Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)

Charming comedy starring Michael Caine and Steve Martin as two rival con artists working in the south of France. Both actors are on top form. Also great is Glenne Headly as Janet Colgate, the woman they try to cheat out of $50,000. 

There are lots of laughs, some of them subtle and some of them silly, but it’s surprisingly sophisticated in places. 

Ian “Emperor Palpatine” McDiarmid plays a butler.