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Con Artist & Scam Movies

Name: Con Artist & Scam Movies
Creator: TMDB / IMDB

Films about con artists, scammers, and elaborate fraud schemes — where deception is an art.

Con Artist & Scam Movies is a structured movies dataset with 12 entries. Its fields include Title, Year, Director. Community voting appears as a separate signal beside eligible rows and does not replace the source values.

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Source:TMDB / IMDB

Updated:3/8/2026

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Dataset details

Table scope: All 12 rows
Fields: 8 columns
Source: TMDB / IMDB
Data updated: Mar 8, 2026

Included fields: Title, Year, Director, IMDB Rating, Genre, and 3 more.

The table contains every record in this dataset; the same records are available in each download format.

Preview observations

Year span: 1973 to 2021; Across 12 preview rows
IMDB Rating range: 5.8 to 8.2; Across 12 preview rows

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Comparing Title, Year, and Director across movies entries
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Title↕	Year↕	Director↕	IMDB Rating↕	Genre↕	Country↕	Runtime (min)↕	Overview↕
The Handmaiden	2016	Park Chan-wook	8.2	Thriller, Drama, Romance	South Korea	145	1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl, Sookee, is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, Hideko, who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle Kouzuki. But the maid has a secret. She is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler posing ...
The Wolf of Wall Street	2013	Martin Scorsese	8	Crime, Drama, Comedy	United States of America	180	A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.
The Sting	1973	George Roy Hill	8	Comedy, Crime, Drama	United States of America	129	A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pulling off the ultimate big con and swindling a fortune from a big-time mobster.
The Road to El Dorado	2000	Bibo Bergeron	7.3	Family, Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Fantasy	United States of America	89	Stowing away after a failed con, a pair of swindlers end up on El Dorado, the fabled "city of gold", where they quickly get in over their heads when they are mistaken as gods by the inhabitants.
Matchstick Men	2003	Ridley Scott	7	Comedy, Drama, Crime, Thriller	United Kingdom	116	A phobic con artist and his protege are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the con artist's teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly.
Focus	2015	Glenn Ficarra	6.9	Romance, Comedy, Crime	United States of America	105	Nicky, an accomplished con artist, gets romantically involved with his disciple Jess but later ends their relationship. Years later, she returns as a femme fatale to spoil his plans.
Maverick	1994	Richard Donner	6.9	Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Western	United States of America	127	Bret Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional $3k in order to enter a winner-takes-all poker game beginning in a few days. He joins forces with a woman with a marvelous Southern accent, and the two try and enter the game.
The Good Liar	2019	Bill Condon	6.7	Crime	Canada	109	Career con man Roy sets his sights on his latest mark: recently widowed Betty, worth millions. And he means to take it all. But as the two draw closer, what should have been another simple swindle takes on the ultimate stakes.
I Care a Lot	2021	J Blakeson	6.6	Crime, Thriller, Drama, Comedy	United Kingdom	119	A court-appointed legal guardian defrauds her older clients and traps them under her care. But her latest mark comes with some unexpected baggage.
I Love You Phillip Morris	2010	John Requa	6.4	Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance	France	98	Steven Russell leads a seemingly average life – an organ player in the local church, happily married to Debbie, and a member of the local police force. That is until he has a severe car accident that leads him to the ultimate epiphany: he’s gay and he’s going to live life to the fullest – even if...
The Hustle	2019	Chris Addison	6.2	Comedy, Crime	Spain	94	Two female scam artists, one low rent and the other high class, compete to swindle a naïve tech prodigy out of his fortune. A remake of the 1988 comedy "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels."
The Brothers Grimm	2005	Terry Gilliam	5.8	Adventure, Fantasy, Action, Comedy, Thriller	United Kingdom	118	Folklore collectors and con artists, Jake and Will Grimm, travel from village to village pretending to protect townsfolk from enchanted creatures and performing exorcisms. However, they are put to the test when they encounter a real magical curse in a haunted forest with real magical beings, requ...

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