Movies: Gambling addiction

Dani and Darren Poe find themselves at odds when a magical pair of earrings allows Dani’s future self to confront her father over his failings as a parent....

Dario, a young electronics enthusiast, decides in the late evening to take a trip down the street to throw out the garbage to kill time - waiting for his "freeze-dried tart" to finish ...getting ready - but his return to home is hindered by many biza...

When their high school drama department falls victim to budget cuts, two teachers from the Bronx find an unlikely solution to their money problems: yaniv, a little-known card game with a thriving underground gambling scene in the Hasidic Jewish commu...

When he thinks his brother has let him down, a cowboy goes bad....

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Internet comedian Carl Déman from the humor group JLC lived a life that looked glorious. But beneath the surface was a terrible gambling addiction that almost cost him his life. In 2019, he and other gambling addicts struggle to stay afloat in a cont...

A newspaper owner clashes with his editor and a state representative over the issue of the parimutuel gambling and the lottery....

An experimental piece displaying the acts of common addictions....

Former footballer Paul Merson sets out to understand why his life has been so blighted by gambling and asks if enough is being done to prevent others following in his footsteps....

A farmer's wife decides to take her children and leave her gambling addict husband....

Marty Schwartz attempts to steal a couch to pay back his gambling debts....

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....

The life of Fajar, a high school teenager who is afraid of being left behind by current trends. Doing a live broadcast to get donations to get the items he wants by following the orders of an unknown account which leads him to regret....

A man squanders all of his wife's fortune in gambling and drinking. Now in financial crisis, the woman tries to keep their home afloat, while he plays, gets drunk and lives off his friends charity and good will....

When Michelle Wong's brother, Philip, committed suicide at the age of 36, she felt that she had to find out why. Her film, Pieces of a Dream, is her attempt to understand her brother's death and to deal with his loss....

Got a big debt? No need to worry. There are many online gambling sites that promise to give you a huge profit for a short amount of time. Sania, a single mother who’s got online gambling as a hobby, wants to pay her rent before she and her daughter g...

Inspired by true events, DoubleDown is the story of Ali, a student struggling with money, his relationship and his crippling gambling addiction. Ali promises his girlfriend, Lea, that his next game will be his last and he must fight the temptation to...

Alexis Conran explores gambling addiction, an affliction that ruined his estranged father, and seeks to understand how and why this compulsion destroys people's lives. A documentary where Alexis Conran of The Real Hustle explores the effects of gamb...

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