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Scam (1993)
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A female con-artist who sweet-talks wealthy men targeted by her violent boyfriend, then drugs them and makes off with their money, is being herself being watched by another man. He wants to use her talents in a much-bigger scam: ripping off a crime lord by getting at his programmer's computer files. But she starts to have doubts about what he's really after when she finds a huge stash of loot with the disks. He claims no knowledge of the money, she distrusts him, he's using her, things start getting dangerous and even murderous - and then her boyfriend shows up ! Who's scamming whom ?
Style:
neo noir, crime thriller, suspenseful, crime drama, tense, noir, twist ending, surprise ending
Plot:
con artists, gambling, deception, manipulation, heist, betrayal, crime boss, organized crime, blackmail, criminal underworld, cat and mouse, conspiracy, paranoia, surveillance, moral ambiguity, sleazy, sexual manipulation, computer hacking, gambling addiction, casino, guilty pleasure, throat slitting, severed head, throat cut, crime lord
Time:
year 1993
Place:
miami beach, jamaica
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out crime drama, tense, suspense and noir films with plots about moral ambiguity, betrayal, urban, organized crime, revenge, cat and mouse and criminal underworld mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Scam: One-Line (2017), Thief (1971), Bad to the Bone (1997), Heist 88 (2023), The Exchange (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
379
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
A group of professional con artists scam poor, unsuspecting citizens with fraudulent bank loans. The scams go well for a while, but then they begin to distrust each other.
Style:
captivating, tense, disturbing, crime drama, crime thriller ...
Plot:
deception, con artists, heist, bank, scam, fraud, credit card fraud, criminal, gang, robbery, stolen money, burglar ...
Time:
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Place:
south korea
Similarity:
95%
211
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A professional thief tries to break with his past but has to pull off one last job to pay off a gambling debt.
Style:
crime drama, suspense, tension, noir, neo noir ...
Plot:
heist, gambler, one last job, criminal underworld, urban, moral ambiguity, anti hero, gambling debt, organized crime, alienation, loneliness, redemption ...
Time:
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Place:
chicago
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92%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
crime drama, dark, psychological thriller, sinister, tense ...
Plot:
murder, betrayal, deception, female villain, manipulation, female sociopath, psychological abuse, guilt, conspiracy, seductress, crime investigation, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
92%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A criminal mastermind recruits a group of young bank employees to steal 80 million dollars in one of the largest bank heist in US history.
Style:
suspenseful, crime drama, thrilling, captivating, crime thriller ...
Plot:
heist, bank robbery, organized crime, master criminal, bank clerk, mastermind, bank, theft, bank robber, robbery, burglar, stealing money ...
Time:
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Place:
chicago, geneva switzerland
Similarity:
92%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In Boston, the four Naldoff brothers make a comfortable living running money scams. But the youngest brother, Lee, is dangerously attracted to the excitement of the underworld lifestyle. When Lee puts a hit on a wealthy businessman, he unknowingly ...
Style:
crime drama, crime thriller, dark, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
gangster, brothers, scam, organized crime, mafia, underworld, criminal underworld, crime family, brotherhood, violence, moral ambiguity, hitman ...
Time:
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Place:
boston, new england
Similarity:
90%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
heist, robbery, criminal underworld, desperation, organized crime, crooked cop, gangster, anti hero, character study, surveillance, cat and mouse, police corruption ...
Place:
berlin germany
Similarity:
88%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
The story of a scheme to double-cross the syndicate and steal its money, and of a police commissioner '​s efforts to investigate homicides that take place as the scheme unfolds while also fighting corruption in the city government and ...
Style:
noir, detective, suspense, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
organized crime, murder, investigation, police procedural, criminal syndicate, law enforcement, corruption, police corruption, gangster, power struggle, heist, underworld ...
Time:
60s
Place:
new york state, new york
Similarity:
87%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
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Story:
When a multi-million-dollar heist goes sideways, con artist Lucky is forced to go on the run. Pursued by both the FBI and a ruthless crime boss, Lucky must fight for her life—and a way out.
Style:
crime thriller, suspense thriller, suspenseful, crime drama, fast paced ...
Plot:
heist gone wrong, heist, crime boss, fugitive, redemption, one last job, female protagonist, organized crime, urban, moral ambiguity, underworld, escape ...
Similarity:
87%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Jack just lost his P.I. license and his life is on a downward spiral. He decides to steal a cash briefcase from the local gangsters. He hides in a strip joint owned by a local mob legend Jimmie D and pays a stripper to help him escape. The gangsters ...
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, rough, crime drama ...
Plot:
gangster, stripper, law enforcement, criminal heroes, murder, henchman, deception, strip club, mobster, organized crime, heist, private investigator ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
california
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The story of Barry Minkow, a young and charismatic figure in business who reaches CEO status by lying and scheming his way to the top.
Style:
crime drama, suspenseful, dramatic, realistic, tense
Plot:
gambling, con man, deception, fraud, scandal, greed, manipulation, embezzlement, corporate crime, rise and fall, biopic, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A narcissist concocts a get-rich-quick scheme that ignites a violent chain reaction and overwhelms the lives of those around him.
Style:
suspense, tense, crime drama, twisted, dark ...
Plot:
scheming, narcissism, escalation, greed, manipulation, deception, violent, downfall, character study, moral ambiguity, suspicion, corruption ...
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In this action thriller set in post-Katrina New Orleans, business owner Jack Vermillion (Laurence Fishburne) is struggling to run a legitimate shipping company while bad guy Ernest Pike (Karl Urban) is struggling to get his family's illegal gun ...
Style:
tense, crime thriller, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
organized crime, lawyer, police officer, criminal, corruption, fighting crime, police detective, murder investigation, arms dealer, murder mystery, murder, police ...
Place:
new orleans
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
crime thriller, tense, suspenseful
Plot:
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Time:
2010s
Place:
kansas city, las vegas
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Nigeria
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A young woman gets more than she bargains for and is drawn into a web of deceit when she is hired by a socialite to assist with his scheme to marry a wealthy heiress.
Style:
harsh, exciting, dramatic, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
84%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Assigned to go undercover to take down an impenetrable crime ring, a detective finds himself falling under the sway of it's enigmatic leader.
Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
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Style:
crime drama, retro, period piece, noir
Plot:
criminal syndicate, organized crime, mafia, political corruption, scandal, criminal underworld, blackmail, extortion, mobster, surveillance, vice, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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83%
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Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
tense, suspenseful, crime thriller, disturbing, dark ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
police corruption, corruption, investigation, murder investigation, revenge, moral ambiguity, male protagonist, violence, conspiracy, betrayal, urban, divorced father ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 3 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
tense, crime drama, twisted, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
undercover, car theft, organized crime, police, gang, corruption, urban, criminal underworld, cat and mouse, power struggle, investigation, conspiracy ...
Place:
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Similarity:
83%
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101
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Woman is kidnaped by hitman who discovers that he is the target of another hitman.
Style:
suspense, tense, crime thriller, dark, neo noir ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
82%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 57 min.
Story:
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Style:
crime drama, crime thriller, suspenseful, neo noir, suspense ...
Plot:
lsd, murder, blackmail, hustler, frustration, criminal underworld, loss of innocence, moral ambiguity, family drama, drug addiction, violence, betrayal ...
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Two mob money couriers, Frankie and Tony, have their latest package of $1 million stolen by two con women, Dana and Marcia, in which the men must find the women to recover the money before they become marked men.
Style:
crime thriller, suspense, noir, neo noir, road movie ...
Plot:
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Time:
60s
Place:
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Similarity:
82%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
.Ex-boxer Paul Choquino decides to finance his upcoming wedding by robbing reputed drug lord Benito Mussolini Bonacci. But everything that can go wrong in the burn does and Paul is left running from the law, the mob and one of the members of his own ...
Style:
crime drama, tense, suspenseful, dark comedy, noir ...
Plot:
betrayal, heist, heist gone wrong, robbery, ex boxer, organized crime, drug lord, criminal underworld, anti hero, pursuit, chase, fugitive ...
Place:
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Similarity:
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187
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Dan Selig is a bored thirty year-old math wiz who's looking for a way to change his life. His ray of light comes in the form of a curvy blonde named Alicia, who recruits Dan to join her blackjack card counting team for a one night Las Vegas ...
Style:
suspense, tense, crime drama, twisted, psychological ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
80s
Place:
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Similarity:
80%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A depressed programmer and a model decide to seek gold as a seemingly good job opportunity, but they inadvertently become involved in a well-planned Internet scam.
Style:
suspense, crime drama, tense, crime thriller, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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