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Publisher
Warner Home Video
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.
3) Paper moon
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A smooth-talking con man and a nine-year-old orphan are up to tricks in depression-era Kansas. Also includes a prologue by Peter Bogdanovich in which he shares insights about being a director and goes behind the scenes of Paper Moon.
4) Playing God
Publisher
Vertical
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A pair of con artists recruit their longtime mentor to 'play' God in order to scam a grieving billionaire.
Publisher
Alpha Video Distributors
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An offbeat tale of adventure and suspense involving the passengers on a steamer who attempt to outfox each other for illegal control of a parcel of land in East Africa believed to be rich with uranium deposits.
6) Buffaloed
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Formats
Description
Desperate to escape her hometown of Buffalo and make enough money to attend her dream college, Peg decides to cheat the system after she is scammed by a debt collector.
7) Cold call
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Joe Ross is the inventor of "The Process," a top-secret formula which promises to make his company unimaginably rich. But when Joe meets a successful, cynical businessman he begins to suspect that his boss will never share the profits. And with that seed of doubt planted, an intricate con-game soon falls into place.
10) The grifters
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three con artists walk on the razor's edge of life. Lilly has decided it's time to get out, and wants her son out, too. But Roy has fallen for sleek Myra, who wants him for her partner.
11) The sting
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (3 hrs. 11 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two con men set out to avenge the death of a mutual friend in 1930s Chicago. They swindle a powerful crime lord, pitting brain against brawn and pistol.
12) Dakota
Series
Publisher
Republic Pictures
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (82 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Brawling western saga with John Wayne battling land grabbers in the Dakota territory.
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
Desperate for income, Emily takes a shady gig buying goods with stolen credit cards supplied by a charismatic middleman named Youcef. Seduced by the quick cash and illicit thrills, they hatch a plan to take their business to the next level.
14) The lady Eve
Series
Criterion collection volume 103
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A conniving father and daughter meet up with the heir to a brewery fortune-- a wealthy but nai?ve snake enthusiast-- and attempt to bamboozle him at a cruise ship card table. Their plan is quickly abandoned when the daughter falls in love with their prey. But when the heir gets wise to her gold-digging ways, she must plot to re-conquer his heart.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When two orphans, Bianca and Tomas meet up with Tomas' gym rat friends, they concoct an elaborate scheme to rob an aging movie star and one-time Mr. Universe, Maciste. The boys enlist Bianca to seduce the now blind star so they can get access to his hidden fortune. At once a sly psychological thriller with erotic overtones, it finds a young woman faced with amoral dilemma as a unique friendship develops between her and her actor in his crumbling mansion....
16) Going postal
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (185 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on Terry Pratchetts Discworld novel involves a skillful con artist Moist Von Lipwig who finds the tables turned and it's he himself who is conned into becoming the Ankh-Morpork Postmaster General. A position that has not been filled in years.
17) Color me Kubrick
Publisher
distributed by Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The true story of a man living in London who posed as Stanley Kubrick for the last decade or so of Kubrick's life, despite knowing very little about his work and looking nothing like him.
18) Focus
Formats
Description
Nicky is a seasoned master of misdirection who becomes romantically involved with novice con artist Jess. As he's teaching her the tricks of the trade, she gets too close for comfort and he abruptly breaks it off. Three years later, the former flame, now an accomplished femme fatale, shows up in Buenos Aires in the middle of the high stakes race car circuit. In the midst of Nicky's latest, very dangerous scheme, she throws his plans for a loop, and...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
p2001, c1988.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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!
20) Straight forward
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (367 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows Danish con-woman Sylvia Petersen as she goes into hiding in New Zealand after seeking revenge against a crime boss for killing her father.
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