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Las Vegas movies

Help me make a list of Las Vegas movies and gambling movies

Movies I've seen since 2021 that take place in Las Vegas.

Leaving Las Vegas (1995) Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue
Casino (1995) Robert Deniro, Joe Pesci (Dir. Martin Scorcese)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) Johnny Depp, Benocio Del Toro
Ocean's Eleven (2001) George Clooney, Brad Pitt (and the two sequels)
Viva Las Vegas (1964) Elvis Presley
Mars Attacks (1996) Jack Nicholson

Movies I've seen that partially take place in Las Vegas.

Con Air (1997) Nicolas Cage, John Malkovich, John Cusack

Movies I've seen since 2021 about gambling.

Lucky Numbers (2000) John Travolta, Lisa Kudrow
Wise Guys (1986) Danny DeVito (Atlantic City casinos)
Cabin in the Sky (1943) Ethel Waters, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson
Casino Royale (2006) Daniel Craig, Eva Green
Aces and Eights (1936) Tim McCoy, Luana Walters

FULL REFERENCE LIST
I will edit this list as more suggestions are given and I find new ones to add.

Leaving Las Vegas (1995) Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue

Casino (1995) Robert Deniro, Joe Pesci (Dir. Martin Scorcese)

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) Johnny Depp, Benocio Del Toro

Ocean's Eleven (2001) George Clooney, Brad Pitt (and the two sequels)

Viva Las Vegas (1964) Elvis Presley

Mars Attacks (1996) Jack Nicholson

Indecent Proposal (1993) Robert Redford, Woody Harrelson, Demi Moore

Diamonds Are Forever (1971) Sean Connery as 007

Pay It Forward (2000) Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt

Bugsy (1991) Warren Beatty

Smokin' Aces (2004) Ray Liotta, Ben Affleck

The Hangover (2009) Bradley Cooper

The Cooler (2003) William H. Macy

Fools Rush In (1997) Salma Hayek, Matthew Perry

Honeymoon in Vegas (1992) Nicolas Cage, Jessica Parker

Ocean's Eleven (1960) Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr.

Swingers (1996) Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau

3000 Miles to Graceland (2001) Kurt Russell, Kevin Costner

What Happens in Vegas (2008) Cameron Diaz, Ashton Kutcher

The Grand (2007) Woody Harrelson, David Cross

Vegas Vacation (1997) Chevy Chase

Lucky You (2007) Drew Barrymore, Robert Duvall

Leprechaun 3 (1995) Warwick Davis

Showgirls (1995)

The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000)

The Gambler (1974) James Caan

Tomcats (2001) Shannon Elizabeth, Jerry O'Connell, Jake Busey

Yonkers Joe (2008) Chaz Palminteri, Michael Lerner

Last Vegas (2013) Robert Deniro, Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman

MOVIES THAT ARE SET PARTIALLY IN VEGAS, BUT VEGAS ISN'T THE MAIN FOCUS

The Godfather II (1974) Robert Deniro, Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton

Con Air (1997) Nicolas Cage, John Cusack

Get Him to the Greek (2010) Russell Brand, Jonah Hill

Beyond the Sea (2004) Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth

Re: Las Vegas movies

Casino
Leaving Las Vegas
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Godfather, Part II
Con Air
Elvis
Tomcats

Re: Las Vegas movies

Hard Eight (1996)
Yonkers Joe (2008)

I enjoyed both

Re: Las Vegas movies

Cabin in the Sky (1943)
I would put this movie in the gambling category. Also a musical.

Rounders

Last Vegas

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Beyond the Sea (2004)

Two seperate scenes take place in Las Vegas. The second scene shows old Vegas downtown as it was in the 1960s with an arial view.

The Pick-Up Artist (1987)
Starring Robert Downey Jr. & Molly Ringwald with Harvey Keitel, Harry Dean Stanton, and Danny Aiello. Ultimately involves a gambling debt and the finale takes place in Atlantic City.
California Split (1974)
Starring Elliott Gould & George Segal as a pair of compulsive gamblers.
Mississippi Grind (2015)
Starring Ryan Reynolds & Ben Mendelsohn as a pair of compulsive gamblers.
The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
Starring Steve McQueen with Edward G. Robinson, Ann-Margret, Karl Malden, and Tuesday Weld. About an up and coming poker player who wants into the big game in New Orleans.
Let it Ride (1989)
Starring Richard Dreyfuss with Teri Garr, David Johansen, Jennifer Tilly, and Robbie Coltrane. A man promises his wife he will stop gambling but spends one last day at the racetrack in Florida betting on horses.
Win it All (2017)
Starring Jake Johnson and Keegan-Michael Key with José García and Joe Lo Truglio. A recovering gambler is asked to hold a bag of money for a man going to jail. He begins to spend it but is facing a deadline when the convict is scheduled for an early release.
Run (1991)
Starring Patrick Dempsey with Kelly Preston and Alan C. Peterson. Hired to drive a Porsche from Boston to Atlantic City, when the car breaks down he heads into a casino, is mistaken for a high roller, and infuriates the wrong player. They chase him a lot after that.
Croupier (1998)
Starring Clive Owen with Alex Kingston and Gina McKee. A writer takes a job as a smalltime casino's croupier and becomes embroiled in a robbery.

Re: Las Vegas movies

Ocean's 13
Army of the Dead

Re: Las Vegas movies

I'm more interested in what these films collectively say about Vegas. How is Vegas mythologized and how does that mythology co-construct our view of the place in our world (e.g., the tourist bureau leaning into the seedier side of it with the "stays in Vegas" campaign)?

I found these entries on Frank Sinatra's IMDb profile, two movies not mentioned in any article about Las Vegas movies. These ones were easy to find because Las Vegas is in the movie title, but I am sure there must be more less obvious movies from the 1940s-1970s that take place in Las Vegas.

Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956)
Las Vegas Nights (1941)

Re: Las Vegas movies

Rain Man?

Now You See Me?

The original Ocean's Eleven?

I'd have to put Casino (1995) in the top 3 of Vegas movies. De Niro, Pesci, Sharon Stone, James Woods, Don Rickles, Scorsese directing-- that's hard to beat.

Re: Las Vegas movies

The Expendables 3 made a 1 minute stop in Vegas.

Re: Las Vegas movies

Originally Posted by Taz (Post 2408050)

Casino
Leaving Las Vegas
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Godfather, Part II
Con Air
Elvis
Tomcats

It appears that Elvis (2022) was filmed in Australia with production stages built to imitate Graceland, which is found in Tennessee. A biopic about his life, I wouldn't consider this a full-on Las Vegas movie, even if it has a few scenes in the story set there.

Originally Posted by chawhee (Post 2408252)

Hard Eight (1996)
Yonkers Joe (2008)

I enjoyed both

Hard Eight (1996) is a Reno movie. I will check this out.
IMDb says that Yonkers Joe (2008) is an independent film made in Las Vegas but has great reviews although there's under 1000 ratings. I will check this out too, thanks.

Originally Posted by Gideon58 (Post 2410392)

Rounders

Last Vegas

The preview for Rounders (1998) shows them driving into Atlantic City, I will probably check this out anyways, thanks.

Originally Posted by Act III (Post 2418134)

If that is you're line then a lot of those movies would've qualify if only part of the story is set in Vegas, but when it comes to Elvis, considering a lot of the latter part is based there as well as a lot of the Col Tom Parker (Tom Hanks) scenes and his narrative based from there.

You could say the same thing about The Godfather Part II, Con Air or Tomcats also.

Originally Posted by Taz (Post 2418181)

But theres plenty of Elvis n Hanks in Vegas in there, okay. I didnt see it myself because of many reasons. Bubba HoTep is good enough for me. Still waiting to see the Kurt Russell version. For some reason I though Nicolas Cage played Elvis but I guess my wires were backwards.