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L'AMI DE MON AMIE (MY GIRLFRIEND'S BOYFRIEND) (1987)
L'ami de Mon Amie is a typical rom-com: the story of girl-loves-boy-who-loves-her-friend-who-has-a-boyfriend-who-loves-the-first-girl; where broken hearts are avoided by good-natured partner-swapping and comic misunderstandings.
L'AMOUR L'APRES-MIDI (LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON) (1972)
This film completes the six-piece 'Moral Tales' series by beloved French auteur, Eric Rohmer.
L'amour l'apres-midi is a typical Rohmer film dealing with the temptation of a happily married man. Being no-frills, dialogue-driven in style, it's more an examination than a film.
L'APPARTEMENT (1995)
Director Mimouni fills the screen with enough filmic and literary references, symbolism and all round Gallic gorgeousness to keep the audience happy.
L'Appartement is smart, slick and sexy though not quite as subtle as it thinks it is.
L'ENFANT (THE CHILD) (2005)
Set in a bleak, industrial suburb of Liège,
L'Enfant is the story of Bruno, a petty criminal who's happy to barely scrape a living on the edge of society. When his girlfriend gives birth to their son, Jimmy, Bruno tries to feel paternal love while being torn by the financial gains of illegal adoption.
LA NINA SANTA (THE HOLY GIRL) (15) (2004)
With the Almodovar brothers as Executive Producers, this second feature from up and coming Argentinian director Lucrecia Martel sounds promising enough on paper, focusing on a tight knit dysfunctional family who live and work in a hotel and the events that unfold during a medical convention based there.
LADDER 49 (2004)
Centring on the life of fire fighter Jack Morrison (Joaquin Phoenix),
Ladder 49 is a well-intentioned film that reflects the public's admiration and respect for fire fighters.
LADY IN THE WATER (2006)
From writer-director
M. Night Shyamalan comes
Lady in the Water, a story he originally conceived for his children. In London to promote the film last week, alongside stars Paul Giamatti and Bryce Dallas Howard, the director explained the personal nature of the project.
LADY VENGEANCE (2005)
Lee Geum-Ja, aged 19, goes to prison for the murder and abduction of a child on behalf of her accomplice Mr. Baek, only to find out that she is betrayed. While in prison, she carefully prepares for her revenge by winning the hearts of her fellow inmates with her kindness.
LADYKILLERS, THE (2004)
The Ladykillers makes a laboured attempt at rehashing the plot of the 1955 original and casts Hanks in the Alec Guinness role as shifty charlatan Goldthwait Higginson Dorr, who inveigles his way into the house and, most importantly, the root cellar of Hall's Mrs Munsen, a god-fearing, round and adipose cliche of a little old lady.
LAISSEZ PASSER (SAFE CONDUCT) (2002)
Based on the wartime experiences of director Jean Devaivre and screenwriter Jean Aurenche,
Laissez-Passer depicts the parallel struggles of two very different men to retain artistic and political integrity in a time when many were deeply compromised.
LAKE HOUSE, THE (2006)
Speed co-stars
Keanu Reeves and
Sandra Bullock speak to us at the premiere of
The Lake House, about two 30'somethings who fall in love through a series of letters at a lake house which they both occupy - two years apart.
LAKEVIEW TERRACE (2008)
In
Lakeview Terrace, a young couple (Patrick Wilson and Kerry Washington) has just moved into their California dream home when they become the target of their next-door neighbor, who disapproves of their interracial relationship.
LAND OF THE DEAD (2005)
Twenty years on from
Day of the Dead, the concluding part of George A. Romero's
Dead Trilogy (following on from
Night of the Living Dead and
Dawn of the Dead) sees the seminal director's return to the zombie genre with a third installment.
LAND OF THE LOST (2009)
Will Ferrell stars as has-been scientist Dr. Rick Marshall, sucked into one and spat back through time. Way back - a place of spectacular sights and super-scaled comedy known as the
Land of the Lost.
LARA CROFT TOMB RAIDER: CRADLE OF LIFE (2003)
Intrepid - and busty - archaeologist Lara Croft has made perhaps the most important archaeological discovery in history. So, she travels across the world to find Pandora's Box, an artifact can unleash hell upon the world if it falls into the wrong hands. To avoid that fate, Lara must get there first.
LASSIE (2005)
Based on Eric Knight's best selling novel
Lassie Come Home, this heartwarming tale of love, trust and heroism has been shot entirely on location in the UK and Ireland, using the novel's original British roots to re-create Lassie's brand of canine entertainment for a whole new generation.
LAST CHANCE HARVEY (2009)
Starring Academy Award winners Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson,
Last Chance Harvey tells the story of a struggling New York jingle writer and a lonely British bureaucrat who meet by chance in London and transform one another's lives forever.
LAST DAYS (2005)
In
Last Days director Van Sant uses his trademark elliptical camerawork and over-lapping. In doing so he produces a masterful art film, full of symbolism and depth depicting one of generation MTV's greatest heroes (Kurt Cobain), but its painfully slow pacing is likely to leave them squirming to leave their seats.
LAST EMPEROR, THE - DIRECTOR'S CUT (1987)
At nearly four hours in running time, everything about this film is 'epic': the sensuous cinematography, the music, the sweeping characters and time-span...the length. Any posterior numbing is most definately worth it, though.
LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN (1989)
From acclaimed director of
Christine F comes this celebrated adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr.'s controversial 1964 masterpiece. Set in an ashen landscape of derelict storefronts and putrid drunk-holes and brutal streetlaw, Selby's tale is a kaleidoscopic look at the lives of a group of Brooklynites.
LAST HOLIDAY (2006)
Georgia Byrd lives a small life tucked inside big dreams. A shy cookware salesperson for a department store, a medical misdiagnosis leads her to believe her days are numbered. Deciding she's going to go with a bang Georgia embarks on her holiday of a lifetime.
LAST HORROR MOVIE, THE (2005)
The fine line between fiction and reality is blurred when a serial killer uses a horror video rental to lure his next victim. What begins as a teen slasher, transforms into a dark and disturbing journey through the mind of Max Parry, a mild mannered wedding photographer with a taste for human flesh.
LAST LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE (2003)
Kenji's ordered life is thrown into disarray when his Yakuza brother is assassinated, and the girl he loves is killed in a car accident.
Last Life in the Universe successfully manages to resist the pull of more conventional genre cinema in exploring issues of dispossession and love without language.
LAST MITTERAND, THE (2005)
Adapated from Georges-Marc Benamou's memoirs of conversations with the ailing statesman,
The Last Mitterand follows a young socialist writer who has been invited to write President Mitterrand's
autobiography. Thus begins a subtle dance between the two, to reveal and to hide the truth.
LAST PARTY 2000 (2001)
With George W. Bush ensconced in the White House since 2001,
Last Party 2000 is a timely, irreverent and entertaining indie documentary charting the health of democracy during the 2000 US Presidential elections, hosted by the charming Philip Seymour Hoffman.
LE GRAND VOYAGE (2004)
A few weeks before his college entrance exams, Reda, a young man who lives in the south of France, finds himself forced to drive his father to Mecca, a 3,000-mile journey. Finding and nurturing a relationship seems impossible given they have little common ground, nor even communication.
LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN'S APOCALYPSE, THE (2005)
Royston Vasey is facing an imminent apocalypse because the League have decided to 'kill off' their celebrated characters in favour of a new script. The only way to avert this disaster is for the characters to break into the real world and confront their creators. Sheer genius - and in a league of its own.
LEGEND OF ZORRO, THE (2005)
It's 1850, some years after the conclusion of Zorro's previous adventures. Don Alejandro wants to settle into his comfortable family life, but is torn between familial duty and ensuring justice for the oppressed and poor.
LEMMING (2005)
Darkly comic in all senses of the phrase,
Lemming is part-Hitchcock, part-Lynch and part-farce as a couple's relationship is slowly shredded first by a lemming stuck in the plumbing, and then by their late and moody dinner guests.
LESBIAN VAMPIRE KILLERS (2009)
BAFTA winning comedy-duo James Corden and Mathew Horne decide to escape their problems and head to the countryside for a weekend of debauchery. Things don't quite go to plan and they find themselves stuck in a village where all the women have been enslaved by a legendary vampire curse.
LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA (2006)
From Academy Award winner Clint Eastwood (
Million Dollar Baby, Unforgiven) comes the untold story of the Japanese soldiers and their General who 61 years ago defended against the invading American forces on the island of Iwo Jima.
LIBERTINE, THE (2005)
An adults-only look at the historical, in the story of the debauched and subversive Earl of Rochester, a brilliant but unconventional writer in the court of Charles II.
LICENSE TO KILL (2006)
James Bond turns renegade to hunt down a master criminal in this pulse-pounding thrill-ride that’s packed with awesome stunts, subtle humour and explosive confrontations. Timothy Dalton brings urgency, charm and deadly determination to his portrayal of the super agent, who leaves the British Secret Service and begins a fierce vendetta after his friend Felix Leiter is brutally attacked by a drug lord.
LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU, THE (2005)
The film opens at a point in Zissou's life when he has just lost his best friend, Esteban, to a species of shark (the Jaguar) which may or may not exist, his films are losing their appeal and finance is scarce. Comic genius from Bill Murray, and fine performances all-round make this great viewing.
LIFE IN A... METRO (2007)
From the euphoria of a fast paced life, to the breakdown of a short-lived relationship…it’s a journey everybody staying in metros across the world undertake daily.
LIFE IS A MIRACLE (ZIVOT JE CUDO) (2004)
Life is a Miracle is one of the most sumptuous and idiosyncratic films you're likely to see. Based in a fictional village in Serbia in 1992, it tells the story of Luka (Slavko Stimac), a carefree and loving station manager living with his family next to a decrepit rail track. Meanwhile, war looms large...
LINHA DE PASSE (2008)
Against the backdrop of Brazil in a state of emergency,
Linha de Passe
reunites
Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas, co-directors of
Foreign Land, introducing a family of young actors making their onscreen debut.
LIONS FOR LAMBS (2007)
A powerful and emotional story about courage, sacrifice and the human consequences of a complicated war that divided a nation,
Lions For Lambs stars
Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep and
Robert Redford, who also directed the film.
LITTLE CHILDREN (2006)
Sarah (Kate Winslet) is overeducated, liberal and feels like a fish out of water amongst the immaculately clad gaggle of aspirational mothers she joins each day at the park. Her stifled desperation takes a mischievous turn when she flirts with the man they've nicknamed The Prom King.
LITTLE FISH (2006)
How do you learn to love again when the pain of the past won't let you go? When you're 32 with a troubled history and a doubtful future, it’s a question that isn't so easy to answer. And for Tracy Heart, it's a question she can no longer ignore.
Little Fish is a story about families. About lies. And about learning to love again.
LITTLE MANHATTAN (2006)
New York City is the most romantic place in the world “ especially when you're falling in love for the first time.
Little Manhattan is a romantic comedy is about life, the Big Applem, and that mysterious, maddening and wonderful phenomenon known as "first love."
LITTLE MERMAID (1989)
Experience the fantasy world of beautiful mermaid Ariel as she embarks on a magical adventure to find love with the help of her adorable side-kick Flounder and reluctant chaperone, the reggae-singing crab Sebastian.
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE (2006)
Nominated for 6 BAFTA's,
Little Miss Sunshine is a deeply affecting film about potential losers, who find out what winnings is all about. We have an exclusive
Directors interview with
Jonathan Dayton and
Valerie Faris now running online.
LITTLE POLAR BEAR : THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (2005)
More charming adventures from Lars the Little Polar Bear and his friends. Bears Bert, Brutus and Boris are fed up with Caruso the singing penguin, and put him on a train heading far from the North Pole: Lars and Robby the seal head the rescue mission.
LITTLE RED FLOWERS (2006)
Little Red Flowers from Chinese independent director Zhang Yuan is a charming and occasionally unsettling snapshot of one little boy's regimented life at a kindergarten – a snapshot that speaks volumes about adult society.
LIVE AND BECOME (VA, VIS ET DEVIENS) (2005)
As thousands of Africans are dying from famine, a mother urges her son to live a lie to save his own life: tell the aid agencies he's a Jewish orphan, so he can claim a new life in Israel. So the boy lives with the fear of the double-lie: he is neither Jew, nor orphan - only black.
LIVE AND LET DIE (2006)
James Bond battles the forces of black magic in this high-octane adventure that hurtles him from the streets of New York City to Louisiana’s bayou country. With charm, wit and deadly assurance, Roger Moore steps in as Agent 007 and takes on a powerful drug lord with a diabolical scheme to conquer the world.
LIVING DAYLIGHTS, THE (2006)
Armed with razor-sharp instincts and a licence to kill, James Bond battles diabolical arms merchants bent on world domination in this thrilling, lightning-paced adventure. Timothy Dalton brings energy, humour and almost ruthless cunning to his debut performance as Agent 007.
LOLITA (1962)
The tagline for the film poster asked, “How did they ever make a movie of Lolita?” Kubrick's film version of author Vladimir Nabokov's extremely controversial and often banned classic had no choice but to censor, alter and water down the obsessive sexual hysteria of the novel.
LONDON TO BRIGHTON (2006)
Officially selected to the British Gala Section of the Edinburgh Film Festival and nominated for three awards including the prestigious Michael Powell Award, this is a very cool, urban thriller that features a standout performance by a 12 year old newcomer in the lead role of a young runaway.
LONESOME JIM (2005)
Steve Buscemi, better known as an actor (
Reservoir Dogs,
Con Air) turns his talented hand to directing in this tale about a would-be writer who returns to his familial home with the intention of having a nice, relaxed, nervous breakdown.
LONGEST YARD, THE (2005)
This remake of the 1974 classic
The Longest Yard won't be known as “one of the finest football films ever made”, as the original was, but it's definitely a fun comedy that Adam Sandler fans will enjoy.
LORD OF THE RINGS: RETURN OF THE KING (2003)
The Return of the King rejoins the story where we left off following the footsteps of Frodo and Sam on their quest to destroy the ring. It's a story of courage and brotherhood, peopled with the same loyal friends and slimy deviants audiences loved in the first two films.
LORD OF WAR (2005)
Unsettling truths and audacious set pieces abound in this tale of Yuri Orlov (Nicolas Cage) an amoral arms dealer who perceives the way to riches lies in giving people what they want: guns.
LORDS OF DOGTOWN (2005)
Following up cult docu-hit
Dogtown and Z-Boys, director Catherine Hardwicke gives the skate/urban surf phenomena the Hollywood treatment, looking at how the Z-Boys became the undistputed Lords of Dogtown (Venice Beach) in the 70s.
LOS DEBUTANTES (THE DEBUTANTES) (2004)
When brothers Silvio and Víctor turn up in Santiago, they're out looking for fun. The fates have something else in mind for them, though, as an night at a lap-dancing club takes them into dangerous territory.
LOST IN TRANSLATION (2003)
Having followed her self-absorbed photographer husband to Tokyo, Charlotte finds herself aimless, alone and with too much time on her hands. There she meets fellow insomniac Bob, an actor who's tired of his marriage and career, and an unexpected friendship develops.
LOVE ACTUALLY (2003)
Brazenly romantic and incredibly funny,
Love Actually is a kind of anthology film featuring several stories - some romantic, some funny, some tragic - and all of which feature a bevy of top-class British stars: everyone from Hugh Grant to Ant and Dec makes an appearance.
LOVE AND HATE (2005)
Finally, a film about inter-racial relationships that steers clear of cliche's and the type of sentimentalism that is becoming so characteristic of this genre. Dominic Savage has succeeded in constructing a touching film about the dilemma of forbidden love.
LOVE LIZA (2002)
Billed as a 'comic tragedy' there's far more of the latter flowing through
Love Liza. A melancholic tale about a man left adrift and turning to the inhalation of gasoline after his wife's suicide; she's left him a final, farewell note, but he can't bring himself to open it.
LOVED GUN, THE (RABUDO GAN) (2004)
The contract killer in search of redemption is not exactly a new one in cinema: director Watanabe's
The Loved Gun follows in the footsteps of John Woo's
The Killer and Luc Besson's
Leon.
LOWER CITY (CIDADE BAIXA) (2005)
This fizzing, sweaty and steamy little pot boiler follows a trio of young working class Brazilians, who form an uneasy ménage-a-trois, bonded by blood, sex and the dream of a better life.
