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27 films tagged con artists
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Little-known
2025 · Comedy
An improv teacher and two of her students are recruited by a London detective to play parts in small undercover stings, and turn out to be good enough to be sent further in. Broad comedy, and the tension is whether one of them breaks character.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2012 · Thriller
With six US diplomats hiding in Tehran in 1979, a CIA man proposes to walk them out as the crew of a fake science fiction film. Half Hollywood comedy, half thriller that keeps tightening.
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Little-known
2025 · Musical
Two rappers from Dundee cannot get anyone in the record industry to take them seriously, so they put on American accents and spend three years pretending to be from California. Based on what the pair actually did.
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Little-known
2025 · Crime
A Texas gas station attendant falls for a con artist and takes off with him, scamming and robbing their way east towards the mother who left her as a baby. The jobs get bigger as they go.
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Little-known
2025 · Crime
Three young men in Japan make a living pretending to be women online, talking men into selling them their identity papers. It follows the three of them as the work pulls them further in.
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2025 · Crime
Ten years on, the magician thieves are pulled back together to steal a famous diamond from a woman who launders money for criminals, with three young illusionists in tow. Big set pieces and constant misdirection.
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Little-known
2025 · Comedy
A man who waited a decade for a visa finally reaches his wife in Scotland and is handed divorce papers, then talks himself into posing as a retired war hero so a young couple can marry. Broad comedy of near misses.
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Little-known
2025 · Comedy
An elderly London painter's children secretly hire a young artist to finish the series he abandoned, planning to sell it after he dies. He is sharper than they think, and it is mostly two people in a studio.
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Little-known
2018 · Comedy
A broke and prickly New York biographer works out that she can pay the rent by writing letters in dead authors' voices and selling them. Dry, funny, and largely two people drinking in bars.
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2002 · Crime
A teenager passes himself off as an airline pilot, a doctor and a lawyer while cashing millions in forged cheques, with one FBI agent slowly closing in. Light and quick, and always moving to another city.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2026 · Comedy
A basketball coach whose son has an intellectual disability cannot find enough eligible players for a Paralympic team, so a neighbour suggests filling it with able-bodied fakers. They get to Rio.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2022 · Crime
A woman buried in student debt takes a cash job that turns out to be buying goods with stolen credit cards. It moves fast, stays right beside her, and keeps raising what she has to risk.
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2023 · Comedy
A mild college professor moonlights for the police, posing as a contract killer in sting operations, and turns out to be very good at inventing a new man for each job. Then one of the women he is sent to trap likes the man he is playing.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2019 · Thriller
A family with no money talk their way one by one into jobs with a rich household on the other side of the city. The first half plays as a con, and they are good at it.
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2001 · Crime
A thief out on parole puts together eleven men to empty the vault under three Las Vegas casinos on the same night. Cool and chatty, and the plan takes up most of the running time.
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2016 · Thriller
A pickpocket takes work as maid to a Japanese heiress in 1930s Korea, planted there by a con man who wants the heiress's fortune. Told in parts that go back over the same days, and very adult.
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2013 · Crime
A young stockbroker sets up his own firm selling worthless shares over the phone, and spends the money as fast as it arrives. Three hours of shouting, drugs and parties, played for laughs.
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2016 · Animation
A rabbit becomes the first of her kind on the police force in a city run by animals, and gets forty-eight hours to crack a missing-mammal case with a con-artist fox as her only lead. Bright, quick, and built like a detective story.
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2019 · Crime
An American who built a cannabis empire in England wants to sell up and retire, which brings every rival and blackmailer out at once. A tabloid reporter narrates most of it as a pitch.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2014 · Mystery
A permanently stoned Los Angeles private eye in 1970 takes a case from an ex-girlfriend and loses track of it almost immediately. Very hard to follow, deliberately.
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1997 · Crime
A flight attendant running cash for an arms dealer is caught by federal agents and tries to play both sides. Slower and warmer than it sounds, built around one handover.
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2021 · Thriller
A drifter learns a mind-reading act at a travelling carnival in 1939 and takes it to the rich people of Buffalo. Slow, handsome and steadily nastier.
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2013 · Crime
Four stage magicians rob a bank during a Las Vegas show, and the FBI has to work out how. Fast, flashy, and it keeps stopping to explain itself.
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Little-known
2021 · Drama
A washed-up adult film performer turns up broke at his estranged wife's house in Texas City and starts working on a seventeen-year-old at the doughnut shop. Sunny, and he never stops talking.
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1997 · Mystery
A cold San Francisco banker is given a birthday present by his brother: enrolment with a company that arranges something nobody will describe. Nothing stays stable.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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1973 · Crime
Two grifters in 1936 Chicago set up an elaborate fake betting shop to take a New York racketeer for everything. Told in chapters, with ragtime throughout.
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1999 · Thriller
A young man is sent to Italy to bring a shipping heir home and decides he would rather stay and be him. Sunlit, slow and increasingly tense.
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