Movies and TvShows featuring "huckster" theme.

Ray Kroc, a struggling salesman, discovers a small walk-up stand called McDonald's. Impressed by their efficient food preparation and successful business model, Ray convinces the owners to franchise their restaurant. He faces challenges with franchising, financial troubles, and conflicts with the McDonald brothers. Through determination, Ray builds a successful empire, but at the cost of betraying his partners and losing his personal relationships.

Elmer Gantry is a charismatic con-artist traveling salesman who becomes a successful evangelist preaching about religious revivalism. However, his true motives are revealed as he manipulates and exploits his followers for personal gain.

Variety Lights is a comedy-drama that follows a young woman who dreams of becoming a star in the entertainment industry. She joins a traveling variety show and faces challenges and romantic entanglements along the way.

In 'I Live in Fear,' a foundry owner in post-war Japan becomes obsessed with his fear of nuclear war and seeks legal arbitration to be admitted to a mental asylum. His family becomes entangled in his paranoia, leading to a dramatic family dispute. Directed by Akira Kurosawa, this film explores themes of guilt, regret, and the impact of the H-bomb on Japanese society.

August follows the story of a CEO who becomes a financial shark and builds an empire, only to encounter a downfall due to his arrogance and unethical practices. The movie explores themes of power, manipulation, and the consequences of greed.

A Boston pharmacist moves to Sacramento during the gold rush and gets involved with a gang leader, violence, and a rocky romance.

In High Pressure, a fast-talking promoter finds himself caught up in a high-pressure business deal that involves selling a company. Along the way, he encounters a missing person found, a company president, and a district attorney. With frozen assets, engraved watches, and a stock ticker, the plot thickens as the protagonist navigates the treacherous world of business and romance.

In The White River Kid (1999), a fake priest goes on the run in Arkansas and gets in all kinds of comedic and action-packed misadventures. Along the way, he encounters various eccentric characters and gets involved in a sheriff election, a country-western dance competition, and a lumberjack competition. The film is a satirical parody that explores themes of fraud and deception while providing plenty of laughs.

A team of con men trying to double-cross a woman they are supposedly helping to get some stolen money back wind up getting crossed themselves... by the mob.

This wacky vaudeville-style romp casts the irreverent comedy team as feuding co-owners of a drug company, William “Willy” Hobbs and Claude Augustus Horton, who agree to wrestle each other for the sole ownership of the business. The winner will take the company and the loser must become the other’s valet for a year. But when Hobbs loses, he sends his wife to Florida and schemes to trick Horton. What follows are hilarious hijinks as only Wheeler and Woolsey can pull off!

The bases, under the occupation, lost their statues. These now anonymous steles rightly intrigue many visitors. Have you ever wondered who is up there? Ask Paul Colline, the most amusing guide in Paris, he will be able to answer you while sparing the goat, the cabbage and your political opinions.

In this suspenseful film-noir, a newspaper reporter investigates a murder and gets entangled in an illicit affair and treachery. Set in 1940s Los Angeles, the plot involves a figure-skating dancer, a rhumba band, and a shady lady. The protagonist must navigate deception, investigation, and retribution to uncover the truth.

Russ Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the career of his clients (and himself), and a newspaper gossip-columnist, Carol Wilson, get involved with gangsters when one of Larry's radio-program future-predicting cons gets out of hand.

A wealthy young woman, racked with guilt because she wasn't there when her mother died, is so desperate to contact her that she gets involved with a phony mystic who promises to put her in touch with her mother's spirit, but who is really after her money. A reporter who loves the young woman sets out to expose the phony "psychic" for the charlatan he is.

A sister act finds itself stranded and broke, and teams up with a medicine man who is promoting a child talent contest.

Woody is driving down the city street singing a "screwy" driving song. Used car owner Buzz Buzzard tries to interest Woody in buying a new car (after sabotaging the one he has, natch). He shows him various cars but they all are utterly lacking in quality and leave a lot to be desired...