Top 10 Movie about Las Vegas
November 12, 2007
There are many movies about Las Vegas which are really exciting, check this list and see how many movies you have watched.
1. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is directed by Terry Gilliam and starred by Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro. The story is about the journey of a Journalist named Dr Hunter S Thompson, with a mission of writing assignment covering the ‘Mint 500’ motorcycle race in Las Vegas, and his attorney, Dr. Gonzo, who driving like bats together with him from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. Once in Las Vegas, They had found many people and incidents which changed their life and took them to taste the American culture of Las Vegas city.
2. Viva Las Vegas (Deluxe Edition) (1964)
Viva Las Vegas is an American romantic musical motion picture, and always is considered one of the biggest and best films Elvis Presley ever performed. The film is directed by George Sidney and co-starred with Ann Margret, Nicky Blair, Cesare Donavan and William Demarest. The movie was first released on May 20th, 1964 in all across America. The story is about a race car driver who looking to enter the Las Vegas Grand Prix and get a romancing story with the girl whom he love. How he can win the race and the girlfriend’s hearth, is really exiting and romancing story at the same time.
3. National Lampoon’s Vegas Vacation (1997)
This is the television series which portrayed the story of Clark Wilhelm Griswold Jr. and his family, and this time it was presented in bigger screen, the theater. The “Vegas Vacation” movie was a moderate hit at the US box office grossing $36.4 million. This movie version is about Clark and his family on vocation of fortune in Las Vegas. The story begins when Clark receives a work bonus for developing a food preservative and he choose to spend the money in the only way he knows, gambling, to take his family on vacation in Las Vegas. This movie is really fun and full of laughing, fit for everyone in a family.
4. Honeymoon in Vegas (1992)
The movie is about Private detective Jack Singer, who promised his mother on her deathbed that he would never marry. But Now, Betsy, his girlfriend, is threatening to leave him if he doesn’t marry her immediately. Then Jack decides to give in to Betsy’s demands, despite his fear and guilt. Things changed, when they fly to Las Vegas, Jack was cheated by professional gambler Tommy Korman and owned him $65,000. Tommy had proposed to cancel Jack’s debt if he can lend Betsy, who coincidentally resembled Tommy’s dead wife. How Jack decides to this proposal, find down in the movie.
5. Ocean’s Eleven
The story of Ocean’s Eleven is begins when Con man Danny Ocean who has just been released from a four-year jail term, has assembled an eclectic crew–including a card shark, a pickpocket, an explosives expert, and an aging gambler for contemplating a plane of robbing the largest Las Vegas casinos owned by the slimy Terry Benedict, To pull off this nearly impossible task, they have to make their plan as deep as the ocean, and must act the plan impeccably. The movie is directed by Steven Soderbergh and starred by many Hollywood stars such as George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Matt Demon.
6. Casino (1995)
One of America’s most influential filmmakers, Martin Scorsese, has returned to the world of mobsters, greed, and passion of Las Vegas again. This movie is considered one of the most classic stories about Las Vegas, the sin city. The story is based on real-life of two underworld figures, Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal and Tony “the Ant” Spilotro. The story is about the life of Sam “Ace” Rothstein, the Jewish front man for one of the mob’s premier Vegas casinos in the 1970s that operates his casino smoothly until an icy blonde jinx their winning streak and come in to his life, and then the passion of love between them is slowly happened.
7. Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
Leaving Las Vegas is the movie about an alcoholic movie executive who loses his wife, his family and his job, and finally decided to drive to Las Vegas to commit suicide by drinking himself to death as acclaimed in the late John O’Brien’s 1991 autobiographical novel. In Vegas, he meets a nearly equally pathetic young hooker and the two develop a strange relation while waiting for him to die. The movie is directed by Mike Figgis and starred by Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue and Richard Lewis.
8. Showgirls (DVD - 1995)
The movie tells the story about Nomi Mallone, who determined to be a dancer in Las Vegas. One day, Nomi catches the attention of the voracious bisexual Cristal, star of an extravagant pagan sex show called “Goddess” which plays every night at the swanky Stardust Casino, and after that, she gets a chance to audition for “Goddess” and is soon involved in all sorts of sordid backstage goings-on, including bitchy dueling with Cristal over Stardust head honcho Zack. The movie is directed by Paul Verhoeven and starred Elizabeth Berkley, Gina Gershon and many more.
9. Very Bad Things (1998)
Very Bad Things is a 1998 black company feature film. The movie is about a group of friends who go to Las Vegas for a bachelor party. But things suddenly start to go wrong when the party’s stripper dies, and then group of friend starting to cover up her death only leads to greater, and grislier, complications. This is a brutally dark comedy written and directed by Peter Berg “Chicago Hope” fame, and starred by Jon Favreau, Cameron Diaz, Christian Slater and many more.
10. Bugsy (DVD - 1991)
BUGSY is the story about a legendary New York mobster named Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel, who visiting Hollywood on business and leaving his wife and kids in Scarsdale indefinitely. When he gets there, he spends his time on movie lots and rapidly builds a relationship with a strong-willed actress Virginia Hill. BUGSY want to building a world-class casino and would like to be a moneymaker, and then he and Virginia, with backing from the mob are start building The Flamingo hotel and casino, hoping that legal gambling and five-star entertainment will entice the masses and rake in big bucks. The movie is directed by Barry Levinson and starred by Warren Beatty, Annette Benning, Harvey Keitel and many more.
