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Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
7.1/10on IMDb
Released
Watch Lee Israel discover that collectors will pay for the voice of a famous writer on a piece of paper. Her forgery requires skill that the people buying it can’t credit her for, so the small exchanges in bookstores get some of the tension of a spectacular financial con.
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Nine Queens (2000)
7.9/10on IMDb
Released
Watch two Buenos Aires con artists try to get a collector to buy a sheet of rare stamps. There’s a narrow window to close the sale, which makes each new participant and each bit of authentication feel like a chance for the story to come apart.
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The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
7.4/10on IMDb
Released
Watch Tom win his way into Dickie Greenleaf’s world by making himself sound and look like someone who belongs there. Go here if you want to follow a carefully performed identity and see the pressure of maintaining it well after the first person buys it.
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Queenpins (2021)
6.4/10on IMDb
Released
Connie and JoJo turn their familiarity with coupons into a business built around bargains that look legitimate to their customers. Pick this for the comedy of a sales operation run from home, and watch the investigation bring together a loss-prevention officer and a postal inspector.
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The Spanish Prisoner (1997)
7.1/10on IMDb
Released
Watch a businessman meet a well-dressed stranger and start believing he’s being cheated by his own company. The sales pitch here works by appearing to offer sensible advice. You get the pleasure of going back over an ordinary-looking conversation once you see what it set up.
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Matchstick Men (2003)
7.2/10on IMDb
Released
Watch Roy and Frank bring Roy’s teenage daughter into a routine built around the moment a stranger agrees to take a risk. The con scenes have the rhythm of practiced sales calls, and the family story asks what happens when someone inside the trade starts needing trust.
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The Sting (1973)
8.2/10on IMDb
Released
Try this if the most fun for you is seeing how much work goes into a good lie. Hooker and Gondorff need the mark to believe in a whole betting operation, so the film lets you see the buildout as well as the person who walks in thinking he has the advantage.
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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
7.4/10on IMDb
Released
Watch two con artists try different stories on the same Riviera visitor. One relies on an air of wealth and importance while the other plays for sympathy. You can compare what each sales pitch asks the mark to believe before she ever opens her purse.
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The Producers (1968)
7.5/10on IMDb
Released
Watch a producer and his accountant sell more shares in a Broadway show than they could pay off if it succeeds. The trick depends on the show failing, which makes every sign of an enthusiastic audience a threat. Pick this if you want the loudest farce built around overselling a stake.
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The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
7.2/10on IMDb
Released
Try this for a screwball stock scheme. A board picks an apparent patsy to run the company so it can buy the shares cheaply. You get to see the pitch go wrong when the product he brings in turns out to be something customers actually want.
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Nightmare Alley (2021)
7.0/10on IMDb
Released
Watch a carnival performer use what he’s learned about an audience to sell supposed mind reading to wealthier clients. If you liked following a pitch into rooms where the stakes get bigger, this film gives you a precise look at what the act needs from both the performer and the person paying.
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The Grifters (1990)
6.8/10on IMDb
Released
Watch three people who make their living by reading a mark make the mistake of thinking they can read one another. Choose this for the flip side of a flashy sales room. The lies have been practiced for years, and each encounter gives you a better idea of what keeping them up has cost.
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The Beanie Bubble (2023)
6.3/10on IMDb
Released
Watch toy-company colleagues learn how scarcity and a collector’s enthusiasm can give small plush animals an unexpected resale market. If you want a less dangerous burst of speculative excitement, this film spends time with the women behind the pitch and who receives credit when it works.
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BlackBerry (2023)
7.3/10on IMDb
Released
Watch Jim Balsillie sell an engineering team’s unproven phone while Mike Lazaridis and his colleagues rush to give the promises something to stand on. The early pitch comes with thrift and awkwardness, while the rise and fall gives you plenty of sales-room energy.
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The Hummingbird Project (2019)
6.2/10on IMDb
Released
Try this for the ingenuity and absurdity of putting a price on a few milliseconds. Two cousins sell investors on a fiber line that could give traders an advantage, and you can watch obstacles pile up once the pitch becomes an engineering project that has to cross real land.
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Lord of War (2005)
7.6/10on IMDb
Released
Choose this for a salesman who treats a violent trade as a job he can do with sufficient charm. Yuri Orlov supplies clients while selling himself a story about neutrality. You can see the strain between that account of his work and the lives it touches.
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The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (2019)
7.2/10on IMDb
Released
Choose this documentary if you’d like to see real archive footage of a founder selling a device her company couldn’t deliver as advertised. There’s time to listen to the promise of easier blood testing and to hear people inside Theranos explain where the pitch stopped matching their work.
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FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened (2018)
7.2/10on IMDb
Released
Watch a festival sell the image of a luxury weekend before it has a workable way to host one. Pick this documentary for the aftermath of an influencer pitch, when ticket holders arrive and find out what a well-edited advertisement left out.
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Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)
7.6/10on IMDb
Released
Try this documentary for a closer look at how a corporation sells the idea that its profits are too sophisticated for outsiders to question. The recorded conversations and reporting also let you see what that confidence meant for people whose jobs and retirement savings depended on it.
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