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2) The tourist
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Frank, a mild-mannered American on vacation in Venice, becomes unexpectedly involved with a beautiful woman Elise, but as their whirlwind romance quickly evolves, they find themselves thrust into a deadly game of cat and mouse.
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Harlan is a worn-out grifter with a problem. Fiona is the beautiful hustler with a seemingly simple solution. In their seedy world of filthy alleys and cheap motel rooms, nothing is ever simple, but you always have to wonder, just who's conning who?
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Language
English
Description
Con artists Roy and Frank have perfected the art of high crime, but in the midst of one of their biggest scams ever, Roy is shocked to learn he has a teenage daughter from a long-ago affair, and the distraction could cost them more than they expected.
6) Larceny
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
She's alluring, conniving, and she'll do anything to claw her way out of poverty an into the corridors of wealth and power. This fast-paced, colorful adventure is based on the true story of a woman who ruthlessly used her beauty and cinning to acieve the good life. The beautiful daughter of a poor farmer, Betsy Bigley is desperate to improve her situation. She cooks up one scheme after another, hoping to gain entry into high society. From bilking...
7) Stone cold
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Oliver Stone and the Camel Club are back in their most dangerous adventure yet, a war on two fronts"--Provided by the publisher.
8) Tower heist.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"[A] luxury condo manager ... leads a staff of workers to seek payback on the Wall Street swindler ... who defrauded them. With only days until the billionaire gets away with the perfect crime, the unlikely crew of amateur thieves enlists the help of petty crook Slide ... to steal the $20 million they're sure is hidden in the penthouse"--Container.
9) An education
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In the early 1960's, 16-year-old Jenny Mellor lives with her parents in a London suburb. She is smart, pretty, and working toward her goal of being accepted into Oxford. Her life will take a big turn when she meets David, a man twice her age. Now she must decide if she will pursue an education at Oxford, or if she will choose to learn all that a charismatic, older man can teach her.
10) Simply lies
Author
Publisher
GCP, Grand Central
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Mickey Gibson, single mother and former detective, leads a hectic life: juggling the demands of her two small children with the tasks of her job working remotely for ProEye, a global investigation company that hunts down wealthy tax and credit cheats. When Mickey gets a call from a colleague named Arlene Robinson, she thinks nothing of Arlene's unusual request for her to go inventory the vacant home of an arms dealer who cheated ProEye's clients and...
11) Faking it
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Tilda Goodnight, one of a long line of art forgers, tries to save her family by going straight, but things become complicated when she tries to steal back a painting she did years earlier and has an encounter in a closet with semi-reformed con man Davy Dempsey.
12) Extract
Publisher
Miramax Films
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Joel is the owner of an extract manufacturing plant who constantly finds himself in precarious situations that steadily worsen by the minute. First, his soon-to-be floor manager acquires a serious injury in a machine malfunctioning accident. This subsequently endangers the wellbeing of his company. Second, his personal life doesn't fair much better when he takes his bartending friend Dean's advice while in a drug-induced brainstorming session on how...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Beano X. Bates, a con man known as "King Con," is nearly beaten to death by a New Jersey crime boss and considers leaving his life as a grifter for good. But before he quits, he makes plans to perform one final scam that will ruin the boss and his Mob family forever.
14) 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.
15) American hustle
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
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, New Jersey political operator caught between the cons and Feds. Irving's unpredictable wife Rosalyn could be the one to pull the thread...
16) The Chase
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
"FBI Agent Kate O'Hare is a force of nature, and she's lived for one thing and one thing only: to put the slippery conman known as Nicolas Fox behind bars. Nick is a fed's worst nightmare: exceptionally talented in his line of work, known the world over for being able to pull off some of the most dangerous, high-profile cons. In a cruel twist of fate, Kate's bosses at the FBI force her to covertly partner up with Nick to take down big league crime....
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Reveals the behind the scenes details of the big con by telling the story of J. Frank Norfleet, a Texas rancher who lost everything twice in stock market swindles in 1919, and then spent four years gathering evidence against his enemies, and includes a history of cons in the United States.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Amber Patterson is fed up. She's tired of being a nobody: a plain, invisible woman who blends into the background. She deserves more--a life of money and power like the one blond-haired, blue-eyed goddess Daphne Parrish takes for granted.To everyone in the exclusive town of Bishops Harbor, Connecticut, Daphne--a socialite and philanthropist--and her real-estate mogul husband, Jackson, are a couple straight out of a fairy tale.Amber's envy could eat...
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