Canvas (1992)
The fine art of crime
Gênero : Drama, Crime
Runtime : 1H 30M
Director : Alain Zaloum
Escritor : Alain Zaloum, Brenda Newman
Sinopse
A young artist is desperate for money to save his brother from the mob. Drawn into a criminal world of theft, betrayal and murder, his only way out is to get in even deeper. If he fails, it could cost him his life.
Quando a investigadora de seguros Virginia Gin baker trabalha na obra roubada de Rembrandt, ela suspeita que Robert "Mac" MacDougal seja responsável. Gin decide se disfarçar e ajudar Mac a roubar um valioso artefato. Quando Mac confronta os reais motivos da ajuda de Gin, ela diz que é uma ladra e o trabalho na seguradora é pura fachada.
Durante o declínio de Hitler na Alemanha, um grupo de 13 especialistas vindos de países diferentes é reunido para reencontrar obras de arte roubadas pelos nazistas durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. George Stout (George Clooney), um oficial americano e conservador de obras de arte, lidera a equipe.
No meio de um furacão, os policiais que evacuam o condomínio se juntam a um grupo de moradores quando assaltantes invadem o local.
O ladrãozinho favorito de Londres já é um adolescente nesta versão moderna do clássico Oliver Twist de Charles Dickens. Depois de um encontro com a lei, o ágil “Twist” foge para Londres, onde conhece uma gangue de jovens que, sob a tutela de Fagin (Caine), usam suas habilidades de Parkour para realizar o roubo do século.
Após uma série de pinturas de um autor desconhecido serem encontradas, uma força sobrenatural começa a pôr em prática um plano de vingança naqueles que permitiram que a ganância viesse antes da arte.
Em 1944, um coronel alemão carrega um trem com tesouros de arte francesa para enviar para a Alemanha. A resistência deve pará-lo sem danificar a carga. Quando as forças aliadas se aproximam de Paris em agosto de 1944, o coronel alemão von Waldheim está desesperado para levar todas as maiores pinturas da França para a Alemanha. Ele consegue um trem para transportar as valiosas obras de arte, mesmo com o caos da retirada. A resistência francesa, no entanto, quer impedi-los de roubar seus tesouros nacionais, mas receberam ordens de Londres de que não devem ser destruídas. O chefe da estação, Labiche, tem a tarefa de agendar o trem e fazer tudo acontecer sem problemas, mas ele também faz parte de um grupo cada vez menor de combatentes da resistência encarregados de impedir o roubo. Ele e outros armam um estratagema elaborado para impedir que o trem saia do território francês.
The villainous Dr. Fu Manchu races against a team of Englishmen to find the tomb of Ghengis Khan, because he wants to use the relics to cause an uprising in the East to wipe out the white race.
Um quadro de Rembrandt é roubado e os agentes da ONU, Mike Graham e Sabrina Carver, são enviados para investigar o furto. Conforme a trilha os leva de Amsterdã a Hong Kong, eles descobrem que este caso tem muito mais do que roubo de arte e falsificações. Quando um golpe tecnológico ocorre na cidade, fazendo cair o sistema, os agentes passam a suspeitar do vil Martin Schraeder e de sua gangue coreana.
Someone is stealing priceless paintings from the great museums of the world and replacing them with nearly flawless forgeries. Leonardo da Vinci's "Madonna and Child" is being shipped to London's Tate Gallery for a special exhibition, and Paul Mitchell is assigned to protect it. Upon the painting's arrival, Paul realizes it has been switched. Eager to collect the museum's $50,000 reward, he teams up with Mary Mason, a Tate employee, to recover the original.
The world's greatest art thief collects almost two-billion dollars in masters only to have his mother burn them all in the family backyard.
30-year-old Jon is released after seven years in prison and decides to put all his criminal activities behind him and start a new life.
A young artist is desperate for money to save his brother from the mob. Drawn into a criminal world of theft, betrayal and murder, his only way out is to get in even deeper. If he fails, it could cost him his life.
L.A. detective Sgt. Castle and his two partners investigate the theft of a valuable Fragonard painting by a thief who pilots a helicopter.
Mary, a woman with good intentions, takes pity on Henry, an artist with no home. What begins as a simple offer to come inside from the cold for tea gradually turns into more. Before the unsuspecting woman knows it, Henry, his family, and his friends con their way into her home. Eventually, Mary creates a ruse to rid herself of the parasites, but they have a different plan.
An anonymous narrator outlines a bizarre journey taken through "H", aided by a series of extraordinary maps, and his previous dealings with the mysterious Tulse Luper and the keeper of the bird house at the Amsterdam Zoo.
How African artists have spread African culture all over the world, especially music, since the harsh years of decolonization, trying to offer a nicer portrait of this amazing continent, historically known for tragic subjects, such as slavery, famine, war and political chaos.
Medieval art treasures seized by the Nazis go missing at the end of World War II. Were they destroyed in the chaos of the final battles? Or were these thousand-year-old masterpieces stolen by advancing American troops? For over forty years, the mystery remained unsolved. A true detective story, "The Liberators" follows a dogged German art detective through the New York art world and military archives to the unlikeliest of destinations: a small town on the Texas prairie. Featuring interviews with Willi Korte (Portrait of Wally) and Texas attorney Dick DeGuerin, the film raises intriguing questions as to the motivations of the art thief and the whereabouts of the items that, to this day,
Paris, 1911. When Da Vinci's painting “La Gioconda” is stolen from the Louvre museum, it is suspected that the authors of the audacious theft are members of a group of bohemian artists led by painter Pablo Ruiz Picasso and poet Guillaume Apollinaire…
Lucas Santos, named El Santo is petty thief going continuously in and out of jail. Tired of small thefts, he aims to strike a blow that makes him famous and become the star of all media. His wife Lucia, a comprehensive and sweet woman, while awaiting the return of her husband, works as a stripper at a nightclub. Finally, Lucas gathers a band of petty thieves and decides to steal, from the National Museum of Art Reina Sofía, its most valuable painting: Picasso's Guernica.
Two crooked gallery officials swap a Picasso for a fake hoping to make a fortune. When thieves break into the gallery to steal the Picasso, an amusing chain reaction snowballs into a hilarious romp.