Everybody hates a con, except that is for a bigger better con.  In Dirty, Rotten Scoundrels Laurence Jameson and Freddy Benson really put the low in lowlife. By all outward appearances no one would ever know it!  Suave and cultured Laurence Jameson lives a life of easy on the French Riviera. All of it financed by unwitting women who have two things in common: wealth and a susceptibility to the charms of a conman.

Small time conman, Freddy Benson discovering his better in Laurence begs to be taught the tricks of the truely high-rolling con. Things are not always as they appear and it seems that even the con can get taken for a ride.