The film received high marks from critics and became a cult for the generation of the early 2000s. Here you will find contractual fights, a robbery of a bookmaker's office, and endless showdowns of crime bosses. Guy Ritchie's second big movie is steeped in black betting. The topic of betting in the film is raised only in isolated moments, but the entire tape shows how the gambling industry works. As a result, he blows off his entire stake and decides to find the owner of the casino to prove that the loss was unfair. Runner Runner (2013) IMDb 5.6Ī student is trying to win money at a major online casino to pay for college tuition. Betting Insider has collected the 10 best films and TV series about gambling. Somewhere sports bets were showed only sporadically, but somewhere betting is in the center of the plot. And this closed world has always been of interest to the public and, most importantly, it was grossing money. The on-screen gambling industry does often overlap with the crime. Betting and gambling in movies is not a taboo topic at all.