Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "get-rich-quick-scheme"

1. Catch Me If You Can (2002)

PG-13 | 141 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Barely 17 yet, Frank is a skilled forger who has passed as a doctor, lawyer and pilot. FBI agent Carl becomes obsessed with tracking down the con man, who only revels in the pursuit.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen

Votes: 1,096,935 | Gross: $164.62M

2. Office Space (1999)

R | 89 min | Comedy

Three company workers who hate their jobs decide to rebel against their greedy boss.

Director: Mike Judge | Stars: Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston, David Herman, Ajay Naidu

Votes: 287,818 | Gross: $10.82M

3. Dumb Money (2023)

R | 105 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

David vs. Goliath tale about everyday people who flipped the script on Wall Street and got rich by turning GameStop (the video-game store) into the world's hottest company.

Director: Craig Gillespie | Stars: Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Vincent D'Onofrio, America Ferrera

Votes: 41,889

4. Queenpins (2021)

R | 110 min | Comedy, Crime

A pair of housewives create a $40 million coupon scam.

Directors: Aron Gaudet, Gita Pullapilly | Stars: Kristen Bell, Kirby, Paul Walter Hauser, Bebe Rexha

Votes: 23,437

5. Only Fools and Horses (1981–2003)

TV-PG | 95 min | Comedy

Comedy that follows two brothers from London's rough Peckham estate as they wheel and deal through a number of dodgy deals and search for the big score that'll make them millionaires.

Stars: David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Roger Lloyd Pack, Buster Merryfield

Votes: 56,752

6. Shark Tale (2004)

PG | 90 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

When a son of a gangster shark boss is accidentally killed while on the hunt, his would-be prey and his vegetarian brother decide to use the incident to their own advantage.

Directors: Bibo Bergeron, Vicky Jenson, Rob Letterman | Stars: Will Smith, Robert De Niro, Renée Zellweger, Angelina Jolie

Votes: 199,068 | Gross: $160.86M

7. Sanford and Son (1972–1978)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

The misadventures of a cantankerous junk dealer and his frustrated son.

Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, LaWanda Page, Don Bexley

Votes: 10,819

8. Primer (2004)

PG-13 | 77 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Four friends/fledgling entrepreneurs, knowing that there's something bigger and more innovative than the different error-checking devices they've built, wrestle over their new invention.

Director: Shane Carruth | Stars: Shane Carruth, David Sullivan, Casey Gooden, Anand Upadhyaya

Votes: 114,241 | Gross: $0.42M

9. Double Indemnity (1944)

Passed | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A Los Angeles insurance representative lets an alluring housewife seduce him into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, an insurance investigator.

Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Byron Barr

Votes: 167,571 | Gross: $5.72M

10. Tuck Everlasting (2002)

PG | 90 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy

A young woman meets and falls in love with a young man who is part of a family of immortals.

Director: Jay Russell | Stars: Alexis Bledel, Jonathan Jackson, Sissy Spacek, William Hurt

Votes: 25,367 | Gross: $19.16M

11. Perfect Strangers (1986–1993)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Family

A high-strung and cynical man's life is never the same when his naive but good-natured cousin comes to America to live with him.

Stars: Bronson Pinchot, Mark Linn-Baker, Melanie Wilson, Rebeca Arthur

Votes: 11,022

12. Promised Land (2012)

R | 106 min | Drama

A salesman for a natural gas company experiences life-changing events after arriving in a small town, where his corporation wants to tap into the available resources.

Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Matt Damon, Frances McDormand, John Krasinski, Hal Holbrook

Votes: 39,924 | Gross: $7.60M

13. Detour (1945)

Passed | 66 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

The life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.

Director: Edgar G. Ulmer | Stars: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald

Votes: 19,730 | Gross: $0.02M

14. Kronk's New Groove (2005 Video)

G | 75 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Kronk desperately tries to find ways to impress his dad, whom he can never please. But when things go wrong, Kronk kicks into comical gear and discovers the true riches in life are his friends and being "true to your groove".

Directors: Saul Blinkoff, Elliot M. Bour, Robin Steele | Stars: Patrick Warburton, Tracey Ullman, Eartha Kitt, David Spade

Votes: 15,721

15. Night and the City (1950)

Not Rated | 96 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery

A small-time grifter and nightclub tout takes advantage of some fortuitous circumstances and tries to become a big-time player as a wrestling promoter.

Director: Jules Dassin | Stars: Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe

Votes: 15,295 | Gross: $3.60M

16. The King of Marvin Gardens (1972)

R | 103 min | Drama

A daydreamer convinces his radio personality brother to help fund one of his get-rich-quick schemes.

Director: Bob Rafelson | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Ellen Burstyn, Julia Anne Robinson

Votes: 6,083

17. LSD: Love, Sex Aur Dhokha (2010)

Not Rated | 155 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A video camcorder, a store security camera, and concealed cameras candidly expose lives in three loosely-linked tales.

Director: Dibakar Banerjee | Stars: Nushrratt Bharuccha, Anshuman Jha, Neha Chauhan, Rajkummar Rao

Votes: 6,123

18. Houseguest (1995)

PG | 113 min | Comedy

In hot water with the mob over an unpaid debt, a con man poses as a family friend in an affluent Pennsylvania suburb.

Director: Randall Miller | Stars: Sinbad, Phil Hartman, Kim Greist, Kim Murphy

Votes: 7,496 | Gross: $26.33M

19. Laugh and Get Rich (1931)

Passed | 72 min | Comedy

Man takes his wife's stashed money and is conned into investing it in an oil well.

Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Edna May Oliver, Hugh Herbert, Dorothy Lee, Russell Gleason

Votes: 294

20. Miss Firecracker (1989)

PG | 102 min | Comedy, Drama

Carnelle wants to escape her dreary life, so she enters a local beauty contest, much to everyone's dismay.

Director: Thomas Schlamme | Stars: Holly Hunter, Mary Steenburgen, Tim Robbins, Alfre Woodard

Votes: 2,347 | Gross: $0.65M

21. Tuck Everlasting (1981)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy

In turn-of-the-20th-century upstate New York, Winnie Foster, a 12-year-old girl, discovers a family living in the woods near her family's home who never ages thanks to a magical spring they... See full summary »

Director: Frederick King Keller | Stars: Margaret Chamberlain, Paul Flessa, Fred A. Keller, James McGuire

Votes: 383

22. Phir Hera Pheri (2006)

153 min | Comedy, Crime

Baburao, Raju and Shyam are living happily after having risen from rags to riches. Still, money brings the joy of riches and with it the greed to make more money. And so, with a don as an unknowing investor, Raju initiates a new game.

Director: Neeraj Vora | Stars: Akshay Kumar, Suniel Shetty, Paresh Rawal, Bipasha Basu

Votes: 27,771

23. Paanch (2003)

Not Rated | 130 min | Crime, Thriller

Kidnapping plot gone wrong when four friends plans to kidnap their own friend who accidentally got killed.

Director: Anurag Kashyap | Stars: Kay Kay Menon, Aditya Srivastav, Joy Fernandes, Vijay Maurya

Votes: 2,476

24. Bang Boom Bang - Ein todsicheres Ding (1999)

110 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

A violent chain of events ensues as a jailed criminal arranges to buy a car from a shady car dealer, unaware that his partner in freedom has squandered most of the money from their last bank robbery on horse race betting.

Director: Peter Thorwarth | Stars: Oliver Korittke, Markus Knüfken, Ralf Richter, Diether Krebs

Votes: 10,834

25. Chocolate: Deep Dark Secrets (2005)

160 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Five Indians living in London find themselves thrown together when two of them are implicated for a bomb blast. An Indian lawyer enters the scene to bail them out of their predicament.

Director: Vivek Agnihotri | Stars: Anil Kapoor, Suniel Shetty, Arshad Warsi, Emraan Hashmi

Votes: 2,306 | Gross: $0.05M

26. The Escort III (1999 Video)

R | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Disillusioned elderly hardboiled cop investigates the murder of a business woman with connections to a firm that serves as a front for an escort service. When the main suspect is also killed, a blackmail conspiracy emerges.

Director: Jim Wynorski | Stars: Ross Hagen, Tim Abell, Tane McClure, Griffin Drew

Votes: 173

27. Miss Annie Rooney (1942)

Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A poor girl falls for a wealthy young man. He invites her to his gala birthday party, but she doesn't have the right kind of dress to wear, so her family and friends band together to raise money to get her the proper dress.

Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Shirley Temple, William Gargan, Guy Kibbee, Dickie Moore

Votes: 597

28. The Object of Beauty (1991)

R | 103 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

This story is about a ne'er-do-well and his girlfriend as they search for a thief.

Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg | Stars: John Malkovich, Andie MacDowell, Lolita Davidovich, Rudi Davies

Votes: 2,295 | Gross: $5.19M

29. Rubin and Ed (1991)

PG-13 | 82 min | Comedy, Drama

An unsuccessful, nervous businessman gradually comes to befriend an eccentric, asocial nerd on a trip to Utah to bury a deceased cat.

Director: Trent Harris | Stars: Crispin Glover, Howard Hesseman, Karen Black, Michael Greene

Votes: 2,004

30. Kill Me Later (2001)

R | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A suicidal loan officer is about to jump off the bank roof after seeing her lover/boss's pregnant wife, when a bank robber grabs her as hostage. She helps him escape.

Director: Dana Lustig | Stars: Selma Blair, Max Beesley, O'Neal Compton, Lochlyn Munro

Votes: 2,445

31. Sweet Revenge (1976)

PG | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A teenage car thief's obsessive quest to own an expensive sports car keeps her lawyer and the police working overtime.

Director: Jerry Schatzberg | Stars: Stockard Channing, Sam Waterston, Franklyn Ajaye, Richard Daughty

Votes: 367

32. Branded (1950)

Not Rated | 104 min | Adventure, Romance, Western

A gunfighter takes part in a scheme to bilk a wealthy cattle family out of half a million dollars by pretending to be their son, who was kidnapped as child.

Director: Rudolph Maté | Stars: Alan Ladd, Mona Freeman, Charles Bickford, Robert Keith

Votes: 1,021

33. The Nugget (2002)

R | 97 min | Comedy

'The Nugget' looks at how instant wealth suddenly changes the lives of three working class men - not necessarily for the better, but always with hilarious consequences.

Director: Bill Bennett | Stars: Eric Bana, Stephen Curry, Dave O'Neil, Peter Moon

Votes: 2,034

34. Abbott & Costello (1967–1968)

30 min | Animation, Family, Comedy

The animated further misadventures of the comedy duo.

Stars: Bud Abbott, Stan Irwin, Don Messick, John Stephenson

Votes: 377

35. Barnum (1986 TV Movie)

90 min | Biography, Drama

The amazing biography of legendary circus impresario and unparalleled showman, P.T. Barnum.

Director: Lee Philips | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Hanna Schygulla, John Roney, Sandor Raski

Votes: 237

36. The Bitter Stems (1956)

90 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A washed up reporter teams up with an immigrant from Hungary to start a fake journalism by correspondence school.

Director: Fernando Ayala | Stars: Carlos Cores, Julia Sandoval, Vassili Lambrinos, Gilda Lousek

Votes: 677

37. Rose of Washington Square (1939)

Approved | 86 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

A singer becomes a star in the Ziegfeld Follies, but her marriage to a con man has a bad effect on her career.

Director: Gregory Ratoff | Stars: Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Al Jolson, William Frawley

Votes: 666

38. Working Tra$h (1990 TV Movie)

92 min | Comedy

Two janitors (George Carlin, Ben Stiller) working at a brokerage firm become rich by making investments based on insider information they gather from the brokers' garbage.

Director: Alan Metter | Stars: George Carlin, Ben Stiller, Buddy Ebsen, Leslie Hope

Votes: 379

39. Kick the Thieves Out! (1961)

87 min | Comedy

When the seriously ill founder of a thriving steel industry transfers his shares to his estranged and incorruptible brother, the latter will take drastic measures to keep the company afloat. Will he show the shameless thieves the door?

Director: Kostas Andritsos | Stars: Orestis Makris, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos, Martha Karagianni, Andreas Douzos

Votes: 190

40. Sexy Soccer (2004)

Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy, Sport

An in debt coach with the help of an all attractive girl soccer team.

Director: Sik Hok Min | Stars: Grace Lam, Tong Tong, Au Yeung, Carmen Yeung

Votes: 58

41. The Big Idea (1917)

9 min | Short, Comedy

A clerk in a failing antiques store gets a big idea on how to move the merchandise so that he can save the store and possibly win the girl.

Directors: Hal Mohr, Gilbert Pratt | Stars: Harold Lloyd, 'Snub' Pollard, Bebe Daniels, William Blaisdell

Votes: 221

42. John Law and the Mississippi Bubble (1979)

10 min | Animation, Short, Biography

In early eighteenth century France, a man devises a scheme that makes many Frenchmen rich, but falls apart.

Director: Richard Condie | Stars: Stanley Jackson, Randy Woods, Robert Duncan, Ishu Patel

Votes: 41

43. Hot Money (1936)

Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Romance

A crafty salesman attempts to raise some quick cash to fund an inventor's development of a gasoline substitute.

Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Ross Alexander, Beverly Roberts, Joseph Cawthorn, Paul Graetz

Votes: 123

44. Älä nuolase... (1962)

113 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

Two guys working at a gas station invest their modest lottery prize in a scheme to increase their wealth by marrying some real money. Posing as Texas oil millionaires with Finnish descent, ... See full summary »

Director: Aarne Tarkas | Stars: Leo Jokela, Tommi Rinne, Leni Katajakoski, Elina Salo

Votes: 131

45. Fool's Luck (1926)

Approved | 15 min | Comedy, Short

A young man faces perilous adventures when he is evicted from his apartment.

Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Lupino Lane, George Davis, Virginia Vance, Jack Lloyd

Votes: 148

46. Is Money Everything? (1923)

58 min | Drama

A farmer, unhappy with his life, decides to go the city to try and make his fortune. He takes a friend along with him. The two of them become successful, but that success brings other, unforeseen problems into their lives.

Director: Glen Lyons | Stars: Norman Kerry, Miriam Cooper, Andrew Hicks, John Sylvester

Votes: 37

47. Don't Cross A Bridge Till You Come to It (2023)

30 min | Short, Adventure, Comedy

Following the accidental murder of his girlfriend, Al. Burnett is jailed. Three years later, he finally escapes and catches up with the Unknown Bearded Man. Together, they then must earn a living, but things don't go as planned.

Director: Achille Brunet | Stars: Achille Brunet, Vincent Brunet, Noam Lebourg-Bellanger, Maël Bizeul

Votes: 6

48. Mr. Chen (2008)

35 min | Short, Comedy

Two old friends, one severely down on his luck, reunite to attempt a get-rich quick scheme that goes, predictably awry.

Directors: Matthew Gray, Piers Marchant | Stars: Santo Fazio, Michael Michaelessi

49. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985–1989)
Episode: Don't Sell Yourself Short (1989)

TV-PG | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Insider trading leads to murder and a double-cross.

Director: René Bonnière | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Leon Pownall, David Soul, Harvey Atkin

Votes: 85

50. Bad Girls (1999–2006)
Episode: Babes Behind Bars (2000)

TV-14 | 49 min | Crime, Drama

Yvonne corrals the girls into joining her new money-making scheme: the "Babes Behind Bars" phone sex hot line. Zandra's medical test results are revealed. Shell's mum comes to visit.

Director: Jim O'Hanlon | Stars: Joe Shaw, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Nathan Constance, Lara Cazalet

Votes: 46