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2) Playing God
Publisher
Vertical
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A pair of con artists recruit their longtime mentor to 'play' God in order to scam a grieving billionaire.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard -- bodyguard Michael Bryce, hitman Darius Kincaid and his wife Sonia are back as the mismatched, high-octane trio -- that are once again forced together into another life-threatening mission to save Europe from a vengeful and powerful zealot.
Publisher
The Film Detective
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Taking advantage of those displaced by natural disasters, malicious opportunist Phineas Flagg buys up a soon-to-be-condemned tract of land in Arizona's Gunsmoke to sell to the itinerants. While most of them fall for Flagg's trickery, the Three Mesquiteers call his bluff and attempt to reveal him for the avaricious cad he is; but is it too late to change the minds of their peers and save the day?
5) The hustle
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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 combine talents for their next mark: a naive tech billionaire.
6) Love ranch
Language
English
Formats
Description
Grace and Charlie make a fine couple as the proprietors of Nevada's first legalized brothel. She provides the mind behind their schemes, while his work as a gangster allows the swindles to be carried out. But a new scam involving a handsome boxer threatens both their plan and their two-decade marriage. Inspired by a true story.
7) Cold call
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2021]
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.
8) I'm no angel
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In addition to circus acts, Tira performs some questionable business maneuvers and takes a job as a lion tamer to escape jail. After Tiras first show catapults her to stardom, she attracts the attention of the wealthy Kirk Lawrence who happens to be engaged. His business partner, Jack Clayton, blows his friends cover and begins a romance with Tira. This time, Tira is in love for real and is devastated when a misunderstanding causes Jack to break off...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Russ Richards, a weatherman in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, is a local celebrity, but when an unusually mild winter causes his snowmobile dealership to take a plunge, Russ needs a get-rich scheme, and fast. With his greedy girlfriend, the TV's station's lotto-ball girl, and a criminally minded buddy, Russ hatches a plan to fix the lottery. Russ's numbers come upright, but then everything goes completely wrong, throwing Russ and his co-conspirators into...
Publisher
Alebrije Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
An unforgettable story about the opportunity to make a change when everything seems to have gone wrong and there seems no way to get ahead. Salvador is a skilled conman. For most of his years, he cheated others for a living, until he cheated the wrong man. After getting involved with Martin, an unscrupulous man, Salvador's life now lies in the hands (or rather, the knee) of Gasparotto.
12) Rushlights
Publisher
distributed by Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Billy and Sarah are two delinquent young lovers from the suburbs of Los Angeles, traveling to a small Texas town to falsely claim a dead friend's inheritance. The two teens, haunted by their own dubious pasts while pursuing their scam, wind up in a nightmare of greed and betrayal when confronted with the twisted and bizarre underworld of Tremo, TX - population 2870.
13) The lady Eve
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Barbara Stanwyck sizzles, Henry Fonda bumbles, and Preston Sturges runs riot in one of the all-time great screwballs, a pitch-perfect blend of comic zing and swoon worthy romance that Sturges wrote, directed, and produced.
15) Circus
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
"Leo and Lily Garfield dream of an escape from the drudgery of everyday crime. Together they mastermind an audacious scam that draws an assortment of outrageous and dangerous characters into their tangled web. Every encounter poses the question: who is lying and who is telling the truth?"--Container.
16) The sting
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A young con man teams up with a seasoned con man to win money from a criminal banker in 1930s Chicago.
17) Matchstick men
Publisher
Warner Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
Neurotic con man Roy suffers from several emotional problems, including obsessive-compulsive disorder. He and his partner Frank swindle people out of money. Frank wants to pull a really big job, but Roy is too consumed with fear and panic attacks to join him. Only cigarettes and his trusty illegal prescription drugs seem to keep him going. When Roy finds himself in desperate need of more pills, he is forced to see legitimate psychotherapist Dr. Klein....
Publisher
ABC Studios
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Meet Alice Vaughan: Strong, smart and tough-as-nails, she specializes in foiling world-class criminals with her elite team at Anderson/Vaughan Investigations, so she's devastated after losing her heart, and her life savings, to dashing, international conman Benjamin Jones, a.k.a. "Christopher". Desperate to extract some serious payback, Ali embarks on a secret quest to nab her ex-fiancée However, the spark that ignited between these volatile lovers...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Korean
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Description
Kim Ki-teak's family are all unemployed and living in a squalid basement. When his son gets a tutoring job at the lavish home of the Park family, the Kim family's luck changes. One by one they gradually infiltrate the wealthy Parks' home, attempting to take over their affluent lifestyle.
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A small-time con artist, nicknamed for his favorite candy, gets in over his head when he swindles a tough gangster out of some gambling profits. The Kid concocts a scheme to pay back the money by Christmas, by tricking his pals into dressing up as Santas and collecting money for a made-up charity.
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