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LA Story 1991
A West Coast response to Woody Allen's Manhattan, LA Story is another love letter from a comedian to the city he adores
La Belle Et La Bête 1946
A faithful and fantastical adaptation of the Beauty And The Beast story from the always fascinating Gallic polymath Jean Cocteau
La Peau Douce 1964
French New Wave meets middle-class melodrama in François Truffaut's cool portrayal of adultery. A middle-aged academic falls for air hostess François Dorléac, but their dangerous liaison ends in tragedy
La Régle Du Jeu 1939
Masterpiece from Jean Renoir that satirises French class distinctions to sharp, witty and timeless effect
Ladykillers, The 1955
A star-studded cast is led by sinister Alec Guinness in this vintage slice of Ealing Comedy. A gang of thieves get more trouble than they bargained for when they rent rooms in the Kings Cross home of little old lady
Lake Placid 1999
The Jaws formula is reworked again, this time with a giant crocodile lurking in a New England lake. A fun, knowing horror comedy starring Bill Pullman, Oliver Platt, Bridget Fonda and Brendan Gleeson
Lantana 2001
An adult drama in the best possible sense of the word, Ray Lawrence's exceptional picture uses a detective's missing persons investigation to examine contemporary relationships
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider 2001
Hollywood wild-child Angelina Jolie makes a larger-than-life Lara Croft, but this muddled adaptation of the phenomenally-successful videogame fails to live up to its dynamic lead
Last House on the Left, The 1972
Wes Craven's banned rape-revenge shocker lives up to its reputation as one of the nastiest and most provocative horror films of all time
Last Resort 2000
Proof that a film can avoid formulae, this poignant and unpredictable character study from Polish writer-director Pawel Pawlikowski charts the friendship between an asylum-seeking Russian mother and an English seaside amusement-arcade manager
Last Seduction, The 1993
Devious, filthy and very funny, the quality of this modern film noir from John Dahl belies its made-for-cable roots
Last Temptation Of Christ, The 1988
From the men who bought you Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, an ambitious, largely successful adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis' controversial novel. Stars Willem Dafoe as the Son of God and features David Bowie as Pontius Pilate
Last Waltz, The 1978
The Band's final gig - at the San Francisco venue where they made their big-time debut, captured by Scorsese and featuring Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Muddy Waters and others
Last of the Mohicans, The 1992
Daniel Day-Lewis strides heroically through 18th century war and politics as the adopted white son of a Mohican Indian
Late Night Shopping 2001
A witty and scathing depiction of mid-twenties malaise, Saul Metzstein's affecting debut follows four mates as they contemplate life, the universe and nothing in particular
Lavender Hill Mob, The 1951
Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway head the bill in this classic Ealing comedy about a mild-mannered banker's attempt to smuggle gold bullion across the channel, with hilarious and unforeseen consequences
Lawrence of Arabia 1962
Superlative multi-Oscar winning biography of T E Lawrence (played by Peter O'Toole), the Oxford-educated lieutenant, who united Arab tribes against the Ottoman Turks in WW1
Le Secret 2000
An extra-marital affair triggers a woman's journey of self-discovery in this self-assured directorial debut from Virginie Wagon, the screenwriter of La Vie Rêvée Des Anges (The Dream Life Of Angels)
Legally Blonde 2001
Summer 2001's US sleeper hit stars Reese Witherspoon as a blonde Beverley Hills babe who trounces the system by succeeding at a top Ivy League law school. Dubbed 'Clueless: The Harvard Years' by US pundits
Lenny 1974
Dustin Hoffman plays foul-mouthed comedian Lenny Bruce in this biopic of dirty words, obscenity trials and scathing stand-up. From the director of Cabaret, Bob Fosse
Les Quatres Cent Coups 1959
François Truffaut's iconoclastic feature debut and one of the most enduring examples of the French New Wave. Drawing on the director's childhood, it follows a young Parisian boy as he roams the streets, steals a typewriter and eventually winds up in borstal
Let's Make Love 1960
An over-long backstage farce, notable only as Marilyn Monroe's penultimate film. The star sparkles but it's a shame about everything else
Liam 2000
A child's eye perspective on growing up in Catholic Liverpool in the 1930s, this BBC production, despite some fine performances, never quite escapes its television drama origins
Life is Beautiful 1997
This Oscar-winning comedy plays the Holocaust for laughs, with a father making a joke out of a concentration camp, to his shield his young son from the terrible truth
Life is Sweet 1991
A movie full of pleasures. An affectionate and hilarious slice of suburban English family life featuring some truly exceptional acting
Lolita 1962
Kubrick's controversial and deeply ironic black comedy stars James Mason as a middle aged professor obsessed with a precociously sexual minor. Adapted by Nabokov from his own novel
Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, The 1962
Dramatisation of Alan 'Saturday Night And Sunday Morning' Sillitoe's novella, with Tom Courtenay as the system-bucking borstal boy locked in conflict with progressive warden Michael Redgrave
Long Good Friday, The 1980
Tough London gangster movie in which Bob Hoskins is an underworld boss undertaking an elaborate doublecross
Long Time Dead 2002
British take on the teen horror format starring EastEnders' Joe Absolom as a student who dabbles with a Ouija board - with fatal consequences
Longest Day, The 1962
Star-studded World War Two action-drama. A big, long, loud spectacular from the days when 'epic' really meant something
Longest Yard, The 1974
Burt Reynolds vehicle from Robert Aldrich in which the star plays a convicted American footballer who rallies a bunch of convicts to take on a guards team
Lord Of The Flies 1963
Peter Brook's adaptation of William Golding's apocalyptic allegory. Flawed but immensely powerful nonetheless, it follows a bunch of English schoolboys stranded on a tropical island as they regress to murderous savagery
Lord Of The Rings The Fellowship Of The Ring, The 2001
Peter Jackson's skilful adaptation of JRR Tolkien's epic treats the reviled fantasy genre with reverence. If you have no problem with invented languages, elves and orcs, you will adore it
Lord Of The Rings, The 1978
A bold but flawed animated adaptation of a chunk of JRR Tolkien's mammoth saga of magic and Hobbits from the director of Fritz The Cat. A genuine cult movie
Loser 2000
A good-natured hick learns about life and love in the big, bad city. He's a geek and they're all chic... and extremely nasty. A gentle comedy where earnestness and good-natured nobility replace belly laughs
Lost World, The 1925
Classic silent adventure yarn based on the 1912 novel by Arthur Conan Doyle. A group of British adventurers visit a remote Brazilian plateau populated by dinosaurs - wonderfully created by animator Willis O'Brien
Love & Sex 2000
Spot-on romantic comedy starring Famke Janssen as a journalist reminiscing High Fidelity-style when threatened with the sack. With great chemistry, Swingers boy Jon Favreau plays the on/off love of her life
Low Down, The 2000
A fresh, distinctive and award winning British film about twentysomething Londoners growing up and apart
Lucky Break 2001
Feelgood prison-escape movie from the director of The Full Monty that sees a group of inmates - including James Nesbitt and Timothy Spall - put on a show of 'Nelson: The Musical' to cover their daring break-out
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