Phoenix

Sep 4, 1998

1h 47m

★ 5.4

In this town, the heat can kill you.

Overview

Gambling fever -- along with a brutal bookie -- leads three crooked cops into a double-dealing scheme that lands them in hot water way over their heads.

Genres

Drama

Thriller

Crime

Romance

Production Companies

Trimark Pictures

Lakeshore Entertainment

Graham / Nevinny Productions

Phoenix Trailers

Cast

Harry Collins

Ray Liotta

Mike Henshaw

Anthony LaPaglia

Leila

Anjelica Huston

James Nutter

Daniel Baldwin

Fred Shuster

Jeremy Piven

Lt. Clyde Webber

Xander Berkeley

Louie

Giancarlo Esposito

Veronica

Brittany Murphy

Katie Shuster

Kari Wührer

Joey Schneider

Giovanni Ribisi

Chicago

Tom Noonan

Esther

Kathryn Joosten

A car salesman journeys to France and encounters an apparently lonely woman. He immediately begins to successfully woo her only to learn that she is actually a baron's wife. Fortunately, the baron believes in open marriages and winds up hiring the Englishman to teach his son (from an earlier marriage) everything about automobiles. Meanwhile the car salesman finds himself falling seriously in love with the wife. The baron really doesn't mind as he himself is involved with another.

5.7

Lucky You

May 1, 2007

A professional poker player whose astounding luck at the table fails to translate into his lonesome love life attempts to win the World Series of Poker while simultaneously earning the affections of a beautiful Las Vegas singer.

7.1

Buffalo '66

Jan 20, 1998

Billy is released after five years in prison. In the next moment, he kidnaps teenage student Layla and visits his parents with her, pretending she is his girlfriend and they will soon marry.

6.7

The Divine Move

Jul 3, 2014

A professional GO player gathers a team to help him carry out his revenge against the man who killed his brother.

6.1

West of Sunshine

Aug 23, 2018

A father has less than a day to pay back a debt to a violent loan shark, while looking after his young son.

6.6

U Turn

Oct 3, 1997

When a desperate man’s car breaks down in a bizarre desert town while evading vengeful bookies, he becomes entangled in a dangerous love triangle. Caught between a married couple, he’s faced with deadly contracts to kill them both.

7.0

Rounders

Sep 11, 1998

Poker addict Mike McDermott knows the game inside out, but loses his money one night in a game to Russian-American gangster Teddy KGB. Promising his partner Jo he'll give up, he meets up with best friend Lester 'Worm' Murphy, just out of prison and owing lots of money to the wrong kind of people. McDermott becomes his co-guarantor and now there's only one way to raise the money, the pair have to get back into the game.

6.3

Bookies

Jan 20, 2003

Four college friends become small-time bookies, only to find their world spinning dangerously out of control when their greed attracts the attention of organized crime.

6.2

Sagan

Jun 11, 2008

France, 1950s. From the Quartier Latin to Saint-Tropez via New York, a young Parisienne becomes the icon of a whole generation. In 1954, 19-year-old Francoise Sagan shot to fame with her first novel, Bonjour Tristesse. Flamboyant, scandalous and underrated, Sagan lived her life at the furthest edge of excess. She won and lost fortunes at the roulette table, bought and crashed superb sports cars, drank, danced and partied, leaving a trail of lovers in her wake.

4.0

Sarla One Crore

Jan 20, 2023

During the recession caused by the world pandemic Corona, Bhikaji was hit by the financial crisis. To overcome it and make some easy cash he bets his money on cards but ends up losing his wife.

6.0

Trouble Man

Nov 1, 1972

It seems that masked men are knocking over the floating crap games of Chalky and Pete. Chalky and Pete hire the cool, loose, elegant Mr. T to fix things. Then, the masked manipulators set up the death of a collector for a rival gang lord. It looks like it's up to T to hold a gang war from breaking out, keep the police off his back, and earn his fee from Chalky and Pete.

4.2

The Poker Club

Oct 16, 2008

Four friends discover and accidentally kill a burglar -- who may not be alone -- in the kitchen during their weekly poker night.

5.4

Lucky Girl

Apr 8, 2001

Katlin is a high school student whose obsession with gambling leads to her accumulating a mountain of debt. Her habit also causes a high degree of family tension.

5.8

Treat Me Like Fire

Jul 4, 2018

Revolves around the relationship between a gambling addict and a young woman who falls madly in love with him and will stop at nothing to win his heart.

6.9

The Last Casino

Jun 26, 2004

A University teacher finds three bright students and decides to teach them how to count cards to make lots of money. As they learn how to play the casinos, things get tricky when the debt owing teacher informs them that their front man wants restitution for loses in about a weeks time. The three students decide to hit all the major casinos in Ontario and Quebec until discovered.

4.3

Pleasure Palace

Oct 22, 1980

Story of a professional gambler, connoisseur, gourmet and sportsman who sets out to help a Las Vegas hotel-casino owner from losing his controlling interest to a business syndicate but finds his reputation is on the line when he runs into a mystery lady who seems to operate on both sides of the law.