1001 Movies - To Watch - L

As corruption grows in 1950s Los Angeles, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.

An adaptation of Proust's "La Prisoniere" (book five of "Remembrance of Things Past"). Set in Paris, France, it is a serious tale of a tragic and dysfunctional love.

Maurice Legrand, a meek cashier married to a nagging wife, has a secret passion: he's a Sunday painter. He falls in love with Lulu, a young woman dominated by Dédé, the pimp who she works for. Dédé pushes Lulu into a relationship with him.

A series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering tabloid journalist living in Rome.

The story of a man forced to explore his memories in the wake of World War III's devastation, told through still images.

An unhappily married woman devises a scheme to get rid of her husband.

Biopic of the iconic French singer Édith Piaf. Raised by her grandmother in a brothel, she was discovered while singing on a street corner at the age of 19. Despite her success, Piaf's life was filled with tragedy.

A fiercely independent teenager tries to make her own way in the world while wanting to get out of her hometown of Sacramento, California and to get away from her complicated mother and recently-unemployed father.

Fascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O'Hara joins a bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot.

In 19th-century rural England, a young bride who has been sold into marriage discovers an unstoppable desire within herself as she enters into an affair with a worker on her estate.

While travelling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.

Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.

A surrealist tale of a man and a woman who are passionately in love with each other, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted by their families, the Church, and bourgeois society.

Immediately after the fall of communism in Albania, two Italians go there to embezzle investment money by creating a fake company. As the chairman/fall guy, they pick a former political prisoner who turns out to be more than meets the eye.

Short that shows what happened to Bo Peep and her sheep between Toy Story 2 and when she reappears in Toy Story 4.

The lives of a Beijing family throughout the 1950s and 1960s, as they experience the impact of the Hundred Flowers Campaign, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution.

Dorothy and Princess Ozma, the rightful ruler of the Land of Oz, find themselves at the mercy of the villainous King of the Skeezers, while trying to stop a war between his kingdom and the neighboring kingdom.

The living dead have taken over the world, and the last humans live in a walled city to protect themselves as they come to grips with the situation.

Two children journey the long road to Germany to find the man they believe to be their father.

The relationships of four couples unravel after the discovery of a young woman's body in Lantana bush in suburban Sydney.

A surrealist film, a pseudo-documentary portrait of Las Hurdes, a remote region of Spain where civilisation has barely developed, showing how the local peasants try to survive without even the most basic utilities and skills.

In a post-apocalyptic future where no one is able to speak, the few remaining humans fight over resources in order to survive.

A man who is dissatisfied with his family life leaves home for weeks at a time, drifting from town to town.

A Seattle musician's life and career are reminiscent of those of Kurt Cobain.

Based on the events of the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's regime as seen by his personal physician during the 1970s.