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La Boum 2

La Boum 2 (1982) is Claude Pinoteau's French comedy-drama sequel to La Boum, starring Sophie Marceau as Vic, Pierre Cosso, Claude Brasseur, Brigitte Fossey, and Denise Grey; it drew 4,071,585 French admissions and won Marceau the 1983 César for Most Promising Actress.

La Buena Estrella

La buena estrella (Lucky Star), 1997 Spanish drama by Ricardo Franco: castrated butcher Rafael shelters pregnant Marina; five Goyas including Best Film, Cannes Un Certain Regard, Franco's last completed film.

La Cage aux Folles (film)

La Cage aux Folles (Il vizietto) is a 1978 French-Italian comedy by Édouard Molinaro, adapted from Jean Poiret's 1973 play, starring Ugo Tognazzi and Michel Serrault as a Saint-Tropez gay couple; it earned three Oscar nominations, a Golden Globe, and record foreign-language U.S. box office.

La Cage aux Folles 3: The Wedding

La Cage aux Folles 3: The Wedding is a 1985 French-Italian comedy directed by Georges Lautner, the third and final film in the La Cage aux Folles series.

La Cage aux Folles II

La Cage aux Folles II is a 1980 French-Italian comedy sequel directed by Édouard Molinaro, starring Michel Serrault and Ugo Tognazzi as Albin and Renato, a Saint-Tropez drag cabaret couple caught in a spy microfilm caper; released in the US by MGM in 1981.

La Caja 507

La caja 507 (Box 507) is a 2002 Spanish thriller by Enrique Urbizu starring Antonio Resines and José Coronado, about a bank manager who learns from a robbed deposit box that his daughter's death was murder; it won two Goyas in 2003.

La Casa de Bernarda Alba (1987 film)

La casa de Bernarda Alba (1987), Mario Camus's Spanish film adaptation of Lorca's final play, starring Irene Gutiérrez Caba and Ana Belén; premiered 3 April 1987, opened Cannes Un certain regard, and was critically panned.

La Caza

La caza (The Hunt) is Carlos Saura's 1966 Spanish Civil War drama, written with Angelino Fons and produced by Elías Querejeta, about three veterans whose rabbit hunt on a former battleground ends in violence; it won the 1966 Berlin Silver Bear for Best Director.

La Cérémonie

La Cérémonie (1995) is Claude Chabrol's French-German thriller adapted from Ruth Rendell's A Judgement in Stone, starring Sandrine Bonnaire and Isabelle Huppert as a maid and postmistress who murder their employers; both won the Venice Volpi Cup, and Huppert won a 1996 César.

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 Fée aux Choux

La Fée aux Choux (The Cabbage Fairy) is a one-minute French silent film attributed to Alice Guy at Gaumont, claimed as her 1896 directorial debut; the surviving 1900 version shows a fairy harvesting babies from cabbages, with a 1902 remake, Sage-femme de première classe.

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 Folie des grandeurs

La Folie des grandeurs (Delusions of Grandeur) is Gérard Oury's 1971 French comedy adapting Victor Hugo's Ruy Blas, starring Louis de Funès as Don Salluste and Yves Montand as Blaze, with Alice Sapritch; it drew about 5.6 million admissions in France.

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.