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The Con Is On (2018)
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In an effort to avoid paying off a massive gambling debt to a notorious mobster in England, a couple flees to Los Angeles and hatch a jewel theft plot.
Style:
absurd, humorous, entertaining, dark comedy
Plot:
heist, dark humor, gambling, tall woman, husband wife relationship, crime gone awry, partner, farce, caper, mafioso, con woman, british, fraud, cons and scams, con artists, female nudity, blonde, alcoholic, gambling addiction, casino, woman with a gun, mobster, dog, murder, villainess ...
Place:
los angeles
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Most similar movies to The Con Is On
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, funny and entertaining films with plots about cons and scams, disorder, heist, dishonesty, partner, caper and mentor mostly in Comedy, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Con Is On: Gambit (2012), Snatch (2000), The Hustle (2019), Lucky Numbers (2000), Kaleidoscope (1966). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A card shark and his unwillingly-enlisted friends need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. To do this they decide to pull a heist on a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door.
Style:
humorous, clever, dark comedy, witty, black comedy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
twists and turns, heist, dark humor, gangster, crime gone awry, disorder, organized crime, nothing goes right, scheme, friends, violent, rivalry ...
Time:
20th century, year 1998, 90s
Place:
london, britain, united kingdom, england, europe ...
Similarity:
95%
27K
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:
sexy, light, entertaining, humorous, absurd ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
heist, caper, perfect crime, collector, revenge, art theft, art, forgery, crime gone awry, farce, greed, stereotypes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The second film from British director Guy Ritchie. Snatch tells an obscure story similar to his first fast-paced crazy character-colliding filled film “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.” There are two overlapping stories here – one is the ...
Style:
witty, funny, clever, humorous, dark comedy ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
heist, caper, organized crime, gambling, gangster, sarcasm, underground fighting, twists and turns, group of criminals, cons and scams, master criminal, criminal heroes ...
Time:
90s, year 2000, 2000s, 20th century
Place:
england, london, britain, antwerp, belgium ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Spain
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, rom com, light, clever ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, date night
Plot:
con woman, con artists, perfect crime, girlfriend, deception, competition, heist, casino, running from police, arrested, pretending to be blind, partners in crime ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south of france, london, french riviera
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Russ Richards is a TV weatherman and local celebrity on the verge of losing his shirt. Desperate to escape financial ruin, he schemes with Crystal the TV station's lotto ball girl to rig the state lottery drawing. The numbers come up right, but ...
Style:
dark comedy, clever, stylized, humorous, realistic ...
Plot:
lottery, murder, profanity, crime gone awry, dark humor, snow, blackmail, femme fatale, murder investigation, financial crisis, voice over narration, small town ...
Time:
20th century, year 2000, year 1988, 80s
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, florida, new jersey
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Romantic comedy which has Barney Lincoln and Angel McGinnis as a pair of amorous adventurers in the gambling places of London and the Riviera. Barney Lincoln is a rambling gambling man who scores sensational wins at poker and chemin de fer because ...
Style:
psychological thriller, semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good ...
Plot:
casino, gambling, poker, card playing, caper, heist, playboy, con artists, robbery, gambler, wedding, couples ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s, 20th century
Place:
europe, switzerland
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they lose $250,000, they are set up to kill each other. But they run off to Atlantic City and comedy follows.
Style:
buddy comedy, semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, nothing goes right, hitman, gambling, gangster, buddies, frame up, criminal heroes, goofy hero, dishonesty, cons and scams, siblings relations ...
Time:
80s
Place:
atlantic city, atlantic city new jersey
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.
Style:
dark comedy, witty, humorous, talky, black comedy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
dark humor, gangster, psychopath, screenwriter, dog, murder, serial killer, crime gone awry, mob boss, strong violent content, buddies, violent ...
Time:
2010s, year 2012, year 1947, year 1963, year 1954 ...
Place:
los angeles, california, united kingdom, america, usa ...
Similarity:
59%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
National Lampoon's Gold Diggers is a black comedy about two losers in their twenties, Calvin Menhoffer (Will Friedle) and Leonard Smallwood (Chris Owen), who are out to get the good life without working for it. The two young men try to rob two ...
Style:
humorous, absurd, intense, funny, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
buddies, erotica, women, stupidity, adaptation, brutality, murder, dishonesty, friends, partner, nothing goes right, criminal heroes ...
Time:
2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
beverly hills, usa
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Three bank tellers. One goal: knock the place over. The ultimate inside jobs, plotted by three people with nothing to lose.
Style:
funny, melancholic, humorous, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
heist, bank robber, desert, robbery, small town, unlikely friendships, life philosophy, bank, friends, crime gone awry, nothing goes right, employee ...
Time:
year 2003
Place:
nevada
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
In Hong Kong, Dako, Boku-chan and Richard take a huge amount of money from people who are greedy.
Style:
light, semi serious, captivating, atmospheric, satirical ...
Plot:
businessman, embezzler, gambling, diamond, triad, heist gone wrong, fraud, escapades, robbery, mafia, japanese mafia, heist ...
Place:
hong kong
Similarity:
56%
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, humorous, light, satirical, entertaining ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, teen drama
Plot:
unemployment, loss of job, robbery, heist, caper, bankruptcy, couples, business, husband wife relationship, gangster, suburbs, greed ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
This time, there's no wedding. No bachelor party. What could go wrong, right? But when the Wolfpack hits the road, all bets are off.
Style:
funny, hilarious, buddy comedy, humorous, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
buddy, road trip, group of friends, drinking alcohol, dark humor, friendship, friendship between men, drug, party, dentist, disorder, friends ...
Time:
2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place:
las vegas, los angeles, seattle, nevada, usa ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Jerry and his two pals, Russ and Syd, are just looking for some easy money to help them break out of their nowhere lives in their nowhere town. Despite a bungled jewelry store heist which exposes their incompetence as criminals, a fateful event (and ...
Style:
humorous, crime thriller, realistic, semi serious, offbeat ...
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
robbery, dysfunctional family, heist, caper, dark humor, crime gone awry, hooker, sexual harassment, infidelity, female nudity, interracial, armored truck ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new jersey, california, australia
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Two broke buddies feel lucky when they come upon a truckload of cellular phones and begin selling them out of the back of their van. Trouble arises though, when the phones develop faults. The two friends then not only have to deal with unsatisfied ...
Style:
funny, humorous, light, hood, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hip hop, gangster, ghetto, justice, dishonesty, disorder, stoner, unlikely criminals, odd couple, nothing goes right, buddies, misfit ...
Time:
90s, year 1998
Place:
los angeles, north america, south central los angeles, hawaii, new orleans
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
An eccentric, if not charming Southern professor and his crew pose as a band in order to rob a casino, all under the nose of his unsuspecting landlord – a sharp old woman.
Style:
entertaining, black comedy, dark comedy, humorous, absurd ...
Plot:
heist, dark humor, robbery, african american, painting, crime gone awry, cons and scams, eccentricity, greed, american football, culture clash, murder ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
mississippi, usa, new orleans
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Set in Langkawi, Malaysia, professional scammers Dako (Masami Nagasawa), Boku-chan (Masahiro Higashide), and Richard (Fumiyo Kohinata) target the Fuu Family for their next heist. Raymond Fuu, who was the head of the Fuu Family, passed away and he ...
Style:
satirical, captivating, humorous, entertaining, semi serious ...
Plot:
con artists, satire, cons and scams, con woman, caper, deception, heist, scam, escapades, teamwork, robbery, money ...
Place:
malaysia
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Two untalented singers are mistaken for a pair of major league safe crackers in Providence, Rhode Island. The two are pressed into service by the local hoodlums and quickly find themselves in conflict with their professional colleagues. Romantic ...
Style:
light, humorous, melancholic, absurd, buddy comedy ...
Plot:
safecracker, mistaken identity, organized crime, comedy of errors, cons and scams, gangster, farce, justice, caper, crime boss, unlikely criminals, heist ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
rhode island, usa
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
With the aid of his girlfriend, Phyllis Potter, and best friend, Loomis, Grimm enters a Manhattan bank dressed as a clown, creates a hostage situation and executes a flawless robbery. The only thing left for the trio to do is make their getaway out ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, absurd, light, cult classic ...
Plot:
heist, bank robbery, crime gone awry, robbery, nothing goes right, buddies, bank robber, hostage, friendship, partner, disorder, friends ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
42%
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:
clever, funny, humorous, cult classic, intense ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
debt, hollywood, movie business, producer, gangster, filmmaking, gambling, dark humor, mobster, organized crime, loan shark, mafia ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place:
miami, los angeles, california, florida, usa ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Yonkers Joe tells the story of a dice hustler whose determination to make one last grab for a big score in Vegas is complicated by the reappearance of his estranged, mentally challenged son into his life.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot:
casino, gambling, redemption, cons and scams, family relations, one last chance, hopes, mentally challenged, heist, parents and children, son, father ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
las vegas, new york, nevada, usa
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An avid detective is assigned to investigate the heist of a batch of precious coins that end up in the hands of a suicidal barber.
Style:
clever, humorous, witty, black comedy, funny ...
Plot:
violence, crime gone awry, dark humor, love and romance, suicide, eccentricity, transvestite, drug, mentor, childhood, adaptation, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
90s, 70s
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, Spain, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, exciting, feel good, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disorder, cons and scams, heist, crime gone awry, chase, dishonesty, goofy hero, partner, money, gangster, police, hooligan ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Five hapless inner-city low-lifes attempt to burgle a pawnbroker's safe, but end up being plagued by bad luck.
Style:
humorous, entertaining, absurd, cult classic, hilarious ...
Plot:
heist, prison, greed, robbery, runaway, safecracker, caper, cons and scams, criminal heroes, dishonesty, planning, crime gone awry ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
cleveland ohio, ohio
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A mobster named Jimmy the Tulip agrees to cooperate with an FBI investigation in order to stay out of prison; he's relocated by the authorities to a life of suburban anonymity as part of a witness protection program. It's not long before a ...
Style:
funny, humorous, entertaining, black comedy, dark comedy ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
hitman, mafia, assassin, adultery, dark humor, twists and turns, killer, farce, organized crime, gangster, contract killer, opposites attract ...
Time:
year 2000, y2k, 20th century, 90s, 2000s ...
Place:
montreal, chicago, canada, usa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A murder takes place in the shop of David Lyons, a deaf man who fails to hear the gunshot being fired. Outside, blind man Wally Karue hears the shot but cannot see the perpetrator. Both are arrested, but escape to form an unlikely partnership. Being ...
Style:
funny, humorous, not serious, slapstick, feel good ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
farce, deaf, disability, chase, blindness, blind man, witness, mute or deaf, murder, friendship, deafness, odd couple ...
Time:
80s
Place:
manhattan new york city, north america, new jersey, seattle
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Comic mayhem ensues when two lovely blondes, Dee and Dawn, are mistaken as international mob killers.
Style:
sexy, not serious, humorous, feel good, entertaining ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
blonde, female protagonist, best friend, odd couple, dishonesty, comedy of errors, stupidity, disorder, nothing goes right, danger, gangster, mistaken identity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Hollywood hopeful Tom Murphy and his posse are pinning their dreams of success on having Tom’s famous girlfriend star in their first feature. That is, until she dumps him. Now the plan is to steal a case of government-issued marijuana, return it ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, entertaining, light, funny ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, disorder, showbiz, crime gone awry, mute or deaf, couples, hollywood, buddies, stash, nothing goes right, friendship, media ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
37%
29K
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:
buddy comedy, entertaining, humorous, light, feel good ...
Plot:
female criminal, housewife, forgery, female protagonist, women, caper, cons and scams, perfect crime, scam, husband and wife, partners in crime, female friendship ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Ernest Wright's peerless prowess as a locksmith comes to the attention of a tough big-time crook, who feels that the little man would be a valuable asset to his crime kingdom. In order to inveigle him into a series of jobs, he sets up a ...
Style:
slapstick, humorous, semi serious, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
heist, locksmith, gangster, con artists, partner, escape, prison, unlikely criminals, cons and scams, righting the wronged, rivalry, dishonesty ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
37%
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