Notably a core plot device in the French Home Alone style film Deadly Games (aka Dial Code Santa).
Now I’m curious if the Home Alone screenwriter watched it.
Also I find it amusing that Home Alone in France is titled "Mom, I missed the plane"
That's the entire history of Hollywood and american music industry. Those businesses who wouldn't like us to share made their fortunes on entirely borrowed things from other cultures. Many of the great revered american singers copied note-for-note traditional african songs, for example.