His kin said his mom had to go,
so he killed them off all in a row
as he worked his way toward
becoming a Lord.
Did he get away with it? Oh, no.

He thought he was Christ, so his kin
threatened him with the lunatic bin.
Then he found it much hipper
to be Jack the Ripper,
and that's how he learned to fit in.

Hi Esther, welcome to Movie Madness.

Your first, I have no idea.
The second, well, I'm guessing -- "Jack the Ripper"?


A spinster while travelling gets
a lover who lights two cigarettes.
She finds all too soon
that they can't have the moon,
but the stars light the sky for them yet.

A young girl weds a man in midlife,
but their marriage is not without strife.
Her woes are made deeper
by a crazy housekeeper
and the shade of her husband's late wife.

got the second one. Is the first "Summertime"?

Guess I'll wait a bit and see if anyone guesses mine. (Not "Jack the Ripper.")

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The jewel heist is very well planned
by a tight-knit, experienced band.
It goes off without hitches
till one of them snitches
and everything gets out of hand.


His mother has slept through the fall
of the GDR and Berlin Wall,
and to spare her the shock
he must turn back the clock
and pretend nothing happened at all.

Esther, your first one on this page is "Kind Hearts and Coronets" (what a superb film that is!)

Marion, your second one is "Rebecca" - at first glance, I was going mistakenly to say "Jane Eyre", with which of course it has a lot in common.

As for the others - dunno.

Esther's second is "Goodbye Lenin"

Nigel

Ah - I'm none the wiser. I haven't even seen the prequel "Hello Lenin".

Alvy wants what he hasn't been doing,
then a cameo by Marshall McLuhan,
then a bit more neurosis,
then a dismal prognosis,
lovers build what they later must ruin.

My first one is "Now Voyager" - classic 4 handkerchief soaper with La Divine Bette.

Yep, second is Rebecca, vintage Hitchcock but with a cop-out ending.