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
The Savages
When Night Is Falling
Swallowtail Butterfly
Bugsy
Wild Things 2
The Girl on the Bridge
Bound
Last Man Standing
Gemini
Poolhall Junkies
Feast of Love
Out for Justice
Wuthering Heights
Soğukkanlılar
The Little Foxes
The Rocking Horse Winner
Inside Job
Malevolence
Il delitto Mattarella
A Hero
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Savages
IMDB 6.9 | Nov , 2007
A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.When Night Is Falling
IMDB 6.3 | Feb , 1995
Camille is a professor at a Protestant college and is in a long-term relationship Martin, a respected minister and fellow professor. When Camille meets Petra, a bold and flamboyant performer in a circus troupe, she is inexplicably drawn. Pursuing Petra, Camille throws her whole conservative life into disarray.Swallowtail Butterfly
IMDB 7.5 | Sep , 1996
The struggles of a group of outcasts living in "Yentown", in an alternate-future Japan.Bugsy
IMDB 6.4 | Dec , 1991
New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life, the movies, and most of all strong-willed Virginia Hill detain him while his family wait back home. Then a trip to a run-down gambling joint at a spot in the desert known as Las Vegas gives him his big idea.Wild Things 2
IMDB 5.1 | Feb , 2004
Two Florida high school vixens hatch a murderous plan to win an inheritance, but they hadn't bargained for an escalating whirlpool of blackmail and sexual games with a sleazy insurance investigator who has his own plans for the money.The Girl on the Bridge
IMDB 7.1 | Mar , 1999
It's night on a Paris bridge. A girl leans over Seine River with tears in her eyes and a violent yearning to drown her sorrows. Out of nowhere someone takes an interest in her. He is Gabor, a knife thrower who needs a human target for his show. The girl, Adele, has never been lucky and nowhere else to go. So she follows him. They travel along the northern bank of the Mediterranean to perform.Bound
IMDB 7.2 | Sep , 1996
Corky, a tough female ex-convict working on an apartment renovation in a Chicago building, meets a couple living next door, Caesar, a paranoid mobster, and Violet, his seductive girlfriend, who is immediately attracted to her.Last Man Standing
IMDB 6.4 | Sep , 1996
John Smith is a mysterious stranger who is drawn into a vicious war between two Prohibition-era gangs. In a dangerous game, he switches allegiances from one to another, offering his services to the highest bidder. As the death toll mounts, Smith takes the law into his own hands in a deadly race to stay alive.Gemini
IMDB 5.2 | Apr , 2017
Gemini is a special child with some behavioral disorders. She is an adopted child and to make things even more difficult, her parents are not in the best of terms. She is often ridiculed by her peers, but two of her teachers realize her potential and urges her to egg on.Poolhall Junkies
IMDB 6.4 | Jun , 2002
A retired pool hustler is forced to pick up the stick again when his brother starts a game he can't finish.Feast of Love
IMDB 6.2 | Sep , 2007
A meditation on love and its various incarnations, set within a community of friends in Oregon. It is described as an exploration of the magical, mysterious and sometimes painful incarnations of love.Out for Justice
IMDB 6.1 | Apr , 1991
Gino Felino is an NYPD detective from Brooklyn who knows everyone and everything in his neighborhood. Killing his partner was someone's big mistake... because he's now out for justice.Wuthering Heights
IMDB 6.2 | Jun , 1954
Gone several years, the brooding Alejandro returns to the hacienda of his foster sister, Catalina, whom he loves, to find her married to the wealthy and effete Eduardo.Soğukkanlılar
IMDB 0 | Oct , 1973
The film takes on the efforts Kemal, a guy working for the mafia, makes to change his life. Kemal has grown up in a suburb of İstanbul. He has become very rich after starting to work for the mafia. Having lied to his father and neighbors that he works as a manager in a company, Kemal gets caught by the police during a smuggling operation. He serves a long time in prison for his crime. After his release, he comes to find everyone’s back is turned on him. His ex-employer Nihat offers Kemal his job back. Yedibela Nuri, the police chief, on the other hand, wants him to become an informant. Kemal turns both proposals down. However, Nihat has no thought of letting Kemal go.The Little Foxes
IMDB 7.5 | Aug , 1941
In 1900, a clan attempts to strike a deal with a Chicago industrialist to get him to build cotton mills in their Deep South town.The Rocking Horse Winner
IMDB 6.6 | Nov , 1949
A strange and tragic tale of a young boy who is able to predict race winners at the horse track by riding his own rocking horse to aid his parents out of their endless round of debts.Inside Job
IMDB 7.7 | Oct , 2010
A film that exposes the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, Inside Job traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia.Malevolence
IMDB 3.8 | 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.Il delitto Mattarella
IMDB 5.9 | Jul , 2020
January 6, 1980. President of the Sicily Piersanti Mattarella is going to Mass with his family when a young man approaches his car and shoots him in cold blood, killing him. The young Deputy Prosecutor on duty that day is Pietro Grasso, future General Anti-Mafia Prosecutor and President of the Italian Senate. His investigations are continued by Giovanni Falcone, who uncovers dangerous connections between the Mafia, the ruling Christian Democratic Party, neo-fascist terrorists, and secret services.A Hero
IMDB 7.3 | Dec , 2021
Rahim is in prison because of a debt he was unable to repay. During a two-day leave, he tries to convince his creditor to withdraw his complaint against the payment of part of the sum. But things don't go as planned. Is he truly a hero?