Tom Ripley is a talented mimic, moocher, forger and all-around criminal improviser; but there's more to Tom Ripley than even he can guess.

סיפורו האמיתי של סלומון סורוויץ', בוהמיין וזייפן, אשר נאסר על ידי הגרמנים ונשלח למחנה ריכוז. בשנת 1944 הוא מצורף על ידי הנאצים למבצע זיוף ענק שמטרתו לסייע במימון המשך המלחמה ולהפיל את כלכלות אנגליה וארה"ב. במחנה הריכוז זקסנהאוזן הופרדו שתי מכלאות והפכו לסדנא משוכללת לזיוף, שם נולד "מבצע ברנהרד". אסירים ממחנות שונים הובאו למקום כדי למלא את המשימה: אנשי דפוס מקצועיים, בנקאים, ציירים ובעלי מקצועות חופשיים נוספים, כולם הפכו לחברים בקומנדו הזייפנים הסודי ביותר. עמדה בפניהם הברירה לשתף פעולה עם האויב על מנת לשרוד. הם היו אסירים ב"כלוב של זהב" במחנה, עם אוכל ומיטה לישון עליה, אך אם יחבלו במבצע גורלם יהיה מוות בטוח. בפני הזייפנים עמדה דילמה קשה, האם להציל את חייהם במחיר תרומה למאמץ המלחמתי הנאצי או להציל את מצפונם ולשלם בחייהם... הסרט זכה בפרס האוסקר לסרט הזר הטוב ביותר.

Harry Donovan is an art forger who paints fake Rembrandt picture for $500,000. The girl he meets and gets into bed with in Paris, Marieke, turns out to be an arts expert Harry's clients are using to check the counterfeit picture he painted.

Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his name by selling forged works of art by painters like Picasso and Matisse. Irving was infamous for writing a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Welles moves between documentary and fiction as he examines the fundamental elements of fraud and the people who commit fraud at the expense of others.

Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was supplying arms to the enemy, even as the rising clouds of World War II force the city into nightly blackout status..

A forger has made a copy of a Spanish land grant and Arnold is after it. Arnold and his men attack, shoot the forger, and take the deed while Russ tries unsuccessfully to stop them. Arnold presents it at the recorders office. It appears authentic and he starts evicting ranchers from their land. But Russ knows something is wrong as one of Arnold's men was a man he fought with during the attack.

Having been framed for murder, the half-breed Joe Bearclaws (Douglas Kennedy) escapes from jail and Ranger Steve Howard (Monte Hale) goes after him. He catches up with him in the Cherokee Strip where he has no authority. Joe is then framed for another murder and this time Steve knows he is innocent and goes after the real killer.

The Director of an international banknote printing institute, mutilated by the face of the Great War, Frank Davres, falls in love with a young woman, Jeanne, admirably beautiful, but blind. He marries her. For her, he ruins himself and comes to issue counterfeit banknotes. The young woman does everything to make people forget her infirmity. One day, following an operation, she recovers her sight and notices the physical and moral ugliness of her husband. She hides her cure until the day when Frank, taken by the police, kills one of his accomplices and commits suicide. Jeanne leaves to join a friend with whom she was performing in a circus.

A forger is forced to work for a Nazi spy ring. His conscience gets the better of him, though, and he secretly conspires with the FBI to turn over the gang.

Adolfo Kaminsky started saving lives when chance and necessity made him a master forger. As a teenager, he became a member of the French Resistance and used his talent to save the lives of thousands of Jews. The Forger is a well-crafted origin story of a real-life superhero.

Professional forger Bill Butters realizes one day that the police are closing in on him, and convinces his daughter Peggy to flee.