con/scam
  • Four For Texas picture
    Movies

    Four For Texas (1963)

    Con men (Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin) and their girlfriends fight, then unite, over a floating casino...

  • Shakedown picture
    Movies

    Shakedown (1988)

    A legal-aid lawyer (Peter Weller) and an undercover officer (Sam Elliott) check a drug dealer's...

  • Out to Sea picture
    Movies

    Out to Sea (1997)

    An elderly gambler (Walter Matthau) seeking a wealthy wife signs himself and his widowed...

  • The Honeymoon Machine picture
    Movies

    The Honeymoon Machine (1961)

    A Navy officer (Steve McQueen), his buddy and a computer whiz (Jim Hutton) devise a ship-to-shore...

  • Raising Arizona picture
    Movies

    Raising Arizona (1987)

    A loser (Nicolas Cage) and his wife (Holly Hunter) kidnap a quintuplet from an unfinished-furniture...

  • Juliet of the Spirits picture
    Movies

    Juliet of the Spirits (1965)

    Federico Fellini's surrealistic account of a housewife who is told by a psychic that her husband has...

  • Slackers picture
    Movies

    Slackers (2002)

    A screwball (Jason Schwartzman) blackmails dishonest collegians into helping him win the heart of a...

  • The Portrait of A Lady picture
    Movies

    The Portrait of A Lady (1996)

    Marriage to a domineering artist (John Malkovich) gradually saps the independent spirit of a wealthy...

  • Sgt. Bilko picture
    Movies

    Sgt. Bilko (1996)

    A major (Phil Hartman) seeks revenge on con artist Master Sgt. Ernest G. Bilko (Steve Martin) for...

  • Buck and the Preacher picture
    Movies

    Buck and the Preacher

    A wagonmaster (Sidney Poitier) and a con-man preacher (Harry Belafonte) help freed slaves dogged by...

  • Maverick picture
    Movies

    Maverick (1994)

    A lawman (James Garner), a lady (Jodie Foster) and a gambler (Mel Gibson) head to a poker...

  • Night and the City picture
    Movies

    Night and the City (1992)

    A shady New York lawyer (Robert De Niro) turns boxing promoter and hustles his desperate dream to...

  • Black and White picture
    Movies

    Black and White (2000)

    Privileged white teens explore the uptown black hip-hop culture by spending time at a young black...

  • Kismet picture
    Movies

    Kismet

    Fate follows a beggar king (Ronald Colman), his daughter, a dancer (Marlene Dietrich), and the...

  • There Goes the Neighborhood picture
    Movies

    There Goes the Neighborhood (1992)

    A criminal psychologist and his patients fight over buried treasure.

  • As You Desire Me picture
    Movies

    As You Desire Me (1932)

    This complex '30s film is based upon a play by Pirandello which involved a hapless amnesiac. In As...

  • The Heiress picture
    Movies

    The Heiress (1949)

    A fortune hunter (Montgomery Clift) charms a doctor's (Ralph Richardson) plain daughter (Olivia de...

  • The Lemon Drop Kid picture
    Movies

    The Lemon Drop Kid (1951)

    Damon Runyon's Broadway fable The Lemon Drop Kid was filmed twice by Paramount Pictures, but only...

  • Virginia City picture
    Movies

    Virginia City (1940)

    A Union spy (Errol Flynn), a Rebel spy (Randolph Scott), a saloon singer (Miriam Hopkins) and an...

  • Kid Nightingale picture
    Movies

    Kid Nightingale

    A fight promoter induces a singing waiter to box professionally on the pretext it will improve his...

  • The Texan picture
    Movies

    The Texan

    With a title like The Texan and a star like Gary Cooper, one might assume that this 1930 actioner is...

  • Assignment to Kill picture
    Movies

    Assignment to Kill (1968)

    Insurance investigator Richard Cutting (Patrick O'Neal) is summoned to look into the sinking of some...

  • The Road to Hong Kong picture
    Movies

    The Road to Hong Kong (1962)

    Con men (Bing Crosby, Bob Hope) from vaudeville hook up with a spy woman (Joan Collins) and replace...

  • Reckless picture
    Movies

    Reckless (1995)

    Rachel is a perpetually perky housewife who has it all--home, husband, and children. She also loses...

  • The Hollywood Sign picture
    Movies

    The Hollywood Sign

    Three washed-up actors (Tom Berenger, Rod Steiger) pose as detectives in order to swindle a mobster...

  • Galactic Gigolo picture
    Movies

    Galactic Gigolo (1987)

    A compilation features a late-night radio host (Angela Davies) who hears all about her listeners'...

  • Who's Got the Action? picture
    Movies

    Who's Got the Action? (1962)

    When Steve Flood's marriage is threatened by his gambling ways, his desperate wife concocts a scheme...

  • Going Undercover picture
    Movies

    Going Undercover (1988)

    A bungling gumshoe tries hard to affect a hard-boiled demeanor, despite the fact that his latest...

  • Viva Max! picture
    Movies

    Viva Max!

    This comedy was banned in Mexico and plagued by vandalism and threats of violence during film...

  • Five Miles to Midnight picture
    Movies

    Five Miles to Midnight (1962)

    An American (Anthony Perkins) plays dead after a plane crash and sends his wife (Sophia Loren) to...