Keyword: con man

Bottoms Up

4

1934

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Promoter Smoothie King helps a pair of phonies con their way into a movie company. As Wanda heads toward stardom, she turns more and more from King toward the matinée idol. King must decide between his plans and her happiness.

Once a Thief

6.2

1950

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A down-on-her-luck San Francisco woman, turning in desperation to jewel robbery, barely escapes getting nabbed in a heist and moves to Los Angeles where she gets an honest job as a waitress. Her troubles start again, however, when she falls madly in love, blind to the fact that her boyfriend is a four-flushing, small-time con man.

Lay That Rifle Down

6.2

1955

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Judy works for a pittance as a char in her aunts hotel. To add spice to her life she enrols on a charm course but its a scam. Soon the swindlers show up and plan to use her to con her aunt out of her money.

The Mind Reader

7.3

1933

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Con-man Chandler and his helper Frank decide to create a clairvoyant act for the carny circuit, as a little research reveals that Americans spent $125 million on mind-readers and astrology. The carny, renamed Chandra, falls for one of his marks, Sylvia, but their love is tested when he brings tragedy to other peoples lives and she asks him to go straight.

UFOria

6.4

1985

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Sheldon Bart (Fred Ward) is a drifter, and a small-time con man. He meets his old friend, Brother Bud (Harry Dean Stanton), a big-time con man into faith healing and fencing stolen cars, at his revival tent outside a small town. While hes helping Brother Bud, he falls in love with Arlene (Cindy Williams), a local supermarket clerk who believes in UFOs and is deeply religious and deeply lonely. When Arlene has a vision of a coming UFO, everyone deals with it in their own way.

Dear God

5.3

1996

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When letters written to God start getting results, and replies, people everywhere are amazed. The post office, however, is annoyed.

The King and Four Queens

6.1

1956

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Opportunistic con man Dan Kehoe ingratiates himself with the cantankerous mother of four outlaws and their beautiful widows in order to find their hidden gold.

Il Bidone

7.5

1955

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A trio of con-men led by a lonesome swindler must deal with their job and family pressures.

The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox

5.7

1976

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A female hustler is chasing after rich men, but becomes repeatedly mixed up with a suave con man and card shark through a series of misadventures before falling in love with him.

Larceny

7

1948

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A con man sets out to swindle a widow out of the money shes received to build a memorial to her war-hero husband, but winds up falling in love with her instead.

Mexican Hayride

6.5

1948

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Two con men selling phony stock flee to Mexico ahead of the law, where they run into a woman friend from their earlier days, who is now a bullfighter.

Tom, Dick and Harriet

5.8

2013

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Creative director Tom Burns may be at the top of his game, but hes still considered a dinosaur for being over forty in the youthful, trendy business of advertising. In a moment of desperation, he hires young con-artist Dick Sweeney to be his stand-in at an ad agency while Tom does all of the hard work behind the scenes. The scheme works until Tom falls for Dicks co-worker Harriet Foster, forcing Tom and Dick to make a choice between love and getting a paycheck in this comedy about ageism in the work place.