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The Last House
The Last House is a 2026 Netflix sci-fi survival thriller directed by Louis Leterrier, starring Greta Lee and Wagner Moura as parents sealed inside their Seattle-area home with their two children; released August 7, 2026, it earned 23% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Last House on the Left
The Last House on the Left (1972) is Wes Craven's directorial debut, a rape-revenge horror produced by Sean S. Cunningham for about $90,000, inspired by Bergman's The Virgin Spring, banned by the BBFC, and remade in 2009.
The Last House on the Left (2009 film)
The Last House on the Left (2009) is Dennis Iliadis's remake of Wes Craven's 1972 horror film, starring Garret Dillahunt, Tony Goldwyn, and Monica Potter; released March 13, 2009 by Universal, it grossed $45,995,223 worldwide and scored 42% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Last Hurrah
The Last Hurrah is John Ford's 1958 Columbia Pictures comedy-drama starring Spencer Tracy as Mayor Frank Skeffington, adapted from Edwin O'Connor's 1956 novel loosely based on Boston mayor James Curley.
The Last Immortal (神隐)
The Last Immortal (神隐, Shen Yin) is a 2023 Chinese xianxia romance drama, 40 episodes on Tencent Video and Mango TV, adapted from Xing Ling's novel, starring Zhao Lusi and Wang Anyu, linked to Ancient Love Poetry.
The Last in Line
The Last in Line is Dio's 1984 second album, recorded at Caribou Ranch with keyboardist Claude Schnell; it peaked at UK No. 4 and US Billboard No. 23, went RIAA Platinum in 1987, and later named the band Last In Line.
The Last Judgment (Michelangelo)
The Last Judgment (Il Giudizio Universale) is Michelangelo's fresco on the Sistine Chapel altar wall, painted 1536-1541 under Paul III, with 314 figures, controversial nudes, and a 2026 salt-film cleaning.
The Last King of Scotland (film)
The Last King of Scotland (2006) is Kevin Macdonald's drama, adapted from Giles Foden's novel, in which fictional Scottish doctor Nicholas Garrigan (James McAvoy) becomes Idi Amin's (Forest Whitaker, Oscar-winning) personal physician.
The Last Kingdom
The Last Kingdom (2015–2022) is a British historical drama TV series adapted from Bernard Cornwell's Saxon Stories novels by Stephen Butchard; five seasons, BBC Two then Netflix, following fictional Uhtred of Bebbanburg alongside Alfred the Great.
The Last Kingdom (TV series)
The Last Kingdom is a 2015-2022 British historical fiction TV series adapted by Stephen Butchard from Bernard Cornwell's Saxon Stories, following fictional Uhtred of Bebbanburg in 9th-10th century England; began on BBC, moved to Netflix, ended with Seven Kings Must Die (2023).
The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die
The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die is a 2023 Netflix film concluding the series The Last Kingdom, based on Bernard Cornwell's Warlord, directed by Edward Bazalgette, starring Alexander Dreymon as Uhtred at the Battle of Brunanburh, 937.
The Last Kiss (2006 film)
The Last Kiss is a 2006 American comedy-drama-romance directed by Tony Goldwyn, written by Paul Haggis, and starring Zach Braff, a remake of the Italian film L'ultimo bacio (2001).
The Last Kumite
The Last Kumite is a 2024 German-American martial arts film by Ross W. Clarkson, Kickstarter-funded, starring Mathis Landwehr, Matthias Hues, Billy Blanks, and Cynthia Rothrock as fighters forced into an illegal Bulgarian tournament.
The Last Laugh
The Last Laugh (Der letzte Mann, 1924) is F.W. Murnau's German silent film for UFA, starring Emil Jannings as a hotel doorman demoted to washroom attendant; landmark for Karl Freund's unchained camera and near-absence of intertitles.
The Last Leaf
The Last Leaf, O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) short story first published in the New York World in 1905 and collected in The Trimmed Lamp (1907): in Greenwich Village, dying artist Johnsy ties her fate to an ivy vine's last leaf, which old painter Behrman secretly paints on the wall, dying of exposure.
The Last Lecture
The Last Lecture: Randy Pausch's September 18, 2007 Carnegie Mellon talk "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," given with terminal pancreatic cancer, and the 2008 bestselling book co-written with Jeffrey Zaslow, published in over 35 languages.
The Last Leg
The Last Leg is a British Channel 4 topical comedy chat show hosted by Adam Hills, Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker. It began in 2012 as a nightly London Paralympics review using #isitok, then continued weekly; hosted the Rio, Tokyo and Paris Paralympic editions.
The Last Letter from Your Lover
The Last Letter from Your Lover: Jojo Moyes dual-timeline romance novel (1960s letters signed "B"; Jennifer Stirling, Ellie Haworth) and its 2021 Netflix film directed by Augustine Frizzell, starring Shailene Woodley and Felicity Jones.
The Last Madame
Last Madame (2019) is a Singaporean English-language M18 period drama by Ochre Pictures for meWATCH, starring Joanne Peh as brothel owner Fung Lan and Fiona Fussi as Chi Ling; winner of Best Asian Drama at the 2020 Asia Contents Awards.
The Last Man
The Last Man (1826) by Mary Shelley, also called Le Dernier Homme in French scholarship, is the first major post-apocalyptic pandemic novel: Lionel Verney narrates humanity's extinction by plague in the late 21st century, as a roman à clef of Shelley, Byron, and their circle.
The Last Man on Earth (1964 film)
The Last Man on Earth (L'ultimo uomo della Terra), 1964 Italian-American sci-fi horror film by Sidney Salkow and Ubaldo Ragona, starring Vincent Price as plague survivor Robert Morgan; first and most faithful adaptation of Matheson's I Am Legend.
The Last Man on Earth (TV series)
The Last Man on Earth is a Fox post-apocalyptic comedy (2015–2018) created by and starring Will Forte as Phil Miller, a virus survivor in Tucson; distinct from the 1964 Vincent Price film of the same name; canceled after four seasons on a cliffhanger.
The Last Metro
The Last Metro (Le Dernier Métro) is François Truffaut's 1980 French drama about a Paris theater troupe under Nazi occupation, starring Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu; it won ten César Awards and was Oscar-nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.
The Last Mimzy
The Last Mimzy is a 2007 American science fiction family film directed by Robert Shaye, about two children who find futuristic toys that give them extraordinary abilities.
The Last Movie Star
The Last Movie Star (aka Dog Years) is a 2017 Adam Rifkin comedy-drama starring Burt Reynolds as aging star Vic Edwards, with Ariel Winter and Chevy Chase, released by A24 in March 2018.
The Last Mughal
The Last Mughal is a 2006 narrative history by William Dalrymple about the last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar II, and the fall of Delhi in 1857.
The Last Narc
The Last Narc is a 2020 four-part Amazon Prime Video true-crime docuseries directed by Tiller Russell about the 1985 kidnapping and murder of DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena, told through retired DEA investigator Hector Berrellez and three former cartel bodyguards alleging CIA involvement.
The Last Newhart
"The Last Newhart" is the May 21, 1990 CBS series finale of Newhart, directed by Dick Martin, in which the whole series is revealed as Bob Hartley's dream; 29.5 million viewers watched the twist with Suzanne Pleshette.
The Last Night at Tremore Beach
The Last Night at Tremore Beach (La última noche en Tremor) is an 8-episode Spanish Netflix psychological thriller miniseries directed by Oriol Paulo, adapted from Mikel Santiago's 2014 novel, starring Javier Rey as a pianist whose visions follow a lightning strike; premiered October 25, 2024.
The Last Night of Love, the First Night of War
The Last Night of Love, the First Night of War (Ultima noapte de dragoste, întâia noapte de război) is a 1930 novel by Camil Petrescu.