The Lower Depths (1937), The Verdict (1946), The Princess and the Pirate (1944), 20 Mule Team (1940), Room to Rent (2000) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Rooming House movies.
Storyline: The winner of the Louis Delluc Prize as the most outstanding French photo-play of 1936, as selected by the Young Independent Critics of France (an organization and not a description.) The film treats the imprisoning hold of poverty; the disheartening odds of people rising from such social despair, and the ease in which those in the upper spheres of Society may descend.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: landlady, landlord, sister, thief, actor, baron, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Mr. Grodman was a respected superintendent at Scotland Yard until a mistake in an investigation caused the execution of an innocent man. He takes the blame and is dismissed, replaced by the obnoxious, gloating Buckley. Feeling vengeful, Grodman would like nothing more than to see Buckley look foolish on the job. His friend Victor Emmric, an artist with macabre tastes, wouldn't mind either and soon a mysterious murder occurs that may provide them with the chance.—Ken Yousten <kyousten@bev.net>
Plot Keywords: superintendent, successor, artist, nephew, politician, crafty, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Princess Margaret is travelling incognito to elope with her true love instead of marrying the man her father has betrothed her to. On the high seas, her ship is attacked by pirates who know her identity and plan to kidnap her and hold her for a king's ransom. Little do the cutthroats know that she will be rescued by that unlikeliest of knights errant, Sylvester the Great, who will lead them on a merry, and madcap, chase.—Alfred Jingle
Plot Keywords: actor, princess, pirate, tattoo artist, governor, guard, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition. The only thing that will save the company is a new deposit of high grade Borax, and Bill has a pouch of it that he got from a dead prospector that he buried on the road. Roper knows the value of the strike could be worth millions, but he needs Bill to find the prospectors' claim so they can record it and become rich partners. While Roper has no intention of cutting Bill in on the millions, he also has his eye on young Jean. Josie sees Roper for the scalawag that his is and it means trouble in Furnace Flat.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: saloon owner, daughter, clerk, prospector, friend, engaging, rousing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Ali is a young Egyptian screenwriter determined to succeed in London, where he has been a student. He loves the artistic and political freedom, the colours, the music, the individualism. But he has little money, his student visa is about to expire and he has been thrown out of his lodgings. And so Ali moves in with a succession of eccentric and colourful London flatmates: Mark, a photographer with a very individual style, Linda, a young, blonde, very sexy model and Marilyn Monroe impersonator, and Miss Stevenson who is convinced that Ali is the reincarnation of her long dead Egyptian lover. All the while Ali is in search of an elusive British visa which unexpectantly leads to finding the love of his life.—Aline
Plot Keywords: immigrant, screenwriter, photographer, impersonator, student, blind woman, lighthearted ...
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