Dan Mahowny is een onopvallende bankmanager in Toronto. Hij leeft bescheiden, rijdt in een tweedehands auto en heeft een relatie met Belinda; een lief, onopvallend meisje dat ook bij de bank werkt. Niemand weet dat Mahowny een dubbelleven leidt. Hij heeft een gokprobleem... Zijn positie bij de bank stelt hem in staat miljoenen te verduisteren van zijn werkgevers om zijn behoeftes te financieren. Zijn bazen en klanten hebben een rotsvast vertrouwen in de saaie, maar degelijke Mahowny. Casinobaas Foss vindt in Mahowny de perfecte klant. Belinda blijft echter hopen op een gezamenlijke, romantische toekomst. Mahowny's nachtelijke avonturen krijgen steeds meer de overhand en zijn gedrag trekt de aandacht van de politie. Hoe lang kan Mahowny zijn goklust blijven uitleven zonder te worden gepakt? Owning Mahowny is gebaseerd op het waargebeurde verhaal van de grootste eenmans-bankfraude uit de Canadese geschiedenis.

Eddie Garrett is een sympathieke man uit Chicago met een gokprobleem. Een kennis die de gevangenis in moet vraagt hem een weekendtas te bewaren. Eddie komt erachter dat de tas maarliefst $ 50.000 aan contanten bevat. Hij kan de verleiding niet weerstaan en vergokt alles... Hij moet nu alles op alles zetten om het terug te winnen voordat de kennis vrijkomt. Het wordt allemaal nog spannender wanneer de gevangenisstraf wordt verkort...

Gambling addiction bring the stories of three otherwise unconnected people together as it destroys each of their lives.

Oscar is een priester die uiterst discreet gokt en zijn winsten doneert aan de armen. Lucinda is een Australische zakenvrouw die alles doet wat God verboden heeft. Wanneer ze elkaar per toeval ontmoeten tijdens een onschuldig kaartspelletje, nemen hun beide levens een onomkeerbare wending.

Shuhei is leading a tough life. His alcoholic mother Akiko can only hook up with bad guys and order Shuhei to go get money from his disapproving grandparents instead of going to school. Except raising the little half-sister, his rock-bottom life seems to have no end.

Anthony Keller, star of his NYC high school basketball team, is riding his way to Cornell on a sports scholarship. But he can only maintain his popular jock facade for so long, as his troubled father Lee has a gambling addiction that threatens to derail his dreams both on and off the court.

A struggling architect, being sued for divorce by his wife and struggling with booze and gambling, finds work remodeling a friend's strip club, the Paradise. There he meets a transsexual stripper who is bothered by accurate, but extremely violent visions of future events. The increasingly violent visions start including the architect, who doesn't believe in the prophesy. One who does however is a psychiatrist who is seeing both the stripper and the architect and is sleeping with the ex-wife. He uses the prophecies for his own financial gain. Finally the scenes from the vision move into reality amidst many plot turns.

Gao Ye is een befaamd gokker. De schulden stapelen zich op en zijn schuldeisers zitten hem steeds nauwer op de hielen. Wanneer zijn dochter gevangen genomen wordt weet Ye dat er iets moet veranderen, maar het enige wat Ye kan is gokken.

The cheapest drivers in the hearse business, gambling addict Risto Kivi and his friend Arto Niska, an 85% brainless man, have found themselves in a situation where everything has gone wrong and a fresh start is needed.

Former sports gambling addict Chance needs $60,000 to save his mother from nursing home eviction. So he falls back into his old habits, only to learn he's never lost a bet on Christmas. Is this the Christmas miracle he's been waiting for? Or just an addict who can't control himself?

Lena is seven months pregnant and she's ready to sell the baby in her belly. Ermanno agrees to pretend to be the father. Fabio, the uncle of Ermanno, will pay them to buy the child that he and his wife Bianca cannot have. A fake adoption between relatives, a loophole to bypass the law in Italy. A world in which money is the only standard of value, the only thing that matters. Ermanno and Lena are two strangers that must pretend in public to be a couple and live together until the delivery. They are used to only thinking about themselves and they fight all the time. But living side by side they start becoming what they were only pretending to be.

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.

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 world of professional cheaters.

Montreal, Winter 2002. Stéphane, 19 years old, fan of Metal, student in graphic design, dreams of becoming an illustrator. But for months he has been caught in a threatening spiral: he is addicted to games. Indebted, without an apartment, avoiding his friends to whom he owes money, Stéphane takes a job as a dishwasher in a restaurant in a major Italian restaurant in Montreal in order to get by. There, he will meet Bébert, a cook who burns the candle at both ends, and Greg, a waiter with disreputable actions. Will Stéphane make it through this new job or will he fall into a downward spiral of bad choices?

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.

Young girls are cheated into rigged gambling games and then forced into prostitution to pay off their debts.

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.

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 gambling addiction on his life, and the lives of others. Gambling addiction ruined his father's life, so the documentary seeks to find why gambling addiction is powerful enough to destroy someone's life.

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

A disgraced sports star and gambling addict attempts to turn his life around with the support of his number one fan.