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The Lavender Hill Mob

The Lavender Hill Mob is a 1951 Ealing Studios comedy directed by Charles Crichton, written by T.E.B. Clarke, starring Alec Guinness as bank clerk Henry Holland, who steals gold bullion and smuggles it as Eiffel Tower paperweights; it won the 1953 Oscar for Best Story and Screenplay.

The Law According to Lidia Poet

The Law According to Lidia Poet (La legge di Lidia Poët) is a Netflix Italian period crime drama (2023–2026, 3 seasons, 18 episodes) starring Matilda De Angelis as Italy's first woman lawyer, inspired by the real Lidia Poët.

The Law of Success

The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons is Napoleon Hill's 1928 eight-volume self-help course, precursor to Think and Grow Rich, defining the Master Mind, Definite Chief Aim, and fifteen further success principles.

The Lawnmower Man

The Lawnmower Man: Stephen King short story (written 1970, published Cavalier 1975, collected in Night Shift) about a Pan-worshiping lawnmower man, and the unrelated 1992 virtual reality film whose King credit King successfully sued to remove.

The Lawnmower Man (film)

The Lawnmower Man (1992) is a Brett Leonard sci-fi horror film starring Pierce Brosnan and Jeff Fahey, loosely titled after a Stephen King short story, merged from the Cyber God screenplay; King successfully sued to remove his name.

The Lawrence School, Sanawar

The Lawrence School, Sanawar is a co-educational boarding school at Sanawar near Kasauli in Himachal Pradesh, India, founded by Sir Henry and Lady Honoria Lawrence in 1847.

The Lawrence Welk Show

The Lawrence Welk Show: American musical variety series hosted by bandleader Lawrence Welk, airing locally 1951-1955, on ABC 1955-1971, and in syndication 1971-1982, known for "champagne music," the Lennon Sisters, and continuing PBS reruns.

The Laws of Gods and Men

"The Laws of Gods and Men" is Game of Thrones season 4, episode 6 (May 11, 2014), written by Bryan Cogman, directed by Alik Sakharov, centered on Tyrion Lannister's trial for Joffrey's murder and his demand for trial by combat.

The Lay of Igor's Campaign

The Tale of Igor's Campaign (Slovo o polku Ihorevi) is a late 12th-century epic poem about Prince Igor Sviatoslavich's failed 1185 campaign against the Cumans.

The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke

The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke (Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke) is a prose poem by Rainer Maria Rilke, first published in 1906.

The Layover (film)

The Layover (2017) is an American comedy directed by William H. Macy, starring Alexandra Daddario, Kate Upton, and Matt Barr as rivals stranded in St. Louis; it holds a 0% Tomatometer and Metascore 15.

The Lazarus Effect (2015 film)

The Lazarus Effect is a 2015 American supernatural horror film directed by David Gelb, starring Olivia Wilde and Mark Duplass as medical researchers experimenting with reviving the dead.

The Lazarus Project (TV series)

The Lazarus Project is a British time-loop sci-fi thriller created by Joe Barton, starring Paapa Essiedu as George, who joins a secret organization resetting time to July 1 to avert extinctions. Two seasons (2022, 2023) on Sky Max and TNT; cancelled March 2024.

The Leader (film)

The Leader is a 2026 English-language drama directed by Michael J. Gallagher about the Heaven's Gate cult, starring Tim Blake Nelson as Marshall Applewhite and Vera Farmiga as Bonnie Lu Nettles; it premiered at Tribeca 2026. Distinct from the 2026 Tamil action film Leader.

The Leader (领风者)

The Leader (领风者) is a 2019 seven-episode Chinese animated biographical series on Karl Marx, produced with state Marxist-theory backing, aired on Bilibili, aimed at teenagers, with mixed reviews.

The Leaderboard Illusion

The Leaderboard Illusion is an April 2025 Cohere Labs research paper arguing that Chatbot Arena (LMArena) distorts LLM rankings through undisclosed private testing, selective retraction, and unequal sampling.

The Leading Hotels of the World

The Leading Hotels of the World is a member-owned sales, marketing, and reservation organization for independent luxury hotels, founded in 1928 and headquartered in New York City.

The League

The League (2009–2015) is an FX/FXX semi-improvised sitcom created by Jeff and Jackie Marcus Schaffer about six friends in a fantasy football league, starring Mark Duplass, Nick Kroll, Paul Scheer, and Katie Aselton over seven seasons.

The League for Clubs

The League for Clubs (TLfC), or "The League," is a club-owned US national amateur men's soccer league founded August 2024 by five former NPSL clubs, affiliated with USASA, launching summer 2025 with a Pro/Am tier planned for 2027.

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's 1999 neo-Victorian comic series uniting Mina Murray, Allan Quatermain, Captain Nemo, Griffin, and Edward Hyde in an 1898 world where all fiction coexists; creator-owned, it ran through The Tempest (2019) and a poorly received 2003 film.

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (film)

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) is a Stephen Norrington film for 20th Century Fox, based on Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's comic, starring Sean Connery as Allan Quatermain; it grossed $66.4 million against a $78 million budget and scored 16% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The League of Gentlemen

The League of Gentlemen: British dark comedy series on BBC Two (1999-2002) by Gatiss, Pemberton, Shearsmith, and Dyson, set in Royston Vasey; Perrier, BAFTA, Golden Rose winner.

The League of Gentlemen (1960 film)

The League of Gentlemen is a 1960 British crime caper directed by Basil Dearden, in which a retired colonel recruits seven disgraced ex-army officers for a London bank robbery.

The Learned Ladies

The Learned Ladies (Les Femmes savantes), also translated as The Learned Women, is a comedy in verse by Molière, first performed in Paris in 1672, satirizing pretentious learning.

The Learning Company

The Learning Company was an American educational software publisher founded in 1980, best known for Reader Rabbit and acquired by Mattel for $3.8 billion in 1999.

The Ledge (film)

The Ledge (2011) is a drama-thriller written and directed by Matthew Chapman, starring Charlie Hunnam, Liv Tyler, Patrick Wilson, and Terrence Howard. An atheist is forced onto a ledge by his fundamentalist Christian neighbor; released July 8, 2011 by IFC Films, rated R, Metascore 34.

The Left Banke

The Left Banke: American baroque pop band formed in New York City in 1965, best known for "Walk Away Renée" (#5, 1966) and "Pretty Ballerina" (#15, 1967), built around teenage keyboardist Michael Brown, with harpsichord and string arrangements.

The Left Ear

The Left Ear (左耳) is a 2015 Chinese coming-of-age drama, Alec Su's directorial debut, adapted from Rao Xueman's novel, starring Chen Duling, Ou Hao, Yang Yang, and Ma Sichun; it earned 500 million yuan and Golden Horse nominations.

The Left Hand of Darkness

The Left Hand of Darkness is Ursula K. Le Guin's 1969 science fiction novel about envoy Genly Ai on the ambisexual ice planet Gethen, with its monthly kemmer cycle; it won both the 1970 Hugo and Nebula Awards.

The Left Handed Gun

The Left Handed Gun is Arthur Penn's 1958 Western debut, starring Paul Newman as a psychologically troubled Billy the Kid, adapted from Gore Vidal's 1955 teleplay The Death of Billy the Kid; the title's left-handed premise is a myth from a reversed photograph.