# What is the best movie set in Las Vegas?

> The city has been a heist, a hangover, a slow suicide and an Elvis musical. Some of these films love the place, some use it as a warning, and a couple only needed the neon for a backdrop. Rank the ones that earned the setting.

*By YPB Team · Published August 18, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/what-is-the-best-movie-set-in-las-vegas*

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## Current results (5 votes)

1. **Casino** — 60% (3 votes · score 1000/1000)
   Scorsese's 1995 epic about the mob running a Strip casino.
2. **Last Vegas** — 0% (0 votes · score 646/1000)
   2013 comedy sending four old friends to a Strip bachelor party.
3. **Rain Man** — 0% (0 votes · score 607/1000)
   1988 Best Picture winner with a card-counting detour to Caesars Palace.
4. **Honeymoon in Vegas** — 20% (1 votes · score 577/1000)
   1992 comedy of a poker debt paid in fiancée.
5. **Ocean's Eleven** — 20% (1 votes · score 577/1000)
   Soderbergh's 2001 heist across three Strip vaults in one night.
6. **Vegas Vacation** — 0% (0 votes · score 564/1000)
   1997 Griswold trip where the family loses everything at the tables.
7. **21** — 0% (0 votes · score 516/1000)
   2008 film about MIT students counting cards on the Strip.
8. **Diamonds Are Forever** — 0% (0 votes · score 516/1000)
   1971 Bond film that put 007 on the Strip.
9. **Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas** — 0% (0 votes · score 515/1000)
   Gilliam's 1998 adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's drug-soaked road trip.
10. **The Hangover** — 0% (0 votes · score 329/1000)
   2009 comedy about a bachelor party nobody can remember.
11. **Bugsy** — 0% (0 votes · score 329/1000)
   1991 biopic of the gangster who dreamed up the Flamingo.
12. **Ocean's 11** — 0% (0 votes · score 329/1000)
   The 1960 Rat Pack original, shot while the cast performed at the Sands.
13. **Showgirls** — 0% (0 votes · score 154/1000)
   1995 flop turned cult object about a Strip dancer's climb.
14. **Indecent Proposal** — 0% (0 votes · score 154/1000)
   1993 drama built on a million-dollar offer made in a casino.
15. **Viva Las Vegas** — 0% (0 votes · score 154/1000)
   1964 musical pairing Elvis Presley with Ann-Margret.
16. **The Cooler** — 0% (0 votes · score 154/1000)
   2003 drama about a man paid to bring gamblers bad luck.
17. **Swingers** — 0% (0 votes · score 154/1000)
   1996 indie about two friends driving from LA to the tables.
18. **Leaving Las Vegas** — 0% (0 votes · score 154/1000)
   1995 drama that won Nicolas Cage the Best Actor Oscar.

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