Dupla de trapalhões desempregados criam uma nova linha de negócios: um serviço de "trabalhos sujos", pequenas vinganças sob encomenda contra desafetos de seus clientes.
Desde os 12 anos, Dan Mahowny (Phillip Seymour Hoffman) é viciado em jogo e não passa um dia sem efetuar algum tipo de aposta, seja em cassinos, corridas de cavalos ou outros esportes. Seu prazer, no entanto, não está no lucro, mas no excitante ato de jogar. Perante sua namorada e seus amigos Mahowny é apenas um devotado funcionário de banco, visto como extremamente eficiente por seus superiores. Apesar de sua aparente ingenuidade, durante um ano e meio ele conseguiu desviar mais de 10 milhões de dólares para financiar suas compulsivas apostas.
Um casal e seu melhor amigo dividem uma casa em um condomínio e descobrem na residência vizinha uma misteriosa máquina fotográfica gigante que fotografa o futuro 24 horas adiante. O trio conspira para utilizar a engenhoca para benefícios pessoais, até que imagens perturbadoras começam a surgir.
Vinayak, a suspended cop, helps a group of four men rob cricket betting money amounting to 500 crores INR. When it comes to splitting the amount, betrayal hits the team hard and a chase ensues.
Na Filadélfia, o pequeno bookmaker Nicky, que roubou dinheiro da máfia, está se escondendo e implora a um amigo para ajudá-lo a fugir do assassino que está em seu encalço. Ele liga para Mikey, seu amigo desde a infância, mas quando Mikey chega, Nicky não o deixa entrar: seu humor mudou. Então começa uma longa noite enquanto Mikey tenta cuidar de Nicky, acalmá-lo e tirá-lo da cidade. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair. Told in flashback, we witness a sleazy dancehall girl (Vivienne Osborne) dupe a high rise riveter (Edward G. Robinson) into marriage so she can live off of him. But when he loses his job and his marbles, she ends up supporting him with money from her side man--and misses no opportunity to rub it in his face that she's now supporting him in his emasculated state. As the animosity grows and things get more and more unbearable, he is eventually driven to desperate measures.
Vinnie's a bookie, happily married, running his operation for 30 years out of his bar in Brooklyn. Times change, the boys up the chain want a bigger profit, so Vinnie's expendable He's assigned a hotheaded kid, Tony, the nephew of a local mobster. Vinnie's told to school the lad, use him for collections, and teach him some sense. What Vinnie doesn't know is that once Tony learns the ropes, Vinnie will be out. Tensions mount when Tony goes around Vinnie's paternalistic ways, takes a bet from an unemployed alcoholic, and demands that the loser's wife pay the vig in trade. Is there any way out for Vinnie - with or without his good name?
Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, is in desperate need of money. He arranges for his fellow bookies, especially Sorrowful Jones, to each pay him $1,000 for his racehorse, Dream Prince, to lose. With all bets being placed at the window, Sorrowful encounters a gambler, having lost $500, wanting to place his bet but unable to come up with $20. Instead, he places his little girl, Marthy Jane, as security, or in bookie's terms a "marker". "Marky", as she comes to be known, winds up under the care of Sorrowful Jones and his lady friend, singer Bangles Carson.
An innocent bank teller, suspected of embezzlement, is aided by an eccentric, wisecracking waiter.
A horse breeder's granddaughter falls in love with a gambler in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
Molly, her brother, Slats, and his pal, Oliver, are taxi dancers at the Miramar Ballroom. As a publicity stunt, Slats plants an article about Molly claiming her ambition is to earn enough money to attend staid, all-girl Bixby College. Bixby's progressive dean offers Molly a scholarship. Molly accepts on the condition that Slats and Oliver come along too as campus caretakers. But the pompous Chairman threatens to foreclose on the school's mortgage if Molly isn't expelled. Together, the trio, with the help of some new friends, concocts a scheme to raise enough money to save the school. The plan involves a bet on the Bixby basketball team, which is playing in a game rated at 20 to 1 by the local bookie. But the bookie has other plans for their dough and hires a group of ringers to step in for the opponents. All is not lost, at least while Oliver has the chance to turn things around for his friends-one way or another.
A lawyer begins to win after his wife secretly becomes his bookie to save their money.
The Horatio Alger parable gets the film noir treatment with the redoubtable Edmund O’Brien as a whip-smart telephone technician who moves up the ladder of a Syndicate gambling empire in Southern California until distracted by an inconveniently married Joanne Dru and his own greed. Ripped from the headlines of the 1950 Kevaufer Organized Crime Hearings, this fast-moving picture is laden with location sequences shot in Los Angeles, the Hoover Dam and Palm Springs including the famous Doll House watering hole on North Palm Canyon Drive!
A woman is unhappy in her marriage to a boring, stiff judge, so she takes up with a wild-living RAF pilot, who ends up being more than she can handle. (TCM.com)
A small-town newspaper editor defies threats to expose the mob.
A bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up the sham, he hires dim-witted Ellen Grant as his secretary figuring she won't suspect any criminal goings-on. When Ellen learns of some friends who are about to lose their homes, she unwittingly drafts her boss into developing a new low-cost housing development.
After inheriting a New York City art gallery, bookie Milton Berle and his partner Cesar Romero decide to go into the art forgery business. Director Ray McCarey's 1942 comedy also stars Carole Landis, J. Carrol Naish, Steven Geray, Richard Derr, Rose Hobart, Elisha Cook Jr., Chick Chandler, Francis Pierlot and Jerome Cowan.
Sixteen-year-old Micki never met her parents. Raised by her ex-gangster grandfather Pops and crazy Uncle Sal, she develops a scheme to set her family up for life. A simple robbery, a violent loan shark, and a ticking clock. What could go wrong?
Jimmie Allen, a shady bookie, is in love with Pearl Proctor, a greedy dance hall girl. He schemes to get her back after she rejects him; and along the way, he revives a failing Gilbert and Sullivan troupe.
Um apostador infeliz desenvolve uma amizade improvável com Brian, o filho de 12 anos de sua ex-namorada. Quando os clientes de Zbikowski não pagam suas dívidas, ele tenta recuperar seus ganhos aceitando apostas nos jogos de beisebol do garoto.