You can go back to Laurence Trimble’s A Cure for Pokeritis (which was released in 1912) to track Hollywood’s love affair with the popular casino game. The game is inherently dramatic and, when the stakes get really high, poker, particularly in its Texas hold’em style, provides the same sorts of cinematic thrills found in high-speed police chases or superheroes saving a city.

There are lots of films featuring poker over the years.