Casino, Las Vegas, the sound of coins flying out of the slot machine, soft music, and the tension of excitement. Yes, this is a short list of what the director of most casino films has in store.

We have prepared 3 different films that differ in plot and philosophy, visually with an excellent soundtrack that will plunge viewers into the world of gambling, drama, and easy money even more.

Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels

A film that contains not only the first beginnings of Jason Stethem and Vinnie Jones but also sets the right focus for films about casinos and gambling. The movie “Cards, Money, Two Smoking Barrels” contains interesting characters, but at the center of the plot are four friends.

They raise $100,000 and put it on the line in a poker game against a local crime lord and slick sharpie named Harry Axe. The guys are confident in their friend, but he overestimates his chances, raises the stakes, and as a result, loses more than he can afford. This draws the whole four into problems, and they are given only a week to get half a million dollars and pay off the debt. Otherwise, they may lose their fingers first and then their lives. It would be easier for them if they could play online blackjack and hit the jackpot in a couple of days, but in 1998, offline casinos were the standard of gambling, unlike today’s era.

A critical situation requires non-standard actions, and the heroes decide on a desperate step – the robbery of bandits. But not everything is so simple. At the same moment, the same gangsters are robbing the “nerds” who grow marijuana for the baron of the drug mafia.

Colorful characters and chic soundtracks are in perfect harmony depending on the situation on the screen, a feature of all of Guy Ritchie’s works.

Without further ado, you’d better watch this masterpiece. The movie will speak for itself.

God of Gamblers

This picture can be attributed to motivating films that charge for success. A completely crazy movie that changes genres every second: a drama, an action movie with a comedic accent, or an action-packed thriller at the gaming table.

The incredibly lucky and talented Ko Chun earned the nickname “god of players” due to his talent not to lose in any game of chance – whether cards or dice. However, not everyone likes the guy’s abilities, and one day he is lured into a trap in which the hero receives serious injuries.

The injured Chun is picked up by a card sharper, whom everyone calls the Knife. Because of what happened, the player loses his memory and behaves like a child in many ways. Fortunately, this did not affect his gift to win at gambling, and it did not appear in any way. Schuler notices the guy’s abilities and decides to use them.

They chose not the best place for gambling, because then there were no such top casinos, but based on all the possibilities, the implementation of the process itself of the actors is professional.

The film is unusually dynamic, kind, sometimes quite cheerful, and teaches kindness. The film admires such actors as Chow Yun Fat and Andy Lau, who accompany the entire film with multi-genre music (it seems that this was one of the main ideas of the director). A Hong Kong movie classic, a great movie to pass the evening. And how inspiring is one of the last scenes, when everything seems to be against the protagonist in a game with the highest stakes…

The Cooler

William Macy, Alec Baldwin and Maria Bello are a great ensemble cast who brought the script to perfection.

Macy, because of his specific appearance, never played tough guys, and if he tried, it was only in comedies. But the fact that he is talented is not subject to discussion. Directed by Wayne Kramer guessed with the appointment of William for the lead role one hundred percent – the main character in the film perfectly got used to the character.

Bernie is so unlucky that he is able to infect others with failures. However, this is his job – to approach the lucky player in the casino in time and steal his luck. But now Bernie falls in love, and instead of bad luck, he begins to radiate good luck.

You can’t take your eyes off Kim Basinger’s ex-husband, but everything else in the film deserves to be taken seriously. At least Kramer (by the way, who came up with the plot of “Mindhunters“) masterfully works with the outgoing nature of Las Vegas – the neon capital of vice, the city of gambling houses without windows and clocks, on the desert outskirts of which there has not been enough space for mounds of nameless graves for a long time.

But the main thing is that this quiet, sad jazz and deliberately shabby film regime is based, contrary to the first impression, not at all on the dubious thesis that “a loser should be lucky in the end simply because he is a loser.”