L.A. CONFIDENTIAL

1997

Spacey & Crowe in modern film noir

L'ATALANTE 1934 only feature by Vigo, father of French poetic realism

L'AVVENTURA

1960

Michelangelo Antonioni's masterpiece

L'ECLISSE 1962 Monica Vitti & Alain Delon in Antonioni classic
THE L-SHAPED ROOM 1962 Bryan Frobes drama with Leslie Caron & Tom Bell
LA BETE HUMAINE 1938 Renoir adaptation of Zola novel with Jean Gabin

LA BOHEME

1926

King Vidor's "silent" w/Lillian Gish

LA CAGE AUX FOLLES

1978

basis for Broadway hit musical

LA CHIENNE 1931 Renoir classic about streetwalker & married man

LA DOLCE VITA

1960

Fellini classic w/Mastroianni & Ekberg

LA JETEE 1962 Chris Marker's seminal sci-fi tale

LA NOTTE

1961

Antonioni film w/Marcello Mastroianni

LA RONDE

1950

Max Ophuls adapts Schnitzler play

LA STRADA

1954

Fellini classic w/Giulietta Masina

LA TERRA TREMA

1947

Visconti masterpiece filmed in Sicily

LADIES OF LEISURE

1930

Frank Capra directs Barbara Stanwyck

THE LADY EVE

1941

Sturges comedy w/Stanwyck & Fonda

LADY FOR A DAY

1933

Frank Capra Comedy-drama

THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI

1948

Orson Welles' noir w/Rita Hayworth

THE LADY IN THE LAKE

1946

Robert Montgomery as Philip Marlowe

LADY OF BURLESQUE

1943

Barbara Stanwyck mystery

THE LADY VANISHES

1938

British Hitchcock suspenser set on train

LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN 1925 Ernst Lubitsch "silent" version of Oscar Wilde play

THE LADYKILLERS

1955

black comedy w/Alec Guinness

LASSIE COME HOME

1943

Roddy McDowall & famed pooch

THE LAST EMPEROR

1987

Bertolucci's Oscar-winning China epic

THE LAST HURRAH

1958

John Ford directs Spencer Tracy

THE LAST LAUGH

1924

Murnau's classic German "silent" film

THE LAST METRO

1980

Truffaut film w/Deneuve,Depardieu

THE LAST PICTURE SHOW 1971 Peter Bogdanovich tale of dying Texas town

THE LAST SEDUCTION

1994

Linda Fiorentino in John Dahl thriller

THE LAST WALTZ

1978

Scorsese film - The Band's last concert

LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD 1961 Alain Resnais' classic French New Wave puzzle
LATE AUTUMN 1960 Ozu's masterpiece about widow & her daughter

THE LATE SHOW

1977

Art Carney-Lily Tomlin noir

LATE SPRING 1949 Japanese master Ozu's classic post-WWII work

LAURA

1944

Otto Preminger's classic mystery-noir

THE LAVENDER HILL MOB

1951

hilarious Alec Guinness crime comedy

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA

1962

Peter O'Toole as enigmatic desert leader

LE BEAU SERGE

1958

Claude Chabrol's New Wave classic

LE CORBEAU

1943

Clouzot thriller set in small French town

LE JOUR SE LEVE

1939

classic Marcel Carne film w/Jean Gabin

LE PETIT SOLDAT

1963

2nd film by Jean-Luc Godard

LE PLAISIR 1952 Max Ophuls directs 3 stories about pleasure & sex
LE SAMOURAI 1967 Jean-Pierre Melville noir with Alain Delon

LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN

1945

noir w/Gene Tierney as seductress

LEAVES FROM SATAN'S BOOK

1919

Carl Theodor Dreyer "silent" classic

THE LEFT-HANDED GUN

1958

Paul Newman as Billy the Kid

THE LEGEND OF LYLAH CLARE 1968 Robert Aldrich expose of Hollywood w/Kim Novak

LEGENDS OF THE FALL

1994

Hopkins & Pitt in WWI-era Montana

THE LEOPARD

1963

superb Visconti epic with Burt Lancaster

THE LEOPARD MAN

1943

Lewton thriller w/escaped leopard

LES CARABINIERS

1963

Jean-Luc Godard statement on war

LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES 1950 Melville film of Jean Cocteau novel

THE LETTER

1940

William Wyler directs Bette Davis

LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN 1948 romantic film from incomparable Max Ophuls

A LETTER TO THREE WIVES

1949

Oscar-winning suburban satire

LIBELED LADY

1936

Jean Harlow-Wm. Powell comedy

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP

1943

classic from Powell & Pressburger

THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA

1937

Paul Muni as famed French writer

THE LIFE OF OHARU 1952 Mizoguchi film of prostitute who reflects on her past
LIFE OF PI 2012 boy & tiger on boat in middle of ocean; 4 Oscars

LIFE WITH FATHER

1947

Wm. Powell as head of Day family

LIFEBOAT

1944

Hitchcock's claustrophobic suspenser

LILI

1953

musical w/Leslie Caron

LILIES OF THE FIELD

1963

Sidney's Poitier's Oscar performance

LILITH 1964 Robert Rossen's examination of madness w/Seberg

LIMELIGHT

1952

Charles Chaplin comedy

THE LION IN WINTER

1968

Henry II's story w/K.Hepburn&O'Toole

LITTLE CAESAR

1930

Edward G. Robinson as classic gangster

THE LITTLE FOXES

1941

Wyler directs Davis in Hellman's play

LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY

1936

Selznick film of Hodgson Burnett novel

THE LITTLE PRINCESS

1939

Shirley Temple in Victorian London

A LITTLE PRINCESS

1995

remake of the children's classic

LITTLE WOMEN

1933

Katharine Hepburn in Alcott classic

LIVES OF A BENGAL LANCER

1935

Gary Cooper & British troops in India

LIVING IN A BIG WAY

1947

Gene Kelly musical

LOCAL HERO

1983

oil exec goes to Scotland to buy village

THE LODGER

1926

1st true Hitchcock "wrong man" film

THE LODGER 1944 Laird Cregar as Jack the Ripper in John Brahm tale
LOLA 1981 Fassbinder's take on THE BLUE ANGEL
LOLA MONTES 1955 Max Ophuls' masterpiece with Ustinov & Carol

LOLITA

1962

Kubrick's take on Nabokov novel

LONELINESS OF LONG DISTANCE RUNNER

1962

Tony Richardson drama w/T. Courtenay

LONELY ARE THE BRAVE

1962

modern western w/Kirk Douglas

LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT

1962

O'Neill tragedy with Katharine Hepburn

THE LONG, HOT SUMMER

1958

Faulkner story w/Paul Newman

THE LONG, LONG TRAILER 1954 Lucy & Desi in comedy directed by V. Minnelli

THE LONG VOYAGE HOME

1940

John Ford adapts O'Neill sea dramas

THE LONGEST DAY

1962

Darryl Zanuck presents D-Day

LORD JIM

1965

Peter O'Toole as Conrad's seaman

THE LOST GARDEN

1995

doc re: film pioneer Alice Guy Blache

THE LOST HONOR OF KATHARINA BLUM 1975 Schlondorff-von Trotta feminist political film

LOST HORIZON

1937

Capra film of James Hilton's novel

THE LOST PATROL

1934

WWI adventure drama from John Ford

THE LOST WEEKEND

1945

Billy Wilder's study of alcoholism

THE LOST WORLD

1925

"silent" version of A.Conan Doyle story

LOUISE BROOKS: LOOKING FOR LULU

1998

doc on star of PANDORA'S BOX

LOVE

1927

Garbo & Gilbert in Tolstoy classic

LOVE AFFAIR

1939

1st version of classic romance

LOVE AND DEATH

1975

Woody Allen in 19th century Russia

LOVE CRAZY

1941

Wm. Powell-Myrna Loy comedy

LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON

1957

Wilder romance w/Cooper, A.Hepburn

LOVE IS COLDER THAN DEATH 1969 1st feature film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

LOVE LETTERS

1945

soaper w/Jennifer Jones, Jos. Cotten

THE LOVE LIGHT

1921

Mary Pickford in Frances Marion film

LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME

1955

musical drama w/Doris Day, Cagney

LOVE ME TONIGHT

1932

Mamoulian musical w/Maurice & Jeanette

LOVE NEVER DIES

1921

early "silent" drama from King Vidor

THE LOVE PARADE 1929 Ernst Lubitsch's 1st talkie & 1st musical film

LOVE WITH THE PROPER STRANGER

1963

modern love story w/Natalie Wood & Steve McQueen

THE LOVED ONE

1965

macabre comedy about morticians

LURED 1947 Douglas Sirk suspenser about hunt for serial killer

LUST FOR LIFE

1956

Kirk Douglas as Van Gogh

THE LUSTY MEN

1952

rodeo drama directed by Nick Ray

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