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Late Fame
Late Fame (2025) is a Kent Jones drama, written by Samy Burch from Arthur Schnitzler's posthumous novella, starring Willem Dafoe as rediscovered poet Ed Saxberger and Greta Lee; Venice 2025 premiere, US release August 7, 2026 via Magnolia Pictures.
Late Night (film)
Late Night is a 2019 American comedy-drama film written by and co-starring Mindy Kaling and directed by Nisha Ganatra, starring Emma Thompson as a talk show host.
Late Night with the Devil
Late Night with the Devil: 2023 Australian found-footage horror by Colin and Cameron Cairnes, starring David Dastmalchian as 1977 talk show host Jack Delroy; SXSW premiere, IFC/Shudder 2024 release, Metascore 72.
Late Phases
Late Phases is a 2014 werewolf horror film, Adrián García Bogliano's English-language debut, starring Nick Damici as blind Vietnam veteran Ambrose McKinley hunting a beast in the Crescent Bay retirement community; written by Eric Stolze, released by Dark Sky Films.
Late Shift (film)
Late Shift (Heldin) is a 2025 Swiss-German drama by Petra Volpe starring Leonie Benesch as nurse Floria Lind during one understaffed hospital night shift; Berlinale 2025 premiere, Swiss Oscar submission, 97% on Rotten Tomatoes, Swiss Film Prize winner.
Late Spring (晩春)
Late Spring (晩春, Banshun) is Yasujiro Ozu's 1949 Shochiku drama starring Setsuko Hara and Chishu Ryu, first of the Noriko trilogy, about a widowed professor persuading his daughter to marry; Kinema Junpo 1949 first place.
Latha (actress)
Latha (born 1953, birth name Nalini), also called M.G.R. Latha and Latha Sethupathi, is a Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Kannada film actress; debut heroine of M.G.R.'s Ulagam Sutrum Valiban (1973), heroine of his final film, later television serial actor and brief politician, distinct from Rajinikanth's wife Latha Rajinikanth and actress Latha Rao.
Latha Rajinikanth (லதா ரஜினிகாந்த்)
Latha Rajinikanth (லதா ரஜினிகாந்த்), born Latha Rangachari in 1958, is an Indian educationist, playback singer, and film producer, wife of Rajinikanth, founder of The Ashram school in Chennai, and singer in Tik Tik Tik and Kochadaiiyaan.
Laththi (லத்தி)
Laththi (லத்தி), also Laththi Charge, is a 2022 Tamil action thriller directed by debutant A. Vinoth Kumar, starring Vishal as suspended constable Muruganantham with Sunaina and Prabhu; released 22 December 2022 in five languages, mixed reviews, ₹11.25 crore India net.
Laugh, Clown, Laugh
Laugh, Clown, Laugh is a 1928 MGM silent romantic drama directed by Herbert Brenon, starring Lon Chaney as clown Tito Beppi and 14-year-old Loretta Young, adapted from the Belasco-Cushing play based on Pagliacci; nominated for Best Title Writing.
Laughing Buddha (film)
Laughing Buddha (Kannada: ಲಾಫಿಂಗ್ ಬುದ್ಧ) is a 2024 Kannada comedy-drama directed by M. Bharath Raj, produced by Rishab Shetty, starring Pramod Shetty as constable Govardhan; distinct from the 2021 Malayalam film Laughing Budha.
Laura (1944 film)
Laura (1944), Otto Preminger's film noir for Twentieth Century-Fox from Vera Caspary's novel, stars Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, and Vincent Price; a detective falls for the woman whose murder he investigates, and she turns up alive.
Laura Marano
Laura Marano (born 1995, Los Angeles) is an American actress and singer-songwriter, full name Laura Marie Marano, known as Ally Dawson on Disney Channel's Austin & Ally (2011-2016), for Netflix rom-coms, and for her independent pop career on Flip Phone Records.
Laura Poitras
Laura Poitras (born 1964, Boston) is an American documentary filmmaker and journalist, director of Citizenfour (2014 Oscar, NSA/Snowden), the post-9/11 trilogy, and All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022 Venice Golden Lion).
Laura Ziskin
Laura Ziskin (1950–2011), American film producer and studio executive, produced the Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy, Pretty Woman, and As Good as It Gets, led Fox 2000 Pictures, was the first woman to solo-produce the Oscars telecast, and co-founded Stand Up To Cancer.
Laurel and Hardy
Laurel and Hardy: comedy team of Stan Laurel (1890–1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892–1957), teamed officially in 1927 at Hal Roach, 107 films, Oscar for The Music Box (1932), final film Atoll K (1951).
Laurel Canyon (2002 film)
Laurel Canyon (2002) is Lisa Cholodenko's drama starring Frances McDormand, Christian Bale, Kate Beckinsale, and Alessandro Nivola; released by Sony Pictures Classics in March 2003, 103 minutes, $3.7 million gross.
Lauren Michelle Hill
Lauren Michelle Hill, also known as Lauren James and Lauren Flanery, is an American model and actress from Columbia, South Carolina, Playboy's Playmate of the Month for February 2001 and a Fear Factor winner.
Lauren Shuler Donner
Lauren Shuler Donner (born 1949, Cleveland) is an American film producer of Mr. Mom, Pretty in Pink, Dave, Free Willy, and every X-Men film through Deadpool & Wolverine, grossing over $7 billion; widow of Richard Donner, head of The Donners' Company.
Laurie Bird
Laurie Bird (1953–1979), American actress and photographer, played The Girl in Monte Hellman's Two-Lane Blacktop (1971), appeared in Cockfighter and Annie Hall, then quit acting; she died by suicide at 25.
Lav Kush
Lav Kush is a 1997 Indian Hindi-language devotional film directed by V. Madhusudhan Rao, based on the Uttara Kanda of the Ramayana, starring Jeetendra as Ram and Jaya Prada as Sita.
Lava (2014 film)
Lava is a 2014 Pixar animated musical short directed by James Ford Murphy, telling a love story between the volcanoes Uku and Lele through a single ukulele song; it premiered in 2014 and opened before Inside Out on June 19, 2015.
Lava Kusa (லவகுசா)
Lava Kusa (లవకుశ), 1963 Telugu mythological film directed by C. Pullayya and C.S.R. Rao, starring N.T. Rama Rao and Anjali Devi; first Telugu color film, 500-day run, President's Silver Medal 1964.
Lavanya Tripathi
Lavanya Tripathi (Telugu: లావణ్య త్రిపాఠి), also Lavanya Tripathi Konidela, Indian actress in Telugu cinema; Miss Uttarakhand 2006; debut Andala Rakshasi (2012); breakthrough Bhale Bhale Magadivoy (2015); married Varun Tej 2023. Not the tarot reader Lavanya Arora or the clothing brand Lavanya The Label.
Lavender (2016 film)
Lavender (2016) is a Canadian-American psychological thriller directed by Ed Gass-Donnelly, starring Abbie Cornish as an amnesiac photographer; premiered at Tribeca, released March 3, 2017.
Law Abiding Citizen
Law Abiding Citizen is a 2009 American vigilante thriller directed by F. Gary Gray, starring Jamie Foxx as a Philadelphia prosecutor and Gerard Butler as a grieving father taking revenge.
Law and Order (2026 film)
Law and Order (ലോ & ഓർഡർ), also L&O, is a 2026 Malayalam action crime drama directed by Ranjith, written by Udaykrishna, starring Prakash Varma and Abhirami, with Mammootty cameoing as Karikkamuri Shanmughan from Black (2004); released 18 September 2026.
Law of Desire
Law of Desire (La ley del deseo) is Pedro Almodóvar's 1987 Spanish melodrama-thriller, El Deseo's first production, about gay filmmaker Pablo, his lover Antonio, and trans sister Tina; it won a Berlin Teddy Award.
Lawho Gouranger Naam Rey (লহো গৌরঙ্গের নাম রে)
Lawho Gouranger Naam Rey (লহ গৌরাঙ্গের নাম রে) is a 2025 Bengali period drama by Srijit Mukherji on Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's disappearance across three timelines, released 25 December 2025.
Lawless (film)
Lawless is a 2012 American crime drama directed by John Hillcoat and written by Nick Cave, about bootlegging brothers in Prohibition-era Virginia who resist a corrupt deputy.