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21) Foolish wives
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"Notorious womanizer Count Wladyslaw Sergius Karamzin rents a magnificent villa in Monte Carlo with his two female 'cousins.' The decadent trio share the lavish lifestyle available only to fabulously wealthy aristocrats. Beneath the veneer of respectability lurks an ugly secret: the trio are flat broke and finance their sumptuous existence through counterfeiting and the funds the Count is able to glean from the upperclass wives he coldly and very...
22) Buffaloed
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Peg Dahl (Zoey Deutch) is trying to get out of Buffalo and attend her dream school but can't afford it. She gets scammed and decides to flip the script and cheat the system like it did to her. Co-starring Judy Greer, Jai Courtney and Jermaine Fowler.
23) House of games
Series
Criterion collection volume 399
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2007, ©1987.
Language
English
Description
A therapist and best-selling author must confront her own demons when she meets a man who has gambling debts and she feels compelled to help him.
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Stephen and Bloom are brothers who have been con artists since they were kids. Stephen is the mastermind, while Bloom is the main character of Stephen's stories. As adults, they travel the world and never enlist the same people twice in their cons, except for their consistent sidekick, the mysterious and primarily silent Bang Bang, a Japanese woman who just appeared in their lives one day and happens to have a penchant for blowing things up. As Bloom...
25) Scarlet Street
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Chris Cross, 25 years a cashier, has a gold watch and little else. One rainy night, he rescues the delectable Kitty from her abusive boyfriend Johnny. Smitten, amateur painter Chris lets Kitty think he's a wealthy artist. At Johnny's urging, Kitty lets Chris establish her in an apartment (with his shrewish wife's money). There, Chris paints masterpieces; but Johnny sells them under Kitty's name, with disastrous and ironic results.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1140
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
With his rousingly entertaining directorial debut, Sidney Poitier helped rewrite the history of the western, bringing Black heroes to a genre in which they had always been sorely underrepresented. Combining boisterous buddy comedy with blistering, Black Power-era political fury, Poitier and a marvelously mischievous Harry Belafonte star as a tough and taciturn wagon master and an unscrupulous, pistol-packing "preacher," who join forces to take on...
27) Beat the devil
Publisher
The Film Detective
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Adventure story set aboard a steamer bound for Africa. The passengers attempt to outfox each other for illegal control of a piece of land they think has uranium on it.
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Whisky galore!: Scottish islanders plot to steal cases of whisky from a stranded ship.
The Maggie: A rich businessman accidentally entrusts the transporation of his personal furniture to a small, aged puffer boat more suitable for a scrap yard than for the expensive cargo.
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