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* ''{{spoiler|[[~~Labyrinth (Film)|~~Labyrinth]]}}'': A girl navigates a maze at the whim of a fairy rock star.

* ''{{spoiler|[[Labyrinth]]}}'': A girl navigates a maze at the whim of a fairy rock star.

* {{spoiler|''Lady in the Water''}}: A character from a fairy tale ([[All Myths Are True|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.

* '' {{spoiler|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.

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** '' {{spoiler|The Lake House}}'': American woman becomes pen pals with someone whose letters take two years to reach her.

* '' {{spoiler|[[Lakeview Terrace]]}}'': Cop finds out his new neighbors are an interracial couple. Racism ensues.

** Or: [[Samuel L Jackson]] is a [[Jerkass]] to his new neighbors.

** Or: [[Samuel L. Jackson]] is a [[Jerkass]] to his new neighbors.

* '' {{spoiler|[[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.

* '' {{spoiler|[[The Last King of Scotland]]}}'': An emotionally unstable African leader befriends a doctor, because he likes the place he's from.

* ''{{spoiler|[[The Last Unicorn (~~Film~~)|The Last Unicorn]]}}'': A unicorn has an identity crisis, gets turned into a human, falls in love with [[The Big Lebowski|The Dude]], and fights an energy drink mascot. There's also a talking cat.

* ''{{spoiler|[[The Last Unicorn (animation)|The Last Unicorn]]}}'': A unicorn has an identity crisis, gets turned into a human, falls in love with [[The Big Lebowski|The Dude]], and fights an energy drink mascot. There's also a talking cat.

* ''{{spoiler|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 Horse]]s cheer.

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* ''{{spoiler|[[Liar Liar]]}}'': Man gets close to losing the case of his life due to a birthday wish.

* ''{{spoiler|Linda Linda Linda}}'': A Japanese girl band prepare to play a few punk rock songs at their autumn festival.

* ''{{spoiler|[[~~The Lion King (Disney)|~~The Lion King]]}}'': Prince who blames himself for his father's death runs away and is taken in by all-male commune which subsists on insects.

* ''{{spoiler|[[The Lion King]]}}'': Prince who blames himself for his father's death runs away and is taken in by all-male commune which subsists on insects.

** Alternatively: ''[[Hamlet]]'' [[Recycled in Space|IN AFRICA!]]

** ''{{spoiler|The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride}}'': Princess falls in love with the wrong guy. It only gets fixed after killing her mother in-law.

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** ''{{spoiler|[[Little Shop of Horrors]]}}'': Musical adaptation about an awkward orphan who wants to win a battered beauty's heart by tending to a plant that came from space.

* ''{{spoiler|Lo}}'':The main character paints a circle in his apartment floor, spends the entire film sitting in that circle.

* '' {{spoiler|[[Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels]]}}'': Rigged game puts card-shark with a huge debt. While trying to get the money, he and friends stumble by [[Loads and Loads of Characters]] [[Anyone Can Die|dying]].

* '' {{spoiler|[[Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels]]}}'': Rigged game puts card-shark with a huge debt. While trying to get the money, he and friends stumble by [[Loads and Loads of Characters]] [[Anyone Can Die|dying]].

* ''{{spoiler|[[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]].

** Alternatively, [[The Bible|Psalm 121]] [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20121:4&version=NIV verse 4]: [[The Movie]].

* '' {{spoiler|The Long Good Friday}}'': As a result of dodgy deal gone ''very'' badly wrong, London gangster experiences worst Easter Weekend of his life.

* '' {{spoiler|[[The Lord of the Rings (~~Film~~)|The Lord of the Rings]]}}'': Midget destroys stolen property during the war years.

* '' {{spoiler|[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings]]}}'': Midget destroys stolen property during the war years.

** '' {{spoiler|The Fellowship of the Ring}}'': A group of unrelated men fight off multiple claimants to a jewelry inheritance.

** '' {{spoiler|The Two Towers}}'': Aristocrat and his servant help a man with multiple personality disorder.

** '' {{spoiler|Return of the King}}'': Defective merchandise is returned, causing the manufacturer to go out of business due to the resulting upheaval.

* '' {{spoiler|[[~~The Lost Boys (Film)|~~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.

* '' {{spoiler|[[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.

* '' {{spoiler|[[~~The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (Film)|~~The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra]]}}'': Three different parties all search for a valuable meteorite.

* '' {{spoiler|[[The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra]]}}'': Three different parties all search for a valuable meteorite.

* '' {{spoiler|The Lovely Bones}}'': A girl gets murdered by Stanley Tucci. Girl then plays around inside Apple's Macintosh-Heaven while her family deteriorates. Tucci falls off a cliff.

* ''{{spoiler|[[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.