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Movies: Best "scheme" Movies


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The Gentlemen(2020)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 53min | Comedy, Crime, Action
3.8/5 (with 2,387 votes)

American expat Mickey Pearson has built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he’s looking to cash out of the business forever it triggers plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him.

DragonHeart(1996)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 43min | Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Drama
3.3/5 (with 881 votes)

In an ancient time when majestic fire-breathers soared through the skies, a knight named Bowen comes face to face and heart to heart with the last dragon on Earth, Draco. Taking up arms to suppress a tyrant king, Bowen soon realizes his task will be harder than he'd imagined: If he kills the king, Draco will die as well.

Slackers(2002)

2.6/5 (with 84 votes)

Dave, Sam and Jeff are about to graduate from Holden University with honors in lying, cheating and scheming. The three roommates have proudly scammed their way through the last four years of college and now, during final exams, these big-men-on-campus are about to be busted by the most unlikely dude in school. Self-dubbed Cool Ethan, an ambitious nerd with a bad crush, enters their lives one day and everything begins to unravel.

Drunk Parents(2019)

1h 37min | Comedy
2.3/5 (with 110 votes)

Two drunk parents attempt to hide their ever increasing financial difficulties from their daughter and social circle through elaborate neighborhood schemes.

Directed by Fred Wolf - With Alec Baldwin

A Scandal in Paris(1946)

3.1/5 (with 12 votes)

A smooth-talking French thief wangles his way into an important position as prefect of police.

The Fortune(1975)

2.7/5 (with 19 votes)

Two bumbling hustlers in the 1920s attempt to gain the fortune of an heiress. Nothing will stop them, not even murder.

Chemical 8(2019)

A young detective is on the trail of a strange government conspiracy that may be linked to various chemical spills across the city.

The Spider Woman Strikes Back(1946)

3.3/5 (with 5 votes)

A young girl goes to work as a live-in caretaker for a spooky old woman. She doesn't know that every night, the woman drains some blood from her to feed her strange plant.

It's Love I'm After(1937)

3.5/5 (with 11 votes)

An infatuated debutante renews a Shakespearean actor's running feud with his leading lady.

The Love Patient(2011)

2.5/5 (with 8 votes)

A handsome and self-centered ad executive pretends he has life-threatening cancer to win back the love of his ex.

Directed by Michael Simon

Hell on Devil's Island(1957)

1h 13min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

An ex-con from Devil's Island enlists the support of the governor's daughter in exposing a prison mining operation.

Don't Take It to Heart(1944)

3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

A stray World War Two bomb releases the ghost of the 3rd Earl of Chaunduyt after 400 years. A visiting professor, while wooing the beautiful Lady Mary, daughter of the present Earl, finds him an ally in his fight on behalf of the villagers to protect their ancient rights against a meddling newcomer.

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Jonny's Sweet Revenge(2017)

1h 45min | Comedy, Crime
1.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Rick and Reni came to California in search of a new lease on life. Unfortunately, all they found was each other... In a last ditch effort to save their struggling relationship, the duo twist their couples' counseling therapy into a plot that would see them turning back into their Texas low-life roots as petty criminals. As has been the case throughout the history of Rick and Reni's calamity plagued relationship, their haphazard scheme to hold up a dive bar goes horribly wrong. When a diverse cast of bar patrons gets caught up in their failed plot, Rick and Reni begin to not only wonder if they'll survive the day, but if they can survive one another.

Beautiful But Broke(1944)

1h 14min | Comedy, Music

Theatrical agent Waldo Main is inducted into the army, and turns his now clientless agency over to his secretary Dottie Duncan. Dottie decides to organize an all-girl orchestra to fill the void caused by so many orchestra members being called to service due to WWII, and joins struggling singers/songwriters Sally Richards and Sue Ford in this endeavor. Dottie's screwball schemes to get engagements for the group often lead to disaster.

Untamed Heiress(1954)

1h 10min | Comedy, Western

Judy is the daughter of a famous opera singer who once bankrolled prospector Andrew "Cactus" Clayton. Now Clayton hopes to repay the favor, but first he must reclaim his stash of gold from the crooked Williams. Judy helps the old coot by taking on not only Williams, but duplicitous private detectives Walter Martin and Eddie Taylor, not to mention gangsters Spider Mike and Louie.

Directed by Charles Lamont - With Judy Canova

Riding the Sunset Trail(1941)

1h | Western

Before changing his name to Richard Powers, cowboy hero Tom Keene spent the waning days of his stardom at Monogram, churning out westerns like Riding the Sunset Trail. When ingenue Betty Dawson (Betty Miles) and her kid sister Sugar (Sugar Dawn) are cheated out of their cattle ranch, Tom Sterling (Keene) and his sidekick Mendoza (Frank Yaconelli) vow to get the ranch back for the girls. This requires Sterling to cross six-guns with Pecos Dean (Gene Alcase), a former friend who'd turned bad.