F for Fake (1973)
Vérités et Mensonges
"A magician is just an actor playing the part of a magician."
ThumbScore
👍 88%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 88%
(RT: 88%, MC: 87) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Oja Kodar as The Girl
Elmyr de Hory as Self
Clifford Irving as Self
Laurence Harvey as Self
Edith Irving as Self
David Walsh as Self
Is F for Fake good?
Yes. 88% audience score, estimated from 379 TMDB ratings. Critics agree, scoring it 88%.
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Overview
Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his name by selling forged works of art by painters like Picasso and Matisse. Irving was infamous for writing a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Welles moves between documentary and fiction as he examines the fundamental elements of fraud and the people who commit fraud at the expense of others. Wikipedia ↗
