10 Best Con Artist Movies

The highest level of deception is to deceive oneself. Fire cannot be wrapped up in paper but it always be surround by paper.Just like when you are watching a movie, you feel that the ending may have been well known but you finally found that it was a cheating.There are a lot of high IQ deception in the movies. From films of the past to some recent, Oscar-nominated films of the past few years, the con artist film has impressed for generations.

Today chilimovie recommend some excellent con artist movies for guys.Like The Sting, Snatch, The Usual Suspects,The Brothers Bloom,Catch Me If You Can and so on.When you are watching them, you may not even know that you have been deceived.

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Release Date

2015-02-27

Rate : 6.6
Production Companies : Di Novi Pictures, K & S Films
Director : Anna Rane, Glenn Ficarra, John Requa
Stars : Will Smith , Margot Robbie , Rodrigo Santoro
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.

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The Grifters

Release Date

1990-12-05

Rate : 6.9
Production Companies : Miramax, Cineplex-Odeon Films
Director : Mary Cybulski, J. Stephen Buck, Joe Camp III
Stars : Anjelica Huston , John Cusack , Annette Bening
A young short-con grifter suffers both injury and the displeasure of reuniting with his criminal mother, all the while dating an unpredictable young lady.

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Inception

Release Date

2010-07-16

Rate : 8.8
Production Companies : Legendary Pictures, Warner Bros.
Director : Christopher Nolan, Paula Turnbull, Steve Gehrke
Stars : Leonardo DiCaprio , Joseph Gordon-Levitt , Ken Watanabe
Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.

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Matchstick Men

Release Date

2003-09-12

Rate : 7.3
Production Companies : Saturn Films, Scott Free Productions
Director : Ridley Scott, Steve Battaglia, Jeff Okabayashi
Stars : Nicolas Cage , Sam Rockwell , Alison Lohman
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.

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Ocean's Eleven

Release Date

2001-12-07

Rate : 7.7
Production Companies : Village Roadshow Pictures, Section Eight
Director : Annie Welles, Steven Soderbergh, Natalie Van Doren
Stars : George Clooney , Matt Damon , Andy García
Less than 24 hours into his parole, charismatic thief Danny Ocean is already rolling out his next plan: In one night, Danny's hand-picked crew of specialists will attempt to steal more than $150 million from three Las Vegas casinos. But to score the cash, Danny risks his chances of reconciling with ex-wife, Tess.

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Snatch

Release Date

2001-01-19

Rate : 8.2
Production Companies : Screen Gems, Columbia Pictures Corporation
Director : Mick Ward, Mick Ward, David Reid
Stars : Brad Pitt , Jason Statham , Alan Ford
Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.

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The Sting

Release Date

1973-12-25

Rate : 8.3
Production Companies : Universal Pictures, Zanuck/Brown Productions
Director : George Roy Hill, Ray Gosnell Jr., Charlsie Bryant
Stars : Paul Newman , Robert Redford , Robert Shaw
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.

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Trading Places

Release Date

1983-06-07

Rate : 7.5
Production Companies : Cinema Group Ventures, Paramount
Director : John Landis, Renee Bodner
Stars : Dan Aykroyd , Eddie Murphy , Ralph Bellamy
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.

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Wall Street

Release Date

1987-12-10

Rate : 7.3
Production Companies : 20th Century Fox
Director :
Stars : Charlie Sheen , Michael Douglas , Martin Sheen
Bud Fox, ein strebsamer, junger Börsenmakler, will das schnelle Geld machen. Nachdem er den skrupellosen, millionenschweren Spekulanten Gordon Gekko kennenlernt, scheint ein Traum in Erfüllung zu gehen. Aber dieser Traum hat seinen Preis. Durch Gekko wird Bud in einen Strudel krimineller Machenschaften gezogen. Als Gekko jedoch die Fluglinie, bei der Buds Vater beschäftigt ist, zu ruinieren droht, erkennt er seinen Irrtum. Es ist die Stunde der Entscheidung von Gier gegen Gewissen.

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Catch Me If You Can

Release Date

2002-12-25

Rate : 8.1
Production Companies : Parkes/MacDonald Productions, DreamWorks SKG
Director : Jeffrey Schwarz, Steven Spielberg, David H. Venghaus Jr.
Stars : Leonardo DiCaprio , Tom Hanks , Christopher Walken
A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI agent makes it his mission to put him behind bars. But Frank not only eludes capture, he revels in the pursuit.

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