Films with theme "Escroquerie", sorted by rating

, 1h45
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about films, Films about writers, Films about children, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Films about television, L'usurpation d'identité, LGBT-related films, Films about pedophilia, Transgender in film, Escroquerie, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films about religion, LGBT-related film
Actors Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Javier Cámara, Lluís Homar, Leonor Watling

In Madrid in 1980, Enrique Goded, a young film director, is looking for his next project when he receives the unexpected visit of an actor looking for work. The actor claims to be Enrique's boarding school friend and first love, Ignacio Rodriguez. Ignacio, who is using now the name Ángel Andrade, has brought with him a short story titled "The Visit" hoping that Enrique would be interested in making a film out of it giving him the starring role. Enrique is intrigued since "The Visit" described their time together at the Catholic school and it also includes a fictionalized account of their reunion many years later as adults.

, 1h57
Directed by Sydney Pollack
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about television, L'usurpation d'identité, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Musical films, Escroquerie, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Charles Durning, Bill Murray, Dabney Coleman

Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman) is a respected but perfectionist actor. Nobody in New York wants to hire him anymore because he is difficult to work with. According to his long-suffering agent George Fields (Sydney Pollack), Michael's attention to detail and difficult reputation led a commercial he worked on to run significantly over-schedule, because the idea of a tomato sitting down was "illogical" to him. After many months without a job, Michael hears of an opening on the soap opera Southwest General from his friend and acting student Sandy Lester (Teri Garr), who tries out for the role of a hospital administrator Emily Kimberly but does not get it. In desperation, and as a result of his agent telling him that "no one will hire you", he dresses as a woman, auditions as "Dorothy Michaels" and wins the part. Michael takes the job as a way to raise $8,000 to produce a play, written by his roommate Jeff Slater (Bill Murray) and to star Sandy, titled Return to Love Canal. Michael plays his character as a feisty, feminist administrator, which surprises the other actors and crew who expected Emily to be (as written) another swooning female in the plot. His character quickly becomes a television sensation.

, 2h18
Directed by Anthony Minghella
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Adventure, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, L'usurpation d'identité, LGBT-related films, Films about psychiatry, Escroquerie, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jack Davenport

Tom Ripley is a young man struggling to make a living in 1950s New York City using his "talents"—forgery, lying and impersonation. While playing piano at a cocktail party in New York City, he is approached by wealthy shipbuilder Herbert Greenleaf, who mistakenly believes that Ripley went to Princeton with his son, Dickie, because Ripley is wearing a borrowed Princeton blazer. Greenleaf recruits Ripley to travel to Italy and persuade Dickie to return to the United States, for which he will pay Ripley $1,000 (equivalent to $8 804 in 2015). Ripley accepts the proposal, even though he did not attend Princeton and has never met Dickie.

, 1h42
Directed by Peter Yates, Burt Kennedy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about immigration, Mafia films, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan, Steven Keats, Alex Rocco, Mitch Ryan

Eddie Coyle (a.k.a. "Eddie Fingers") is an aging delivery truck driver for a bakery. He is also a low-level gunrunner for a crime organization in Boston, Massachusetts. He is facing several years in prison for a truck hijacking in New Hampshire set up by Dillon, who owns a local bar. Coyle's last chance is securing a sentencing recommendation through the help of an ATF agent, Dave Foley, who demands that Coyle become an informer in return. Unbeknownst to Coyle, Dillon is an informer for Foley.

, 1h50
Directed by Frank Oz
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes La provence, Buddy films, Escroquerie
Actors Michael Caine, Steve Martin, Glenne Headly, Ian McDiarmid, Barbara Harris, Anton Rodgers

Lawrence Jamieson is an intelligent and sophisticated British con artist operating in the French Riviera with the help of manservant Arthur and corrupt police official Andre. He seduces wealthy and morally suspect women and steals their money. His only concern is a con artist known as "The Jackal" who has been preying on other wealthy victims.

, 1h24
Directed by Céline Sciamma
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Feminist films, Politique, Films about sexuality, L'usurpation d'identité, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, La sexualité des mineurs, Transgender in film, Political films, Teen LGBT-related films, Escroquerie, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Mathieu Demy, Malonn Lévana, Sophie Cattani

Laure is a 10-year-old child whose family moves to a new address in Paris. One day Laure sees a group of boys playing outside the window and goes to play with them, but they disappear quickly. Instead, Laure meets Lisa, a neighborhood girl, and Laure introduces himself as Mikäel. Lisa then introduces Mikäel to the rest of the neighborhood children stating that "he" is the new kid in the apartment complex. A bath scene in the film reveals that Mikäel has a vagina, and a following scene confirms that Mikäel was assigned female at birth as his mom addresses him and his sister as "girls." Mikäel becomes friends with Lisa and the boys and tries to hide his genitalia to appear like a boy (make it seem that he has a penis). At one point this leads Mikäel to pee his pants, which originally makes him embarrassed, but is soon forgotten. As they all play, Lisa and Mikäel develop crushes on each other and after swimming one day, Lisa kisses him. At this point, Mikäel also seems to be accepted into the group of boys.

, 1h41
Directed by Julius Machulski
Origin Pologne
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Jan Machulski, Leonard Pietraszak, Witold Pyrkosz, Krzysztof Kiersznowski, Ewa Szykulska, Beata Tyszkiewicz

L'histoire se déroule dans Varsovie des années 1930.

, 2h2
Directed by Michael Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Noir, Crime
Themes Mafia films, L'Outfit de Chicago, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Robert Prosky, James Belushi, Willie Nelson, Dennis Farina

Frank (James Caan) is a highly experienced jewel thief and hardened ex-convict who has a set structure to his life. With a pair of successful Chicago businesses (a bar and a car dealership) as fronts for his lucrative criminal enterprise, Frank sets out to fulfill the missing part of his life vision: a family beginning with Jessie (Tuesday Weld), a pretty cashier he has begun dating.

, 1h24
Directed by Robert Siodmak
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Noir, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally, Alan Napier, Percy Helton

Reuniting with director Siodmak after their success with Ernest Hemingway's The Killers, Burt Lancaster plays Steve Thompson, a man who seals his dark fate when he returns to Los Angeles to find his ex-wife Anna Dundee (Yvonne DeCarlo) eager to rekindle their love against all better judgment.

, 1h46
Directed by Daryl Duke
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Elliott Gould, Christopher Plummer, Susannah York, John Candy, Sean Sullivan, Ken Pogue

Miles Cullen travaille comme caissier dans une banque et entretient une parfaite relation avec des poissons tropicaux. Mais un jour, un voleur lui donne l'occasion involontaire de se faire une prime de 50 000 dollars en les subtilisant dans sa propre banque...

, 1h36
Directed by Robert Wise
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Noir, Crime
Themes Films about racism, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Robert Ryan, Ed Begley, Harry Belafonte, Gloria Grahame, Shelley Winters, Richard Bright

David Burke (Ed Begley) is a former policeman who was ruined when he refused to cooperate with state crime investigators. He has asked hard-bitten, racist, ex-con Earl Slater (Robert Ryan) to help him rob an upstate bank, promising him $50,000 if the robbery is successful. Burke also recruits Johnny Ingram (Belafonte), a nightclub entertainer who doesn’t want the job but who is addicted to gambling and is in debt.

, 1h38
Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes L'usurpation d'identité, Escroquerie
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, John Lund, Phyllis Thaxter, Lyle Bettger, Jane Cowl, Henry O'Neill

Helen Ferguson (Barbara Stanwyck) is eight months pregnant and unmarried. When she goes to her unfaithful boyfriend Morley for help, all he gives her is a train ticket back to where she came from.

, 2h2
Directed by Daniel Vigne
Origin France
Genres Drama, Historical, Crime, Romance
Themes L'usurpation d'identité, Escroquerie, Histoire de France
Actors Gérard Depardieu, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Maurice Barrier, Nathalie Baye, Roger Planchon, Isabelle Sadoyan

The film relates a historical case of alleged identity theft. Martin Guerre leaves his young wife in a small French village to go fight in a war, and to travel. Many years later, an older man (played by Depardieu) claiming to be Martin returns to resume his life. The man is initially acknowledged and welcomed by the wife, family, and friends because he seems to know the intimate details of Martin's life. As time passes, the villagers grow suspicious that he is an impostor, and he is put on trial, with his life at stake.

, 2h2
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Surfing films, Heist films, Children's films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, Gary Busey, Lori Petty, John C. McGinley, James LeGros

Johnny Utah is a former Ohio State Buckeyes quarterback and rookie FBI Agent. He is assigned to assist experienced agent and veteran, Angelo Pappas, in investigating a string of bank robberies by the "Ex-Presidents"; a gang of robbers that wear face-masks depicting former US presidents Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Jimmy Carter to disguise their true identities. They only raid the cash drawers in the banks that they rob—never going for the vault—and are out within 90 seconds. Pursuing Pappas' theory that the criminals are surfers, Utah goes undercover to infiltrate the surfing community. He concocts a story to persuade orphaned surfer Tyler Endicott to teach him to surf, she having saved him from drowning. Through her he meets Bodhi, the charismatic leader of a gang of surfers comprising Roach, Grommet, and Nathaniel. The group are initially wary of Utah, but accept him when Bodhi recognizes him as the former college football star. As he masters the art of surfing, Utah finds himself increasingly drawn to the surfers' adrenaline-charged lifestyle, Bodhi's philosophies, and Tyler. Following a clue retrieved by analyzing toxins found in the hair of one of the bank robbers, Utah and Pappas lead an FBI raid on another gang of surfers. Despite their criminal records, these surfers turn out to not be the Ex-Presidents and the raid inadvertently ruins a DEA undercover operation.

, 1h48
Directed by Lana et Lilly Wachowski
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Noir, Crime, Romance, Erotic thriller
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Erotic thriller films, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Gina Gershon, Jennifer Tilly, Joe Pantoliano, John P. Ryan, Christopher Meloni, John P. Ryan

Corky (Gina Gershon), an ex-con who has just finished a five-year jail sentence, arrives at an apartment building to start work as a painter and plumber. On her way up to the apartment, she encounters the couple who live next-door, Violet (Jennifer Tilly) and Caesar (Joe Pantoliano). After Caesar has gone out, Violet flirts with Corky and asks her to help retrieve an earring that has fallen down her sink. After Corky extracts the earring, Violet admits she lost it on purpose in order to get closer to Corky, and starts to seduce her. They are interrupted by the arrival of Caesar and Corky goes back to work. When she leaves for the day, Violet follows her to her truck. They go to Corky's apartment and have sex. The next morning, Violet tells Corky that Caesar is a money launderer for the Mafia and they have been together for five years.