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- The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) While Patricia Highsmith’s novel offered up a more gleeful sociopath, Anthony Minghella’s movie adaptation offers room for a bit of pathos without letting Matt Damon’s Tom Ripley off the hook.
- Frost/Nixon (2008) The patron saint of political prevaricators, Richard Nixon has often been a subject of fictional movies and docudramas, but is as slippery in death as he was in life.
- Dick (1999) Sticking with Nixon for a moment, Dick plays the Watergate era as a teen-pal farce, Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams as best pals who stumble into the Watergate break-in while having no idea what they’ve become involved with.
- Catch Me if You Can (2002) Now for the fun, jet-setting side of compulsive lying: Steven Spielberg’s film tells the true-ish story of Frank Abagnale, who claimed to have gone from being a simple confidence trickster into posing as a Pan Am pilot (and also a doctor, among other faked professions) and forging payroll checks to the tune of millions of dollars (it’s not entirely clear if the real Abagnale was exaggerating in his memoir, an ambiguity which plays well into the story).
A fearless, globe-trotting, terrorist-battling secret agent has his life turned upside down when he discovers his wife might be having an affair with a used-car salesman while terrorists smuggle nuclear war heads into the United States.
15 of the Best Movies About Huge Liars. In an age of fake news and casual disinformation, it's reassuring, in a sense, to know that we can still be surprised and/or amused by falsehoods. Enter freshman Congressman George Santos, a Long Island Republican who, it turns out, isn't capable of being honest about even a single thing.
Jul 3, 2024 · Some of the best movies about lies and deceit include The Wizard of Oz (1939), The Prestige (2006), Fight Club (1999), Primal Fear (1996), The Usual Suspects (1995), American Psycho (2000) and Liar Liar (1997).
- The Talented Mr. Ripley
- Frost/Nixon
- Dick
- Catch Me If You Can
- The Great Imposter
- The Lady Eve
- Double Indemnity
- What’s Up, Doc
- The Usual Suspects
- Shattered Glass
While Patricia Highsmith’s novel offered up a more gleeful sociopath, Anthony Minghella’s movie adaptation offers room for a bit of pathos without letting Matt Damon’s Tom Ripley off the hook. Here, he’s a man who becomes buried in his own lies: Initially mistaken for a Princeton grad thanks to a borrowed jacket, he’s taken by the father of the shi...
The patron saint of political prevaricators, Richard Nixon has often been a subject of fictional movies and docudramas, but is as slippery in death as he was in life. Director Ron Howard takes a stab by coming from another angle: the 1977 televised interviews with Nixon (Frank Langella) by David Frost (Michael Sheen). With Frost seen as a lightweig...
Sticking with Nixon for a moment, Dickplays the Watergate era as a teen-pal farce, Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams as best pals who stumble into the Watergate break-in while having no idea what they’ve become involved with. Winding up in the orbit of the president (a perfectly cast Dan Hedaya), the two first see him as a gruff but genial father...
Now for the fun, jet-setting side of compulsive lying: Steven Spielberg’s film tells the true-ish story of Frank Abagnale, who claimed to have gone from being a simple confidence trickster into posing as a Pan Am pilot (and also a doctor, among other faked professions) and forging payroll checks to the tune of millions of dollars (it’s not entirely...
As you can tell from the trailer, Tony Curtis plays a fictional version of the real-life con-man and imposter Ferdinand Waldo Demara (though, unlike many professional tricksters, Demara seems to have been into lying just for the fun of it). His impersonations included (among many other jobs) a surgeon, a sheriff’s deputy, an assistant prison warden...
It’s pretty tough to hate Barbara Stanwyck’s Jean Harrington (aka Lady Eve Sidwich), even though she begins the movie as a confidence trickster in league with her card shark father, looking to scam Henry Fonda’s impossible dorky snake-expert, Hopsie Pike. In screwball comedy fashion, she even contrives a doppelgänger and a marriage before falling i...
I’m allowing two very different Barbara Stanwyck performances to stand in here for the entirety of the classic-era femme fatale film. Where she played a far lighter and sillier version of a con woman in The Lady Eve, here she plays Phyllis Dietrichson, who lures the ostensibly straight-laced insurance salesman Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) into a pl...
There’s a sense in which Barbra Streisand’s memorable neo-screwball heroine Judy Maxwell is a compulsive liar, but only in that she’s an agent of utter chaos. She uses absolute truth (and her thorough, but unconventional, education) and wild falsehoods nearly interchangeably, in ways that ensure the maximum trickster energy in every scene. One of t...
Nearly the entirety of The Usual Suspectsis framed as one big flashback, as narrated to U.S. Customs agent Dave Kujan (Chazz Palminteri) by small-time (seemingly) crook ‘Verbal’ Kint (Kevin Spacey, who, along with the film’s director Bryan Singer, might know something about lying). The movie’s ending calls into question everything we’ve just witnes...
Hayden Christensen plays Stephen Glass, a real-life journalist with the New Republic whose career crashed spectacularly when it was determined that most of his stories either contained fictions or were outright fabrications. The movie charts Glass’s downfall, with Christensen giving an impressively harried performance as someone furiously scramblin...
Jul 4, 2024 · There's probably one movie with lie in the title you think of right away, but you might be shocked to see how many others exist as well. Notable films with lie in the title include Let Sleeping Corpses Lie, The Great Lie, and A Bright Shining Lie, although there are many more examples on this list.
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20 titles. 1. About Adam (2000) R | 97 min | Comedy, Romance. 5.9. Rate. 64 Metascore. A waitress falls for a handsome customer who seduces her, her two sisters, her brother, and her brother's girlfriend. Director: Gerard Stembridge | Stars: Stuart Townsend, Kate Hudson, Tommy Tiernan, Frances O'Connor. Votes: 6,783 | Gross: $0.15M.
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