| L'Acadie, l'Acadie | Michel Brault, Pierre Perrault | documentary film | Canada |
| L'Affaire Dominici | Claude Bernard-Aubert | drama film, thriller film | France, Italy |
| L'agenzia dei bugiardi | Volfango De Biasi | comedy film | Italy |
| L'aigrette | Baldassarre Negroni | — | — |
| L'anello di Siva | Augusto Genina | — | — |
 L'antimiracolo | Elio Piccon | documentary film | Italy |
 L'apache | Joe De Grasse | — | — |
| L'Arbre, le maire et la médiathèque | Éric Rohmer | comedy drama | France |
| L'Atalante | Jean Vigo | — | — |
| L'Auberge rouge | Gérard Krawczyk | comedy film | France |
| L'aventure, c'est l'aventure | Claude Lelouch | comedy film | France, Italy |
 L'Avventura | Michelangelo Antonioni | drama film | France, Italy |
| L'engrenage | Louis Feuillade | — | — |
 L'iguana dalla lingua di fuoco | Riccardo Freda | thriller film | France, Germany, Italy |
 L'Inferno | Francesco Bertolini | — | — |
| L'Odyssée du Loup | Vincent Steiger | documentary film | France |
| L'ultimo gattopardo: Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo | Giuseppe Tornatore | documentary film | Italy |
| L'Étudiante | Claude Pinoteau | romance film, comedy film | France, Italy |
| L'últim ball de Carmen Amaya | Judith Colell | drama film | Spain |
| L.A. Confidential | Curtis Hanson | police procedural film, suspense film, crime drama film, mystery film, drama film, action film, crime thriller film, neo-noir, thriller film, crime film | United States |
| L.A. Story | Mick Jackson | fantasy film, comedy drama, romantic comedy | United States |
| La belle équipe | Julien Duvivier | drama film | France |
| La Bolduc | François Bouvier | biographical film | Canada |
 La Burrerita de Ypacaraí | Armando Bó | drama film | Argentina, Paraguay |
| La bête | Walerian Borowczyk | fantasy film, horror film, werewolf film, erotic film | France |
| La bête lumineuse | Pierre Perrault | documentary film | Canada |
| La Carapate | Gérard Oury | comedy film | France |
| La Casta Susana | Benito Perojo | musical film | Argentina |
| La Ch'tite famille | Dany Boon | comedy film | France |
| La Chambre obscure | Marie-Christine Questerbert | drama film | France |
| La Chana | Lucija Stojevic | biographical film, documentary film | Iceland, Spain, United States |
| La Chasse aux papillons | Otar Iosseliani | drama film | France, Germany, Italy |
| La chica de los anuncios | Pedro Lazaga | comedy film | Spain |
| La cigüeña distraída | Emilio Gómez Muriel | comedy film | Mexico |
| La Collectionneuse | Éric Rohmer | drama film, comedy film | France |
| La Commission de la vérité | André Van In | documentary film | France, Belgium |
 La Comédie du bonheur | Marcel L'Herbier | comedy film | France, Italy |
| La Dama duende | Luis Saslavsky | — | — |
| La de los ojos color del tiempo | Luis César Amadori | drama film | Argentina |
| La donna del mare | Nino Valentini | — | — |
| La doppia ferita | Augusto Genina | — | — |
 La Edad del amor | Julio Saraceni | — | — |
| La elva leve! | Bredo Greve | drama film | Norway |
| La filla d'algú | Alejandro Marín, Júlia de Paz Solvas, Valentin Moulias, Sara Fantova, Celia Giraldo, Marcel Alcántara, Enric Vilageliu, Pol Vidal, Guillem Gallego, Carlos Villafaina, Gerard Vidal Cortés | drama film | Catalonia |
| La folle histoire de Max et Léon | Jonathan Barré | comedy film | France, Belgium |
| La Fuga | Eduardo Mignogna | drama film, prison film | Argentina |
 La fuga | Luis Saslavsky | — | — |
| La fuga degli amanti | Augusto Genina | — | — |
| La gent de l'escala | Jordi Fusté, Francesc Escribano i Royo | documentary film | Spain |
| La Gradiva | Marine Atlan | coming-of-age film, drama film | France, Italy |
| La grande vie | Emmanuel Salinger | comedy film | France |
 La guerra ed il sogno di Momi | Giovanni Pastrone | — | — |
 La Habanera | Douglas Sirk | — | — |
| La larga agonía de los peces fuera del agua | Francesc Rovira Beleta | drama film | Spain |
 La Leona | Armando Bó | drama film | Argentina |
| La lettre | Louis Mercanton | drama film | United States |
| La Leyenda de la Llorona | Alberto "Chino" Rodríguez | psychedelic film | Mexico |
| La Leyenda de las Momias | Alberto "Chino" Rodríguez | comedy horror | Mexico |
| La Maison de la radio | Nicolas Philibert | documentary film | France, Japan |
| La mia ombra è tua | Eugenio Cappuccio | drama film, comedy film | Italy |
| La mina | Vittorio Cecchi Gori, Giuseppe Bennati | drama film | Italy |
 La moglie di Claudio | Gero Zambuto | — | — |
| La Muchacha del circo | Manuel Romero | — | — |
| La Muerte está mintiendo | Carlos F. Borcosque | — | — |
 La nave | Gabriellino D'Annunzio | — | — |
| La nipote Sabella | Giorgio Bianchi | comedy film | Italy |
| La Niña en la Piedra | Marisa Sistach | drama film | Mexico |
| La Passione | Carlo Mazzacurati | comedy film | Italy |
 La pattuglia sperduta | Piero Nelli | — | Italy |
| La pequeña Suiza | Kepa Sojo | comedy film | Spain, Portugal |
 La Pointe Courte | Agnès Varda | drama film | France |
| La prima pietra | Rolando Ravello | comedy film | Italy |
| La profezia dell'armadillo | Emanuele Scaringi | drama film, comedy film | Italy |
 La Reine Margot | Patrice Chéreau | drama film, historical film, biographical film | France, Germany, Italy |
| La Reine Margot | Jean Dréville | — | — |
| La Run | Demian Fuica | drama film | Canada |
| La scuola più bella del mondo | Luca Miniero | comedy film | Italy |
| La seconda volta non si scorda mai | Francesco Ranieri Martinotti | romantic comedy | Italy |
| La Soufrière | Werner Herzog | documentary film | Germany |
| La statua di carne | Mario Almirante | — | — |
| La terza stella | Alberto Ferrari | comedy film | Italy |
| La Torre de los Siete Jorobados | Édgar Neville | — | — |
| La traversée | Varante Soudjian | comedy film | France |
| La trinca del aire | Ramón Torrado | — | — |
| La Tête dans les étoiles | — | — | France |
| La Valentina | Rogelio A. González | drama film | Mexico |
| La vida nocturna | James Parrott | comedy film, silent film | United States |
| La vie heureuse de Léopold Z | Gilles Carle | drama film, Christmas film, comedy drama | Canada |
| La Villa del Martirio | Romeo Visconti, Valery Org | pornographic film | Italy |
 La voix du rossignol | Ladislas Starevich | — | — |
| La vuelta de El Coyote | Mario Camus | drama film, adventure film | Spain |
| Labour Equals Freedom | Damjan Kozole | drama film | Slovenia |
| Labyrinthus | Douglas Boswell | family film, adventure film | Belgium, Netherlands |
| Ladies and Gentleman | Siddique | comedy film | India |
| Ladies in Love | Edward H. Griffith | romantic comedy | United States |
| Ladies Invite Gentlemen | Ivan Kiasashvili | comedy film | Soviet Union |
 Ladies Must Live | George Loane Tucker | — | — |
| Ladies of Leisure | Frank Capra | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Ladies of Steel | Pamela Tola | drama film, comedy film | Finland |
| Ladies of the Jury | Lowell Sherman | trial film | United States |
| Ladies' Day | Leslie Goodwins | comedy film | United States |
| Ladies' Tango | Sulambek Mamilov | romance film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| Lady Bird | Greta Gerwig | drama film, tragicomedy, LGBTQ-related film, comedy drama | United States |
| Lady Fellatio in the Doghouse | Mason | pornographic film | United States |
 Lady for a Night | Leigh Jason | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Lady General Hua Mulan | Yueh Feng | LGBTQ-related film, musical film | Hong Kong |
| Lady Gonzo | Jane Wilde | — | pornographic film | — |
 Lady in the Lake | Robert Montgomery | mystery film, drama film, film noir, Christmas film, crime film | United States |
| Lady Inger of Ostrat | Sverre Udnæs | drama film | Norway |
| Lady J | Emmanuel Mouret | romance film, drama film | France |
| Lady Jane | Trevor Nunn | drama film, biographical film | United Kingdom |
| Lady Killer | Jean Grémillon | drama film | France, Germany |
 Lady Killer | Roy Del Ruth | comedy film, crime film | United States |
| Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District | — | — | — |
| Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District | Roman Balayan | drama film | Soviet Union, Switzerland |
| Lady of the Law | — | — | British Hong Kong |
 Lady of the Night | Monta Bell | — | — |
| Lady Oscar | Jacques Demy | romance film, drama film, LGBTQ-related film | France, Japan |
| Lady Sings the Blues | Sidney J. Furie | drama film, biographical film, musical film | United States |
| Lady Time | Elina Talvensaari | documentary film | Finland |
 Lady Windermere's Fan | Ernst Lubitsch | — | — |
| Lady with a Past | Edward H. Griffith | romantic comedy | United States |
| Ladybug & Cat Noir: The Movie | Jeremy Zag | teen film, drama film, family film, magical girl fiction, superhero film, fantasy film, comedy film, action film, adventure film, musical film | France |
| Ladyhawke | Richard Donner | romance film, sword and sorcery film, drama film, fantasy film, adventure film | United States, Italy |
| Lagaan | Ashutosh Gowariker | romance film, drama film, musical film | India |
| Laggies | Lynn Shelton | romantic comedy film, drama film | United States |
| Laia | Lluís Danés i Roca | drama film, melodrama | Spain |
| Laila | George Schnéevoigt | — | — |
| Laila Majnu | — | romance film | India |
| Laiptai i dangu | Raimondas Vabalas | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Lake Mungo | — | horror film, thriller film, found footage film | Australia |
| Lake of the Dead | Kåre Bergstrøm | horror film, ghost film | Norway |
| Lake Placid | Steve Miner | monster film, comedy film, action film, horror film, comedy horror, science fiction film, buddy film | Canada, United States |
| Lakhti | Bidzina Rachvelishvili | sport film, short film, television film | Georgian SSR |
| Lame-os | Marta Elīna Martinsone | comedy film | Latvia |
| Land and Gold | Arman Manaryan | — | Soviet Union |
 Land and Shade | César Augusto Acevedo | drama film | France, Netherlands, Colombia |
| Land of Bad | William Eubank | action film, thriller film | United States |
| Land of Silence and Darkness | Werner Herzog | documentary film | Germany |
| Land of the Lost | Brad Silberling | monster film, fantasy film, science fiction film, parody film, science fiction comedy | United States |
| Land Without Women | Géza von Cziffra | — | — |
| Landfall | Ken Annakin | — | — |
| Landrush | Vernon Keays | Western film | United States |
| Landscape in White | Gianni Lepre | — | Norway, Italy |
| Lapland Calendar | Per Høst | — | — |
| Lapland Odyssey 2 | Teppo Airaksinen | comedy film | Finland |
| Laramie | Ray Nazarro | Western film | United States |
| Laramie Mountains | Ray Nazarro | Western film | United States |
| Larger than Life | Howard Franklin | comedy film | United States |
| Las buenas compañías | Silvia Munt | drama film | France, Spain |
| Las Rojas | Matias Lucchesi | Western film | Argentina, Uruguay |
| Las Vegas Lady | Noel Nosseck | crime film | United States |
| Lassie Come Home | Fred M. Wilcox | — | — |
| Last Call | Jag Mundhra | exploitation film, erotic thriller | United States |
| Last Dance | David Pulbrook | thriller film | Australia |
| Last Hurrah for Chivalry | John Woo | martial arts film, action film | Hong Kong |
 Last Meeting | Gianni Franciolini | drama film | Italy |
| Last of the Buccaneers | Lew Landers | pirate film, swashbuckler film, adventure film | United States |
| Last of the Comanches | André de Toth | Western film | United States |
| Last of the Elephant Men | Daniel Ferguson, Arnaud Bouquet | drama film, documentary film | France, Canada, Cambodia |
| Last of the Mobile Hot Shots | Sidney Lumet | drama film | United States |
| Last Present | O Ki-hwan | romance film | South Korea |
| Last Resort | Paweł Pawlikowski | drama film | United Kingdom |
| Late August, Early September | Olivier Assayas | drama film | France |
| Late for Dinner | W. D. Richter | science fiction film, comedy drama | United States |
| Late Shift | Petra Volpe | drama film, thriller film | Germany, Switzerland |
| Lati ile-iṣẹ | — | — | Nigeria |
| Laugh and Get Rich | Gregory La Cava | comedy film | United States |
 Laugh, Pagliacci | Giuseppe Fatigati | drama film | Germany, Italy |
| Laughter and Tears | B. E. Doxat-Pratt | — | — |
| Law Abiding Citizen | F. Gary Gray | drama film, action film, rape and revenge film, thriller film, vigilante film, prison film | United States |
| Law and Disorder | Ivan Passer | comedy drama, crime film | United States |
| Law Beyond the Range | Ford Beebe | — | — |
| Law of the Golden West | Philip Ford | Western film | United States |
| Law of the Panhandle | Lewis D. Collins | Western film | United States |
| Law of the West | Ray Taylor | Western film | United States |
| Lawless Valley | David Howard | Western film | United States |
 Lawrence of Arabia | David Lean | drama film, flashback film, adventure film, war film, biographical film, epic film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Layla Majnun | Monty Tiwa | drama film | Indonesia |
| Lazer Team 2 | — | science fiction film | United States |
 Le Brasier ardent | Ivan Mozzhukhin | — | — |
| Le Brio | Yvan Attal | comedy film | France, Belgium |
| Le Building | Marco Nguyen | comedy film | France |
| Le Cake-walk du Nouveau Cirque | Alice Guy-Blaché | — | — |
| Le Chant des étoiles | Nadine Beaudet | documentary film | Canada |
| Le Cochon aux patates douces | Barbet Schroeder | drama film, documentary film | France |
| Le Crime de Toto | Georges Denola | — | — |
| Le Dos au mur | Édouard Molinaro | comedy drama | France |
| Le Doulos | Jean-Pierre Melville | neo-noir, thriller film, detective film, crime film | France, Italy |
| Le fils puni | Philippe Collin | drama film | France |
| Le Grand Jeu | Jacques Feyder | romance film, drama film | France |
| Le Havre | Aki Kaurismäki | drama film, comedy film | France, Germany, Finland |
| Le Jeu de la Mort | Alain-Michel Blanc, Gilles Amado, Thomas Bornot | documentary film | France |
| Le Lièvre de Vatanen | Marc Rivière | fantasy film | France, Belgium |
| Le Manoir | Tony T. Datis | comedy film, horror film | France |
| Le Mouton noir | Jacques Godbout | documentary film | Canada |
| Le Pacha | Georges Lautner | crime film | France, Italy |
| Le Phallus et le néant | Sophie Robert | documentary film | France |
| Le pharmacien de garde | Jean Veber | drama film, crime film | France |
| Le smorfie di Pulcinella | Gabriellino D'Annunzio | — | — |
| Le temps des grâces | Dominique Marchais | documentary film | France |
| Leader | Sekhar Kammula | drama film | India |
| Leading Lady | Henk Pretorius | romance film | United Kingdom, South Africa |
| Leadville Gunslinger | Harry Keller | Western film | United States |
| Leafie, A Hen into the Wild | Oh Seong-yun | adventure film | South Korea |
| Leatherface | Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury | horror film, slasher film | United States |
 Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III | Jeff Burr | horror film, slasher film | United States |
 Leathernecking | Edward F. Cline | musical comedy, musical film | United States |
 Leave Her to Heaven | John M. Stahl | drama film, film noir | United States |
 Leaving Neverland | Dan Reed | documentary film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Lecture 21 | Alessandro Baricco | drama film | Italy |
| Lee | Ellen Kuras | drama film, historical film, war film, biographical film | United Kingdom |
| Lee Cronin's The Mummy | Lee Cronin | horror film, thriller film, supernatural horror film | Canada, Ireland, Spain, United States |
| Left Behind: World at War | Craig R. Baxley | drama film, fantasy film, action film | United States |
| Legend | Sylwester Chęciński | war film | Soviet Union, Poland |
| Legend | Boyapati Srinu | thriller film | India |
| Legend of Dinosaurs & Monster Birds | Junji Kurata | fantasy film, horror film, speculative fiction film, science fiction film | Japan |
| Legend of Rustam | Boris Kimyagarov | fantasy film, epic poem | Soviet Union |
| Legendary Weapons of China | Lau Kar-leung | kung fu film | Hong Kong |
| Legion | Scott Stewart | fantasy film, action film, horror film, thriller film, zombie film, apocalyptic film | United States |
| Legion of Lost Flyers | Christy Cabanne | — | — |
| Legionnaire | Peter MacDonald | drama film, action film, adventure film, war film, boxing film | United States |
| Lego Scooby-Doo! Haunted Hollywood | Rick Morales | mystery film | United States |
| Leilaj | Iraj Ghaderi | — | Iran |
| Lemon | Janicza Bravo | drama film | United States |
 Lemonade Joe | Oldřich Lipský | comedy film, Western film, adventure film, musical film | Czechoslovakia |
| Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events | Brad Silberling | teen film, drama film, family film, fantasy film, comedy film, adventure film | France, United States |
| LenaLove | Florian Gaag | drama film, thriller film | Germany |
| Lendurid koduteel | Priit Pärn, Olga Pärn | — | Estonia |
 Lenin in Paris | Leonid Eidlin, Sergei Yutkevich | drama film, historical film, biographical film | Soviet Union |
| Lenin in Poland | Sergei Yutkevich | drama film, historical film, biographical film | Soviet Union, Poland |
| Leningrad Concert Hall | Adolf Minkin, Isaak Menaker, Semyon Timoshenko, Mikhail Tsekhanovsky, Mikhail Shapiro, Herbert Rappaport | musical film | Soviet Union |
| Leningrad Cowboys Go America | Aki Kaurismäki | music-themed film, comedy film, adventure film | Finland, Sweden |
| Leo | José Luis Borau | drama film | Spain |
| Leonardo da Vinci: The Mind of the Renaissance | Jean-Claude Lubtchansky | documentary film | France |
| Leonardon ikkunat | Pirjo Honkasalo | drama film | Finland |
| Leonor Will Never Die | — | comedy drama | Philippines |
| Leprechaun | Mark Jones | fantasy film, horror film, comedy horror | United States |
| Leprechaun 4: In Space | Brian Trenchard-Smith | horror film, adventure film, science fiction film, slasher film | United States |
| Lermontov (1943 film) | Albert Gendelshtein | drama film, historical film, biographical film | Soviet Union |
| Leroy & Stitch | Bobs Gannaway, Tony Craig | children's film, science fiction film, buddy film | United States |
| Les 11 commandements | François Desagnat, Thomas Sorriaux | anthology film | France |
| Les Amants du Pont-Neuf | Leos Carax | romance film, drama film | France |
 Les Ambassadeurs | Naceur Ktari | drama film | France |
| Les Anges gardiens | Jean-Marie Poiré | comedy film, action film, crime film | France |
| Les aventures de Spirou et Fantasio | Alexandre Coffre | comedy film | France |
| Les Belles | Doe Ching | romantic comedy | Hong Kong |
| Les blagues de Toto 2 : Classe verte | Pascal Bourdiaux | family film, comedy film, children's film | France, Belgium, Luxembourg |
| Les cloches de Corneville | Thomas Bentley | — | — |
| Les copains du dimanche | Henri Aisner | adventure film | France |
| Les Coquillettes | Sophie Letourneur | comedy film | France |
| Les Durs à cuire | Jack Pinoteau | comedy film, thriller film | France |
| Les Harkis | Philippe Faucon | drama film | France, Belgium |
| Les Hussards | Alex Joffé | comedy film | France |
| Les malheurs d'Alfred | Pierre Richard | comedy film | France |
| Les Misérables | Ladj Ly | drama film | France |
| Les Misérables | Bille August | romance film, drama film, crime film | United Kingdom, Germany, United States |
| Les Misérables | Jean-Paul Le Chanois | drama film | France, East Germany, Italy |
| Les Misérables | Claude Lelouch | drama film | France |
| Les Perseides | Alberto Dexeus, Ànnia Gabarró | drama film, fantasy film, Naturalism | Spain |
| Les souvenirs ne sont pas à vendre | Robert Hennion | comedy drama | France |
| Les terres lointaines | Félix Lamarche | documentary film | Canada |
 Les Trois Mousquetaires | André Calmettes | — | — |
| Les Tuche 3 | Olivier Baroux | comedy film | France |
| Les têtes de l'emploi | Alexandre Charlot, Franck Magnier | comedy film | France |
| Les têtes givrées | Stéphane Cazes | comedy drama | France |
| Les Vengeances de Maître Poutifard | Pierre-François Martin-Laval | family film, comedy film | France, Belgium |
| Les Visiteuses | Alain Payet | pornographic parody film | France |
| Lesbian Space Princess | Emma Hough Hobbs, Leela Varghese | romance film, adult animated film, fantasy film, comedy film, LGBTQ-related film, science fiction film | Australia |
| Lestnitsa | Aleksey Sakharov | drama film | Soviet Union |
 Let 'er Buck | Edward Sedgwick | — | — |
| Let It Rain | Edward F. Cline | — | — |
| Let It Ride | Joe Pytka | comedy film | United States |
| Let My People Go: The Story of Israel | Marshall Flaum | documentary film | United States, Israel |
| Let Our Mountains Live | Håvard Bustnes | documentary film | Norway |
| Let Poland Be Poland | — | political magazine show | United States |
| Let the Bullets Fly | Jiang Wen | comedy film | People's Republic of China |
| Let There Be Light | Marko Škop | drama film | Czech Republic, Slovakia |
| Let Us Live | John Brahm | crime film | United States |
| Let Yourself Go | Francesco Amato | comedy film | Italy |
| Let's Dance | Noémie Lvovsky | comedy drama | France |
| Let's Do It Again | Alexander Hall | romantic comedy film, comedy of remarriage, musical film | United States |
 Let's Elope | John S. Robertson | — | — |
| Let's Get Lost | Jonas Elmer | drama film, comedy film | Denmark |
| Let's Get Married | Louis Mercanton | comedy drama | France |
| Let's Kiss and Say Goodbye | Christel Buschmann | musical film, documentary film | Germany |
| Let's love again | — | — | Nigeria |
| Let's Relax Shorts Program | — | family film, traditionally animated film, compilation film | United States |
| Let's Sing Again | Kurt Neumann | — | — |
 Lethal Weapon 2 | Richard Donner | action film, thriller film, buddy cop film, buddy film | United States |
| Lets Be More Clever Next Time, Buddy! | Petr Schulhoff | comedy film | Czechoslovakia |
| Letter from an Unknown Woman | Salah Abu Seif | — | Egypt |
| Letter from BAM | Temur Palavandishvili | adventure film | Georgian SSR |
 Letter from Naples | Giorgio Pàstina | drama film | Italy |
 Letter from Siberia | Chris Marker | documentary film | France |
| Letters to Angel | Sulev Keedus | drama film | Estonia |
| Letters to Santa | Mitja Okorn | romantic comedy film, Christmas film | Poland |
| Levan Khidasheli | Vakhtang Tabliashvili | — | Soviet Union |
| Level Five | Chris Marker | documentary film | France |
| Levels | — | action film, thriller film, science fiction film | Canada |
| Leviathan | Andrey Zvyagintsev | drama film, crime film | Russia |
| Leviathan | George P. Cosmatos | monster film, action film, horror film, thriller film, science fiction film | United States, Italy |
| Levity | Ed Solomon | drama film, thriller film, crime film | France, United States |
| Lex Steele XXX 5 | Lexington Steele | pornographic film | United States |
| Liars | Əbdülqəni Əliyev | — | Azerbaijan |
 Libeled Lady | Jack Conway | screwball comedy film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Liberal Arts | Josh Radnor | coming-of-age film, drama film, comedy film | United States |
 Liberation of Soviet Belarus | Vladimir Korsh-Sablin, Mikola Sadkovich | documentary film | Soviet Union |
| Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II | Bill Miles | documentary film | United States |
| Liberty Hall | Harold M. Shaw | — | — |
| Licence to Build | Éric Fraticelli | comedy film | France |
| Liebestraum | Mike Figgis | mystery film, drama film, thriller film | United States |
 Lieutenant Kijé | Aleksandr Faintsimmer | satirical film, historical film, comedy drama | Soviet Union |
| Life | Daniel Espinosa | drama film, action film, horror film, thriller film, science fiction film | United States |
| Life | Ted Demme | drama film, action comedy film, prison film, buddy film | United States |
| Life According to Nino | Simone van Dusseldorp | family film | Netherlands |
 Life and Passion of Christ | Ferdinand Zecca | — | — |
| Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease | Krzysztof Zanussi | drama film | France, Poland |
| Life for Real | Dany Boon | comedy film | France, Belgium |
| Life in Four Elements | Natalie Halla | documentary film | Finland |
| Life in Her Hands | Philip Leacock | drama film | United Kingdom |
| Life is All You Get | Wolfgang Becker | romance film, drama film, comedy film | Germany |
| Life Is Beautiful | Boro Drašković | drama film | Yugoslavia |
| Life Is Ours | — | drama film | Yugoslavia |
 Life of a King | Jake Goldberger | drama film | United States |
| Life of the Party | Ben Falcone | comedy film | United States |
| Life with The Lyons | Val Guest | — | — |
| Lifetime | Ulf Kvensler | thriller film | Sweden |
| Light & Heavy | John Lasseter | — | United States |
| Light Composition | — | performance registration | — |
| Light of My Eyes | Giuseppe Piccioni | drama film | Italy |
| Light Sleeper | Paul Schrader | drama film, crime film | United States |
| Lightning Jack | Simon Wincer | comedy film, Western film | United States, Australia |
| Lights | Solomon Shuster | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Like a French Film | Shin Yeon-shick | drama film, anthology film | South Korea |
| Like a House on Fire | Jesse Noah Klein | drama film | Canada |
| Like a Virgin | Lee Hae-jun | coming-of-age film, teen film, drama film, sport film, LGBTQ-related film, comedy drama | South Korea |
| Like Father Like Son | Rod Daniel | teen film, fantasy film, comedy film | United States |
| Like Two Crocodiles | Giacomo Campiotti | drama film | France, United Kingdom, Italy |
| Lil' Pea | Jalal Fatemi | drama film | Iran |
 Lili | Charles Walters | romance film, drama film, musical film | United States |
 Lilies of the Field | Ralph Nelson | drama film, comedy film | United States |
| Lilith | Robert Rossen | drama film | United States |
| Lilla Jönssonligan på styva linan | Christjan Wegner | comedy film | Sweden |
| Lilly the Witch: The Journey to Mandolan | Harald Sicheritz | comedy film | Germany, Austria |
| Lilly's Bewitched Christmas | Wolfgang Groos | children's film, live-action/animated film, Christmas film | Germany, Belgium, Austria |
| Lilo & Stitch | Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders | comedy film, science fiction film, buddy film, comedy drama | United States |
| Lily of Killarney | George Ridgwell | — | — |
 Lily van Java | Nelson Wong | — | — |
| Limitless | Neil Burger | drama film, action film, thriller film, science fiction film | United States |
| Limpan | Staffan Roos | drama film | Sweden |
| Lincoln | Steven Spielberg | drama film, historical film, trial film, war film, biographical film | United States |
| Lindenberg! Mach Dein Ding | Hermine Huntgeburth | drama film, biographical film, musical film | Germany |
| Lingonberries in the Forest | Yevgeny Vasilyev | — | Soviet Union |
| Lion of Oz | Tim Deacon | prequel film | United Kingdom, Canada, United States |
| Lion's Den | Pablo Trapero | drama film, prison film | Argentina |
| Liouba | Rolan Bykov | — | Soviet Union |
| Lisa and the Other Woman | Dinos Dimopoulos | comedy film | Greece |
 Lisbon | Ray Milland | drama film, spy film, crime film | United States |
| Lisova pisnya. Mavka | Yuri Ilyenko | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Little Allan - The Human Antenna | Amalie Næsby Fick | cinematic fairy tale, animated film, adventure film | Denmark |
| Little Amélie or the Character of Rain | Maïlys Vallade, Liane-Cho Han | — | France, Belgium |
| Little Ashes | Paul Morrison | drama film, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film | United Kingdom, Spain |
| Little Bear | Vyacheslav Prokopenko | family film | Soviet Union |
| Little Big Girl | Morten Køhlert | drama film, family film | Sweden, Denmark |
| Little Black Book | Nick Hurran | comedy drama, romantic comedy | United States |
| Little Boy Lost | William Perlberg, George Seaton, Marghanita Laski | drama film | United States |
| Little Boy Red | Pasquale Scimeca | drama film | Italy |
| Little Brother, Big Trouble: A Christmas Adventure | Kari Juusonen, Jørgen Lerdam | family film, comedy film, animated film, Christmas film, adventure film | Germany, Ireland, Finland, Denmark |
 Little Caesar | Mervyn LeRoy | suspense film, crime drama film, drama film, film noir, action film, melodrama, crime thriller film, thriller film, gangster film, crime film | United States |
| Little Dead Rotting Hood | Jared Cohn | horror film | United States |
| Little Dorrit | Christine Edzard | drama film | United Kingdom |
| Little Giants | Duwayne Dunham | American football film, comedy film | United States |
| Little Hare | Leonid Bykov | comedy film | Soviet Union |
| Little Ilona and Her Lambkin | Jorma Nortimo | drama film | Finland |
| Little Indian, Big City | Hervé Palud | comedy film, melodrama, adventure film | France |
| Little Laura and Big John | Luke Moberly | drama film, crime film | United States |
| Little Longnose | Ilya Maksimov | fantasy film, children's film, fairy tale, musical film | Russia |
| Little Loves | Celia Rico Clavellino | drama film | Spain |
| Little Man | Ze'ev Revach | drama film | Israel |
| Little Man Tate | Jodie Foster | drama film | United States |
 Little Man, What Now? | Frank Borzage | drama film | United States |
| Little Manhattan | Mark Levin | coming-of-age film, romantic comedy film, children's film | United States |
| Little Miss Broadway | Irving Cummings | drama film, musical film | United States |
| Little Miss Hoover | John S. Robertson | — | — |
| Little Mountain Boy | Xavier Koller | family film, comedy film, children's film, adventure film | Switzerland |
| Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland | Masami Hata, William T. Hurtz | comedy anime and manga, fantasy anime and manga, adventure anime and manga, fantasy film, children's film, adventure film, musical film | Japan, United States |
| Little Prince | Jong-hyeon Choi | drama film | South Korea |
| Little Secrets | Pol Cruchten | drama film | Luxembourg, Austria |
| Little Tough Guy | Harold Young | — | — |
| Little Vera | Vasili Pichul | romance film, teen film, drama film | Soviet Union |
| Little White Lies 2 | Guillaume Canet | comedy drama | France, Belgium |
| Little Women | Mervyn LeRoy | coming-of-age film, romance film, drama film, children's film | United States |
 Little World of Don Camillo | Julien Duvivier | comedy film | France, Italy |
 Liu Sanjie | Su Li | — | People's Republic of China |
| Liubi | Layia Yiourgou | drama film | Greece |
| Liv & Ingmar | Dheeraj Akolkar | documentary film | United Kingdom, Kingdom of Great Britain, Norway, Czech Republic, Sweden, India |
| Live and Let Die | Guy Hamilton | action film, spy film, blaxploitation film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Live at the Boston Garden: April 5, 1968 | — | rock concert | United States |
| Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970 | Murray Lerner | — | United Kingdom, United States |
| Live by Night | — | drama film, thriller film, crime film | United States |
| Live Dangerously | Lauritz Falk | drama film | Sweden |
 Live Free or Die Hard | Len Wiseman | action film, action thriller, buddy cop film, buddy film | United States |
| Live in Peace | Hu Bingliu | family drama film | People's Republic of China |
| Living Amongst Lions | Sigve Endresen | documentary film | Norway |
| Living Images | Hardi Volmer | historical film | Estonia |
| Living Like the Land | Nicolas Paquet | documentary film | Canada |
| Living Out Loud | Richard LaGravenese | drama film, comedy film | United States |
| Living Rainbow | Natalya Bondarchuk | — | Soviet Union |
| Living Together | Carlos Galettini | drama film | Argentina |
| Living with Hannah | Erica von Moeller | drama film | Germany |
| Liza and All the Others | Nikos Perakis | romance film, comedy film | Greece |
 Lizzie | Hugo Haas | — | — |
 Lo svitato | Carlo Lizzani | comedy film | Italy |
| Locksmith and Chancellor | Vladimir Gardin | — | — |
| Loco por ella | Dani de la Orden | romance film, comedy film | Spain |
| Loffe as a Millionaire | Gösta Bernhard | comedy film | Sweden |
| Logorama | Hervé de Crécy, François Alaux, Ludovic Houplain | parody | France |
| Loham | Ranjith | thriller film | India |
 Lolita | Stanley Kubrick | romance film, drama film, comedy drama | United Kingdom, United States |
| Lolita la huérfana | Aureliano González | — | — |
| Lolita: Vibrator Torture | Hisayasu Satō | pink film, pornographic film | Japan |
| LolliLove | Jenna Fischer | comedy film | United States |
| Lolo | Julie Delpy | romance film, comedy film | France |
 London After Midnight | Tod Browning | — | — |
 London Has Fallen | Babak Najafi | action film, thriller film | United Kingdom, United States |
| London Love Story 3 | — | drama film | Indonesia |
| Lone Star | John Sayles | romance film, mystery film, drama film, Western film, crime film | United States |
 Lone Survivor | Peter Berg | drama film, action film, war film, biographical film | United States |
| Lonely Hearts | Todd Robinson | drama film, thriller film, crime film | Germany, United States |
 Lonesome | Paul Fejos | — | — |
| Long Day's Journey into Night | David Wellington | drama film | Canada |
| Long Live the King | Kang Yun-seong | drama film, action film | South Korea |
| Long Way North | Rémi Chayé | drama film, animated film, adventure film | France, Denmark |
| Long-Haired Wonder | Viktor Titov | drama film, sport film | Soviet Union |
| Longing | — | drama film, anthology film | South Korea |
| Longing for My Native Country | Wang Jin, Hu Bingliu | drama film | People's Republic of China |
| Longwave | Lionel Baier | comedy film, comedy drama | France, Switzerland, Portugal |
| Look at Me | Agnès Jaoui | coming-of-age film, romantic comedy film, drama film | France, Italy |
| Looker | Nic Cramer | mystery film, drama film, pornographic film, thriller film, crime film | United States |
| Looker 2: Femme Fatale | Nic Cramer | mystery film, drama film, pornographic film, thriller film, crime film | United States |
 Looking for Eric | Ken Loach | drama film, association football film, comedy drama | France, United Kingdom, Spain, Belgium, Italy |
| Looking for Magical Doremi | Haruka Kamatani, Junichi Sato | coming-of-age film, drama film | Japan |
| Looking for Mr. Goodbar | Richard Brooks | drama film, LGBTQ-related film | United States |
 Looking for Oum Kulthum | Shirin Neshat | drama film | Morocco, Germany, Italy, Austria |
| Loop | — | detective film | Soviet Union |
| Loose Ankles | Ted Wilde | — | — |
| Loose Connections | Richard Eyre | romantic comedy film | United Kingdom, Australia |
| Loose Ends 2: The Tail Continues | Bruce Seven | romance film, drama film, pornographic film | United States |
| Lor Girl | Ardeshir Irani | drama film | United States, Iran |
| Lord of the Flies | Harry Hook | drama film, survival film, dystopian film, adventure film | United States |
| Loreak | Jose Mari Goenaga, Jon Garaño | drama film | Spain |
| Los caballeros de la cama redonda | Gerardo Sofovich, Hugo Sofovich | comedy film | Argentina |
| Los chicos del Preu | Pedro Lazaga | comedy film | Spain |
| Los Chiflados dan el golpe | Enrique Dawi | comedy film | Argentina |
 Los Días calientes | Armando Bó | comedy film | Argentina |
| Los Díaz felices | Chiqui Carabante | — | Spain |
| Los Golpes bajos | Mario Sábato | drama film, boxing film | Argentina |
| Los Hijos de López | Enrique Dawi | comedy film | Argentina |
| Los legionarios | Agustín P. Delgado | — | — |
| Los managers | Fernando Guillén Cuervo | comedy film | Spain |
 Los martes, orquídeas | Francisco Múgica | — | — |
| Los muertos | Lisandro Alonso | drama film | Argentina |
| Los Peores del barrio | Julio Saraceni | — | — |
| Los pájaros de Baden-Baden | Mario Camus | drama film | Spain, Switzerland |
| Loss | Māris Martinsons | drama film | Latvia, Lithuania |
 Loss of Sensation | Aleksandr Andriyevsky | — | — |
| Lost | Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury | — | India |
| Lost | Driss Roukhe | mystery film, drama film, thriller film, psychological thriller, crime film | Morocco |
| Lost & Found | Jeff Pollack | romantic comedy | United States |
| Lost and Delirious | Léa Pool | coming-of-age film, romance film, teen film, drama film, LGBTQ-related film | Canada |
| Lost Angel | Roy Rowland | drama film | United States |
| Lost Command | Mark Robson | drama film, war film | France, United States |
| Lost Flight | Leonard Horn | drama film, action film | United States |
| Lost in the Dark | Camillo Mastrocinque | drama film | Italy |
| Lost Years | Richard Foster Baker | — | — |
 Lost Youth | Pietro Germi | drama film | Italy |
| Lotta flyttar hemifrån | Johanna Hald | comedy film, children's film, Christmas film | Sweden |
| Lotte in Weimar | Egon Günther | drama film, biographical film | East Germany |
| Lou | Anna Foerster | mystery film, drama film, action film, thriller film, adventure film, crime film | United States |
| Lou ! Journal infime | Julien Neel | teen film, comedy film | France, Belgium |
| Lou Andreas-Salomé | Cordula Kablitz-Post | drama film, biographical film | Germany, Austria |
| Louis & Luca - Mission to the Moon | Rasmus A. Sivertsen | comedy film, animated film, adventure film | Norway |
| Louis Cyr | Daniel Roby | drama film | Canada |
| Louisa | Alexander Hall | — | — |
| Louisiana Purchase | Irving Cummings | — | — |
| Love & Gelato | Brandon Camp | teen film, romantic comedy film | United States |
| Love 'Em and Leave 'Em | Frank Tuttle | — | — |
| Love @ First Note | Dennis Law | romantic comedy | Hong Kong |
| Love According to Dalva | Emmanuelle Nicot | drama film | France, Belgium |
| Love Aflame | James Vincent | — | — |
| Love Along a River | Toivo Särkkä | drama film, historical film | Finland |
| Love and Psyche | Joe D'Amato | pornographic film | Italy |
| Love and the Devil | Alexander Korda | — | — |
| Love at First Lie | Patrick Kong | — | Hong Kong |
| Love at First Sight | Vanessa Caswill | romantic comedy film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Love at Large | Alan Rudolph | mystery film | United States |
| Love at Second Sight | Hugo Gélin | romance film, comedy film | France, Belgium |
| Love Bakery | Park Heon-su | drama film, comedy film | South Korea |
| Love Between the Raindrops | Karel Kachyňa | romance film, drama film, comedy film | Czechoslovakia |
| Love Comes Lately | Jan Schütte | drama film, comedy film | Germany, Austria |
| Love Does Not Love | Klim Shipenko | romantic comedy film | Russia |
| Love Emergency | Will Ryder | pornographic film | United States |
| Love Hotel | Shinji Sōmai | pink film, pornographic film | Japan |
| Love in a Wood | Maurice Elvey | — | — |
| Love in Every Port | Carlos F. Borcosque | drama film | United States |
| Love in Our Time | Elkan Allan | documentary film | United Kingdom |
| Love in Paris 2 | Iqbal Rais | romantic drama | Indonesia |
| Love in Pawn | Charles Saunders | comedy film | United Kingdom |
| Love in the Buff | Pang Ho-cheung | romantic comedy film | Hong Kong |
| Love in the Desert | George Melford | — | — |
| Love in the Mirror | Salvatore Maira | comedy film | Italy |
| Love in the Sixth | Jude Klassen | — | Canada |
| Love in the Time of Civil War | Rodrigue Jean | drama film, LGBTQ-related film | Canada |
| Love Insurance Corporation | Vignesh Shivan | — | India |
 Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing | Henry King | — | — |
| Love Is a Story | Cristina Jacob | comedy film | Romania |
| Love is Forever | Wolfgang Liebeneiner | romance film, drama film | Germany |
| Love Is on the Air | Nick Grinde | romance film, mystery film, crime film | United States |
| Love Is the Ruin of Us All | Jože Gale | drama film, historical film | Socialist Republic of Slovenia |
| Love like there's no tomorrow | Christos Nikoleris | — | Greece |
| Love Me Again | Rory Quintos | romantic comedy | Philippines |
| Love Me Forever or Never | Arnaldo Jabor | romance film, drama film | Brazil |
| Love Me Tonight | Rouben Mamoulian | comedy film, musical film | United States |
| Love Me, Love Me Not | Sylvie Groulx | drama film | Canada |
| Love Must Be Understood | Hans Steinhoff | romance film, comedy film | Germany |
| Love Nest | Joseph M. Newman | drama film, comedy film, comedy drama, romantic comedy | United States |
| Love of evil (1999) | Vladimir Zaykin | comedy film | Russia |
| Love on Skis | Rolf Randolf | — | — |
| Love on the Rocks | Dante Lam | romantic comedy | Hong Kong |
| Love on the Run | François Truffaut | romance film, drama film, flashback film | France |
 Love on the Run | W. S. Van Dyke | romantic comedy | United States |
| Love Runs Out | Roger Young II | — | South Africa |
| Love Story | Sekhar Kammula | — | India |
| Love Story | Rajiv Kumar Biswas | — | India |
| Love Story | Arthur Hiller | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Love the Coopers | Jessie Nelson | romantic comedy film, LGBTQ-related film, Christmas film | United States |
| Love Thy Neighbour | John Robins | comedy film | United Kingdom, Australia |
| Love Wins Over Hate | Susan Polis Schutz | documentary film | United States |
| Love with Privileges | Vladimir Kuchinsky | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Love's a Luxury | Francis Searle | comedy film | United Kingdom |
| Love's Confusion | Slatan Dudow | romantic comedy | Germany |
| Love's Pilgrimage to America | Lawrence Marston | — | — |
| Love, Simon | Greg Berlanti | romance film, drama film, comedy film, LGBTQ-related film | United States |
| Love-Moi | Marcel Simard | fiction film | Canada |
| Lovelace | Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman | drama film, biographical film | United States |
| Lovely & Amazing | Nicole Holofcener | drama film, comedy film | United States |
| Lovely Memory | Antonio del Amo | drama film, musical film | Spain |
| Lovely Orica | — | pink film | Japan |
| Lovely Rivals | Jang Gyu-seong | coming-of-age film, romantic comedy film, drama film | South Korea |
| Lovemilla | Teemu Nikki | comedy film | Finland |
| Lover Come Back | Delbert Mann | romantic comedy film | United States |
| Lover Come Back | William A. Seiter | romantic comedy | United States |
| Lovers | Luca Damiano | pornographic film | Spain, Italy |
| Lovey Mary | King Baggot | — | — |
| Loving Memories | Guillaume Bureau | drama film, historical film, melodrama, thriller film | France, Belgium |
| Low Life | Im Kwon-taek | drama film, action film, neo-noir, crime film | South Korea |
| Loyalty and Betrayal | Zhang Yuzhong | drama film, historical film | People's Republic of China |
| Lu over the Wall | Masaaki Yuasa | anime, disaster film | Japan |
| Lucifer-Sensommer: Gul og Sort | Roar Skolmen | drama film | Norway |
| Lucky Luciano | Francesco Rosi | drama film, crime film | France, United States, Italy |
| Lucky Partners | Lewis Milestone | — | — |
| Lucky You | Curtis Hanson | drama film | Germany, United States, Australia |
| Lucrezia Borgia | Luis Bayón Herrera | comedy film | Argentina |
| Lucy Gallant | Robert Parrish | — | — |
| Lucy in the Sky | Noah Hawley | drama film | United States |
| Ludwig II, King of Bavaria | William Dieterle | — | — |
| Luise | Matthias Luthardt | romance film, drama film, historical film | France, Germany |
| Luisito | Luis César Amadori | — | — |
 Lujuria tropical | Armando Bó | drama film | Argentina, Venezuela |
| Lukisan Ratu Kidul | Ginanti Rona | horror film, thriller film | Indonesia |
| Lullaby | Mikhail Kalik | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Lullabye for Brother | Viktor Volkov | children's film | Soviet Union |
| Lumberjacking | Mikko Niskanen | drama film, historical film, log floater film, biographical film | Finland |
| Luna | Khaled Kaissar | thriller film | Germany |
| Lupin III: The First | Takashi Yamazaki | drama film, comedy film, action film, adventure film | Japan |
| Lupin the IIIrd: Goemon Ishikawa's Spray of Blood | Takeshi Koike | anime film | Japan |
| Lust for a Vampire | Jimmy Sangster | horror film, LGBTQ-related film, vampire film, erotic film | United Kingdom |
| Lust for Freedom | Eric Louzil | women in prison film | United States |
| Lust Tango in Paris | Kovi | pornographic film | Sweden |
| Lustful Wife in Black: Aching | Minoru Kunizawa | pink film, pornographic film | Japan |
| Lustig-Gök | Markus Ernerot, Alexander Brügge | live-action/animated film | Sweden |
| Luther: The Fallen Sun | Jamie Payne | drama film, police film, thriller film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Luxury Liner | Richard Whorf | — | — |
| Lykke og krone | Colbjørn Helander | documentary film | Norway |
| Lykkelige omstændigheder | Anders W. Berthelsen | — | Denmark |
| Lyubit po-russki | Yevgeny Matveyev | drama film | Russia |
| Lyubov - smertelnaya igra | Sergey Ashkenazi | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Lyubov s ogranicheniyami | Dmitry Tyurin | comedy film, melodrama | Russia |
| Lyubov Yarovaya | Yan Frid | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Lyudmila (film) | — | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Léif Lëtzebuerger | Ray Tostevin | documentary film | United Kingdom, Luxembourg |
| Léolo | Jean-Claude Lauzon | drama film, comedy film | France, Canada |
| Lëtzebuerger an Argentinien | Daniel Atz, Astor Schiantarelli | documentary film | Luxembourg, Argentina |
 Lăutarii | Emil Loteanu | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Lửa trung tuyến | Văn Khoa Phạm | war film | Vietnam |
| L’immensità | Emanuele Crialese | drama film | Italy |
| Łuk Erosa | Jerzy Domaradzki | drama film | Poland |