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* In ''Intacto'', the characters play strange gambling games, with the winner's taking the losers' luck, which is a tangible resource.
* Tarantino's short in ''[[Four Rooms]]'' involves his character betting he can light his Zippo 10 times in a row. The stakes? His thumb for a car.
** See note below re: Roald Dahl's excellent short story ''The Man From the South''[https://web.archive.org/web/20180731222657/http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/south.html
* The ''[[Saw]]'' series of films is based entirely around extremely dangerous, torturous games.
* ''[[Titanic]]'': [[The Protagonist|Jack]] wins his ticket on board in a poker game. The gamblers know it's a valuable thing to be betting, but only the audience knows how high the stakes really are.
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