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Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
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....
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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,...
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
The rich Duke Brothers wager on whether a born loser like Billy Ray Valentine, a hustler from the ghetto, can become as successful as Winthorpe, a wealthy investment executive, if put in the proper environment--and would a prig like Winthorpe turn to a life of crime if he were to lose it all
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.
5) The tourist
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Insurance agent Abe Holt is investigating the suspicious death of the driver of a burned-out car. He must find out whether or not the dead man - a conman with a record - could possibly have been the victim of an attempt to swindle the insurance company
7) Focus
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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 racecar circuit. In the midst of Nicky's latest, very dangerous scheme, she throws his plans for a loop, and...
8) The hustle
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
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.
9) Confidence
Publisher
Distributed by Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
Con man Jake and his gang, Gordo, Miles, and Big Al, pull off a swindling job stealing money from a guy who turns out to be a mob accountant for crime boss, King. Then Jake and his crew attempt to pull off an even bigger scam to make up for their mistake. This time the con involves the King's enemy, the mob-connected banker Morgan Price. Two corrupt cops join Jake's team while the King appoints his henchman, Lupus to oversee the operation
10) The big bounce
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
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
11) The music man
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010, c1962
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.
13) Rough diamond
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Aging criminal mastermind Des simply won't go gentle into that good night. Donning all manner of disguises, he can fool the authorities--and his marks--into thinking he's just another harmless old geezer. Behind his spectacles, though, Des always has his eye out for the next big score in diamonds, gold, or piles of cold cash. His intricately planned heists prove so daring and so outrageous that he always gets his target. And as for Des's victims--...
14) The hustler
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1969
Language
English
Description
Itinerant pool shark challenges the top man for the championship, sacrificing everything until he realizes the stakes are too high.
15) RocknRolla
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In London, a real-estate scam puts millions of pounds up for grabs. This attracts some of the city's scrappiest tough guys, along with its more established underworld types. All are looking to get rich quick. While the city's seasoned criminals vie for the cash, an unexpected player -- a drugged out rock 'n' roller presumed to be dead but is very much alive. He has the multi-million dollar prize fall, literally, into his hands
16) Revolver
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Jake Green is a grifter who vows revenge against Macha, the ferocious crime boss who sent him to prison. After taking Macha down in a game of chance, Macha puts out a hit on Jake. Caught between a gun and a hard place, Jake finds himself protected by two vicious loan sharks who make him an offer he can't refuse
18) Fingersmith
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. Mrs. Sucksby's household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transient family of petty thieves-fingersmiths-for whom this house in the heart of a mean London slum is home. One day, the most beloved thief of all arrives-Gentleman, a somewhat elegant con man, who carries with...
19) Midnight cowboy
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment [distributor
Pub. Date
1998]
Language
English
Description
A Texas "cowboy" takes a bus to New York in search of lonely, rich women who will pay for his sexual services, but spends a hard winter helping a con man.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
"The Color of Money" is a decades-later sequel to "The Hustler." 25 years on, Fast Eddie is now a nattily dressed, silver-haired liquor salesman working the Midwest in his white Cadillac. His neat mustache and smiling deviltry are also employed in his other profession--stake horse to up and coming pool hustlers. One night he sees a kid playing who is so good that Eddie's laboriously buried memories are stirred. Vincent and his girlfriend Carmen have...
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