forced to quit school for family reasons winds up taking a job as a doorman in an elite apartment building in New York City, where he sparks to one of his residents.Confessions of a Thug
IMDB 6 | Jan , 2005
The story of South Boy. Caught up in a life of crime, he finds himself doing time in Federal Prison.Death in Love
IMDB 4.8 | Jul , 2008
Death in Love is a psychosexual-thriller about a love affair between a Jewish woman and a doctor overseeing human experimentation at a Nazi German concentration camp, and the impact this has on her sons' lives in the 1990s.Al's Lads
IMDB 5.8 | Jun , 2002
Three Englishmen working as waiters on a cruise ship in 1927 are given a chance to work for the Al Capone gang.PVT Chat
IMDB 5.4 | Feb , 2021
Jack is an internet gambler living in NYC. After the death of his roommate, he becomes fixated on Scarlet - a cam girl from San Francisco. His obsession reaches a boiling point when fantasy materializes in reality and Jack sees Scarlet on a rainy NYC Chinatown street.Reaper
IMDB 5.4 | Oct , 2014
Criminals and a beautiful but cunning hitchhiker must battle a supernatural force known as the Reaper.The Kitchen
IMDB 6.1 | Aug , 2019
The mobster husbands of three 1978 Hell's Kitchen housewives are sent to prison by the FBI. Left with little but a sharp ax to grind, the ladies take the Irish mafia's matters into their own hands — proving unexpectedly adept at everything from running the rackets to taking out the competition… literally.Marriage Story
IMDB 7.7 | Sep , 2019
A stage director and an actress struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal extremes.Malevolence
IMDB 3.2 | Jun , 2004
Antonio owes the Robaldo family a hundred G's, Gray wants revenge on the street gang who mugged him, Jimmy's escaped from prison, and his brother/accomplice David has many serious mental conditions. Detective Brickley is hot on their trail willing to stop them with any means necessary, while a pair of rogue psychiatrists track them to discover the roots of David's condition. It isn't long before the paths of these characters cross with violent and tragic consequences. The result is a shocking and disturbing portrait of human nature at its worst that can only be summed up in one word: Malevolence.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.New York Confidential
IMDB 5.9 | Feb , 1955
Story follows the rise and subsequent fall of the notorious head of a New York crime family, who decides to testify against his pals in order to avoid being killed by his fellow cohorts.Girl in the Cadillac
IMDB 4.2 | Oct , 1995
A runaway teenage girl and a drifter rob a bank, hit the road to elude the Texas Rangers and find love on the run.Fatal Attraction
IMDB 6.8 | Sep , 1987
A married man's one-night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.Wonder Boys
IMDB 6.8 | Feb , 2000
Grady is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years—not since he wrote his award winning 'Great American Novel' 7 years ago. This weekend proves even worse than he could imagine as he finds himself reeling from one misadventure to another in the company of a new wonder boy author.The Barbarian Invasions
IMDB 7 | Sep , 2003
In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', middle-aged Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. His ex-wife, Louise, asks their estranged son, Sebastian, a successful businessman living in London, to come home. Sebastian makes the impossible happen, using his contacts and disrupting the Canadian healthcare system in every way possible to help his father fight his terminal illness to the bitter end, while reuniting some of Remy's old friends, including Pierre, Alain, Dominique, Diane, and Claude, who return to see their friend before he passes on.Taxi
IMDB 5.6 | Oct , 2004
A mouthy and feisty taxicab driver has hot tips for a green and inept cop set on solving a string of New York City bank robberies committed by a quartet of female Brazilian bank robbers.City Hall
IMDB 5.9 | Feb , 1996
The accidental shooting of a boy in New York City leads to an investigation by the Deputy Mayor, and unexpectedly far-reaching consequences.Greta
IMDB 6.6 | Feb , 2019
A young woman returns a lonely widow’s lost purse, leading to an unlikely relationship between the two — until the young woman discovers the widow might not be all that she seems.