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1) Madame Rosa
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Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, Madame Rosa (1977) is an enduring classic of cross-cultural understanding. Simone Signoret (Diabolique) stars as Madam Rosa, a French-Jewish survivor of the Holocaust who now runs a boarding house in Paris for the children of prostitutes. She takes a liking to Momo, an Algerian boy who she raises in the Muslim faith, a controversial decision in the midst of the Arab-Israeli conflict. But their bond...
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Based on William Inge's classic play, COME BACK, LITTLE SHEBA is the stirring tale of a life-weary couple who rescue hope from the ruins of the past. Shirley Booth stars in an **Academy Award**-winning performance as Lola, slovenly housewife to Doc Delaney (Burt Lancaster), a recovering alcoholic. The Delaneys' life is dull and unchanging, but takes a dramatic turn when the couple take in a charming boarder, Marie. Marie becomes the daughter the Delaneys...
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Evangelical Christian do-gooder, Laura Marshall fills her home with down-and-out boarders. Laura's shy teenage son, Ben, lands a job tending to self-proclaimed "Dame" Evie Walton, an over-the-hill actress with the mouth of a drunken sailor and an insatiable lust for life. The battle for Ben's soul begins as Evie shanghais Ben away from his repressive roots and transforms him from a boy to a man.
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"Life in the big city is one big adventure for Arnold. Living with his grandparents, who run the Sunset Arms boarding house, Arnold shares a roof with a diverse and unusual menagerie of characters. But as any fourth grader knows, some of the most memorable people you'll ever meet are in school."-- Container.
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The Great Depression hits home for nine-year-old Kit Kittredge when her dad loses his business and leaves to find work. In order to keep their home, Kit and her mother must take in boarders, paying houseguests who turn out to be full of fascinating stories. When mother's lockbox containing all their money is stolen, Kit's new hobo friend Will is the prime suspect. Kit refuses to believe that Will would steal, and her efforts to sniff out the real...
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Bordello of blood: the seductive antics of heartless hookers are suddenly threatened when Rafe Guttman is hired by Bible-toting Katherine Verdoux to go in search of her rebellious brother Caleb, who has fallen prey to the lecherous lot. Demon knight: An intense stranger arrives at a run-down boarding house in flight from the Collector. The Collector is after an item in the stranger's possession, which turns out to be a holy relic, and when his efforts...
10) The lodger
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A landlady suspects her new lodger is the madman killing women in London. This silent film, adapted from the novel that was loosely based on serial killer Jack the Ripper, is credited as the movie that launched Hitchcock's career as a master in suspense.
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It's life in the big city, with Grandpa, Grandma, Abner the pig, and a host of other friends and neighbors, the likes of which couldn't be found anywhere else but here, on Hey Arnold! Kick back and enjoy the full Season 1 collection of the cult favorite that made football-headed 4th graders all the rage! Includes all 20 episodes of Season 1.
12) The ladies man
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Herbert is a confirmed bachelor and bumbler who finds a new job- houseboy in an all-female boarding house!
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The adventures continue in the Season Two collection of Hey Arnold! Spend more time in the hood with Arnold and his best buddy Gerald as they endure playground bullies, secret crushes, and everything else that comes with big-city life. So don a cap, unbuttoned flannel, and head for the TV, because it's the only collection that answers the age-old question: How many people does it take to save a runaway pig from becoming bacon?
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This haunting silent thriller tells the tale of a mysterious young man who takes up residence at a London boardinghouse, just as a killer who preys on blonde women, known as the Avenger, descends upon the city. The film is animated by the palpable energy of a young stylist at play, decisively establishing the director's formal and thematic obsessions.
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This haunting silent thriller tells the tale of a mysterious young man who takes up residence at a London boardinghouse, just as a killer who preys on blonde women, known as the Avenger, descends upon the city. The film is animated by the palpable energy of a young stylist at play, decisively establishing the director's formal and thematic obsessions.
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The adventures of a daydreaming, jazz-loving, football-headed 9-year-old, who lives in a boarding house with his grandparents and some eccentric boarders, encounters life in the city with his best friend Gerald, a loofah-haired kid, who is the keeper of the urban tales and coolest kid in class; and Helga, who torments him, but loves him secretly.
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"Hey football-head fans, it's time to kick back and dive into Season 4 of Hey Arnold! on 2 laugh-packed discs! See Helga as a model, Grandpa back in school, Arnold on the synchronized swimming team, and Arnold and Helga raising ... an egg? It's big-city antics for the small screen, Arnold style!"--Container.
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"Life in the big city is one big adventure for Arnold. Living with his grandparents, who run the Sunset Arms boarding house, Arnold shares a roof with a diverse and unusual menagerie of characters. But as any fourth grader knows, some of the most memorable people you'll ever meet are in school."-- Container.
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