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The Last Immortal (神隐)

The Last Immortal (神隐, Shen Yin) is a 2023 Chinese xianxia romance drama, 40 episodes on Tencent Video and Mango TV, adapted from Xing Ling's novel, starring Zhao Lusi and Wang Anyu, linked to Ancient Love Poetry.

The Last in Line

The Last in Line is Dio's 1984 second album, recorded at Caribou Ranch with keyboardist Claude Schnell; it peaked at UK No. 4 and US Billboard No. 23, went RIAA Platinum in 1987, and later named the band Last In Line.

The Last Judgment (Michelangelo)

The Last Judgment (Il Giudizio Universale) is Michelangelo's fresco on the Sistine Chapel altar wall, painted 1536-1541 under Paul III, with 314 figures, controversial nudes, and a 2026 salt-film cleaning.

The Last King of Scotland (film)

The Last King of Scotland (2006) is Kevin Macdonald's drama, adapted from Giles Foden's novel, in which fictional Scottish doctor Nicholas Garrigan (James McAvoy) becomes Idi Amin's (Forest Whitaker, Oscar-winning) personal physician.

The Last Kingdom

The Last Kingdom (2015–2022) is a British historical drama TV series adapted from Bernard Cornwell's Saxon Stories novels by Stephen Butchard; five seasons, BBC Two then Netflix, following fictional Uhtred of Bebbanburg alongside Alfred the Great.

The Last Kingdom (TV series)

The Last Kingdom is a 2015-2022 British historical fiction TV series adapted by Stephen Butchard from Bernard Cornwell's Saxon Stories, following fictional Uhtred of Bebbanburg in 9th-10th century England; began on BBC, moved to Netflix, ended with Seven Kings Must Die (2023).

The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die

The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die is a 2023 Netflix film concluding the series The Last Kingdom, based on Bernard Cornwell's Warlord, directed by Edward Bazalgette, starring Alexander Dreymon as Uhtred at the Battle of Brunanburh, 937.

The Last Kiss (2006 film)

The Last Kiss is a 2006 American comedy-drama-romance directed by Tony Goldwyn, written by Paul Haggis, and starring Zach Braff, a remake of the Italian film L'ultimo bacio (2001).

The Last Kumite

The Last Kumite is a 2024 German-American martial arts film by Ross W. Clarkson, Kickstarter-funded, starring Mathis Landwehr, Matthias Hues, Billy Blanks, and Cynthia Rothrock as fighters forced into an illegal Bulgarian tournament.

The Last Laugh

The Last Laugh (Der letzte Mann, 1924) is F.W. Murnau's German silent film for UFA, starring Emil Jannings as a hotel doorman demoted to washroom attendant; landmark for Karl Freund's unchained camera and near-absence of intertitles.

The Last Leaf

The Last Leaf, O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) short story first published in the New York World in 1905 and collected in The Trimmed Lamp (1907): in Greenwich Village, dying artist Johnsy ties her fate to an ivy vine's last leaf, which old painter Behrman secretly paints on the wall, dying of exposure.

The Last Lecture

The Last Lecture: Randy Pausch's September 18, 2007 Carnegie Mellon talk "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," given with terminal pancreatic cancer, and the 2008 bestselling book co-written with Jeffrey Zaslow, published in over 35 languages.

The Last Leg

The Last Leg is a British Channel 4 topical comedy chat show hosted by Adam Hills, Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker. It began in 2012 as a nightly London Paralympics review using #isitok, then continued weekly; hosted the Rio, Tokyo and Paris Paralympic editions.

The Last Legion

The Last Legion (2007), directed by Doug Lefler from Valerio Massimo Manfredi's novel, stars Colin Firth, Ben Kingsley, Aishwarya Rai, and Thomas Brodie-Sangster in a fall-of-Rome adventure linking Romulus Augustus to Excalibur; it earned 15% on Rotten Tomatoes and a Metascore of 37.

The Last Letter from Your Lover

The Last Letter from Your Lover: Jojo Moyes dual-timeline romance novel (1960s letters signed "B"; Jennifer Stirling, Ellie Haworth) and its 2021 Netflix film directed by Augustine Frizzell, starring Shailene Woodley and Felicity Jones.

The Last Madame

Last Madame (2019) is a Singaporean English-language M18 period drama by Ochre Pictures for meWATCH, starring Joanne Peh as brothel owner Fung Lan and Fiona Fussi as Chi Ling; winner of Best Asian Drama at the 2020 Asia Contents Awards.

The Last Man

The Last Man (1826) by Mary Shelley, also called Le Dernier Homme in French scholarship, is the first major post-apocalyptic pandemic novel: Lionel Verney narrates humanity's extinction by plague in the late 21st century, as a roman à clef of Shelley, Byron, and their circle.

The Last Man on Earth (1964 film)

The Last Man on Earth (L'ultimo uomo della Terra), 1964 Italian-American sci-fi horror film by Sidney Salkow and Ubaldo Ragona, starring Vincent Price as plague survivor Robert Morgan; first and most faithful adaptation of Matheson's I Am Legend.

The Last Man on Earth (TV series)

The Last Man on Earth is a Fox post-apocalyptic comedy (2015–2018) created by and starring Will Forte as Phil Miller, a virus survivor in Tucson; distinct from the 1964 Vincent Price film of the same name; canceled after four seasons on a cliffhanger.

The Last Master Outlaw

The Last Master Outlaw is a label for D.B. Cooper, who hijacked a Northwest Orient flight in 1971, parachuted with $200,000, and was never found.

The Last Metro

The Last Metro (Le Dernier Métro) is François Truffaut's 1980 French drama about a Paris theater troupe under Nazi occupation, starring Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu; it won ten César Awards and was Oscar-nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.

The Last Mimzy

The Last Mimzy is a 2007 American science fiction family film directed by Robert Shaye, about two children who find futuristic toys that give them extraordinary abilities.

The Last Movie Star

The Last Movie Star (aka Dog Years) is a 2017 Adam Rifkin comedy-drama starring Burt Reynolds as aging star Vic Edwards, with Ariel Winter and Chevy Chase, released by A24 in March 2018.

The Last Mughal

The Last Mughal is a 2006 narrative history by William Dalrymple about the last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar II, and the fall of Delhi in 1857.

The Last Narc

The Last Narc is a 2020 four-part Amazon Prime Video true-crime docuseries directed by Tiller Russell about the 1985 kidnapping and murder of DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena, told through retired DEA investigator Hector Berrellez and three former cartel bodyguards alleging CIA involvement.

The Last Newhart

"The Last Newhart" is the May 21, 1990 CBS series finale of Newhart, directed by Dick Martin, in which the whole series is revealed as Bob Hartley's dream; 29.5 million viewers watched the twist with Suzanne Pleshette.

The Last Night (September 11 attacks)

This instructional document, The Last Night, contains practical guidance and religious instructions for the hijackers and is remembered as marking the transition out of the pre-9/11 era.

The Last Night at Tremore Beach

The Last Night at Tremore Beach (La última noche en Tremor) is an 8-episode Spanish Netflix psychological thriller miniseries directed by Oriol Paulo, adapted from Mikel Santiago's 2014 novel, starring Javier Rey as a pianist whose visions follow a lightning strike; premiered October 25, 2024.

The Last Night of Love, the First Night of War

The Last Night of Love, the First Night of War (Ultima noapte de dragoste, întâia noapte de război) is a 1930 novel by Camil Petrescu.

The Last O.G.

The Last O.G. is a TBS comedy series (2018-2021), created by John Carcieri and Jordan Peele, starring Tracy Morgan as ex-con Tray Barker returning to gentrified Brooklyn; four seasons, 40 episodes, cancelled in 2022.