老实勤恳的克劳斯(爱德华·罗宾逊 Edward G. Robinson 饰)是一名出纳,平日里,他最大的爱好就是画画,然而,克劳斯从来就没有想过靠出售自己的作品赚钱。某日,克劳斯遇见了名叫凯蒂(琼·贝内特 Joan Bennett 饰)的女子,虚荣心的驱使之下,他向凯蒂谎称自己是一名画家。
凯蒂有一个交往多年的男友强尼(丹·德亚 Dan Duryea 饰),对于强尼来说,凯蒂不过只是他谋取利益的工具罢了,而克劳斯则成为了凯蒂的摇钱树。一直对克劳斯的身份有所怀疑的强尼拿着克劳斯的画去卖,没想到居然得到了美术评论家的一致认可,凯蒂更是声称自己就是这些画的作者。克劳斯向凯蒂求婚,却遭到了后者的无情嘲笑,一怒之下,克劳斯起了杀念。
In the 1990s post-communist Slovakia, former woods worker Miki takes his chances to start doing business at a local level and climb up the ladder to become the biggest mafia boss in the country.
Follows an Italian con-man who pretends to be a prince and goes to Mexico City to exploit the elite's fascination with European Nobility. They comply with his every request, even giving him their daughters' hands in marriage.
American Charlotte Dobler is a master chocolatier in Vienna, she having taken over historic Dobler Chocolates from her now deceased grandmother. She is facing an eviction of sorts from that historic site in a buyout from Danube Developments who has a redevelopment project under works. Charlotte is the only property owner holdout in not selling in honor of that history. In an ap..