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381) The flim-flam man
Pub. Date
©1967
Description
A lighthearted comedy about the adventures of a con man and a lonely G.I. in the rural south.
Series
White Collar volume 4
Pub. Date
2013
Description
White collar centers on the doubtful crime-solving partners Neal Caffrey, a charming ex-con, and Peter Burke, the federal agent charged with keeping him in order.
Description
Tim - Mel Gibson portrays Tim Meville, a handsome young man with below average intelligence who is often taken advantage of by fellow workers and employees.
The Touch - The Touch is the highly suspenseful story of a handsome con artist, Will Bonner (Kevin Costner). During the course of a visit to the bright lights of Reno, will meets the very plain Stacy Lancaster (Andra Millian). Will quickly realizes that Stacy has an incredible memory for cards...
384) Rocknrolla
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
While London's seasoned criminals vie for cash from a real estate scam, a presumed-dead, drugged-out rock musician finds the money falling into his hands.
385) Thieving weasels
Author
Pub. Date
p2016
Description
Just when Skip O'Rourke thinks he's finally free of his con-artist family, they drag him back to Long Island for one last scam--but nothing about this con is what it seems.
386) Smoky Joe's Cafe
Author
Pub. Date
[2015], p2001
Description
Thommo and ten of his war mates develop physical and mental problems on their return to Australia. Angry at their hostile reception, they recruit an ex-Viet Cong with "special skills" and plan their revenge, but in real life, they're too screwed up to put up a fight. The team is transformed when Wendy, a woman whose baby needs a bone-marrow transplant, moulds them into a viable fighting unit.
388) The tourist
Pub. Date
2011
Description
During an impromptu trip to Europe to mend a broken heart, Frank unexpectedly finds himself in a flirtatious encounter with Elise, an extraordinary woman who deliberately crosses his path. Against the breathtaking backdrop of Paris and Venice, their whirlwind romance quickly evolves as they find themselves unwittingly thrust into a deadly game of cat and mouse.
Pub. Date
[2010], ©2010
Description
Evil Roy Slade: Spoof of the western film genre in which good triumphs over evil. Rascally scoundrel Evil Roy Slade (Astin) struggles to become an honest man to win the love of a beautiful women. Brothers O'Toole: Slapstick comedy about the small, poor mining town of Molybdenum, Colorado, where every citizen owns stock in the local mine.
390) Little comfort
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
In a brilliantly twisted debut set among Boston's elite, Edwin Hill introduces unforgettable sleuth Hester Thursby--and a missing persons case that uncovers a trail of vicious murder . . . Harvard librarian Hester Thursby knows that even in the digital age, people still need help finding things. Using her research skills, Hester runs a side business tracking down the lost. Usually, she's hired to find long-ago prom dates or to reunite adopted children...
391) HeartBreakers
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
A mother-daughter con team attempts to take advantage of a tobacco tycoon.
392) House of Games
Series
Criterion collection volume 399
Pub. Date
c2007
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.
394) The Handmaiden
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
A Korean woman who is hired as handmaiden to a young Japanese lady is secretly plotting with a conman to defraud her of her large inheritance.
395) Leverage : season 3
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
With the team's leader, Nate Ford, now behind bars and his nemesis working for Interpol, a beautiful but mysterious stranger steps in to call the shots for TV's hottest gang of master thieves. Season Three of this action-packed series starts off with a bang as the teammates devise schemes to free Nate from prison, expose a trafficker's child slave-labor ring, and infiltrate a Department of Defense research lab to take down international terrorists....
396) The samaritan
Pub. Date
2012
Description
After 25 years in prison, Foley is finished with the grifter's life. When he meets an elusive young woman named Iris, the possibility of a new start looks real. But his past is proving to be a stubborn companion: Ethan, the son of his former partner, has come up with an ingenious plan for a score and he wants Foley in. The harder Foley tries to escape his past, the tighter he is ensnared in Ethan's web of secrets, until it becomes all too clear...
397) Heartbreakers
Pub. Date
2001
Description
A mother-daughter con team attempts to take advantage of a tobacco tycoon.
398) Operation petticoat
Description
World War 2 comedy about a submarine commander who finds himself stuck with a decrepit (and pink) sub, a con-man executive officer and a group of Army nurses.
399) The family holiday
Pub. Date
2007
Description
A conman must suddenly become a family man, complete with a wife and kids, before he can inherit his uncle's fortune. Can a dog, two kids, and a nanny help one man unwrap the true meaning of Christmas?
400) The music man
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
A con man in the guise of a traveling salesman gets off the train in River City, Iowa. He convinces the town to finance a children's marching band instead of a pool hall.