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Larva (라바) (TV series)

Larva (라바) is a South Korean TUBAn CGI slapstick animated series premiering on KBS March 26, 2011, following wordless larva characters Red and Yellow under a storm drain; distributed to many countries and a Netflix original with Larva Island.

Las Estrellas

Las Estrellas, until 2016 El Canal de las Estrellas, is the flagship national broadcast channel of TelevisaUnivision in Mexico, launched in 1951 and best known for telenovelas.

Las hijas de la señora García

Las hijas de la señora García (The Daughters of Mrs. García) is a 2024 Mexican telenovela by José Alberto Castro, adapting the Turkish Fazilet Hanım ve Kızları; stars María Sorté, Oka Giner, Ela Velden; aired Las Estrellas from November 2024 and Univision January to May 2025, reaching 10 million U.S. viewers.

Las Hurdes

Las Hurdes: mountainous comarca in northern Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain, bordering Salamanca; 470 km², 40 alquerías in five municipalities. Known for Buñuel's 1933 documentary Tierra sin pan, its poverty stigma, and modern tourism revival.

Las Oscuras Primaveras

Las Oscuras Primaveras (The Obscure Spring) is a 2014 Mexican drama by Ernesto Contreras, written by Carlos Contreras, starring José María Yazpik, Cecilia Suárez, and Irene Azuela as lovers trapped in unfulfilling lives; it premiered at Morelia 2014 and won 2015 Ariel awards for editing and sound.

Las pelotaris 1926

Las Pelotaris 1926 (Emakume pilotariak 1926) is a 2023 Spanish-Mexican ViX+/SkyShowtime drama by Marc Cistaré about Chelo, Idoia and Itzi, fictionalized raquetistas, the first professional women of Basque pelota.

Las Vegas (TV series)

Las Vegas (2003–2008) is an NBC drama created by Gary Scott Thompson about the surveillance team of the fictional Montecito casino, starring James Caan and Josh Duhamel; five seasons, 106 episodes, canceled on a cliffhanger.

Lasagna Cat

Lasagna Cat is a YouTube channel created by the comedy duo Fatal Farm that parodies Garfield via low-budget live-action strip reenactments, returning in 2017 after nine years.

Laser Mission

Laser Mission (1989), also released as Soldier of Fortune and Battle Dragon, is a West German-South African-US direct-to-video action film directed by BJ Davis, starring Brandon Lee as a CIA agent rescuing laser expert Ernest Borgnine from the KGB; it contains no lasers.

Lash (comics)

Lash is a Marvel Comics Inhuman supervillain created by Charles Soule and Joe Madureira, first appearing in Inhuman #1 (June 2014). An Orollan Inhuman who judges new Inhumans, he differs from the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. version, Andrew Garner's alter ego.

Lashana Lynch

Lashana Lynch (Lashana Rasheda Lynch), British actress born 1987 in London, of Jamaican descent: Maria Rambeau in Captain Marvel, first Black female 007 (Nomi) in No Time to Die, BAFTA EE Rising Star 2022, The Woman King, Rita Marley in Bob Marley: One Love, and Bianca Pullman in The Day of the Jackal.

Laskar Pelangi

Laskar Pelangi (The Rainbow Troops) is a 2008 Indonesian film directed by Riri Riza, adapted from Andrea Hirata's 2005 novel about ten poor students on Belitung.

Lasse Braun

Lasse Braun (Alberto Ferro, 1936–2015), Italian-born pioneer of European pornographic film; made 8mm loops, won Denmark's 1969 obscenity case, directed French Blue, Sensations, Body Love; father of Axel Braun.

Lasse Hallström

Lasse Hallström (Lars Sven Hallström, born 1946, Stockholm) is a Swedish director of ABBA music videos, My Life as a Dog, The Cider House Rules, Chocolat, and Hilma, an Oscar-nominated Hollywood literary adapter.

Lassie

Lassie, also known from Lassie Come Home, is a fictional female Rough Collie created by Eric Knight in 1938, played on screen since 1943 only by male descendants of the dog Pal.

Lassie (1954 TV series)

Lassie is an American television series that follows a Rough Collie's adventures; it aired on CBS until 1971 before running in first run syndication.

Last Action Hero

Last Action Hero (1993) is a John McTiernan fantasy action comedy starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as Jack Slater, a fictional cop pulled into reality by a boy's magic ticket; it opened June 18, 1993, grossed $137.3 million worldwide on an $85 million budget, and was Sony's first SDDS film.

Last Call with Carson Daly

Last Call with Carson Daly: NBC late-night talk show at 1:35 a.m., January 2002 to May 2019, about 2,000 episodes, known for on-location interviews and new-music bookings; replaced by A Little Late with Lilly Singh.

Last Chance U

Last Chance U is a Netflix documentary series (2016-2020, 5 seasons, 38 episodes) directed by Greg Whiteley, following junior college football players at EMCC, Independence Community College, and Laney College.

Last Child (살아남은 아이)

Last Child (살아남은 아이, Sal-a-nam-eun A-i) is Shin Dong-seok's 2017 debut South Korean drama about a bereaved couple who take in the boy their son died saving. Premiered at Busan (FIPRESCI), screened at Berlinale Forum 2018, released August 30, 2018.

Last Christmas (Doctor Who)

Last Christmas is the Doctor Who Christmas special broadcast 25 December 2014, written by Steven Moffat, starring Peter Capaldi's Twelfth Doctor, Jenna Coleman's Clara, and Nick Frost as Santa, featuring Dream Crabs on an Arctic base.

Last Christmas (film)

Last Christmas (2019) is a Paul Feig romantic comedy starring Emilia Clarke, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh, and Emma Thompson, written by Emma Thompson and Bryony Kimmings, built on George Michael's music, with a twist in which dead donor Tom's heart saves Kate.

Last Comic Standing

Last Comic Standing: NBC reality competition (2003-2015, nine seasons) created by Peter Engel in which stand-up comedians compete in weekly eliminations for an NBC development contract; hosts included Jay Mohr and Craig Robinson.

Last Day on Earth (The Walking Dead)

Last Day on Earth (The Walking Dead) is the 16th and final episode of Season 6, which aired April 3, 2016. It features Negan killing an unseen victim with Lucille.

Last Days (2005 film)

Last Days (2005) is Gus Van Sant's drama, final film of his Death Trilogy with Gerry and Elephant, loosely inspired by Kurt Cobain's final days; Michael Pitt stars as Blake, and the film won Cannes' Technical Grand Prize for sound design.

Last Days of Summer (Friday Night Lights)

Last Days of Summer is the season 2 premiere (episode 201, production 02001) of NBC's Friday Night Lights, the drama set in fictional Dillon, Texas; it is the series' twenty-third overall episode, airing October 2007.

Last Flag Flying

Last Flag Flying is a 2017 Richard Linklater comedy-drama, co-written with Darryl Ponicsan from his 2005 novel, starring Cranston, Fishburne, and Carell as Vietnam vets burying a son killed in Iraq.

Last Forever

Last Forever is the two-part series finale of How I Met Your Mother, aired March 31, 2014 on CBS, written by Carter Bays and Craig Thomas. Ted meets Tracy McConnell, who dies of illness; Ted returns to Robin. Series-record 12.9 million viewers, divisive reception, alternate ending on DVD.

Last Holiday (2006 film)

Last Holiday (2006) is a Wayne Wang comedy-drama starring Queen Latifah as Georgia Byrd, a New Orleans salesclerk who spends her savings at Karlovy Vary's Grandhotel Pupp after a terminal diagnosis; remake of the 1950 Alec Guinness film, released January 13, 2006 by Paramount.

Last King of the Cross

Last King of the Cross is a Paramount+ Australian crime drama inspired by John Ibrahim's 2017 autobiography, starring Lincoln Younes, Claude Jabbour, and Tim Roth; two seasons (2023, 2024) dramatize the Ibrahim brothers' rise in Sydney's Kings Cross underworld.