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The Passion of Joan of Arc(1928)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 22min | Drama, History
4.0/5 (with 398 votes)

A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she'd spoken to God, Jeanne d'Arc is subjected to inhumane treatment and scare tactics at the hands of church court officials. Initially bullied into changing her story, Jeanne eventually opts for what she sees as the truth. Her punishment, a famously brutal execution, earns her perpetual martyrdom.

Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer - With Renée Jeanne Falconetti, André Berley, Maurice Schutz, Antonin Artaud, Michel Simon, Louis Ravet, ...
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Headhunters(2011)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 40min | Thriller, Crime, Action
3.6/5 (with 531 votes)

An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary.

Directed by Morten Tyldum - With Aksel Hennie, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Synnøve Macody Lund, Eivind Sander, Julie Ølgaard, Kyrre Haugen Sydness, ...
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How to Steal a Million(1966)

2h 3min | Comedy, Crime
3.7/5 (with 253 votes)

A woman must steal a statue from a Paris museum to help conceal her father's art forgeries.

Directed by William Wyler - With Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Eli Wallach, Hugh Griffith, Charles Boyer, Fernand Gravey, ...
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L'Argent(1983)

1h 25min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 99 votes)

A forged 500-franc note is passed from person to person and shop to shop, until it falls into the hands of a genuine innocent who doesn't see it for what it is—which will have devastating consequences on his life.

Directed by Robert Bresson - With Alexandre Pasche, Bernard Lamarche-Vadel, François-Marie Banier, Michel Briguet, Pierre Tessier, Yves Martin, ...

Can You Ever Forgive Me?(2018)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 47min | Drama, Crime, Comedy
3.4/5 (with 564 votes)

When a bestselling celebrity biographer is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.

Directed by Marielle Heller - With Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant, Jane Curtin, Anna Deavere Smith, Dolly Wells, Jennifer Westfeldt, ...
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The Counterfeiters(2007)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 38min | Drama, War
3.7/5 (with 247 votes)

The story Jewish counterfeiter, Salomon Sorowitsch, coerced into assisting the Nazi operation of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II.

Directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky - With Karl Markovics, August Diehl, Devid Striesow, Martin Brambach, August Zirner, Veit Stübner, ...
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Rogue Trader(1999)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 41min | Drama, History
2.9/5 (with 50 votes)

Rogue Trader tells the true story of Nick Leeson, an employee of Barings Bank who--after a successful trading run--ends up accumulating $1.4 billion in losses hidden in account #88888.

Directed by James Dearden - With Ewan McGregor, Anna Friel, Alexis Denisof, John Standing, Tim McInnerny, Yves Beneyton, ...

Call Northside 777(1948)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 51min | Crime, Drama
3.3/5 (with 62 votes)

In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal to look into the case. For some time, O'Neal continues to believe Frank guilty. But when he starts to change his mind, he meets increased resistance from authorities unwilling to be proved wrong.

Directed by Henry Hathaway - With James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb, Moroni Olsen, J. M. Kerrigan, John McIntire, ...

The Forger(2012)

1h 36min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 46 votes)

While staying at a picturesque village, a teen encounters the underground world of art forgery.

Directed by Lawrence Roeck - With Josh Hutcherson, Hayden Panettiere, Lauren Bacall, Alfred Molina, Billy Boyd, Tricia Helfer, ...
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Detective K: Secret of the Lost Island(2015)

2h 5min | Action, Mystery, Comedy, Adventure
3.4/5 (with 9 votes)

Joseon's top detective Kim Min attempts to track down those responsible for circulating massive amounts of counterfeit silver bullion in Joseon. He also tries to find the missing sibling of a young girl.

Directed by Kim Seok-yoon - With Kim Myung-min, Lee Yeon-hee

The Good Thief(2003)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 48min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 50 votes)

An aging gambler on a losing streak attempts to rob a casino in Monte Carlo. But someone's already tipped off the cops before he even makes a move.

Directed by Neil Jordan - With Nick Nolte, Tchéky Karyo, Saïd Taghmaoui, Nutsa Kukhianidze, Emir Kusturica, Marc Lavoine, ...

F for Fake(1973)

1h 29min | Documentary
3.7/5 (with 137 votes)

Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his name by selling forged works of art by painters like Picasso and Matisse. Irving was infamous for writing a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Welles moves between documentary and fiction as he examines the fundamental elements of fraud and the people who commit fraud at the expense of others.

Directed by Orson Welles - With Oja Kodar, Joseph Cotten, Elmyr de Hory, Clifford Irving, Gary Graver, Orson Welles, ...
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The Lady Vampire(1959)

1h 18min | Horror
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Tamio takes Itsuko to an art gallery and the two find one painting is a nude portrait of Itsuko's mother, who disappeared twenty years ago when she was just a baby. No one knows the first thing about the artist who painted it, but he goes by the name Shiro Sofue, and he's always wearing shades in the daytime...

The Moderns(1988)

2h 6min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 11 votes)

Nick Hart is a struggling American artist who lives amongst the expatriate community in 1920s Paris. He spends most of his time drinking and socializing in local café's and pestering gallery owner Libby Valentin to sell his paintings. He becomes involved in a plot by wealthy art patroness Nathalie de Ville to forge three paintings. This leads to several run-ins with American rubber magnate Bertram Stone, who happens to be married to Hart's ex-wife Rachel.

Directed by Alan Rudolph - With Keith Carradine, Linda Fiorentino, John Lone, Wallace Shawn, Geneviève Bujold, Geraldine Chaplin, ...

Toto in Madrid(1959)

1h 35min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 14 votes)

When the swindler La Spada and his accomplice José come out of jail in Madrid, they decide to pull a really great swindle: nothing less than to discover and sell a third picture of the famous Goya's Maya. They engage the renowed Scorcelletti who can imitate any picture and who lives in Rome. Afterwards, with the help of the beautiful Eva, they convince the celebrated art critic Francisco Montiel of the existance of a third Maya and let him find the picture. When the swindlers are on the point of selling the faked maya to an American millionaire, Scorcelli comes back from Rome to sell one of his six other maya pictures.

Directed by Stefano Vanzina - With Totò, Abbe Lane, Mario Carotenuto, Louis de Funès, Giacomo Furia, Enzo Garinei, ...

Night Watch(1995)

1h 34min | Action
2.3/5 (with 12 votes)

UN agents Mike Graham and Sabrina Carver are sent by their director Nick Caldwell to investigate the theft of Rembrandt's painting, "The Night Watch". The trail takes them from Amsterdam to Hong Kong and involves them in not only art theft and forgery, but the high-tech schemes of Martin Schraeder and his Korean cohort Mao Yixin.

Directed by David Jackson - With Pierce Brosnan

Charlie Chan in Paris(1935)

1h 12min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 8 votes)

Charlie's visit to Paris, ostensibly a vacation, is really a mission to investigate a bond-forgery racket. But his agent, apache dancer Nardi is killed before she can tell him much. The case, complicated by a false murder accusation for banker's daughter Yvette, climaxes with a strange journey through the Paris sewers.

Directed by Lewis Seiler - With Warner Oland, Mary Brian, John Qualen, Keye Luke, Henry Kolker, Harry Cording, ...

Quiet Please, Murder(1943)

1h 10min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich suckers.

Directed by John Larkin - With George Sanders, Gail Patrick, Richard Denning

Kanithan(2016)

2h 25min | Action, Romance / Love
2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

A reporter who gets arrested realises that he is a victim of a fake degree certificate racket, and decides to track down the person responsible for misusing his identity.

Directed by T. Santhosh - With Atharvaa

The Match King(1932)

1h 19min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipulation, he gradually attains a monopoly on the matchstick market in several countries and becomes an influential international figure. Based on the true story of Ivar Kreuger.

Directed by William Keighley, Howard Bretherton - With Warren William, Lili Damita

LA DA Story(2019)

2h | Documentary, Crime, Kids & Family, Drama
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Los Angeles District Attorney’s office professes to protect the residents of Los Angeles County by prosecuting violent and dangerous criminals and seeking justice for all. But there is a dark side to the LA DA’s operations, when it is utilized by powers-that-be to persecute whistleblowers, violate the civil rights of U.S. citizens and stop investigations of criminal elements.

Down on the Farm(1920)

50min | Comedy
2.7/5 (with 3 votes)

The day starts off as any normal day on Roach's farm, where Teddy, the farmhouse dog, is doing more productive work than everyone else combined. But the day changes when Roach's farmhand sees an opportunity to be the knight in shining armor to Louise, Roach's daughter, who he wants to marry.

Directed by Erle C. Kenton, Ray Grey, F. Richard Jones - With Bert Roach, Harry Gribbon, Jimmy Finlayson, Louise Fazenda, Billy Armstrong, Eva Thatcher, ...

Her Kingdom of Dreams(1919)

1h 10min | Drama, Romance / Love

A young girl living a secluded and unsophisticated life is suddenly thrust into a great wealth and a frightening social whirl.

Directed by Marshall Neilan - With Anita Stewart, Anna Q. Nilsson, Edwin Stevens, Frank Currier, Fred Huntley, Herbert Prior, ...

Masterpiece or Forgery? The Story of Elmyr De Hory(2008)

51min | Documentary, History
0.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Elmyr de Hory was called "The Myth of our Century" when he was revealed as a master forger in 1968. Born in 1905, he made an estimated 1000 fake paintings, primarily in the style of the post-impressionists before he died - or disappeared - in 1976. In addition to faking paintings, Elmyr de Hory often faked his own identity, and traveled easily throughout Europe's high society.

The Waimate Conspiracy(2006)

1h 40min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The 2005 discovery of a cannonball, buried for 138 years in a paddock, throws Waimate into turmoil. It is all the Maori locals need to confirm their long-held belief that they were forcibly removed from their tribal lands, in a bloody 1866 battle. The hotly contested claim eventually ends up in the District Court and on the lens of cameraman Dave who captures all the arguments, frauds and forgeries of the townspeople, in a cinema verité mockumentary style.

The Solomon Treasures(2008)

50min
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Investigation into the controversial history of three extraordinary biblical artifacts discovered in the Holy Land. Are they genuine or fake?

Escapade in Florence(1962)

1h 22min | Comedy, Kids & Family, Adventure
3.1/5 (with 2 votes)

American students, Tommy and Annette, find themselves in a heap of trouble when they accidentally discover an art forgery ring in Florence, Italy.

Directed by Steve Previn - With Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello, Nino Castelnuovo, Ivan Desny

Ei ruumiita makuuhuoneeseen(1959)

1h 45min | Comedy, Thriller
1.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Two Finnish PI:s are hunted by a gang specialized to counterfeit banknotes from Malaga to Finland and Mallorca and back. The counterfeit money printing plates are desperately searched by the gang and our heroes try to hide from them by travelling to Mallorca, where some of the local hoods try to kill them and retake the missing plates.

Directed by Aarne Tarkas

L'énigme de la fausse momie(2014)

52min | Documentary

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A Doll's House(1922)

1h 10min | Drama

Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed ...

Directed by Charles Bryant - With Alan Hale, Alla Nazimova, Nigel De Brulier, Wedgwood Nowell