Movies Like Masters of Poker: Phil Hellmuth's Million Dollar Poker System
If you liked Masters of Poker: Phil Hellmuth's Million Dollar Poker System, a movie, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
★ 7/10An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.
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A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966)
★ 7.1/10A naive traveler in Laredo gets involved in a poker game between the richest men in the area, jeopardizing all the money he has saved for the purpose of settling with his wife and child in San Antonio.
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Untold: Chess Mates (2026)
★ 7/10Magnus Carlsen, widely regarded as the greatest chess player of all time, is challenged by Hans Niemann, a rising star who capitalizes on the meteoric growth of online chess. Niemann’s ascension culminated in an epic…
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The Queen of Spades (1949)
★ 6.5/10A czarist captain stops at nothing to learn the secrets of a countess rumored to have sold her soul to the devil in order to always win at cards.
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Finder's Fee (2001)
★ 6.2/10Friends Tepper, Quigley, Fishman, and Bolan get together for a weekly poker night with two simple rules: Everyone contributes a lottery ticket to the pot, and no one checks the numbers until the game ends. But this…
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Poker Night (2014)
★ 5.9/10When a new detective is caught by a vicious psychopath and locked in a basement, he must use the knowledge he learned from some of the best detectives at Poker Night, then match wits against his captor.
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023)
★ 7.3/10A rich man learns about a guru who can see without using his eyes. He sets out to master the skill in order to cheat at gambling.
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Crossroads (1986)
★ 7.4/10A wanna-be blues guitar virtuoso seeks a long-lost song by legendary musician, Robert Johnson.
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Training Day (2001)
★ 7.5/10On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.
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5 Card Stud (1968)
★ 6.3/10After a card shark is caught cheating, he is taken out and lynched by the drunkards he was playing against. Soon afterwards, the men who were in the lynch mob start being murdered, one after another; all by hanging.
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The Gift (2000)
★ 6.5/10Annie Wilson, young widow and mother of three, makes her living foretelling others' futures—though her own has become cloudier than even she can see. Threatened by a client's violent husband and plagued by visions of…
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Ocean's Thirteen (2007)
★ 6.7/10Danny Ocean's team of criminals are back and composing a plan more personal than ever. When ruthless casino owner Willy Bank doublecrosses Reuben Tishkoff, causing a heart attack, Danny Ocean vows that he and his team…
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The Black Stallion (1979)
★ 7.1/10While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion that is brought on board and stabled in the ship he is sailing on. When it tragically sinks both he and the horse survive…
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The Walk (2015)
★ 7/10The story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit's attempt to cross the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974.
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The Grand (2007)
★ 5.8/10The Grand is in the tradition of improvisational comedies like Best In Show and This Is Spinal Tap. The story is set in the world of professional poker and follows six players who reach the final table of the world’s…
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Pawn Sacrifice (2015)
★ 6.7/10During the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the Soviet Empire.
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Molly's Game (2017)
★ 7.2/10Molly Bloom, a young skier and former Olympic hopeful becomes a successful entrepreneur (and a target of an FBI investigation) when she establishes a high-stakes, international poker game.
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Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)
★ 7.1/10In this comedy of an Englishman stranded in a sea of barbaric Americans, Marmaduke Ruggles – a gentleman's gentleman and butler to an Earl – is lost in a poker game to an uncouth American cattle baron. Ruggles' life is…
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Fat Man and Little Boy (1989)
★ 6.2/10Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man determined to have the project go according to plan. He selects J. Robert Oppenheimer as the key scientist on the…