The Big Con (18 titles)

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The Spanish Prisoner

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• The Spanish Prisoner (1998)
  Starring: Ben Gazzara,  Felicity Huffman,  Ricky Jay
  Director: David Mamet
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  Scientist Joe Ross (Campbell Scott) has invented a new money-making process and expects his company head, Joe Klein (Ben Gazzara), to pay him handsomely for it. Klein seems to be stalling, however, and after meeting wealthy jetsetter Jimmy Dell (Steve Martin), Ross decides to consult Dell's lawyer. ..read more »
  
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The Sting

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• The Sting on DVD (1973)
  Starring: Eileen Brennan,  John Quade,  Jack Kehoe
  Director: George Roy Hill
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  Four years after setting box offices ablaze in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and director George Roy Hill re-teamed with similar success for The Sting. Redford plays Depression-era confidence trickster Johnny Hooker, whose friend and mentor Luther Coleman (Robert ..read more »
  
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The Grifters

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• The Grifters on DVD (1990)
  Starring: John Cusack,  Anjelica Huston,  Annette Bening
  Director: Stephen Frears
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  Director Stephen Frears' tense adaptation of Jim Thompson's novel The Grifters was one of a number of revival film noirs in the first half of the '90s. Updating the setting to contemporary Los Angeles, the film follows a trio of con artists who are intent on out-foxing each other. Roy Dillon (John ..read more »
  
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Pickpocket

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• Pickpocket on DVD (1959)
  Starring: Pierre Leymarie,  Marika Green,  Martin LaSalle
  Director: Robert Bresson
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  Robert Bresson writes and directs this French classic, an existential exploration of the arrogance and psychological make-up of Michel (Martin LaSalle), a thief who works the streets of Paris, picking people's pockets.
  
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Nine Queens

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• Nine Queens on DVD (2002)
  Starring: Gaston Pauls,  Tomas Fonzi,  Graciela Tenembaun
  Director: Fabian Bielinsky
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  Early one morning Juan is pulling a bill-switching scheme in an all-night deli when Marcos, an apparently innocent bystander, pretends to whisk him off to the police. But Marcos is a con artist, just helping out a new recruit, and he enlists Juan in a plot that he claims will set them up for early ..read more »
  
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Rounders

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• Rounders on DVD (1998)
  Starring: Martin Landau,  John Turturro,  Matt Damon
  Director: John Dahl
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  Master gambler Mike (Matt Damon) hangs up his poker visor after losing all his savings in a high-stakes game. Starting a new life at law school, he is dragged back into the gambling underworld by an ex-con friend (Edward Norton), who has gone in too deep with a ruthless Russian cardsharp (John ..read more »
  
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House Of Games

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• House Of Games on DVD (1987)
  Starring: Lilia Skala,  Lindsay Crouse,  Mike Nussbaum
  Director: David Mamet
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  In his directorial debut, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet creates a stylish cinematic puzzle of games within games, as con men are joined by a psychologist in creating the perfect caper. Dr. Margaret Ford (Lindsay Crouse), the writer of psychological self-help books, meets Mike (Joe ..read more »
  
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The Last Seduction

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• The Last Seduction on DVD (1994)
  Starring: Walter Addison,  Peter Berg,  Bill Pullman
  Director: John Dahl
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  Linda Fiorentino plays the 'femme fatale' in this cynical thriller about a clever and beautiful woman who runs rings around everyone in order to get what she wants. After persuading her doctor husband to sell a batch of pharmaceutical cocaine on the street, she double-crosses him and takes to the ..read more »
  
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Matchstick Men

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• Matchstick Men on DVD (2003)
  Starring: Bruce Altman,  Nicolas Cage,  Alison Lohman
  Director: Ridley Scott
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  Meet Roy and Frank, a couple of professional small-time con artists. What Roy, a veteran of the grift, and Frank, his ambitious protégé, are swindling these days are "water filtration systems," bargain-basement water filters bought by unsuspecting people who pay ten times their value in order to ..read more »
  
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The Cincinnati Kid

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• The Cincinnati Kid on DVD (1965)
  Starring: Steve McQueen,  Edward G.Robertson,  Steve McQueen/Edward G.Robertson
  Director: Norman Jewison
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  An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.
  
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