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The Legend of Xiao Chuo (燕云台)
The Legend of Xiao Chuo (燕云台, Yan Yun Tai) is a 2020 48-episode Chinese historical drama on Beijing TV and Tencent Video, adapted from Jiang Shengnan's novel, starring Tang Yan as Liao empress Xiao Yanyan with Shawn Dou and Charmaine Sheh.
The Legend of Zang Hai (藏海传)
The Legend of Zang Hai (藏海传, also 藏海戏麟) is a 2025 40-episode Chinese costume revenge-intrigue drama by Zheng Xiaolong and Cao Yiwen starring Xiao Zhan, derived from the Daomu Biji character Wang Zanghai, premiered May 18, 2025 on CCTV-8 and Youku.
The Legend of Zelda (film)
The Legend of Zelda (ゼルダの伝説) is an upcoming live-action fantasy film based on Nintendo's game series, directed by Wes Ball and scheduled for theatrical release in April 2027.
The Legend of Zhuohua (灼灼风流)
The Legend of Zhuohua (灼灼风流), from the novel Zeng Fengliu, is a 2023 Chinese 40-episode costume romance drama directed by Wen Deguang, starring Jing Tian and Feng Shaofeng, which premiered 19 August 2023 on Tencent Video.
The Legend of Zorro
The Legend of Zorro is a 2005 American action-adventure film directed by Martin Campbell, in which Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones reprise their roles from The Mask of Zorro.
The Legend of Zu (蜀山传)
The Legend of Zu (蜀山传) is Tsui Hark's 2001 Hong Kong wuxia fantasy, his second adaptation of Huanzhulouzhu's Shu swordsmen novel, starring Ekin Cheng, Cecilia Cheung, and Louis Koo, with 1,500 CG shots and a HK$90 million budget.
The Legends and Myths of Hawaii
The Legends and Myths of Hawaii is an 1888 collection of Hawaiian legends published in New York under the name of King Kalākaua, edited by Rollin Mallory Daggett.
The Legends of Tōno
The Legends of Tōno (Tono monogatari, 遠野物語) is a 1910 collection of 119 Japanese folk tales from Tōno, Iwate Prefecture, compiled by Kunio Yanagita from stories told by Sasaki Kizen.
The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers
The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers (The LXD) is a Jon M. Chu-created American web series on Hulu (2010-2011, 3 seasons, 30 episodes) about dancers with dance-activated superpowers called The Ra, distinct from the LXD container manager.
The Legionnaires
The Legionnaires (Legionärerna) is a 1968 documentary novel by the Swedish author Per Olov Enquist about Sweden's extradition of Baltic soldiers to the Soviet Union in 1946.
The Lego Batman Movie
The Lego Batman Movie is a 2017 animated superhero comedy directed by Chris McKay, a spin-off of The LEGO Movie with Will Arnett voicing Batman.
The Lego Movie
The Lego Movie (2014) is a Warner Bros. computer-animated comedy directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the first theatrical LEGO feature, styled as stop motion by Animal Logic, grossing $257.8M in the US and snubbed for the Best Animated Feature Oscar.
The Lego Movie (franchise)
The Lego Movie franchise: four Warner Bros. animated films (2014–2019) from Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and producer Dan Lin, grossing nearly $1.1 billion worldwide before Universal took over LEGO film rights in 2020.
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019) is the first sequel to The Lego Movie, directed by Mike Mitchell, written by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, starring Chris Pratt and Tiffany Haddish, grossing $105.8M in the US.
The Lego Ninjago Movie
The Lego Ninjago Movie is a 2017 animated comedy-adventure film based on the Lego Ninjago toy line, following teenage ninja Lloyd and his warlord father Garmadon.
The Lemon Drop Kid
The Lemon Drop Kid is a 1951 Paramount comedy starring Bob Hope as a racetrack tout who must repay a gangster $10,000 by Christmas via a fake Santa charity, loosely based on Damon Runyon's short story and introducing "Silver Bells."
The Lemon Twigs
The Lemon Twigs are Brian and Michael D'Addario, brothers from Long Island, New York, whose six albums of Beatles, Beach Boys, and Todd Rundgren-inspired power pop span 4AD and Captured Tracks, from Do Hollywood (2016) to Look For Your Mind! (2026).
The Lemonheads
The Lemonheads: Boston alternative rock band founded 1986 by Evan Dando, Ben Deily, and Jesse Peretz; Taang! hardcore origins, Atlantic-era hits "Mrs. Robinson" and "Into Your Arms," 2025 album Love Chant on Fire Records.
The Lennon Sisters
The Lennon Sisters are an American vocal group formed in 1955 in Venice, California, famous from The Lawrence Welk Show; original members Dianne, Peggy, Kathy, and Janet Lennon, now Kathy, Janet, and Mimi.
The Lenticulars (ザ・レンチキュラーズ)
The Lenticulars (ザ・レンチキュラーズ) is a Studio TRIGGER web anime directed by Akira Amemiya: an 8-episode, 6-minute-per-episode youth romantic comedy streamed on TRIGGER CHANNEL from October 31 to December 19, 2025, with a Scenarioart theme song and a 2026 complete a/b theatrical version.
The Leopard
The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) is Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's only novel, published posthumously in 1958; it follows Sicilian Prince Fabrizio Corbera through Italian unification, won the 1959 Strega Prize, and inspired Visconti's Palme d'Or 1963 film.
The Leopard (1963 film)
The Leopard (Il gattopardo), Luchino Visconti's 1963 Italian-French epic adapted from Lampedusa's 1958 novel, stars Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, and Claudia Cardinale; it won the unanimous 1963 Cannes Palme d'Or and ranks =90 in the 2022 Sight and Sound poll.
The Leopard (2025 TV series)
The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) is a 2025 six-episode Netflix Italian-language limited series adapting Lampedusa's 1958 novel, directed mainly by Tom Shankland, starring Kim Rossi Stuart, Benedetta Porcaroli, Deva Cassel, and Saul Nanni, set in 1860s Sicily during Italian unification.
The Leopard Man
The Leopard Man (1943) is a Val Lewton-produced, Jacques Tourneur-directed RKO horror film, the third of their collaborations, adapted from Cornell Woolrich's Black Alibi, about killings blamed on an escaped leopard that are actually a human killer's work.
The Less Deceived
The Less Deceived is a 1955 poetry collection by Philip Larkin, published by the Marvell Press of Hessle, Yorkshire, containing "Church Going", "At Grass", and "Deceptions".
The Less I Know the Better
The Less I Know the Better: 2015 disco-funk Tame Impala song by Kevin Parker from Currents; bassline is a guitar synth, nearly given to Mark Ronson, 2.65 billion Spotify streams, won triple j's Hottest 100 of the Decade.
The Lesser Blessed
The Lesser Blessed is a 1996 debut novel by the Tłı̨chǫ (Dogrib) Canadian writer Richard Van Camp, following Dogrib teenager Larry Sole in the northern town of Fort Simmer.
The Letdown
The Letdown is an Australian comedy-drama series created by Alison Bell and Sarah Scheller about new mother Audrey and her mothers' group. Aired on ABC 2017–2019 in two seasons (13 episodes), won 2018 AACTA Best Comedy Program, streamed on Netflix worldwide from April 2018.
The Letter (1940 film)
The Letter (1940) is William Wyler's Warner Bros. drama starring Bette Davis as Leslie Crosbie, a planter's wife who kills her lover; seven Oscar nominations, Maugham adaptation, PCA-forced ending change.
The Letter (편지) (1997 film)
The Letter (편지, Pyeonji) is a 1997 South Korean melodrama directed by Lee Jung-guk, starring Choi Jin-sil and Park Shin-yang; it was the top Korean film at the 1997 box office.