The Color of Green (Pool Halls & Billiards in films & TV)

An up-and-coming pool player plays a long-time champion in a single high-stakes match.

A talented pool hustler who has stayed out of the game for years must return to his old ways when his little brother gets involved with his enemy--the very man who held him back from greatness.

A tale of two hustlers trying to set up a big game.

The current "aces" of billiards from different cities of Russia decided together to make a gift to their teachers, living out their days in almshouses. They decided to raise money and settle their former billiard mentors in a decent estate - a mansion with a plot, with decent service and food. Smolensk, St. Petersburg and Moscow billiard authorities have made their contribution to the "common fund". It was the turn to one of the regional authorities Savitsky. Initially, he did not want to participate in the common cause, but when he was shamed, he gave 20,000 "greens", but after the collectors sent killers. They decided that they had done their job, and the whole amount collected fell into Savitsky's hands. But the couriers were able to survive the attack and told everything. And then a cunning plan was developed .

William "The Baron" Addington is a former pool pro whose lifetime of boozing has cost him his career and family. Determined to straighten out his life, he gave up drinking and now plays pool only for charity. Eventually, The Baron encounters Billy Joe "The Cajun Kid" Stanley - a brash young pool hustler with immense potential. Managed by Jack Streamer, The Kid travels from hall to hall, swindling opponents. After a series of chance revelations, The Baron discovers that The Kid is his son - a product of his long-ago relationship with Dee-Dee Stanley. But instead of revealing the true nature of their relationship, The Baron befriends the boy and acts as a positive role model for him by entering legitimate, high stakes pool tournaments. As father and son grow closer, Streamer starts to fear that he's losing his grip on The Kid and sets out to destroy The Baron by framing him for dirty pool in the biggest competition of his career.

Three young men unwittingly become involved in an underground pool tournament.

A street-smart pool player falls in with a pack of hustlers. As he rises in the underground circuit, he lands in the middle of a match between his boss and a crooked cop.

Sam leaps into an old pool playing acquaintance of Al's and must win a pool game so that his granddaughter doesn't lose her bar.

A film crew making a low budget vampire film is unaware that the leading man is a real vampire and has his sights set on the leading lady.

A detached black mother loses her job and also the ability to pay back her credit. She recalls her billiard skills and begins to play for money. Will she be cool enough to be a pro in such a game? Things get worse when she falls in love with an opponent.

A young woman aspires to become a 9-ball professional and champion but her hustling uncle has other plans for her skills.

Heartbreak follows the life of a one-time, award-winning professional billiard champion. Down on his luck, he encounters a young Korean woman seeking to become the billiard world champion to save her son's life.

Nami is an ex-convict who becomes a hostess to support a sick woman who bailed her out. In doing so, she gets involved in a local gangster's scheme to take over the bar she works for.

After giving up her life as a professional pool player, Elizabeth meets a young pool player who wins her over and back to national competition.

Jen and Tara arrange a threesome to win Jen's ex-boyfriend back, and yet he wants to be just friends. Through the antics of offbeat characters at the billiards where they all work, he realizes Jen is his dream girl, but is it too late?

A getaway driver becomes the latest assignment for a tenacious detective.

Two girls at a Historically Black College are strapped for cash to pay their senior year's tuition. In a pinch, they take their pool-hustling skills to Las Vegas to earn the money. But, winning at pool and love has it challenges.

A woman breaks into one of the last domains of men's world: she learns competitive billiards.

At the request of a television experimenter who needed items to broadcast, Robert L. Ripley states unsubstantiated oddities including that a Spanish lady had her husband's portrait tattooed on her tongue as penance for nagging him to death. He also shows a house and the blind man who built it by himself in Wayne, New Jersey. The longest word in the world (184 letters, from a work by Aristophanes), is written on a blackboard and pronounced and translated by a professor. There are animated sequences of a rifle fish, which shoots at flying insects for food, and how a strange home run was hit in 1890, when the ball bounced off the outfielder's head and over the fence. Ripley demonstrates his skill as an artist by drawing several items, such as a Chinese man who had fingernails 22.75 inches long. Finally, in the most amazing sequence, Ripley introduces Carl Vaughan, who demonstrates how he picks up 12 pocket billiard balls with one hand and without touching the table or the balls with any other part of his body. There are scenes intercut throughout showing a family watching the show on television.

Ecological criminal intrigue during the international billiard tournament in Riga.

Watching his father lose the 1994 Club Snooker Championship, 13-year-old Midi takes on the impossible journey to bring his father's name on the Winner's Board.

Millions in diamonds are stolen from a New York City safe, and later the burglar is killed. Shamus is paid $10,000 by the owner to find the diamonds or the killer.

A man running an underground illegal 9-ball tournament out of his home on the outskirts of a southern city fears that someone is out to steal the prize money...he's right.