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2) Paper moon
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Con artists sells Bibles to widows in depression-era Kansas.
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A con man in the guise of a traveling salesman gets off the train in River City, Iowa. He convinces the town to finance a children's marching band instead of a pool hall. Special features include: 'Right Here in River City' Documentary and Introduction by Shirley Jones.
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.
Language
English
Formats
Description
From visionary filmmaker Guillermo del Toro comes this noir-style psychological thriller starring Bradley Cooper and Cate Blanchett. When a manipulative carnival man (Cooper) teams with an equally deceptive psychiatrist (Blanchett) to grift the wealthy in 1940s New York society, he learns that his new partner in crime might be his most formidable opponent yet. NIGHTMARE ALLEY is directed by del Toro, who co-wrote the film with Kim Morgan, based on...
6) Drunkboat
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The coming-of-age story of a teenager who, with the help of his alcoholic uncle, buys a boat from a con man.
7) The hustler
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
An amoral, arrogant pool hustler who haunts backroom pool halls gets a real chance at fame when he faces the legendary Minnesota Fats in a personal competition.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Ben Quick, an industrious con artist who's known throughout the country as a barn burner, gets run out of a Mississippi town. He meets up with Clara Varner, whose father is pressuring her to get married and provide him with grandchildren. It isn't long before he decides Ben and Clara should marry, and when she resists, it sets up a dramatically escalating clash of wills.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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.
10) The grifters
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
A con man, his mother, and his girlfriend all become involved in a game of deception, in which they prey on each other.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Ben Quick, an industrious con artist who's known throughout the country as a barn burner, gets run out of a Mississippi town. He meets up with Clara Varner, whose father is pressuring her to get married and provide him with grandchildren. It isn't long before he decides Ben and Clara should marry, and when she resists, it sets up a dramatically escalating clash of wills.
12) Scarlet Street
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A mild-mannered cashier becomes involved with a beautiful swindler leading to deception and violence.
13) All Hat.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ray Dokes is an ex-con who returns to his rural Ontario roots and outwits a corrupt and wealthy thoroughbred owner trying to take over a slew of local farms.
14) Midnight cowboy
Series
Criterion collection volume 925
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"One of the British New Wave's most versatile directors, John Schlesinger came to New York in the late 1960s to make Midnight Cowboy, a picaresque story of friendship that captured a city in crisis and sparked a new era of Hollywood movies. Jon Voight delivers a career-making performance as Joe Buck, a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy city women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum...
15) Nightmare alley
Series
Criterion collection volume 1078
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
An ambitious man working as part of a surreal and disturbing traveling carnival sets out to become a mentalist and take over the job of someone else in the sideshow.
16) Paper moon
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A con artist and his nine-year-old orphan companion sell Bibles to widows in Depression-era Kansas.
17) American buffalo
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"For down-and-out junk dealer Don, life goes form unlucky to unbearable when he discovers that the rare buffalo head nickel he just sold for $90 is worth ten times as much! Refusing to let himself be out-swindled, Don enlists the help of a young prot©♭g©♭ in a scheme to steal the coin back. But their plans are suddenly altered by the intrusion of Teach, a disturbingly aggressive would-be thief who badgers Don into cutting him in on the heist--...
18) The music man
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In early twentieth-century Iowa, con artist Harold Hill invades a small town to sell its citizens - and its piano-teaching librarian, in particular - on creating a boys' band.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Sin City: Welcome to Sin City, the town that beckons to the tough, the corrupt, and the brokenhearted. A universe of unlikely and reluctant heroes still try to do the right thing in a city that refuses to care. See Frank Miller's graphic novels come to life. Contains both the theatrical release and the unrated extended cut version.
No country for old men: When a man stumbles on a bloody crime scene, a pickup truck loaded with heroin, and two million...
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Vacuum cleaner salesman Jim Wormold is recruited by the British Secret Service. He becomes an unlikely agent in Cuba. To avoid working while cashing the checks, Wormold spins a web of lies about foreign government secrets. When the local coppers decode his fake messages, all hell breaks loose in Havana and Wormold must become the spy he dreads in order to survive his own swindle.
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