Dan Mahowny was a rising star at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. At twenty-four he was assistant manager of a major branch in the heart of Toronto's financial district. To his colleagues he was a workaholic. To his customers, he was astute, decisive and helpful. To his friends, he was a quiet, but humorous man who enjoyed watching sports on television. To his girlfriend, he was shy but engaging. None of them knew the other side of Dan Mahowny--the side that executed the largest single-handed bank fraud in Canadian history, grossing over $10 million in eighteen months to feed his gambling obsession.
Shuhei is leading a tough life. His alcoholic mother Akiko can only hook up with bad guys and order Shuhei to go get money from his disapproving grandparents instead of going to school. Except raising the little half-sister, his rock-bottom life seems to have no end.
Kolmen pakkomielteen ajaman ihmisen elämänlangat risteytyvät odottamattomalla tavalla. Uhkapelaaminen menee veriin, ihon alla elimiin ja kudoksiin ja syöpyy lopulta uniin. Kukin pelaa voittaakseen, pelaa ja pelkää, että aika on käymässä vähiin. Kirjailija Carol valehtelee miehelleen menevänsä kirjoittamaan kirjaa pelaamaan lähtiessään. Korisfani Clyde aikoo järjestellä soputuloksia matseihin saadakseen pelivelat kuitattua. Taikuri Walter katoaa hitaasti kasinon tapettiin.
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.
Anthony Keller, star of his NYC high school basketball team, is riding his way to Cornell on a sports scholarship. But he can only maintain his popular jock facade for so long, as his troubled father Lee has a gambling addiction that threatens to derail his dreams both on and off the court.
Peluri Eddie yrittää saada elämänsä takaisin raiteilleen hävittyään 50 000 dollaria – ja ne eivät olleet edes hänen. Ikävän yllätyksen vuoksi vanhat tavat kutsuvat.
A struggling architect, being sued for divorce by his wife and struggling with booze and gambling, finds work remodeling a friend's strip club, the Paradise. There he meets a transsexual stripper who is bothered by accurate, but extremely violent visions of future events. The increasingly violent visions start including the architect, who doesn't believe in the prophesy. One who does however is a psychiatrist who is seeing both the stripper and the architect and is sleeping with the ex-wife. He uses the prophecies for his own financial gain. Finally the scenes from the vision move into reality amidst many plot turns.
Montreal, Winter 2002. Stéphane, 19 years old, fan of Metal, student in graphic design, dreams of becoming an illustrator. But for months he has been caught in a threatening spiral: he is addicted to games. Indebted, without an apartment, avoiding his friends to whom he owes money, Stéphane takes a job as a dishwasher in a restaurant in a major Italian restaurant in Montreal in order to get by. There, he will meet Bébert, a cook who burns the candle at both ends, and Greg, a waiter with disreputable actions. Will Stéphane make it through this new job or will he fall into a downward spiral of bad choices?
Lena is seven months pregnant and she's ready to sell the baby in her belly. Ermanno agrees to pretend to be the father. Fabio, the uncle of Ermanno, will pay them to buy the child that he and his wife Bianca cannot have. A fake adoption between relatives, a loophole to bypass the law in Italy. A world in which money is the only standard of value, the only thing that matters. Ermanno and Lena are two strangers that must pretend in public to be a couple and live together until the delivery. They are used to only thinking about themselves and they fight all the time. But living side by side they start becoming what they were only pretending to be.
Ruumisautobisneksen halvimmat kuskit, Risto Kivi ja Arto Niska ovat joutuneet tilanteeseen, jossa kaikki on mennyt pieleen ja uusi alku olisi tarpeen. Risto on pelannut kotinsa ja perheensä ja Arto on saanut niskakipuja hoidattaessaan kuulla, ettei hänellä ole käytännössä juurikaan aivoja. Voi siis kaikella syyllä todeta, että paremminkin on mennyt. Ystävyksillä ei käytännössä ole jäljellä muuta kuin työnsä. Sen parissa he hoitavat kaikkein likaisimmatkin keikat. Hakevat junan alle murskautuneet ja koteihinsa mädäntyneet niiden viimeiseen lepopaikkaan. Kuten Risto osuvasti toteaa – kuolema on elävien ongelma. Sitä miesten elämässä riittää, mutta tästä huolimatta he pyrkivät uskomaan elämään. Vaikka toisella ei ole aivoja, eikä toisella sydäntä, yhdessä tilanne ei ole toivoton. Asiat ottavat kuitenkin yllättävän suunnan ja Risto ja Arto joutuvat pelaamaan uhkapeliä omalla hengellään. Sen jälkeen mikään ei ole ennallaan.
Former sports gambling addict Chance needs $60,000 to save his mother from nursing home eviction. So he falls back into his old habits, only to learn he's never lost a bet on Christmas. Is this the Christmas miracle he's been waiting for? Or just an addict who can't control himself?
Swaying between pleasure and despair, Elric throws himself into his pathological passion for the casino. Meeting Suzie could have saved him, but the young woman also sinks into gambling hell. The couple then start getting involved in the fearsome world of professional cheaters.
A gambler, fresh out of prison, and a beautiful hooker find themselves caught in an underground scheme that's spinning wildly out of control.
A disgraced sports star and gambling addict attempts to turn his life around with the support of his number one fan.
When he thinks his brother has let him down, a cowboy goes bad.
Young girls are cheated into rigged gambling games and then forced into prostitution to pay off their debts.
A young girl is taken with a boy that she meets, but he leads her into gambling where she begins losing money, becomes desperate, and starts to steal.
A farmer's wife decides to take her children and leave her gambling addict husband.
A father has less than a day to pay back a debt to a violent loan shark, while looking after his young son.