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Le Père Noël est une ordure
Le Père Noël est une ordure is a French farce by the troupe Le Splendid, first staged in 1979 and best known through its 1982 film.
Le Placard
Le Placard (The Closet) is Francis Veber's 2001 French comedy starring Daniel Auteuil and Gérard Depardieu, in which an accountant facing dismissal fakes being gay to keep his job; it drew 5.29 million French admissions.
Le Plaisir
Le Plaisir (1952) is Max Ophüls's French black-and-white anthology film adapting three Guy de Maupassant stories, Le Masque, La Maison Tellier, and Le Modèle, narrated in Maupassant's voice, with Jean Gabin, Danielle Darrieux, and Simone Simon, famous for its tracking shots and the closing line "Le bonheur n'est pas gai".
Le Quai des brumes
Le Quai des brumes (Port of Shadows) is Marcel Carné's 1938 French poetic-realist drama, scripted by Jacques Prévert from Pierre Mac Orlan's novel, starring Jean Gabin, Michèle Morgan, Michel Simon, and Pierre Brasseur, censored yet hugely successful, restored in 4K in 2025.
Le Samouraï
Le Samouraï (1967) is a French-Italian film noir by Jean-Pierre Melville starring Alain Delon as hitman Jef Costello; released 25 October 1967, it shaped the modern solitary-hitman film and influenced Woo, Jarmusch, and Tarantino.
Le Trou
Le Trou (The Hole) is Jacques Becker's 1960 French-Italian prison-escape film, adapted from José Giovanni's novel about a real 1947 La Santé escape, with escapee Jean Keraudy among the nonprofessional cast; Becker's last film, later hailed by Melville.
Le Week-End
Le Week-End (2013) is a British comedy-drama by Roger Michell and Hanif Kureishi, their fourth collaboration, starring Jim Broadbent, Lindsay Duncan, and Jeff Goldblum as a couple revisiting Paris.
Leader (2010 film)
Leader (లీడర్) is a 2010 Telugu political drama written and directed by Sekhar Kammula, marking Rana Daggubati's acting debut as idealistic chief minister Arjun Prasad, produced by AVM Productions, released 19 February 2010 with music by Mickey J Meyer.
Leader (2026 film)
Leader (லீடர்) is a 2026 Tamil action drama thriller directed and written by R.S. Durai Senthilkumar, starring Legend Saravanan in his second lead role after The Legend (2022); released 3 April 2026, streaming on Prime Video from 29 May 2026.
League of Gods (封神传奇)
League of Gods (封神传奇) is a 2016 Chinese fantasy action film directed by Koan Hui, starring Jet Li, Fan Bingbing and Tony Leung Ka Fai; a 500-million-RMB effects-heavy adaptation of Investiture of the Gods that flopped critically and commercially.
Lean on Me (film)
Lean on Me is a 1989 Warner Bros. biographical drama directed by John G. Avildsen, starring Morgan Freeman as real Paterson, New Jersey principal Joe Clark of Eastside High; released March 3, 1989, grossed $28.9M.
Leap (夺冠)
Leap (夺冠), also known as China Women's Volleyball Team, is Peter Chan's 2020 sports drama starring Gong Li as Lang Ping, covering the Chinese women's volleyball team from 1981 to Rio 2016; Golden Rooster Best Feature Film and China's 2021 Oscar submission.
Leap Year (2010 film)
Leap Year (2010) is an American romantic comedy directed by Anand Tucker, starring Amy Adams and Matthew Goode, about an Irish leap-day proposal tradition. Released January 8, 2010 by Universal; grossed $32.7 million but scored 24% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Lear Rex
Lear Rex is an unreleased film adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear, written and directed by Bernard Rose, starring Al Pacino as Lear and Jessica Chastain as Goneril; filmed in Los Angeles from August 2024, still in post-production.
Leatherface (2017 film)
Leatherface (2017) is a horror prequel to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, the eighth franchise film, directed by Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo, starring Stephen Dorff and Lili Taylor, released October 20, 2017 to poor reviews.
Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III
Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, a 1990 New Line slasher directed by Jeff Burr, the first non-Tobe Hooper sequel, starring Kate Hodge, Ken Foree, and R.A. Mihailoff; cut from an X to an R rating, released January 12, 1990, grossing $5.8 million.
Leave Her to Heaven
Leave Her to Heaven (1945), John M. Stahl's Technicolor melodrama-noir adapted from Ben Ames Williams's novel, stars Gene Tierney as the murderous, obsessively jealous Ellen Berent; Fox's biggest 1940s hit, it won Leon Shamroy a color cinematography Oscar.
Leave No Trace (film)
Leave No Trace (2018) is Debra Granik's drama, adapted with Anne Rosellini from Peter Rock's novel My Abandonment, starring Ben Foster and Thomasin McKenzie as an off-grid father and daughter near Portland, Oregon; released by Bleecker Street with a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score.
Leave the World Behind (film)
Leave the World Behind (2023) is Sam Esmail's Netflix apocalyptic thriller adapted from Rumaan Alam's novel, starring Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawke, Mahershala Ali, and Myha'la; executive produced by the Obamas, it was Netflix's most-viewed 2023 film.
Leaving Las Vegas
Leaving Las Vegas, 1995 drama by Mike Figgis adapted from John O'Brien's semi-autobiographical novel; Nicolas Cage as alcoholic Ben Sanderson and Elisabeth Shue as Sera; Cage won the 1996 Best Actor Oscar; shot on Super 16mm for $4 million.
Leaving Neverland
Leaving Neverland is Dan Reed's 2019 two-part HBO documentary in which Wade Robson and James Safechuck allege Michael Jackson abused them as children; Emmy-winning, later removed from streaming after a Jackson estate settlement.
Leaving Neverland 2: Surviving Michael Jackson
Leaving Neverland 2: Surviving Michael Jackson is a 2025 Channel 4 documentary by Dan Reed following Wade Robson and James Safechuck's decade-long court quest against Michael Jackson's companies, ahead of a planned late-2026 trial.
Lee (2023 film)
Lee (2023) is a biographical war drama directed by Ellen Kuras, starring Kate Winslet as WWII Vogue war correspondent Lee Miller; premiered at TIFF 2023, released 2024, BAFTA and Golden Globe nominated.
Lee Cronin's The Mummy
Lee Cronin's The Mummy is a 2026 Blumhouse and New Line horror film directed by Lee Cronin, starring Jack Reynor and Natalie Grace, about a girl possessed by an Egyptian demon, released April 17, 2026.
Lee Daniels
Lee Louis Daniels (born 1959, Philadelphia) is an American producer, director, and Empire co-creator. Monster's Ball made him the sole African American producer of an Oscar-winning film; Precious and The Butler followed.
Lee Mi-sook (이미숙)
Lee Mi-sook (이미숙), also romanized Lee Mi-Sook, is a South Korean actress born in 1959 (IMDb says 1960), a 1980s film star of Whale Hunting and Mulberry who retired in 1987 and returned with An Affair (1998).
Leela Mishra (लीला मिश्रा)
Leela Mishra (लीला मिश्रा, 1908–1988), Hindi cinema character actress in over 200 films across five decades; the Mausi of Sholay (1975), Best Actress for Naani Maa (1981) at the Moscow Film Festival.
Leelavathi (ಲೀಲಾವತಿ) (actress)
Leelavathi (ಲೀಲಾವತಿ), born Leela Kiran (1937/1938-2023), was a Kannada film actress with over 600 films, known for Bhakta Kumbara and Gejje Pooje, the Dr. Rajkumar Award, and her Rajkumar film partnership.
Leena Chandavarkar (लीना चंदावरकर)
Leena Chandavarkar (लीना चंदावरकर), born 1950 in Dharwad, Karnataka, is a Hindi film actress of the 1970s (Humjoli, Mehboob Ki Mehndi) and the fourth wife of singer Kishore Kumar, previously widowed at 25.
Left Behind (2014 film)
Left Behind (2014 film), directed by Vic Armstrong, starring Nicolas Cage as Rayford Steele; a $16 million reboot of the 2000 Kirk Cameron Rapture film, grossing $14 million domestically with a 2% Rotten Tomatoes critics score.