Can you identify the movie from the brief, one- or two-sentence description?

1. A reporter is assigned to cover a hotel break-in, and he discovers there may be more to the story than meets the eye. Another reporter then joins the case.

2. An Irish gentleman, adventurer, and gambler attemts to elevate himself amongst the English aristocracy. In the end, he leaves England, reluctant and defeated.

3. A freewheeling Bogart fan shoots a cop and spends a few days in Paris with a beautiful American girl.

4. A dogged detective with an estranged third wife chases a veteran, aloof thief in Los Angeles.

5. In the early '50s, a bored and depressed housewife almost runs away with her young son, but then decides to return home. Decades later, her son, afflicted with AIDS, commits suicide.

6. In her dying moments, an elderly woman leaves her country home to her young female friend. But her stern husband decides to not tell the young woman, whom he later marries.

7. A couple's son is murdered by his lover's ex-husband. The father later murders the ex-husband.

8. An isolated and abused child growing up in a poor part of England finds comfort in training a kestrel he found.

9. A businessman is forced to connect with and raise his son after his wife leaves them to find herself.

10. At a mysterious, ghostly hotel, one male guest tells a woman he knows her, but she doesn't remember. He claims they had an affair once in the Czech Republic.

11. An English philosopher and statesman refuses to say an oath and is executed by Henry VIII.

12. A love triangle blossoms between three students, two female and one male, at a secluded boarding school in a British dystopia.

13. Students at a female boarding school go on a Valentine's Day jaunt, and a few of them disappear, seemingly into thin air.

14. The Russian Revolution as seen through the eyes of an American journalist and communist activist who died of typhus in Moscow in 1920.

15. A politician's daughter spirals into drug abuse, while a noble Mexican cop navigates a web of corruption and criminality.

16. An introverted journalist reflects on his youth and London's glam rock heyday, including the vanishing of a Bowie-esque superstar.

17. Acrophobia, mystery, and lost love prove a dangerous combination for a detective.