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Cash (2008)
, 1h40Directed by Éric Besnard
Origin France
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Themes Heist films, Escroquerie, Faux-monnayeur
Actors Jean Dujardin, Jean Reno, Valeria Golino, Alice Taglioni, François Berléand, Jocelyn Quivrin
A cleaner goes into the office of a banker. He tells the staff to leave then proceeds to change into a suit and place a picture on the desk of two brothers. Lardier, a courier, arrives and the man proceeds to explain to him that he has several financial options available. However a cell phones rings and Lardier hands it over to the man. The caller, who is angry, shouts down the phone. Uncomfortable the man tries to leave but is shot with a silenced pistol several times by Lardier. The man who died was the brother of Cash.
The Counterfeiters (2007)
, 1h38Directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky
Origin German
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Crime
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism, Faux-monnayeur
Actors Karl Markovics, August Diehl, Martin Brambach, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Tilo Prückner, Andreas Schmidt
The film begins shortly after the end of the Second World War, with a German man arriving in Monte Carlo. After checking into an expensive hotel and paying with cash, he takes in the high life of Monte Carlo, successfully gambling in a casino and attracting the attention of a beautiful French woman. Later, she discovers tattooed numerals on his arm, revealing him as a survivor of the Nazi concentration camps.
To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
, 1h56Directed by William Friedkin
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Transport films, Road movies, Chase films, Faux-monnayeur
Actors William Petersen, Willem Dafoe, John Pankow, Darlanne Fluegel, Debra Feuer, John Turturro
Richard Chance and Jimmy Hart are United States Secret Service agents assigned as counterfeiting investigators in its Los Angeles field office. Chance has a reputation for reckless behavior, while Hart is three days away from retirement. Alone, Hart stakes out a warehouse in the desert thought to be a print house of counterfeiter Rick Masters. After Masters and Jack, his bodyguard, kill Hart, Chance explains to his new partner, John Vukovich, that he will take Masters down no matter what.
Without a Clue (1988)
, 1h47Directed by Thom Eberhardt
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Themes Sherlock Holmes films, Buddy films, Faux-monnayeur
Actors Michael Caine, Ben Kingsley, Jeffrey Jones, Lysette Anthony, Paul Freeman, Nigel Davenport
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character created by Dr. John Watson (Ben Kingsley) as the central character in a series of short stories published in Strand Magazine. Watson uses the character to enable him to solve crimes incognito, so as not to disrupt his career as a doctor during a period when he was applying for a post at an exclusive hospital, one in which the senior staff would frown on Watson's "hobby". Although he does not secure the job, Watson decides to satisfy public demand to see Holmes in person by hiring unemployed actor Reginald Kincaid (Michael Caine) to play the part of the fictional detective.
, 1h40Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
Origin Japon
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Crime, Animation
Themes Monde imaginaire, Faux-monnayeur
Actors Yasuo Yamada, Gorō Naya, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Makio Inoue, Eiko Masuyama, Sumi Shimamoto
Master thief Arsène Lupin III and his colleague, Daisuke Jigen, flee the Monte Carlo Casino with huge quantities of stolen money. They escape in Lupin's Fiat 500, but Lupin recognizes the bills as distinctively high quality counterfeits. Deciding to seek out the source, they head to the Grand Duchy of Cagliostro, the alleged wellspring of the counterfeits.
T-Men (1947)
, 1h32Directed by Anthony Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Noir, Crime
Themes Faux-monnayeur
Actors Dennis O'Keefe, Alfred Ryder, Wallace Ford, June Lockhart, Charles McGraw, Reed Hadley
The story is about two U.S. Treasury agents who go undercover in an attempt to break a counterfeiting ring.
The Gardener of Argenteuil (1966)
, 1h26Directed by Jean-Paul Le Chanois
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes Peinture, Faux-monnayeur
Actors Jean Gabin, Liselotte Pulver, Pierre Vernier, Curd Jürgens, Mary Marquet, Jean Tissier
Sous son allure bonasse d'amoureux des fleurs et de peintre naïf, le père Tulipe est un faux-monnayeur qui fabrique seulement des petites coupures pour améliorer son ordinaire. Son filleul Noël, acoquiné avec Hilda, une nurse suisse, connaît son secret. Hilda pousse Tulipe à fabriquer des billets plus intéressants. Le vieux obtempère et bientôt le trio s'installe sur la Côte. Tulipe accède à une vie confortable et le baron de Santis, séduit par ses tableaux naïfs, l'invite sur son yacht et l'entraîne au casino où Tulipe, en veine, rafle une fortune. Hilda et Noël, épouvantés par la présence de gendarmes, brûlent ce qu'ils croient être des faux billets. Tulipe retournera aux fleurs d'Argenteuil aux côtés du fiacre et du cheval qu'il a achetés durant son voyage.
Boys' School (1938)
, 1h40Directed by Christian-Jaque
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Adventure, Crime
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, L'enseignement secondaire en France, Faux-monnayeur
Actors Erich von Stroheim, Michel Simon, Robert Le Vigan, Jean Claudio, Serge Grave, Armand Bernard
Shortly before the war, strange things happen at night at the School of Saint-Agil. Students begin to disappear... Three students of Saint-Agil, Beaume Sorgue and Macroy, have created a secret society to prepare leaving for America. One evening, one of them, Sorgue, sees a man through a wall in the natural sciences class. He then disappears after having been sent to the principal's office. When Macroy vanishes in turn, the whole institution is in turmoil. The last member of the secret society still at school, Beaume, might be expelled as well after the yearly school party. During this party, Lemel, the alcoholic art teacher, dies after a fall when a power outage leaves the school in the black. Everyone believes in an accident but Beaume decides to investigate. He chooses to disappear as well and, with the help of the mysterious and spooky English teacher, he manages to discover the counterfeiting business at work in the school insides.
Hercule and Sherlock (1996)
, 1h32Directed by Jeannot Szwarc
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes Films about animals, La provence, Films about dogs, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Faux-monnayeur
Actors Christophe Lambert, Richard Anconina, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Roland Blanche, Béatrice Agenin, Laurent Gendron
When a counterfeiter is captured, two of his thugs have to work with two counterfeit money-sniffing dogs named Hercule and Sherlock in order to find the lost cash.
Old Rascal (1993)
Directed by Gérard Jourd'hui
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes Faux-monnayeur
Actors Michel Serrault, Anna Galiena, Pierre Richard, Catherine Frot, Jean-Pierre Bouvier, Laurent Gamelon
Darius Caunes est un petit imprimeur, marié à Mireille. Son couple bat de l'aile : sa femme lui reproche d'être un minable, et leurs enguelades sont quotidiennes. Jusqu'au jour où Darius décide de tuer Mireille. Parti au bistrot comme si de rien n'était, il revient subrepticement chez lui, et tue sa femme au lit. Il remarque un imperméable, oublié chez lui par un homme. "Revenu" chez lui pour découvrir le corps et appeler la police, Darius remarque que l'imperméable a disparu.
The Bouncer (2018)
, 1h22Directed by Julien Leclercq
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Faux-monnayeur
Actors Jean-Claude Van Damme, Sveva Alviti, Sami Bouajila, Kaaris, Kevin Janssens, Sam Louwyck
Lukas est un anti-héros qui lutte à travers la vie pour nourrir sa fille de huit ans et travaille dans les boîtes de nuit en tant que portier pour assurer ses revenus. Après avoir été impliqué dans une bagarre, la police lui demande de collaborer afin d'enquéter sur son nouvel employeur. Il se retrouve donc contraint d'infiltrer l’organisation d’un dangereux chef de gang flamand.
The Counterfeiters of Paris (1961)
, 1h38Directed by Gilles Grangier
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Mob film, Crime
Themes Gangster films, Faux-monnayeur
Actors Jean Gabin, Bernard Blier, Martine Carol, Maurice Biraud, Franck Villard, Antoine Balpêtré
The character of Max disappears in the film adaptation of the work of Simonin, but the plot of this story and the central characters of "the Dabe" and "the Cave" remain the same.