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The Long Season (漫长的季节)
The Long Season (漫长的季节) is a 2023 12-episode Chinese suspense web series directed by Xin Shuang, starring Fan Wei, Qin Hao, Chen Minghao, and Li Gengxi on Tencent Video. Three timelines (1997, 1998, 2016) unravel an old dismemberment case in northeastern steel town Hualin; Douban 9.4, Netflix release, multiple major awards.
The Long Shadow (TV series)
The Long Shadow is a 2023 seven-part ITV1/ITVX true crime drama by George Kay and Lewis Arnold about the Yorkshire Ripper hunt, based on Michael Bilton's Wicked Beyond Belief, centering victims rather than Peter Sutcliffe.
The Long Shot (2025 film)
The Long Shot (2025), also titled The Salamander King, is an Austin-set comedy directed by Austin Nichols, starring Ryan Hansen, Adrianne Palicki, and Dulcé Sloan as golf-course staff saving the historic Muny course from redevelopment; premiered at Dallas International Film Festival, streamed from April 10.
The Long Walk
The Long Walk: Stephen King's dystopian novel published July 3, 1979 as Richard Bachman; 100 boys walk at 4 mph with three fatal warnings; adapted into the 2025 Francis Lawrence film.
The Long Walk (2025 film)
The Long Walk is a 2025 American dystopian survival thriller directed by Francis Lawrence, adapting Stephen King's 1979 novel and starring Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, and Mark Hamill.
The Long, Hot Summer
The Long, Hot Summer (1958) is a Martin Ritt Southern Gothic drama starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, and Orson Welles, adapted from Faulkner's The Hamlet; Newman won Cannes Best Actor 1958.
The Long, Long Trailer
The Long, Long Trailer is a 1954 MGM comedy directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz as honeymooners towing a 36-foot Redman New Moon trailer cross-country, adapted from Clinton Twiss's 1951 book.
The Longest Day (film)
The Longest Day (1962), Darryl F. Zanuck's black-and-white D-Day epic based on Cornelius Ryan's book, directed by Annakin, Marton, and Wicki, starring John Wayne; two Oscars, biggest hit of 1962.
The Longest Day in Chang'an (长安十二时辰)
The Longest Day in Chang'an (长安十二时辰) is a 2019 Chinese historical suspense web drama adapted from Ma Boyong's novel, directed by Cao Dun, starring Lei Jiayin and Jackson Yee, set in Tang-dynasty Chang'an in 744, 48 episodes on Youku.
The Longest Journey
The Longest Journey is an English title shared by several works: Najdolgiot pat (1976), Branko Gapo's Yugoslav-Macedonian film on Ottoman deportations; Funcom's 1999 adventure game by Ragnar Tørnquist; Peter Watkins' 14.5-hour film The Journey; and a Race Across America documentary.
The Longest Night
The Longest Night (La noche más larga) is a 2022 Spanish Netflix action thriller series by Víctor Sierra and Xosé Morais: six real-time episodes in which armed men besiege the Monte Baruca psychiatric prison to seize serial killer Simón Lago, resisted by director Hugo (Alberto Ammann).
The Longest Nite (暗花)
The Longest Nite (暗花) is a 1998 Hong Kong crime thriller directed by Patrick Yau and starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Lau Ching-wan, set in Macau.
The Longest Promise (玉骨遥)
The Longest Promise (玉骨遥), also known as Zhu Yan, is a 2023 Tencent Video xianxia romance drama adapted from Cang Yue's novel, starring Xiao Zhan as Shi Ying and Ren Min as Zhu Yan, 40 episodes, premiered July 2, 2023.
The Longest Ride (film)
The Longest Ride is a 2015 American romantic drama directed by George Tillman Jr., based on Nicholas Sparks's novel. It stars Britt Robertson and Scott Eastwood.
The Longest Summer
The Longest Summer (去年煙花特別多) is Fruit Chan's 1998 Hong Kong drama, second of his handover trilogy, following Chinese ex-soldiers of the disbanded British Army who rob a bank after the 1997 handover; 128 minutes, starring Tony Ho and Sam Lee.
The Longest Yard (1974 film)
The Longest Yard (1974) is a Robert Aldrich prison football comedy-drama starring Burt Reynolds as quarterback Paul Crewe, with Eddie Albert as Warden Hazen; filmed at Georgia State Prison, remade in 2005.
The Longest Yard (2005 film)
The Longest Yard is a 2005 American prison sports comedy directed by Peter Segal, starring Adam Sandler as a former quarterback leading inmates against prison guards.
The Longshots
The Longshots is a 2008 American sports comedy-drama directed by Fred Durst, starring Ice Cube and Keke Palmer as a coach and his quarterback niece.
The Look at My Life Tour
The Look at My Life Tour is Gracie Abrams' 64-date 2026-2027 arena tour supporting her album Daughter from Hell, running December 2, 2026 (Denver) to May 28, 2027 (Barcelona), promoted by Live Nation, presented by Capital One in North America.
The Look of Love (1967 song)
"The Look of Love" is a 1967 Bacharach-David song written for the spoof Bond film Casino Royale, first recorded instrumentally by Stan Getz and defined by Dusty Springfield's Oscar-nominated version, later a top-10 hit for Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66.
The Look of Silence
The Look of Silence (Senyap) is Joshua Oppenheimer's 2014 Oscar-nominated companion documentary to The Act of Killing, following optometrist Adi Rukun confronting the men who killed his brother Ramli in Indonesia's 1965-66 massacres.
The Lookout
The Lookout (2007) is Scott Frank's directorial debut, a neo-noir heist thriller starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a brain-damaged former athlete roped into robbing the bank where he works, with Jeff Daniels; 87% on Rotten Tomatoes, Independent Spirit Award winner.
The Looming Tower (miniseries)
The Looming Tower is a 2018 Hulu ten-episode drama miniseries based on Lawrence Wright's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, dramatizing the FBI-CIA rivalry before 9/11, starring Jeff Daniels, Tahar Rahim, and Peter Sarsgaard.
The Looney Tunes Show
The Looney Tunes Show is a 2011–2013 American animated sitcom on Cartoon Network reimagining Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck as suburban roommates, with Merrie Melodies music videos and CGI Road Runner shorts; produced by Warner Bros. Animation under Sam Register.
The Lorax
The Lorax is Dr. Seuss's 1971 Random House picture book, his personal favorite, in which the Lorax speaks for the trees against the Once-ler's Thneed industry; inspired by Kenya's patas monkey and a La Jolla cypress, adapted in 1972 and 2012.
The Lorax (film)
Dr. Seuss' The Lorax is a 2012 American computer-animated musical comedy directed by Chris Renaud and Kyle Balda, loosely based on Dr. Seuss's 1971 book and grossing $349 million worldwide.
The Lord Chandos Letter
The Lord Chandos Letter (Ein Brief) is a fictional 1902 letter by Hugo von Hofmannsthal in which Lord Chandos tells Francis Bacon he can no longer write.
The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien's high-fantasy novel published in three volumes in 1954–1955 by Allen & Unwin, follows Frodo's quest to destroy the One Ring and founded the modern adult fantasy genre.
The Lord of the Rings (1978 film)
The Lord of the Rings (1978), Ralph Bakshi's animated adaptation produced by Saul Zaentz, covers The Fellowship of the Ring and part of The Two Towers using full rotoscoping, shot in Spain, ending at Helm's Deep.
The Lord of the Rings (1981 radio series)
The Lord of the Rings (1981 radio series) is a 26-part BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Tolkien's novel by Brian Sibley and Michael Bakewell, starring Ian Holm as Frodo, with music by Stephen Oliver.