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Paprika seeing versions of herself in the mirror in the film Paprika.

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Nicolas Cage in a car looking ahead in Pig

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Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly in Bound (1992)

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Patrick Bateman on a couch smoking and wearing sunglasses in ‘American Psycho’

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The characters of ‘The Usual Suspects’ stand annoyed in a police line-up.

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Georges and Anne on the street in Caché

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Clive Owen as Dwight McCarthy holding a razon against Benicio Del Toro as “Iron Jack” Rafferty in Sin City

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Barbara Stanwyck standing behind a door as Fred MacMurray stands in the doorway in Double Indemnity.

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Keller (Hugh Jackman) pins down Alex (Paul Dano) in ‘Prisoners’

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A man waving a truck forward in Sorcerer (1977)

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