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The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum

The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum is a 2027 Warner Bros./New Line live-action film directed by and starring Andy Serkis, produced by Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens, following Gandalf and Aragorn's hunt for Gollum before The Fellowship of the Ring, releasing December 17, 2027.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) is Peter Jackson's third Tolkien film, also called ROTK, closing the New Line trilogy. It won a record-tying 11 Oscars and grossed about $1.14 billion worldwide.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), Peter Jackson's second Tolkien adaptation film, follows the scattered Fellowship through Rohan, Ents, Gollum, and Helm's Deep; 179 minutes, New Line Cinema, 95% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim is a 2024 anime film by Kenji Kamiyama for New Line Cinema and Sola Entertainment, set 183 years before Jackson's trilogy, telling how Helm Hammerhand's daughter Héra defended Rohan against Wulf and how Helm's Deep got its name.

The Lords of Flatbush

The Lords of Flatbush is a 1974 American coming-of-age drama directed by Stephen F. Verona and Martin Davidson, set in 1958 Brooklyn, starring Sylvester Stallone, Henry Winkler, Perry King, and Paul Mace as a teenage gang; Richard Gere was fired from the Chico role after clashing with Stallone.

The Lords of Salem (film)

The Lords of Salem is a 2012 Rob Zombie horror film starring Sheri Moon Zombie as Salem DJ Heidi, whose playing of a mysterious record awakens a vengeful witch coven; released 2013 by Anchor Bay.

The Losers (2010 film)

The Losers (2010 film): American action comedy directed by Sylvain White, written by Peter Berg and James Vanderbilt, adapting Andy Diggle and Jock's Vertigo comic; Warner Bros. release grossed $29.9 million worldwide on a $25 million budget.

The Lost Boys

The Lost Boys is a 1987 American horror-comedy film directed by Joel Schumacher, in which teenage brothers move to a California beach town and find a local biker gang are vampires.

The Lost Bus

The Lost Bus is a 2025 Paul Greengrass survival thriller for Apple Original Films, starring Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera as real Camp Fire (2018) heroes Kevin McKay and Mary Ludwig, adapted from Lizzie Johnson's book Paradise.

The Lost City (2022 film)

The Lost City, also known as The Lost City of D, is a 2022 American adventure-comedy starring Sandra Bullock as a romance novelist kidnapped by a billionaire.

The Lost City of Z (film)

The Lost City of Z is James Gray's 2017 biographical adventure drama starring Charlie Hunnam as explorer Percy Fawcett, adapted from David Grann's 2009 book about Fawcett's fatal 1925 Amazon expedition.

The Lost Daughter (film)

The Lost Daughter (2021) is Maggie Gyllenhaal's directorial debut, adapted from Elena Ferrante's 2006 novel, starring Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, and Dakota Johnson; it premiered at Venice, won Best Screenplay, and streams on Netflix.

The Lost Holliday

The Lost Holliday is a 2024 American drama directed by, co-written by, and starring Jussie Smollett with Vivica A. Fox; a mother planning her estranged son's funeral discovers his husband. Premiered at ABFF June 14, 2024; limited AMC release September 27, 2024.

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum), a 1975 West German film by Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta adapting Heinrich Böll's novella about a woman hounded by police and tabloid press after sheltering a suspected terrorist; the breakthrough of New German Cinema.

The Lost Husband

The Lost Husband is a 2020 American romantic drama directed by Vicky Wight, adapted from Katherine Center's 2013 novel, starring Leslie Bibb and Josh Duhamel as a widow and farm manager on a Texas goat farm; it hit number one on Netflix in 2020.

The Lost King

The Lost King is a 2022 British comedy drama directed by Stephen Frears, written by Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope, starring Sally Hawkins as Philippa Langley, whose search found Richard III's remains under a Leicester car park in 2012; later settled a libel suit.

The Lost Man

The Lost Man (1969) is an American crime drama, Robert Alan Aurthur's only film as director, loosely adapted from F.L. Green's novel Odd Man Out, starring Sidney Poitier as militant Jason Higgs and Joanna Shimkus, with a Quincy Jones score.

The Lost Patrol

The Lost Patrol (1934) is John Ford's RKO pre-Code war film, remaking Philip MacDonald's novel Patrol, starring Victor McLaglen and Boris Karloff, with a Max Steiner score later reused in Casablanca.

The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra

The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra is a 2001 black-and-white indie comedy by Larry Blamire parodying 1950s sci-fi B-movies, centered on the element atmospherium; released by Sony in 2004, it spawned a 2009 sequel.

The Lost Weekend

The Lost Weekend is a 1945 American black-and-white drama directed by Billy Wilder, adapted from Charles R. Jackson's 1944 novel; it won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

The Lost World (1925 film)

The Lost World (1925) is a First National silent film directed by Harry O. Hoyt, adapting Arthur Conan Doyle's 1912 novel, with Willis O'Brien's pioneering stop-motion dinosaurs; cut in 1929, restored by Eastman Museum, National Film Registry 1998.

The Lost World (1960 film)

The Lost World (1960) is Irwin Allen's CinemaScope Twentieth Century-Fox adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's 1912 novel, starring Claude Rains, Michael Rennie, Jill St. John, and David Hedison, known for live lizards with glued-on fins standing in for dinosaurs.

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

The Lost World: Jurassic Park is a 1997 American science-fiction adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, adapting Michael Crichton's novel The Lost World and starring Jeff Goldblum.

The Love Bug

The Love Bug is Disney's 1968 live-action comedy directed by Robert Stevenson, starring Dean Jones as Jim Douglas and Herbie, a sentient 1963 pearl-white Volkswagen Beetle with racing number 53; it was among 1969's top-grossing films and launched the Herbie franchise.

The Love Guru

The Love Guru is a 2008 American comedy film starring Mike Myers as Guru Pitka, a self-help guru hired to mend a hockey star's marriage, directed by Marco Schnabel.

The Love Light

The Love Light (1921) is a silent melodrama, Frances Marion's directorial debut, starring and produced by Mary Pickford as an Italian lighthouse keeper who unknowingly marries a German spy; restored by UCLA in 4K.

The Love of Sumako the Actress (女優須磨子の恋)

The Love of Sumako the Actress (女優須磨子の恋, Joyū Sumako no koi) is Kenji Mizoguchi's 1947 Shochiku drama starring Kinuyo Tanaka as pioneering actress Matsui Sumako and her affair with Shimamura Hogetsu, rivaling Kinugasa's The Actress.

The Love That Remains

The Love That Remains (Ástin Sem Eftir Er) is a 2025 Icelandic drama directed by Hlynur Pálmason, following a separated couple co-parenting their three children on the Icelandic coast.

The Love Witch

The Love Witch is a 2016 horror-comedy film written, directed, produced, edited, designed, and scored by Anna Biller, starring Samantha Robinson as Elaine, a witch whose love spells kill her suitors; shot on 35mm in 1960s Technicolor style.

The Lovebirds (2020 film)

The Lovebirds (2020) is an American romantic comedy directed by Michael Showalter, starring Kumail Nanjiani and Issa Rae as a New Orleans couple entangled in a murder. Planned for Paramount theatrical release April 3, 2020, it went straight to Netflix on May 22, 2020, amid COVID-19 theater closures.