A swindle is a kind of fraud or confidence trick. Swindle may also refer to: People Swindle (surname) Places Swindle Island, British Columbia, Canada 8690 Swindle, an asteroid Films Il bidone (English titles The Swindle or The Swindlers), a 1955 Italian film directed by Federico Fellini The Swindle (1997 film), a French crime-comedy film directed by Claude Chabrol and starring Isabelle Huppert Swindle (2002 film), a crime thriller starring Tom Sizemore and Sherilyn Fenn Swindle (2013 film), a television film based on Gordon Korman's book Swindle Other uses Swindle (chess), a ruse by which a chess player in a losing position tricks his opponent Swindle (Transformers), several fictional characters in the Transformers universe Swindle (novel), a 2008 children's book by Gordon Korman Swindle (magazine), a bi-monthly arts and culture publication from 2004 to 2009 The Swindle (video game), a 2015 video game See also Swindler (disambiguation) Swindled (film), a 2004 Spanish-French thriller