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Life as a House

Life as a House is a 2001 American drama directed by Irwin Winkler, starring Kevin Kline as terminally ill architect George Monroe, who rebuilds his house and family with son Sam (Hayden Christensen) and ex-wife Robin (Kristin Scott Thomas).

Life as We Know It (film)

Life as We Know It is a 2010 American romantic comedy directed by Greg Berlanti, starring Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel as godparents raising their goddaughter.

Life Goes This Way

La vita va così (Life Goes This Way) is Riccardo Milani's 2025 Italian comedy, opening film of the 20th Rome Film Festival, inspired by shepherd Ovidio Marras, who refused to sell his Sardinian coastal land; it earned 6.9 million euros.

Life in a Year

Life in a Year (2020) is an American romantic drama directed by Mitja Okorn, starring Jaden Smith and Cara Delevingne; Daryn gives his terminally ill girlfriend a lifetime of experiences in her final year, released on Prime Video November 27, 2020.

Life in a... Metro

Life in a... Metro (लाइफ इन अ मेट्रो) is a 2007 Hindi drama directed by Anurag Basu, produced by Ronnie Screwvala for UTV, interweaving nine Mumbai characters' stories of infidelity and love, with music by Pritam and the on-screen Metro band.

Life Is a Long Quiet River

La vie est un long fleuve tranquille (Life Is a Long Quiet River), 1988 French satirical comedy by Étienne Chatiliez; baby-swap between bourgeois Le Quesnoys and working-class Groseilles; about 4 million admissions and four Césars.

Life Is Beautiful

Life Is Beautiful (La vita è bella), 1997 Italian comedy-drama by Roberto Benigni with Nicoletta Braschi and Giorgio Cantarini; a father pretends a concentration camp is a game; won Cannes Grand Prize and three 1999 Oscars.

Life Is Beautiful (2012 film)

Life Is Beautiful (Telugu: లైఫ్ ఈజ్ బ్యూటిఫుల్) is Sekhar Kammula's 2012 Telugu coming-of-age drama set in Hyderabad's Sunshine Colony, starring five debutantes plus Amala Akkineni, who won Filmfare and CineMAA Best Supporting Actress.

Life Is Beautiful (2022 film)

Life Is Beautiful (인생은 아름다워) is a 2022 South Korean musical drama directed by Choi Kook-hee, billed as Korea's first jukebox musical film and starring Ryu Seung-ryong and Yum Jung-ah.

Life Is Sweet

Life Is Sweet is a 1990 Mike Leigh comedy-drama, released 1991, about a working-class London-suburb family: chef Andy, wife Wendy, and twins Natalie and Nicola. First Thin Man Films production; Metascore 88, Tomatometer 94%.

Life Itself (2018 film)

Life Itself (2018) is a Dan Fogelman romantic drama starring Oscar Isaac and Olivia Wilde as a New York couple whose tragedy links generations in New York and Spain; it earned about $8 million and scored 12% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Life Like (film)

Life Like is a 2019 American sci-fi thriller drama directed and written by Josh Janowicz, starring Drew Van Acker, Addison Timlin, and Steven Strait as android Henry; released digitally May 14, 2019, rated R, 96 minutes.

Life of a King

Life of a King is a 2013 drama directed by Jake Goldberger, starring Cuba Gooding Jr. as Eugene Brown, the ex-convict who founded Washington, D.C.'s Big Chair Chess Club for at-risk teens.

Life of Crime (documentary trilogy)

Life of Crime is Jon Alpert's documentary trilogy (One Year in a Life of Crime, 1989; Life of Crime 2, 1998; Life of Crime: 1984-2020, 2021) following Rob Steffey, Freddie Rodriguez, and Deliris Vasquez of Newark, New Jersey, filmed covertly over 36 years.

Life of Crime (film)

Life of Crime (film): 2013 American crime comedy by Daniel Schechter, adapted from Elmore Leonard's The Switch; stars Jennifer Aniston, Tim Robbins, Yasiin Bey; TIFF closing film, released 2014; prequel to Jackie Brown characters.

Life of Josutty

Life of Josutty (ലൈഫ് ഓഫ് ജോസൂട്ടി) is a 2015 Malayalam comedy-drama directed by Jeethu Joseph, starring Dileep as a Kattappana farmer who marries a New Zealand nurse, Rose.

Life of Pi (film)

Life of Pi is a 2012 American survival drama directed by Ang Lee, adapted from Yann Martel's novel about a shipwrecked boy adrift with a Bengal tiger.

Life of Riley

Life of Riley (Aimer, boire et chanter) is Alain Resnais's 2013 final film, adapted from Alan Ayckbourn's 2010 play: three Yorkshire couples react to the unseen George Riley's terminal illness; Berlin Alfred Bauer and FIPRESCI prizes, released 26 March 2014.

Life of the Party (2018 film)

Life of the Party (2018) is a comedy directed by Ben Falcone, co-written with Melissa McCarthy, who stars as divorced mom Deanna enrolling at her daughter's college; $30M budget, $65M gross, 38% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Life on a String (边走边唱)

Life on a String (边走边唱, Bian Zou Bian Chang) is Chen Kaige's 1991 drama adapted from Shi Tiesheng's novella, about blind musicians and a thousand broken strings; it competed at Cannes 1991 and was the first Hubert Bals Fund film.

Life on the Line (film)

Life on the Line (2015, released 2016) is a David Hackl workplace drama-thriller starring John Travolta, Kate Bosworth, and Devon Sawa as Texas linemen battling a deadly storm; Metascore 24, $39,027 gross.

Life or Something Like It

Life or Something Like It is a 2002 Stephen Herek romantic comedy-drama starring Angelina Jolie as Seattle reporter Lanie Kerrigan, told by a prophet (Tony Shalhoub) she will die in a week; a Regency/Fox film grossing $14.4 million against a $40 million budget.

Life-Size

Life-Size is a 2000 ABC Wonderful World of Disney TV movie directed by Mark Rosman, starring Tyra Banks as living doll Eve and Lindsay Lohan as Casey; it spawned Life-Size 2 (2018, Freeform) and joined Disney+ in 2025.

Lifeboat (1944 film)

Lifeboat (1944) is Alfred Hitchcock's Twentieth Century-Fox survival drama, from a John Steinbeck story, set entirely on a lifeboat with Tallulah Bankhead, Walter Slezak, and Canada Lee; three Oscar nominations, box-office failure, later reappraised.

Lifeforce (film)

Lifeforce is a 1985 British science fiction horror film directed by Tobe Hooper, loosely adapted from Colin Wilson's novel The Space Vampires, about space vampires attacking London.

LifeHack (film)

LifeHack is a 2025 British screenlife cyber-heist thriller, Ronan Corrigan's feature debut, starring Georgie Farmer and Yasmin Finney as teen hackers who rob a crypto billionaire and are blackmailed by his daughter. Premiered at SXSW 2025; released in US theaters May 15, 2026 and on Netflix US September 23, 2026.

Lifeline (2025 film)

Lifeline (2025) is an American mystery thriller directed by Feras Alfuqaha, starring Josh Stewart as a suicide hotline operator called by someone claiming to be his younger self; released February 21, 2025 by Dark Sky Films. Other 2025 works share the title.

Lifeline (十万火急) (1997 film)

Lifeline (十萬火急, Shi wan huo ji) is Johnnie To's 1997 Hong Kong firefighter drama starring Lau Ching-wan, described as the first Chinese-language firefighter film, shot with real fire, earning HK$20.76 million and two Hong Kong Film Awards.

Lift (2021 film)

Lift (Tamil: லிப்ட்) is a 2021 Tamil horror-thriller, Vineeth Varaprasad's directorial debut, starring Kavin and Amritha Aiyer as IT workers trapped in a haunted office lift; released on Disney+ Hotstar 1 October 2021.

Liger (film)

Liger is a 2022 Hindi-Telugu bilingual sports action film directed by Puri Jagannadh, starring Vijay Deverakonda as a stuttering MMA fighter, with Ananya Panday and a Mike Tyson cameo; a heavily promoted pan-India release that flopped.