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The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer is a 1935 Paramount adventure film directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, and Richard Cromwell as British officers in colonial India; seven Oscar nominations, one win.

The Lives of Others

The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen), 2006 German drama by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck: a Stasi captain spies on a playwright in 1984 East Berlin and turns; won the 2007 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

The Living and the Dead (TV series)

The Living and the Dead is a 2016 British six-part BBC One supernatural drama created by Ashley Pharoah, starring Colin Morgan and Charlotte Spencer as Victorian couple Nathan and Charlotte Appleby in 1894 Somerset, filmed at Bottle Yard Studios and cancelled after one season.

The Living Daylights

The Living Daylights is a 1987 spy film, the fifteenth in the Eon Productions James Bond series and the first to star Timothy Dalton as Agent 007.

The Living Desert

The Living Desert (1953) is Disney's first feature-length True-Life Adventure nature documentary, directed by James Algar, narrated by Winston Hibler, and the first Buena Vista release; it won the Best Documentary Feature Oscar.

The Lizzie Bennet Diaries

The Lizzie Bennet Diaries (LBD) is a 2012-2013 transmedia YouTube web series by Hank Green and Bernie Su adapting Pride and Prejudice as a graduate student's vlog, with 100 episodes, thirteen Twitter feeds, and a Creative Arts Emmy.

The Lizzie Borden Chronicles

The Lizzie Borden Chronicles is a 2015 Lifetime eight-episode limited series, sequel to Lizzie Borden Took an Ax, starring Christina Ricci as a fictionalized post-acquittal Lizzie Borden; Metacritic 52, Rotten Tomatoes 50%.

The Lizzie McGuire Movie

The Lizzie McGuire Movie is a 2003 American teen comedy film directed by Jim Fall, starring Hilary Duff as a junior high graduate mistaken for an Italian pop singer in Rome.

The Lobster

The Lobster is Yorgos Lanthimos's 2015 absurdist dystopian film, his first in English, in which singles must find a mate in 45 days or become an animal. It won the Cannes Jury Prize and an Oscar screenplay nomination.

The Loch (TV series)

The Loch (Loch Ness in the US) is a 2017 six-part ITV crime drama written by Stephen Brady, starring Laura Fraser, Siobhan Finneran, and Don Gilet, set near Loch Ness; it topped the UK Netflix chart in 2025.

The Lodge (film)

The Lodge (2019) is a psychological horror film by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, their English-language debut for Hammer Films and FilmNation. Premiered at Sundance 2019; Riley Keough plays a cult survivor snowed in with her fiancé's children.

The Lodge (TV series)

The Lodge (TV series) is a 2016–2017 British Disney Channel musical teen drama, an adaptation of the Israeli series North Star, starring Sophie Simnett as Skye, Luke Newton, and Thomas Doherty; 25 episodes, filmed in Northern Ireland.

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1926/1927) is Alfred Hitchcock's third feature, a silent thriller starring Ivor Novello as a boarding-house tenant suspected of being the Avenger, a Jack the Ripper-style killer of blonde women, adapted from Marie Belloc Lowndes's 1913 novel.

The Loft (film)

The Loft is Erik Van Looy's 2015 American remake of his 2008 Belgian hit Loft, about five married men sharing a secret affair penthouse until a dead woman appears; it flopped with $6M gross and 14% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The London Studios

The London Studios (TLS), formerly the South Bank Television Centre and LWT, was an ITV television studio complex on London's South Bank, opened 1972, closed 2018, sold to Mitsubishi Estate London in 2019.

The Lone Gunmen

The Lone Gunmen: 2001 Fox comedy-drama spin-off of The X-Files following hackers Byers, Frohike, and Langly; 13 episodes, 13-million-viewer pilot, canceled after a move to Fridays, famous for its World Trade Center pilot plot.

The Lone Gunmen (TV series)

The Lone Gunmen is Fox's 2001 comedy-drama spin-off of The X-Files following Byers, Frohike, and Langly. One 13-episode season, 13 million pilot viewers, canceled after a move to Friday nights.

The Lone Ranger (2013 film)

The Lone Ranger (2013) is Disney's Gore Verbinski Western starring Armie Hammer as John Reid and Johnny Depp as Tonto. Budgeted at $215 million, it grossed $260.5 million worldwide, scored 31% on Rotten Tomatoes, and became a major box-office flop.

The Lone Ranger (TV series)

The Lone Ranger (1949-1957) is ABC's five-season, 221-episode filmed TV Western starring Clayton Moore and John Hart as the masked Ranger with Jay Silverheels as Tonto, adapted from the 1933 WXYZ Detroit radio series; ABC's first hit, themed on Rossini's William Tell Overture.

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner: 1962 British New Wave drama by Tony Richardson, adapted by Alan Sillitoe from his 1959 short story; borstal inmate Colin Smith (Tom Courtenay, BAFTA-winning debut) runs for Governor Michael Redgrave.

The Lonely Warrior (三大队 (网络剧))

The Lonely Warrior (三大队), also translated as Man Hunt, is a 2023 Chinese suspense crime web drama directed by Xing Jianjun, starring Qin Hao as detective Cheng Bing.

The Long Ballad (长歌行)

The Long Ballad (长歌行, Chang Ge Xing), also The Long March of Princess Changge, is a 2021 49-episode Tencent Chinese historical drama adapted from Xia Da's manhua, starring Dilraba Dilmurat and Leo Wu, set after the Xuanwu Gate Incident.

The Long Day Closes

The Long Day Closes is Terence Davies's 1992 autobiographical British film about eleven-year-old Bud in 1955-56 Liverpool, a mosaic of memory, cinema, song, and Catholic guilt, nominated for the 1992 Palme d'Or.

The Long Game (film)

The Long Game (film) refers chiefly to the 2024 Julio Quintana sports drama based on Mustang Miracle, about five Mexican American caddies in 1950s Del Rio, Texas, who won the 1957 Texas state high school golf title; a 2025 neo-noir of the same name also exists.

The Long Good Friday

The Long Good Friday: 1979-80 British gangster thriller by John Mackenzie, written by Barrie Keeffe, starring Bob Hoskins as Harold Shand and Helen Mirren; an IRA Easter-weekend rampage destroys a London mobster's Docklands redevelopment deal.

The Long Goodbye (film)

The Long Goodbye (1973) is Robert Altman's neo-noir comedy-drama adapting Raymond Chandler's 1953 Marlowe novel, with Elliott Gould as an anachronistic Philip Marlowe in 1970s Los Angeles, Leigh Brackett's screenplay, Vilmos Zsigmond's cinematography, and a recurring John Williams-Johnny Mercer title song.

The Long Haul (2026 film)

The Long Haul (2026) is David Drake's debut feature drama, formerly titled Dead Letters, starring Margo Martindale as trucker CJ Montague facing parole of her daughter's murderer; it premiered at Tribeca on June 7, 2026.

The Long Home

The Long Home is an unreleased 2015 American drama directed by James Franco, adapted from William Gay's novel, starring Josh Hutcherson, Josh Hartnett, and Ashton Kutcher; filmed in Ohio, it remains without distribution.

The Long Kiss Goodnight

The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) is a Renny Harlin action comedy thriller, written by Shane Black for a record $4 million, starring Geena Davis as an amnesiac assassin and Samuel L. Jackson, released by New Line Cinema.

The Long Night (Game of Thrones)

"The Long Night" is Game of Thrones season 8, episode 3 (April 28, 2019), the 82-minute Battle of Winterfell directed by Miguel Sapochnik, notable for its dark cinematography, record ratings, mixed reviews, and five Emmy wins.