Best poker movies (1 Viewer)

[KidFromCleveland]

So Rounders came up tonight and the debate of best poker movies ensued. My top three with a special callout:
3. Mississippi Grind. Pretty good flick with bad beats and degens!
2. Rounders. Nuf said
1. Cincinnati Kid. Watchwd it woth my dad and then he taught me the game after that. Will always be number 1 because of that.

Special consideration: The Sting. Not a poker movie but a true classic with poker on the Century Limited!

Whats your list!?

 

[wickedwonka121]

Shade. Given it's about hustling and not straight poker, but I like it. And Molly's game is pretty good.

 

[RocAFella1]

Casino Royale

 

[NotRealNameNoSir]

Not gonna rank, but throw in Molly's Game, Maverick, Casino Royale, and Deal.

Whats that all improv goofy poker movie with all the cameos? The Grand

 

[Taghkanic]

So Rounders came up tonight and the debate of best poker movies ensued. My top three with a special callout:
3. Mississippi Grind. Pretty good flick with bad beats and degens!
2. Rounders. Nuf said
1. Cincinnati Kid. Watchwd it woth my dad and then he taught me the game after that. Will always be number 1 because of that.

Special consideration: The Sting. Not a poker movie but a true classic with poker on the Century Limited!

Whats your list!?

Molly’s game is good.

There really aren’t many poker movies (or even just movies which include a little poker) worth watching, sadly.

I can’t watch the Casino Royale poker scene with a straight face.

 

[wickedwonka121]

Not gonna rank, but throw in Molly's Game, Maverick, Casino Royale, and Deal.

Whats that all improv goofy poker movie with all the cameos? The Grand

Maverick!

 

[Colquhoun]

Molly’s game is good.

There really aren’t many poker movies (or even just movies which include a little poker) worth watching, sadly.

I can’t watch the Casino Royale poker scene with a straight face.

Idris Elba’s (playing Molly’s attorney) monologue defending her in front of prosecutors toward the end of the film is amazing to watch.
Great actor, great scene.

 

[LowerBama1714]

What’s Rounders?

 

[doublebooyah85]

Maverick, the sting, mollys game

 

[Eriks]

There was a poker scene in Billions that was pretty cool in that hero won a big hand by pulling a Stu Ungar stunt calling down with 10 high to beat a missed small straight draw, instead of rolling over a straight flush beating aces full (mad skills, James).

 

[Hotus777]

Shade. Given it's about hustling and not straight poker, but I like it. And Molly's game is pretty good.

Molly's game was pretty good, i need to watch it again.

 

[Taghkanic]

Molly's game was pretty good, i need to watch it again.

I rewatched it recently, but admit that I skipped over 90% of the non-poker scenes.

 

[SavageLizard]

So Rounders came up tonight and the debate of best poker movies ensued. My top three with a special callout:
3. Mississippi Grind. Pretty good flick with bad beats and degens!
2. Rounders. Nuf said
1. Cincinnati Kid. Watchwd it woth my dad and then he taught me the game after that. Will always be number 1 because of that.

Special consideration: The Sting. Not a poker movie but a true classic with poker on the Century Limited!

Whats your list!?

The Sting is so good, just re-watched it the other day.

 

[HeyItsKabes]

For all the Mississippi Grind fans (myself included), check out Robert Altman's 1974 flick California Split

This is the movie that Mississippi Grinds liberally borrows from

 

[Taghkanic]

For all the Mississippi Grind fans (myself included), check out Robert Altman's 1974 flick California Split

This is the movie that Mississippi Grinds liberally borrows from

And it has the absolutely classic scene where Eliot Gould reads the whole table while sitting at the bar.

There’s also the long opening scene in a huge poker room which iirc was either shot at or based on Gardena:

From the way things go down there it seems casino regs haven’t changed much in 50 years.

 

[KidFromCleveland]

And it has the absolutely classic scene where Eliot Gould reads the whole table while sitting at the bar.

There’s also the long opening scene in a huge poker room which iirc was either shot at or based on Gardena:

From the way things go down there it seems casino regs haven’t changed much in 50 years.

Currently on Netflix and certainly worth the watch!

 

[Hot Nuts]

I'll throw in a couple of old ones. A Big Hand for the Little Lady and Five Card Stud are pretty good.

 

[allforcharity]

I can’t watch the Casino Royale poker scene with a straight face.

Nor should you. How the card playing scenes were written is laughable from any viewer who knows how to play NLHE. But that's not the point of the movie, nor any Bond movie, so you can take it or leave it.

 

[Taghkanic]

Nor should you. How the card playing scenes were written is laughable from any viewer who knows how to play NLHE. But that's not the point of the movie, nor any Bond movie, so you can take it or leave it.

Right… But we were listing great poker movies. Casino Royale might be a fun watch, but as a poker movie it’s absurdly bad.

 

[BarrieJ3]

Win it all with Jake Johnson.

Just watching a loser and degenerate lose and degen. The best part is that there are 0 lessons learned and no happy ending, lol just watching a gambler continue to ruin his life. Feels like home

 

[SwissChip]

Epic funny poker scene!

 

[Taghkanic]

Epic funny poker scene!

I grew up with Terence Hill. Literally. His son was a classmate from kindergarten to 9th grade. Saw all of his Sergio Leone movies on a home projector!

He used to chase their cats around the house with dueling water pistols.

 

[MeridianFC]

And it has the absolutely classic scene where Eliot Gould reads the whole table while sitting at the bar.

There’s also the long opening scene in a huge poker room which iirc was either shot at or based on Gardena:

From the way things go down there it seems casino regs haven’t changed much in 50 years.

This is just a great movie period. Altman in top form.

 

[MeridianFC]

Epic funny poker scene!

The nullified cut is that scene is perfection!

Obviously, this was at a time in history where “powdered for the shine” was not in the make up department’s repertoire.

 

[4SUMERZ]

I'm surprised no one has given an honourable mention to the 2003 movie High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story

 

[OzzieJim]

I thought Lucky You was actually great except for the romance element. The idea that he's a gifted player but too much of a degen to ever really be a serious professional player and his imo irredeemable scuminess was played very well by Bana. Has some great "old timer" scenes too.

It's ironic because it's ostensibly a romance film but the Drew Barrymore/Eric Bana plot almost has nothing to do with the rest of the movie. I think it could have been a classic if they cut it all out and just made a movie about a degenerate living in his father's shadow.

The poker scenes are also very well done, probably the best in a modern film.