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La Goulue

La Goulue (Louise Weber, c. 1865/1866–1929) was a French cancan dancer, star of the Moulin Rouge in Belle Époque Paris, nicknamed for draining customers' glasses, and immortalized in Toulouse-Lautrec's 1891 poster.

La Gradiva

La Gradiva is Marine Atlan's 2026 French-Italian coming-of-age debut feature, following French high school seniors on a school trip to Naples and Pompeii. It won the Cannes Critics' Week Grand Prix and takes its title from Wilhelm Jensen's 1902 novella.

La Gran Familia Española

La Gran Familia Española (Family United), 2013 Spanish comedy by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo; a wedding during the 2010 World Cup final, five biblical-named brothers, 11 Goya nominations, two wins.

La Grande Bouffe

La Grande Bouffe (La grande abbuffata, The Grande Bouffe, Blow-Out) is Marco Ferreri's 1973 French-Italian black comedy in which Mastroianni, Piccoli, Noiret, and Tognazzi eat themselves to death; a Cannes 1973 scandal that won FIPRESCI.

La Grande Illusion

La Grande Illusion (Grand Illusion) is Jean Renoir's 1937 French anti-war film about French POWs in German camps in WWI, starring Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, and Erich von Stroheim, centered on class solidarity across national lines.

La Grande Maison Paris (グランメゾン・パリ)

La Grande Maison Paris (グランメゾン・パリ) is a 2024 Japanese film sequel to the drama Grand Maison Tokyo, directed by Ayuko Tsukahara, starring Takuya Kimura as chef Natsuki Obana chasing three Michelin stars in Paris, with culinary supervision by Kei Kobayashi of Restaurant KEI.

La Grande Maison Tokyo (グランメゾン東京)

La Grande Maison Tokyo (グランメゾン東京) is a 2019 TBS Sunday Theater drama starring Takuya Kimura as disgraced chef Natsuki Obana, who rebuilds a three-star French restaurant in Tokyo; written by Tsutomu Kuroiwa, directed by Ayuko Tsukahara, with 2024 special and Grand Maison Paris film sequels.

La Grande Vadrouille

La Grande Vadrouille (Don't Look Now We're Being Shot At) is a 1966 French-British comedy by Gérard Oury starring Bourvil and Louis de Funès helping downed British airmen escape occupied France; it sold 17.27 million tickets in France, a record until Titanic (1998).

La Granja VIP (Mexican TV series)

La Granja VIP is TV Azteca and Fremantle's Mexican version of The Farm: 16 celebrities farming for 10 weeks in 2025, 24/7 on Disney+, won by Alfredo Adame with a 2-million-peso prize.

La grazia

La grazia (The Pardon/Grace) is Paolo Sorrentino's 2025 Italian drama, his eleventh film, starring Toni Servillo as fictional President Mariano De Santis facing pardon petitions and a euthanasia bill; it opened Venice 82 and won Servillo the Coppa Volpi.

La gringa

La gringa is the title of two Spanish-language plays: a 1904 comedy by Florencio Sánchez about Gauchos and Italian immigrants, and a 1996 play by Carmen Rivera about identity.

La Haine

La Haine (Hate) is Mathieu Kassovitz's 1995 French black-and-white drama about Vinz, Hubert, and Saïd, three friends in a Paris banlieue the day after a riot. It won Cannes Best Director 1995 and three Césars, including Best Film.

La Ilusión Viaja en Tranvía

La ilusión viaja en tranvía (Illusion Travels by Streetcar) is a 1954 Mexican comedy by Luis Buñuel, produced by Clasa Films Mundiales, in which tram workers Caireles and Tarrajas steal tram 133 before it is scrapped.

La Isla Mínima

La Isla Mínima (Marshland), 2014 Spanish thriller by Alberto Rodríguez and Rafael Cobos, set in 1980 in the Guadalquivir marshes; two Madrid detectives hunt a killer of teenage girls. Won 10 Goyas from 17 nominations, including Best Film.

La Jaula de Oro

La jaula de oro (The Golden Cage), 2013 film by Diego Quemada-Díez, a Mexico-Spain drama about Guatemalan teenage migrants riding La Bestia freight trains to the US; Cannes Un Certain Talent winner, distinct from Ruben Alves' comedy La Cage Dorée.

La Jetée

La Jetée (1962) is Chris Marker's 28-minute French photo-roman short, told almost entirely in still black-and-white photographs, about time travel after World War III destroys Paris; it won the 1963 Prix Jean Vigo and inspired Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys.

La La Anthony

La La Anthony (Alani Nicole Vazquez, born 1979, Brooklyn) is an American actress, producer and former MTV VJ known for Total Request Live, Power's LaKeisha Grant, BMF, The Chi, The Love Playbook, and her 2010-2021 marriage to Carmelo Anthony.

La La Land

La La Land is a 2016 American musical film written and directed by Damien Chazelle, starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone. It won 6 Oscars, a record 7 Golden Globes and 5 BAFTAs, and tied the 14-nomination Oscar record before Moonlight took Best Picture.

La Ley de Herodes

La ley de Herodes (Herod's Law) is Luis Estrada's 1999 Mexican black-comedy satire in which a naive PRI mayor becomes corrupt in 1949; it was censored by IMCINE, then won 10 Ariels and became a box-office hit.

La Ley del Deseo

La ley del deseo (Law of Desire) is Pedro Almodóvar's 1987 Spanish melodrama-thriller, the first production of El Deseo, starring Eusebio Poncela, Carmen Maura, and Antonio Banderas; it premiered at Berlin's Panorama, won a Teddy Award, and was Almodóvar's first film released abroad.

La Llorona (2019 film)

La Llorona (2019) is Jayro Bustamante's Guatemalan-French horror-drama reworking the weeping-woman legend as an account of the Maya genocide and Ríos Montt's trial; 97 minutes, Venice premiere, 96% on Rotten Tomatoes, distinct from The Curse of La Llorona.

La Luna Sangre

La Luna Sangre (The Blood Moon) is a 2017–2018 ABS-CBN Philippine fantasy drama, third of the Lobo/Imortal Moonstone trilogy, starring Kathryn Bernardo, Daniel Padilla, Richard Gutierrez, and Angel Locsin in a vampire-werewolf prophecy story.

La lupa (film title family)

La lupa is the shared title of two Italian films adapted from Giovanni Verga's 1880 novella: Alberto Lattuada's 1953 version shot in Matera and Gabriele Lavia's 1996 version starring Monica Guerritore, plus related adaptations Furia and Wild Is the Wind.

La madrastra (2005 TV series)

La madrastra (The Stepmother), Televisa's 2005 Mexican telenovela with Victoria Ruffo and César Évora, adapted from Arturo Moya Grau: a wrongfully imprisoned woman returns as her own children's stepmother to find the killer of Patricia. Highest-rated Televisa telenovela of 2005.

La malquerida

La malquerida (2014) is a Mexican Televisa telenovela by producer José Alberto Castro, based on Jacinto Benavente's 1913 play, starring Victoria Ruffo, Ariadne Díaz, and Cristian Meier in a stepfather-stepdaughter love-triangle drama aired on Canal de las Estrellas from June 2, 2014, in 117 episodes.

La Más Draga

La Más Draga is a Mexican drag competition web series produced by La Gran Diabla since 2018, streamed free on YouTube, a 'tropicalized' Drag Race variant with seven seasons and the Sólo Las Más spin-off.

La mujer del diablo

La mujer del diablo (The Devil's Woman) is a 2022–2023 Mexican ViX+ drama series by Leonardo Padrón, starring Carolina Miranda and José Ron as a teacher and an obsessed criminal in the fictional town of Villa Clara; distinct from a 1974 film of the same name.

La Nona

La Nona is a 1977 tragicomedy by the Argentine playwright Roberto Cossa, in which a Buenos Aires family of Italian immigrant descent is ruined by its centenarian grandmother's insatiable hunger.

La oficina (TV series)

La Oficina is the Mexican Prime Video adaptation of The Office, a mockumentary workplace comedy set at soap maker Jabones Olimpo in Aguascalientes. Premiered March 13, 2026, eight episodes, led by Fernando Bonilla as Jerónimo Ponce III, directed by Gaz Alazraki, renewed for 2027.

La Otra Familia

La Otra Familia (The Other Family), 2011 Mexican drama by Gustavo Loza: a gay couple, Jean Paul and Chema, care for seven-year-old Hendrix, abandoned by his crack-addicted mother; released 25 March 2011 by 20th Century Fox, first national LGBT-themed commercial production.