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Lupe Vélez
Lupe Vélez (María Guadalupe Villalobos Vélez, 1908-1944), the "Mexican Spitfire," was a Mexican actress, dancer, and singer who broke into Hollywood silent film with The Gaucho (1927) and later starred in RKO's Mexican Spitfire comedy series before dying by suicide in 1944.
Lupin III (ลูแปง ยอดโจรกรรมอัจฉริยะ)
Lupin III (ルパン三世, Thai ลูแปง ยอดโจรกรรมอัจฉริยะ) is Monkey Punch's manga franchise about Arsène Lupin's thief grandson, spanning anime, the 1979 Cagliostro film, and the 2014 Kitamura live-action movie.
Lupin III: Dead or Alive (ルパン三世 DEAD OR ALIVE)
Lupin III: Dead or Alive (Rupan Sansei: Deddo oa Araibu) is a 1996 Japanese animated film, the sixth theatrical feature in the Lupin III franchise, directed by Monkey Punch.
Lupin III: Farewell to Nostradamus
Lupin III: Farewell to Nostradamus (ルパン三世 くたばれ!ノストラダムス) is a 1995 Toho-distributed theatrical anime film, 97 minutes, pitting Lupin against a Nostradamus cult; Kanichi Kurita's debut as Lupin's voice.
Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro
Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro (ルパン三世 カリオストロの城) is Hayao Miyazaki's 1979 feature directorial debut, a 100-minute TMS anime caper in which gentleman thief Lupin III pursues counterfeit Gothic bills to the Duchy of Cagliostro and rescues Princess Clarisse from Count Cagliostro.
Lupin III: The First (ルパン三世 THE FIRST)
Lupin III: The First (ルパン三世 THE FIRST) is a 2019 full 3DCG anime film, the first CG theatrical Lupin III movie, directed by Takashi Yamazaki, about Lupin and Laetitia racing the Nazi Ahnenerbe for the Bresson Diary; it won a Japan Academy Prize.
Lupin III: The Mystery of Mamo
Lupin III: The Mystery of Mamo (ルパン三世 ルパンVS複製人間), also The Secret of Mamo, is the first theatrical Lupin III anime film, released December 16, 1978, directed by Soji Yoshikawa, pitting Lupin against the immortal clonemaker Mamo.
Lupin the IIIrd the Movie: The Immortal Bloodline (不死身の血族)
Lupin the IIIrd the Movie: The Immortal Bloodline (不死身の血族, Fujimi no Ketsuzoku) is a 2025 Japanese 2D anime film directed by Takeshi Koike, the first theatrical Lupin III feature since 1996, following Lupin's crew against the immortal Muom on an uncharted island.
Lupin the Third vs. Detective Conan: The Movie
Lupin the Third vs. Detective Conan: The Movie (ルパン三世vs名探偵コナン THE MOVIE) is a 2013 Toho-distributed anime crossover film directed by Hajime Kamegaki, sequel to the 2009 TV special, grossing over ¥4.23 billion.
Lupin the Third: The Legend of the Gold of Babylon
Lupin the Third: The Legend of the Gold of Babylon (ルパン三世 バビロンの黄金伝説) is the third Lupin III theatrical film, released July 13, 1985 by Toho. Co-directed by Seijun Suzuki and Shigetsugu Yoshida after Mamoru Oshii was replaced, it follows Lupin's New York treasure hunt against Mafia boss Marciano and Zenigata's female ICPO patrol.
Lurene Tuttle
Lurene Tuttle (1907–1986), the First Lady of Radio, was an American character actress famous as Effie Perrine on The Adventures of Sam Spade and Marjorie on The Great Gildersleeve, later a film and TV actress.
Lurker (film)
Lurker is a 2025 psychological thriller, the feature debut of Alex Russell (The Bear, Beef), starring Théodore Pellerin and Archie Madekwe; a retail clerk infiltrates a pop star's entourage. MUBI release, Sundance 2025, Spirit Award winner.
Lust Stories
Lust Stories (2018) is a Hindi-language Netflix anthology film of four short films by Anurag Kashyap, Zoya Akhtar, Dibakar Banerjee and Karan Johar, a companion to Bombay Talkies, told from women's viewpoints; Emmy-nominated, with sequels in 2023 and later.
Lust Stories 2
Lust Stories 2 is a 2023 Hindi-language Netflix anthology film, sequel to the Emmy-nominated Lust Stories, with four shorts by R. Balki, Konkona Sen Sharma, Sujoy Ghosh, and Amit Ravindernath Sharma, released 29 June 2023.
Lust, Caution (色，戒)
Lust, Caution (色，戒) is a 2007 espionage drama directed by Ang Lee, adapted from Eileen Chang's short story, in which a resistance agent seduces a puppet-government official in occupied Shanghai.
Luther 3
Luther 3 (Series Three) is the third season of the BBC crime drama Luther, written by Neil Cross and starring Idris Elba as DCI John Luther; filmed from November 2012, broadcast July 2013 in four episodes, ending with Neil Cross's 2013 announcement of no fourth season.
Luther: Never Too Much
Luther: Never Too Much is Dawn Porter's 2024 Sundance-premiering documentary on R&B singer Luther Vandross, from jingles and backup singing to 40 million records sold, eight Grammys, CNN/OWN broadcast, and 2025 NAACP Image Award wins.
Luther: The Fallen Sun
Luther: The Fallen Sun is a 2023 Netflix crime thriller continuing the BBC series Luther, directed by Jamie Payne and written by Neil Cross, starring Idris Elba as John Luther breaking out of prison to hunt Andy Serkis's serial killer David Robey.
Luv Ka The End
Luv Ka The End (The End of Luv) is a 2011 Hindi comedy, the first Y-Films production, directed by Bumpy, starring Shraddha Kapoor and Taaha Shah in a one-night revenge story, a box office flop.
Luv Ki Arrange Marriage
Luv Ki Arrange Marriage is a 2024 Hindi romantic comedy, a ZEE5 Original directed by Ishrat R. Khan, starring Sunny Singh, Avneet Kaur, Annu Kapoor, Supriya Pathak, and Rajpal Yadav; released 14 June 2024 on Zee5, IMDb 4.4/10.
Luv Ranjan (लव रंजन)
Luv Ranjan (लव रंजन), Indian Hindi-cinema director, writer, and producer born 29 September (1982 or 1984 per differing sources), known for Pyaar Ka Punchnama (2011), Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety (2018), and Tu Jhoothi Main Makkaar (2023), and co-founder of Luv Films with Ankur Garg.
Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana (ਲਵ ਸ਼ੁਵ ਤੇ ਚਿਕਨ ਖੁਰਾਣਾ)
Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana (ਲਵ ਸ਼ੁਵ ਤੇ ਚਿਕਨ ਖੁਰਾਣਾ), 2012 Hindi comedy directed by Sameer Sharma, starring Kunal Kapoor and Huma Qureshi; a man returns to Punjab hunting his family's lost chicken recipe. Produced by Anurag Kashyap and UTV, music by Amit Trivedi.
Lux Æterna (film)
Lux Æterna (film): 2019 French medium-length film by Gaspar Noé, a Saint Laurent SELF04 commission starring Béatrice Dalle and Charlotte Gainsbourg as themselves in a split-screen meta-movie about a chaotic witch-film shoot, premiered at Cannes 2019.
Luxo Jr.
Luxo Jr. is Pixar's 1986 two-minute computer-animated short directed by John Lasseter, about a baby lamp and a ball; first CGI film nominated for a Best Animated Short Oscar and source of Pixar's hopping-lamp logo.
Luz
Luz (2018) is a 70-minute German horror thriller, Tilman Singer's KHM diploma film, about a possessed cabdriver's hypnosis confession; premiered at Berlinale 2018, released in German cinemas 21 March 2019.
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile (film)
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile is a 2022 Sony live-action/CGI musical comedy directed by Speck and Gordon, based on Bernard Waber's books, starring Javier Bardem and Constance Wu with Shawn Mendes as the singing crocodile's voice.
Lyn May
Lyn May (Liliana Mendiola Mayanes) is a Mexican vedette, exotic dancer, and actress from Acapulco, star of 1970s ficheras cinema, debuting in Tívoli (1974); known as "la diosa del amor"; disfigured by a cooking-oil injection; still performing.
Lynn Shelton
Lynn Shelton (1965-2020) was an American writer-director and Seattle mumblecore figure behind Humpday, Your Sister's Sister, and Sword of Trust, plus TV work including Little Fires Everywhere; she won Sundance's Special Jury Prize and the John Cassavetes Award.
M (1931 film)
M (M – Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder) is Fritz Lang's 1931 German sound film about a Berlin child murderer, Hans Beckert, played by Peter Lorre, hunted by police and underworld alike; famous for its whistled Peer Gynt motif and banned in 1934.
M. Butterfly (film)
M. Butterfly (1993) is David Cronenberg's film of David Henry Hwang's Tony-winning play, starring Jeremy Irons and John Lone as a French diplomat and the male Peking Opera spy he believed was a woman; a critical and commercial disappointment adapted from the Boursicot-Shi Pei Pu affair.