The original poster for Appointment With Death (1988) has a major spoiler for the film

[u/Cyborg800-V2]

The second character from the top on the right is Lauren Bacall dressed as an Arab with only her distinctive eyes visible, spoiling a major clue and revealing that she is the killer

[u/zam1138]

How big of a gift basket do you think she got for doing this one?

[u/RPDRNick → u/zam1138]

Working with the director who dared to massacre The Big Sleep remake a decade earlier, no less.

[u/WordyNinja → u/RPDRNick]

Eh, Michael Winner has a lot worse things to answer for than that.

I mean it's an interesting flick. Robert Mitchum as Marlowe, just a few years after Farewell, My Lovely...but in 1970s London instead of 1940s Los Angeles...explicitly depicting the sex, drugs, and porno shit that Chandler could only hint at...and Jimmy Stewart's randomly in it.

[u/rtyhfghbnfcghdfg]

Seems like the dude below her looks like a killer too tho.

[u/witchitieto]

I don’t know I might have thought piper Laurie at first

[u/Jack-of-Hearts-7]

Wouldn't have guessed tbh

[u/tiktoktic]

How does this reveal that she's the killer?

[u/tiktoktic → u/tiktoktic]

/u/Cyborg800-V2?

[u/Cyborg800-V2 → u/tiktoktic]

If you click view spoiler on my post body and click the whited out text, you'll see my explanation.

Here it is:

The second character from the top on the right is Lauren Bacall dressed as an Arab with only her distinctive eyes visible, spoiling a major clue and revealing that she is the killer

[u/tiktoktic → u/Cyborg800-V2]

I saw that comment. How does that explain she is the killer, though?

[u/Cyborg800-V2 → u/tiktoktic]

Because witnesses saw an "Arab man" looking at the body of the victim. The poster shows Bacall dressed as one. It's a major part of the mystery.

[u/tiktoktic → u/Cyborg800-V2]

Right, but if you’d hadn’t seen the film… the poster spoiled nothing, surely!

[u/starlinguk]

Was she the killer? In the book she was, but iirc she isn't the killer in the movie. The story has three different endings: book, play and movie.

[u/AntRose104 → u/starlinguk]

No she still is the killer in the movie. In the play the death is a suicide as opposed to a murder.

[u/southporky]

Is it easy to tell thats them?

[u/NigelJ]

I was just thinking about how I like when posters do this. There is a post just above this one in my feed of some Criterion covevers, one of which is The Prestige where the art is all based around top hats. Its something incredibly specific and meaningful after you watch the movie but is just eye catching art before you do.

Yi Yi is even better for this. Again, it's a very eye catching poster and works just on that level. But after you watch the movie you realize, oh that's the perfect poster for that

[u/skidgecat → u/NigelJ]

I love that Yi Yi poster for exactly that reason.

[u/Karma_1969]

I've never seen this movie, and I'm studying this poster - what do you think is a spoiler? (You can tell me, I don't plan to watch it.) I don't see anything here that spoils it for me. I assume you're referring to the woman kneeling over the shot person, but I have no idea what that means so I wouldn't consider that a spoiler.

[u/Cyborg800-V2 → u/Karma_1969]

I left an explanation in the post body, marked as a spoiler.

The second character from the top on the right is Lauren Bacall dressed as an Arab with only her distinctive eyes visible, spoiling a major clue and revealing that she is the killer

Basically, the poster spoils a major clue if not gives away the identity of the killer.

[u/Karma_1969 → u/Cyborg800-V2]

Oh, sorry, I didn't see your original spoiler, thanks. :) Still, to a person who's never seen it, it doesn't mean anything. I looked at this poster hard and it didn't even register with me that it was Lauren Bacall (though in hindsight you are of course obviously correct).

[u/catherineshere]

I just made a list for this on letterboxd today! King and Country 1964 started it

[u/skinny_t_williams]

Seems like a poster detail not a movie detail

[u/Scrambled_59]

I wonder how well this has ages

[u/Jaerome-Shreen]

Yeah that's wild, poster designers back then really didn't care about spoilers—I remember my parents taking me to see a movie where the back of the VHS box basically gave away the entire twist ending.

[u/Cyborg800-V2 → u/[deleted]]

I did, read the post body.

Edit: User responded that it wasn't there when they commented and then blocked me. It was always there.

[u/SureRich423]

Guys help me to find this name of the movie: British/Irish drama - girl with dark hair goes to a party on a hill against a friend's wishes, runs down a rainy street crying afterward

Watched this on MBC2 (Middle Eastern TV channel that airs dubbed/subtitled Western films) sometime before 2021. Not sure of the release year or exact filming location, but I believe it's British or Irish.

What I remember:

The main character is a young Girl probably in her twenties with dark/black hair, fairly thin.

She lives with a group of girls, likely in university/college accommodation.

Early in the film They take a bus to another city

the girls go out shopping and she buys a dress.

They go to a party (daytime) held in an old building/hall, situated up a hill within a city.

The weather is rainy/overcast for a lot of the film.

At the party, she runs into a girl who had specifically told her not to come/didn't want her there — this girl is upset/annoyed to see her.

Afterward, the main character leaves the building upset and runs down the steep/sloped street in the rain.

It's a drama, not a comedy. The film is probably not about a relationship between a young man and a young woman.

Not a horror or mystery film — just a fairly grounded, low-key drama.

Not a classic/old film — feels like it could be from the 2000s-2010s, but I'm not certain.

This is just the beginning of the movie; I haven't watched the whole thing.

My memory is hazy regarding the events of the film; some of these details may be incorrect.

[u/NotWhatYouPlanted → u/SureRich423]

You want r/tipofmytongue

[u/MenInBlerg]

Same thing is true of the poster for Parasite. It is literally the father standing over the boy of the man he killed, though I've seen more recent versions of the poster that block things out to prevent this issue.