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The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)
The film opens with the death of a young blonde woman (Eve Gray).
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Downhill (1927) (When Boys Leave Home)
Downhill (aka When Boys Leave Home) begins at an English boarding school for upper-class boys.
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Summertime (1955)
David Lean’s Summertime is an atypically bitter take on a typical international affair.
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One Night in the Tropics (1940)
Friends Jim “Lucky” Moore and Steve Harper have two different perspectives on love.
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The Bank Dick (1940)
Egbert Sousé is a hard drinking family man who is unhappily married to his demanding wife Agatha.
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Man in the Attic (1953)
Man in the Attic takes place in 1888 London. It’s very late on the third night of the Jack the Ripper killings when a research pathologist named Mr Slade arrives at the home of William and Helen Harley.
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Bitter Rice (1949)
Bitter Rice begins at the start of the rice-planting season in northern Italy.
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Lucky Star (1929)
Lucky Star tells the sweet and simple tale of a post-WWI couple. Mary is the scrounging, dirty eldest daughter in a scroungy, dirty backwoods family.
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Fallen Angel (1945)
Eric Stanton is a drifter who gets thrown off a bus in the town of Walton because he does not have the $2.25 extra fare to take him to San Francisco.
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The Rules of the Game (1939)
In pre-World War II France, dashing aviator André Jurieux completes his solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean and lands his one man plane at Le Bourget Airfield.
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Le Notti Bianche (1957)
Le Notti Bianche begins one a cold night in the quiet town of Livorno, Italy.
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