F for Fake - 1975

Documents the lives of fakers Clifford Irving and Elmyr de Hory. De Hory, who committed suicide in order to avert prison time, made his name by simply purchasing works of art by painters such as Picasso and Matisse. Irving was infamous for writing a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Welles moves between fiction and documentary since he examines the fundamental elements of fraud and the men and women who commit fraud.