Slevin skal besøge sin ven Nick i New York, men da han ankommer, er Nick forsvundet. Slevin's uheld bliver kun større, da han opdager, at to meget ubehagelige mænd - en lejemorder og en mafiaboss - hver især tror, han er Nick. Og at Nick åbenbart har et mellemværende med dem begge! Nu må Slevin bruge al sin fantasi og list for at blive sine forfølgere kvit.
Den inspirerende sande historie om Dream Alliance, en usandsynlig racehest opdrættet af den lille bybarman, Jan Vokes. Med meget få penge og ingen erfaring overbeviser Jan sine naboer om at indsnævre deres ringe indtjening for at hjælpe med at rejse Dream og konkurrere med racingeliterne. Deres investering betaler sig, når Dream stiger gennem rækkerne og bliver et fyrtårn for håb i deres kæmpende samfund.
Hele Gerrys (Ben Mendelsohn) liv er blevet ødelagt af hans spilleafhængighed. Han har mistet sin kone og sit barn, og nu kommer han måske til at miste stykker af sig selv, for hans aggressive lånehaj kræver, at der bliver betalt af på gælden. Men så møder Gerry pokerspilleren Curtis (Ryan Reynolds). De bliver venner og beslutter sig for at tage på en tur sammen for at score den helt store gevinst. Instruktørparret Anna Boden og Ryan Fleck stod tidligere bag It's Kind of a Funny Story og Half Nelson.
Unge Alec Ramsey overlever med nød og næppe et frygteligt skibbrud og det lykkes ham at redde sig i land på en øde ø; men han er ikke helt alene. Med ham er en forrygende flot, kulsort araberhingst, der også har overlevet elementernes rasen; dens navn er Sorte. De to bliver bedste venner og hjælpes ad med at overleve den håbløse situation.
Michelle var fire år, da hun sad på en hesteryg for første gang. Da hun var fem, satte hun sig for at vinde Melbourne Cup. Men vejen dertil var ikke let. Man mente ikke, at hun havde det i sig, og så var hun jo ikke en mand. Michelle måtte kæmpe hårdt, men gav aldrig op på trods af modgang, brækkede ben og et tragisk dødsfald i familien. Ride Like a Girl er en opløftende og sand beretning om heroisk stræben, familie, venskab og at trodse alle odds.
Mi Taylor is a young wanderer and opportunist who finds himself in the quiet English countryside home of the Brown family. The youngest daughter, Velvet, has a passion for horses and when she wins the spirited steed Pie in a town lottery, Mi is encouraged to train the horse.
Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they lose $250,000, they are set up to kill each other. But they run off to Atlantic City and comedy follows.
An aging jockey is determined to win one last championship, but his dream is complicated when a young rookie shows up claiming to be his son.
The true story of jockey Bob Champion who overcame cancer to win the 1981 Grand National
This is the tale of industrial strife at WC Boggs' Lavatory factory. Vic Spanner is the union representative who calls a strike at the drop of a hat; eventually everyone has to get fed up with him. This is also the ideal opportunity for lots of lavatorial jokes...
The film follows Jungle Pocket, who wishes to participate in the Triple Crown Classic race, which can only be run once in a lifetime. She faces rivals Agnes Tachyon and Manhattan Cafe.
Bruno Fioretti, known as "Mandrake", is an inveterate gambler who never misses a day at the horse racing track in Rome. He is doubly unlucky: he bets too much on one horse, and his wife is sleeping with his best friend because Mandrake is always at the track. Penniless and cuckolded, Mandrake decides to make one last bet.
Jack Irish var i sin tid en strålende advokat, men en personlig tragedie fik ham til at skifte erhverv til privatedetektiv og inkassator. Da en af hans tidligere klienter dør, bliver han dog tvunget til at stå ansigt til ansigt med sin tvivlsomme fortid.
A woman and her husband take separate vacations, and she falls in love with another man.
At the heart of this true story is Damien Oliver, a young jockey who loses his only brother in a tragic racing accident, hauntingly reflecting of the way their father died 27 years earlier. After suffering through a series of discouraging defeats, Damien teams with Irish trainer Dermot Weld, and triumphs at the 2002 Melbourne Cup in one of the most thrilling finales in sporting history.
Two window washers who are mistaken by Nick Craig, a bookie, as the messengers he sent for to pick up $50,000. Now the person he sent them to sent two of his men to get the money back but they found out about it. So they try to mail to Craig but a mix up has the money sent somewhere else and the woman who got it spent it. Now Craig needs the money to pay off one of his clients.
A boy falls in love with a horse named Flash that's for sale. He gets a job to earn the money to buy the horse, but he's forced to sell when the family falls upon hard times.
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
Phar Lap, the big bold chestnut reigned as the king of the turf in the depression that gripped Australia of the 1930s. From his humble beginnings the New Zealand bred horse raced on to become the hero of a nation.
An agent for horse jockeys faces his greatest challenge.