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    • Photo: A History of Violence. 12 votes. A History of Violence. Directed by David Cronenberg, A History of Violence explores the dark and twisted world of organized crime, deception, and violence.
    • Photo: Universal Pictures. 12 votes. The Sting. Set in the 1930s, The Sting follows two con men as they plot an elaborate scheme to swindle a mob boss out of his ill-gotten gains.
    • Photo: Catch Me if You Can. 33 votes. Catch Me If You Can. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks, Catch Me If You Can is a interesting tale based on the life of notorious conman Frank Abagnale Jr.
    • Photo: Paramount Pictures. 22 votes. The Wolf of Wall Street. Directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street offers a riveting look into the unbridled greed and corruption that plagues the world of high finance.
  1. Jul 22, 2007 · With Amanda Burton, Mark Lewis Jones, Yorick van Wageningen, Paul Brightwell. Donald Griffith is a fraud in every respect. Not only is he cheating on his wife--with both his personal assistant and his firm's caterer--he has defrauded his clients out of millions of pounds.

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    • Thriller
    • David Caffrey
    • 2007-07-22
    • Lia Beck
    • Can You Ever Forgive Me? This movie, which got star Melissa McCarthy an Oscar nomination for Best Actress, is based on the memoir of Lee Israel, a writer who forged letters from famous literary figures.
    • Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened. One of two documentaries about Fyre Festival that came out in January 2019, this Netflix film tells the story of what went wrong with the infamous music festival with a ton of behind-the-scenes footage.
    • Fyre Fraud. Fyre Fraud is Hulu's Fyre Festival documentary, and it has a broader scope than the Netflix one. (More, what does this all say about us as a culture?)
    • The Inventor: Out For Blood In Silicon Valley. The Inventor premiered on HBO on Mar. 18 of this year and is a documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, and her former company, Theranos.
  2. TV Series. Documentary series focusing on history's largest financial crimes ranging from Ponzi schemes, murder, card counting, generating fake currency and goods, extortion, online dating, identity theft, drug distribution, and insider trading. Stars Stacy Keach Scott Cohn Kristin Reyer.

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  3. Mar 31, 2022 · The confidence arts have been lighting up Hollywood, and networks and streamers are practically overflowing with content about grifters, fraudsters, and gougers.

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  4. 86 Metascore. Three amateur bank robbers plan to hold up a bank. A nice, simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does.

  5. Feb 1, 2022 · Somewhere in the space between guilty pleasure and cautionary tale lives Netflix ’s new catfishing doc The Tinder Swindler. It’s the true-life story of a handsome billionaire, Simon Leviev ...