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 6.2
 532
Discount (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: To fight against the introduction of automatic checkouts that threaten their jobs, staff members at Hard Discounts secretly create their own "Alternative Discount" outlet by salvaging products that would otherwise have been wasted.
Style: sincere, humorous, realistic, semi serious, biting
Plot: cons and scams, workplace situations, working class, rebellion, society, partner, dishonesty, store, employee, security guard, socialist, supermarket ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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 7.0
 341
Hope Springs (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Ellie finds herself in hiding in a remote Scottish village called Hope Springs along with fellow ex-cons Hannah, Josie and Shoo after plans to start a new life in Barbados – courtesy of £3m stolen from her gangster husband – go awry. All the ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating
Plot: crime gone awry, on the run, hidden identity, cons and scams, starting over, dishonesty, partner, best friend, disorder, chases and races, social relations, village life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, scotland
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 4.9
 1K
Believe Me (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Desperate, broke, and out of ideas, four college seniors start a fake charity to embezzle money for tuition.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, captivating, tense ...
Plot: college, campaign, cons and scams, charity, buddies, christian, dishonesty, youth, student life, friends, fall in love, fraud ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, austin texas
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 3.9
 4K
Wild Seven (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In this darkly karmic vision of Arizona, a man who breathes nothing but ill will begins a noxious domino effect as quickly as an uncontrollable virus kills. As he exits Arizona State Penn after twenty-one long years, Wilson has only one thing on the ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, criminal's revenge, frame up, vengeance, cons and scams, going straight, brutality, false accusation, life is a bitch, hooligan, escape, goofy hero ...
Place: arizona, usa
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Sons of Tucson (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Sons of Tucson is a family comedy about three brothers who hire a charming, wayward schemer to stand in as their father when their real one goes to prison. What begins as a business relationship evolves into something more complex and compelling: a ...
Style: humorous, not serious, sitcom, captivating, light ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: youth, cons and scams, family relations, disorder, friendship, brother brother relationship, sibling relationship, absent parent, boss, dishonesty, eccentric family, mischievous children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: arizona, usa, tucson arizona
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Malamaal Weekly (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Lilaram sells lottery tickets and one customer has hit the jackpot but dies of shock upon finding out that he has won. Now, Lilaram wants all the money, and so does everyone around him.
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot: comedy of errors, cons and scams, social relations, disorder, nothing goes right, dishonesty, poverty, alcoholic, village life, chase, marriage, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, new delhi
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 5.9
 780
Identity Theft (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: This movie is rated 14+ because it includes: -Sexual content and Nudity, by this it only shows kisses between the two main characters and ways of showing affection like hugging, ect. It also shows women in no such lingere, nor men. All characters ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspense, captivating
Plot: identity theft, false accusation, woman in danger, cons and scams, dishonesty, impersonation, female stalker, love, criminal heroes, doppelganger, credit card fraud, true crime ...
Time: 21st century
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Lies My Mother Told Me (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Joely Richardson plays a con artist who changes identities faster than most women change hair color. Going on the lam with her daughter (Hayden Panettiere), she scams her way into a prosperous marriage and, when that union sours, pulls off a murder ...
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, sentimental, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: murder, mother daughter relationship, single parent, hidden identity, cons and scams, family relations, femme fatale, dishonesty, parents and children, on the run, free spirit, false identity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: las vegas, north carolina, usa
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 6.1
 1K
Black House (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Jun-oh, an insurance claims agent, faces off with a client who he suspects of committing murders with the intention of collecting insurance premiums.
Style: psychological, serious, mind bending, scary, bleak ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, insurance investigator, insurance fraud, psychopath, police, wound, obsession, investigation, cons and scams, dishonesty, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, asia
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 7.4
 79
Tom Stone (2002)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Action
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Tom Stone is a crime drama series that ran in Canada on CBC Television for two 13-episode seasons beginning in 2002. In the United States, the series is syndicated by Program Partners and Sony Pictures Television under the title Stone Undercover. It ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, exciting
Plot: fighting crime, uncover truth, cons and scams, law enforcement, undercover, partners against crime, criminal heroes, riddles and clues, working undercover, ex convict, buddy cop, beach ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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A Head for Business (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Dutillard is an amateur film maker working as a computer programmer for a small French investment bank. When the bank finds that it has been forced to fork over $104 million to fund Dutillard's film, Chekov's "Three Sisters", and ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic
Plot: embezzlement, bank, cons and scams, unlikely criminals, programmer, embezzler, filmmaking, greed, business, satire, stock broker, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: london, new york, england
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 5.8
 20K
Life of Crime (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Two common criminals get more than they bargained for after kidnapping the wife of a corrupt real-estate developer who shows no interest in paying the $1 million dollar ransom for her safe return.
Style: sexy, independent film, suspense, ironic, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, abduction, mistress, adultery, character study, relationships, dysfunctional family, ransom, hostage, cons and scams, trophy wife, attempted rape ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1978, 21st century
Place: usa, detroit, bahamas
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 6.2
 7K
Takedown (2000)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Kevin Mitnick is quite possibly the best hacker in the world. Hunting for more and more information, seeking more and more cyber-trophies every day, he constantly looks for bigger challenges. When he breaks into the computer of a security expert and ...
Style: talky, ironic, realistic, suspenseful, cyber ...
Plot: hacker, computer hacker, hacking, computer, conspiracy, internet, secrets, geek, greed, mentor, cyberpunk, rivalry ...
Time: 90s
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 8.2
 23K
Close-Up (1990)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 98 min.
Story: This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into ...
Style: avant garde, realistic, semi serious, clever, spiritual ...
Plot: filmmaking, filmmaker, hidden identity, uncover truth, cons and scams, fighting the system, legal, courtroom, iranian, reporter, mistaken identity, muslim ...
Time: year 1990, 20th century, 80s
Place: tehran iran, iran, middle east, persia
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 5.6
 3K
Rushlights (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Young lovers Billy and Sarah journey from L.A. to Texas with plans to make a false claim to the valuable assets left behind by a dead friend. But when their voyage brings them to Tremo, Texas, they find a bizarre and sinister world awaiting them.
Style: neo noir, serious, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Plot: cons and scams, crime gone awry, couples, murder, betrayal, small town, inheritance, drug dealer, sheriff, danger, love and romance, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa
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 3.3
 1K
Freakshow (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In a modern retelling of Tod Browning's "Freaks" (1932), "Freakshow" tells the story of a group of criminals who chose to hide out by working security at a traveling circus. At first, they plot with an insider to steal the ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: circus, revenge, mutilation, cons and scams, dishonesty, rivalry, murder, freakshow, danger, killer clown, amusement park, freak ...
Time: 1930s, 21st century
Place: usa
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 4.9
 2K
Trixie (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Emily Watson stars as Trixie, an eccentric woman who aspires to quit her job as a security guard and become a private detective. However, comedy intervenes and the mess begins...
Style: humorous, enigmatic, stylized, semi serious, suspense ...
Plot: amateur detective, mentor, brutality, investigation, fighting crime, cons and scams, dishonesty, love and romance, politics, murder, undercover, casino ...
Time: 90s
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Making Mr. Right (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Eddie, a poor street conman, has his 'guess in which briefcase' trick ruined by Manhattan lifestyle magazine deputy editor Hallie Galloway. Due to a bet with her boss, she must transform Eddie into a dashingly eligible bachelor for a ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sexy, captivating ...
Plot: love and romance, eligible bachelor, cons and scams, power relations, fall in love, couples, dishonesty, smuggling, transformation, theft, party, fraud ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 5.9
 21K
Henry's Crime (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: An aimless man is sent to prison for a crime he did not commit.
Style: humorous, entertaining, cynical, romantic, cult classic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: heist, robbery, partners in crime, cons and scams, unlikely criminal, friends, fall in love, criminal heroes, false accusation, bank robbery, ex convict, hustler ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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The Bill Collector (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Uncle Frankie (Danny Trejo) is not the kind of guy you want to meet in a dark alley. Especially when you owe him money and have been giving him the slip for a few years. Such is the fate of Lorenzo Adams (Gary Moore), a top bill collector at Lump ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, tense, independent film ...
Plot: cons and scams, workplace situations, twists and turns, race against time, workplace, dishonesty, debt collector, loan shark, office, fired from the job, disorder, friends ...
Time: 21st century
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 5.9
 5K
Cash (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A man meets up with two "good guys" to recover what is unlawfully his, taking them on his whirlwind ride, doing things they never would have imagined, just to survive.
Style: realistic, semi serious, stylized, suspenseful, surprise ending
Plot: twists and turns, police, traitor, manipulation, criminal heroes, master criminal, cons and scams, dishonesty, undercover, working undercover, rivalry, organized crime ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: french riviera, france, europe
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 7.0
 61K
Breakdown (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When his SUV breaks down on a remote Southwestern road, Jeff Taylor lets his wife, Amy, hitch a ride with a trucker to get help. When she doesn't return, Jeff fixes his SUV and tracks down the trucker -- who tells the police he's never ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, road movie, psychological thriller ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, highway, chase, road trip, murder, conspiracy, desert, car breakdown, danger, couples, ransom, uncover truth ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: california, arizona, massachusetts, usa
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 5.4
 9K
Double Take (2001)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The governor of a Mexican state is assassinated. Soon after, junior executive Daryl Chase's life turns upside down: after he flags a huge transfer of funds from a Mexican account as probably illegal, he's attacked in his apartment, rescued ...
Style: intense, humorous, semi serious, action packed, action comedy ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: reluctant partners, on the run, fbi, chase, unlikely friendships, mistaken identity, african american, disorder, cons and scams, fish out of water, frame up, hidden identity ...
Time: 2000s
Place: new york, texas, latin america, florida, usa ...
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Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A revenge-seeking gold digger marries a womanizing Beverly Hills lawyer with the intention of making a killing in the divorce.
Style: romantic, feel good, witty, funny, entertaining ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: lawyer, battle of the sexes, opposites attract, infidelity, love at first sight, marriage, divorce, manipulation, screwball, dishonesty, adultery, farce ...
Time: year 2003, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills, las vegas ...
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 7.2
 9K
The General (1998)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 124 min.
Story: In a twenty-year career marked by obsessive secrecy, brutality and meticulous planning, Cahill netted over £40 million. He was untouchable - until a bullet from an IRA hitman ended it all.
Style: black and white, tense, serious, clever, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: robbery, gangster, art theft, mastermind, master criminal, brutality, law enforcement, cons and scams, danger, mafia, organized crime, courtroom ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 50s, 20th century, 80s
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, europe
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 4.8
 413
Second to Die (2002)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Erika Eleniak as a woman who plans the murder of her husband ...
Style: serious, intense, suspense, realistic, tense ...
Plot: erotica, murder, cons and scams, crime gone awry, dishonesty, insurance scam, money, nothing goes right, murder of husband, danger, blonde, infidelity ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
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The Hard Word (2002)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Three fraternal bank robbers languishing in jail, discover a profitable (if not dodgy) way to spend their time. Crime can most certainly pay, if you "know wot I mean?" However when sex and greed rear-up between the good crims and the bad ...
Style: suspense, stylized, tense, cynical, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, chase, vengeance, lawyer, twists and turns, robbery, greed, cons and scams, criminal heroes, dishonesty, frame up, siblings relations ...
Time: year 2002
Place: australia, melbourne, sydney australia
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Best Laid Plans (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Rich, successful Bryce meets beautiful Lissa at a bar one night and invites her back to his house, not suspecting for a moment that Lissa isn't really who she seems. What unfolds next is a dangerous, tangled web of double-crosses and seduction.
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, suspense, tricky, cynical ...
Plot: heist, manipulation, twists and turns, small town, betrayal, murder, cons and scams, dishonesty, nothing goes right, disorder, couples, caper ...
Time: 20th century, year 1999, 90s
Place: usa, nevada, portland oregon
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 5.2
 797
Arlette (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An actor owes big bucks to the Vegas mob. He's all set to pay them off; he's conned a rich widow into marrying him. But the mobsters blow his cover because they need him for a different scam. The lost heiress to a Vegas casino fortune has ...
Style: humorous, romantic, semi serious, captivating, touching ...
Plot: waitress, couple relations, cons and scams, fall in love, inheritance, fake relationship, mad love, amusement park, gangster, long lost relative, 40 year old, dolphins ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: europe, usa, monaco, las vegas, france
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 6.4
 13K
The Hot Spot (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A loner moves in to a small Texas town, finds himself a job, and sets about plotting to rob the local bank.
Style: neo noir, sexy, suspense, suspenseful, psychosexual thriller ...
Audience: adult
Plot: femme fatale, erotica, infidelity, love triangle, manipulation, dangerous attraction, bank robbery, accountant, love and romance, cons and scams, voyeur, car salesman ...
Time: 80s, 1950s
Place: texas, usa, virginia
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