# The best con artist movies

Elegant swindlers, fake pilots and small-time Buenos Aires grifters: from The Sting to Catch Me If You Can, the con films chosen in Écran Large's feature and Similaires' ranking.

- 17 votes · 11 items
- Jul 27, 2023 · S. Bonvin
- https://even.best/en/l/4343/the-best-con-artist-movies

## Top 11

1. **Catch Me If You Can (2002)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Steven Spielberg. Frank Abagnale Jr., fake pilot, fake doctor, real forger.
2. **Ocean's Eleven (2001)** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Steven Soderbergh. Eleven accomplices against three Las Vegas casinos.
3. **The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Martin Scorsese. Jordan Belfort and stock market fraud.
4. **The Sting (1973)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — George Roy Hill. Paul Newman and Robert Redford set up a con on a gangster; seven Oscars.
5. **Nine Queens (2000)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Fabián Bielinsky. Two small-time Buenos Aires crooks and a sheet of rare stamps.
6. **The Grifters (1990)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Stephen Frears. A mother, her son and his girlfriend, all of them grifters.
7. **Matchstick Men (2003)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Ridley Scott. An obsessive con man who finds out he has a daughter.
8. **Focus (2015)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Glenn Ficarra and John Requa. A seasoned pickpocket and his apprentice.
9. **Identity Thief (2013)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Seth Gordon. An identity thief face to face with her victim.
10. **House of Games (1987)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — David Mamet. A psychiatrist drawn in by a poker player.
11. **Inside Man (2006)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Spike Lee. A bank robbery that hides something else.

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