Movies like Owning Mahowny

20 movies like Owning Mahowny, ordered by similarity : The Lady Gambles(1949), Kai Po Che!(2013), Hera Pheri(1975), Odds Against Tomorrow(1959), Ben Is Back(2018), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie(1976), Trainspotting(1996), California Split(1974), The Lookout(2007), Scarface(1983), The Gambler(1974), Dead Draw(2016) ...

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Owning Mahowny

A bank manager with: (a) a gambling problem and (b) access to a multimillion dollar account gets into a messy situation. Based on the story of the largest one-man bank fraud in Canadian history.

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The Lady Gambles

A desperate husband tries to find help for his wife suffering from addictive gambling.

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Kai Po Che!

Three friends growing up in India at the turn of the millennium set out to open a training academy to produce the country's next cricket stars.

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Hera Pheri

Two friends Ajay and Vijay gets separated from each other when they discover secrets about their past in their own ways.

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Odds Against Tomorrow

Racial tension flares up among an ex-cop, a bigot and a black entertainer who band together to rob a bank.

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Ben Is Back

A drug addicted teenage boy shows up unexpectedly at his family's home on Christmas Eve.

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The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

A proud strip club owner is forced to come to terms with himself as a man, when his gambling addiction gets him in hot water with the mob, who offer him only one alternative.

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Trainspotting

Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.

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California Split

When a casual gambler befriends a professional one, he begins to mirror his life, sending both deeper into the sleazy gambling world where the stakes keep getting bigger.

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The Lookout

Chris is a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic accident. As he tries to maintain a normal life, he takes a job as a janitor at a bank, where he ultimately finds himself caught up in a planned heist.

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Scarface

In 1980 Miami, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed.

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The Gambler

Axel Freed is a literature professor. He has the gambling vice. When he has lost all of his money, he borrows from his girlfriend, then his mother, and finally some bad guys that chase him. Despite all of this, he cannot stop gambling.

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Dead Draw

Someone knows about the 25 million and the plane to Mexico. Someone killed the getaway pilot. As loyalty turns to suspicion and friends become enemies, 4 criminals try to find the rat and escape their past - if they can survive the night.

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Skyscraper Souls

An entrepreneur will let nothing stand in his way of acquiring a 100-story office building.

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Ash Is Purest White

In an industrial city in China, a young dancer named Qiao falls in love with a mobster named Bin. When a fight breaks out between rival gangs, Qiao uses a gun to protect Bin and is sent to prison for five years.

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Stockholm

Based on the absurd but true 1973 bank heist and hostage crisis in Stockholm that was documented in the New Yorker as the origins of the 'Stockholm Syndrome'.

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Tread Softly Stranger

An irresistible temptress causes trouble between two brothers when the more handsome charismatic ones turns up, leading to robbery and death.

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Quicksand

After taking 20 dollars from his employer to go on a date with plans to repay it the next day, an auto mechanic falls into increasingly disastrous circumstances for more and more money which rapidly spirals out of his control.

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Half Nelson

An inner-city junior high school teacher with a drug habit forms an unlikely friendship with one of his students after she discovers his secret.

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Lorna's Silence

Sokol and Lorna, two Albanian emigrants in Belgium, dream of leaving their dreary jobs to set up a snack bar. They need money, and a permanent resident status. Claudy is a junkie - he needs... See full summary »

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Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot

On the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, willing his injured hands into drawing hilarious, often controversial cartoons, which bring him a new lease on life.

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