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The Brits made a true crime flick, The Tinder Swindler (2022), directed by Felicity Morris and released on Netflix. An Israeli, Shimon Hayut, went around Europe posing as the son of Russian-Israeli diamond tycoon Lev Leviev aka the Diamond King. Using dating app Tinder under the alias Simon Leviev, he fooled women into giving him money that he never returned. He dazzled them with extravagant gifts and took them on fancy private jet dinners funded by other unsuspecting victims. He then claimed to be in danger from his “enemies”, sending identical messages and photos to each woman, claiming he had narrowly ...

American Animals (2018), a docudrama heist film written and directed by Bart Layton, follows the story of art student Spencer Reinhard. Seeking inspiration for his work, Spencer is given a tour of Transylvania University library’s rare-book collection. During the tour, he becomes fixated on a rare first edition of John James Audubon’s Birds of America. Spencer shares his idea with his rebellious friend Warren Lipka, who is attending the University of Kentucky on an athletic scholarship. They discuss the possibility of stealing the valuable books and selling them to black-market buyers in Amsterdam for ...