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Publisher
Warner Home Video
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Career con artist Roy Courtnay can hardly believe his luck when he meets well-to-do widow Betty McLeish online. As Betty opens her home and life to him, Roy is surprised to find himself caring about her, turning what should be a cut-and-dry swindle into the most treacherous tightrope walk of his life.
2) Playing God
Publisher
Vertical
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
A pair of con artists recruit their longtime mentor to 'play' God in order to scam a grieving billionaire.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
p2001, c1988
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Comedy filmed on the Riviera, it's the story of two con men who compete to see who can extract $50,000 from a woman first. The victim is a naive American heiress, and the competition between the two men, one a suave and sophisticated Englishman and the other a bumbling but appealing American, heats up!
4) Cold call
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
After single mother June receives a fateful phone call, she takes increasingly desperate measures to salvage her family's future in this dark thriller. Finding herself the victim of a scam that wipes out her savings, June tries to hunt down those responsible with the help of an old flame.
5) The hustle
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Josephine Chesterfield is a glamorous, seductive Brit who defrauds gullible wealthy men. Penny amasses wads of cash by ripping off her marks in neighborhood bars. Despite their different methods, both are masters of the art of the fleece, so they con the men that have wronged women. Wilson's talent for physicality and Hathaway's withering wit are a combustible combination as the pair of scammers pull out all the stops to swindle a naïve tech billionaire...
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
In season five, $1.8 million in gold coins is missing, an elusive precious diamond is about to be found, and Neal Caffrey has a new handler, and a new love interest. But all is fair in love and crime, and the closer Neal gets to the mysterious Rebecca Lowe, the greater the danger for everyone in his life.
8) Copshop
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
To escape a hitman, a con artist gets himself arrested and locked up in a small-town police station, but soon the hitman schemes his way into a nearby cell, and then another hitman arrives.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A bogus count and his two swindling "cousins" descend upon Monte Carlo (rebuilt in Universal's back lot) and cause a rift in the marriage of an American couple. The result is a Grimm's fairytale romance that is no less fascinating today than it was 80 years ago.
10) The music man
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010, c1989
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Silver-tongued con artist Harold Hill hoodwinks the stubborn townsfolk of River City, Iowa into buying instruments and uniforms for a boy's band, but his game ultimately and romantically backfires.
Series
Nuestro cine clásico volume 2
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2008
Language
Español
Description
Cantinflas convinces his girlfriend's boss that he is his wife's brother to benefit from the industrialist's wealth; a working class family struggles with money and personal issues.
12) The handmaiden
Publisher
Mongrel Media
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
Korean
Description
A Korean woman who is hired as handmaiden to a young Japanese lady is secretly plotting with a conman to defraud her of her large inheritance.
13) Nightmare alley
Series
Criterion collection volume 1078
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Fullscreen.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The rise and fall of Stanton Carlisle, a mentalist whose lies and deceit prove to be his downfall.
15) Kajillionaire
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
"Con-artists Theresa and Robert have spent 26 years training their only daughter, Old Dolio, to swindle, scam, and steal at every opportunity. During a desperate, hastily conceived heist, they charm a stranger into joining their family, only to have their entire world turned upside down."--container.
16) Copshop
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Screaming through the Nevada desert in a bullet-ridden car, wily con artist Teddy Murretto hatches a plan to hide out from lethal assassin Bob Viddick. He punches rookie officer Valerie Young to get himself arrested and locked up in a small-town police station. However, jail can't protect Murretto for long as Viddick schemes his own way into detention, biding his time in a nearby cell until he can complete his mission.
17) Nightmare alley
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Formats
Description
From visionary filmmaker Guillermo del Toro comes a suspenseful psychological thriller about a manipulative carnival man who teams with an equally deceptive psychiatrist to grift the wealthy in 1940s New York society. Del Toro co-wrote the enthralling film with Kim Morgan, based on William Lindsay Gresham's novel.
18) The handmaiden
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Korean
Description
A Korean woman who is hired as handmaiden to a young Japanese lady is secretly plotting with a conman to defraud her of her large inheritance.
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