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Lovely (2025 film)
Lovely (ലൗലി) is a 2025 Malayalam 3D fantasy comedy-drama by Dileesh Karunakaran, starring Mathew Thomas as Boney, who befriends a talking housefly voiced by Sivaangi Krishnakumar and performed by Unnimaya Prasad; released 16 May 2025, later disputed by Eega's producers.
Lovely Rita
Lovely Rita (2001) is Jessica Hausner's Austrian-German debut feature drama, premiered at Cannes Un Certain Regard, about teenage outcast Rita (Barbara Osika) whose rebellions end in violence; distinct from the 2003 French Clavier comedy.
Lovely, Dark, and Deep (film)
Lovely, Dark, and Deep is a 2023 folk horror film and the directorial debut of Teresa Sutherland, starring Georgina Campbell as ranger Lennon investigating disappearances in a national park; premiered at Fantasia 2023, released on VOD February 22, 2024 by XYZ Films.
Lover (2024 film)
Lover (லவர்), 2024 Tamil romantic drama directed by debutant Prabhuram Vyas, starring Manikandan and Sri Gouri Priya as Arun and Divya, whose six-year relationship unravels; released 9 February 2024, streamed on Disney+ Hotstar.
Lover Come Back
Lover Come Back (1961) is a Delbert Mann romantic comedy starring Rock Hudson, Doris Day, and Tony Randall as rival Madison Avenue ad executives; Oscar-nominated original screenplay by Stanley Shapiro and Paul Henning, follow-up to Pillow Talk.
Lover's Knot (film)
Lover's Knot is a 1996 American romantic comedy with fantasy elements, written and directed by Pete Shaner, starring Bill Campbell, Jennifer Grey, and Tim Curry.
Lovers in the Blue Night
Lovers in the Blue Night is a 2026 Hindi-language drama directed by Anuparna Roy, premiering in Orizzonti at the 83rd Venice Film Festival. It follows four Mumbai migrants, a closeted gay husband, his bar-worker wife, a thief, and a pimp, entangled in love and survival.
Loves of a Blonde
Loves of a Blonde (Lásky jedné plavovlásky) is Miloš Forman's 1965 Czechoslovak New Wave comedy about factory worker Andula's doomed romance with pianist Milda; it won the 1965 Venice Golden Lion and was Oscar-nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.
Loveshhuda
Loveshhuda (लवशुदा) is a 2016 Hindi romantic comedy directed by Vaibhav Misra, starring Girish Kumar and Navneet Kaur Dhillon. Released 19 February 2016, it flopped with ₹3.07 crore India net against a ₹22 crore budget.
Loveyapa (लवयापा)
Loveyapa (लवयापा) is a 2025 Hindi romantic comedy directed by Advait Chandan, starring Junaid Khan and Khushi Kapoor, a remake of the Tamil film Love Today about a couple forced to swap phones for 24 hours; it flopped with ₹7.04 crore net in India.
Loveyatri (लवयात्री)
Loveyatri (लवयात्री), also Loveratri, is a 2018 Hindi romantic musical drama directed by Abhiraj Minawala, starring debutants Aayush Sharma and Warina Hussain, set during Navratri in Gujarat; a Salman Khan Films production that underperformed at the box office.
Lovin' Molly
Lovin' Molly (1974) is a Sidney Lumet drama-romance adapted by Stephen J. Friedman from Larry McMurtry's novel Leaving Cheyenne, starring Blythe Danner, Anthony Perkins, and Beau Bridges in a forty-year Texas love triangle; shot in Bastrop, Texas, released by Columbia, and poorly received.
Loving (2016 film)
Loving (2016) is Jeff Nichols's biographical drama starring Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga as Richard and Mildred Loving, whose case Loving v. Virginia ended US bans on interracial marriage in 1967; Cannes premiere, Negga Oscar nomination.
Loving Adults
Loving Adults (Kærlighed for voksne) is a 2022 Danish Netflix psychological thriller directed by Barbara Topsøe-Rothenborg, starring Dar Salim and Sonja Richter, adapted from Anna Ekberg's novel; 67 million hours viewed in Q3 2022.
Loving Vincent
Loving Vincent (2017), directed by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman, is the first fully oil-painted animated feature, about 65,000 hand-painted frames by 125 artists depicting van Gogh's death; Oscar-nominated, European Film Award winner.
Low Expectations
Low Expectations (Lave forventninger) is a 2026 Norwegian-Danish drama, Eivind Landsvik's feature debut, starring musician Marie Ulven (Girl in Red) as a burned-out pop star recovering at a high school job; it premiered in Cannes Directors' Fortnight 2026.
Low-budget film
Low-budget film: a feature made cheaply relative to industry norms, from UK £1m definitions and Hollywood's $10m ceiling to microbudget tiers; small crews, deferred pay, private financing, and rare breakouts like The Blair Witch Project.
Lu Over the Wall (夜明け告げるルーのうた)
Lu Over the Wall (夜明け告げるルーのうた) is Masaaki Yuasa's 2017 Science SARU animated musical about boy Kai and mermaid Lu; first original feature, Annecy Cristal and Japan Media Arts Festival Grand Prize winner.
Luana Patten
Luana Patten (1938-1996), American actress and one of Walt Disney's first two contract players; child star of Song of the South (Ginny Favers), Fun and Fancy Free, Melody Time, and So Dear to My Heart, later an ingénue in Home From the Hill and Johnny Tremain.
Lubber Pandhu (லப்பர் பந்து)
Lubber Pandhu (லப்பர் பந்து), a 2024 Tamil sports drama directed by debutant Tamizharasan Pachamuthu, stars Harish Kalyan and Attakathi Dinesh as gully cricket rivals; released 20 September 2024, it grossed ₹47.25 crore worldwide.
Luca (2021 film)
Luca is a 2021 Pixar animated coming-of-age film directed by Enrico Casarosa, set in Portorosso on the Italian Riviera, about sea monster boys Luca and Alberto; released on Disney+ June 18, 2021.
Luca Guadagnino
Luca Guadagnino, Italian film director and producer of the Desire trilogy (I Am Love, A Bigger Splash, Call Me by Your Name) and Suspiria, Challengers, and Queer; Oscar-nominated, runs Frenesy and Studio Luca Guadagnino.
Lucas (1986 film)
Lucas is a 1986 American teen comedy-drama, also known as a coming-of-age film, written and directed by David Seltzer, starring Corey Haim, Kerri Green, Charlie Sheen, and Winona Ryder, released by 20th Century Fox on March 28, 1986.
Lucca's World
Lucca's World (Los dos hemisferios de Lucca) is a 2025 Mexican Netflix drama directed by Mariana Chenillo, based on Bárbara Anderson's book about her son with cerebral palsy and the family's journey to India for experimental Cytotron treatment.
Luce (film)
Luce (2019) is a drama thriller directed by Julius Onah, adapted from J.C. Lee's 2013 play, starring Kelvin Harrison Jr., Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer, and Tim Roth; an Eritrean adoptee's model-student image is questioned after fireworks and a Fanon essay surface.
Lucía
Lucía (1968) is Humberto Solás's Cuban black-and-white triptych about three women named Lucía in 1895, 1932, and the 1960s, produced by ICAIC, 160 minutes, Moscow Gold Medal 1969.
Lucia (ಲೂಸಿಯ)
Lucia (ಲೂಸಿಯ) is a 2013 Kannada psychological thriller by Pawan Kumar, starring Sathish Neenasam and Shruthi Hariharan; the first fully crowdfunded Kannada film, it won the London Indian Film Festival Audience Award.
Lucia Aniello
Lucia Aniello (born 1983) is an Italian-born American director, writer, and producer known for Broad City, Rough Night (2017), the first R-rated studio comedy directed by a woman in nearly 20 years, and co-creating the Emmy-winning HBO Max series Hacks.
Lucid Dream (루시드 드림) (2017 film)
Lucid Dream (루시드 드림) is a 2017 South Korean SF thriller, Kim Joon-sung's feature debut, starring Go Soo, Sul Kyung-gu, and Park Yoo-chun; a father uses lucid dreaming to find his abducted son. It was the second Korean film signed by Netflix and earned 102,170 admissions.
Lucifer (2019 Indian film)
Lucifer (ലൂസിഫർ) is a 2019 Malayalam political action thriller, Prithviraj Sukumaran's directorial debut, written by Murali Gopy and starring Mohanlal as Stephen Nedumpally; it grossed about ₹127.50 crore worldwide and spawned the sequel L2: Empuraan.