10 Best Con Man Movies

10. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

In one of the early, rare cases in which a remake is superior to its source material, Frank Oz' retelling of the Marlon Brando/David Niven pairing Bedtime Story succeeds in large part due to casting. Steve Martin balances his slapstick comedy with a less broad, more down to earth character than he was known for at that point: a desperate, low-class scam artist who upsets the carefully controlled ecology of high-end con man Michael Caine. The two set about a wager to see who can scam a tourist first, the agreement being if Martin loses, he'll leave the area, never to return.

Martin had long since retired his stand up career by then, but much of his more bombastic characters his con men creates, particularly the mentally challenged Ruprecht, seem born of unused material. And Caine, as always, can class up any affair.