Scam Movies

A polka kingdom crumbles in this documentary tracing the rise and fall of dubious duple meter master Jan Lewan. A Grammy-nominated polka superstar...

A poor Sicilian family of moles has to emigrate to the United States. On their journey, they meet a fox who offers to help them.

Two con artists hire an unwitting medical-school student as a secretary for their latest scam.

In the bitter winter of 1978, four desperate council members from a small Virginia town hatched a daring Bigfoot hoax to save it from the brink of...

Broadway producer Max Bialystock and his accountant, Leo Bloom plan to make money by charming wealthy old biddies to invest in a production many...

After a botched scam, a seasoned con-man faces a moral crossroads: abandon his 10-year-old daughter or risk her following in his footsteps.

When six families find themselves without a home after their illegal building is razed down by municipal authorities, they decide to take revenge...

Martin is an innocent lad from small-town Mlada Boleslav who comes to big-city Prague, hoping to exchange his krona for deutschemarks so that he can...

Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales...

A look at the work and surprising success of a four-year-old girl whose paintings have been compared to the likes of Picasso and has raked in...

Two guys live without working quite well using thousands of tricks and fakes. But they soon change their attitudes when love arrives at their hearts.

A conman refuses to believe that the nice old lady sitting opposite him at the bar is a centuries-old vampire, yet he's starting to feel more and...

Documentary about best-selling author and informercial pioneer Kevin Trudeau.

School teacher Tien falls in love with Oppa, a man she met online. One day, she hears Oppa talking on the phone about his seriously ill mother and...

Filmed in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), An Introduction to Scientology is the only televised interview given by L. Ron Hubbard. In this...

An investigation into the tricks of holiday scammers, talking to victims and experts, and advice on how to fight back.

Rita discovers that she is the victim of a scam in the purchase of a piece of land and denounces the woman who manages the place. Without finding...

A marketing scam video from 1990. Take a glimpse at some retro financial chicanery.