Lords of Scam

Lords of Scam (Les Rois de l'arnaque, 2021) is a French true-crime documentary you can watch online on iFILM. Director Guillaume Nicloux unpacks one of Europe's boldest frauds: a pair of Paris hustlers who drained millions from the EU carbon-quota market.

At the heart of it are Marco Mouly and Arnaud Mimran, two friends from the wrong side of town who spotted a loophole in the VAT on CO2 emission permits and turned it into a money machine. Cash came in faster than they could spend it — villas, sports cars, suitcases stuffed with bills. Then came the threats, a murder, and the slow betrayal of partners who once split everything.

Built around candid interviews with the men themselves and raw archive footage, the film skips the lecture and lets them talk. The strange pull here is how warmly they recount the crime of the century, like men bragging about a great hand of poker. A good pick if Wall Street swindle stories are your thing. Stream Lords of Scam (2021) online on iFILM.