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  • La Vita è Bella (a.k.a. Life Is Beautiful): A comedy, the second half of which takes place in a Nazi concentration camp.
    • A family of Italian Jews get sent to a concentration camp, where they get split up and the father lies to his son and dies. This is supposed to be a comedy.
    • Alternatively, a film that has been compared to The Day the Clown Cried, one of the biggest examples of Creator Backlash in the history of narrative.
  • Labyrinth: David Bowie kidnaps two children due to skeevy motives. Heavily implied to be All Just a Dream.
  • Lady and the Tramp: Two lovers eat spaghetti.
  • Lady in the Water: A character from a fairy tale (which is entirely accurate to reality, of course) takes up residence under a swimming pool, with the intention of inspiring a writer whose works will become important.
  • The Ladykillers (1955): An elderly English widow causes the downfall of a gang of criminal masterminds - and she's completely oblivious to that fact.
  • Lagaan: A rebellious teenager must put together and train a ragtag team including a Sikh, a mute, a hairy fortune-teller, and a man with a gimp arm (who is their secret weapon), to play cricket so they can save their village from taxes that will force them all into starvation. Also, it is a Bollywood musical.
  • Il Mare: Woman becomes pen pals with someone whose letters take two years to reach her.
    • The Lake House: American woman becomes pen pals with someone whose letters take two years to reach her.
  • Lakeview Terrace: Cop finds out his new neighbors are an interracial couple. Racism ensues.
  • The Land Before Time: Five kids walk westward for a few days. All the while, their de-facto leader is following the advice of what is either a hallucination or his mother's ghost. And then they kill the guy who killed the leader's mother.
  • The Last Dragon: A Bruce Lee fanboy and a weeaboo fight over an 80's pop star with the power of glowing fingers; said weeaboo is The Dragon to an arcade runner who wants the pop star to show music videos of his girlfriend Not-Cyndi-Lauper. It's very, very 80's.
  • The Last King of Scotland: An emotionally unstable African leader befriends a doctor, because he likes the place he's from.
  • The Last Samurai: The only vaguely historically-accurate origin story of weeaboos.
  • The Last Unicorn: A unicorn has an identity crisis, falls in love with The Dude, and fights an energy drink mascot. There's also a talking cat.
  • Lawrence of Arabia: An idealistic British officer brings the Ottoman empire to its knees, but becomes a cynical recluse in the process. He dies at the end, except it's actually at the beginning.
    • A conceited staff flunky becomes convinced he is the messiah and kills a lot of Turks. Arabs on Cool Horses cheer.
    • British Officer becomes enchanted fighting for freedom in foreign land, sucks up to royalty, and becomes famous for wearing a dress.
  • Layer Cake: Man looks for missing pills, while Dumbledore discusses baking.
    • James Bond gets his pre MI-6 training in the London drug trade. Some of the skills learned come in handy in his later spy job.
  • A League of Their Own: Baseball player gets called out for crying during a game.
  • Legally Blonde: Girl goes to law school trying to get engaged.
    • Legally Blonde 2: Red, White, and Blonde: The same girl goes to D.C. to ensure that her dog's mother attend the wedding.
  • Legend (1985): Problems befall a pair of unicorns. Tom Cruise saves them and a princess from Tim Curry.
  • The Legend of Frenchie King: Two women act catty over a potential oil empire.
  • The LEGO Movie: A construction worker teams up with a motley crew of heroes (including a riot girl, her edgy boyfriend, an old blind man, a guy obsessed with outdated space technology, a cyborg pirate, and a mix and match critter with anger-management issues) to stop a businessman from covering a city in super-glue. It ends by ripping off a Pixar property. Oh, and it's all based on a toy.
  • Leon/The Professional: Girl is forced to move in with her neighbor, and gets interested in his job.
    • Or: A grown man grows increasingly uncomfortable about a prepubescent girl hitting on him. He sticks his gun in a guy's mouth.
  • The Leopard: An aristocrat feels alienated.
  • Let the Right One In: A shy, unpopular adolescent experiences first love with a vampire, cursed with eternal youth, an uncanny beauty, and ice-cold skin like marble, but blessed with the wisdom of the ages. Can their love last, despite the dangers inherent in their union? And you won't believe what happens if the vampires go in the sunlight...
  • Liar Liar: Man gets close to losing the case of his life due to a birthday wish.
  • Liberal Arts: Guy in his 30s visits his old college and falls in love with a sophomore and befriends a manic depressive student and a stoner along the way.
    • Alternatively: Guy goes back to his old college and falls in love with a sophomore, then bangs his old college professor when things didn't work out, and finally gets together with the librarian from his home.
  • The Life of David Gale: A man arranges for his own death so that the killers will feel bad.
  • The Lighthouse: Bruce Wayne and Norman Osborn go insane together on a rock.
  • Like Minds: Two students from a Catholic boarding school kill people. Incest, necrophilia and pedophilia ensue (sometimes all three at the same time).
  • Lilo & Stitch: A young adult stresses over losing her sister to a foster family. Suddenly, aliens.
  • Lincoln: A politician bribes members of the legislature to pass a highly controversial bill, possibly illegal according to the constitution, while refusing peace overtures from an independence movement. He's the good guy.
    • Or: The President of the United States gets some work done, at the end of which somebody shoots him.
  • Linda Linda Linda: A Japanese girl band prepare to play a few punk rock songs at their autumn festival.
  • The Lion in Winter: Dysfunctional family bickers throughout the entire movie.
  • The Lion King (1994): A bunch of animals fight over custody of a big pointy rock.
  • Lisa The Fox Fairy: A ghost tries to drive a woman to suicide by systematically murdering everyone she tries to make contact with. Oh wait, this isn't a slasher film, but a romantic comedy!
  • The Little Mermaid (1989): A girl trades her voice for feet to impress a guy who thinks she is her voice.
    • Alternatively: A teenager wagers her soul in a bet with a half-octopus sorceress over whether or not the teenager can seduce a prince into an Interspecies Romance in less than three days without saying a single word. The half-octopus is so impressed with her rival's seduction skills that she has to cheat by seducing the prince herself.
    • A musical where the lead female doesn't speak for a significant chunk of the film.
    • The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea: A preteen girl protests a rule against swimming by stealing the most powerful weapon in the world and giving it to a woman who previously tried to kill her whole family. Her mother tries to stop her from swimming by becoming a professional swimmer herself.
    • The Little Mermaid III: Ariel's Beginning: A racist, totalitarian absolute monarch bans all music and singing because it reminds him of his dead wife, having all seven of his own daughters arrested when they protest. He is Easily Forgiven after the youngest convinces him to permit music and singing by reminding him of his dead wife even more.
  • Little Manhattan: A young boy falls in love with his classmate and learns karate in the side while his parents undergo a nasty divorce.
  • Little Miss Sunshine: A Dysfunctional Family embarks on a Road Trip Plot involving drugs and angst to take the youngest daughter to enter a kiddie pageant.
  • The Little Prince (2015): A little girl meets an old guy who tells her a story. Later she helps a character from said story quit his job.
  • The Little Shop of Horrors: A sad sack grows a plant that feeds on blood. It takes place in a Crapsack World.
  • Lo:The main character paints a circle in his apartment floor, spends the entire film sitting in that circle.
  • Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels: Rigged game puts card-shark with a huge debt. While trying to get the money, he and friends stumble by tons of people dying.
  • Locke: Tom Hardy drives and talks on the phone for an hour and a half. This is an honest and accurate summary of the movie, not a misrepresentation for comedic effect.
  • The Long Good Bye: A man loses his cat.
  • The Long Good Friday: As a result of a dodgy deal gone very badly wrong, London gangster experiences worst Easter Weekend of his life.
  • The Longest Day: Big Damn Heroes cross a channel to put the skids under an Obviously Evil dictator, who gets handed the Idiot Ball. Based on a True Story.
  • Look Who's Back: A mustache-wearing German man wakes up and goes on a comedy show in which he impersonates himself.
  • Looper: A hitman tries to commit suicide, but he makes it difficult for himself.
  • The Lorax (2012): A boy impresses a girl by the power of environmentalism. The most well-known aspect of the movie is the fact that it features one of the Internet's most lusted-over fictional characters ever. Said character is an old man by the events of the movie.
  • The Lord of the Rings: Midget destroys stolen property during the war years.
    • Alternatively: Crap, this is a long walk.
    • Alternatively: "Every time I put this ring on, I become invisible." "I'd take it back if I was you."
    • The Fellowship of the Ring: A group of unrelated men fight off multiple claimants to a jewelry inheritance.
    • The Two Towers: Aristocrat and his servant help a man with multiple personality disorder.
    • The Return of the King: Defective merchandise is returned, causing the manufacturer to go out of business due to the resulting upheaval.
  • The Lost Boys: Vampires terrorize a boardwalk like an MTV music video. Disaffected teen saves mother from obsessive nocturnal video store owner. Billy Idol tries to seduce Jim Morrison.
  • Lost in Translation: A married old actor and a married young woman hang out in Tokyo, because their life partners don't understand them.
  • The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra: Three different parties all search for a valuable meteorite.
  • Love at First Bite: A very tan Count Dracula moves to 1970's New York and dances to disco music.
  • Love Life And Laughter: A man writes tragic fanfiction about himself and his girlfriend.
  • The Lovely Bones: A girl is murdered by Stanley Tucci, then her spirit plays around inside several Macintosh wallpapers to reach Heaven while her family deteriorates. Tucci falls off a cliff.
  • Loving Vincent: Paintings talk about a dead guy.
  • Luca: Two kids try to buy a scooter.
  • Lucky Number Slevin: An unlucky guy stays over at his friend's house in New York, then two gangsters try to make him commit murder and come up with a ton of money. He goes on dates with his friend's plucky neighbor.
  • Lucy: Scammed girl takes too many drugs and becomes God.

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