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Scammerhead (2014)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A Global Film Noir with dark comic elements about Silas Breece, a legendarily unorthodox business hustler who travels the world seeking capitol from bizarre investors, mobsters and government officials for a series of increasingly elaborate projects.
Style:
dark comedy, noir, neo noir, crime drama, tense, absurd, witty, independent film, picaresque, twisted ...
Plot:
con artists, scam, deception, hustler, fraud, mobster, dark humor, corruption, greed, moral ambiguity, anti hero, ambition, satire, character study, underworld, heist, black market, bureaucracy, mistrust, hitman, yakuza, gunslinger, investor, napoleon bonaparte, beer ...
Time:
contemporary
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Most similar movies to Scammerhead
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out dark comedy, tense, suspense and black comedy films with plots about moral ambiguity, satire, corruption, urban, greed, ambition and betrayal mostly in Comedy, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Scammerhead: Thin Ice (2000), Bull (2008), Siko Siko (2025), Dark Arc (2004), Playing God (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Graham studied medicine, but never qualified due to being expelled from medical school for theft. He did pass the final exams, but while being paid to do them for someone else, which he feels qualifies him to practice medicine privately. Dispensing ...
Style:
crime drama, medical drama, realistic, suspense, black comedy ...
Plot:
ethical dilemma, fraud, police operation, deception, forgery, secret police, moral ambiguity, investigation, crime family, underworld, greed, character study ...
Similarity:
95%
132
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Bull is a darkly comic neo-noir set among the heatwave-baked skyscraper canyons of the Toronto financial district. A hapless stockbroker named Charlie finds himself caught up in a twisty web where no one — no one at all — is telling the truth. ...
Style:
neo noir, twisted, crime thriller, dark comedy, suspenseful ...
Plot:
deception, mistrust, stock broker, identity, moral ambiguity, corruption, moral corruption, murder, paranoia, conspiracy, claustrophobia, guilt ...
Place:
toronto ontario canada
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Life in Naples is tough. So Neapolitans invent ways to get by. Whatever works, conning mostly, tricking the IRS, the university, the landlord, cruise ship passengers, even conning victims three times with the same ruse.
Style:
picaresque, witty, dark comedy, slapstick
Audience:
adult
Plot:
deception, ruse, scam, con artists, satire, fraud, survival, streetwise, corruption, social commentary, working class, bureaucracy ...
Time:
90s
Place:
naples italy, italy
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Two cousins, both from a middle-class background, finally see their dream come true when their inheritance is rightfully returned to them following their uncle’s death. Soon after, and to their shock, they discover that the inheritance is in the ...
Style:
dark comedy, tense, crime thriller, black comedy, twisted ...
Plot:
criminal underworld, smuggling, mob boss, organized crime, family drama, dark humor, greed, ambition, scheme, risk, inheritance, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
78%
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219
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A mysterious comedy about love, lust, art and the power of the "charged image", Dark Arc follows the eccentric love triangle between an artist, a graphic designer and their inspiring muse
Style:
dark comedy, psychedelic, independent film, neo noir, semi serious ...
Plot:
trippy, acid, obsession, love triangle, manipulation, womanizer, dishonesty, love and romance, adventurer, fall in love, dark humor, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A brother and sister con-artist duo find themselves scamming a grieving billionaire by convincing him they can introduce him to God, face-to-face.
Style:
captivating, semi serious, tense, crime drama, tension ...
Plot:
fraud, caper, scam, cons and scams, heist, robbery, deception, grief, criminal, stolen money, theft, crime boss ...
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
A sign holder gets fired from his job and as a result gets into the drug and bit-coin money laundering business.
Style:
crime drama, realistic, tense, suspense, dark comedy ...
Plot:
money laundering, drug traffic, desperation, character study, ethical dilemma, economic inequality, unemployment, urban, anti hero, moral ambiguity, cryptocurrency, satire ...
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Young-in and his colleague Seung-dae are a pair of professional bagmen working for various lobbyists in finance, media and a host of other industries requiring political favors. Feeling guilty about his work, Seung-dae tells Young-in he plans on ...
Style:
semi serious, entertaining, disturbing, captivating, satirical ...
Plot:
plan, con artists, stolen money, money, attempted murder, money problems, escapades, insurance fraud, satire, employer employee relationship, corruption, cover up ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
seoul
Similarity:
69%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Determined to even the scales and profit from his thankless job, a factory worker schemes to traffic luxury perfumes from under his employer's nose.
Style:
captivating, satirical, thrilling, entertaining, semi serious ...
Plot:
perfume, satire, factory worker, revenge, luxury, escapades, workplace, worker, workplace situations, humour, blue collar, scheming ...
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Poland in the 80’s was a country ruled by crisis and a sense of hopelessness. Only few knew how to turn crisis into a business. It was a golden time for them. How did they know what would bring them money? How did they operate in a country where ...
Style:
bleak, historical drama, tense, period piece, crime drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
economic crisis, social commentary, moral ambiguity, black market, communism, ambition, corruption, greed, smuggling, scheming, police surveillance, nostalgia ...
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Romania
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A degenerate gambler and his two idiot friends come up with an elaborate plan to pay down their colossal gambling debts by marrying the dysfunctional daughter of an upstart billionaire.
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, satirical, absurd
Plot:
gambling, debt, scam, greed, dysfunctional family, scheme, marriage, deception, scheming, satire, social satire, manipulation ...
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania, Lithuania, Moldova
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Two Moldavian friends begin a journey full of adventures and suspense trying various business ideas in order to earn enough money to achieve their dreams.
Style:
independent film, realistic, heartfelt, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
friendship, entrepreneurship, dream, ambition, post soviet, small business, poverty, social commentary, slice of life, satire, coming of age, survival ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
From a bland tract house on the outskirts of Los Angeles, Simon Geist (with occasional help from his platonic girlfriend Darla) wages war against all of modern American popular culture. Geist starts up a magazine called "The Next Big ...
Style:
sexual, entertaining, independent film, biting, semi serious ...
Plot:
magazine, model, arrogance, counterculture, suburbs, platonic, fashion, suburban life, cons and scams, celebrity culture, journalism, vengeance ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Saudi Arabia
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A security guard who quickly rises to the top and makes billions, where he and his partners convince people into suspicious investments with the promise of doubling their money in no time.
Style:
crime drama, suspense, tense, dark, fast paced ...
Plot:
money, investments, finance, deception, greed, fraud, scam, con artists, betrayal of trust, cautionary tale, corruption, trust ...
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 53 min.
Story:
A feature independent film by Brent Kado. Neonoir comedy about the idyllic heartland, confronting truths and folly of the American Dream gone bad. The Boss has a job for 3 of the Valley's top goons. Can they finish without f'ing up or will ...
Style:
independent film, dark comedy, neo noir, satirical, tense ...
Plot:
moral ambiguity, satire, small town, cautionary tale, anti hero, crime and punishment, corruption, violence, deadpan, heist, revenge, small town life ...
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A group of old actors and filmmakers tries to resist the efforts of a young couple to kick them out of their mansion.
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, semi serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
husband wife relationship, friendship between men, satire, dark humor, rivalry, society, actress, dishonesty, escapades, writers, friendship, family relations ...
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Rene (Jean-Pierre Marielle) is a small-time crook who tries to shake down storekeeper Emile (Jean Carmet) in this uneven and humorless comedy. Things change when Rene starts to fall for the terminally boring and provincial Emile.
Style:
tense, crime drama, noir, crime thriller, realistic ...
Plot:
deception, scam, manipulation, betrayal, strip club, con men, betrayal of trust, taxi driver, moral ambiguity, seduction, character study, cat and mouse ...
Place:
paris france, brittany
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An amoral man manhandles his wife and falls into the claws of a wheeler dealer.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, light, feel good ...
Plot:
corruption, wedding, couple relations, family life, estrangement, family relations, single parent, family in crisis, marriage, family drama, moral ambiguity, manipulation ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
italy
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The political party called LMKP, which Mahsun, Şahin and Mehmet established as a front to secretly gamble, accidentally entered the parliament. As a result, the trio find themselves in a brand new world full of opportunities. The story, which ...
Style:
situational comedy, dark comedy, cynical, sitcom, black comedy ...
Plot:
corruption, political corruption, parliament, greed, political satire, opportunism, ambition, social commentary, moral ambiguity, fraud, scam, criminal underworld ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Angry island fishermen declare independence and use a Soviet nuclear submarine to get Ottawa's attention.
Style:
dark comedy, absurd, offbeat, black comedy, independent film
Plot:
submarine, satire, political satire, mayor, bureaucracy, protest, resistance, naval battle, moral ambiguity, nuclear, village
Place:
nova scotia, canada
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Divorced from his wife and reality, deluded, eccentric Andrew applies a magical philosophy to his romantic life to become a successful lady's man, rise from his depression and achieve godhood. With the superhuman persistence of a door to door ...
Style:
existential, dark comedy, absurd, tragicomedy, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
delusion, male protagonist, obsession, socially awkward, midlife crisis, wish fulfillment, loneliness, identity crisis, moral ambiguity, character study, divorce, satire ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
42%
1K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Nepal
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
An innocent, poor and hardworking man Phadindra Timsina (Bipin Karki) finds a sack full of 3 Crores Nepalese rupees stolen from a bank. He then consults with his 2 friends Jayas (Rabindra Singh Baniya) and Munna (Rabindra Jha) to make that money ...
Style:
dark comedy, tension, witty, satirical, lighthearted ...
Plot:
greed, poverty, class struggle, ethical dilemma, scheme, dark humor, morality, small town, moral ambiguity, friendship, money laundering, social commentary ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
nepal
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The incorruptible judge Annibale Salvemini, starts investigating over a classic Italian business/politics/corruption affair. He start to operate, as usual, very strongly. He orders numberless arrests. But the reaction of counterparts won't take ...
Style:
serious, suspense, tense, political drama
Plot:
corruption, investigation, moral ambiguity, ethical dilemma, politics, character study, power struggle, legal investigation, guilt, mistrust, law and order, betrayal ...
Time:
80s
Place:
morocco, italy
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Thailand
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Nakrob, a young real estate swindler, discovers an abandoned hillside hotel by the beach. Seeing an opportunity, he decides to turn it into a luxury hotel scam.
Style:
crime drama, tension, atmospheric, suspense, dark ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
scam, deception, abandoned hotel, greed, con artists, beach, anti hero, moral ambiguity, hustler, corruption, ambition, betrayal ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A civil servant (Michele Lastella) uses shady methods to become a powerful businessman.
Style:
crime drama, tense, crime thriller, cynical
Plot:
corruption, deception, greed, manipulation, anti hero, scam, ambition, seduction, power struggle, betrayal, social climbing, character study ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Six million dollars suddenly goes up for grabs when an aged diner's heart fails after he discovers that he has won the lottery. Which of the remaining late-night dining regulars will get the cash? How many will have to die to get the answer?
Style:
dark comedy, tense, suspense, dark, black comedy ...
Plot:
greed, lottery, death, restaurant, murder, betrayal, moral ambiguity, ethical dilemma, deception, suspicion, desperation, working class ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Disowned at birth by his obscenely wealthy family, blue-collar Becket Redfellow will stop at nothing to reclaim his inheritance, no matter how many relatives stand in his way.
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, dark, tense, twisted ...
Plot:
inheritance, greed, revenge, vengeance, moral ambiguity, betrayal, wealthy family, family drama, class conflict, family secret, satire, manipulation ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Öllers and Niederländer have everything under control. For the past six years, the two successful business consultants have been traveling through some of the seediest countries around the world in order to satisfy their clients greed. They have ...
Style:
dark comedy, semi serious, captivating, disturbing, satirical ...
Plot:
greed, money, business, satire, office politics, businessman, counselor, corporate greed, job, power struggle, ambition, absurdism ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Fitionalized account of Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr. who stole or created fictional identities and worked in a variety of occupations, most quite successfully.
Style:
crime drama, suspense, period piece, medical drama, black and white
Plot:
impostor, con artists, deception, spy, character study, identity theft, biopic, moral ambiguity, true crime, fraud, intrigue, identity crisis ...
Time:
year 1961
Place:
canada
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
A group of Staten Island radicals lead by ex-philosophy student Marie and her boozy filmmaker boyfriend Nick attempt to kidnap the CEO of the Leo Corporation but instead accidentally capture Daniel, a nutty small time accountant. With Daniel in ...
Style:
dark comedy, satirical, black comedy, tense, ironic ...
Plot:
kidnapping, satire, hostage situation, mistaken identity, dark humor, political satire, hippie commune, moral ambiguity, love triangle, rebellion, intimate, deadpan ...
Similarity:
33%
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