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The Cincinnati Kid
Why this pick
Like Rounders, it builds its drama around a gifted card player's ambition, psychology, and escalating high-stakes table confrontations.
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MOVIE1998 2h 25m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Owning Mahowny
Why this pick
A colder, more intimate study of gambling compulsion, driven by mounting financial pressure and an absorbing performance rather than flashy casino spectacle.
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California Split
Why this pick
Its loose, lived-in gambling world and uneasy partnership capture the camaraderie, hustle, and emotional volatility beneath the chase for a big win.
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The Card Counter
Why this pick
A disciplined professional gambler navigates debt and dangerous alliances in a restrained, morally heavy counterpart to Rounders' underground-card-room tension.
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The Color of Money
Why this pick
Though played on pool tables, it shares Rounders' mentor-and-protégé friction, sharp hustler culture, and pleasure in watching skill become strategy.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Gifted poker player and law student Mike McDermott (Matt Damon) dreams of winning the World Series of Poker. At an underground Texas hold 'em game run by Russian mafia Teddy "KGB" (John Malkovich), an overconfident Mike loses his entire $30,000 bankroll. Shaken, he promises his girlfriend and fellow student Jo (Gretchen Mol) he has quit poker, and concentrates on law school. His mentor Joey Knish (John Turturro) offers to stake him to rebuild his bankroll but Mike declines, and instead accepts a part-time job to make ends meet.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Matt Damon
Mike McDermott
Edward Norton
Lester 'Worm' Murph
John Turturro
Joey Knish
Gretchen Mol
Jo
Goran Visnjic
Maurice
John Malkovich
Teddy KGB
Famke Janssen
Petra
Mal Z. Lawrence
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