Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "real-estate-scam"

1. Chinatown (1974)

R | 130 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.

Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez

Votes: 350,000

2. RocknRolla (2008)

R | 114 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

When a Russian mobster orchestrates a crooked land deal, millions of dollars are up for grabs, drawing in the entire London underworld into a feeding frenzy at a time when the old criminal regime is losing turf to a wealthy foreign mob.

Director: Guy Ritchie | Stars: Gerard Butler, Tom Wilkinson, Idris Elba, Thandiwe Newton

Votes: 265,095 | Gross: $5.69M

3. The Money Pit (1986)

PG | 91 min | Comedy

A young couple struggles to repair a hopelessly dilapidated house.

Director: Richard Benjamin | Stars: Tom Hanks, Shelley Long, Alexander Godunov, Maureen Stapleton

Votes: 62,271 | Gross: $37.50M

4. 99 Homes (2014)

R | 112 min | Crime, Drama

A recently unemployed single father struggles to get back his foreclosed home by working for the real estate broker who is the source of his frustration.

Director: Ramin Bahrani | Stars: Andrew Garfield, Michael Shannon, Laura Dern, Clancy Brown

Votes: 38,269 | Gross: $1.41M

5. Police Academy 6: City Under Siege (1989)

PG | 84 min | Comedy, Crime

Those bumbling cadets take to the streets when three inept goons successfully orchestrate a metropolitan crime wave.

Director: Peter Bonerz | Stars: Bubba Smith, David Graf, Michael Winslow, Leslie Easterbrook

Votes: 33,193 | Gross: $11.57M

6. Empire of the Ants (1977)

PG | 89 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi

Con artist Marilyn Fryser tries to sell bogus real estate deals in an area overrun by giant ants.

Director: Bert I. Gordon | Stars: Joan Collins, Robert Lansing, John David Carson, Albert Salmi

Votes: 5,547

7. How Sweet It Is! (1968)

Not Rated | 99 min | Comedy

Photographer Grif Henderson is assigned a photo shoot in Paris. He decides to take his wife Jenny and his hippie son Davey with him on the shoot. Jenny unknowingly rents a house that ... See full summary »

Director: Jerry Paris | Stars: James Garner, Debbie Reynolds, Maurice Ronet, Terry-Thomas

Votes: 790

8. The Cocoanuts (1929)

Passed | 96 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

During the Florida land boom, The Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land, thwart a jewel robbery, and generally act like themselves.

Directors: Robert Florey, Joseph Santley | Stars: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx

Votes: 8,199 | Gross: $3.92M

9. Pocket Listing (2015)

R | 92 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller

Double crosses, adultery, murder, mistaken identity, and revenge ensue when a mysterious power player and his sultry wife hire a disgraced Los Angeles property broker to discreetly market and sell their Malibu villa.

Director: Conor Allyn | Stars: James Jurdi, Jessica Clark, Rob Lowe, Burt Reynolds

Votes: 7,129

10. A Life at Stake (1955)

Not Rated | 78 min | Drama, Film-Noir

An unemployed architect meets a married woman with a business proposition. The architect soon suspect her interest isn't just financial - and might be deadly.

Director: Paul Guilfoyle | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Keith Andes, Douglass Dumbrille, Claudia Barrett

Votes: 986

11. Possessions (2011)

98 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Bruno and Maryline move into a small town of the French Apls, chasing their dream for a better life. But their primary enthusiasm becomes disappointment, anger and jealousy.

Director: Eric Guirado | Stars: Jérémie Renier, Julie Depardieu, Lucien Jean-Baptiste, Alexandra Lamy

Votes: 403

12. The Albion Tales (2018)

28 min | Short, Crime, Fantasy

Two strangers flirt in a bar but one gets more than she expected. A pair of con-artists attempt the perfect scam on an estate agent. A mugging victim turns the tables on her attacker. Three... See full summary »

Director: Nic Alderton | Stars: Daniel Caltagirone, Lucy Cudden, Bally Gill, Lisa Kerr

Votes: 31

13. 3-2-1 Penguins: The Amazing Carnival of Complaining (2001 Video)

Not Rated | 30 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

Jason and the crew go on a leisure trip to a carnival, but are confronted by carnival barker Uncle Blobb and his diabolical interplanetary real estate scheme as he attempts to turn them into "Seeds of Discontent."

Director: Ron Smith | Stars: Mark Marten, Melissa Peterson, Annie Walker-Bright, Ron Wells

Votes: 66

14. Calomnies (2014)

80 min | Comedy

The young deputy Xavier Durmont investigate a case of waste disposal involving a minister. He then becomes the target of slander orchestrated by the mysterious Armand.

Director: Jean-Pierre Mocky | Stars: Marius Colucci, Guy Marchand, Philippe Duquesne, Agnès Soral

Votes: 27

15. The Crook of Dreams (1919)

50 min | Drama, Crime

The mother of a family of real-estate swindlers and her boyfriend get caught and go to jail. Her son Sam gets his sister Constance to pose as the long-lost daughter of rich widow Mrs. ... See full summary »

Director: Oscar Apfel | Stars: Louise Huff, Virginia Hammond, Florence Billings, Kempton Greene

16. Leverage: Redemption (2021– )
Episode: The Paranormal Hacktivity Job (2021)

TV-14 | 47 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

When a woman believes she is being haunted and runs from her home in terror, Sophie leads Breanna and Parker through a con to convince the two real estate scammers responsible to target Leverage HQ.

Director: Marc Roskin | Stars: Gina Bellman, Christian Kane, Beth Riesgraf, Aleyse Shannon

Votes: 885

17. Talio: Avenger Buddies (2020)
Episode: Episode #1.1 (2020)

Crime

She is a revenge attorney. What does that mean? Well, she is a new lawyer at the firm and looking at picking up cases. She is not having any luck until a case falls into her laps. Her ... See full summary »

Stars: Ken'ichi Endô, Hideyo Fujita, Minami Hamabe, Junko Hamura