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Movies: Best "cons and scams" Movies


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Big Stan(2007)

R
| 1h 45min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 392 votes)

Rob Schneider writes and stars in this comedy about a nerdy con man whose swindling ways land him a stiff prison sentence. Terrified at the prospect of being raped in prison he enlists the aid of a mysterious kung-fu expert to teach him how to fight.

Deadfall(2012)

R
| 1h 35min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 291 votes)

A thriller that follows two siblings who decide to fend for themselves in the wake of a botched casino heist, and their unlikely reunion during another family's Thanksgiving celebration.

Heartbreakers(2001)

PG-13
| 2h 3min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Crime
3.0/5 (with 382 votes)

Max and Page are a brilliant mother/daughter con team who have their grift down to a fine science. Max targets wealthy, willing men and marries them. Page then seduces them, and Max catches her husband in the act. Then it's off to palimony city and the next easy mark.

Bunty Aur Babli(2005)

3.2/5 (with 30 votes)

Bunty and Babli are two avid dreamers. Two free souls born into caged small town realities. They grow weary of being two specks on the horizon. They desire the horizon itself.And so they pack their aspirations in worn out bags, whip a scarf of confidence around their proud necks and set forth. On a journey across the length and breadth of the country, spinning circles around the people they meet.

Altitude(2010)

2.4/5 (with 98 votes)

After a mysterious malfunction sends their small plane climbing out of control, a rookie pilot and her four teenage friends find themselves trapped in a deadly showdown with a supernatural force.

The Art of Seduction(2005)

3.1/5 (with 21 votes)

A man and woman have great success in all of their dating pursuits. The woman uses her dating rules and fakes a car accident to capture the guy's attention, but she can't get him to succumb to her charm.

Directed by O Ki-hwan - With Son Ye-jin, Song Il-kook

Little Big Shot(1935)

NR
| 1h 18min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.

Incendiary Blonde(1945)

NR
| 1h 53min | Music, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged underworld connections who famously greeted her customers with the phrase, "Hello, suckers!".

Heisei Irresponsible Family: Tokyo de Luxe(1995)

1h 49min | Comedy

The members of the Ameya family are all scammers. After their election scheme goes bust in their hometown, they move from Shikoku to Tokyo and resume their fraudulent activities. Everything carries on smoothly until the eldest and the fourth sons' modus operandi go awry, the mother's lover runs off with another woman, and disasters strike one after another. This film is a collaboration between Yoichi Sai and Goro Kishitani following "All Under the Moon." The family business of the Ameya family is defrauding people. The matriarch, who keeps getting married and divorced, has five children with different fathers. The Ameya family chases after fortune and leaves a trail of trouble on their path.

The Woman in the Hall(1947)

1h 33min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

Lorna Blake, (Ursula Jeans) is a widow with two daughters. She augments her slender income by using her children to extort money - visiting the houses of the rich to tell a pathetic story and beg for help. And Lorna makes a rich capture when Sir Halmar Bernard, (Cecil Parker), proposes to her. She tells him that she has only one daughter, Molly (Jill Freud, credited as Jill Raymond). When her other daughter, Jay (Jean Simmons), is arrested for forging a cheque, she refuses to help her.

Public Wedding(1937)

58min | Comedy
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The operators of a bankrupt carnival sideshow hope to restore their fallen fortunes by staging a fake 'public wedding' in the mouth of their unprofitable giant whale. But the intended 'bridegroom' absconds with the proceeds, arranging a substitute. The bride, Flip Lane (Jane Wyman), much to her surprise, finds herself really married to a handsome stranger, whose career as an artist she decides to manage, much to his dismay.

Directed by Nick Grinde - With Jane Wyman

Soak the Old(1940)

20min | Crime, Drama

Part of MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series, this short film focuses on crimes revolving around pension scams.