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1. (1973) It's Chicago in the 1930s, and Johnny Hooker and Luther Coleman make a living by working a con. One day they hit it big, and find a guy who's carrying a load of cash. Unfortunately the guy they hit works for a numbers runner by the name of Doyle Lonnegan, a man who likes to make dead examples out of anyone who rips him off. With Luther dead, Hooker turns to Henry Gondorff to help him run the big con on Lonnegan, so he can avenge his friend's murder.
2. (2003) Jake Vig and his gang make a good living from their confidence games, but one day they hit the wrong guy. With 2 of their members dead, Jake confronts the crime boss that they've unknowingly wronged, and offers to run a con on any target of his choice, by way of recompense. Of course Jake can't resist the impulse to scam both the target, and the crime boss (played by Dustin Hoffman) who he's allegedly appeasing.
3. (2001) Danny and his gang want to rob three Las Vegas casinos, all at the same time. To successfully accomplish this goal they're going to need a lot of skill, a lot of high tech tools, and a lot of boldly executed cons. I particularly enjoyed the one where they managed to escape with the cash by pretending to be the SWAT team that was 'called in' to neutralize them.
4. (2002) This movie tells the story of Frank Abagnale Jr., a young con man who managed to convincingly portray an airline pilot, a substitute teacher, a pediatrician and an attorney. When he was finally brought to trial, he had written over two million dollars in bad cheques.
5. (1994) Bret makes his livelihood playing cards, and he needs to collect a lousy $3,000 dollars more to enter the highest stake poker game he's ever encountered. However everyone who owes him money runs some kind of con on him to get out of paying him back. Then there's that stuffy Marshal Zane Cooper who will be overseeing the game. Cooper really seems to have it in for Bret...or does he?
6. (1999) Tom Ripley has a real talent for the con. Although only the washroom attendant, he convinces millionaire Herbet Greenleaf that he was a classmate of his son's. Greenleaf pays Tom to bring his son back from Europe. While there, Tom latches on to the young Greenleaf, living off of his largesse until Greenleaf starts to get tired of him. Then Tom kills Greenleaf, and assumes his identity.
7. (1958) When his old friend, Galvin Elster, asks Scotty to keep an eye on his wife because she's been behaving strangely, Scotty has no reason to suspect that anything is wrong. However Elster is counting on Scotty's fear of heights to set up an elaborate con that will allow him to throw his wife off a tower, leaving Scotty to testify that she committed suicide.
8. (1993) Andy Safian thinks that he has married the woman he loves, has bought the house of their dreams, and is trying to settle down and build a family. What he doesn't realize is that he's an unwitting part of a massive con on the part of his wife and her lover, a very arrogant surgeon, to defraud the insurance agency out of a rather large cash settlement. They figured he would be the perfect dupe, but they were wrong.
9. (2000) Rudy's dead cellmate had a beautiful girlfriend whom he only knew from exchanging letters. When Rudy was released from prison, he pretended to be his cellmate because...well it had been six years after all. What he didn't realize was that her violent brother would drag him into a casino heist, because he (or his dead cellmate) had one time worked for that casino and had inside knowledge. Or was the whole set-up just one big con from the beginning?
10. (1996) When Archbishop Rushman is brutally murdered, and altar boy Aaron Stampler is caught covered in blood, with the Archbishop's ring in his pocket, the police think they have an open and shut case. However Stampler gets lucky, when renowned defense lawyer, Martin Vail, offers to take his case. The con comes into play when Aaron convinces first his psychologist, then his lawyer, and finally the court that he suffers from Multiple Personality Disorder.
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