Films about con artists

2002 film directed by Chris Columbus

2019 film directed by Bong Joon-ho

2002 film by Steven Spielberg

The Wolf of Wall Street is a 2013 American biographical dark comedy crime film co-produced and directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Terence Winter, and based on Jordan Belfort's 2007 memoir. It loosely recounts Belfort's career as a stockbroker in New York City and how his firm, Stratton Oakmont, engaged in rampant corruption and fraud on Wall Street, leading to his downfall. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Belfort; Jonah Hill as his business partner and friend Donnie Azoff; Margot Robbie as his second wife, Naomi Lapaglia; Matthew McConaughey as his mentor and former boss Mark Hanna; and Kyle Chandler as FBI special agent Patrick Denham portraying Gregory Coleman. It is DiCaprio's fifth collaboration with Scorsese.

1995 film directed by Bryan Singer

2001 film by Steven Soderbergh

2013 American film directed by David O. Russell

2021 film directed by Tim Story

1973 film by George Roy Hill

2011 animated film directed by Chris Miller

Now You See Me is a 2013 American heist film directed by Louis Leterrier from a screenplay by Ed Solomon, Boaz Yakin, and Edward Ricourt and a story by Yakin and Ricourt. It is the first installment in the Now You See Me series. The film features an ensemble cast of Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Mélanie Laurent, Isla Fisher, Common, Dave Franco, Michael Caine, and Morgan Freeman. The plot follows an FBI agent and an Interpol detective who track and attempt to bring to justice a team of magicians who pull off bank heists and robberies during their performances and reward their audiences with the money.

1999 film by Anthony Minghella

2013 film directed by Sam Raimi

1988 British-American heist comedy film

Sholay (, ) is a 1975 Indian Hindi-language action-adventure film directed by Ramesh Sippy, produced by his father G. P. Sippy, and written by Salim–Javed. The film follows two criminals, Veeru (Dharmendra) and Jai (Amitabh Bachchan), who are hired by a retired police officer (Sanjeev Kumar) to capture the ruthless bandit Gabbar Singh (Amjad Khan). Hema Malini and Jaya Bhaduri also star as Veeru and Jai's love interests, Basanti and Radha, respectively. The soundtrack was composed by R D Burman.

Now You See Me 2 is a 2016 American heist film directed by Jon M. Chu from a screenplay by Ed Solomon and a story by Solomon and Peter Chiarelli. It serves as a sequel to Now You See Me (2013) and the second installment in the Now You See Me series. The film stars an ensemble cast that includes Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, Ben Lamb, Daniel Radcliffe, Lizzy Caplan, Jay Chou, Sanaa Lathan, Michael Caine, and Morgan Freeman. The plot has the Four Horsemen and their leader Dylan Rhodes recruited by Walter Mabry, a criminal mastermind, to steal a data chip.

1947 film by Charlie Chaplin

2015 film directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa

1967 film directed by Mel Brooks

1994 film by Richard Donner

2014 film by Woody Allen

1960 film by René Clément

2016 film directed by Park Chan-wook

1998 film by Andrew Davis

2003 film by Ridley Scott

1986 animated film directed by Don Bluth

2011 heist comedy film directed by Brett Ratner

1988 film directed by Frank Oz

2018 film directed by Marielle Heller

1973 film by Peter Bogdanovich

1941 film by Preston Sturges

2013 film directed by Giuseppe Tornatore

1960 film directed by Richard Brooks

Now You See Me: Now You Don't is a 2025 American heist film directed by Ruben Fleischer from a screenplay by Michael Lesslie, the writing duo of Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese, and Seth Grahame-Smith, based on a story by Eric Warren Singer and Lesslie. The film is the sequel to Now You See Me 2 (2016) and the third installment in the Now You See Me film series. The cast includes Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, Isla Fisher, Lizzy Caplan, and Morgan Freeman returning from previous films, joined by new cast members Justice Smith, Dominic Sessa, Ariana Greenblatt, and Rosamund Pike.

1972 film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

2001 film by David Mirkin

1977 film by Wim Wenders

1991 film by John Hughes

1932 film by Ernst Lubitsch

1999 film by Les Mayfield

2024 film by Greg Berlanti

2019 film directed by Chris Addison

1990 film by Stephen Frears

1969 film by François Truffaut

1971 Soviet comedy film by Leonid Gaidai

2001 film by David Mamet

2000 film by Fabián Bielinsky

2020 film by J Blakeson

1962 film by Morton DaCosta

1955 film by Federico Fellini

2001 film directed by Jamie Blanks

2001 film directed by Jez Butterworth

1992 film by Jonathan Lynn

2007 film directed by Kenneth Branagh

1966 British-Italian English language film directed by Vittorio De Sica

1993 film by Christopher Coppola

2012 film by Michael Hoffman

1956 film by Joseph Anthony

1970 American comedy film by Mel Brooks

1993 film directed by Fred Schepisi