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The Handmaiden(2016)

R
| 2h 25min | Thriller, Drama, Romance / Love
4.1/5 (with 1,540 votes)

In 1930s Korea, a new girl is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate. But the maid has a secret: She is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler, who is posing as a Japanese Count, to help him seduce the Lady and steal her fortune.

Directed by Park Chan-wook - With Kim Min-hee, Kim Tae-ri, Ha Jung-woo, Cho Jin-woong, Moon So-ri, Kim Hae-suk, ...

General Della Rovere(1959)

2h 12min | War, Drama
3.8/5 (with 54 votes)

The Gestapo forces con man Victorio Bardone to impersonate a dead partisan general in order to extract information from his fellow inmates.

A Violent Prosecutor(2016)

2h 6min | Crime, Comedy
3.5/5 (with 45 votes)

After a prosecution lawyer is framed and convicted for murder, he tries to catch the real murderer from jail with the help of a con artist.

Directed by Lee Il-hyung - With Hwang Jeong-min

Mo' Money(1992)

2.8/5 (with 59 votes)

Trying to get his act together, a con artist gets a job in a credit card company. He falls in love with a fellow employee, he steals a couple of cards, everything is going great. But soon, the chief of security drags him into the big leagues of criminals...

The Tricky Master(1999)

1h 22min | Action, Comedy
3.0/5 (with 12 votes)

Undercover cop Leung Foon is having trouble taking down the illegal trading operation headed by crime boss Ferrari. So to accomplish his mission, he asks for help from the renowned Master Wong, an expert in gambling tricks.

Directed by Wong Jing - With Stephen Chow

Making a Living(1914)

13min | Comedy
2.8/5 (with 38 votes)

A swindler scams a journalist to get some money and then applies for a job at his newspaper.

The Baron of Arizona(1950)

1h 37min | Crime, Drama, History, Western
3.5/5 (with 22 votes)

The U.S. government recognizes land grants made when the West was under Spanish rule. This inspires James Reavis to forge a chain of historical evidence that makes a foundling girl the Baroness of Arizona. Reavis marries the girl and presses his claim to the entire Arizona territory.

Time Out(2001)

2h 14min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 32 votes)

An unemployed man finds his life sinking more and more into trouble as he hides his situation from his family and friends.

Directed by Laurent Cantet - With Aurélien Recoing, Karin Viard, Serge Livrozet, Monique Mangeot, Jean-Pierre Mangeot

Los liantes(1981)

1h 25min | Comedy
2.8/5 (with 8 votes)

Amador and Fidel are two small scammers operating in Torremolinos beach and surroundings with more misery than fortune.

Red River Robin Hood(1942)

57min | Western
3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

An honest cowpoke (Tim Holt) comes to the rescue when the ranchers of Red River, AZ have their property seized by a greedy businessman (Eddie Dew). This 1942 B-western, directed by Lesley Selander, also stars Barbara Moffett, Cliff Edwards, Otto Hoffman and Russell Wade.

Love, Passion and Pleasure(1972)

1h 40min | Comedy
1.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Cecco Angiolieri has joined, as storytellers and acrobats, the traveling company of Camillo. The stupidity of this man is so great that Cecco, inventing contagious childhood diseases, replacing it with his wife Dinda until the woman becomes pregnant. Meanwhile, the company has come in a city ruled by poetastro ser Gianni: Cecco, using his poetic vocation, getting license show for his teammates and conquers the woman, Tessa. Another victim of his jokes is fierce mother Lucrezia, new superior of the local monastery: Cecco, after forcing her to strip naked in the brothel of Filippa, precedes the convent pretending to it. Later, he clarified the misunderstanding, it becomes the lover and requires it to give shelter to Dinda, until Camillo is not ready to accept happily the unborn child as his.

The Buckskin Lady(1957)

NR
| 1h 6min | Western
1.9/5 (with 3 votes)

Patricia Medina plays the title character in The Buckskin Lady. Medina is cast as female gambler Angela Medley, who is forced by circumstances to align herself with outlaw Slinger. But Angela has never gotten over her love for honest frontier doctor Bruce Merritt, and at the first opportunity she redeems herself by catching a bullet intended for the doc. Henry Hull delivers the film's most memorable performance as Angela's drunken wretch of a father. Per the title, Buckskin Lady affords the viewer ample opportunity to see Patricia Medina in form-fitting western garb.

Directed by Carl K. Hittleman - With Patricia Medina, Richard Denning, Gerald Mohr, Henry Hull, Hank Worden
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My Name Is Nobody(2000)

1h 37min | Drama
1.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Nobody (Nick Cheung) is a top gambling whiz who falls in love with blind model Candy (Shu Qi). Nobody uses his skills to fix card games in Shenzen, but when Candy's father (Hui Siu-Hung) gets involved, Nobody turns on his bosses - with devastating results. A fallen man, Nobody struggles back to reclaim his pride and reputation, but will Candy ultimately pay the price?

Directed by Aman Chang

Lay That Rifle Down(1955)

1h 11min | Comedy, Music
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Director Charles Lamont's 1955 comedy, about a girl from the sticks doing drudge work at a hotel and dreaming of a better life, stars Judy Canova, Robert Lowery, Jacqueline de Wit, Richard Deacon, Robert Burton, James Bell, Marjorie Bennett, Leon Tyler, William Fawcett and Mimi Gibson.

Directed by Charles Lamont - With Judy Canova

The Extra Girl(1923)

3.2/5 (with 5 votes)

Sue Graham is a small town girl who wants to be a motion picture star. She wins a contract when a picture of a very pretty girl is sent to a studio instead of her picture. When she arrives in Hollywood, the mistake is discovered and she starts working in the props department of the studio instead. Her parents then come out to California and invest some money with a very shifty individual.

Heart o' the Hills(1919)

NR
| 1h 27min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

Family tensions in the Kentucky hills are inflamed by an outsider's dishonest scheme to exploit the area for its coal.

Atilano, presidente(1998)

1h 28min | Comedy
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Atilano Bermejo is a petty crook who gets involved in the scam of his life: to be Prime Minister. His charisma and lack of social concern make him an ideal political candidate for a group of bankers looking for a good public image behind which to hide and disguise their ambitions.

Directed by Luis Guridi, La Cuadrilla - With Luis Tosar

Downstairs(1932)

NR
| 1h 17min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 5 votes)

In the Austrian manor of Baron and Baroness von Burgen, the relationship between the upstairs aristocracy and the downstairs staff is quite positive. The servants seem to enjoy their time together, and some even fall in love, as head butler Albert and maid Anna have done. But when lecherous new chauffeur Karl Schneider enters the house, affairs and blackmail follow, and the harmony of the home is slowly destroyed.

Singing on the Trail(1946)

NR
| 1h | Music, Western

In this Western, Ken Curtis, Columbia Pictures' low-budget answer to Gene Autry, romanced one of the studio's most beautiful starlets, Rita Hayworth-lookalike Dusty Anderson. She played Helen Wyatt, whose father (the rotund Guy Kibbee) loses his ranch to the hayseed singing group the Hoosier Hot Shots. Unbeknownst to Wyatt, the Hot Shots have been swindled by a couple of Eastern crooks (Ian Keith and Matt Willis) and consider themselves the lawful owners. Chased by the irascible Wyatt, the band members seek protection from aspiring singer Curt Stanton (Curtis), who they mistake for a gunslinger.

Directed by Ray Nazarro

Scorned and Swindled(1984)

1h 44min | Drama, TV Movie
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A man seduces women to get their money. He has plenty of success, but this time he has met his match.

Beyond the Sacramento(1940)

58min | Western

Bill learns that two con artists whom he has dealt with before are at it again. Crowley runs the saloon and Adams the newspaper and both are highly respected by the citizens. Bill has foiled their schemes before and this time he breaks into Adams' office and resets the front page saying Adams confesses to be a fugitive criminal. When the citizens gather the next day the end is near for Adams and Crowley.

Directed by Lambert Hillyer

Cita imposible(1958)

1h 21min | Drama, Thriller
2.6/5 (with 3 votes)

Rosario was unjustly condemned for a robbery committed in the theater where she worked as secretary of producer Gaston Leducq. When she leaves prison, she tries to prove her innocence to Gaston, but things do not happen as she expected.

The Public Defender(1931)

1h 9min | Mystery, Crime, Drama
2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company's funds.

Objetivo: BI-KI-NI(1968)

1h 30min | Action, Comedy
2.7/5 (with 6 votes)

In Cape Kennedy, a con man accidentally swallows a valuable microfilm, believing it a pill for heartburn. Parody of the James Bond films.

Se parhaiten nauraa, joka viimeksi nauraa(1921)

1h 1min | Comedy

Martti Vaara, secondary school graduate gets monetary help from his rich uncle under the pretense to get married and have kids. When the uncle unexpectedly arrives to look at the little one, Martti persuades his friends to get involved on the hoax.

Directed by Teuvo Puro - With Hilja Jorma

Seven Keys to Baldpate(1935)

3.4/5 (with 3 votes)

A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate Inn. However, peace and quiet are the last things he gets, as there are some very strange goings-on at the establishment.

Arizona Terrors(1942)

A crooked gambler poses as a descendant of a noble Spanish family has successfully secured court validation of a counterfeit land grant, and proceeds to drive out ranchers already settled on the land with high taxes, road tolls and violent tactics. A pair of horse sellers pitch in to help a customer, his daughter, and the other "tenant" ranchers after being roughed up by toll collectors when they refuse to pay the assessed toll.

Directed by George Sherman - With Don "Red" Barry

Ni te cases ni te embarques(1982)

1h 22min | Comedy
1.3/5 (with 1 vote)

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Directed by Javier Aguirre - With Luis Barbero, Beatriz Carvajal, Paco Catalá