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11 films tagged con artists
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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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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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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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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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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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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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