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The Knack... and How to Get It

The Knack... and How to Get It (1965) is Richard Lester's black-and-white comedy, adapted by Charles Wood from Ann Jellicoe's play, about a shy London schoolteacher seeking seduction skills; it won Cannes' Grand Prix and six BAFTA nominations.

The Kneeling Goddess

The Kneeling Goddess (La diosa arrodillada) is a 1947 Mexican film noir melodrama by Roberto Gavaldón starring María Félix and Arturo de Córdova, about a marble statue of a mistress that triggers blackmail, a suspicious death, and suicide.

The Knife (2024 film)

The Knife (2024) is Nnamdi Asomugha's directorial debut thriller, co-written with Mark Duplass, starring Asomugha, Melissa Leo, and Aja Naomi King; a Black family faces a detective's interrogation after a stranger is found unconscious in their kitchen. Tribeca 2024 winner, released August 15, 2025.

The Knight Before Christmas

The Knight Before Christmas is a 2019 Netflix Christmas romantic comedy directed by Monika Mitchell, starring Vanessa Hudgens as teacher Brooke and Josh Whitehouse as Sir Cole, a 14th-century knight transported to present-day Ohio; released November 21, 2019, 92 minutes, 71% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Knight of Shadows: Between Yin and Yang

The Knight of Shadows: Between Yin and Yang (神探蒲松龄) is a 2019 Chinese fantasy action comedy starring Jackie Chan as the writer Pu Songling, a demon-hunting detective.

The Knights of Shadows: Between Yin and Yang

The Knights of Shadows: Between Yin and Yang (神探蒲松龄) is a 2019 Chinese fantasy comedy directed by Yan Jia, starring Jackie Chan as writer-demon-hunter Pu Songling; it earned about 152 million yuan and a 3.9 Douban score.

The Knot (云水谣)

The Knot, also known as 云水谣, is a 2006 Chinese romantic war epic directed by Yin Li, starring Chen Kun, Vivian Hsu, and Li Bingbing.

The Krays (film)

The Krays (1990) is a British biographical crime drama directed by Peter Medak, written by Philip Ridley, starring Spandau Ballet brothers Gary and Martin Kemp as the Kray twins with Billie Whitelaw as Violet Kray.

The L-Shaped Room

The L-Shaped Room is a 1962 British kitchen-sink drama directed by Bryan Forbes, adapted from Lynne Reid Banks's 1960 novel, starring Leslie Caron as pregnant Jane in a Notting Hill boarding house; Oscar-nominated, BAFTA and Golden Globe winning role.

The Ladies Man (1961 film)

The Ladies Man is a 1961 Paramount comedy directed by and starring Jerry Lewis as Herbert H. Heebert, a houseboy in an all-female boarding house, filmed on a four-story cutaway dollhouse set with pioneering video assist.

The Ladies Man (2000 film)

The Ladies Man (2000) is a Reginald Hudlin romantic comedy starring Tim Meadows as his SNL radio-host character Leon Phelps. Released October 13, 2000 by Paramount, it grossed $13.7 million worldwide and scored a Metascore of 22.

The Lady (2011 film)

The Lady (2011 film) is a biographical drama directed by Luc Besson, starring Michelle Yeoh as Aung San Suu Kyi. It details her political life and marriage.

The Lady Eve

The Lady Eve is a 1941 Paramount screwball comedy written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Barbara Stanwyck as con artist Jean Harrington and Henry Fonda as snake scientist Charles Pike, based on Monckton Hoffe's story Two Bad Hats.

The Lady from Musashino

The Lady from Musashino (武蔵野夫人, Musashino fujin) is a 1951 Toho black-and-white drama directed by Mizoguchi Kenji, adapted from Ooka Shohei's 1950 bestseller, starring Tanaka Kinuyo as a married woman in love with her cousin, released September 14, 1951.

The Lady from Shanghai

The Lady from Shanghai is Orson Welles's 1948 Columbia Pictures film noir, adapted from Sherwood King's novel If I Die Before I Wake, starring Welles and Rita Hayworth, famous for its hall of mirrors climax and studio-cut 87-minute release.

The Lady in the Van

The Lady in the Van (2015) is a British comedy-drama directed by Nicholas Hytner, written by Alan Bennett from his memoir and play, starring Maggie Smith as Miss Shepherd, who lived 15 years in a van in Bennett's driveway.

The Lady of Musashino (武蔵野夫人)

The Lady of Musashino (武蔵野夫人, Musashino fujin) is a 1951 Toho drama directed by Mizoguchi Kenji, adapted from Ōoka Shōhei's 1950 novel, starring Tanaka Kinuyo as a married woman drawn to her cousin in postwar Musashino.

The Lady Vanishes

The Lady Vanishes (1938) is Alfred Hitchcock's British comic thriller, adapted from Ethel Lina White's The Wheel Spins, in which Margaret Lockwood's Iris insists vanished governess Miss Froy existed; his penultimate UK film, Truffaut's favorite, remade 1979 and 2013.

The Lady Vanishes (1979 film)

The Lady Vanishes (1979) is Hammer Films' final feature, a remake of Hitchcock's 1938 thriller directed by Anthony Page, starring Cybill Shepherd, Elliott Gould, and Angela Lansbury; a critical and commercial disappointment.

The Ladykillers (1955 film)

The Ladykillers (1955) is an Ealing Studios British black comedy directed by Alexander Mackendrick, written by William Rose, starring Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, and Katie Johnson; thieves posing as a string quintet rob a bank van via King's Cross and are undone by their landlady.

The Ladykillers (2004 film)

The Ladykillers (2004) is the Coen brothers' remake of the 1955 Ealing comedy, starring Tom Hanks as Professor G.H. Dorr, whose gang tunnels from Marva Munson's cellar to rob a Mississippi casino; released March 26, 2004, grossing $76.7 million.

The Lair of the White Worm (film)

The Lair of the White Worm is Ken Russell's 1988 horror comedy, loosely adapting Bram Stoker's 1911 final novel, starring Amanda Donohoe, Hugh Grant, Catherine Oxenberg, and Peter Capaldi; released by Vestron Pictures, grossing $22.0K in the US.

The Lake (2026 film)

The Lake (2026) is Abby Ellis's Sundance documentary about the shrinking Great Salt Lake, following scientists Bonnie Baxter and Ben Abbott and commissioner Brian Steed; it won a Special Jury Award and holds 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Lake House (film)

The Lake House is a 2006 American romantic fantasy drama directed by Alejandro Agresti, starring Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves as pen pals living two years apart.

The Land Before Time (film)

The Land Before Time (1988) is a Don Bluth animated Universal film, presented by Spielberg and Lucas, about orphaned young dinosaurs seeking the Great Valley; it earned nearly $50 million and spawned 13 direct-to-video sequels.

The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure

The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure (1994) is the first direct-to-video sequel to The Land Before Time, directed by Roy Allen Smith for Universal Cartoon Studios, following Littlefoot's gang as they raise the hatchling Sharptooth Chomper.

The Land of Hope (希望の国)

The Land of Hope (希望の国, Kibō no kuni) is Sion Sono's 2012 Japanese drama about two families split by a nuclear accident after an earthquake in the fictional Nagashima Prefecture; 133 minutes, Japan-UK-Taiwan co-production, Toronto NETPAC Award winner.

The Landlord

The Landlord (1970) is Hal Ashby's directorial debut, a comedy-drama starring Beau Bridges as a rich young man who buys a Brooklyn tenement, with Diana Sands, Pearl Bailey, and Oscar-nominated Lee Grant.

The Last Airbender (film)

The Last Airbender (2010) is M. Night Shyamalan's live-action adaptation of Nickelodeon's Avatar: The Last Airbender, starring Noah Ringer, Nicola Peltz, Jackson Rathbone, and Dev Patel. It sparked a Racebending whitewashing protest, earned 5% on Rotten Tomatoes, and grossed $319.7 million worldwide.

The Last American Virgin

The Last American Virgin is a 1982 American teen sex comedy written and directed by Boaz Davidson for Cannon Films, an American rework of his Israeli hit Lemon Popsicle.