The Big Swindle

Acclaimed director Vanessa Engle tracks down the charlatan art dealer Michel Cohen - who swindled over $50 million from the art establishment before going on the run - 16 years after his escape from prison. Michel Cohen, a high school drop-out from a poor background, was a self-invented man who became a rich and successful art dealer, with homes in Malibu and New York. Throughout the 1990s he sold paintings by artists such as Picasso, Monet and Chagall to America’s wealthiest elite.

Based on a true story. . . . In the late 1940s, Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez were America’s notorious “Lonely Hearts Killers.” Their lethal scam was simple; they would swindle and then viciously murder lovelorn war widows who would …