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Little Fugitive (Country: US; Year: 1953; Director: Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin; Writer: Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin; Stars: Richard Brewster, Winifred Cushing, Jay Williams, Will Lee, Charlie Moss, Tommy DeCanio)
A young boy fears that he shot his older brother, who is only faking. He then runs away to Coney Island, a crowded beach area, and gets money by returning soda bottles for their deposits.
Love Letter (Koibumi) (Country: Japan; Year: 1953; Director: Kinuyo Tanaka; Writer: Keisuke Kinoshita, Fumio Niwa; Stars: Masayuki Mori, Yoshiko Kuga, Jūkichi Uno, Jûzô Dôsan, Chieko Seki, Shizue Natsakawa)
A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, writing love letters for other people.
Odd Man Out (Country: UK; Year: 1947; Director: Carol Reed; Writer: F.L. Green, R.C. Sherriff, from the novel by F.L. Green; Stars: James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack, Kathleen Ryan, F.J. McCormick, William Hartnell, Fay Compton, Denis O'Dea, W.G. Fay, Maureen Delaney, Eleyn Brook-Jones, Robert Beatty, Dan O'Herlihy, Kitty Kirwan, Beryl Measor, Roy Irving, Joseph Tomelty, Arthur)
An injured IRA man goes on the run in the forbidding back streets of Belfast.
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Salaam Bombay! (Country: UK, India, France; Year: 1988; Director: Mira Nair; Writer: Hriday Lani, Mira Nair, Sooni Taraporevala, Sooni Taraporevala; Stars: Shafiq Syed, Hansa Vithal, Chanda Sharma, Raghuvir Yadav, Anita Kanwar, Nana Patekar, Anjaan, Amrit Patel, Murari Sharma, Ram Moorti, Sarfuddin Qureshi, Raju Barnad, Irshad Hashmi, Mohanraj Babu, Chandrashekhar Naidu)
Story of a street kid abandoned by his mum.
Summertime (Country: UK, US, Italy; Year: 1955; Director: David Lean; Writer: Arthur Laurents, HE Bates, David Lean; Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Isa Miranda, Darren McGavin, Mari Aldon, Jane Rose)
An American spinster's dream of romance becomes a bittersweet reality when she meets a handsome - but married - Italian man while vacationing in Venice.
The Third Man (Country: UK; Year: 1949; Director: Carol Reed; Writer: Graham Greene, Alexander Korda, Graham Greene, Carol Reed, Orson Welles; Stars: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee, Paul Hörbiger, Ernst Deutsch, Siegfried Breuer, Erich Ponto, Wilfrid Hyde-White)
A man searching for his missing friend in post-war Vienna uncovers a ruthless conspiracy.
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