4 Princelet Street, Spitalfields, E1

Basic Instinct 2 has all the ingredients of a camp classic – a screamingly daft idea treated with utter seriousness by all concerned. But... it succeeds brilliantly in making London look darkly glamorous.

4 Princelet Street is the home of scuzzy journalist Adam Towers (Hugh Dancy). A beautifully preserved (not as a museum but by being lived in) Georgian house, built in 1723 for Ben Truman, owner of the Truman Brewery on Brick Lane.

The East End neighbourhood of Spitalfields has a rich history. Long a dismally poor district, where waves of immigrants – Huguenots (the house was once home to a family of Huguenot silk workers), Jews, Bengalis – huddled together in the narrow streets around the bustling old port, with a fierce sense of neighbourhood, distrustful of outsiders and authority. The untouched Georgian terraces are a national treasure, fortuitously saved from redevelopment by the very poverty of the area. Now the Truman’s Brewery is now home to bars and art galleries, the houses are up for grabs and renovation, and the inevitable gentrification is underway.

Basic Instinct 2 (2006, dir: Michael Caton-Jones)