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The Great Impostor (1960)
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.
Plot: impostor, spy, twins, lonely, scam, con artists, fictional biography, forgery, prison warden, priest, false identity, psychology ...
Time: year 1961
Place: canada
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 8.0
 86K
The Hustler (1961)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the legendary Minnesota Fats to a high-stakes match.
Style: black and white, atmospheric, suspense, psychological, cynical ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: billiards, gambling, hustler, suicide, success, ambition, lifestyle, rivalry, championship, cons and scams, obsession, idealism ...
Time: 20th century, year 1961, 60s
Place: usa, california, louisville kentucky, san francisco, kentucky
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Sex and the Single Girl (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A womanizing reporter for a sleazy tabloid magazine impersonates his hen-pecked neighbor in order to get an expose on renowned psychologist Helen Gurley Brown.
Style: sex comedy, romantic comedy, rom com, laugh out loud, cute ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: couples, journalist, magazine, car, music and dance, screwball, writers, woman with a gun, scam, womanizer, impersonation, seduction ...
Time: 60s
Place: los angeles
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Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Three strippers seeking thrills encounter a young couple in the desert. After dispatching the boyfriend, they take the girl hostage and begin scheming on a crippled old man living with his two sons in the desert, reputedly hiding a tidy sum of cash. ...
Style: grindhouse, erotic, road movie, sexy, surreal ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, violence, femme fatale, desert, lesbian, go go dancer, lust, teenage girl, female martial artist, innuendo, exploitation, murder ...
Time: year 1965, 20th century, 60s
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 1.9
 2K
The Hellcats (1968)
Genre: Sport, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The brother and fiancee of a dead policeman infiltrate a female-led biker gang to uncover his murderer.
Style: grindhouse, realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: biker, bike, motorcycle, strong female lead, woman with a gun, scam, stoner, drug dealing, motorcycle chase, murder, revenge, motorcycle gang ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: usa
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 7.2
 8K
The 4th Man (1983)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An alcoholic writer begins having visions apparently warning him of impending danger. After he delivers a lecture, he begins an affair with a woman from the audience. The visions intensify, however, and begin to threaten his relationship with the ...
Style: erotic, surreal, psychosexual thriller, controversial, neo noir ...
Plot: female nudity, lgbt, femme fatale, castration, surrealism, erotica, manipulation, nightmare, homosexuality, a vision, woman with a gun, killer ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: germany
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Home Is Where the Hart Is (1987)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Nurse and con artist Belle Haimes (Valri Bromfield) lives with her dull-witted husband Rex Haimes (Stephen E. Miller) in the Hart Mansion in British Columbia. There she cares for the invalid, 103 year-old Slim Hart, aka Pappy, (Joe Austin) and his ...
Style: independent film, realistic, humorous, offbeat
Plot: scam, kidnapping, estate, disorder, family relations, rescue, danger, dishonesty, twins, clergy, elderly, society ...
Time: 80s
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 7.2
 24K
House of Games (1987)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A psychiatrist comes to the aid of a compulsive gambler and is led by a smooth-talking grifter into the shadowy but compelling world of stings, scams, and con men.
Style: neo noir, clever, suspenseful, surprise ending, tricky ...
Plot: gambling, twists and turns, psychiatrist, con artists, fraud, betrayal, caper, obsession, mentor, greed, crime gone awry, loneliness ...
Time: year 1987, 20th century, 80s
Place: seattle, usa, washington state
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 6.4
 11K
Rogue Trader (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Rogue Trader tells the true story of Nick Leeson, an employee of Barings Bank who--after a successful trading run--ends up accumulating $1.4 billion in losses hidden in account #88888.
Style: suspenseful, tense, realistic, serious, suspense ...
Plot: stock market, greed, finance, business, wall street, trading, economics, dishonesty, corporate crime, ambition, rise and fall, blind ambition ...
Time: future
Place: asia, singapore, england, europe, bahamas
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 7.8
 179K
The Insider (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 157 min.
Story: Tells the true story of a 60 Minutes television series exposé of the tobacco industry, as seen through the eyes of a real tobacco executive, Jeffrey Wigand
Style: political, suspense, cerebral, fast paced, intense ...
Plot: journalism, whistleblower, courtroom, corruption, reporter, politics, journalist, business, conspiracy, lawyer, legal, media ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1999
Place: new york, washington d.c., kentucky, south carolina, mississippi ...
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Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: This film is the semi-humorous documentary about the men who made the world of technology what it is today, their struggles during college, the founding of their companies, and the ingenious actions they took to build up the global corporate empires ...
Style: entertaining, talky, tense, clever, inspirational ...
Plot: entrepreneur, programmer, geek, business, computer, hacking, entrepreneurship, hacker, internet, startup, computer hacker, marketing ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 20th century
Place: usa
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 6.0
 26K
Birthday Girl (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A shy bank clerk orders a Russian mail order bride, and finds his life turned upside down.
Style: sexy, harsh, tense, suspenseful, dark comedy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sex scene, mail order bride, bank clerk, manipulation, brutality, gangster, con artists, couple relations, romancing a criminal, hand job, female nudity, voyeur ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia, europe, england
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 6.5
 39K
Heist (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Joe Moore has a job he loves. He's a thief. His job goes sour when he gets caught on security camera tape. His fence, Bergman reneges on the money he's owed, and his wife may be betraying him with the fence's young lieutenant. Moore ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, clever, tricky, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, robbery, twists and turns, blackmail, gunfight, surveillance, gold, bank robber, stolen gold, bank robbery, organized crime, violence ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, boston
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 7.0
 14K
Owning Mahowny (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Dan Mahowny was a rising star at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. At twenty-four he was assistant manager of a major branch in the heart of Toronto's financial district. To his colleagues he was a workaholic. To his customers, he was ...
Style: psychological, suspense, melancholic, enigmatic, suspenseful ...
Plot: gambling, gambling addiction, addiction, business, embezzlement, poker, casino, greed, police investigation, gambler, banker, embezzler ...
Time: 80s, year 2003, 20th century
Place: las vegas, atlantic city, toronto ontario canada, new jersey, atlantic city new jersey ...
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 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
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The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Brian Cruver, an ambitious 26-year-old lands a job at Enron. As he assimilates to the company's get-rich-quick mantra, spending sprees and wild corporate "gatherings" become the norm. But when Enron files for bankruptcy, Cruver ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, political, edutainment ...
Plot: evil corporation, greed, corporate crime, fighting the system, uncover truth, ambition, rise and fall, rise to the top, couple relations, love and romance, society, life is a bitch ...
Place: austin texas
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 5.4
 65K
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
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 7.1
 143K
Margin Call (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A thriller that revolves around the key people at an investment bank over a 24-hour period during the early stages of the financial crisis.
Style: suspense, realistic, serious, captivating, political ...
Plot: stock market, financial crisis, wall street, greed, economics, businessman, stock market crash, corporation, finance, corporate america, investments, bankruptcy ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 2000s, year 2008, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
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Too Big to Fail (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Based on the bestselling book by Andrew Ross Sorkin, 'Too Big to Fail' offers an intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a few ...
Style: factual, tense, political, suspenseful, sincere ...
Plot: financial crisis, wall street, finance, politics, greed, economic crisis, economics, business, stock broker, stock market, bankruptcy, moral dilemma ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., new york, usa
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Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Bonnie and Clyde is based on the true stories of the gangster pair Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow who in the 1930s began robbing banks in U.S. cities until they were eventually killed. The film is a major landmark in the aesthetic movement known as ...
Style: road movie, controversial, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: lovers on the run, bank robbery, heist, fugitives, on the run, bank robber, on the road, gang, true crime, murderous pair, great depression, chase ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1967
Place: texas, oklahoma, missouri, midwest, usa ...
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 8.3
 1.1M
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A botched robbery indicates a police informant, and the pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse. Crime begets violence as the survivors -- veteran Mr. White, newcomer Mr. Orange, psychopathic parolee Mr. Blonde, bickering weasel Mr. Pink and ...
Style: dark comedy, suspense, non-linear, stylized, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: heist, crime gone awry, robbery, gangster, gang, undercover cop, psychopath, dark hero, perfect crime, organized crime, violent, caper ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1992
Place: los angeles, usa, california, bolivia
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 7.1
 62K
Sneakers (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: When shadowy U.S. intelligence agents blackmail a reformed computer hacker and his eccentric team of security experts into stealing a code-breaking 'black box' from a Soviet-funded genius, they uncover a bigger conspiracy. Now, he and his ...
Style: suspenseful, entertaining, exciting, light, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hacker, computer, mathematics, computer hacker, hacking, conspiracy, spy, betrayal, espionage, manipulation, mathematician, cyberpunk ...
Time: 20th century, year 1992, 90s, 60s, year 1969
Place: san francisco, russia, bay area, palo alto california
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 8.9
 2.2M
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story: A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.
Style: neo noir, cult classic, exciting, witty, black comedy ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, adult
Plot: gangster, dark humor, organized crime, gunfight, violence, hitman, overdose, multiple storylines, violent, killings, drug, redemption ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1994, 70s
Place: los angeles, california, persia, america, peru ...
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 8.3
 714K
Heat (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 170 min.
Story: Obsessive master thief, Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los Angeles while determined detective, Vincent Hanna pursues him without rest. Each man recognizes and respects the ability and the dedication of the ...
Style: neo noir, tense, detective, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: robbery, heist, gunfight, bank robbery, chase, cop, master criminal, police detective, gangster, police, obsession, bank ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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 6.9
 83K
Bottle Rocket (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Upon his release from a mental hospital following a nervous breakdown, the directionless Anthony joins his friend Dignan, who seems far less sane than the former. Dignan has hatched a hair-brained scheme for an as-yet-unspecified crime spree that ...
Style: road movie, witty, humorous, talky, funny ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: robbery, on the run, love, heist, motel, psychiatric hospital, road trip, gangster, bookstore, sibling relationship, disorder, self discovery ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
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 8.1
 722K
Fargo (1996)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife in a scheme to collect a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. It's going to ...
Style: neo noir, black comedy, dark comedy, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: snow, dark humor, small town, kidnapping, police, murder, greed, crime gone awry, police investigation, violence, satire, winter ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s, year 1996, year 1987
Place: minnesota, north dakota, usa, minneapolis minnesota, persia
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 7.1
 180K
Three Kings (1999)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, War
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A group of American soldiers stationed in Iraq at the end of the Gulf War find a map they believe will take them to a huge cache of stolen Kuwaiti gold hidden near their base, and they embark on a secret mission that's destined to change ...
Style: suspense, humorous, entertaining, intense, suspenseful ...
Plot: gulf war, treasure hunt, military, iraq war, desert, caper, war, heist, culture clash, rescue, robbery, racial slur ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: middle east, iraq, iran, america, afghanistan ...
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 7.5
 76K
A Simple Plan (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, France, USA, Japan
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Captivated by the lure of sudden wealth, the quiet rural lives of two brothers erupt into conflicts of greed, paranoia and distrust when over $4 million in cash is discovered at the remote site of a downed small airplane. Their simple plan to retain ...
Style: neo noir, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: greed, snow, small town, betrayal, fbi, bag of money, heist, winter, twists and turns, character study, moral ambiguity, redemption ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1998
Place: minnesota, usa, wisconsin
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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
Genre: Action, 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: dark comedy, humorous, clever, witty, cynical ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, heist, dark humor, organized crime, twists and turns, crime gone awry, disorder, gang, nothing goes right, debt, violent, friends ...
Time: 20th century, year 1998, 90s
Place: england, united kingdom, london, britain, europe
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 6.4
 22K
Kajillionaire (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Two con artists have spent 26 years training their only daughter to swindle, scam and steal at every turn. During a desperate and hastily conceived heist, they charm a stranger into joining them, only to have their entire world turned upside down.
Style: suspenseful, serious, captivating, tense, surreal ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lesbian, dysfunctional family, heist, father daughter relationship, con artists, mother daughter relationship, absurdism, lgbtq, stranger, women, lgbtqi, lgbt ...
Place: los angeles, new york
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