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Look Back in Anger (1959 film)

Look Back in Anger (1959) is Tony Richardson's directorial debut film, adapted by Nigel Kneale from John Osborne's 1956 play, starring Richard Burton as Jimmy Porter, Mary Ure, and Claire Bloom; a Woodfall production and British New Wave landmark.

Look into My Eyes (film)

Look into My Eyes is a 2024 A24 documentary directed by Lana Wilson following seven New York City psychics and their clients; Sundance premiere, 91% on Rotten Tomatoes, NBR Top Five Documentaries.

Looney Tunes

Looney Tunes: Warner Bros.' animated short series (1930s-1960s) starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Porky Pig, created via Leon Schlesinger's Termite Terrace unit; now a revived theatrical franchise with Coyote vs. Acme and Daffy Season.

Looney Tunes Cartoons

Looney Tunes Cartoons is a 2020-2024 Warner Bros. Animation anthology series on HBO Max reviving classic Looney Tunes shorts in hand-drawn form; 6 seasons, 229 episodes, 209 shorts, Emmy-nominated, led by Peter Browngardt and Eric Bauza.

Loose Change

Loose Change, also titled Loose Change 9/11 in its HD edition, is Dylan Avery's 2005 documentary series claiming the September 11 attacks were an inside job; a viral Google Video hit watched by an estimated 100 million, it popularized the 9/11 Truth movement.

Lord of the Flies (1963 film)

Lord of the Flies (1963) is Peter Brook's black-and-white British adaptation of William Golding's 1954 novel, shot on Vieques, Puerto Rico, with 34 non-professional boys; Cannes Palme d'Or nominee, Criterion release, distinct from the 1990 Harry Hook remake.

Lord of the Flies (1990 film)

Lord of the Flies (1990) is Harry Hook's American remake of Golding's novel, the second film adaptation after Peter Brook's 1963 version, recasting the boys as US military cadets, adding a pilot, credited to pseudonym Sara Schiff, and receiving mixed reviews.

Lords of Chaos (film)

Lords of Chaos is Jonas Åkerlund's 2018 biographical horror drama about Mayhem and the Norwegian black metal scene, based on Moynihan and Søderlind's book, starring Rory Culkin and Emory Cohen, premiered at Sundance 2018, released 2019, RT 73%.

Lost in the Jungle

Lost in the Jungle (2025) is a National Geographic documentary by Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, and Juan Camilo Cruz about four Indigenous Mucutuy children who survived 40 days in the Colombian Amazon after a 2023 plane crash, streaming on Disney+ and Hulu; distinct from Netflix's The Lost Children.

Louis Theroux: The Settlers

Louis Theroux: The Settlers is a 2025 BBC Two documentary in which Louis Theroux returns to the occupied West Bank to meet Israeli settlers, fourteen years after The Ultra Zionists.

Love & Friendship

Love & Friendship is a 2016 period comedy film written and directed by Whit Stillman, adapted from Jane Austen's novella Lady Susan and starring Kate Beckinsale.

Love & Mercy (film)

Love & Mercy is a 2014 Bill Pohlad biographical drama about Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson, with Paul Dano as 1960s Wilson and John Cusack as 1980s Wilson, premiered at TIFF 2014.

Love Comes Softly

Love Comes Softly: Janette Oke's 1979 Christian prairie-romance novel (Marty Claridge, marriage of convenience with widower Clark Davis), basis of the 2003 Hallmark Channel movie with Katherine Heigl and Dale Midkiff, a 10-film franchise, and a 2027 UP Faith & Family series.

Love in a Fallen City (倾城之恋) (1984 film)

Love in a Fallen City (傾城之戀) is Ann Hui's 1984 Shaw Brothers film, the first screen adaptation of Eileen Chang's novella, starring Chow Yun-fat and Cora Miao; it won the 1985 Hong Kong Film Award for Best Original Film Score.

Love in the Time of Cholera (film)

Love in the Time of Cholera (2007), Mike Newell's English-language film of Gabriel García Márquez's 1985 novel El amor en los tiempos del cólera, starring Javier Bardem, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, and Benjamin Bratt; filmed in Cartagena, released by New Line Cinema, and a critical and commercial failure.

Love Me Love Me (film)

Love Me, Love Me (Cuori Magnetici) is a 2026 English-language Italian Prime Video young adult romance directed by Roger Kumble, adapted from Stefania S.'s Wattpad novel, starring Mia Jenkins, Pepe Barroso Silva, and Luca Melucci, released February 13, 2026.

Love Me or Leave Me

Love Me or Leave Me (1955) is MGM's biographical musical of singer Ruth Etting, directed by Charles Vidor, starring Doris Day and James Cagney, winner of the Best Motion Picture Story Oscar with six nominations.

Love, Antosha

Love, Antosha is a 2019 documentary by Garret Price about actor Anton Yelchin, who died at 27 in a 2016 Jeep accident; it reveals his cystic fibrosis and uses his journals, narrated by Nicolas Cage.

Loving Vincent

Loving Vincent (2017), directed by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman, is the first fully oil-painted animated feature, about 65,000 hand-painted frames by 125 artists depicting van Gogh's death; Oscar-nominated, European Film Award winner.

Low-budget film

Low-budget film: a feature made cheaply relative to industry norms, from UK £1m definitions and Hollywood's $10m ceiling to microbudget tiers; small crews, deferred pay, private financing, and rare breakouts like The Blair Witch Project.

Lu Over the Wall (夜明け告げるルーのうた)

Lu Over the Wall (夜明け告げるルーのうた) is Masaaki Yuasa's 2017 Science SARU animated musical about boy Kai and mermaid Lu; first original feature, Annecy Cristal and Japan Media Arts Festival Grand Prize winner.

Luca (2021 film)

Luca is a 2021 Pixar animated coming-of-age film directed by Enrico Casarosa, set in Portorosso on the Italian Riviera, about sea monster boys Luca and Alberto; released on Disney+ June 18, 2021.

Luck (2022 film)

Luck (2022) is Skydance Animation's first feature, an animated fantasy comedy directed by Peggy Holmes, released August 5, 2022 on Apple TV+ after a planned Paramount theatrical run, starring Eva Noblezada, Simon Pegg, Jane Fonda, and Whoopi Goldberg.

Lumumba (film)

Lumumba is Raoul Peck's 2000 political thriller biopic of Congo's first Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, starring Eriq Ebouaney, shot for $4 million in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Belgium; distinct from Peck's 1991 documentary Death of a Prophet.

Lupin III: Dead or Alive (ルパン三世 DEAD OR ALIVE)

Lupin III: Dead or Alive (Rupan Sansei: Deddo oa Araibu) is a 1996 Japanese animated film, the sixth theatrical feature in the Lupin III franchise, directed by Monkey Punch.

Lupin III: Farewell to Nostradamus

Lupin III: Farewell to Nostradamus (ルパン三世 くたばれ!ノストラダムス) is a 1995 Toho-distributed theatrical anime film, 97 minutes, pitting Lupin against a Nostradamus cult; Kanichi Kurita's debut as Lupin's voice.

Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro

Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro (ルパン三世 カリオストロの城) is Hayao Miyazaki's 1979 feature directorial debut, a 100-minute TMS anime caper in which gentleman thief Lupin III pursues counterfeit Gothic bills to the Duchy of Cagliostro and rescues Princess Clarisse from Count Cagliostro.

Lupin III: The Mystery of Mamo

Lupin III: The Mystery of Mamo (ルパン三世 ルパンVS複製人間), also The Secret of Mamo, is the first theatrical Lupin III anime film, released December 16, 1978, directed by Soji Yoshikawa, pitting Lupin against the immortal clonemaker Mamo.

Lupin the Third vs. Detective Conan: The Movie

Lupin the Third vs. Detective Conan: The Movie (ルパン三世vs名探偵コナン THE MOVIE) is a 2013 Toho-distributed anime crossover film directed by Hajime Kamegaki, sequel to the 2009 TV special, grossing over ¥4.23 billion.

Lupin the Third: The Legend of the Gold of Babylon

Lupin the Third: The Legend of the Gold of Babylon (ルパン三世 バビロンの黄金伝説) is the third Lupin III theatrical film, released July 13, 1985 by Toho. Co-directed by Seijun Suzuki and Shigetsugu Yoshida after Mamoru Oshii was replaced, it follows Lupin's New York treasure hunt against Mafia boss Marciano and Zenigata's female ICPO patrol.