Print on the silver screen

The Counterfeiters (2007)
The Counterfeiters is an award-winning Austrian-German movie based on a memoir written by Adolf Burger about Operation Bernhard, a secret Nazi plan devised during the Second World War to destabilise the British economy by flooding the country with forged Bank of England £5, £10, £20, and £50 notes. It was the largest counterfeiting operation in history.

At the heart of the movie is the dilemma of the protagonist Salomon Sorowitsch of balancing personal and larger issues over whether to keep printing to save a comrade or sabotage the project to undermine the Nazis.

The Print Angle: A great printer is required everywhere, even during wartime.

Seven Pounds (2008)
Seven Pounds is a story of a man who sets out to change the lives of seven people. One life that he touches and saves is one of his love interest who happened to be a self-employed wedding announcement/greeting card printer who has a congenital heart condition. Along the way, he fixes her rare Heidelberg Windmill press.

The Print Angle: Many printers are stereo-typed as reclusive. But sometimes knowing your press will land you a girl.

Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Catch Me If You Can is a biographical crime drama film based on the life of Frank Abagnale, who, before his 19th birthday, successfully performed cons worth millions of dollars by posing as a pilot, a doctor, and a prosecutor.

The Print Angle: A 40in or larger press – sometimes identified as MAN or a Heidelberg used by Abagnale to print counterfeit money.

Paris, je t'aime (2006)
Paris, je t'aime (Paris, I love you) is an anthology film starring an ensemble cast of actors of various nationalities. In one of the 20 short films, a young male customer finds himself attracted to a young printshop worker and tries to explain that he believes the man to be his soulmate, not realising that he speaks little French.

The Print Angle: A printshop is the background for an unusual love story.

Contraband (2012)
A remake of an Icelandic film Reykjavík-Rotterdam, Contraband is a full-power action movie about  a man trying save his family from a mobster by smuggling counterfeit money all printed by a crime lord in Panama.

The Print Angle: Quality print always triumphs. It may sound absurd but the protagonist rejects one set of counterfeited for another because the later provided better quality.