Movies like Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
 7.4
 78K
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Two con men try to settle their rivalry by betting on who can swindle a young American heiress out of $50,000 first.
Style: clever, feel good, funny, humorous, surprise ending, light, entertaining, slapstick, hilarious, witty ...
Audience: kids, family friendly
Plot: con artists, con men, rivalry, cons and scams, bet, twists and turns, competition, farce, caper, high society, gigolo, entrepreneur, hustler, espionage, paralysis, gambling, summer, business, shipwreck, entrepreneurship, moving, mental illness, city, love affair, team ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place: french riviera, france, arizona, south of france, riviera, europe, zurich switzerland ...
Keyword: reboot, oldies, loud, american, doctors, challenge, french

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, funny and feel good films with plots about disorder, cons and scams, dishonesty, caper, con artists, heist and robbery mostly in Comedy, Crime and Romance genres. Some movies like Dirty Rotten Scoundrels: A Fish Called Wanda (1988), The Sting (1973), Heartbreakers (2001), Ruthless People (1986), The Hustle (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A diamond advocate is attempting to steal a collection of diamonds, yet troubles arise when he realizes that he is not the only one after the diamonds.
Style: funny, dark comedy, black comedy, dramatic, light ...
Plot: heist, zoophilia, manipulation, femme fatale, satire, eternal love, robbery, hustler, outlaw, mission, swindle, diamond ...
Time: 80s, year 1988, 20th century
Place: europe, britain, tower bridge london, london, england ...
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100%
 8.3
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The Sting (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Set in the 1930s this intricate caper deals with an ambitious small-time crook and a veteran con man who seek revenge on a vicious crime lord who murdered one of their gang.
Style: entertaining, atmospheric, witty, humorous, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: con artists, gambling, chase, cons and scams, caper, twists and turns, organized crime, manipulation, con man, plot twist, train, mafia ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1973, year 1936
Place: chicago, usa, persia, new york, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
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Heartbreakers (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Max and Page are a brilliant mother/daughter con team who have their grift down to a fine science. Max targets wealthy, willing men and marries them. Page then seduces them, and Max catches her husband in the act. Then it's off to palimony city ...
Style: romantic, funny, light, hilarious, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: women, con artists, love story, female criminal, manipulation, cons and scams, mother daughter relationship, wedding, farce, marriage, one last job, divorce ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: florida, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Ruthless People (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A couple, cheated by a vile businessman, kidnap his wife in retaliation, without knowing that their enemy is delighted they did.
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, funny, hilarious, laugh out loud ...
Plot: kidnapping, greed, videotaped sex, husband wife relationship, extramarital affair, farce, ransom, misunderstanding, fashion, revenge, vengeance, mistress ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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The Hustle (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Two female scam artists, one low rent and the other high class, compete to swindle a naïve tech prodigy out of his fortune. A remake of the 1988 comedy "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels."
Style: entertaining, feel good, light, rom com, clever ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens, date night
Plot: con artists, con woman, perfect crime, girlfriend, deception, competition, heist, arrested, pretending to be blind, casino, running from police, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south of france, london, french riviera
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 6.5
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Oscar (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Angelo "Snaps" Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world of crime and become an honest businessman. Despite having no experience in making money in a legal fashion, Snaps sets about to keep his ...
Style: talky, witty, humorous, feel good, not serious ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: gangster, mistaken identity, accountant, disorder, fish out of water, parents and children, couples, going straight, dishonesty, goofy hero, cons and scams, farce ...
Time: 90s, 1930s, year 1991
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
 139K
My Cousin Vinny (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Two carefree pals traveling through Alabama are mistakenly arrested, and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who's a lawyer - Vincent Gambini, a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who just passed his bar exam after his ...
Style: funny, feel good, hilarious, light, humorous ...
Audience: kids
Plot: courtroom, courtroom drama, lawyer, court, trial, small town, legal, mistaken identity, murder, justice, false accusation, cousin cousin relationship ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: alabama, new york, southern usa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 22K
The Freshman (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Clark Kellogg is a young man starting his first year at film school in New York City. After a small time crook steals all his belongings, Clark meets Carmine "Jimmy the Toucan" Sabatini, an "importer" bearing a startling ...
Style: funny, parody, witty, humorous, surreal ...
Audience: kids
Plot: mafia, gangster, fish out of water, endangered species, zoo, food, college, affection, godfather, mobster, corruption, filmmaking ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: vermont, new york, manhattan new york city, grand central station manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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We're No Angels (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Two escaped cons only prayer to escape is to pass themselves off as priests and pass by the police blockade at the border into the safety of Canada.
Style: humorous, feel good, clever, captivating, exciting ...
Plot: mistaken identity, prison, clergy, small town, religion, fake priest, priest, monk, fish out of water, buddies, on the run, disorder ...
Time: 20th century, year 1989, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Weekend at Bernie's (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two friends are invited for a weekend to a luxury island with their boss. The boss gets shot and nobody seems to notice, except for the two friends. In order not to become suspects of murder they treat the body as a puppet and make people believe ...
Style: funny, humorous, black comedy, hilarious, dark comedy ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, kids
Plot: dark humor, beach, summer, murder, farce, insurance, comedy of errors, heat wave, organized crime, employer employee relationship, mob boss, nothing goes right ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Pink Panther (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The trademark of The Phantom, a renowned jewel thief, is a glove left at the scene of the crime. Inspector Clouseau, an expert on The Phantom's exploits, feels sure that he knows where The Phantom will strike next and leaves Paris for ...
Style: slapstick, detective, funny, witty, hilarious ...
Audience: kids
Plot: princess, master criminal, law enforcement, diamond, jewel thief, robbery, winter, farce, pop culture, heist, nothing goes right, goofy hero ...
Time: year 1963, 20th century, 60s
Place: europe, switzerland, los angeles, france, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Small Time Crooks (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.
Style: talky, humorous, melancholic, stylized, realistic ...
Plot: heist, love and romance, caper, corruption, robbery, unlikely criminals, disorder, couple relations, overnight success, cons and scams, bank robbery, art ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Bedtime Story (1964)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Benson, is a Casanova who tricks women into having sex with him before leaving them. He is content with his game until he meets Jamison, a real operator who poses as an exiled prince and not only gets women to share his bed but also to give him ...
Style: not serious, realistic, cynical, biting, humorous ...
Plot: con artists, gigolo, prince, bet, seduction, world war two, caper, outlaw, exodus, anti nazi, rivalry, con man ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: riviera, france, french riviera
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 4.5
 2K
Bullseye! (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Michael Caine, Roger Moore and Sally Kirkland star as three of the most unlikely rogues to ever score a heist. Hidden away in a vault is a fortune in diamonds, payment for a secret formula two government scientists have unscrupulously sold to the ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, independent film, captivating, light ...
Plot: scientist, disorder, undercover, cons and scams, nothing goes right, chases and races, goofy hero, intrigue, dishonesty, experiment, disguise, con artists ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.9
 57K
Fletch (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A veritable chameleon, investigative reporter Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher might drive his editor up the wall, but he always produces great pieces for the newspaper. When his next story is about the drug trade taking place on the beach, Fletch ...
Style: funny, humorous, light, talky, entertaining ...
Audience: kids
Plot: journalism, investigation, corruption, undercover, cons and scams, dishonesty, dating, on the run, mistaken identity, insurance, police corruption, media ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, utah, rio de janeiro, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After Dick Harper loses his job at Globodyne in an Enron-esque collapse, he and his wife, Jane, turn to crime in order to handle the massive debt they now face. Two intelligent people, Dick and Jane actually get pretty good at robbing people and ...
Style: funny, light, humorous, feel good, satirical ...
Audience: family outing, teens, teen drama
Plot: unemployment, robbery, heist, caper, loss of job, bankruptcy, business, gangster, husband wife relationship, satire, greed, couples ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Opportunity Knocks (1990)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Eddie and Lou are a couple of two-bit con men on the lam from a loan shark. They hide out in someone's house and they hear on the answering machine that (A) the owner of the house is out of the country for a month or two and (B) the housesitter ...
Style: entertaining, funny, light, feel good, humorous ...
Plot: cons and scams, con artists, love, friendship, chase, comedy of errors, disorder, house, mistaken identity, meme, con men, heist ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.7
 26K
Gambit (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An art curator decides to seek revenge on his abusive boss by conning him into buying a fake Monet, but his plan requires the help of an eccentric and unpredictable Texas rodeo queen.
Style: light, humorous, sexy, entertaining, absurd ...
Audience: date night
Plot: heist, caper, collector, revenge, art, con men, perfect crime, farce, brutality, stereotypes, screwball, greed ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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The Sting II (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Hooker and Gondorf pull a con on Macalinski, an especially nasty mob boss with the help of Veronica, a new grifter. They convince this new victim that Hooker is a somewhat dull boxer who is tired of taking dives for Gondorf. There is a ringer. ...
Style: humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic, offbeat ...
Plot: gambling, gangster, boxing, vengeance, boxer, friends, cons and scams, revenge, mobster, caper, casino, buddy ...
Time: 1940s, year 1983, 80s
Place: brooklyn new york city, new york, coney island brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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My Blue Heaven (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: FBI agent Barney Coopersmith is assigned to protect former Mafia figure turned informant Vincent Antonelli. In the witness protection program one is supposed to keep a low profile, but that is something that Antonelli has trouble doing. Coopersmith ...
Style: humorous, funny, light, talky, intense ...
Plot: fbi agent, gangster, small town, organized crime, witness protection, fbi, fish out of water, district attorney, switching roles, hidden identity, vengeance, hitman ...
Time: 80s
Place: california, new york, usa, italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Queenpins (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Bored and frustrated suburban homemaker Connie and her best pal JoJo, a vlogger with dreams, turn a hobby into a multi-million-dollar counterfeit coupon caper. After firing off a letter to the conglomerate behind a box of cereal gone stale, and ...
Style: entertaining, buddy comedy, humorous, feel good, light ...
Plot: female criminal, housewife, women, caper, cons and scams, escapades, female protagonist, female friendship, partners in crime, swindle, scam, partner ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
How to Steal a Million (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A woman must steal a statue from a Paris museum to help conceal her father's art forgeries.
Style: romantic, feel good, witty, clever, light ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teens, kids
Plot: heist, fall in love, art theft, forgery, museum, love story, love and romance, perfect crime, caper, art collector, art, robbery ...
Time: 60s, year 1966, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 7.1
 7K
Gambit (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Harry Dean has a perfect plan to steal a priceless bust. The core of which is Nicole a look alike for his marks late wife. Will the gambit go as planned?
Style: humorous, entertaining, captivating, light, exciting ...
Plot: heist, forgery, caper, partner, cons and scams, crime gone awry, disorder, perfect crime, thief, con artists, art theft, murder ...
Time: 20th century, year 1966, 60s
Place: hong kong, middle east, asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Bowfinger (1999)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: On the verge of bankruptcy and desperate for his big break, aspiring filmmaker Bobby Bowfinger concocts a crazy plan to make his ultimate dream movie. Rallying a ragtag team that includes a starry-eyed ingenue, a has-been diva and a film studio ...
Style: parody, funny, humorous, witty, talky ...
Audience: family friendly, date night
Plot: filmmaking, hollywood, movie business, satire, dog, actor, cameraman, audition, desire for fame, african american, deception, actress ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 5.9
 2K
The Actors (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Ireland, UK, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: During the run of a particularly awful interpretation of Richard III, the star, Anthony O'Malley, begins to frequent a rough pub to develop his character. He meets Barreller who he discovers owes someone he's never met a considerable sum ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, offbeat
Plot: disguise, debt, debt collector, hidden identity, unlikely criminals, disorder, cons and scams, dishonesty, gangster, pretense, aging, caper ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.6
 273K
Focus (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Argentina
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Nicky, a veteran con artist, takes a novice named Jess under his wing. While Nicky teaches Jess the tricks of the trade, the pair become romantically involved; but, when Jess gets uncomfortably close, Nicky ends their relationship. Three years ...
Style: exciting, suspense, entertaining, unusual plot structure, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: heist, con artists, cons and scams, twists and turns, fall in love, mind game, interracial love, femme fatale, manipulation, black man white woman sex, gambling, swindle ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, argentina, peru, south america, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.3
 138K
Matchstick Men (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A phobic con artist and his protege are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the con artist's teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly.
Style: psychological, feel good, entertaining, psychological thriller, twisted ...
Plot: con artists, twists and turns, cons and scams, mental illness, con men, heist, greed, slick, plot twist, psychology, father daughter relationship, obsession ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.6
 47K
Roxanne (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Based on the play "Cyrano de Bergerac", large nosed C.D. Bales falls for the beautiful Roxanne while she falls for his personality but another man's looks.
Style: humorous, feel good, funny, romantic comedy, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, family outing, family friendly, date night ...
Plot: unrequited love, fall in love, love triangle, love story, small town, rivalry, physical appearance, wooing, dishonesty, hidden identity, happy ending, public nudity ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: seattle, washington d.c., usa, washington state
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.9
 89K
Get Shorty (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent by his boss, the psychopathic "Bones" Barboni, to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror films. When Chili meets Harry's leading lady, ...
Style: funny, humorous, clever, intense, light ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: mafia, hollywood, debt, movie business, producer, gangster, gambling, organized crime, filmmaking, caper, dark humor, cons and scams ...
Time: 90s, year 1995, 20th century
Place: miami, los angeles, california, usa, las vegas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Take the Money and Run (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The life and times of Virgil Starkwell, inept bank robber.
Style: mockumentary, humorous, clever, witty, funny ...
Plot: prison, robbery, heist, fighting the system, goofy hero, couples, petty criminal, unlikely criminals, misfit, couple relations, hapless, cons and scams ...
Time: 1940s, year 1969, 50s, 60s, 20th century ...
Place: persia, turkey, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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