Guns & Lipstick (1995)

Director
Jenő Hódi

Main cast
Sally Kirkland; Evan Lurie; Wings Hauser; Robert Forster; James Hong

Genres
Drama, Crime

Description
A female private investigator's latest client turns up murdered, and she is thrust into a deadly underworld of bi-sexual strippers, a Chinese Godfather with a taste for young girls and the hunt for one very elusive gem.


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