The Gambler (2014)

Michael Hui stars as Wen, a convict who's always out to make a quick dollar through gambling. Being behind bars doesn't stop him from making something off of his gambling skills. Samuel Hui co-stars as Chieh,a novice gambler who gets into trouble one day when he tries to steal casino chips from a crooked card dealer Dean Shek). Whilst in jail, Chieh meets Wen and the latter agrees to become his mentor. Can Wen and Chieh make a fortune from their combined skills or will the duo wind up back in prison?

Inspired by the true story of Kim Kyung-ho, a math professor who was arrested for shooting a crossbow at the presiding judge of his appeal against unfair dismissal.

After breaking up with her boyfriend on Valentine's Day, Jenny shares a red-eye flight from Los Angeles to New York with a love-damaged group of passengers-- a pilot with anger management issues, some oversexed flight attendants, a hip-hop superstar trying to keep it real in coach and a handsome young professor who's been unlucky in romance.

Pretty female attorney Abigail "AJ" Furnival is hired to keep high-flying cowboy movie star Ben Castle out of trouble in Las Vegas. Despite his many faults, Abigail falls in love with and marries Ben, with the hope that she can mold him into the virtuous hero he plays on the screen.

Ray, a man without family addicted to the game, dedicated to steal cars and for love will end up in jail.

Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and roulette wheels. After Phyllis slips away and continues her compulsive gambling, Shayne fakes the murder of her gambler boyfriend, who is also romancing the daughter of casino owner Benny Gordon, in order to frighten her. When the tout really ends up murdered, Shayne and Phyllis' Aunt Olivia, an avid reader of murder mysteries, both try to find the identity of the killer.

A card sharp steps in when a Mexican family's ranch is threatened by swindlers and cheats.

Lovelife is a 1997 romantic comedy film written and directed by Jon Harmon Feldman. The ensemble cast includes Matt Letscher, Sherilyn Fenn, Saffron Burrows, Carla Gugino, Bruce Davison, Jon Tenney and Peter Krause. Lovelife was nominated for a Feature Film Award at the 1997 Austin Film Festival, and won an Audience Award at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival. The film was winner of the screenplay award at the L.A. Indie fest.

A young professor travels to Budapest to locate a lost colleague. Once there, he gets tangled up in a supernatural mystery.

Tom Beckwith has just quit his job as a police officer in order to study psychology. But his professor, Lauren Porter, is more interested in his criminology abilities than in his progress in psychology. Because of traumatic circumstances during her childhood she is suffering from schizophrenia, and it looks like her other ego has just killed somebody. So Tom Beckwith tries to help her by observing her, combining his professional abilities as an ex-cop and his recently gained knowledge of psychology.

Brett Wade, gambler, gunslinger, and classical pianist, is wounded in a gunfight with the Ferris clan; the doctor finds signs of tuberculosis. En route to Colorado for his health, Brett stops in Socorro, New Mexico along with Ferris gunfighter Jimmy Rapp. Sheriff Couthen fears another shootout, but what Brett has in mind is saving waif-with-a-past Rannah Hayes from a life as one of Dick Braden's saloon girls.

Ben Matthews gives up the flashy life of a riverboat gambler, hoping to settle down in Galena with his girlfriend, luscious entertainer Zoe. But Galena's leading citizen is murdered on the boat; Ben, on arrival, finds a lynch mob after his neck, and flees. Three years of wandering later, Zoe's letters stop coming and Ben returns to find her and attempt the hopeless task of clearing himself.

Nick, an American gambler, arrives in San Paolo and falls in love with Colleen, an American tourist, after she loses all of her money at the casino. Nick flees with Colleen after they are framed for murder and he tries to track down the real killer.

A favor for an old friend leads a Los Angeles gambler (Kent Taylor) into a dangerous search for a missing document.

Flower Buds tells the story of the gradual breakdown of a family living in a small town. Each character lives according to his or her own ideals. Agata wants a happy life far from home, fully aware that her only hope is to escape and therefore betray those close to her. Honza believes in the purity and power of love, regardless of the circumstances under which it is born. Kamila looks confidently to the future and does not intend to accept the misery of the present. The only Jarda knows that he will not change the world or himself. Aware of his weakness, he does not even try. In his mind, of course, his addiction to slot machines, which has led to a nearly impossible situation, is as certain as most gamblers' belief of an imminent win. The real and convincing attempt to rescue his family comes when it is too late. It is just a futile gesture, a desperate last ditch effort.

Gunfighters kill all family members of farmer brothers Mario and Fernando Almada, after the tragic event, they seek revenge.

Two Ming patriots spend their days helping the weak and rescuing damsels in distress. This alum gets them in trouble, though, as they are captured and then volunteered to go after the fearsome Dragon Gang, a tribe of bandits that have been terrorizing the land. They must fight their way through the ranks, including a Taoist monk and his nearly invulnerable "demon," before they can finally face off against the beautiful and sinister leader of the Dragon Gang.

A group of unemployed theater actors survive by working as illegal money collectors. The loan shark they are working for owns an Off-Broadway theater. As he decided to play "American Buffalo" there, a bloody battle for the favorite roles begin.

Crusty Dr. McRory of Fallbridge, Maine, hires his vacation replacement sight unseen. Alas, he and young singing Doctor Jim Pearson don't hit it off; but once he meets teacher Trudy Mason, Pearson is delighted to stay. The locals, taking their cue from McRory, cold-shoulder Pearson, especially Trudy's stuffy fiancé. But then, guess who needs an emergency appendectomy?

The story takes place at the beginning of the bombing, both in Belgrade and in one small town in Serbia, at the end of March 1999. Forty-year-old Mickey, an unaccomplished writer, a disillusioned assistant professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts, a discouraged democrat and a columnist, dismissed from a famous daily newspaper, emerges from his own grave and enters into his own life. Within 48 hours, he will try to achieve all those things he couldn't while he was alive. At the same time, post-mortem, he will try to save the dignity of his own community and his tribe, not taking too much care of himself.

More than two decades after it left our screens, BBC Two’s iconic and much-loved music documentary series, Rock Family Trees, is back for a one-off special. The iconic music documentary series returns to examine the real story behind the birth of Britpop and how a handful of like-minded musicians, struggling to find an authentic voice, would pave the way for a revolution in British music. It is an intricately connected story of three of the biggest bands of the 1990s – Suede, Elastica and Blur – and how, for a brief moment in the middle of that decade, they changed British music forever, kickstarting a movement that still reverberates to this day.

We join Ben a year on as he is getting used to life without his beloved Gran. With the memory of their daring Crown Jewel heist still fresh in his mind, he is stunned to learn another spate of thefts are beginning to occur - with all the clues pointing to The Black Cat, better known to Ben as Granny!

On a warm spring day in 1924, house maid and foundling Jane Fairchild finds herself alone on Mother's Day. Her employers, Mr. and Mrs. Niven, are out and she has the rare chance to spend quality time with her secret lover. Paul is the boy from the manor house nearby, Jane's long-term love despite the fact that he's engaged to be married to another woman, a childhood friend and daughter of his parents' friends. But events that neither can foresee will change the course of Jane's life forever.

Based on true events, Paul is forced to recall his harrowing childhood growing up in a children’s home, when a police investigation into his boyhood friend’s suicide opens old wounds. As Paul struggles to shake off his past and build a relationship with Anthea, his fragile mental state and bitter memories lead to a confrontation with those responsible for his shattered childhood and the death of his friend.

Four adopted brothers return to their Detroit hometown when their mother is murdered and vow to exact revenge on the killers.

A holiday-hating detective is forced to solve a murder — and save Christmas — with help from famous trainees who must improv their way through the case.

A young man seeking a father he has never met, through no fault of his own, ends up barricaded in a liquor store with five other people on Christmas Eve in the fictitious town of El Camino, NV.

かつてイスタンブールで犯罪組織を全滅に追い込んだ、元CIA秘密工作員ブライアンはロサンゼルスに戻り、再び家族の絆を取り戻そうとしていた。そんな折、前妻レノーアが、彼の家で死体となって発見される。運悪く現場で警官と遭遇したブライアンは、殺人事件の容疑者として指名手配される。

ボストン警察の殺人課に所属する刑事トミーは、 「愛国者の日（パトリオット・デイ）」に毎年開催されるボストンマラソンの警備にあたっていた。50万人の観衆で会場が埋め尽くされる中、トミーの背後で突如として大規模な爆発が発生。トミーらボストン警察の面々は事態を把握できないまま、必死の救護活動を行なう。そんな中、現場に到着したFBI捜査官リックは、事件をテロと断定。捜査はFBIの管轄になるが、犯人に対し激しい怒りを抱えるトミーは、病院に収容された負傷者たちから丁寧に話を聞いてまわる。やがて、監視カメラに映っていた「黒い帽子の男」と「白い帽子の男」が容疑者として浮かび上がる。

1984年のロサンゼルス・オリンピックで金メダルに輝いたレスリング選手、マーク・シュルツに届いた突然のオファーから始まる。有名な大財閥デュポン家の御曹司ジョン・デュポンが、自ら率いるレスリング・チーム“フォックスキャッチャー”にマークを誘い、ソウル・オリンピックでの世界制覇をめざそうと持ちかけてきたのだ。その夢のような話に飛びついたマークは破格の年俸で契約を結び、デュポンが建造した最先端の施設でトレーニングを開始する。しかしデュポンの度重なる突飛な言動、マークの精神的な混乱がエスカレートするにつれ、ふたりの主従関係はじわじわと崩壊。ついにはマークの兄で、同じく金メダリストのデイヴを巻き込み、取り返しのつかない悲劇へと突き進んでいくのだった…。

以前は優秀な兵士で、現在はラスベガスの裏社会で用心棒をしているニック。ある日、誰かにひどい暴行を受け重傷を負った元恋人から犯人捜しと復讐を依頼される。瞬く間にそれを成し遂げたニックだが、犯人の背後には権力を駆使しラスベガスを支配する凶悪マフィアが控えていた。

Doug Harris is a loveable but socially awkward groom-to-be with a problem: he has no best man. With less than two weeks to go until he marries the girl of his dreams, Doug is referred to Jimmy Callahan, owner and CEO of Best Man, Inc., a company that provides flattering best men for socially challenged guys in need. What ensues is a hilarious wedding charade as they try to pull off the big con, and an unexpected budding bromance between Doug and his fake best man Jimmy.

A hard-working small business owner and his two associates travel to Europe to close the most important deal of their lives. But what began as a routine business trip goes off the rails in every imaginable – and unimaginable – way, including unplanned stops at a massive sex fetish event and a global economic summit.

超一流の詐欺師ニッキーは同業者たちを束ねる集団のボス。ある日、彼は高級ホテルのレストランで女性詐欺師のジェスと出会う。彼女はニッキーを騙そうとするが、逆に彼の詐欺のテクニックに魅了されてしまう。結果、ニッキーの詐欺一味に加わったジェスはめきめきと頭角を現わし、やがて彼の信頼を得るように。だが、最後の大きなヤマに勝った後、ニッキーは姿を消してしまう。数年後、2人は思わぬ形で再会する。

When obscenely rich hedge-fund manager James is convicted of fraud and sentenced to a stretch in San Quentin, the judge gives him one month to get his affairs in order. Knowing that he won't survive more than a few minutes in prison on his own, James desperately turns to Darnell-- a black businessman who's never even had a parking ticket -- for help. As Darnell puts James through the wringer, both learn that they were wrong about many things, including each other.

タクシー運転手のマックスはロサンゼルスで12年間まじめにタクシー運転手という職業をこなしていた。ある日、客として乗せた女性検事アニーとの会話をするうちにささやかだが心が通じ合い、アニーはマックスに自分の名刺を渡して車を降りる。

1969年、自らを“ゾディアック”と名乗る男による殺人が頻発し、ゾディアックは事件の詳細を書いた手紙を新聞社に送りつけてくる。手紙を受け取ったサンフランシスコ・クロニクル紙の記者ポール（ロバート・ダウニーJr）、同僚の風刺漫画家ロバート（ジェイク・ギレンホール）は事件に並々ならぬ関心を寄せるが……。＜アメリカ犯罪史上最も危うい連続殺人鬼と言われる“ゾディアック・キラー”を題材にした話題作。ゾディアックに関わり、人生を狂わされた4人の男たちの姿を描く。監督は『セブン』のデビッド・フィンチャー。『ブロークバック・マウンテン』のジェイク・ギレンホールが、事件の謎を追い続ける風刺漫画家を演じる。徹底したリサーチを基に練り上げられたサスペンスとしても、4人の男たちの生き様をリアルにつづった人間ドラマとしても楽しめる。＞

1981年、NY。犯罪と暴力が氾濫するこの年に生き馬の目を抜くオイル業界で、クリーンなビジネスを信条にオイルカンパニーを築きあげた移民のアベルとその妻アナ。事業拡大のための土地購入の頭金として全財産を投入した直後、彼の成功を阻止しようとする何者かの手によって、集荷のオイルの強奪、脱税の嫌疑、家族への脅威・・・次々にトラブルがのしかかる。悪い噂は一気に広まり、ついに銀行から融資を断られ、信頼していた妻との間にも亀裂が。刻一刻と破産が迫るなか、孤立無援のアベルはトラブル解決のために奔走する。期限はわずか30日─。

トーク番組の司会者デイブとアーロンは、朝鮮労働党第一書記・金正恩へのインタビューを許されたことから、中央情報局（CIA）に雇われて彼の暗殺を試みる。二人は金の怒りを買い、金は怒りに任せ、大陸間弾道ミサイルの発射を命じる。だが命令が発せられる前にデイブは戦車でヘリコプターを撃墜して金を殺害し、ミサイル発射を食い止める。二人は北朝鮮軍に偽装した米海軍特殊部隊に救出され、デイブは自分の経験を本に著す。そして北朝鮮はスークの助勢を受けて民主主義国家になる。

Brooklyn mobster and prolific hit man Jimmy Conlon has seen better days. Longtime best friend of a mob boss, Jimmy is haunted by the sins of his past—as well as a dogged police detective who’s been one step behind Jimmy for 30 years. But when Jimmy’s estranged son becomes a target, Jimmy must make a choice between the crime family he chose and the real family he abandoned long ago. Now, with nowhere safe to turn, Jimmy has just one night to figure out exactly where his loyalties lie and to see if he can finally make things right.