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Leverage (2019)
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Leverage (2019)
Original name: 레버리지: 사기조작단
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: There are countless incidents happening in one day. The corruption of the upper class discourages the common people who are living their lives diligently. From immorality to financial fraud, and they even commit a highly developed type of expedient. The victims of corruption are us, the common people. However, we have no choice but to be relieved that the victim is not me at least for this time. To turn the table, the best experts in each field have gathered! The former insurance investigator, Tae Joon, has a son who is terminally ill. To save his son, he accepts the deal which is extremely dangerous. And his life completely changes after that day. He organizes a team to get back at those corrupted rich people. With Su Kyung, Na Byeol, Roy, and Eui Sung, Tae Joon approaches to the conspiracy. Self-interest is rampant in our society, but through their journey to exposing the corruption, they begin to understand each other at the end.
Style: intellectual, exciting, light, entertaining
Plot: cons and scams, con artists, friendship, team, insurance investigator, twists and turns, greed, partner, thief, money, rivalry, deal, buddies, revenge, corruption, gang of thieves, hacker, actress, con man, con game, heist, mastermind, perfect crime, leadership, cheating ...
Time: contemporary
Keyword: partners

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, exciting, realistic and humorous films and TV series with plots about cons and scams, partner, dishonesty, con artists, heist, friendship and twists and turns mostly in Crime, Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like Leverage: Money Heist (2017), Squad 38 (2016), The Confidence Man JP (2018), Crazy Stone (2006), White Collar (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Money Heist (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 70 min.
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Story: To carry out the biggest heist in history, a mysterious man called The Professor recruits a band of eight robbers who have a single characteristic: none of them has anything to lose. Five months of seclusion - memorizing every step, every detail, ...
Style: suspense, exciting, intense, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: heist, perfect crime, plot twist, thief, bank robbery, hostage situation, money, professor, planning, master criminal, hostage, career criminal ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: spain, madrid, thailand
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Leverage (2008)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
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Story: Leverage follows a five-person team: a thief, a grifter, a hacker, and a retrieval specialist, led by former insurance investigator Nathan Ford, who use their skills to fight corporate and governmental injustices inflicted on ordinary citizens.
Style: exciting, realistic, anime, detective, teen ...
Plot: team, thief, hacker, outsmarting, society, escapades, mastermind, unconventional method, investigator, partners in crime, teamwork, surveillance ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
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Squad 38 (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: As a reference to Article 38 which pertains to tax payments, this special police unit utilizes the criminals' own tactics of scams and deceit to catch rich tax cheats.
Style: dorama, light, realistic, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot: taxes, embezzler, unlikely partners, friendship, crime investigation, partner, verbal byplay, forger, dishonesty, investigation, law enforcer, love affair ...
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Salamander Guru and The Shadows (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min.
TV show
Story: Salamander Guru and The Shadows is a 2012 South Korean sitcom starring Choi Minho, Oh Dal-soo, Im Won-hee, Lee Byung-joon and Ryu Hyun-kyung. It aired on SBS from January 27 to March 30, 2012 on Fridays at 23:00 for 10 episodes. It is SBS's ...
Style: entertaining, captivating, exciting, humorous, funny
Plot: computer, fortune telling, computer hacker, fortune teller, predicting the future, thief, caper, embezzler, cons and scams, hacker, con woman, con artists ...
Place: korea
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The Confidence Man JP (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Dako is a con woman. She stays at a suite in a luxury hotel and schemes to take money from vicious wealthy people like yakuza bosses and evil businessmen. She works with Boku-chan and Richard. Boku-chan is a sincere and timid young con man. Richard ...
Style: semi serious, captivating, satirical, entertaining, disturbing
Plot: thief, mafia, cons and scams, escapades, stealing money, mafioso, satire, deception, money, theft, ruse, criminal ...
Place: japan
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Crazy Stone (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Three thieves try to steal a valuable jade that is tightly guarded by a security chief. But the security guards are not the only obstacle these thieves are facing. An extremely unlucky internationally known master thief is also trying to get a hand ...
Style: exciting, humorous, captivating, light, realistic ...
Plot: rivalry, heist, bankruptcy, caper, jewel robbery, escapades, thief, perfect crime, secret agenda, con artists, partner, twists and turns ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china
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White Collar (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min.
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Story: Neal Caffrey, a con man, forger and thief, is captured after a three-year game of cat and mouse with the FBI. With only months left serving a four-year sentence, he escapes to look for Kate, his girlfriend. Peter Burke, the FBI agent who initially ...
Style: exciting, captivating, light, serious, intellectual ...
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: investigation, fbi, law enforcement, art thief, mastermind, criminal, con artists, unlikely partners, friendship, talented, cons and scams, expert ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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Rush Hour (2016)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
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Story: The series follows Detective Carter, a radical LAPD detective, and Detective Lee, a by-the-book detective from Hong Kong, as they are forced into forming an unlikely partnership
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, light, detective
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: buddy cop, police detective, police investigation, partner, fistfight, hand to hand combat, revenge, friendship, car chase, gang, danger, betrayal ...
Time: 2010s
Place: usa
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
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Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Miles Daly works as muscle for a murderous crime ring in Nevada and attempts to change professions and become a movie producer, laundering money through a Hollywood film with the help of washed-up filmmaker Rick Moreweather. Based on Elmore ...
Style: funny, light, captivating, erotic, exciting ...
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Place: los angeles
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40%
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Hustle (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: A motley group of London con artists pull of a series of daring and intricate stings.
Style: exciting, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, crime drama ...
Plot: cons and scams, thief, criminal heroes, heist, con artists, leader, exploitation, blackmail, fake identity, coworker relationship, caper, hustler ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, europe, england, britain
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20%
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All for One (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Denmark
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Four rogues, who were best friends as kids, have one big problem: they're sitting on both sides of the law. Martin is a policeman, while Nikolai, Ralf, and Timo can't distinguish between personal possessions and the possessions of others! ...
Style: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, exciting ...
Plot: friendship, buddies, partner, disorder, cons and scams, nothing goes right, unfulfillment, undercover, police officer, escapades, rivalry, friends ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: denmark
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Bad Thief, Good Thief (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 75 min.
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Story: The story centers on thieves who strike against people in high power who try to control Korea.
Style: sentimental, captivating, detective, suspense
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: thief, partner, twists and turns, good versus evil, escapades, danger, heist, police, justice, society, friendship, couples ...
Place: korea
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
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Duration: 45 min.
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Story: An extraordinary sense of smell gives a crime investigator unique insight into solving mysteries, but his gift takes a toll on his personal life.
Style: exciting, tense, captivating, clever, suspense ...
Plot: murder investigation, police detective, supernatural ability, investigator, partner, sense of smell, police investigation, friendship, twists and turns, police, murder, genius ...
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 6.6
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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 ...
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Duration: 30 min.
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Story: Lucky is an American dark comedy television series which ran for one season on FX Networks in 2003. The show starred John Corbett as Michael "Lucky" Linkletter, a professional poker player and gambling addict. The series was created by ...
Style: semi serious, cynical, humorous, realistic, witty
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Style: suspense, captivating, exciting, tense, detective
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Story: Asfur is an Israeli television series, which is broadcast on the channel HOT3. Its title, which literally means "bird" in Arabic, is the main protagonist's "good luck bird" – his late grandfather believed that its arrival ...
Style: captivating, semi serious, humorous, light, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
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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
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Style: exciting, feel good, captivating, funny, humorous ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
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Story: A con man on the run from a vicious gangster takes cover from his past by assuming the identity of his prison cellmate, Pete, “reuniting” with Pete’s estranged family, a colorful, dysfunctional group that threatens to drag him into a world ...
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Story: Maddie, a persona shifting con-artist who is as beautiful as she is dangerous, leaves her unwitting victims tormented when they realize they have been used and robbed of everything – including their hearts. But things get complicated when her ...
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Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Minder is a British comedy-drama series about the London criminal underworld. Initially produced by Verity Lambert, it was made by Euston Films, a subsidiary of Thames Television and shown on ITV. The show ran for ten series between 29 October 1979 ...
Style: comedy drama, sitcom, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: urban, police, con men, fight, money, bodyguard, boxer, cop, city, dealer, scheme, small time ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
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Story: Three "good girl" suburban wives and mothers suddenly find themselves in desperate circumstances and decide to stop playing it safe and risk everything to take their power back.
Style: funny, ironic, feel good, captivating, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: female friendship, housewife, female protagonist, money laundering, criminal, family relations, women, crime gone awry, passion, danger, twists and turns, gang ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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The Thieves (2012)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Hong Kong
Duration: 135 min.
Story: A gang of South Korean thieves team up with a Hong Kong crew to steal a diamond necklace from a heavily-guarded casino safe in Macau. As the cops close in, old betrayals — and misunderstandings — resurface.
Style: suspenseful, humorous, exciting, semi serious, noir ...
Audience: boys' night
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33%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Hoshiarpur based Gopi's dying father asks him to locate Kishen and hand-over a piece of land to him, and subsequently passes away. Gopi heads out to Goa and this is where he will be taken for a ride not only by Kishen, but also by Kishen's ...
Style: suspenseful, humorous, serious, realistic, exciting
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33%
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 8K
Plastic (2014)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Sam & Fordy run a credit card fraud scheme, but when they steal from the wrong man, they find themselves threatened by sadistic gangster. They need to raise £5m and pull off a daring diamond heist to clear their debt.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
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Place: usa, england, miami, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Big Swindle (2004)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 116 min.
Story: After being convicted for fraud, one month has passed since CHOI Chang-Hyuk's release from jail. But this time around he's got and elaborate plan cooked up. It's the biggest bank heist in history that'll make any thief have a wet ...
Style: exciting, realistic, stylized, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, crime gone awry, law enforcement, disorder, cons and scams, betrayal, dishonesty, caper, asian prostitute, bank robbery, violent content, twists and turns ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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