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White Men Can't Jump (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Billy Hoyle and Sidney Deane are an unlikely pair of basketball hustlers. They team up to con their way across the courts of Los Angeles, playing a game that's fast dangerous - and funny.
Style: light, entertaining, feel good, buddy comedy, talky ...
Plot: basketball, friendship, buddies, buddy, hip hop, black, con artists, ghetto, ambition, contests and competitions, blacks and whites, sex scene ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa, california, venice beach california
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Bedtime Story (1964)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Benson, is a Casanova who tricks women into having sex with him before leaving them. He is content with his game until he meets Jamison, a real operator who poses as an exiled prince and not only gets women to share his bed but also to give him ...
Style: not serious, realistic, cynical, biting, humorous ...
Plot: con artists, gigolo, prince, bet, seduction, world war two, caper, outlaw, exodus, anti nazi, rivalry, con man ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: riviera, france, french riviera
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 6.7
 47K
The Good Liar (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: An aging con artist cannot believe his luck when he meets a wealthy widow and marks her as his next target. But she hides a secret of her own.
Style: surprise ending, twist ending, captivating, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, adult
Plot: delusion, elderly, rich woman, criminal, past coming back to haunt, embezzler, online dating, ruse, male female relationship, money, widow, old woman ...
Time: year 2019, year 1943, year 2009, 21st century
Place: usa, london, berlin germany
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 6.6
 3K
Master (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Korea’s biggest network marketing scam reveals a far greater network of corruption and conspiracy lurking underneath.
Style: crime drama
Plot: scam, fraud, con artists, car chase, car accident, big business, fight club, organized crime, politics, asian, business, blood ...
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 7.6
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Inside Man (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Bank robber Dalton Russell enters a Manhattan bank, locks the doors and takes hostages, working methodically and without haste. Detective Frazier is assigned to negotiate, but his mind is occupied with the corruption charges he is facing. With an ...
Style: clever, detective, tense, suspense, surprise ending ...
Audience: adult
Plot: heist, hostage, bank, bank robbery, robbery, twists and turns, perfect crime, manipulation, police detective, police, criminal, master criminal ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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 7.1
 251K
War Dogs (2016)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama, War
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Based on the true story of two young men, David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli, who won a $300 million contract from the Pentagon to arm America's allies in Afghanistan.
Style: funny, realistic, humorous, intense, suspense ...
Plot: corruption, arms dealer, friendship, rise and fall, smuggling, gunrunner, military, fraud, betrayal, drug, business, heist ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 2000s, year 2008, year 2005 ...
Place: iraq, afghanistan, las vegas, israel, baghdad iraq ...
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Poolhall Junkies (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A retired pool hustler is forced to pick up the stick again when his brother starts a game he can't finish.
Style: clever, witty, entertaining, stylized, serious ...
Plot: gambling, billiards, con men, con artists, gangster, vengeance, underdog, friendship, life philosophy, money, betrayal, justice ...
Time: year 2002, 20th century
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 8.3
 278K
The Sting (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Set in the 1930s this intricate caper deals with an ambitious small-time crook and a veteran con man who seek revenge on a vicious crime lord who murdered one of their gang.
Style: entertaining, atmospheric, witty, humorous, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: con artists, gambling, chase, cons and scams, caper, twists and turns, organized crime, manipulation, con man, plot twist, train, mafia ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1973, year 1936
Place: chicago, usa, persia, new york, illinois
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 7.1
 9K
Riphagen (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 131 min.
Story: The true story about the biggest warcriminal from Holland during world war II, Andries "Al Capone" Riphagen.
Style: period piece, serious, realistic, emotional
Plot: nazi, nazi war criminal, holocaust, biopic, jew persecution, genocide, kickass, military, world war two, violence, betrayal, scoundrel ...
Time: 1940s, post world war two
Place: holland, amsterdam
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The Honeymoon Killers (1970)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Martha Beck, an obese nurse who is desperately lonely, joins a "correspondence club" and finds a romantic pen pal in Ray Fernandez. Martha falls hard for Ray, and is intent on sticking with him even when she discovers he's a con man ...
Style: neo noir, disturbing, cult classic, black and white, grindhouse ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, female serial killer, con artists, spinster, loneliness, valentine's day, violent, marriage, male nudity, wedding, biopic ...
Time: 1940s, year 1969, 20th century
Place: alabama, usa, missouri, michigan, new jersey ...
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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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 7.4
 3K
Madoff (2016)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 165 min.
TV show
Story: The rise and fall of Bernie Madoff, who's Ponzi scheme bilked $65 billion from unsuspecting victims.
Style: captivating, thought provoking
Plot: finance, fraud, con artists, cons and scams, criminal, economics, business, business tycoon, money, historical character, historical figure, hustler ...
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Good Behavior (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 959 min.
TV show
Story: Letty Dobesh is a thief and con artist fresh out of prison whose life is always one wrong turn and bad decision from implosions — just how she likes it. But when she overhears a hitman being hired to kill a man’s wife, she sets out to derail the ...
Style: suspense, atmospheric, exciting, tense, captivating ...
Plot: male female relationship, partners in crime, chase, female protagonist, escapades, murderer, killer, organized crime, criminal, ex convict, thief, femme fatale ...
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 8.1
 52K
Paper Moon (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.
Style: road movie, sentimental, black and white, touching, humorous ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: father daughter relationship, friendship, great depression, mischievous children, orphan, girl, road trip, tomboy, con men, on the road, con man, bible ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1973
Place: missouri, kansas, usa
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 4.4
 13K
The Misfits (2021)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA, Finland
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After being recruited by a group of unconventional thieves, renowned criminal Richard Pace finds himself caught up in an elaborate gold heist that promises to have far-reaching implications on his life and the lives of countless others.
Style: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, anamorphic ...
Plot: pickpocket, heist, gold, con artists, female warrior, organized crime, criminal, revenge, escapades, fraud, theft, gang ...
Time: 2020s
Place: middle east, los angeles
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 6.8
 134K
The Score (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story: An aging thief hopes to retire and live off his ill-gotten wealth when a young kid convinces him into doing one last heist.
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, clever, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: robbery, safecracker, betrayal, caper, thief, bank robbery, heist, race against time, group of criminals, perfect crime, criminal's revenge, cons and scams ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: quebec, north america, montreal
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 8.3
 1K
The Shift (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: From the creators of You Can Heal Your Life: The Movie comes a compelling portrait of three modern lives in need of new direction and new meaning. In his first-ever movie, Wayne Dyer explores the spiritual journey in the second half of life when we ...
Style: sincere, serious, realistic, spiritual, inspirational ...
Plot: consciousness, enlightenment, career change, changing lives, cause and meaning, con artists, charlatan, redemption, self discovery, hopes, dull life, buddhism ...
Place: tibet, california
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Stavisky, Crook of the Century (2015)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The story of the rise of Alexander Stravisky, a brilliant and seductive crook, in Paris of the roaring twenties. But unchecked greed and corruption does not go unpunished. The political decadence he feeds off will also cause his downfall.
Style: cynical, suspense, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: con artists, death, murder, corruption, society, money, youth, ambition, millionaire, greed, escapades, young man ...
Time: 20th century
Place: france, israel
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The Ladykillers (2004)
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: funny, dark comedy, entertaining, humorous, black comedy ...
Plot: heist, dark humor, african american, painting, cons and scams, eccentricity, greed, culture clash, murder, con artists, friends, american football ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: mississippi, usa
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 6.7
 17K
The Hoax (2006)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: In what would cause a fantastic media frenzy, Clifford Irving sells his bogus biography of Howard Hughes to a premiere publishing house in the early 1970s.
Style: intense, tense, realistic, cynical, witty ...
Plot: writers, paranoia, giant, biopic, creativity, eccentricity, con artists, writer's life, media, ambition, rise and fall, research ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1971
Place: usa, new york, pentagon, washington d.c., bahamas ...
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 8.2
 560K
Casino (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 178 min.
Story: The life of the gambling paradise – Las Vegas – and its dark mafia underbelly.
Style: realistic, clever, rough, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: organized crime, mafia, casino, rise and fall, gangster, gambling, money, greed, mobster, betrayal, cosa nostra, criminal heroes ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1995, 80s, 90s ...
Place: las vegas, chicago, missouri, israel, usa ...
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 6.0
 350
Bad Lands (2023)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 143 min.
Story: A grifter and her loose-cannon brother get their hands on a massive amount of money, but their ill-gotten gains puts a huge target on their back.
Style: captivating
Plot: con artists, money, stolen money, cons and scams, money problems, brother sister relationship, criminal underworld, yakuza
Place: japan
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 6.3
 3K
Jackpot (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Kummelin Jackpot, was released in February 2006. It was about a divorced man portrayed by Silvennoinen, who realises a way to trick himself a jackpot in football betting.
Style: humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, feel good ...
Plot: gambling, con artists, family relations, cons and scams, card playing, friendship, poker, bingo, money, greed, escapades, plan ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: finland, europe, eastern europe
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Robots (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A womanizer and a gold digger trick people into relationships with illegal robot doubles. When they unwittingly use this scam on each other, their robot doubles fall in love and elope, forcing the duo to team up to hunt them down before the ...
Style: satirical, captivating, entertaining, psychological, semi serious ...
Plot: robot, male nudity, humanoid robot, con artists, couple relations, love affair, seductress, seduction, fugitives, in love, love story, male female relationship ...
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The Company You Keep (2023)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: A night of passion leads to love between con man Charlie and undercover CIA officer Emma, who are unknowingly on a collision course professionally. While Charlie ramps up the ‘family business’ so he can get out for good, Emma’s closing in on ...
Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating
Plot: undercover, male female relationship, con artists, opposites attract, in love, fall in love, cons and scams, criminal, caper, relationships, love affair, special agent ...
Place: washington d.c., baltimore
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The Swindlers (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A group of swindlers unite to hunt down an infamous con man who was known dead, amid their hidden motives and deception.
Style: captivating, disturbing, suspense, twisted
Plot: caper, con artists, teamwork, cons and scams, social problems, fighting crime, sleuth, criminal, bandit, unlikely hero, criminal underworld, unlikely friendships ...
Place: east asia
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The Prime Gig (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Pendelton "Penny" Wise is a smooth-talking con-artist who makes a living by scamming people with phoney travel comp vacations over the phone when, desperate for more fast cash, he's called to work for a shady, veteran con businessman, ...
Style: tense, semi serious, humorous, realistic, independent film ...
Plot: dishonesty, rivalry, couples, twists and turns, workplace situations, boss and employee, con artists, greed, fall in love, gambling, marketing, corporation ...
Time: 90s
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 7.7
 19K
The Music Man (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 151 min.
Story: A con man comes to an Iowa town with a scam using a boy's marching band program, but things don't go according to plan.
Style: period piece, sentimental, entertaining, aesthetic, retro ...
Audience: kids, chick flick, date night, family outing
Plot: broadway, small town, dancing, librarian, con artists, library, fall in love, american history, dance, love, town, bad guys win ...
Time: year 1962, 20th century, 1910s
Place: iowa, indiana, america, midwest, usa
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 6.4
 41K
No Sudden Move (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A group of criminals are brought together under mysterious circumstances and have to work together to uncover what's really going on when their simple job goes completely sideways.
Style: tense, captivating, neo noir, anamorphic, dramatic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: cons and scams, organized crime, mafia, gangster, fraud, uncover truth, partners in crime, con artists, teamwork, gang, attempted robbery, criminal gang ...
Time: 1950s, year 1954, 20th century
Place: detroit
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 6.2
 18K
Casino Jack (2010)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Based on a true story, a hot shot Washington DC lobbyist and his protégé go down hard as their schemes to peddle influence lead to corruption and murder.
Style: political, factual, satirical, visually appealing, stylized ...
Audience: adult
Plot: native american, politics, manipulation, gambling, conspiracy, profanity, cons and scams, corruption, ambition, lifestyle, dishonesty, investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
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