Bookie
At a raucous soul R&B nightclub in 1963, crowds from all over Seattle gather for a chance at alcohol, wild music, and easy money. Amidst it all, a gambling bookie risks everything he has for a waitress down on her luck.
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At a raucous soul R&B nightclub in 1963, crowds from all over Seattle gather for a chance at alcohol, wild music, and easy money. Amidst it all, a gambling bookie risks everything he has for a waitress down on her luck.
In 1959 New York, a pensive Jewish fellow named Rivner befriends an oversized Italian-American tough named Boscolo from the Lower East Side. Both men served overseas during WWII and returned changed, no longer fitting in
Cosmo Vittelli, the proprietor of a sleazy, low-rent Hollywood cabaret, has a real affection for the women who strip in his peepshows and the staff who keep up his dingy establishment. He also has a major gambling proble
Areeb owes his bookie money.
Freddy Vega is a gambler. And he's always looking for that big score. He's got a job, a beautiful fiance, a house, a life....but that's never going to be enough.
Intent on offering his fiancée a better life, countryman heads for Rio de Janeiro in search of a place in the sun...
Mother's good boy Benny Silman from Brooklyn becomes an economics student at Arizona State University for the sun and sexy girls- and the proximity of gambling paradise Las Vegas. Benny aces his studies, being a mathemat
Navy Seal Demetri Papadapoulis is a proud strip club owner who gets in over his head on a $235,000 poker debt with the local River Gambling Cruise. A small group of Wiseguys send Demetri on a no way out suicide hit in ex
An undercover investigative documentary on illegal bookmaking in Boston, using concealed-camera footage to expose institutional corruption and regulatory failure, and triggering major political and law-enforcement reform
Four twenty-something women, crammed into a small Manhattan apartment, have dead end jobs (or no job) and overdue rent. They discover cash and self esteem when they set up an illegal bookie joint in their kitchen. Sudden
He struggles to tell her he wants to separate. When he finally does, she shares the same thoughts. Suddenly realizing he doesn't want to lose her, they reconcile though both still privately consider breaking up.
Four college friends become small-time bookies, only to find their world spinning dangerously out of control when their greed attracts the attention of organized crime.
A pigeon breeder is hired to train a racehorse that wins only when it drinks beer.
Comedian and presenter Lloyd Griffith embarks on an experiment to find out if he can uncover the secrets of gambling success and in the process learn the truth about how the industry operates.
Study of the present state of bookmakers in England, their possible future, and competition represented by the tote.
Young black man teams up with a Chinese kung-fu expert to fight a drug ring.
The story of Barney Curley, one of the UK's most celebrated punters and a legend of the turf, and how he pulled off one of the most audacious coups ever seen on a racecourse.