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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is Amazon's Prime Video fantasy series set in Middle-earth's Second Age, created by J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay, premiering 2022; the most expensive TV show, with season 3 on November 11, 2026 covering Sauron forging the One Ring.

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (season 2)

Season 2 of The Rings of Power (Prime Video, 2024), the Second Age Tolkien prequel by showrunners Payne and McKay: Sauron as Annatar forges the Rings, the Siege of Eregion, 85% on Rotten Tomatoes, and a 60% viewership drop versus season 1.

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 3

Season 3 of The Rings of Power, the Prime Video Second Age prequel, premieres November 11, 2026 with four episodes. Set five years after Eregion's fall, it depicts the War of the Elves and Sauron and the forging of the One Ring, adding Jamie Campbell Bower as Celeborn and Simon Pegg as the Balrog's voice.

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 Flowers of Alice Hart

The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart is a 2023 seven-part Prime Video Australian drama miniseries adapted from Holly Ringland's 2018 debut novel, starring Sigourney Weaver as grandmother June and Alycia Debnam-Carey as Alice, set on the Thornfield flower farm refuge for abused women.

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 Room

The Lost Room is a 2006 American science fiction miniseries on the Sci Fi Channel, created by Christopher Leone, Laura Harkcom, and Paul Workman, about a 1961 New Mexico motel room outside time whose everyday Objects have powers; three 90-minute episodes, starring Peter Krause.

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 Station Girls

The Lost Station Girls (Les Disparues de la gare) is a 2025 French Disney+ six-episode miniseries by Gaëlle Bellan and Virginie Sauveur, starring Camille Razat, dramatizing the real 1995–2001 Perpignan station murders and the two-decade hunt for killer Jacques Rançon.

The Lost Symbol (TV series)

Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol is a 2021 Peacock drama thriller, a prequel to the Tom Hanks Langdon films, starring Ashley Zukerman as young Robert Langdon; one 10-episode season, canceled January 2022.

The Lost Tomb (盗墓笔记)

The Lost Tomb (盗墓笔记) is the 2015 iQiyi web series adapting Nanpai Sanshu's tomb-raiding novel, starring Li Yifeng and Yang Yang, first paid-membership Chinese web drama, 100 million views in 22 hours, Douban 4.2.

The Lost Tomb 2 Explore with the Note (云顶天宫)

The Lost Tomb 2: Explore with the Note (云顶天宫) is a 2021 Chinese web drama, 24 episodes on Tencent Video, produced by Huanrui Century, adapting Daomu Biji volumes 4-5; it scored a franchise-low 2.6 on Douban.

The Lost Tomb 2: Explore With The Note (盗墓笔记之怒海潜沙)

The Lost Tomb 2: Explore With The Note (盗墓笔记之怒海潜沙&秦岭神树) is a 2019 Chinese suspense drama adapting the second Daomu Biji novel, starring Hou Minghao and Cheng Yi, 40 episodes on Tencent Video from June 6, 2019, with 3 billion views and a 5.9 Douban score.

The Lost Tomb: Reboot (重启之极海听雷)

The Lost Tomb: Reboot (重启之极海听雷, Reunion: The Sound of the Providence) is a 2020 Chinese adventure web series adapted from Nanpai Sanshu's novel, directed by Pan Anzi, starring Zhu Yilong as Wu Xie; two seasons (32 and 30 episodes) aired on iQiyi and Youku.

The Lost Village (TV series)

The Lost Village (迷家-マヨイガ-, Mayoiga) is a 2016 original Japanese TV anime, 12 episodes directed by Tsutomu Mizushima with series composition by Mari Okada at Diomedéa, about 30 bus-tour participants trapped in the village Nanaki-mura facing nanaki monsters born of their own trauma.

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.