love you can't trust

Romances where someone is running a con. The seduction is real and so is the deception, and the films refuse to tell you which one wins: a handmaiden and an heiress each defrauding the other, an insurance clerk lending his apartment to his boss's affairs, a detective falling for his suspect. Nobody here is simply lying — that would be a thriller. They are lying and in love, which is harder.

Films here also carry Moral Ambiguity, Forbidden Love, Redemption, Toxic Relationships, War Trauma · Most represented: Park Chan-wook, Ang Lee, Pedro Almodóvar.