Movies Like The Tricky Master (1999)

The Tricky Master is a 1999 action, comedy, crime film from Wong Jing with a MovieMagicScore of 5.8/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Los liantes and A Violent Prosecutor.

Action Comedy Crime

Los liantes

1981

Amador and Fidel are two small scammers operating in Torremolinos beach and surroundings with more misery than fortune.

5.8

MagicScore

A Violent Prosecutor

2016

After a prosecution lawyer is framed and convicted for murder, he tries to catch the real murderer from jail with the help of a con artist.

7.0

MagicScore

Mo' Money

1992

Trying to get his act together, a con artist gets a job in a credit card company. He falls in love with a fellow employee, he steals a couple of cards, everything is going great. But soon, the chief of security drags him into the big leagues of criminals...

5.5

MagicScore

The Yellow Sea

2010

A Korean man in China takes an assassination job in South Korea to make money and find his missing wife. But when the job is botched, he is forced to go on the run from the police and the gangsters who paid him.

7.3

MagicScore

Lust, Caution

2007

During World War II, a secret agent must seduce and assassinate an official who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai.

7.3

MagicScore

Cocoon

1985

When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigor.

6.6

MagicScore

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

1988

Con artist Lawrence Jamieson is a longtime resident of a luxurious coastal resort, where he enjoys the lavish fruits of his deceptions -- that is, until a competitor, Freddy Benson, shows up. When the new guy's lowbrow tactics impinge on his own sophisticated work and believing him to be the infamous conman 'The Jackal', Lawrence resolves to get rid of him. Confident of his own duplicitous talents, he challenges Freddy to a winner-takes-all competition: whoever swindles their latest mark, American heiress Janet Colgate, out of $50,000 first can stay, while the other must leave town.

7.1

MagicScore

The Hustle

2019

Two female scam artists, one low rent and the other high class, compete to swindle a naïve tech prodigy out of his fortune. A remake of the 1988 comedy "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels."

6.2

MagicScore

Tokyo Twilight

1957

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.

7.7

MagicScore

#10

Marguerite's Theorem

2023

The future of Marguerite, a brilliant student in Mathematics at the prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure, seems all planned out. The only woman from her year, Marguerite is finishing a thesis she has to present to an audience of researchers. On the big day, a mistake shakes all her certainties and all her foundations collapse.

6.9

MagicScore

#11

Making a Living

1914

A swindler scams a newspaper reporter-photographer and then, not realizing where the man is employed, applies for a job at his newspaper.

5.7

MagicScore

#12

The Handmaiden

2016

1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl, Sook-hee, is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, Hideko, who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle Kouzuki. But the maid has a secret. She is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler posing as a Japanese Count to help him seduce the Lady to steal her fortune.

8.2

MagicScore

#13

General Della Rovere

1959

The Gestapo forces con man Victorio Bardone to impersonate a dead partisan general in order to extract information from his fellow inmates.

7.4

MagicScore

#14

Time Out

2001

An unemployed man finds his life sinking more and more into trouble as he hides his situation from his family and friends.

6.7

MagicScore

#15

The Baron of Arizona

1950

The U.S. government recognizes land grants made when the West was under Spanish rule. This inspires James Reavis to forge a chain of historical evidence that makes a foundling girl the Baroness of Arizona. Reavis marries the girl and presses his claim to the entire Arizona territory.

6.6

MagicScore

#16

Bang, Boom, Bang

1999

Bank robber Kalle Grabowski escapes from prison while his unemployed smalltime crook buddy is sitting around doing nothing after he just lost all their money. A fast paced comedy from German director Peter Thorwarth.

7.5

MagicScore

#17

Uptown Saturday Night

1974

Two blue-collar buddies search the underworld for a winning lottery ticket lost in a nightclub holdup.

6.1

MagicScore

#18

Blind Detective

2013

A brilliant detective is forced into early retirement after losing eyesight. Making ends meet by solving cold cases for reward money, he teams up with a rookie lady inspector to solve a case from her personal past.

6.1

MagicScore

#19

No Blood No Tears

2002

A former safecracker makes a living as a taxi driver but continues to be haunted by her past. One day she chances upon an aspiring singer, who is a spitting image of herself back in the day. Together, the two women plot to steal money from gangsters.

5.9

MagicScore

#20

Redirected

2014

Four friends become stranded in Eastern Europe and have to become hit men, prostitutes, corrupt cops, smugglers and more to make it home.

5.8

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like The Tricky Master?

The top films similar to The Tricky Master by MovieMagicScore are Los liantes (5.8), A Violent Prosecutor (7.0), Mo' Money (5.5). Each shares action/comedy/crime themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is The Tricky Master worth watching?

The Tricky Master holds a MovieMagicScore of 5.8/10 from 46 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is The Tricky Master?

The Tricky Master (1999) is a action, comedy, crime film directed by Wong Jing, starring Nick Cheung Ka-Fai, Stephen Chow, Sandra Ng Kwan-Yu.

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About movies like The Tricky Master

This ranked list pairs The Tricky Master (1999), a action and comedy and crime film from Wong Jing, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Nick Cheung Ka-Fai take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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