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10 Best Movies Like The Gambler

If you loved The Gambler, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Rounders

Rounders

1998★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Gambler for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Poker addict Mike McDermott knows the game inside out, but loses his money one night in a game to Russian-American gangster Teddy KGB. Promising his partner Jo he'll give up, he me...

#2
The Gambler

The Gambler

2014★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Gambler for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Literature professor Jim Bennett leads a secret life as a high-stakes gambler. Always a risk-taker, Bennett bets it all when he borrows from a gangster and offers his own life as c...

#3
21

21

2008★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Gambler for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent student at M.I.T. who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine to become a doctor, Ben learns...

#4
House of Games

House of Games

1987★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Gambler for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A psychiatrist comes to the aid of a compulsive gambler and is led by a smooth-talking grifter into the shadowy but compelling world of stings, scams, and con men....

#5
Owning Mahowny

Owning Mahowny

2003★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Gambler for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

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 ...

#6
Casino

Casino

1995★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Gambler for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In Las Vegas, two best friends--a casino executive and a Mafia enforcer--compete for a gambling empire and a fast-living, fast-loving socialite....

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