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A boy named Griffin finds a valuable multi-million dollar baseball card. After accidentally selling the card for a million dollar loss, he enlists the help of his best friend Ben and his colleagues to regain the baseball card.

Four thieves attempt to make the richest score in history.

Aging small-time conman Augusto works with two younger men: Roberto, who desires to become the Italian Johnny Ray, and Carlo, nicknamed Picasso. Through a series of mishaps and personal entanglements, things go badly for Augusto.

Lady-killer Ikki Fujisawa uses his boyish charm and his obvious skill at cunnilingus to habitually seduce and then swindle societal elite women out of millions. Keeping a close eye on Ikki's adventures in the hope of a slip-up is a thick-skinned detective who resorts to collaborating with a renowned retired conman in his pursuit of this libidinous criminal.

Vaunted director Li Han-Hsiang reveals the way of the world in this anthology film of four stories that feature far more swindlers and swindling than lovers or love. There's fake acupuncturists, gullible counterfeiters, a jewelry heist in a VD clinic, and a salesgirl's subtle scam in these short cinematic stories of gulls, dopes, marks, and fools and the cons, cheaters, charlatans, and connivers who trick them. It's four times the fraud as the cheats, gyps, and rip-offs come fast and furious!

A con artist falls in love with a respectable nightclub girl but romance is overshadowed by deception.

A group of swindlers unite to hunt down an infamous con man who was known dead, amid their hidden motives and deception.

There are three kinds of swindler. One, called the "WHITE SWINDLER", finds a mark and steals money. The "RED SWINDLER" preys on the other sex and steals a mark's body and soul. Then there is the "BLACK SWINDLER". Ignoring ordinary marks, targeting only the white and red swindlers, and preying on their flesh grown fat and corrupt with the money they have stolen, he is the worst of them all. There is a boy who once became a victim of a swindler and lost his family. Later, he turns into the most hideous "black swindler" to deceive only other swindlers. His name is Kurosaki. This time, he is requested by Reiko, whose daughter is sick, to hunt down a swindler named Ishigaki, who has defrauded her of money. But, behind Ishigaki, there is actually a bigger swindle which has even destabilized the Japanese economy…

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Two swindlers fall in love with two expert frauds and decide to get married. However, things take an unexpected turn when they are forced to repent.

Hotaru Amami is a private investigator, also manages her own office. With her assistant Yayoi Mizuno, who is a law student, they try to exterminate swindlers target women. One day, Erika, Yayoi’s friend in college, visits her office. She says she is claimed to pay for sample cosmetics that she was given on a street by answering a survey. It sounds it is easy that she just has to take an action of cooling-off. However, this case is complex that it’s planned by a group to make money by eating up women’s dream.

A satirical comedy starring Makoto Fujita, depicting the two East and West con artists swindling illicit money from bad guys.

The millionaire Sobhi lives in his luxurious palace, and he feels happy because his friend Ghoar is the one who serves him. Life seemed to give Sobhi a lot, and now Ghoar has turned into a servant. A gang seeks to seize Sobhi's money, and they manage to steal it. Sobhi works as a waiter in a restaurant. Ghoar inherits a sum of money and becomes rich.

Sammo is a single father and scam artist that uses his son in his scams. He's an alcoholic with gambling problems that likes to fight. He gets arrested, and the woman who arrests him looks after his son while he's in jail.

Drama depicting a female swindler who eats a man and steals 20 million yen from a casino

Sequel to Heron Master Ippei.

Kumazawa Jiro, a tax-worker, is tricked out of a large sum of money by the swindler Himuro Makoto. With the help of his best friend, a detective, Kumazawa tracks down Himuro and teams up with him and sets out to extract JP¥ 1B in unpaid tax from a large corporation that is hiding tax evasion.

An attractive single mother rents a room in her house to a mysterious drifter who has nefarious plans to swindle her.

Three friends living day by day on the streets of Athens by put-up jobs.

Hong Kong movie

1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl, Sookee, is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, Hideko, who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle Kouzuki. But the maid has a secret. She is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler posing as a Japanese Count to help him seduce the Lady to steal her fortune.

A crusading newspaper reporter battles big-city gambling interests.

A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate Inn. However, peace and quiet are the last things he gets, as there are some very strange goings-on at the establishment.

Two female scam artists, one low rent and the other high class, compete to swindle a naïve tech prodigy out of his fortune. A remake of the 1988 comedy "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels."

A lusty Gypsy gold digger marries a Regency aristocrat, then learns he has no money.

In November 1918, a few days before the Armistice, when Lieutenant Pradelle orders a senseless attack, he causes a useless disaster; but his outrageous act also binds the lives of two soldiers who have nothing more in common than the battlefield: Édouard saves Albert, although at a high cost. They become companions in misfortune who will attempt to survive in a changing world. Pradelle, in his own way, does the same.

Two con artists try to swindle a stamp collector by selling him a sheet of counterfeit rare stamps, the "nine queens".

Nakrob, a young real estate swindler, discovers an abandoned hillside hotel by the beach. Seeing an opportunity, he decides to turn it into a luxury hotel scam.

The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.

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Con artist Lawrence Jamieson is a longtime resident of a luxurious coastal resort, where he enjoys the lavish fruits of his deceptions -- that is, until a competitor, Freddy Benson, shows up. When the new guy's lowbrow tactics impinge on his own sophisticated work and believing him to be the infamous conman 'The Jackal', Lawrence resolves to get rid of him. Confident of his own duplicitous talents, he challenges Freddy to a winner-takes-all competition: whoever swindles their latest mark, American heiress Janet Colgate, out of $50,000 first can stay, while the other must leave town.

Vlogger Keith Gill sinks his life savings into GameStop stock and posts about it. When social media starts blowing up, so do his life and the lives of everyone following him. As a stock tip becomes a movement, everyone gets rich—until the billionaires fight back, and both sides find their worlds turned upside down.

After a prosecution lawyer is framed and convicted for murder, he tries to catch the real murderer from jail with the help of a con artist.

Freewheeling wanderer Jerry Day and his beautiful wife Toni are at odds over their lifestyle. Jerry can't accept responsibility, but Toni yearns for a family and a settled life. Then the Days 'rediscover' Jerry's young daughter Pennie, who has been living with his rich deceased wife's family. Pennie appears to be just what Jerry needs to mend his swindling ways and lead a straight life. Then a corruptible influence enters his life.

In this western, a cowpoke gets in an argument; a scuffle ensues leaving the cowboy to believe that he killed his opponent. He is so wracked with guilt that he travels to the ranch of the dead man's sister, gives himself a new name and begins helping her. Rustlers come; he stops them. Trouble ensues after she learns his true identity. A scuffle ensues. She wings him with a gun; he disarms her. Later she hears the real murderer bragging about his crime during a fight with the hero.

A timid, overworked and underpaid bookkeeper needs a $10 raise to marry his sweetheart...

The Gestapo forces con man Victorio Bardone to impersonate a dead partisan general in order to extract information from his fellow inmates.

Trying to get his act together, a con artist gets a job in a credit card company. He falls in love with a fellow employee, he steals a couple of cards, everything is going great. But soon, the chief of security drags him into the big leagues of criminals...

Amador and Fidel are two small scammers operating in Torremolinos beach and surroundings with more misery than fortune.

After bank president David Dwight makes a vast loan to himself to build a remarkable skyscraper, his board questions the propriety of the loan. Despite the devotion of longtime mistress Sarah, the ruthless David, while seeking bank mergers to protect his building, tries to seduce Sarah's secretary, Lynn. David then agrees to a plot by a bank board member to inflate his bank's stock and sell short — just before the market crashes.

A Twilight Zone-inspired cautionary tale about a young mother forced to come face-to-face with her deepest desire.

A fleeting love encounter between two men with opposing views on love proves that, like a plum, the sweetest turn bitter too soon.

An ad creative and a successful exec have a great marriage — until he wants to be a dad just as her star is rising. Then he brings someone new home.

With help from a local fisherman, his niece and an adorable baby seal, George embarks on a quest in search of the long-lost shipwreck of legendary sea captain Trumpet Tooter.

A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.

65 million years ago, the only 2 survivors of a spaceship from Somaris that crash-landed on Earth, must fend off dinosaurs to reach the escape vessel in time before an imminent asteroid strike threatens to destroy the planet.

A disgraced FBI agent with a drinking problem joins nine other troubled law enforcement officers at an isolated detox clinic in the wilds of Wyoming. But the therapeutic sanctuary becomes a nightmarish hellhole when a major snowstorm cuts off the clinic from the outside world and enables a killer on the inside to get busy.

When Jimbo’s son, Junior, is captured by the infamous Bigfoot, Jimbo must decide between saving him or preserving the only proof of the beast that killed his wife.

A young bisexual woman's clash between her religious upbringing and liberating college life turns nightmarish when she finds she can't shake away the devil that is stalking her.

A workaholic big-city fashion journalist is sent to a Christmas-obsessed small town to dig up a story when she finds herself in the middle of cut-throat housewives, a high-stakes “Winter Ball” competition, and a sinister plot that could destroy Christmas fore-evah!