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- A con man sets out to swindle a widow out of the money she's received to build a memorial to her war-hero husband, but winds up falling in love with her instead.
- A man who likes to pick-pocket people gets chased through the woods by the people he's trying to steal from.
- Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers...
- A team of thieves break into a maximum secured Mexican prison with a plan to rob the most notorious drug lord. Full of action, guns smoking, fighting and corrupt politicians.
- Royal Navy Commander Max Easton fakes his defection to the Soviets in order to sue the slandering newspapers for the money he needs to woo a fancy American woman.
- Gerardo, an aspiring theater actor, is roped into performing a scam but gets double crossed by his partner and goes to prison. After prison, he turns into a successful con artist using his ability to mimic different Italian dialects.
- Con-artist Betsy Bigley, ruined and imprisoned by a corrupt judge, fakes her own death to escape from jail and launches an elaborate scheme of revenge against him.
- A woman who hasn't seen her father in 18 years, learns of his death and goes to his estate in France to carry out his wishes. She then learns that her father was a thief who after getting caught and going to prison and upon his release was approached by an insurance company, who wanted him to use his talents in helping them recover some valuables that had been stolen, which became his new job. Now that he is gone, he wants her to continue his work.
- Two army buddies down on their luck open up a gas station and get involved in a price war - in a somewhat underhanded way.
- In the second of the PRC "Michael Shayne" series,civic crusader Burton Stallings hires private detective Michael Shayne to locate the former's missing step-daughter Helen. Shayne discovers that Stallings himself has had Helen confined in an asylum in order to obtain her money.
- A young man from New Jersey comes to Los Angeles to visit his slightly crazy cousin and gets mistaken for a successful New York artist.
- Beauty and brains were Besty Bigley's only hopes of escaping rural poverty. A notorious con-woman of the 1890s, alias Mrs. Chadwick, alias Pelvina de Vere, and a string of other false names. She worked her way up the criminal ranks, all the way to Wall Street, where she chiseled fortunes out of millionaires. Based on a true story.
- Super-rich London toffs amuse themselves playing private detective to solve a series of smash and grab jewellery thefts.
- A group of outlaws go on a robbery spree during the holidays. What will happen when they pick the wrong house?
- An 11 year old radio star decides to throw in her scripts and go undercover to get a better feel for her roles, but when she is kidnapped, trouble soon follows in this comedy.
- A former bootlegger is now the prosperous owner of a popular nightclub. A hustling promoter manages to pass off a young singer as the heir to a fortune and gets her booked at the club.
- An ambitious young writer returns to his hometown to pursue his dreams when he is robbed of what's left of his fractured goals at the hands of a career criminal, but rather than give up, he decides to return the favor.
- Dr. Lawrence Baxter, working with the Bureau of Pure Foods and Drugs, uses radio broadcasts to expose a number of fraudulent patient medicines, with his bitterest attacks being aimed at Kennedy Radium Products the manufacturer of a tonic called 'Radium Rejuvenating Tablets," which Baxter claims is a slow cause of death. This leads the manufacturer to try every means to defeat and discredit the young doctor.
- During his wife's absence, Andrew Dorsey is snared by Vivian Hepburn, owner of a crooked gambling house, and her silent partner, Guy Tarlow. Dorsey loses so much money that Vivian persuades him to give her one of his firm's checks for a large sum of money. Hearing her husband's confession, Marion Dorsey, returned from Europe, determines to retrieve the check. She disguises herself as a wealthy widow, vamps Tarlow, and persuades him to rob Vivian's safe and elope. Marion then steals the contents of the safe and later returns everything to the irate Vivian except the check and the money her husband lost.
- Flirtatious Kathleen is married to a rather hide-bound and stern husband, John. Kathleen is free-spirited and is unconcerned about the consequences of her flirtations. When John becomes convinced that Kathleen's dalliance with Clive, a handsome man-about-town, is actually a serious affair, he divorces her and she marries Clive. Afterwards, though, Kathleen realizes that she is nothing more than property, a bone of contention to be fought over by the two males. So she takes matters into her own hands...
- After a successful bank robbery, a mentally unstable crook goes to the streets and causes chaos for everyone, as the innocent's lives are in the hands of an intern detective and her police officer partner.
- Lucky finds he no longer owns his ranch when Bart Dawson appears with a Spanish land grant which gives him, as sole heir, ownership of all the ranches in the valley. When Lucky refuses to give in to Dawson and then has his cattle rustled, he becomes suspicious and heads for Santa Fe to check the land records. But Dawson learns about his trip and sends his men to make sure he doesn't get there.
- When a group of thieves decided to strike one last time before leaving the country, they could not foresee the nightmare they were about to experience.Their plans changed when an uninvited visitor started haunting them, and survival became their main concern.
- A woman of low morals who runs a gambling operation in her house takes pride in destroying the men she ensnares in her net. One of these men's wives (played by Bebe Daniels) will not let her get away with it. She poses as a single girl to get hired by the woman as her secretary and then proceeds to singlehandedly take her operation apart.
- When a group of ragtag thieves acquire an unreleased and untraceable drug, they find themselves trapped in a conspiracy with global implications.
- Bad things happen to good people.
- A young domestic burglar gets more than he bargained for when he finds an old piano in a mysterious country home.
- A struggling musician turns to thievery in an attempt to prove his commitment to his girlfriend.
- A sarcastic look at the "Peoples United" Supreme Court ruling that came out in early 2010.
- Audio commentary to George Sherman's 1948 film LARCENY with academic and curator Eloise Ross.
- "Old" Karma catches up to two Harlem thieves giving them a senior moment.
- Commissioner Gordon travels across the channel to Londinium by request of the President to assist in a spree of baffling burglaries. Also aboard ship are Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson, their manservant Alfred and Gordon's daughter Barbara. Alfred sets up a make-shift Batcave under a rented mansion near Londinium while Batman & Robin visit lord Ffogg and Lady Peasoup, who run a girl's finishing school that teaches their students a degree in shoplifting.
- Bruce helped Otto and Conrad get the opal, but he only did it because he thought they would help him return to Australia. It didn't turn out like Bruce expected it would; instead the Von Meisters sold the opal for 25,000 pounds.
- Sophia believes that her boyfriend Rocco, who claims to be a retired gangster, has robbed a bank to impress her.
- Darien is contacted by Liz Morgan, his mentor by the time he was thief. She proposes him a contract. Still in conflict with the agency, he decides to accept the contract in his spare time.
- Noah orders Alexander Mundy to return a royal orb after a rich and beautiful jet-setter lifts it from its display case on a drunken whim. Little does anyone know that the orb holds an explosive surprise.
- Barnett acting as a store detective discovers a rash of thefts from the staff and customers within the store. Because the thefts all occurred in and around the toy department, Barnett suspects a child must be somehow involved.
- Chip and Ernie face a decision to choose honesty or 50 cents when other kids tell them how to steal school lunches. The ethical dilemma pervades the household, causing issues for everyone.