Movies like The Con

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The Con (1998)
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The Con (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A lonely gas station attendent in Mississippi falls in love with a con woman who wants to get her hands on an inheritance he doesn't know about.
Style: offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot: con artists, family business, con men, female protagonist, small town, gambling, school, family relations, love and romance, profanity, fall in love, intrigue, couples, isolation, manipulation, sexual content, breakup, suburbs, femme fatale, supportive spouse, on the run, suburban life, hidden identity, countryside, forgery ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: detroit, mississippi

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and independent film films with plots about love and romance, couples, dishonesty, fall in love, disorder, family relations and cons and scams mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like The Con: The Curse of Inferno (1997), And God Created Woman (1988), Be My Baby (2007), All Relative (2014), Piccadilly Jim (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Curse of Inferno (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A rather dull minded bank robber suddenly suffers from a change of heart and decides to give the money back. However, he then learns that getting the money back into the bank is much more difficult than taking it out.
Style: independent film, realistic, offbeat, humorous, semi serious
Plot: partner, wedding, escape, heist, crime gone awry, love and romance, fall in love, couples, wooing, dishonesty, babies and infants, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
And God Created Woman (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In this variation on director Vadim's own, more acclaimed Et Dieu Créa La Femme (1956, the same title in French), the vamp Robin Shea marries charming carpenter Billy Moran, only to get out of prison, but soon decides to seduce James Tiernan, ...
Style: sexy, realistic, intense, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: couples, prison, female protagonist, marriage of convenience, femme fatale, love and romance, infidelity, sexual relations, opposites attract, unlikely couple, rise to the top, love triangle ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
 4.3
 348
Be My Baby (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: After dating several cheating husbands who pretended to be single, Rylee devises a scheme for revenge. She gets a married man drunk, convinces him that they slept together, then shows up a year later with a baby and demands money. Her blackmail plan ...
Style: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: infidelity, battle of the sexes, manipulation, couples, disorder, family relations, farce, looking for love, gender, nothing goes right, vengeance, dishonesty ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 5.4
 2K
All Relative (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Things couldn't be going better for Harry and Grace, a young New York City couple in love, until Grace's mother turns Harry's world upside down.
Style: touching, semi serious, humorous, tense, witty ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: fall in love, disorder, couple relations, couples, parents and children, dishonesty, wooing, family relations, love and romance, love, stepmother, older woman younger man relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Piccadilly Jim (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Set in the 1930s, an American with a scandalous reputation on both sides of the Atlantic must do an about-face in order to win back the woman of his dreams.
Style: ironic, tragicomedy, captivating, romantic, social ...
Plot: society, fall in love, family relations, dishonesty, hidden identity, couples, power relations, disorder, love and romance, snobbism, parents and children, woman ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: usa, england, europe, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
The Engagement Ring (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A long-lost engagement ring still divides childhood sweethearts who are now in their golden years. Now, her daughter (Heaton) and his nephew meet and find that their attraction is hindered by the old feud.
Style: realistic, semi serious, captivating, humorous
Plot: true love, family relations, family life, family business, couples, couple relations, unfulfilled love, cooking, holiday, nudity, world war two, love and romance ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Old, New, Borrowed and Blue (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Katrine is to be married. Her fiancé is gorgeous, their appartment is luxurious and her future in-laws are wealthy. Katrine only has one problem: she sometimes finds it difficult to tell the truth, and this sends her on a round-about jaunt with an ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, sincere, feel good, touching ...
Plot: dogme 95, life turned upside down, unlikely couple, introspection, family relations, couples, love and romance, fall in love, couple relations, disorder, dogma, wedding ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Stealing Christmas (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Tony Danza stars as a thief named Jack Clayton. When Jack is about to be caught at the mall, he dresses up as Santa Claus and hops on the bus to Evergreen. He is mistaken for the new Santa at Sarah Gibson's tree store. He is very reluctant at ...
Style: touching, feel good, humorous, witty, christmas classics ...
Audience: family outing, girls' night
Plot: christmas, small town, redemption, disorder, dishonesty, fall in love, cons and scams, bank, heist, family life, criminal, false identity ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Making Mr. Right (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Eddie, a poor street conman, has his 'guess in which briefcase' trick ruined by Manhattan lifestyle magazine deputy editor Hallie Galloway. Due to a bet with her boss, she must transform Eddie into a dashingly eligible bachelor for a ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sexy, captivating ...
Plot: love and romance, eligible bachelor, cons and scams, power relations, fall in love, couples, dishonesty, smuggling, transformation, theft, party, fraud ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Hustle (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Maya and Tony are a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde. Maya seduces businessmen while Tony copies their credit cards. It's a smooth con until one of their victims, Pierce, pulls a gun. Instead of killing them, Pierce offers the desperate couple a ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, neo noir
Plot: sexual content, femme fatale, crime gone awry, criminal heroes, heist, seductress, dishonesty, betrayal, chases and races, rivalry, intrigue, disorder ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 6.3
 10K
Happy, Texas (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Two escaped convicts roll into the village of Happy, Texas, where they're mistaken for a gay couple who work as beauty pageant consultants. They go along with it to duck the police, but the local sheriff has a secret of his own.
Style: humorous, clever, witty, independent film, dark comedy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: gay, small town, pretending to be gay, mistaken identity, beauty pageant, farce, lgbt, fish out of water, bank robbery, lgbtqi, glbt, outlaw ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Bed & Breakfast (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Life changes for three woman who run a failing hotel, when a mysterious man washes up at the beach.
Style: humorous, semi serious, talky, captivating, light ...
Plot: parents and children, family problems, mysterious character, family life, beach, generation gap, fall in love, 007, parent child relationship, couples, teleportation, family relations ...
Time: 90s, year 1991
Place: usa, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
School for Seduction (2004)
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: An Italian temptress arrives at a school in Newcastle to teach a group of Geordies about the art of romance.
Style: sexy, realistic, semi serious, humorous, rom com ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: femme fatale, battle of the sexes, power relations, couples, unlikely couple, small town, seduction, sex scene, making love, domestic disturbance, love and romance, small town life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 6.0
 205
Gaby Baby Doll (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Gaby cannot stay alone ; she's afraid of the dark ,of everything .When her boyfriend leaves her (he wants to have sex with her and she gets on his nerves,because she only needs a protector),she's completely on her own .She's afraid of ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic
Audience: date night
Plot: couple relations, couples, fall in love, countryside, isolation, lone wolves, love and romance, confined, female nudity
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Picture Perfect (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A young advertising executive's life becomes increasingly complicated when, in order to impress her boss, she pretends to be engaged to a man she has just met.
Style: romantic, feel good, sweet, light, talky ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, teens, chick flick
Plot: wedding, workplace romance, manipulation, happy ending, employer employee relationship, female protagonist, unlikely couple, dishonesty, nothing goes right, fall in love, workplace, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place: new york, usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.3
 441
Framed (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A painter is accused of art-forging. He thinks his girlfriend betrayed him, so it's time for revenge.
Style: exciting, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: frame up, partner, violent content, profanity, performer's life, disorder, dishonesty, unlikely criminals, criminal's revenge, forgery, rivalry, unlikely partners ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
A Pyromaniac's Love Story (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A pastry boy and the son of a hair-piece mogul become involved in an arson scandal. Sergio is offered a bribe in exchange for taking the blame for the fire that destroys his workplace. Garet, the real arsonist, is apalled that someone else would try ...
Style: feel good, realistic, humorous, semi serious, offbeat
Audience: date night
Plot: farce, house fire, teenage crush, arsonist, jealousy, silly humor, opposites attract, unfulfillment, love and romance, disorder, family relations, couple relations ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
You're a Big Boy Now (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Bernard Chanticleer's father gives him two simple words of advice: "Grow up." Bernard knows that his first step is to find a girl who's "willing," but he passes up a sure thing, Amy Partlett, for a more elusive goal. ...
Style: cult classic, independent film, realistic, semi serious, witty ...
Audience: teens
Plot: librarian, library, sexual content, family relations, couples, disorder, fish out of water, family life, urban, parents and children, men hatred, city life ...
Time: year 1966, 20th century, 60s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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I Love You Baby (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Marcos, a boy looking sad and long-term projects, comes to the big city with the intention to find himself. The first thing is love. Falls in love with Daniel, a talented actor who continually seeks opportunities to prove it. This love newborn ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sexual, touching ...
Plot: rise to the top, love affair, gay, misfit, unlikely couple, couples, life turned upside down, lgbt, love triangle, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, glbt, heterosexuality ...
Time: 20th century
Place: spain, madrid, dominican republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 5.0
 410
Mambo Caf? (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A beautiful Puerto Rican girl and her family in Spanish harlem devise a novel plan to attract business to their restaurant, causing a wildly comic sequence of events ending in near disaster.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, independent film ...
Plot: family business, chaos and mayhem, farce, disorder, family relations, nothing goes right, family life, down on your luck, murder, gangster, disaster, hitman ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, harlem
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
I'll Take You There (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A woman forces a man to move forward with his life after his wife dumps him.
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, offbeat, humorous
Plot: best friend, friends, couples, wild ride, unfulfillment, love and romance, stalking, obsession, dangerous attraction, opposites attract, dishonesty, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 5.9
 993
The Pharmacist (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Hella is around 30 and works in a pharmacy. She is waiting for the right man to step into her life, but as she has a certain affinity for losers, she is kind of disillusionized. When she gets to know Levin, a dentist student who likes cars most, her ...
Style: manga, semi serious, realistic, humorous, atmospheric ...
Plot: pharmacy, pharmacist, poison, murder, monkey, dentist, last will and testament, dishonesty, disorder, small town, nudity, violent content ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Mickey Blue Eyes (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An English auctioneer proposes to the daughter of a mafia kingpin, only to realize that certain "favors" would be asked of him.
Style: humorous, hilarious, romantic comedy, witty, melancholic ...
Audience: date night, family friendly
Plot: mafia, mistaken identity, fish out of water, marriage proposal, fbi, family relations, comedy of errors, fall in love, love and romance, dishonesty, couples, disorder ...
Time: 20th century, year 1999, 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, kansas city
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Au Revoir Taipei (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan, USA, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Kai (Jack Yao), who works at his parent's noodle shop by day and spends his nights in a bookstore to learn French, decides to go to Paris after his girlfriend, who recently left for Paris, dumps him by phone. Then the local neighborhood mafia ...
Style: realistic, feel good, humorous, semi serious, light hearted
Audience: date night
Plot: love triangle, couple relations, love affair, fall in love, couples, disorder, nothing goes right, misfit, love and romance, fish out of water, bookstore, book ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, taiwan, paris france, asia, taipei
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Why Did I Get Married Too? (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Four couples reunite for their annual vacation in order to socialize and to spend time analyzing their marriages. Their intimate week in the Bahamas is disrupted by the arrival of an ex-husband determined to win back his recently remarried wife.
Style: semi serious, realistic, talky, humorous, christian film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: crumbling marriage, battle of the sexes, family problems, couple relations, friendship, black, dishonesty, breakup, lifestyle, unfulfillment, infidelity, remarry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: bahamas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Blue Moon (2002)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After screwing up a money exchange a Viennese small-time crook accompanied by a Russian hostess hits the road to the East.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, atmospheric, road movie ...
Plot: on the road, gangster, dishonesty, crime gone awry, obsessive quest, cons and scams, fall in love, on the run, love and romance, disorder, prostitute, iron curtain ...
Time: 21st century
Place: slovakia, vienna, eastern europe, central europe, ukraine
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.8
 13K
The Oranges (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A man's (Hugh Laurie) affair with his friend's much-younger daughter (Leighton Meester) throws two neighboring families into turmoil.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, independent film, romantic ...
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, infidelity, dysfunctional family, family relations, age difference, fall in love, love and romance, friends, family problems, life turned upside down, family life, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 5.4
 434
Loving Jezebel (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A man is cursed with falling in love with other men's women.
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: black, infidelity, best friend, goofy hero, fall in love, dishonesty, battle of the sexes, lifestyle, love and romance, friends, couples, thirtysomething life ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: new york, usa, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.9
 35K
The Cooler (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: (William H. Macy) works at a Las Vegas casino, where he uses his innate ability to bring about misfortune in those around him to jinx gamblers into losing. His imposing boss, Shelly Kaplow (Alec Baldwin), is happy with the arrangement. But Bernie ...
Style: sexy, realistic, intense, neo noir, serious ...
Plot: gambling, casino, card playing, bad luck, fall in love, love and romance, down on your luck, strong sexual content, debt, mafia, couples, dishonesty ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: las vegas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
We're Talkin' Serious Money (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A couple of bumbling con men go on the lam when they can't repay a loan from the mob.
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: mobster, scam, sting operation, politician, mafia, get rich quick scheme, gangster, partner, violent content, best friend, disorder, friends ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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