con/scam
  • Catch Me If You Can picture
    Movies

    Catch Me If You Can (2002)

    An FBI agent (Tom Hanks) pursues Frank Abagnale Jr., a con man (Leonardo DiCaprio) who assumes...

  • Consenting Adults picture
    Movies

    Consenting Adults (1992)

    A new neighbor (Kevin Spacey) lures a couple (Kevin Kline, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) into...

  • Two for the Money picture
    Movies

    Two for the Money (2005)

    A former college athlete (Matthew McConaughey) joins forces with a sports consultant (Al Pacino) to...

  • Criminal picture
    Movies

    Criminal (2004)

    A con man (John C. Reilly) and his young protege (Diego Luna) try to pull off a complicated scam...

  • RocknRolla picture
    Movies

    RocknRolla (2008)

    A street-wise hustler (Gerard Butler) is one of many London criminals who are scrambling to take...

  • City of Ghosts picture
    Movies

    City of Ghosts (2003)

    A New York insurance man (Matt Dillon) travels to Cambodia to locate his partner (James Caan), who...

  • Sneakers picture
    Movies

    Sneakers (1992)

    An ex-'60s-radical computer hacker (Robert Redford) and his company are tapped for a shady black-box...

  • S1M0NE picture
    Movies

    S1M0NE (2002)

    A filmmaker (Al Pacino) tries to fool the public by creating a computer-generated actress to star in...

  • Cotton Comes to Harlem picture
    Movies

    Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)

    Detectives Coffin (Raymond St. Jacques) and Gravedigger (Godfrey Cambridge) question a con-man...

  • Confidence Girl picture
    Movies

    Confidence Girl

    As was his custom, director Andrew L. Stone filmed most of Confidence Girl away from the studio on...

  • Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl picture
    Movies

    Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl

    Anthony Dexter, who had essayed the title role in the 1951 biopic Valentino, plays a beardless...

  • Heartbreakers picture
    Movies

    Heartbreakers (2001)

    Mother and daughter con-artists (Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer Love Hewitt) try to swindle a cigarette...

  • Paycheck picture
    Movies

    Paycheck (2003)

    After learning his memory has been erased, a technical wizard (Ben Affleck) goes on the run to piece...

  • The Sting picture
    Movies

    The Sting (1973)

    To avenge a murder, two con men (Paul Newman, Robert Redford) bilk a mobster (Robert Shaw) with...

  • Crime and Passion picture
    Movies

    Crime and Passion (1976)

    Crime and Passion is a mediocre comedy-drama, about an investment counselor who doesn't handle his...

  • Fargo picture
    Movies

    Fargo (1996)

    A pregnant police chief (Frances McDormand) probes the murderous events that evolved from a...

  • Some Like It Hot picture
    Movies

    Some Like It Hot (1959)

    To evade gangsters, two men (Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon) don skirts and makeup and join an all-girl...

  • Chinatown picture
    Movies

    Chinatown (1974)

    A 1930s gumshoe named Jake (Jack Nicholson) sticks his nose into a sordid mess over Los Angeles land...

  • The Hustler picture
    Movies

    The Hustler (1961)

    A gambler (George C. Scott) stakes pool shark ``Fast Eddie'' Felson (Paul Newman) in a smoke-filled...

  • The Honeymooners picture
    Movies

    The Honeymooners (2005)

    New York bus driver Ralph Kramden (Cedric the Entertainer) and pal Ed Norton (Mike Epps) test their...

  • Fire Sale picture
    Movies

    Fire Sale (1977)

    Alan Arkin directed and starred in this anarchic comedy. Benny Fikus (Vincent Gardenia) is the owner...

  • Diggstown picture
    Movies

    Diggstown (1992)

    A con man (James Woods) baits a tank-town big shot (Bruce Dern) with a gimmick bout: his aging...

  • The Addams Family picture
    Movies

    The Addams Family (1991)

    Gomez (Raul Julia), Morticia (Anjelica Huston) and their ghoulish household are prey to a scam...

  • Elmer Gantry picture
    Movies

    Elmer Gantry (1960)

    An Oscar-winning adaptation of the Sinclair Lewis novel about religious fervor in small-town...

  • One Night At Mccool's picture
    Movies

    One Night At Mccool's (2001)

    A bartender (Matt Dillon), a detective (John Goodman) and a married lawyer fall for the charms of a...

  • How to Marry a Millionaire picture
    Movies

    How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)

    Three gold diggers (Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall, Betty Grable) share a Manhattan penthouse, hoping...

  • Havana picture
    Movies

    Havana (1990)

    An American gambler (Robert Redford) loves a rich rebel's wife (Lena Olin) in 1958 Cuba on the verge...

  • Buster picture
    Movies

    Buster (1988)

    A small-time thief (Phil Collins) flees with his wife (Julie Walters) and daughter after a train...

  • The Promoter picture
    Movies

    The Promoter

    The Promoter was based on the Arnold Bennett novel The Card, which served as its British release...

  • Choke picture
    Movies

    Choke (2008)

    Destitute, a sex addict (Sam Rockwell) fakes choking in expensive restaurants, whose patrons...

  • Dirty Rotten Scoundrels picture
    Movies

    Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)

    An American con man (Steve Martin) and his British rival (Michael Caine) target a soap heiress...

  • A Fish Called Wanda picture
    Movies

    A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

    An American (Jamie Lee Curtis) flirts with a crook, a barrister (John Cleese) and a mercenary (Kevin...

  • The Big Bounce picture
    Movies

    The Big Bounce (2004)

    A seductive woman asks a drifter (Owen Wilson) who works for a judge (Morgan Freeman) to help her...

  • The Main Event picture
    Movies

    The Main Event (1979)

    A broke cosmetics tycoon (Barbra Streisand) becomes the manager of a boxer (Ryan O'Neal) as a tax...

  • Hell Drivers picture
    Movies

    Hell Drivers (1957)

    A British ex-convict (Stanley Baker) gets a job hauling gravel for a corrupt trucking company.

  • Juwanna Mann picture
    Movies

    Juwanna Mann (2002)

    Banned from the NBA, a basketball player (Miguel A. Núñez. Jr.) dresses in drag in order to play in...

  • The Great Race picture
    Movies

    The Great Race (1965)

    The Great Leslie (Tony Curtis) and sinister professor Fate (Jack Lemmon) enter their wacky cars in a...

  • Amos and Andrew picture
    Movies

    Amos and Andrew (1993)

    A car thief (Nicolas Cage) helps inept police (Dabney Coleman) when they overreact to reports of a...

  • Always a Bride picture
    Movies

    Always a Bride

    A government snoop (Terence Morgan) catches a British father (Ronald Squire) and daughter (Peggy...

  • White Men Can't Jump picture
    Movies

    White Men Can't Jump (1992)

    Two basketball hustlers (Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson), black and white, count on racial myth to...

  • The Hot Spot picture
    Movies

    The Hot Spot (1990)

    Two women (Virginia Madsen, Jennifer Connelly) and a bank tempt a drifter (Don Johnson) working in a...

  • Blazing Saddles picture
    Movies

    Blazing Saddles (1974)

    A black railroad worker is appointed sheriff of a town marked for destruction by a scheming...

  • Boiler Room picture
    Movies

    Boiler Room (2000)

    Eager to win the approval of his demanding father, a young man (Giovanni Ribisi) begins working for...

  • Catch Me If You Can picture
    Movies

    Catch Me If You Can (1989)

    The president (Loryn Locklin) of the senior class raises funds for her high school by betting on a...

  • The Devil By the Tail picture
    Movies

    The Devil By the Tail (1969)

    The marquise of a fancy chateau connives a young mechanic to sabotage travellers' cars as a way to...

  • The Producers picture
    Movies

    The Producers (1967)

    A Broadway producer (Zero Mostel) and his accountant (Gene Wilder) back a sure-fire flop:...

  • A Face in the Crowd picture
    Movies

    A Face in the Crowd (1957)

    A TV woman (Patricia Neal) turns Arkansas bum Lonesome Rhodes (Andy Griffith) into a homespun media...

  • Call Me Bwana picture
    Movies

    Call Me Bwana (1963)

    An armchair explorer (Bob Hope), a G-woman (Edie Adams), and a Soviet spy (Anita Ekberg) and her...

  • Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson picture
    Movies

    Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976)

    Buffalo Bill Cody (Paul Newman) tries to be the Wild West legend his promoter (Burt Lancaster)...

  • Happy, Texas picture
    Movies

    Happy, Texas (1999)

    Townspeople mistake two escaped convicts (Jeremy Northam, Steve Zahn) for a gay couple staging a...