A man and a woman meet on a bridge. They both intend suicide but instead fall in love. She joins his knife-throwing act.
A gangster alights in a small town, meaning, somewhat reluctantly, to rob its bank. He takes a room at a reclusive schoolteacher's house. The recluse, naturally, becomes more gung-ho about the heist than does the professional.
A troubled woman makes an initial appointment with a psychiatrist, opens the wrong office door and ends up spilling her troubles to ... an accountant.
These are the premises of three recent movies, Girl on the Bridge, Man on the Train...