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The L Word
The L Word is a Showtime drama series created by Ilene Chaiken, considered the first mainstream US lesbian-centered drama. Aired January 2004 to March 2009, six seasons, 70 episodes, set in Los Angeles; spawned The Real L Word and Generation Q.
The L Word: Generation Q
The L Word: Generation Q is Showtime's 2019 sequel to The L Word (2004–2009), following Bette Porter, Shane McCutcheon, and Alice Pieszecki plus a new queer ensemble in Los Angeles; three seasons, canceled 2023.
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 (TV series)
The Lady is a 2026 four-part British true-crime drama by Left Bank Pictures for ITV and BritBox about Jane Andrews, royal dresser to Sarah Ferguson, convicted of murdering Thomas Cressman; starring Mia McKenna-Bruce and Natalie Dormer.
The Lady Chablis
The Lady Chablis (Brenda Dale Knox, born Benjamin Edward Knox, 1957-2016), Savannah transgender cabaret performer, first entertainer at Club One (1988), breakout character of Berendt's 1994 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, played herself in the 1997 Eastwood film, wrote Hiding My Candy (1996).
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 Dignity
The Lady in Dignity (품위있는 그녀, Woman of Dignity) is a 2017 South Korean JTBC drama starring Kim Hee-sun and Kim Sun-a, about a caretaker entering a wealthy family.
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 Lady's Companion
The Lady's Companion (Manual para señoritas) is a Spanish Netflix period romantic comedy set in 1880s Madrid, created by Gema R. Neira and María José Rustarazo, starring Nadia de Santiago as matchmaker Elena Bianda; 8 episodes, premiered March 28, 2025, canceled after one season.
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
The Lake is a Canadian Prime Video comedy series (2022–2023) created by Julian Doucet, starring Jordan Gavaris, Julia Stiles, and Madison Shamoun; the first scripted Canadian Amazon Original comedy, set in Ontario cottage country.
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
The Land (Polish: Kraj) is a 2021 Polish satirical anthology film made for Netflix, six stories by different directors in which ordinary Poles chase money and status with darkening results.
The Land Before Time
The Land Before Time is Don Bluth's 1988 Universal animated film, presented by Spielberg and Lucas, in which orphaned Littlefoot and four young dinosaur friends journey to the Great Valley; it grossed about $48.6 million and spawned 13 direct-to-video sequels and a TV series.
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 (TV series)
The Land Before Time (TV series) is a 2007-2008 American animated show, also known simply as The Land Before Time, continuing the 1988 Don Bluth film; 26 episodes on Cartoon Network, created by Ford Riley, starring Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Petrie, Spike, Ruby, and Chomper.
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 Boggs
The Land of Boggs is a BuzzFeed Animation Lab short-form animated web series by Brent Sievers and Lizz Hickey about anxious introvert Boggo and extrovert Boe, with about 9.9 million YouTube subscribers and 14 billion views.
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.