The Gambling Series and Films List: Courtesy of GW Casino.
- Poker Face Series (2023)
- Poker Face (2022)
- King of Savvy (2022)
- The Card Counter (2021)
- Molly’s Game (2017)
Gambling is a strange, but enticing thing. It’s not for everyone and it can be addicting as hell but, like any addiction, the pleasure of being high outweighs the pain. That’s what makes gambling such an interesting subject to watch on film; it has that inherent drama because by definition they’re about risk. These are the 5 most dramatic new series and movies about gambling.
#1 Poker Face Series
The Poker Face Series is a series of novels about the protagonist, Charlie Cale, and her friends. They all work as waitresses in a casino located in Las Vegas, where they happen to be lucky enough to have one of them with an amazing ability-Charlie can always tell when someone nearby is lying. The main character’s life undergoes dramatic changes when she starts delving into a dangerous lifestyle because of her abilities.
#2 Poker Face Movie
Jake Foley is a pro poker player who amassed a fortune creating an online game at the dawn of the Internet and selling software, but now he is dying of pancreatic cancer. In pursuit of his own targets, Jake organizes a very high-stakes poker for his childhood friends Drew, Mike, Alex, and Paul. An evening in the company of once close mates takes a completely unexpected turn when Jake reveals his carefully thought-out plan to take revenge on his former friends for their betrayal. As Foley’s guests begin to reveal their dark secrets, burglars break into the mansion intent on stealing artworks from the billionaire’s collection…
#3 King of Savvy
Moo-Sik Cha, the main character in this series of articles about gambling legend Cha Mu-Sik, who is also a casino manager, decides to flee Korea and escape from repression by the state tax office. With remarkable adaptability to life’s vicissitudes, he starts a business from scratch and quickly achieves his goals with shrewd strategies. His success leads him to become the prime suspect in Min Seok-Joon’s murder.
#4 The Card Counter
William Tell is a former military man. He retired from business a long time ago and became addicted to poker, riding around the casinos of Las Vegas. Cold-bloodedness and the ability to calculate the situation many moves ahead allow him to win good money. His goal is to get to the World Series and win even more. Suddenly, his old acquaintance Kirk appears in Tell’s life, who offers the hero to take revenge on their common enemy from the past. William resists at first, but then gets involved in a dangerous game. Now something much more valuable than money is at stake.
After all, this is a production project of Martin Scorsese himself, whose director was a very important person in the life and work of the legendary director – Paul Schroeder, who at one time wrote the scripts for his cult films “Taxi Driver”, “Raging Bull” and “The Last Temptation of Christ”. The main role in the film was performed by the charismatic Oscar Isaac, who in the last decade quite deservedly broke into the acting elite of Hollywood.
#5 Molly’s Game
A young athlete, former Olympic champion Molly Bloom (Jessica Chastain) did not make the Olympic team and decided to take a break from her sports career. She went to Los Angeles. Working as a waitress, the enterprising girl quickly understood where and how to earn really big money. The girl arranges an underground casino for Hollywood celebrities. The organization of one such party, where gamblers gathered, brings the girl about $50K. She makes this business a powerful and reliable business. Until the FBI charges her.
A lover of endless conversations and part-time one of the most famous screenwriters in Hollywood, Aaron Sorkin makes his debut as a director with the film “Molly’s Game”. As expected, we still have the same sophisticated story-constructor of the master of dialogues, however, not without directorial blunders. Taking on a strong female protagonist for the first time, Sorkin dives into the world of underground poker, resolves a father issue and lets the mighty Idris Elba break out into a formulaic lawyer speech.
