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Movie poster for Cleopatra, featuring Elizabeth Taylor seated on a throne with a crown, flanked by two men in Roman attire, with the title and cast names at the bottom.
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Poster for the movie "Show Girls" featuring a woman with curly hair and no clothes, with the title prominently displayed across the center.
Promotional poster for the film 'The Bonfire of the Vanities' featuring Tom Hanks, Melanie Griffith, and Bruce Willis with their names at the top and an orange city skyline at sunset below.
Movie poster for 'The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring' featuring main characters and a group of riders on horses.
Movie poster for 'The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,' featuring characters Aragorn, Gandalf, Arwen, Frodo, Gollum, and Sam in a fantasy scene.
Poster of the movie "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" featuring characters and scenes from the film, with large towers and a witch king silhouette in the background.
Movie poster for The Princess Bride depicting two men sitting on chairs on a porch with a mountain landscape in the background, with text from the film, and various small objects including a skateboard, a ball, and a small robot on the porch.
A movie poster for "Deliverance" showing a large human eye with three men in a canoe paddling on water inside the iris, with the river depicted as a literal eye student.
Animated character of an indigenous man with a feathered headdress, wearing a red outfit, smiling and gesturing energetically. Text on the image says "The Emperor's New Groove."
The movie poster for 'Town & Country' showing six characters in business attire, with one man in shorts and a shirt with hearts, standing behind a window with a city skyline in the background.
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Movie poster for 'Doctor Doolittle,' featuring Rex Harrison riding a giraffe, with various circus scenes, animals, and people in the background.
Poster for the movie 'Evan Almighty' featuring a cast of animals, including a bear, lion, elephant, giraffe, and flamingos, with a man in a suit sitting on a wooden platform, holding a cup.
Movie poster for "Roar" showing a man hugging a large lion, a woman on the ground near a vintage car, and multiple lions and tigers in the background in a jungle setting.
Vintage movie poster for Alfred Hitchcock's 'The Birds' featuring a woman screaming and birds flying around her, with a quote from Hitchcock and images of the cast.
Jurassic Park movie poster featuring a T-Rex silhouette, the movie title, and tagline about 65 million years of making.
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Promotional poster for the movie 'The Mummy' featuring a giant dog face in the sky, pyramids in the desert, and fiery text.
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Movie poster for 'Last Action Hero' featuring a man holding a helicopter rotor, a woman with a comic book, and various action scenes in the background.
Book cover for "Mommie Dearest" Hollywood Royalty Edition by Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford, featuring a close-up of a woman's eyes and lips against a white background.
Poster for the movie "The Shining" with a yellow background, featuring a stylized, pixelated image of a child's face and the title in bold black letters.
Movie poster for "What ever happened to Baby Jane?" featuring two anxious women in colored tint portraits with a clown makeup face. The quotes read: 'Sister, sister,' 'oh so fair,' 'why is there blood,' 'all over your hair?' The title is in bold lett
Poster for Star Wars: A New Hope featuring characters Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, Darth Vader, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Chewbacca, R2-D2, C-3PO, and others, with starships and space background.
A stylized movie poster for 'Apocalypse Now' featuring a partially submerged, split face of a man with intense red lighting, surrounded by dark water and tropical foliage.
The movie poster for "Blade Runner" features a large portrait of Harrison Ford with a serious expression, holding a futuristic phone to his ear. Below him is a woman with dark hair, making a smoking gesture with a cigarette. The background showcases
Movie poster for 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' featuring Indiana Jones wearing a fedora and holding a whip, with smaller scenes at the bottom including a man swinging on a rope, a woman with a torch, a tank, and an armed figure.
Movie poster for Jaws, showing a large shark underwater with its mouth open from below, with a swimmer on the surface above.
Movie poster for 'The Abyss,' a film by Twentieth Century Fox. Features title in large blue letters with a glowing star underneath. Includes cast, crew, and production details, and a PG-13 rating.
Movie poster for Titanic featuring close-up of a man and woman facing downward, with the ship's bow pointing upward and centered. The quote 'Nothing on earth could come between them' is at the top.
Movie poster for Waterworld starring Kevin Costner, featuring a rugged man holding a spear in front of a post-apocalyptic water-based world with boats and structures on the water.
Black-and-white poster for the movie 'Poltergeist,' featuring a young girl sitting on the floor looking at a TV screen with hands pressed against the screen, with the quote 'They're here.' above her, and the tagline 'It knows what scares you.' below.
Black and white poster for the movie "The Exorcist" showing a silhouette of a man in a hat holding a briefcase, standing outside near an iron fence with bright lights and houses in the background.
Movie poster for The Omen with black background, red title text, a white silhouette of a child with a halo standing on a hand, and white text that reads 'You Have Been Warned'.
Promotional poster for Twilight Zone: The Movie with a starry night sky background and text.
Poster for the movie "Fa La Cosa Giusta" featuring Spike Lee, a woman, and a young girl on a blue playground surface with chalk drawings and text.
Movie poster for Galaxy Quest featuring three main characters in space with Earth in the background, two alien characters at the bottom, and a spaceship.
Movie poster for "Mad Max: Fury Road" showing a desert landscape with a lone soldier and a wrecked car, titled "What a Lovely Day," with release year 2015.
Black and white poster for the film 'Citizen Kane' directed by Orson Welles, featuring a large image of Welles' face with a hat and a small figure at a podium in front of the face. The text indicates it is a Janus Films presentation.
Movie poster for 'The Silence of the Lambs' depicting a woman's face with a moth resting on her lips, which has a skull pattern on its back.
Movie poster for 'The Thin Red Line' featuring a soldier's face partially hidden behind rocks and grass, with a subtitle 'Every Man Fights His Own War' and a list of actors.
A stylized illustrated poster of a young man wearing sunglasses, holding a cigarette, with the title 'the Breakfast Club' and credits at the bottom.
Vintage movie poster for WIZARD of OZ featuring costumed characters and illustration of characters from the film.
Promo poster for 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon' featuring nine characters in dark, moody tones with a forest background and the title at the bottom.
Promotional poster for the movie Twilight featuring a close-up of two characters, a young man with pale skin and dark hair leaning over a young woman with reddish-brown hair. Text provides release date and website.
Movie poster for Bram Stoker's Dracula with a monstrous wolf-like face in the center and the title in red gothic font.
A large white egg with a crack in the shell, revealing a golden duck bill and a cigar inside. Text at the top reads 'More adventure than humanly possible.' Below, the title 'Howard the Duck' in bold 3D letters, and at the bottom, it says 'Coming to E
Popeye movie poster featuring Robin Williams as Popeye and Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl, with a baby in sailor outfit at the bottom, and the title 'Popeye' in bold red letters.
Movie poster for 'The Island of Dr. Moreau' featuring Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer with a green color theme, showing their faces and a mystical figure in the center with hands reaching upward.
Movie poster for 'Gone with the Wind' featuring an illustration of a man and woman in an embrace, with a background of a burning fire and a scenes of a plantation with horses and wagon.
A poster for the movie "Heaven's Gate" featuring a scene of a man and woman embracing, and a landscape with a lone rider on horseback riding through a smoky, mountainous terrain.
Poster for Disney's The Lone Ranger featuring a Native American man with face paint and feathers, and a man in a cowboy hat and mask, walking through a smoky background.
Close-up of a man's face with long hair and beard, with a forest and streaks of red light in the background, promoting the movie "The Revenant" starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy.
The poster for the musical 'Cats' features a night-time skyline of London with Big Ben clock tower and silhouetted dancers in feline costumes. The background is a starry sky with a full moon. The title 'CATS' is written in large, gold, glittery lette
Promotional poster for the movie 'Fantastic Four' showing three characters in black suits with backgrounds of destroyed city buildings and rubble. The text 'Change is Coming' is at the top, and the release date 08-07-15 is at the bottom.
Poster for the movie 'Super Mario Bros.' featuring two characters in blue outfits, one holding a wrench, with the text 'This Ain't No Game' at the top.
Poster for the movie 'The Last Airbender' showing a young character holding a staff, with a cloudy sky and a distant castle in the background, featuring symbols representing the four elements.
Poster for the movie AEON FLUX featuring a woman with short black hair, wearing a black leather outfit, holding a gun, with a cityscape and crowd in the background.
Promotional poster for the movie 'Alien 3', featuring a black background with green text and a graphic of a spaceship and a monstrous alien creature.
Movie poster for 'Battlefield Earth' featuring a large face of a man with green eyes, an explosion, a group of flying aircrafts, and a woman running.
Collage of promotional images for the movie 'Southland Tales,' featuring characters, scenes, and themes including a Ferris wheel, a woman with blonde hair, military personnel, police officers, and a woman with red hair, with the movie title and sloga
Movie poster for Dune featuring two women in black outfits walking forward, with a desert landscape, spaceships in formation above and a large planet in the sky behind. Contains text describing the film and cast.
Poster for the movie 'Gladiator' featuring Russell Crowe dressed as a Roman gladiator with the quote 'What we do in life echoes in eternity'.
Two men dressed in traditional desert clothing leading a camel through sand dunes in a desert. Large stylized text reading 'islatar' floats above a desert landscape with sand dunes and a clear sky.
Poster for the film 'The Man Who Killed Don Quixote' featuring stylized text, a noose pulling the text downward, and a drawing of a fallen windmill. Includes words 'Official Selection Cannes' and 'Coming Soon'.
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