Best Sports Betting Movies
Welcome to our collection of reviews for the best sports betting movies of all time.
Here is where we’ll dive deep into classic wagering films and explore the gambling elements involved, and in doing so, stray off the beaten path of regurgitated inclusions from top ten sports betting movie lists that populate inferior websites around the net.
Here, we'll be concentrating on movies that focus on the complete spectrum of sportsbook operations, including entertainment betting and prop bets on fictional real-life scenarios.
This list will include movies that were featured atop the odds at legal Academy Awards betting sites, as well as cult classics that contain elements of sports betting as a part of their plot.
Sports Betting Movie Reviews
Great Sports Betting Movies: Kingpin (1996)
Great Sports Betting Movies: Vanishing Point (1971)
Greatest Sports Betting Films: The Best Super Bowl Movies
Great Sports Betting Movies: The Hustler (1961)
Great Sports Betting Movies: Goodfellas (1990)
Great Sports Betting Movies: The Running Man (1987)
Great Sports Betting Movies: Brewster’s Millions (1985)
Oddball Sports Betting Movies: Little Darlings (1980)
Great Sports Betting Movies: Over The Top (1987)
Other Options For Betting On Hollywood Odds
Sports Betting Movie FAQs
Matthew McConaughey stars as sports oddsmaker Brandon Lang in the 2005 film Two For The Money.
Al Pacino plays Walter Abrams, the head of a major sportsbook, in Two For The Money (2005).
The character was based on real-life bookmaker Stu “The Source” Feiner who continues to offer sports betting advice to this day.
Yes. Offshore sportsbooks are able to accept wagers on the Academy Awards, but also allow for Golden Globes betting, Razzies odds, lines on the BAFTA Awards, and other various betting odds for movies, TV, and the music industry.
Because Netflix rotates its content often, it is difficult to keep track of the sports betting movies that are featured via their services. Most of the time, Netflix features multiple films and documentaries on the subject of sports betting.
Stay tuned to this page because we’ll continue to cover movies that involve subjects in the realm of betting on sports, entertainment prop bets, and other in-film wagers.
Yes, there are several, but one of the more prominent documentaries in recent years was Life on the Line.
Sports betting movies often do not go into much detail regarding sportsbooks and their practices, but Life on the Line gives insight into the activities of the world’s top sports gamblers in Vegas.