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Movies: Best "ruse" Movies


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Bad Times at the El Royale(2018)

R
| 2h 21min | Thriller, Drama, Mystery, Crime
3.4/5 (with 1,573 votes)

Lake Tahoe, 1969. Seven strangers, each one with a secret to bury, meet at El Royale, a decadent motel with a dark past. In the course of a fateful night, everyone will have one last shot at redemption.

Romy and Michele's High School Reunion(1997)

R
| 1h 32min | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 220 votes)

Two not-too-bright party girls reinvent themselves for their high school reunion. Armed with a borrowed Jaguar, new clothes and the story of their success as the inventors of Post-It notes, Romy and Michele descend on their alma mater, but their façade crumbles quickly.

The Grand Seduction(2014)

PG-13
| 1h 52min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 131 votes)

A small fishing village must procure a local doctor to secure a lucrative business contract. When unlikely candidate and big city doctor Paul Lewis lands in their lap for a trial residence, the townsfolk rally together to charm him into staying. As the doctor’s time in the village winds to a close, acting mayor Murray French has no choice but to pull out all the stops and begin The Grand Seduction.

Directed by Don McKellar - With Taylor Kitsch, Percy Hynes White, Sean Panting, Crystal Dawn Parsons, Brendan Gleeson, Cathy Jones, ...

Midnight(1939)

3.7/5 (with 33 votes)

An unemployed showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian society.

Happy, Texas(1999)

2.8/5 (with 49 votes)

Two escaped convicts roll into the village of Happy, Texas, where they're mistaken for a gay couple who work as beauty pageant consultants. They go along with it to duck the police, but the local sheriff has a secret of his own.

Seducing Doctor Lewis(2003)

1h 48min | Drama, Comedy
3.5/5 (with 34 votes)

A much-needed boost, in the form of a new factory, is promised to the residents of the tiny fishing village St. Marie-La-Mauderne, provided they can lure a doctor to take up full-time residency on the island. Inspired, the villagers devise a scheme to make Dr. Christopher Lewis a local.

Frisco Kid(1935)

NR
| 1h 17min | Adventure, Romance / Love, Action
3.7/5 (with 3 votes)

After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.

The Little Hut(1957)

3.9/5 (with 3 votes)

Sir Philip Ashlow (Stewart Granger), his neglected wife, Lady Ashlow (Ava Gardner) and his best friend Henry Brittingham-Brett (David Niven) are shipwrecked on a desert island. This potential ménage à trois where the two men compete for the lady's attention is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of a fourth inhabitant of the island.

Smart Woman(1931)

1h 8min | Comedy, Drama
3.6/5 (with 2 votes)

A society man's loving, devoted wife, upon learning that he has been unfaithful and is planning to leave her for the other woman, strategically pretends to be having an affair of her own. The woman's friends gladly assist in the deception.

Flashing Guns(1947)

59min | Western

After a brief mid-1940s burst of originality, Monogram's Johnny Mack Brown western series settled back into the commonplace with such entries as Flashing Guns. In this outing, Brown tries to save his pal Shelby (Raymond Hatton) from being thrown off his ranch by crooked banker Ainsworth (James E. Logan). To do this, our hero must prove that the banker is in cahoots with the local gambling boss (Douglas Evans).

Directed by Lambert Hillyer

The Vanishing Outpost(1951)

56min | Western

Walker is an undercover Pinkerton Agent and gets Lash and Fuzzy involved in cleaning up the Taggert. A mash up of old Lash films and other movies and released as an original film.

Directed by Ron Ormond

Marshal of Amarillo(1948)

1h | Western

Nugget, Underwood and Short walk to the Half-Way House after the driver purposely wrecks the stage. They arrive late at night and it is so spooky that Nugget leaves for Amarillo. Unknown to him, the dead body of Short is in the wagon. When Sheriff Lane comes upon Nugget and the body, he goes to investigate and finds no trace of Underwood at all. But he soon finds that Underwood was carrying $50,000 in cash and he believes the story Nugget is telling.

Directed by Philip Ford - With Allan Lane
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Outlaws of the Rio Grande(1941)

1h 3min | Western

Bob Day has been captured by Marlow's gang. When Tim Barton and sidekick Monte come looking for him, Tim is also captured. Escaping, Tim has a plan that will have the outlaws fighting among themselves.

Directed by Sam Newfield

Back Trail(1948)

57min | Western

Back Trail is one of the livelier entries in Monogram's Johnny Mack Brown western series. Brown rides into a small town where he becomes embroiled in a blackmail scheme. The town's banker (Ted Adams), a pillar of respectability, once served a jail term. Outlaw leader Pierce Lyden threatens to reveal Adams' secret if the banker doesn't let him know in advance when the gold shipments are going through. Adams tearfully tells Brown the whole story, whereupon Johnny rides shotgun on the next shipment himself. Back Trail was one of the last films directed by workhorse Christy Cabanne, whose career stretched all the way back to the D.W. Griffith days.