What’s your favorite movie about con artists?

The twisty manipulations of a con artist can make for a great movie plot.  It can be fun to watch a cinematic smooth talker reel in his victim, or scramble to keep up appearances.  Like the characters in this Hall of Infamy, these con artists can be charming, extravagant, and unscrupulous.  Their lies can seem so blatant to us, the audience who’s at a safe distance and watching the drama unfold.  We can’t believe their victims don’t see what happening; it’s so obvious, we say (just as we sometimes do after learning of a real-life con or fraud).

What’s your favorite movie about con artists?  Here are a few that came to mind — but feel free to add your favorite in the comments:

House of Games (1987):  The plot of House of Games (director David Mamet’s first film) is about as twisty as they come. The tag line in the trailer says it all: “In the House of Games, there’s no one you can trust…not even yourself.”

The Sting (1973):  Set in 1930s Chicago, The Sting stars a terrific pair: Paul Newman and Robert Redford. This is a classic that deserved each one of the seven Academy Awards that it earned.

Catch Me if You Can (2002): Based on the true life story of Frank Abagnale, Jr., this film follows Leonardo DiCaprio as he writes one bad check after another, passes himself off as a pilot, doctor, and a lawyer, and tries to elude the FBI agent determined to catch him.

Wall Street (1987): “Greed is good,” says the scheming stockbroker played by Michael Douglas.  That character, Gordon Gekko, was a composite of several real people, including Ivan Boesky.  Oliver Stone has directed a sequel about the 2008 crash, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, set for release in September 2010.

What else?  Let’s grow this con artist movie list; after all, they’re better to watch on screen than to actually know….