Les plus belles escroqueries du monde is a cinematic journey through the art of fraud. The film brings together a series of short stories — by different filmmakers — inspired by real news stories about ingenious scams carried out in various cities: Japan (Les Cinq Bienfaiteurs de Fumiko, by Hiromichi Horikawa), Amsterdam (La Rivière de diamants, by Roman Polanski), Naples (La Feuille de route, by Ugo Gregoretti), Marrakesh (Le Grand Escroc, by Claude Chabrol) and Paris (L’Homme qui vendit la Tour Eiffel, by Jean-Luc Godard).