Research question regarding paintings' smuggling

[spacefarer]

Hey folks, I was wondering whether you could point out similar films to ENTRAPMENT and THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR.

Elements I am interested in are: Paintings' smuggling AND/OR forgery.

Your help would be very much appreciated, as always

[Kevan]

Re: Research question regarding paintings' smuggling

Hey folks, I was wondering whether you could point out similar films to ENTRAPMENT and THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR.

Elements I am interested in are: Paintings' smuggling AND/OR forgery.

Your help would be very much appreciated, as always

Good place to start is Wikipedia:-

Art theft

Art theft is the theft of art. This is usually done for the purpose of resale or ransom; occasionally thieves are also commissioned by dedicated private collectors. Stolen art is sometimes used by criminals to secure loans.[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_theft

Looted art
Looted art has been a consequence of looting during war, natural disaster and riot for centuries. Looting of art, archaeology and other cultural property may be an opportunistic criminal act, or may be a more organized case of unlawful or unethical pillage by the victor of a conflict.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looted_art

Forgery

Forgery is the process of making, adapting, or imitating objects, statistics, or documents (see false document), with the intent to deceive. The similar crime of fraud is the crime of deceiving another, including through the use of objects obtained through forgery. Copies, studio replicas, and reproductions are not considered forgeries, though they may later become forgeries through knowing and willful misrepresentations. In the case of forging money or currency it is more often called counterfeiting. But consumer goods are also counterfeits when they are not manufactured or produced by designated manufacture or producer given on the label or flagged by the trademark symbol. When the object forged is a record or document it is often called a false document.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgery

Smuggling

Smuggling is the clandestine transportation of goods or persons past a point where prohibited, such as out of a building, into a prison, or across an international border, in violation of applicable laws or other regulations.

There are various motivations to smuggle. These include the participation in illegal trade, such as drugs, illegal immigration or emigration, tax evasion, providing contraband to a prison inmate, or the theft of the items being smuggled. Examples of non-financial motivations include bringing banned items past a security checkpoint (such as airline security) or the removal of classified documents from a government or corporate office.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smuggling

You'll of course find many additional links to each subject on each Wiki page and some of the links will probably overlap as well..

Once you get a handle on one source that will lead you to another avenue of information regarding these phenomena...

http://www.allmovie.com/keyword/art-theft-29902

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/wo....10109814.html

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-149349531.html

http://www.alfamovie.com/movies-by-keywords/art-theft

[Jenny]

Re: Research question regarding paintings' smuggling

Hey folks, I was wondering whether you could point out similar films to ENTRAPMENT and THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR.

Elements I am interested in are: Paintings' smuggling AND/OR forgery.

Your help would be very much appreciated, as always

How to Steal a Million. Covers theft, forgery, museum security, and the desire to own a piece of art that you can never show anybody.

It's one of those movies I watch over and over and over because it's just so darn entertaining. (And Audrey Hepburn's wardrobe is to die for, but that's another topic.)

[spacefarer]

Re: Research question regarding paintings' smuggling

Thanks ever so much, guys. I hugely appreciate it

I've got **** loads of research to do now lol

[Doolittle]

Re: Research question regarding paintings' smuggling

I'd highly suggest reading Highsmith's series on Tom Ripley. The character spends a lot of time in his later years in that dodgy yet lucrative realm.