Fiction work(s)
Film adaptation(s)
L.A. Confidential (1990), James Ellroy
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Lad, A Dog (1919), Albert Payson Terhune
Lad, A Dog (1963)
Lady Audley's Secret (1862), Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Lady Audley's Secret (1912)
Lady Audley's Secret (a. k. a. Secrets of Society ) (1915)
Lady Audley's Secret (1920)
Lady Audley's Secret (2000)
The Lady in Cement (1961), Marvin H. Albert
Lady in Cement (1968)
Lady L (1958), Romain Gary
Lady L (1965)
The Lady of the Camellias (French : La Dame aux Camélias ) (1848), Alexandre Dumas, fils
Camille (1909)
The Lady of the Camellias (1912)
The Lady of the Camellias (1915; made by Baldassarre Negroni)
The Lady of the Camellias (1915; made by Gustavo Serena)
Camille (1915)
Camille (1917)
Prima Vera (‹See Tfd› German : Die Kameliendame ) (1917)
The Red Peacock (‹See Tfd› German : Arme Violetta ) (1920)
Camille (1921)
The Lady of the Camellias (Swedish : Damen med kameliorna ) (1925)
Camille (1926; made by Norma Talmadge)
Camille (1926; made by Ralph Barton, and starring Charlie Chaplin)
The Lady of the Camellias (1934)
Camille (1936)
The Lady of the Camellias (Italian : La signora dalle camelie ) (1947)
Traviata '53 (1953)
The Lady of the Camellias (1953)
Camelia (1954)
Camille 2000 (1969)
The Lady of the Camellias (1981)
Camille (1984)[ N 4]
The Lady of the Camellias (Polish : Dama kameliowa ) (1994)
The Lair of the White Worm (1911), Bram Stoker
The Lair of the White Worm (1988)
La lampe dans la fenêtre (1972), Pauline Cadieux
Cordélia (1980)
The Land That Time Forgot (1918), Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Land That Time Forgot (1975)
The People That Time Forgot (1977)
The Land That Time Forgot (2009)
The Lands of Risk (Portuguese : As Terras Do Risco ) (1994), Agustina Bessa-Luís
The Convent (1995)
Lassie Come-Home (1940), Eric Knight
Lassie Come Home (1943)
Son of Lassie (1945)
Courage of Lassie (1946)
Hills of Home (1948)
The Sun Comes Up (1949)
Challenge to Lassie (1950)
The Painted Hills (1951)
The Magic of Lassie (1988)
Lassie (1994)
Lassie (2005)
The Last Days of Pompeii (1834), Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The Last Days of Pompeii (Italian : Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei ) (1908)
The Last Days of Pompeii (1913)
The Last Days of Pompeii (1926)
The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)
The Last Days of Pompeii (French : Les Derniers Jours de Pompéi ) (1950)
The Last Days of Pompeii (1959)
The Last Detail (1970), Darryl Ponicsan
The Last Detail (1973)
The Last Hunt (1954), Milton Lott
The Last Hunt (1956)
Last of the Curlews (1954), Fred Bodsworth
Last of the Curlews (1972)[ N 4]
The Last of the Duanes (written 1913, published 1996), Zane Grey
The Last of the Duanes (1919)
The Last of the Duanes (1924)
The Last of the Duanes (1930)
El último de los Vargas (1930)
Last of the Duanes (1941)
The Last of the Mohicans (1826), James Fenimore Cooper
Leather Stocking (1909)
The Last of the Mohicans (1911)
The Last of the Mohicans (1920; American)
The Last of the Mohicans (‹See Tfd› German : Der Letzte der Mohikaner ) (1920; Germany)
The Last of the Mohicans (1932)[ N 5]
The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
Fall of the Mohicans (Spanish : Uncas, el fin de una raza , Italian : L'ultimo dei Mohicani ) (1965)
The Last Tomahawk (‹See Tfd› German : Der letzte Mohikaner ) (1965)
The Last of the Mohicans (Romanian : Ultimul mohican ) (1968) (TV)
Last of the Mohicans (1977)[ N 4]
The Last of the Mohicans (1987)[ N 4]
The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
The Last Picture Show (1966), Larry McMurtry
The Last Picture Show (1971)
The Last Ride (1996), Thomas Eidson
The Missing (2003)
The Last Song (2009), Nicholas Sparks
The Last Song (2010)
Last Stand at Papago Wells (1957), Louis L'Amour
Apache Territory (1958)
Last Stand at Saber River (1959), Elmore Leonard
Last Stand at Saber River (1997)
The Last Thing He Wanted (1996), Joan Didion
The Last Thing He Wanted (2020)
The Last Unicorn (1968), Peter S. Beagle
The Last Unicorn (1982)
The Late George Apley (1937), John P. Marquand
The Late George Apley (1947)
The Laughing Cavalier (1913), Baroness Orczy
The Laughing Cavalier (1917)
Laura (serialised 1942, published as a book 1943), Vera Caspary
Laura (1944)
Laura (1955)[ N 4]
Laura (1968)[ N 4]
Law and Order (1973), Dorothy Uhnak
Law and Order (1976)[ N 4]
The Law at Randado (1954), Elmore Leonard
Border Shootout (1990)
Law Man (1955), Lauran Paine
The Quiet Gun (1957)
Lawyer Man (1932), Max Trell
Lawyer Man (1933)
Lay This Laurel (1973), Lincoln Kirstein
Glory (1989)
Layer Cake (2000), J. J. Connolly
Layer Cake (2004)
Leaving Cheyenne (1963), Larry McMurtry
Lovin' Molly (1974)
The Ledger (1970), Dorothy Uhnak
Get Christie Love! (1974)[ N 4]
Left Behind (1995–2007) (series), Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
Left Behind: The Movie (2000)
Left Behind II: Tribulation Force (2002)
Left Behind: World at War (2005)
Left Behind (2014)
The Legend of the Condor Heroes (Chinese : 射鵰英雄傳 , Shè Diāo Yīng Xióng Zhuàn ) (1957–1959), Jin Yong
Story of the Vulture Conqueror (Chinese : 射鵰英雄傳 ) (1958–1959)
The Brave Archer (1977)
The Brave Archer 2 (1978)
The Brave Archer 3 (1981)
The Brave Archer and His Mate (1982)
The Eagle Shooting Heroes (Chinese : 射鵰英雄傳之東成西就 , Se diu ying hung ji dung sing sai jau ) (1993)
Ashes of Time (Chinese : 東邪西毒 , Dongxié Xidú ) (1994)
Legend of the Galactic Heroes (Japanese : 銀河英雄伝説 , Hepburn : Ginga Eiyū Densetsu ) (1982–1987), Yoshiki Tanaka
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: My Conquest is the Sea of Stars (1988)
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Golden Wings (1992)
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Overture to a New War (1993)
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Stellar War (2019)
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Clash (2021)
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Intrigue (2022)
Legion (1983), William Peter Blatty
The Exorcist III (1990)
Lemonade Mouth (2007), Mark Peter Hughes
Lemonade Mouth (2011)[ N 4]
The Leopard (1958), Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
The Leopard (1963)
Less than Zero (1985), Bret Easton Ellis
Less than Zero (1987)
Let Me Count the Ways (1965), Peter De Vries
How Do I Love Thee? (1970)
Let the Right One In (Swedish : Låt den rätte komma in ) (2004), John Ajvide Lindqvist
Let the Right One In (2008)
Let Me In (2010)
A Letter to Five Wives (1945), John Klempner
A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
A Letter to Three Wives (1985)[ N 4]
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759–1767), Laurence Sterne
A Cock and Bull Story (2006)
The Life Before Us (French : La vie devant soi ) (1975), Romain Gary (as Émile Ajar)
Madame Rosa (1977)
The Life Before Us (2010)[ N 4]
The Life Ahead (2020)
Life of Pi (2001), Yann Martel
Life of Pi (2012)
Lift to the Scaffold (French : Ascenseur pour l'échafaud ) (1956), Noël Calef
Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
The Light in the Forest (1953), Conrad Richter
The Light in the Forest (1958)
The Light of Western Stars (1914), Zane Grey
The Light of Western Stars (1918)
The Light of Western Stars (1925)
The Light of Western Stars (1930)
The Light of Western Stars (1940)
Like a Fire is Burning (1991), Gerald N. Lund
The Work and the Glory: American Zion (2005)
Like Water for Chocolate (Spanish : Como agua para chocolate ) (1989), Laura Esquivel
Like Water for Chocolate (1992)
The Lincoln Lawyer (2005), Michael Connelly
The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)
A Lion Is in the Streets (1945), Adria Locke Langley
A Lion Is in the Streets (1953)
Lisa and Lottie (‹See Tfd› German : Das doppelte Lottchen ) (1949), Erich Kästner
Two Times Lotte (1950)
Hibari's Lullaby (ひばりの子守唄 , Hibari no komoriuta ) (1951)
Twice Upon a Time (1953)
The Parent Trap (1961)
Kuzhandaiyum Deivamum (1965)
Leta Manasulu (1966)
Do Kaliyaan (1968)
Cheeky Little Angels (Korean : 개구장이 천사들 , Gaegujangi Cheonsadeul ) (1980)
Pyaar Ke Do Pal (1986)
The Parent Trap II (1987)[ N 4]
Parent Trap III (1988)[ N 4]
Parent Trap: Hawaiian Honeymoon (1989)[ N 4]
Charlie & Louise – Das doppelte Lottchen (1994)
Strange Sisters (Persian : خواهران غریب ) (1995)
The Parent Trap (1998)[ N 6]
Kuch Khatti Kuch Meethi (2001)
Tur & retur (2003)
Little Caesar (1929), W. R. Burnett
Little Caesar (1931)
Black Caesar (1973)
Hell Up in Harlem (1973)
Little Dorrit (serialised 1855–1857, published as a book 1857), Charles Dickens
Little Dorrit (1913)
Little Dorrit (1920)
Little Dorrit (‹See Tfd› German : Klein Dorrit ) (1934)
Little Dorrit (1987)
The Little Drummer Girl (1983), John le Carré
The Little Drummer Girl (1984)
The Little White Horse (1946), Elizabeth Goudge
The Secret of Moonacre (2009)
Live and Let Die (1954), Ian Fleming
Live and Let Die (1973)
Live Flesh (1986), Ruth Rendell
Live Flesh (Spanish : Carne trémula ) (1997)
The Living and the Dead (French : D'entre les morts ) (1954), Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac
Vertigo (1958)
The Lizard's Tail (1979), Marc Brandell
The Hand (1981)
Loaded (1995), Christos Tsiolkas
Head On (1998)
Logan's Run (1967), William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson
Logan's Run (1976)
Lolita (1955), Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita (1962)
Lolita (1997)
The Lone Star Ranger (1915), Zane Grey
The Lone Star Ranger (1919)
The Lone Star Ranger (1923)
The Lone Star Ranger (1930)
Lone Star Ranger (1942)
Lonely Castle in the Mirror (かがみの孤城 , Kagami no Kojō ) (2017), Mizuki Tsujimura
Lonely Castle in the Mirror (2022)
The Long Goodbye (1953), Raymond Chandler
The Long Goodbye (1973)
Longarm (1978–2006) (series), Lou Cameron [ N 7]
Longarm (1987)[ N 4]
Looking for Trouble (1941), Virginia Spencer Cowles
Ladies Courageous (1944)
The Looters (1968), John H. Reese
Charley Varrick (1973)
Lord Jim (serialised 1899–1900, published as a book 1900), Joseph Conrad
Lord Jim (1925)
Lord Jim (1965)
Lord of the Flies (1954), William Golding
Lord of the Flies (1963)
Alkitrang dugo (1976)
Lord of the Flies (1990)
The Lord of the Rings (1954–1955)[ N 8] , J. R. R. Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (1978)
The Return of the King (1980)[ N 4]
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
The Lords of Discipline (1980), Pat Conroy
The Lords of Discipline (1983)
Lost Horizon (1933), James Hilton
Lost Horizon (1937)
Lost Horizon (1973)
The Lost Ones (1961), Donald G. Payne
The Island at the Top of the World (1974)
A Lost Paradise (失楽園 , Shitsurakuen ) (1997), Junichi Watanabe
Lost Paradise (1997)
The Lost World (1912), Arthur Conan Doyle
The Lost World (1925)
The Lost World (1960)
The Lost World (1992)
Return to the Lost World (1992)
The Lost World (1998)
The Lost World (2001)[ N 4]
King of the Lost World (2005)
The Lost World (1995), Michael Crichton
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
A Love in Germany (‹See Tfd› German : Eine Liebe in Deutschland ) (1978), Rolf Hochhuth
A Love in Germany (1983)
Love Story (1970), Erich Segal
Love Story (1970)
The Loved One (1948), Evelyn Waugh
The Loved One (1965)
The Lovely Bones (2002), Alice Sebold
The Lovely Bones (2009)
The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844), William Makepeace Thackeray
Barry Lyndon (1975)
The Lucky One (2008), Nicholas Sparks
The Lucky One (2012)
Lydia Bailey (1947), Kenneth Roberts
Lydia Bailey (1952)