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Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men walks beside a police car, holding a captive bolt pistol and air tank, wearing a black jacket and brown shirt.

Jean-Paul Belmondo stands shirtless beside Jean Seberg, who faces a mirror and applies makeup, in a black-and-white scene from the film Breathless by Jean-Luc Godard.

Jack Nicholson as Jake Gittes in Chinatown stands in front of a yellow sign reading Farm Land for Sale, with a sold banner, wearing a suit, sunglasses, and a bandage on his nose.

Jeff Bridges as The Dude, Steve Buscemi as Donny, and John Goodman as Walter Sobchak sit together in a bowling alley scene from The Big Lebowski.

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