Charlatan movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant charlatan movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, serious, melancholic, realistic, absurd and entertaining films and TV shows about / with charlatan, chase, deception, revenge, nude, manipulation, satire, con artists, mentor and death plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Horror genres shot in USA, France, Spain and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as charlatan: The Shift (2009), Ingrid Goes West (2017), The Awakening (2011), Family Heist (2017), Kambi Katna Kathai (2025), You, Your Brain, & You (2019), Fra' Tazio da Velletri (1973), Vadakkupatti Ramasamy (2024), Mediatrix (2011), End of Days (1962).
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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:
spiritual, sincere, realistic, serious, inspirational ...
Plot:
consciousness, enlightenment, cause and meaning, changing lives, career change, con artists, charlatan, redemption, hopes, dull life, self discovery, buddhism ...
Place:
tibet, california
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A creepy three-part anthology which is actually constructed from a trio of German-produced independent short films that form a narrative around a mysterious cult in 1983 India as a wrap-around story. In the first story "Shakti", a reporter ...
Style:
anthology, serious, psychological, scary, realistic ...
Plot:
sect, self discovery, experiment, journalism, danger, introspection, rehabilitation, charlatan, gory, murder, drug, psychologist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Ingrid becomes obsessed with a social network star named Taylor Sloane who seemingly has a perfect life. But when Ingrid decides to drop everything and move west to be Taylor's friend, her behaviour turns unsettling and dangerous.
Style:
dark comedy, thought provoking, black comedy, humorous, funny ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
social media, obsessed fan, obsession, instagram, harassment, borderline personality disorder, stalker, psychopath, being followed, influencer, suicide attempt, sex scene ...
Time:
year 2017, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, venice california, usa
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
1921 England is overwhelmed by the loss and grief of World War I. Hoax exposer Florence Cathcart (Hall) visits a boarding school to explain sightings of a child ghost.
Style:
gothic, scary, dark, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, haunted house, fear, boarding school, supernatural horror, afterlife, ghost child, death, macabre, writers, haunted by the past ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, year 2000, post world war one
Place:
england, europe, britain, seattle, london
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A high-profile burglar reconciles with his two daughters (half-siblings) to help him retaliate against his ex-partner who betrayed him.
Style:
absurd, light, entertaining, humorous
Plot:
father daughter relationship, unknown father, half sister, charlatan, sister sister relationship, rivalry, brawl, goofy hero, faked death, male protagonist, cold, winter ...
Time:
future
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Country: India
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A con artist's scheme to become divine leads him through wild adventures as he scams his way up society's ladder, culminating in his status as a worshipped guru with an island sanctuary.
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy
Plot:
guru, scam, con artists, charlatan, worship, fraud, moral ambiguity, manipulation, cautionary tale, deception, rise to power, corruption ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Bahamas, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A comedic and episodic look at how the Brain Institute helped 81 people with their brain skills--from the ordinary (intelligence and creativity) to the extraordinary (controlling the weather and bending space-time). But one man is determined to show ...
Style:
light hearted, mockumentary, absurd, surreal, witty ...
Plot:
charlatan, hypnosis, neuroscience, intelligence, fraud, creativity, satire, laboratory, investigation, social commentary, male protagonist, small town ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Tazio Brother from Velletri has a reputation as a miracle worker. Messer Nuccio de 'Tornabuoni bets that will win Lisa, the wife of the standard-bearer of Justice Lapo de' Pazzi. To realize the dream spread the news that Brother Tazio has ...
Style:
sex comedy, satirical, black comedy, slapstick, erotic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
lust, deception, mature, charlatan, sexploitation, adultery, social satire, seduction, farce, taboo, betrayal, scandal ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Ramasamy profits from the superstitions of people in his village by exploiting their beliefs in regards to the village temple. However, his life takes an unexpected turn when the temple, his primary source of income, is temporarily closed.
Style:
satirical, dark comedy
Audience:
adult
Plot:
superstition, village life, countryside, social commentary, greed, charlatan, satire, moral ambiguity, manipulation, unhappiness, con man, tamil
Time:
70s, 60s
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Story:
Mediatrix is the story of Mary Ann Van Hook, a false spiritualist who parlays her manipulation skills into wealth, power, and even her own cult of followers.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, disturbing, suspense
Plot:
fraud, deception, spiritualism, cult leader, psychological manipulation, religious cult, manipulation, moral ambiguity, scam, charisma, seance, charlatan ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A satirical comedy with elements of metaphysical horror about religion in rural 1960s Soviet Russia. Notable for using first-person pseudo-documentary "found footage" technique framing the movie as the creation of the protagonist, who is ...
Style:
dark comedy, tragicomedy, period piece, fake documentary
Plot:
religion, priest, village, social commentary, social satire, satire, deception, manipulation, charlatan, small town life, atheism, doomsday ...
Time:
60s
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Spain
Duration: 117 min.
Style:
satirical, semi serious, captivating, dark comedy, road movie
Plot:
marijuana, satire, criminal, miraculous event, catholicism, superstition, small town, charlatan, media manipulation, moral ambiguity, social commentary, publicity stunt ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
spain
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Genre: Comedy
Country: China
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
One is a bum, one gets by selling self-help DVDs: Mei Yuan Gui is a guy who survives by leeching off his girlfriends; Ye Xiao Chun is a girl who sells DVDs for a living. Two people in the bottom rungs of society meet by accident one day when the guy ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, romantic comedy, rom com ...
Plot:
couple relations, breakup, couples, disorder, battle of the sexes, love and romance, quibbling, silly humor, battle of wits, urban, personal growth, charlatan ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china, asia
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In 1965 Los Angeles, a widowed mother and her two daughters add a new stunt to bolster their séance scam business and unwittingly invite authentic evil into their home. When the youngest daughter is overtaken by the merciless spirit, this small ...
Style:
scary, dark, demonic, suspense, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, horror for children
Plot:
supernatural horror, demon, supernatural, ghost, occult, spiritualism, ouija board, ghost child, possession, exorcism, macabre, haunted house ...
Time:
year 2016, 60s, 20th century, year 1967, 70s
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Phony backwoods preacher Amos T. Huxley stays in a small North Carolina town long enough to fleece his congregation, swindle the profits from a moonshine still, and seduce dumb blonde Mary Lou. Mary Lou's ex-boyfriend becomes suspicious of the ...
Style:
grindhouse, independent film, anti religion
Plot:
preacher, con man, redneck, female nudity, charlatan, backwoods, exploitation, bartender, fake, scam, farm, evangelist ...
Time:
70s
Place:
north carolina, southern usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Spain, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Two married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 years of marriage, Alfie leaves his wife to pursue what he thinks is happiness with a call girl. His wife, Helena, reeling from abandonment, decides to ...
Style:
sexy, cynical, witty, romantic, melancholic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
midlife crisis, destiny, unrequited love, obsession, writers, human nature, couples, crumbling relationship, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, divorce, loneliness ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
london, england, europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The shocking true story of Catherine Oxenberg and her fight to save her daughter India from a dangerous sex cult.
Style:
suspense, captivating, suspenseful
Plot:
brainwashing, sorority, extortion, mother daughter relationship, religions or cults, mother and daughter, fight for supremacy, religious cult, criminal, guru, charlatan, true crime ...
Place:
malibu california
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, France, Germany, Luxembourg
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Stitch Head was the first creature brought to 'almost life' by mad professor Erasmus. In the years since, he’s become nursemaid to the master’s ever-growing menagerie of neglected creatures, tasked with teaching them to suppress their ...
Style:
dark fantasy, atmospheric, gothic, tension, melancholic ...
Plot:
mad scientist, freakshow, outsider, acceptance, laboratory, loneliness, castle, identity, creature feature, circus, haunting, redemption ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Jim Lassiter roams from town to town in search for the man who drove his sister to suicide. While riding toward a mountain pass, he sees an heiress, Jane Withersteen, being harassed by thugs and steps in to help. A religious sect wants Jane to marry ...
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, stylized, rough ...
Plot:
old west, female criminal, code of honor, drifter, revenge, charlatan, harassment, fall in love, woman in danger, farm, tough heroes, religions or cults ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
utah
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A biography of the renowned escape artist Harry Houdini, examining his fascination with the occult and his promise to his wife on her deathbed that he would speak from the beyond.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, dramatic, emotional, melancholic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
magic, escape artist, biopic, occult, illusion, spiritualism, skepticism, magician, death, afterlife, seance, marriage ...
Time:
turn of the century
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Spain, Canada, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Two investigators of paranormal hoaxes, the veteran Dr. Margaret Matheson and her young assistant, Tom Buckley, study the most varied metaphysical phenomena with the aim of proving their fraudulent origins. Simon Silver, a legendary blind psychic, ...
Style:
surprise ending, clever, enigmatic, twist ending, mysterious ...
Plot:
psychic, supernatural, mind game, supernatural ability, nightmare, uncover truth, surveillance, paranormal, clairvoyance, levitation, obsession, partner ...
Time:
year 2012, year 2011, 70s, 21st century
Place:
usa, america, columbus ohio, seattle
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy, Venezuela
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Claudia Cardinale is Popsy, who double-crosses her older partner Silva (Stanley Baker). Silva has arranged to divert diamonds from a large corporate-run diamond mine in the South American jungle, and Popsy does her “pop” wrong as they are both ...
Style:
suspense, tense, crime drama, twisted, grindhouse ...
Plot:
heist, jungle, escape, female protagonist, betrayal, pursuit, smuggling, cat and mouse, femme fatale, corruption, police chase, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
70s, year 1971
Place:
south america
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In 1899, a mysterious stranger's arrival on the outskirts of the Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation seems to coincide with a series of horrific events that closely mirror the atrocity brought to the Lakota natives during the Wounded Knee Massacre.
Style:
psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, spiritual
Plot:
supernatural power, revenge, massacre, wasteland, indians, gunfight, supernatural, evil, demon, ghost, murder, loss ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south dakota
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Genre: Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Just one enchanted jewel stands between earth and an army of evil spirits led by the devious ghoul, Phears. With the help of his new girlfriend and ghost pals, Max Doyle races to find the crystal and save the world.
Style:
entertaining, captivating, enigmatic, suspense, feel good
Audience:
horror for children
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, possession, mind control, high school, halloween, friendship, choreography, spider, old dark house, piano, charlatan ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
This well-executed biographical docudrama is a plunge into the madness (and the sanity) of a writer living life on its rawest edges. Agnes Von Krusenstjarna (Stina Ekbland) was a Swedish novelist (1894-1940) whose works ranged from the idyllically ...
Style:
art deco
Plot:
lgbt, madness, male female relationship, family relations, writers, female nudity, flashback, mental illness, schizophrenia, lesbianism, lesbian, love ...
Place:
venice, scandinavia, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France, Portugal
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Javi and his friend Carlos visit an old house on the outskirts of a small Spanish village. According to his brother Juan this is a haunted house and one can hear the voices of the dead. Later he is intrigued with a room which is always closed (the ...
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
dog sex, boys' school, coming of age, youth, boy, friends, village life, little boy, boyhood, trippy, schoolboy, friendship ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s, 60s
Place:
spain, europe, basque country
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Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Jerry Lewis directed, co-wrote and starred in this riotously funny movie that set a new standard for screen comedy and inspired the hit remake. Lewis plays a timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher who discovers a magical potion that can transform him ...
Style:
slapstick, funny, humorous, feel good, parody ...
Audience:
teens, date night, family outing
Plot:
professor, jekyll and hyde, potion, college, chemistry, nerd, transformation, love, alter ego, laboratory, hidden identity, mad scientist ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s
Place:
san francisco
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Trying to get his act together, a con artist gets a job in a credit card company. He falls in love with a fellow employee, he steals a couple of cards, everything is going great. But soon, the chief of security drags him into the big leagues of ...
Style:
light, intense, humorous, hood, semi serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
reluctant partners, credit card, cons and scams, twists and turns, dishonesty, love and romance, urban, criminal heroes, investigation, black, chase, hip hop ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
chicago
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France, Poland
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler, determined to wipe out opposition with a series of mass executions that became known as the Reign of Terror. ...
Style:
political, talky, epic, anthology, art film ...
Plot:
french revolution, revolutionary, french history, revolution, politics, biopic, execution, guillotine, terror, death row, power struggle, french politics ...
Time:
18th century, ancient times, 1790s, year 1983, georgian era ...
Place:
france, paris france, poland, eastern europe, europe ...
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Oscar Diggs, a small-time circus illusionist and con-artist, is whisked from Kansas to the Land of Oz where the inhabitants assume he's the great wizard of prophecy, there to save Oz from the clutches of evil.
Style:
fairy tale, colorful, light, entertaining, modern fairy tale ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, chick flick, teens ...
Plot:
witch, magic, imaginary kingdom, magic trick, wizard of oz, good versus evil, wizards and magicians, circus, fantasy world, prophecy, transformation, betrayal ...
Time:
year 2013, 1900s, 20th century
Place:
kansas
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