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21) Money
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
In this high-stakes, fast-action thriller, two pharmaceutical executives are about to get away with stealing five million dollars after selling trade secrets to the highest bidder. But a charismatic con artist shows up to derail their plans and holds them hostage at gunpoint during an all-night standoff where loyalties are tested and true motives revealed.
22) Dear God
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Tom Turner a is money-scamming con artist who goes from no-good to doing good. His transformation begins when a judge gives him a choice of work or prison. Tim chooses work, and is assigned to a post office's Dead Letter Office. There he begins a con of divine proportions - by responding to letters addressed to God. With a few "miracles", he's in the right place to pocket any offerings mailed back. But an unexpected miracle takes place when the city...
23) Matchstick men
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
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....
25) American hustle
Formats
Description
A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, American Hustle is the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld, who along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso. DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that's as dangerous as it is enchanting. Carmine Polito is the passionate, volatile,...
26) The frighteners
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Con man Frank Bannister (Fox) has a unique scam-- he works with a group of ghosts who haunt a home until Frank comes along to drive them out, for the right price. But the small town of Fairwater is plagued by a serial killer's evil spirit and Frank and his spiritual cronies face the challenge of getting rid of the ghost before the police decide to get rid of Frank.
Publisher
RLT Pictures
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Suffering from a heart disorder, Alex is in major debt from medical bills and is trying to make something of his life. He allows himself to be manipulated by his own friend Daniel, who suffers from a gambling addiction. At one of the churches Alex is scamming, he meets Elaine, a sincere Christian woman, and they fall in love. Living a double life and with the FBI closing in on him, Alex will be faced with a choice that could cause him to lose the...
28) The tourist
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Description
During an impromptu trip to Europe to mend a broken heart, Frank unexpectedly finds himself in a flirtatious encounter with Elise, an extraordinary woman who deliberately crosses his path. Against the breathtaking backdrop of Paris and Venice, their whirlwind romance quickly evolves as they find themselves unwittingly thrust into a deadly game of cat and mouse.
29) Runner runner
Pub. Date
2014
Description
A Princeton graduate student, Richie, believes he has been tricked online by a fellow gambler. He travels to Costa Rica to meet Ivan Block, an online gambling tycoon. When the FBI tries to pressure Richie to help bring down Block, Richie faces his biggest gamble ever.
31) Midnight cowboy
Series
Formats
Description
Joe Buck moves to New York from Texas to make his fortune servicing women. Instead, he's conned into partnering up with small-time huslter Ratso Rizzo. Living together on the tattered edges of society, these two outcasts develop an unlikely bond that helps them transcend their cruel existence.
32) The big bounce
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Jack is a small-time con man trying to lead an easier life in Hawaii. Trouble is, he can't keep out of trouble, and when he does stay clean, trouble finds him. Trouble, in this case, comes in the bikini-clad form of Nancy, the mistress of a local real estate developer. She lures Jack into a scheme that ultimately involves complicating Jack's moral dilemma when Nancy asks Jack to help her double-cross the developer out of $200,000.
33) HeartBreakers
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Description
A mother-daughter con team attempts to take advantage of a tobacco tycoon.
34) Reclaim
Publisher
Lionesgate
Pub. Date
2014
Description
A desperate American couple discovers all is not what it seems when they uncover a high-stakes underground scam while traveling abroad. To expose the truth and get back to the U.S., they must risk their lives to save their daughter.
Publisher
Saban Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Based on a true story, this riveting thriller follows Jason Derek Brown, a charismatic con man bankrolling his extravagant lifestyle through a series of scams. On Brown's trail: Lance Leising, a dogged FBI special agent determined to put Brown behind bars. When Brown's funds run low and his past catches up with him, he plots his most elaborate scheme yet, pitting himself against Leising in a deadly game of cat and mouse, and becoming the most unlikely...
Publisher
ABC Studios
Pub. Date
[2016]
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...
37) $5 a day
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Formats
Description
After being released from jail for a crime his dad committed, Ritchie Flynn Parker, the son of a thrifty conman, begrudgingly joins his father on the road, after years of separation. Ritchie Flynn is a reformed conman who doesn't want anything to do with his father. He also feels he is being conned into joining his father on the road, but soon learns the real reason for this, and the lessons he learns will change his life. Conman Nat Parker wants...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Norman Oppenheimer is a small time operator who befriends a young politician at a low point in his life. Three years later, when the politician becomes an influential world leader, Norman's life dramatically changes for better and worse.
39) Tower heist
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Queens native Josh Kovacs has managed one of the most luxurious and well-secured residences in New York City for more than a decade. Under his watchful eye, nothing goes undetected. In the swankiest unit atop Josh's building, Wall Street titan Arthur Shaw is under house arrest after being caught stealing two billion from his investors. The hardest hit among those he defrauded? The tower staffers whose pensions he was entrusted to manage.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Britain's best-loved comedy series returns to DVD in this incredible collection of specials! This collection brings together all ten specials that ran between 1991 and 2003, including the 2-part "Miami Twice, " "Mother Nature's Son, " "Heroes and Villains, " "If They Could See Us Now, " the classic Only Fools and Horses series finale, "Sleepless in Peckham" and more! Del-boy and Rodney are up to all their usual tricks in over 11 hours of programming...
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