故事的灵感来源于真实发生的一起经济案件。本·斯蒂勒扮演的乔什是一名兢兢业业的豪华大楼经理。二十多年来，他一直竭尽所能带领手其他工作人员，保证大楼里居民安全舒适的生活。大楼顶层公寓住着一个亿万富翁亚瑟，大家都很信任他，甚至还把自己的养老金拿出来给他去做投资。突然有一天，亚瑟被警察从家中抓走，罪名是他从投资人那里偷走了20亿美元的资金，其中当然也包括乔什和其他人的养老金。愤怒的人们决定进行报复，他们要抢劫亚瑟的顶层公寓，把自己的养老金拿回来。不过整幢大楼已经被警察控制，而且乔什等人一辈子都没坐过犯法的事，更不用说是抢劫。为了确保万无一失，乔什把骗子斯莱德从监狱里保释了出来，让他教给大家抢劫的方法，并计划这项不可能实现的犯罪。面对自己工作了很多年的大楼，乔什和朋友们终于下定了决心去拿回属于自己的那部分钱，可是过程跟他们想象的并不一样。
乔治·尼德曼是一个投资银行家，因卷入案件和家人被列入证人保护计划中，被迫搬到玛蒂南部的家中。两人也由此冲突不断。本片的剧本从2009年起就开始筹备，是泰勒的电影里剧本写作周期最长的一部。
电影以美国历史上最大庞氏骗局（金字塔骗局、非法集资）为背景，讲述了金融巨鳄、前纳斯达克主席麦道夫如何玩了一把庞氏骗局
When, in 2014, the charismatic German-Bulgarian Ruja Ignatova introduced OneCoin, a new cryptocurrency, she claimed that it was destined to become the world's most important digital currency and would change the course of history.
A look at how one investigator spent ten years trying to expose Bernie Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme that scammed an estimated $18 billion from investors.
A polka kingdom crumbles in this documentary tracing the rise and fall of dubious duple meter master Jan Lewan. A Grammy-nominated polka superstar who defected from Poland to the West in the 1970s, Lewan created a musical empire that made him an internationally-recognized figure. When scandal erupted and Lewan's shady dealings were revealed, fans couldn't believe that their hero had committed one of the largest polka-related financial crimes in history.
Just days before Bernard Madoff captured headlines as the largest Ponzi schemer in U.S. history, Marc Dreier, a prominent Manhattan attorney, was arrested for orchestrating a massive fraud scheme that netted hundreds of millions of dollars from hedge funds. Brazen forgeries and impersonations branded the white collar crime spree remarkable. "Unraveled" is set in the purgatory of house arrest -- an Upper East Side penthouse -- where the Court has ordered Dreier confined until his sentencing day. The film weaves Dreier's struggle to prepare for the possibility of life imprisonment with first-person flashbacks, which reveal his audacious path of destruction. Destroyed by his own hubris, Dreier attempts to grasp his tragic unraveling. With unprecedented access, "Unraveled" exposes a mastermind of criminal deception.
Heists do not solely exist in the movies. These high profile schemes are elaborately planned, artful in their Machiavellian plotting, and so meticulously coordinated that they are often referred to as "the masterpieces of the confidence game". Often aimed at impossibly ambitious targets - casinos, jewelry stores, or famous museums - the masterminds behind these crimes are often heralded as the ingenious magicians of the underworld. The mystery and magnitude of these real crime stories sparks an undeniable interest for us innocent onlookers - a sense of seduction, spectacle and entertainment.
美国经济的崩溃2008年肆虐美国人民造成严重破坏。虽然股市在他们面前崩盘，一些投资者被一个更为可信源一蹶不振。见麦道夫，从中产阶级纽约皇后区的一个流行和值得信赖的投资者带来到个人投资者个人的混乱 - 和涉嫌庞氏阴谋家 - 作为专家仔细分析他的$ 65十亿骗局，从卑微的开始到其惊人的倒台，在RIPPED OFF马多夫与美国的欺骗活动。随着专家评论的帮助和麦道夫的受害者第一手资料，历史™比较和对比最近这一欺诈与历史上其他的庞氏骗局，同时探索中，他们出现了经济和历史气候。
Ponzi, from his arrival in Boston in 1903, to hi death in Rio in 1949. He made himself famous in inventing the first fraud of modern times on a large scale, and inspired Bernard Madoff.
Alister, the leader of a young sales force who deals in cutlery, appears to be a passionate entrepreneur but it turns out he is a pawn, lost in a multilevel marketing scheme.
Produced in 2009 by ESPN for its "30 for 30" series, "The U" was a look at all that was good and bad about the rise of the University of Miami's football program in the 1980s. But that wasn't the end of the story. "The U Part 2" picks up where the original film left off, with the program trying to recover from the devastation left by NCAA sanctions and scandals that had some calling for the school to drop football. The Hurricanes rose from those ashes to win another national championship, only to face new controversies when a booster used a Ponzi scheme to win favor with the program.