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The Letter for the King (TV series)
The Letter for the King is a 2020 Netflix six-episode fantasy adventure series, also called De brief voor de Koning, adapted by Will Davies from Tonke Dragt's 1962 Dutch novel; it premiered March 20, 2020, was filmed in New Zealand and the Czech Republic, and ended after one season.
The Letter People
The Letter People are 26 anthropomorphic alphabet characters created by Elayne Reiss-Weimann and Rita Friedman for the Alpha One phonics program, later a 1974–1976 KETC television series and the Let's Begin preschool curriculum.
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh are the painter's surviving correspondence, 902 letters written from 1872 to 1890, mostly to his brother Theo, documenting his art and ideas.
The Liar and His Lover (TV series)
The Liar and His Lover (그녀는 거짓말을 너무 사랑해) is a 2017 tvN Korean drama starring Lee Hyun-woo and Red Velvet's Joy, remaking Kotomi Aoki's manga Kanojo wa Uso o Aishisugiteru; it aired Mondays and Tuesdays at 23:00 from March 20 to May 9, 2017.
The Liars' Club
The Liars' Club is a 1995 memoir by American poet Mary Karr, recounting her childhood in Leechfield, East Texas, with a storytelling father and a volatile alcoholic mother.
The Liberal Imagination
The Liberal Imagination is a 1950 collection of sixteen essays on literature and society by the American critic Lionel Trilling, his first essay volume and an unlikely bestseller.
The Liberation (film)
The Liberation is a 2026 American cult drama-thriller directed by Guy Nattiv, formerly titled Harmonia, starring Carrie Coon as Rita, a Holocaust survivor who joins an all-female cult; premiered at Telluride, released by Bleecker Street January 2027.
The Liberation of Aunt Jemima
The Liberation of Aunt Jemima is a 1972 mixed-media assemblage by the American artist Betye Saar that transforms the racist Aunt Jemima caricature into an armed figure of resistance.
The Liberator
The Liberator is a 2020 Netflix four-part animated WWII miniseries created by Jeb Stuart, based on Alex Kershaw's book about Felix Sparks and the 157th Infantry Regiment, and the first production in Trioscope hybrid animation.
The Libertine (1968 film)
The Libertine (La matriarca) is a 1968 Italian erotic comedy-drama by Pasquale Festa Campanile starring Catherine Spaak and Jean-Louis Trintignant, about a widow using her husband's secret love apartment; a 19th-place 1968 Italian box-office hit that faced censorship cuts.
The Libertines
The Libertines: English rock band formed 1997 in Camden Town by Pete Doherty and Carl Barât, key act of the UK garage rock revival; albums Up the Bracket (2002), The Libertines (2004), Anthems for Doomed Youth (2015), All Quiet on the Eastern Esplanade (2024).
The Librarian (franchise)
The Librarian is a TNT fantasy-adventure franchise created by David Titcher: three 2004-2008 TV movies starring Noah Wyle as Flynn Carsen, plus the series The Librarians (2014-2018) and The Librarians: The Next Chapter, about a secret Library protecting magical artifacts.
The Librarian: Quest for the Spear
The Librarian: Quest for the Spear is a 2004 TNT TV movie, also called The Librarian, directed by Peter Winther, starring Noah Wyle as Flynn Carsen, who recovers a stolen piece of the Spear of Destiny.
The Librarians (2014 TV series)
The Librarians is a TNT fantasy-adventure series (2014–2018, 4 seasons, 42 episodes) spun off from The Librarian TV movies, following Flynn Carsen, Guardian Eve Baird, and recruits Stone, Cassandra, and Ezekiel protecting magical artifacts, created by John Rogers with Dean Devlin.
The Librarians (2025 film)
The Librarians (2025) is Kim A. Snyder's documentary, premiering at Sundance 2025, about U.S. librarians fighting book bans sparked by Texas's 850-book Krause List; it won the 2026 Primetime Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking and aired on PBS Independent Lens.
The Librarians: The Next Chapter
The Librarians: The Next Chapter is a TNT fantasy-adventure spinoff of The Librarians, premiering May 25, 2025. It follows Vikram Chamberlain, a Librarian stuck after time-traveling from 1847, whose leaked magic must be cleaned up by a new team.
The Library of Babel
The Library of Babel (La biblioteca de Babel) is Jorge Luis Borges's 1941 short story, collected in Ficciones, describing a hexagonal universe-library containing all possible 410-page books of 23 letters, mostly gibberish.
The Lie (2018 film)
The Lie (2018 film), based on the German film Wir Monster, is a drama-thriller directed by Veena Sud. It stars Peter Sarsgaard, Mireille Enos, and Joey King.
The Lies of Locke Lamora
The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch's 2006 debut and first Gentleman Bastard novel, follows con artist Locke Lamora and his crew in Camorr, a fantasy Venice; a World Fantasy Award finalist praised for prose and criticized for pacing.
The Lieutenant of Inishmore
The Lieutenant of Inishmore is a dark comedy by Martin McDonagh, premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2001, about an INLA paramilitary avenging his cat's apparent death.
The Life Ahead
The Life Ahead (La vita davanti a sé) is a 2020 Netflix drama directed by Edoardo Ponti, starring Sophia Loren as Holocaust survivor Madame Rosa caring for orphan Momo, adapted from Romain Gary's The Life Before Us, Oscar-nominated for "Io Sì (Seen)".
The Life and Adventures of Dimitrije Obradović
The Life and Adventures of Dimitrije Obradović is the autobiography of the Serbian Enlightenment writer Dositej Obradović, published in two parts in Leipzig in 1783 and 1788.
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is a 1943 British Technicolor film by Powell and Pressburger (The Archers), starring Roger Livesey, Anton Walbrook, and Deborah Kerr, about General Clive Wynne-Candy; Churchill tried to suppress it, and it is now ranked among the greatest British films.
The Life and Death of Jonathan Wild, the Great
The Life and Death of Jonathan Wild, the Great is a satirical novel by Henry Fielding, published in 1743, ironic about greatness and political corruption.
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004) is an HBO biographical drama directed by Stephen Hopkins, starring Geoffrey Rush as comedian Peter Sellers, with Charlize Theron, Emily Watson, and John Lithgow; it won 9 Emmy Awards in 2005.
The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd
The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd is a 2026 American prison drama thriller directed by Tim Blake Nelson. It stars Amanda Seyfried and Scoot McNairy.
The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin is a satirical novel by Vladimir Voinovich about a Red Army private forgotten by his unit in 1941.
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil is Fay Weldon's 1983 black-comic revenge novel about Ruth Patchett, who remakes herself after her husband Bobbo leaves her for romance novelist Mary Fisher; adapted by the BBC in 1986 and as the 1989 film She-Devil.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Tristram Shandy (The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman) is Laurence Sterne's nine-volume comic novel, published 1759–1767, famous for digressions, blank and black pages, and its narrator's delayed birth.
The Life and Sufferings of Sinful Sophronius
The Life and Sufferings of Sinful Sophronius (Житие и страдания грешнаго Софрония) is the 1804 autobiography of Sophronius, Bishop of Vratsa, the first in Bulgarian literature.