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Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 156 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Beat the devil: Four con men conspire together to pull off a uranium heist worth millions ; Indiscretion of an American wife: An ill-fated tale of passion and infidelity.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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....
3) Con man
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The true story of Barry Minkow, a charismatic teenager, turned business man, who became the youngest person ever to defraud Wall Street.
4) The hustle
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.
5) The grifters
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three con artists walk on the razor's edge of life. Lilly has decided it's time to get out, and wants her son out, too. But Roy has fallen for sleek Myra, who wants him for her partner.
Language
English
Formats
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.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 1 hr., 46 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two con artists have spent 26 years training their only daughter to swindle, scam, and steal at every turn. During a desperate and hastily conceived heist, they charm a stranger into joining them, only to have their entire world turned upside down.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Desperate for income, Emily takes a shady gig buying goods with stolen credit cards supplied by a charismatic middleman named Youcef. Seduced by the quick cash and illicit thrills, they hatch a plan to take their business to the next level.
10) American hustle
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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,...
11) Pixie
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On a path to avenge her mother's death, Pixie Hardy attempts a heist that will give her the means to leave her small town life behind. When the plan goes horribly wrong she's forced to team up with a pair of misfits who are clearly in over their heads. On the run from an organized gang, criminal priests, and nuns, led by Father McGrath, the trio will scheme and swindle anyone they come across in this hilarious and thrilling adventure.
12) Buffaloed
Language
English
Formats
Description
A teenage girl is obsessed with making enough cash to get out of Buffalo. When the acceptance letter to her dream school arrives, she must hustle to find a job that will pay for tuition. But after getting scammed by a debt collector she works for, Peg decides to cheat the system like it cheated her.
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.
14) The good liar
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Consummate con man Roy Courtnay has set his sights on his latest mark: the recently widowed Betty McLeish, worth millions. But this time, what should have been a simple swindle escalates into a cat-and-mouse game with the ultimate stakes.
15) Going postal
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (185 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Moist von Lipwig is caught for his trickery, he is given the option of becoming the next postmaster or falling down a deep pit.
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 140 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
Winner of the Golden Lion at the 1959 Venice Film Festival, directed by Roberto Rossellini and featuring world cinema icon Vittoria de Sica (The bicycle thief), Il generale della rovere is a film based on the true story of Emanuele Bardone, who, during the height of WWII, exploits his fellow Italians by telling them that he will find their missing loved ones in exchange for money. When he attempts to save a man who had already been executed, he is...
17) Nightmare alley
Series
Language
English
Description
"Darkness lurks behind the bright lights of a traveling carnival in one of the most haunting and perverse film noirs of the 1940s. Adapted from the scandalous best seller by William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley gave Tyrone Power a chance to subvert his matinee-idol image with a ruthless performance as Stanton Carlisle, a small-time carny whose unctuous charm propels him to fame as a charlatan spiritualist, but whose unchecked ambition leads him...
18) Paper moon
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A smooth-talking con man and a nine-year-old orphan are up to tricks in depression-era Kansas. Also includes a prologue by Peter Bogdanovich in which he shares insights about being a director and goes behind the scenes of Paper Moon.
19) Quiz: [Season 1]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (152 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a simplistic, "question and answer" quiz show, "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?", goes on the air in the UK. the nation is gripped. As the show's ratings grow, so does Diana Ingram's desire to be in the hotseat with the chance of winning the biggest cash prize in history. When her husband Charles, an eccentric army man, makes it onto the show, he causes a major scandal after being caught cheating his way to winning 1 million.
20) Nightmare alley
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
From visionary filmmaker Guillermo del Toro comes a suspenseful psychological thriller about a manipulative carnival man who teams with an equally deceptive psychiatrist to grift the wealthy in 1940s New York society. Del Toro co-wrote the enthralling film with Kim Morgan, based on William Lindsay Gresham's novel.
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