Gilbert Perez is a confidence trickster of the first rank. Armed with
his mobile phone and an unerring capacity to pull the wool over the eyes
of others, he can't help swindling his victims out of thousands of euros.
His career of crime has become a drug to him - every success stimulates a
craving for yet more victories over the greedy and gullible. His dream
is to provide his wife Barbara with a normal life, but his wild fraudulent
escapades will soon lead him to ruin...
Since the 1920s, Hollywood has dominated the film industry, but that doesn't mean American cinema is all bad - America has produced so many great films that you could never watch them all in one lifetime.
Science-fiction came into its own in B-movies of the 1950s, but it remains a respected and popular genre, bursting into the mainstream in the late 1970s.
From Jean Renoir to François Truffaut, French cinema has no shortage of truly great filmmakers, each bringing a unique approach to the art of filmmaking.