Zhi, a rookie race car driver, gets the opportunity to compete against the reigning champion of the rally car circuit. With help from a former driver-turned-mechanic, Zhi must overcome treacherous terrain, rival racers, and unexpected obstacles to prove he has what it takes to be the next great racer.
Seje strømer Ben Shockley skal eskortere luderen Gus fra Vegas til Phoenix. Gus skal vidne mod højtstående medlemmer af mafiaen, der til gengæld gør alt for at komme af med hende. Så er det godt at Ben ikke er bleg for at bruge endog særdeles hårdhændede metoder i kampen mod de uheldige skurke, parret møder på vejen til Phoenix.
Eks-stripperen Beth (Rebecca Hall) flytter til Las Vegas og tager et job som servitrice, og her møder hun den professionelle spiller Dink Heimowitz (Bruce Willis), der opdager, at hun er ulamindeligt god til at huske tal. Dink får Beth til at sige sit job op, og hyrer hende som sin assistent, og deres partnerskab bliver en stor succes, men Beth kommer lidt for tæt på Dink - og det bliver hans jaloux kone Tulip Heimowitz (Catherine Zeta-Jones) meget sur over. Situationen udvikler sig til krig, og Beth flygter til New York, men efter noget tid her kommer hun i store problemer. Nu er hun tvunget til at opsøge Dink igen - men tør hun det?
Five carnival workers are kidnapped and held hostage in an abandoned, Hell-like compound where they are forced to participate in a violent game, the goal of which is to survive twelve hours against a gang of sadistic clowns.
En kunstner, der arbejder med visuelle effekter, møder på Ischia en charmerende kvinde, som ændrer hans kyniske syn på kærligheden. Men er hun for god til at være ægte?
A down-on-his-luck bookie befriends an ex-girlfriend’s son and gets the bright idea to take bets on his youth league baseball games; only to realize he’s killed what’s pure about the sport as the games turn ugly when money is on the line.
Roscoe is a doctor who falls in love with a pretty woman whose boyfriend, in turn, falls in love with Roscoe's wife's jewelry.
Tommy McCoy grew up poor and scrappy. As a young man he discovers that he can fight with his powerful right arm. He becomes successful at boxing, however he has an alcoholic father.
When a gambler is accused of murder, the pretty orphanage employee he loves sets out to prove him innocent of the crime.
Sweety has to contend with her over-enthusiastic family that wants her to get married but the ultimate truth is that her love might not find acceptance in her family and society.
Stig Helmer er blevet fyret som brødristerkontrollør og har fået ansættelse som vej -og parkmedarbejder. Ved et tilfælde bliver han tilbudt at spille golf med den selvsamme forretningsmand der lukkede Toastmaster-fabrikken og nu har planer om at anlægge en ny golfbane på et fredet område. Nok den mest handlingsprægede af alle filmene og med mange fine indslag undervejs.
Gwen Saunders teams up with her uncle's employee, Steve Bennett, in an attempt to double her $10,000 investment in the family firm. If she can reach the $20,000 mark, her uncle, T.T. Ralston, will match the figure. Steve bets that if he can spend an entire day without telling a lie, Ralston and his business partners must double Gwen's money. Bennett then earns the enmity of everyone involved in his attempt to win the bet.
Chancer John lives for playing the odds - and he's always willing to take a calculated risk. But when he meets the mysterious and beautiful female bookie Stan, he discovers there's much more to gambling than just greyhounds and horses. Lured by her huge payoffs, John finds himself sucked into a surreal and dangerous word ruled by money, power and control. The question is how far will John go for the ultimate last big win?
A murder mystery set in the world of illegal teenage gambling. A 17-year old must find his best friends' killer before the game is exposed.
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.
Directors Werner Herzog and Errol Morris make a bet which results in Herzog living up to his promise that he would eat his shoe if Errol Morris ever completed the film Gates of Heaven.
A free-spirited girl gets the shock of her life when she finds herself naked in an abandoned building after a late-night party.
The horse Gay Future is at the centre of an Irish betting syndicate in 1974 which saw trainer Antony Collins present a poor performing horse at his stables. The betting stakes were subsequently raised, before the real horse was entered in the race.
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a man and his racketeer buddies devise a scheme to bilk those already seemingly desperate for money of what little they have.
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.