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Leo Gordon

Leo Gordon (Leo Vincent Gordon) was an American character actor and screenwriter who played villains in scores of Westerns and crime films from 1953 to 1994.

Leon Morin, Priest

Léon Morin, prêtre (Leon Morin, Priest) is Jean-Pierre Melville's 1961 French-Italian drama starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Emmanuelle Riva, adapted from Béatrix Beck's Goncourt-winning novel about an atheist widow and a priest in occupied France.

Léon: The Professional

Léon: The Professional (Léon) is Luc Besson's 1994 French-made English-language crime thriller starring Jean Reno, Natalie Portman in her debut, and Gary Oldman, released in the US as The Professional.

Leona Lishoy (ലിഷോയ്)

Leona Lishoy (ലിയോണ ലിഷോയ്), born 1991 in Thrissur, is an Indian actress and model in Malayalam cinema, daughter of actor Lishoy, known for Mayaanadhi, Ishq, Anveshanam, and 12th Man.

Leonard Maltin

Leonard Maltin (born 1950) is an American film critic and historian, editor of Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide (1969–2014) and Entertainment Tonight's movie reviewer for 30 years, author of a dozen film books.

Leonard Nimoy

Leonard Nimoy (Leonard Simon Nimoy, 1931-2015), American actor, director, and photographer famous as Mr. Spock in Star Trek; creator of the Vulcan salute, director of Star Trek IV and Three Men and a Baby, and fine-art photographer.

Leonard Part 6

Leonard Part 6 is a 1987 Columbia Pictures spy spoof starring, produced by, and story-written by Bill Cosby, directed by Paul Weiland. It flopped with $4.6 million gross, three Razzies, and Cosby publicly disowned it before release.

Leonard Stone

Leonard Stone, born Leonard Steinbock, was an American character actor with over 120 television credits, best remembered as Violet's father in the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.

Leonardo DiCaprio filmography

Leonardo DiCaprio filmography: the screen credits of American actor and producer Leonardo DiCaprio (b. 1974), from Critters 3 (1991) through Titanic (1997) and Scorsese collaborations to The Revenant (2015, Oscar win) and One Battle After Another (2025).

Leonor Varela

Leonor Varela (Leonor Magdalena Varela Palma), Chilean actress and writer born 1972 in Santiago, daughter of biologist Francisco Varela. Starred as Cleopatra (ABC 1999) and Nyssa in Blade II (2002), wrote Ir al Cielo y Volver, and is an ocean-conservation activist.

Leprechaun (film)

Leprechaun is a 1993 American horror-comedy directed by Mark Jones, starring Warwick Davis and Jennifer Aniston, made for under $1 million by Trimark Pictures and launching an eight-film horror franchise.

Leprechaun: Origins

Leprechaun: Origins (2014) is a horror reboot of the Leprechaun franchise, directed by Zach Lipovsky, starring wrestler Dylan "Hornswoggle" Postl, produced by WWE Studios and Lionsgate, unrelated to prior films, and holding 0% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Leroy & Stitch

Leroy & Stitch (リロイ&スティッチ) is Disney's 2006 animated TV film, the fourth Lilo & Stitch movie and finale of Lilo & Stitch: The Series, in which Dr. Hämsterviel clones Leroy, Stitch's evil twin (Experiment 629), into an army defeated by the song "Aloha Oe."

Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob

Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob (The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob) is a 1973 French-Italian comedy by Gérard Oury starring Louis de Funès as a racist industrialist disguised as a rabbi; top French box-office hit of 1973 with over 7 million admissions.

Les Bonnes Femmes

Les Bonnes Femmes (The Good Girls) is Claude Chabrol's 1960 French New Wave drama about four Parisian appliance-store shopgirls, Jane, Ginette, Jacqueline, and Rita, whose dreams of love end in disappointment; a flop on release, restored in 2000 and now admired.

Les Bronzés

Les Bronzés (French Fried Vacation), 1978 French comedy by Patrice Leconte adapting the Splendid troupe's play Amour, coquillages et crustacés; filmed in Côte d'Ivoire, drew about 2.3-2.5 million admissions and spawned a 1979 ski sequel.

Les Bronzés font du ski

Les Bronzés font du ski (1979) is a French comedy by Patrice Leconte and the Splendid troupe, the sequel to Les Bronzés, set on a ski holiday at Val-d'Isère; it drew about 1.5 million admissions and became a cult film through TV reruns.

Les Cousins

Les Cousins (The Cousins) is Claude Chabrol's 1959 French New Wave drama, Golden Bear winner at Berlin, in which provincial law student Charles (Gérard Blain) loses Florence (Juliette Mayniel) to his cousin Paul (Jean-Claude Brialy) and dies by Paul's hand.

Les Diaboliques (film)

Les Diaboliques, released in English as Diabolique, is a 1955 French suspense film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, adapted from Boileau-Narcejac's 1952 novel, whose twist ending influenced Hitchcock's Psycho.

Les Fugitifs

Les Fugitifs is a 1986 French comedy directed by Francis Veber, starring Gérard Depardieu as a reformed bank robber taken hostage by Pierre Richard's clumsy robber.

Les Girls

Les Girls (Cole Porter's Les Girls) is George Cukor's 1957 MGM musical comedy, 114 minutes, starring Gene Kelly, Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall, and Taina Elg in a Rashomon-style libel-suit plot; it won the Oscar for Orry-Kelly's costumes.

Les Maîtres du temps

Les Maîtres du temps (Time Masters) is a 1982 French animated science fiction film by René Laloux, designed by Moebius, adapted from Stefan Wul's L'Orphelin de Perdide, animated in Budapest.

Les Misérables (1998 film)

Les Misérables (1998) is Bille August's non-musical film adaptation of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel, starring Liam Neeson as Valjean, Geoffrey Rush as Javert, Uma Thurman, and Claire Danes; produced by Mandalay Entertainment, released May 1, 1998.

Les Misérables (2012 film)

Les Misérables (2012) is Tom Hooper's film adaptation of the Schönberg-Boublil stage musical and Hugo's novel, starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, and Anne Hathaway, with live on-set singing; it won three Oscars, three Golden Globes, and four BAFTAs.

Les Misérables (2019 film)

Les Misérables (2019) is Ladj Ly's debut French drama about BAC police in Montfermeil, Seine-Saint-Denis; it shared Cannes' 2019 Jury Prize, won 4 Césars including Best Film, and was Oscar-nominated for Best International Feature Film.

Les Misérables (2026 film)

Les Misérables (2026 film), also called Les Misérables Partie 1: a French non-musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel directed by Fred Cavayé, starring Vincent Lindon as Jean Valjean and Tahar Rahim as Javert, released 14 October 2026 by StudioCanal.

Les Vampires

Les Vampires: 1915–1916 French silent crime serial in ten episodes by Louis Feuillade for Gaumont, starring Musidora as Irma Vep (anagram of vampire), a jewel-thief gang, not supernatural; praised by the Surrealists.

Les Vengeances de Maître Poutifard

Les Vengeances de Maître Poutifard is a 2023 French-Belgian family comedy by Pierre-François Martin-Laval, adapted from Jean-Claude Mourlevat's 2004 novel, starring Christian Clavier and Isabelle Nanty; released 28 June 2023, 516,327 French admissions.

Les Visiteurs

Les Visiteurs (The Visitors) is a 1993 French time-travel comedy by Jean-Marie Poiré starring Christian Clavier, Jean Reno, and César winner Valérie Lemercier; 13.7 million admissions, sequel, and 2001 remake Just Visiting.

Les Visiteurs 2: The Corridors of Time

Les Visiteurs 2: The Corridors of Time (Les Visiteurs II: Les couloirs du temps) is a 1998 French time-travel comedy by Jean-Marie Poiré, sequel to Les Visiteurs, starring Jean Reno and Christian Clavier; 8 million French admissions, 140-million-franc budget, Muriel Robin replacing Valérie Lemercier.