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La Chèvre
La Chèvre (The Goat) is Francis Veber's 1981 French-Mexican comedy starring Pierre Richard as unlucky accountant François Perrin and Gérard Depardieu as detective Campana, first of their trilogy, with 7,079,836 French admissions.
La Chienne
La Chienne (The Bitch) is Jean Renoir's 1931 French drama, his second sound film, adapted from Georges de la Fouchardière's novel. Michel Simon plays a clerk-painter exploited by Lulu and her pimp Dédé; Fritz Lang remade it as Scarlet Street (1945).
La chimera
La Chimera is a 2023 drama by Alice Rohrwacher, her fourth feature, competing at Cannes 2023. Josh O'Connor plays Arthur, a British archaeologist joining Italian tombaroli robbing Etruscan tombs in 1980s Tuscany while mourning Beniamina; praised by critics and awarded at Nastri d'Argento and the European Film Awards.
La Chinoise
La Chinoise is Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 French political film about five students forming a Maoist cell in a Paris apartment, released 30 August 1967, starring Anne Wiazemsky and Jean-Pierre Léaud, Venice Special Jury Prize winner, and a precursor of May 68.
La Ciénaga
La Ciénaga (The Swamp), 2001 Argentine drama, Lucrecia Martel's debut feature about two families decaying at a Salta finca; Alfred Bauer Award at Berlin, Sundance screenplay prize, landmark of New Argentine Cinema.
La cocina
La Cocina is a 2024 black-and-white drama by Mexican director Alonso Ruizpalacios, based on Arnold Wesker's 1957 play The Kitchen, set in a Times Square restaurant kitchen and starring Raúl Briones and Rooney Mara.
La Colmena
La Colmena: 1951 postwar Madrid novel by Camilo José Cela, censored in Spain and first published in Buenos Aires, and its 1982 Mario Camus film adaptation that won the Berlin Golden Bear.
La Comédie humaine (人间喜剧)
La Comédie humaine (人間喜劇, The Human Comedy) is a 2010 Hong Kong Cantonese parody comedy by Chan Hing-kai and Janet Chun, starring Chapman To and Wong Cho-lam as a hitman and screenwriter; Film Development Fund financed, HK Film Critics Society recommended film.
La Comunidad
La Comunidad (Common Wealth) is a 2000 Spanish black comedy by Álex de la Iglesia starring Carmen Maura as an estate agent who finds 300 million pesetas in a dead neighbor's Madrid flat; it was Spain's top-grossing Spanish film of 2000 and won three Goyas.
La Corte de Faraón
La corte de Faraón (also La corte del Faraón) is a 1910 Spanish one-act biblical operetta by Vicente Lleó, libretto by Perrín and Palacios, premiered at Madrid's Teatro Eslava; the emblematic sicalíptico zarzuela, banned under Franco and adapted in García Sánchez's 1985 film.
La Dolce Villa
La Dolce Villa is a 2025 Netflix romantic comedy directed by Mark Waters, starring Scott Foley as Eric, who travels to Italy to stop daughter Olivia (Maia Reficco) from restoring a one-euro villa, and falls for mayor Francesca (Violante Placido). Filmed in Tuscany and Lazio, released February 13, 2025.
La Dolce Vita
La dolce vita, Federico Fellini's 1960 Italy-France black-and-white comedy-drama starring Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg; unanimous 1960 Palme d'Or winner, source of the word paparazzi and the Trevi Fountain scene.
La Escopeta Nacional
La escopeta nacional (The National Shotgun) is a 1978 Spanish satirical comedy by Luis García Berlanga and Rafael Azcona, first of the Leguineche trilogy, about a Catalan industrialist staging a hunt to sell intercoms to Franco-era elites; 2,063,043 admissions.
La Famille Bélier
La Famille Bélier is a 2014 French comedy-drama directed by Éric Lartigau, about a hearing girl who is her deaf family's voice until music offers her a future.
La Femme Nikita (film)
La Femme Nikita, known as Nikita in France, is a 1990 French-Italian action thriller by Luc Besson where Anne Parillaud is a sentenced killer trained as a government assassin.
La Flor
La Flor (2018) is Mariano Llinás's 14-hour Argentine episodic film: six genre stories, four Piel de Lava actresses, premiered at Locarno, BAFICI Best Film, Metascore 77.
La Frontera
La Frontera (The Frontier) is a 1991 Chilean-Spanish drama directed by Ricardo Larraín, starring Patricio Contreras as a teacher sentenced to internal exile under Pinochet; it won the 1992 Silver Bear and Goya Award.
La Gradiva
La Gradiva is Marine Atlan's 2026 French-Italian coming-of-age debut feature, following French high school seniors on a school trip to Naples and Pompeii. It won the Cannes Critics' Week Grand Prix and takes its title from Wilhelm Jensen's 1902 novella.
La Gran Familia Española
La Gran Familia Española (Family United), 2013 Spanish comedy by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo; a wedding during the 2010 World Cup final, five biblical-named brothers, 11 Goya nominations, two wins.
La Grande Bouffe
La Grande Bouffe (La grande abbuffata, The Grande Bouffe, Blow-Out) is Marco Ferreri's 1973 French-Italian black comedy in which Mastroianni, Piccoli, Noiret, and Tognazzi eat themselves to death; a Cannes 1973 scandal that won FIPRESCI.
La Grande Illusion
La Grande Illusion (Grand Illusion) is Jean Renoir's 1937 French anti-war film about French POWs in German camps in WWI, starring Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, and Erich von Stroheim, centered on class solidarity across national lines.
La Grande Maison Paris (グランメゾン・パリ)
La Grande Maison Paris (グランメゾン・パリ) is a 2024 Japanese film sequel to the drama Grand Maison Tokyo, directed by Ayuko Tsukahara, starring Takuya Kimura as chef Natsuki Obana chasing three Michelin stars in Paris, with culinary supervision by Kei Kobayashi of Restaurant KEI.
La Grande Vadrouille
La Grande Vadrouille (Don't Look Now We're Being Shot At) is a 1966 French-British comedy by Gérard Oury starring Bourvil and Louis de Funès helping downed British airmen escape occupied France; it sold 17.27 million tickets in France, a record until Titanic (1998).
La grazia
La grazia (The Pardon/Grace) is Paolo Sorrentino's 2025 Italian drama, his eleventh film, starring Toni Servillo as fictional President Mariano De Santis facing pardon petitions and a euthanasia bill; it opened Venice 82 and won Servillo the Coppa Volpi.
La Haine
La Haine (Hate) is Mathieu Kassovitz's 1995 French black-and-white drama about Vinz, Hubert, and Saïd, three friends in a Paris banlieue the day after a riot. It won Cannes Best Director 1995 and three Césars, including Best Film.
La Ilusión Viaja en Tranvía
La ilusión viaja en tranvía (Illusion Travels by Streetcar) is a 1954 Mexican comedy by Luis Buñuel, produced by Clasa Films Mundiales, in which tram workers Caireles and Tarrajas steal tram 133 before it is scrapped.
La Isla Mínima
La Isla Mínima (Marshland), 2014 Spanish thriller by Alberto Rodríguez and Rafael Cobos, set in 1980 in the Guadalquivir marshes; two Madrid detectives hunt a killer of teenage girls. Won 10 Goyas from 17 nominations, including Best Film.
La Jaula de Oro
La jaula de oro (The Golden Cage), 2013 film by Diego Quemada-Díez, a Mexico-Spain drama about Guatemalan teenage migrants riding La Bestia freight trains to the US; Cannes Un Certain Talent winner, distinct from Ruben Alves' comedy La Cage Dorée.
La Jetée
La Jetée (1962) is Chris Marker's 28-minute French photo-roman short, told almost entirely in still black-and-white photographs, about time travel after World War III destroys Paris; it won the 1963 Prix Jean Vigo and inspired Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys.
La Ley de Herodes
La ley de Herodes (Herod's Law) is Luis Estrada's 1999 Mexican black-comedy satire in which a naive PRI mayor becomes corrupt in 1949; it was censored by IMCINE, then won 10 Ariels and became a box-office hit.