A Kiss Before Dying (1956)
Director: Gerd Oswald
Actors: George Macready, Jeffrey Hunter, Joanne Woodward, Mary Astor, Robert Wagner, Virginia Leith
Country: United States of America
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American Buffalo (1996)
Three inner-city losers plan a robbery of a valuable coin in a seedy second-hand junk shop.