Comedy, Drama
When their high school drama department falls victim to budget cuts, two teachers from the Bronx find an unlikely solution to their money problems: yaniv, a little-known card game with a thriving underground gambling scene in the Hasidic Jewish community.
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To Live
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So You Want to Play the Horses
Jumping for Joy
Pursuit of Freedom
Tazza: The Hidden Card
The Champ
Tattoo Girl
The Shanghai Gesture
Night and Day
Reseda
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The Rocking Horse Winner
The Dilemma
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To Live
IMDB 8.1 | May , 1994
Married couple Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in mid-20th century mainland China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry.Marci X
IMDB 3.5 | Aug , 2003
Marci Feld, a pampered Jewish-American Princess, doesn’t know about rap or the business world. But everything changes after rapper Dr. S releases a controversial CD for the hard-core hip-hop record label owned by Marci’s father. After a national protest breaks out to boycott the new CD and the record label, her father is hospitalized by a heart attack. Marci decides to step in to save his reputation and the family business by taming the raunchy rapper's wild bad boy image.A woman pays the price
IMDB 0 | Oct , 1993
The singer Nahid marries Youssef who gains from gambling and fraud in sailing lands. Disputes arise between them and they separates, Nahid with her only daughter from him goes to work as a singer since then in amusement parks and weddings.The Music of Chance
IMDB 6.5 | Jun , 1993
Two men face the consequences of gambling after playing with men beyond their league.High Card's Bluff
IMDB 0 | Sep , 2023
A cocky gambler reflects on the past events of his life when he used to successfully cheat in poker games, endlessly drawing in the cash, game after game. But is he stretching the truth? Is there any truth to be found within these stories in the first place?Oscar and Lucinda
IMDB 6.4 | Dec , 1997
After a childhood of abuse by his evangelistic father, misfit Oscar Hopkins becomes an Anglican minister and develops a divine obsession with gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a rich Australian heiress shopping in London for materials for her newly acquired glass factory back home. Deciding to travel to Australia as a missionary, Oscar meets Lucinda aboard ship, and a mutual obsession blossoms. They make a wager that will alter each of their destinies.So You Want to Play the Horses
IMDB 6.3 | Oct , 1946
In this outing, Joe loves playing the horses and shows what you can do to improve your odds of winning.Jumping for Joy
IMDB 6.7 | Jan , 1956
At the racetrack, cleaner, Willy Joy is tricked into buying Lindy Lou, a useless greyhound, who's not too healthy either. While getting the dog back in shape, Willy crosses paths with a gang of crooks who's specialty is fixing the races with doped dogs.Pursuit of Freedom
IMDB 4.5 | Sep , 2022
Inspired by the incredible true story of a woman who was abducted in the night, torn from her children, and sold into trafficking after her husband lost her in a night of gambling.Tazza: The Hidden Card
IMDB 7.1 | Sep , 2014
Dae-gil has been skilled with his hands and has shown a strong desire for winning ever since he was a child. He will succeed his uncle and jump into the world of Tazza, risking his life in competition.The Champ
IMDB 7.2 | Nov , 1931
A broken-down alcoholic prizefighter struggles to keep custody of his adoring son.Tattoo Girl
IMDB 9 | Jan , 1993
A woman with a butterfly mask starts to win huge at gambling and ends up having to defend herself from those looking for revenge.The Shanghai Gesture
IMDB 6.2 | Dec , 1941
A gambling queen uses blackmail to stop a British financier from closing her Chinese clip joint.Night and Day
IMDB 6 | Jul , 1946
When his first stage show fails, songwriter Cole Porter goes off to fight in WWI until, injured, he lands in a hospital. He impresses nurse Linda Lee with his creativity, but their budding romance must wait as Cole heads home. Back in New York, he mounts a series of popular shows, and when his work brings him back to Europe, he eventually marries Linda. But success doesn't spare him from marital complications or bad news about a beloved relative.Reseda
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2019
The story of 4 unlikely housemates. Through years of strife and misadventure, this bunch redefines what it means to be a family.The Rocking Horse Winner
IMDB 7.5 | Jan , 1977
Nigel Rhodes plays a boy who, while riding his wooden rocking horse, can predict which horse will win at the race.The Rocking Horse Winner
IMDB 6.5 | 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.The Dilemma
IMDB 5.3 | Jan , 2011
Longtime friends Ronny and Nick are partners in an auto-design firm. They are hard at work on a presentation for a dream project that would really launch their company. Then Ronny spots Nick's wife out with another man, and in the process of investigating the possible affair, he learns that Nick has a few secrets of his own. As the presentation nears, Ronny agonizes over what might happen if the truth gets out.The Gambler
IMDB 6.7 | Oct , 1974
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.God of Gamblers III: Back to Shanghai
IMDB 7 | Aug , 1991
While battling a psychic gambler, Sing hurtles back in time to 1937 Shanghai. Now he must come to grips with his family history and get back to 1991.