Way of deception

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows way of deception

poster The False Road
The False Road
67mn - Drama, Crime
Roger Moran, a member of a gang of thieves headed by Mike Wilson, is released from prison after having served a two-year sentence. He has learned his lesson and vows to leave his life of crime, but his gi…
poster Stealing a Nation
Stealing a Nation
(4.2/5)
56mn - Documentary
This tells a story literally 'hidden from history'. In the 1960s and 70s, British governments, conspiring with American officials, tricked into leaving, then expelled the entire population of the Chagos i…
poster The Thieving Hand
The Thieving Hand
6mn - Comedy
A one-armed street peddler notices that a well-to-do man has dropped his ring. He returns it to him. The wealthy man is very grateful and, to show his appreciation, takes the peddler to a 'Limb Store', wh…
poster A Life at Stake
A Life at Stake
(2.9/5)
78mn - Drama
A struggling architect desperate to rebuild his failed business accepts a lucrative proposition from a seductive married woman, but when he realizes she's manipulating him into a deadly insurance scam whe…
poster The Kleptomaniac
The Kleptomaniac
10mn - Crime
A well-dressed woman leaves her home and takes a carriage to a department store. While she is in the store, she steals several items, and is caught by store employees. Meanwhile, a poor woman with two sma…
poster Four Around the Woman
Four Around the Woman
(3.0/5)
85mn - Drama
Harry Yquem buys his beloved wife some jewelry in a place where underworld middlemen trade in fake and stolen goods. By chance, he spots a man with whom his wife had an affair in the past.
poster Whimsical Illusions
Whimsical Illusions
5mn - Comedy, Fantasy
In this hand-colored short, a magician and his assistant do a series of magic tricks, including making potted plants appear, among others. Melies played the magician, and the actor Manuel played his assis…
poster The Prophetess of Thebes
The Prophetess of Thebes
2mn - Fantasy
Partially lost film. One of the kings of ancient Thebes enters the abode of an astrologer and demands that he be told his future. The former utterly refuses to forecast the coming events of his sovereign,…
poster Svengali
Svengali
(3.4/5)
81mn - Drama, Horror, Romance
A music maestro uses hypnotism on a young model he meets in Paris to make her both his muse and wife.
poster Colonel Heeza Liar's African Hunt
Colonel Heeza Liar's African Hunt
(2.7/5)
10mn - Animation, Comedy
Mistaking a tiger's tail for a snake, Colonel Heeza Liar puts himself in wrong with a big tiger, who gives him a very bad quarter of an hour, until the matchless courage and ingenuity of our hero overcome…
poster The Mysterious Portrait
The Mysterious Portrait
(3/5)
1mn - Fantasy
A magician produces a living portrait of himself.
poster Awaara
Awaara
(3.9/5)
193mn - Drama, Music, Romance
A petty thief is put on trial for the attempted murder of a lawyer. Through a series of flashbacks, the intertwining lives of the thief, the lawyer, and the thief's defense lawyer are illustrated.
poster An Unseen Enemy
An Unseen Enemy
16mn - Drama
The physician's death orphans his two adolescent daughters. Their older brother is able to convert some of the doctor's small estate to cash. But it is late in the day, and with the banks closed he stores…
poster Wonderful Mirrors
Wonderful Mirrors
7mn - Comedy, Fantasy
A talented youth has compounded a wonderful fluid, a little of which he applies to the mirror in his room, and when he looks into it his image comes to life and comes out of the frame and imitates his eve…
poster Charade
Charade
(4/5)
113mn - Comedy, Mystery, Romance
When a woman's husband is murdered, she finds herself pursued through Paris by dangerous men seeking the fortune he stole, relying on a charming stranger whose true identity becomes increasingly mysteriou…
poster The Pillar of Fire
The Pillar of Fire
1mn - Fantasy
A devil wearing bat-like wings and brandishing a trident dances around a giant pot, conjuring forth flame from his trident to lit a fire beneath the pot. After the devil works the fire with bellows, an an…
poster Money Mad
Money Mad
9mn - Crime, Drama
The central figure is an old miser, a Harpagon of sorts, who, like Frosine, stashes his ill-gotten money in a secret cellar. While the miser is at the bank, exchanging stolen notes for gold coin, a couple…
poster Below the Surface
Below the Surface
60mn - Drama
A widely respected deep-sea diver is approached by a ring of con artists who want him to be the front man for a phony scheme to recover gold from sunken ships. When he refuses, they send a sexy young woma…
poster A Tricky Painter’s Fate
A Tricky Painter’s Fate
4mn - Comedy
A painter boards a train and puts his paintings in the windows so that they look like passengers.
poster Our Gang
Our Gang
(3.8/5)
20mn - Comedy
An unethical merchant moves into town and steals customers from the widowed owner of an established store; the gang steps in to help.
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