Movies: Gambling addiction

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

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

Swaying between pleasure and despair, Elric throws himself into his pathological passion for the casino. Meeting Suzie could have saved him, but the young woman also sinks into gambling hell. The couple then start getting involved in the fearsome wor...

A young girl is taken with a boy that she meets, but he leads her into gambling where she begins losing money, becomes desperate, and starts to steal....

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....

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...

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

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 family on the brink of a break up: dad is about to throw out mom because of her gambling addiction, the oldest boy's girlfriend is about to leave him because of his epilepsy and the youngest child thinks he has the perfect plan to bring the family ...

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

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....

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

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....

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....

Living the High Life...

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....

The world of gambling - from the fascination and personal fates to the dark sides such as addiction and illegal online offers. Those affected, experts and gamblers have their say and show how close thrills and the abyss are....

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....

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...

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...