Best movies like Get the Grift
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Plot Summary:
After a botched scam, Clóvis bumps into Lohane, his estranged foster sister. In a bind, they soon realize the only way out is to band together.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 848
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Brazil
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: captivating, light, feel good, humorous
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Slip & Fall (2011)
Plot Summary:
What happens when a law student breaks the law to pay for law school? Graduation is only a "slip" away.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, unusual plot structure, captivating, independent film, psychological thriller, psycho film
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Jackpot (2006)
Plot Summary:
Kummelin Jackpot, was released in February 2006. It was about a divorced man portrayed by Silvennoinen, who realises a way to trick himself a jackpot in football betting.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, entertaining, realistic, semi serious
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I'm Rich (2016)
Plot Summary:
Selminha is a lower-class woman who receives a family inheritance, but only if she meets the challenge of spending 30 million reais in 30 days, without accumulating anything. However, in this marathon, she will find out that there are things that money does not buy.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 712
Genere: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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The Beachnickers (2018)
Plot Summary:
Things go from bad to worse when four co-workers decide to enjoy the extended holiday at a beach house with their families.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Them who? (2015)
Plot Summary:
David's life is changed forever after his meeting with Marcello, a clever con man.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: funny, light, enigmatic, feel good, humorous, captivating, smart, whimsical
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Get the Goat (2021)
Plot Summary:
Bruceuilis, a policeman from the countryside, is assigned to rescue Celestina, a goat considered heritage of his small city, and travels to São Paulo. There, he meets police clerk Trindade, who decides to venture out into the field, even though it is not his specialty.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Brazil
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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The Con-Heartist (2020)
Plot Summary:
Ina, whose ex-boyfriend runs off, leaving her in debt, manages to catch on a cunning con artist who tries to con her. But instead of turning him to the police, she hires this con artist to swindle her ex-boyfriend to get revenge.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Opportunity Knocks (1990)
Plot Summary:
Eddie and Lou are a couple of two-bit con men on the lam from a loan shark. They hide out in someone's house and they hear on the answering machine that (A) the owner of the house is out of the country for a month or two and (B) the housesitter supposed to watch the house for the absent owner won't be able to watch the house due to a new job in another part of the country. This provides for a pretty nifty arrangement for Eddie and Lou...until the relatives of the house owner drop by to visit. Eddie quickly adopts the guise of the person supposedly housesitting for the owner, and the shenanigans start from there.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: funny, entertaining, light, feel good, humorous, independent film, realistic, semi serious, hilarious, sentimental
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The Con Is On (2018)
Plot Summary:
In an effort to avoid paying off a massive gambling debt to a notorious mobster in England, a couple flees to Los Angeles and hatch a jewel theft plot.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: absurd, humorous, entertaining
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I Care a Lot (2020)
Plot Summary:
A court-appointed legal guardian defrauds her older clients and traps them under her care. But her latest mark comes with some unexpected baggage.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 142000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, suspense, twisted, tense, captivating, semi serious, clever, psychological, funny, intellectual
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The Confidence Man JP – Episode of the Princess – (2020)
Plot Summary:
Set in Langkawi, Malaysia, professional scammers Dako (Masami Nagasawa), Boku-chan (Masahiro Higashide), and Richard (Fumiyo Kohinata) target the Fuu Family for their next heist. Raymond Fuu, who was the head of the Fuu Family, passed away and he left behind 10 trillion yen. Dako, Boku-chan and Richard scheme to gain the inordinate inheritance. --asianwiki.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Hot Millions (1968)
Plot Summary:
A con-artist (Peter Ustinov) gains employment at an insurance company in order to embezzle money by re-programming their "new" wonder computer.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: retro, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious
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Bullseye! (1990)
Plot Summary:
Michael Caine, Roger Moore and Sally Kirkland star as three of the most unlikely rogues to ever score a heist. Hidden away in a vault is a fortune in diamonds, payment for a secret formula two government scientists have unscrupulously sold to the highest bidder. These three know the whereabouts of this treasure and pull off a daring scheme to steal it. But now they've trapped themselves into either helping the government capture the scientists or going to jail.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, independent film, light, captivating, realistic, fast, surprise ending, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Miami Beach (2020)
Plot Summary:
Miami Bici is the story of Ion and Ilie, two young people from a small dark city in Romania who go to Miami in the middle of winter, to live both the "American Dream" and the Romanian dream of "getting rich quick". Once there, they find themselves in the middle of the Machiavellian plan of Mișu, a Romanian of the lowest species, established in Florida.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Romania
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, funny
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The Confidence Man JP - The Movie - (2019)
Plot Summary:
In Hong Kong, Dako, Boku-chan and Richard take a huge amount of money from people who are greedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: light, semi serious, atmospheric, captivating, feel good, humorous, entertaining, satirical, sitcom, funny
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The Magic Hour (2008)
Plot Summary:
A hustler who gets in trouble with a gang boss in the port town of Sukago agrees to make good with the don by putting him in contact with a mysterious hitman -- an assassin the hustler has no idea how to contact. Instead, he hires an actor to play the role, though the thespian has no idea what he's getting into.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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All for One (2011)
Plot Summary:
Four rogues, who were best friends as kids, have one big problem: they're sitting on both sides of the law. Martin is a policeman, while Nikolai, Ralf, and Timo can't distinguish between personal possessions and the possessions of others! When all four find themselves in a fix, they're forced to return to their former tricks against a common foe, Mr Niemeyer. Martin is not as successful, however, either at his job or marriage, and thinks he deserves a better life. Now he sees an opportunity to save his career by "playing" with his old friends on a mission that is so crazy that even the two foolish brothers can do some good.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Denmark
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, exciting, realistic, semi serious
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Highway to Hellas (2015)
Plot Summary:
The life of Jorg Geissner, a German banker, totally transforms with a visit to Paladiki Island, Greece. A business trip to check on a project called “Galapagos in Greece” by the islanders and for which his bank extended a loan and credit, brought him there. Being a German, he wants to investigate thoroughly, but Panos, a mini-mart owner, and the mayor try their utmost to sabotage him—to camouflage a not-so-good reality. After every single trial resulted in nothing because of the islanders’ secret meddling, Jorg’s trip becomes elongated, like The Odyssey’s, forcing him to contemplate the priorities and responsibilities in life again.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany, Greece
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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The Test (2013)
Plot Summary:
On the final test of a public tender for federal judge in Rio de Janeiro, the four finalists lawyers come from bizarre way: the gaucho Rogério Carlos (Fábio Porchat) comes surrounded woman dressed transvestites, the São Paulo Rezende (Rodrigo Pandolfo) ragamuffin on a motorcycle driven by attractive Martinha (Sabrina Sato), Caio Rio (Danton Mello) appears in a vehicle which falls handcuffed and escorted, and the Ceará Freitas (Anderson Di Rizzi) appears in an ambulance next to his pregnant wife Mariana (Carol Castro), entering the hall on a stretcher pushed by candomblé practitioners. The film then returns to a week before showing the quartet meeting and engaging in various confusions as they prepare for the race.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, not serious
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To The Heritage With Love (2016)
Plot Summary:
A dispute for the inheritance of the father of this family is the motor for this comedy, where siblings Andrea and Hector start a discussion with their aunt, who turns out to be the universal heiress of their father's because they don't comply with the rules established by their father.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Hello Mr. Billionaire (2018)
Plot Summary:
A pathetic minor league Soccer Goalkeeper was given a task - to spend 1 Billion in thirty days, if successful he will get 30 Billion. However, he's not allowed to tell anyone about the task and he must not own any valuables by end of it.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: China
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: captivating, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, humorous, entertaining, semi serious
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Two Cheaters and a Half (2007)
Plot Summary:
Gina and Lello are partners both in life and in crime until they find themselves babysitting a kid during a robbery.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Bankrolled (2021)
Plot Summary:
While blind drunk, two unemployed millennials entrepreneurs drunkenly post a video pitch about their revolutionary app to a crowdfunding site. When the app catches fire and they accidentally raise millions of dollars they actually have to create the app.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, social
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Más sabe el Diablo por Viejo (2018)
Plot Summary:
Teo, a young and struggling actor, disguises himself as a 79 year old man to take advantage from the benefits of a retirement home, while also trying to sort out his personal and love life.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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The Hustle (2019)
Plot Summary:
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.".
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 64000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: entertaining, feel good, light, clever, humorous, funny, romantic, action comedy, hilarious, happy
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Madigan's Millions (1968)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, Spain, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, exciting, semi serious, feel good, captivating, realistic, fast, eurospy
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Did You... Score? (2012)
Plot Summary:
The real first comedy about love.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, semi serious, hot
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High Rollers (1976)
Plot Summary:
Belle Duke, in order to get revenge on her former lover Philip Bang, organize his jail break. But instead of Philip is the Italian Felice Brianza, AKAS Felix, to escape. Now Felix is obliged to help Philip to escape. He will succeeded and from that moment on the two will join to defraud Belle. The swindle plot become more complicate when Felix falls in love for Philip's daughter.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, cynical, realistic, poliziottesco, semi serious
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Bender: The Beginning (2021)
Plot Summary:
Russian Empire, 1919. By a twist of fate, young idealist Osip Zadunaisky meets an infamous con artist and self-proclaimed Turkish subject Ibrahim Bender. A man of pure thought and aristocratic upbringing, Osip would never have associated with a cunning and unscrupulous swindler, but Bender comes up with an offer Osip cannot refuse. A precious royal relic, a diamond-encrusted golden scepter is hidden somewhere in town; Bender needs a partner on his mission to find it, and offers Osip a share of the profit from selling the treasure. And so begins their joint venture, wrought with comical and dangerous twists and turns, where they have to outsmart and outmaneuver officers of the White Guard as well as the local mafia, who also have their eyes on the scepter. As their quest unfolds, Osip is compelled to learn Bender’s tricks of the trade: charming flattery, delicate deception, soft intimidation... as well as brute force.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
Plot Summary:
Two con men try to settle their rivalry by betting on who can swindle a young American heiress out of $50,000 first.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: clever, surprise ending, feel good, funny, humorous, light, entertaining, slapstick, hilarious, witty