| L for London | Jonni Darkko | pornographic film | United States |
| L'Air de rien | Stéphane Viard, Grégory Magne | comedy film | France |
| L'Alpagueur | Philippe Labro | action film, thriller film, crime film | France, Italy |
| L'Amant double | François Ozon | drama film, erotic thriller, thriller film, erotic film | France |
| L'amazzone mascherata | Baldassarre Negroni | — | — |
| L'Amour à mort | Alain Resnais | drama film | France |
| L'anello di Siva | Augusto Genina | — | — |
| L'Ange gardien | Jean-Sébastien Lord | drama film | Canada |
| L'Arlésienne | Albert Capellani | — | — |
| L'ascension | Ludovic Bernard | comedy film | France |
| L'Enfance Deracinée (Uprooted Generation) | Real Junior LeBlanc | essay film, documentary film | Canada |
| L'Eroe sono io! | Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia | comedy film | Italy |
| L'Odyssée du Loup | Vincent Steiger | documentary film | France |
| L'orizzonte degli eventi | Daniele Vicari | drama film | Italy |
| L'orphelin de Paris | Louis Feuillade | — | — |
| L.627 | Bertrand Tavernier | drama film, crime film | France |
| 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 |
| La Bandera | Julien Duvivier | drama film, film noir | France |
| La bicicleta | Sigfrid Monleón | drama film | Spain |
| La Bolduc | François Bouvier | biographical film | Canada |
| La boutique | Luis García Berlanga | comedy film | Argentina |
| La canzone dell'amore | Gennaro Righelli | romance film, drama film | Italy |
| La Carapate | Gérard Oury | comedy film | France |
| La carne e l'anima | Vladimir Strizhevsky | drama film | Italy |
| La Casa de los millones | Luis Bayón Herrera | — | — |
| La Chambre obscure | Marie-Christine Questerbert | drama film | France |
| La Chana | Lucija Stojevic | biographical film, documentary film | Iceland, Spain, United States |
| La chica de los anuncios | Pedro Lazaga | comedy film | Spain |
| La colle | Alexandre Castagnetti | comedy film | France |
| La conquista dei diamanti | Augusto Genina | — | — |
| La Danza de la fortuna | Luis Bayón Herrera | — | — |
| La espalda del mundo | Javier Corcuera | documentary film | Spain |
| La fuga degli amanti | Augusto Genina | — | — |
| La gent de l'escala | Jordi Fusté, Francesc Escribano i Royo | documentary film | Spain |
| La gorgona | Mario Caserini | — | — |
| La Grande Illusion | Jean Renoir | — | — |
| La guerra ed il sogno di Momi | Giovanni Pastrone | — | — |
| La guérilléra | Pierre Kast | war film | France |
| La Habanera | Douglas Sirk | — | — |
| La Karatéka | — | documentary film | Togo |
| La La Lucille | Eddie Lyons | — | — |
| La lettre | Louis Mercanton | drama film | United States |
| La leyenda de Balthasar el Castrado | Juan Miñón | drama film | Spain |
| La Lingerie | Janet Chun, Chan Hing-ka | romantic comedy | Hong Kong |
| La Lola se va a los puertos | Josefina Molina | musical film | Spain |
| La Maison de la radio | Nicolas Philibert | documentary film | France, Japan |
| La Mujer de tu prójimo | Enrique Carreras | comedy film | Spain, Argentina |
| La nación clandestina | Jorge Sanjinés | drama film | Bolivia |
| La Paloma | Paul Martin | musical comedy | Germany |
| La paura degli aeromobili nemici | André Deed | — | — |
| La película de Ana | Daniel Díaz Torres | comedy film | Cuba |
| La plaça del Diamant | Francesc Betriu | drama film | Spain |
| La Poison | Sacha Guitry | drama film, comedy film, crime film | France |
| La Première Étoile | Lucien Jean-Baptiste | comedy film | France |
| La prima pietra | Rolando Ravello | comedy film | Italy |
| La profezia dell'armadillo | Emanuele Scaringi | drama film, comedy film | Italy |
| La provinciale | Claude Goretta | drama film | France, Switzerland |
| La regina dell'isola | Attilio Fabbri | — | — |
| La riva dei bruti | Mario Camerini | adventure film | Italy |
| La rosa di Fortunio | Luciano Doria | — | — |
| La rossa | Luigi Capuano | drama film | Italy |
| La route des cieux | Jean Pierre Lefebvre | fiction film, historical film, anthology film | Canada |
| La Sarrasine | Paul Tana | drama film | Canada |
| La seconda volta non si scorda mai | Francesco Ranieri Martinotti | romantic comedy | Italy |
| La señora del intendente | Armando Bó | comedy film | Argentina |
| La Soif de l'or | Gérard Oury | comedy film | France |
| La Soupe aux choux | Jean Girault | comedy film, science fiction film | France |
| La Storia | Luigi Comencini | drama film | Italy |
| La Tahzan | Danial Rifki | drama film | Indonesia |
| La tavola dei poveri | Alessandro Blasetti | drama film, comedy film | Italy |
| La teranyina | Antoni Verdaguer i Serra | historical film | Spain |
| La Tosca | Jean Renoir, Carl Koch | drama film | Italy |
| La traversée | Varante Soudjian | comedy film | France |
| La trilogia di Dorina | Gero Zambuto | — | — |
| La Tête dans les étoiles | — | — | France |
| La tête de maman | Carine Tardieu | comedy film | France |
| La Vida en Lienzo | Gustavo Socorro | documentary film | Spain |
| La vida sense la Sara Amat | Laura Jou | drama film | Spain |
| La Vie de Bohème | Marcel L'Herbier | drama film | France, Italy |
| La Voce del sangue | Pino Mercanti | drama film | Italy |
| La voix du rossignol | Ladislas Starevich | — | — |
| La vuelta de El Coyote | Mario Camus | drama film, adventure film | Spain |
| La Vérité si je mens ! 3 | Thomas Gilou | comedy film | France |
| Laal Singh Chaddha | Advait Chandan | drama film | India |
| Labor Pains | Lara Shapiro | comedy television program, romantic comedy | United States |
| Labrador — Autopsy of Silence | Rodrigue Jean | LGBTQ-related film, thriller film, queer, indigenous peoples in Canada, crime film | Canada |
| Labyrinth | Jim Henson | coming-of-age film, fantasy film, children's film, adventure film, musical film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Labyrinthus | Douglas Boswell | family film, adventure film | Belgium, Netherlands |
| Lad, A Dog | Leslie H. Martinson, Aram Avakian | drama film | United States |
| Ladder 49 | Jay Russell | drama film, action film | United States |
| Ladder of Progress | Parviz Khatibi | — | Iran |
| Ladies and Gentleman | Siddique | comedy film | India |
| Ladies of the Mob | William A. Wellman | — | — |
| Ladies vs Ricky Bahl | Maneesh Sharma | romantic comedy | India |
| Ladroni | James Parrott | comedy film, comical film | United States |
| Lady Audley's Secret | Marshall Parker Farnum | — | — |
| Lady Be Careful | Theodore Reed | drama film | United States |
| Lady Be Good | Norman Z. McLeod | — | — |
| Lady Bird | Greta Gerwig | drama film, tragicomedy, LGBTQ-related film, comedy drama | United States |
| Lady Black Rose | Shōgorō Nishimura | pink film | Japan |
| Lady Caroline Lamb | Robert Bolt | biographical film | United Kingdom, Italy |
| Lady Chatterley | Pascale Ferran | drama film | France |
| Lady from Lisbon | Leslie S. Hiscott | — | — |
| Lady Godiva Rides Again | Frank Launder | comedy film | United Kingdom |
| Lady Gonzo - Lola Fae | Joanna Angel | pornographic film | — |
| Lady Gonzo | Jane Wilde | — | pornographic film | — |
| Lady Jane | Trevor Nunn | drama film, biographical film | United Kingdom |
| Lady Killer | Roy Del Ruth | comedy film, crime film | United States |
| Lady L | Peter Ustinov | comedy drama | France, United Kingdom, Italy |
| Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District | — | — | — |
| Lady Moonflower | — | pink film, pornographic film | Japan |
| Lady of Steel | Ho Meng Hua | action film | Hong Kong |
| Lady of the Law | — | — | British Hong Kong |
| Lady of the Tropics | Jack Conway | — | — |
| Lady Whirlwind | Huang Feng | martial arts film | Hong Kong |
| Lady, Let's Dance | Frank Woodruff | — | — |
| Ladybird, Ladybird | Ken Loach | drama film | United Kingdom |
| 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 |
| Lafayette Escadrille | William A. Wellman | romance film, drama film, war film | United States |
| Laj o lajbazi | Mehdi Reisfirooz | drama film, comedy film, action film | Iran |
| Lake Placid vs. Anaconda | A.B. Stone | monster film, horror film, crossover fiction, comedy horror | United States |
| Lake Sonata | Gunārs Cilinskis, Varis Brasla | romance film | Soviet Union |
| Lalla vinner! | Erling Bergendahl, George Schnéevoigt | children's film | Norway |
| Lamerica | Gianni Amelio | drama film | France, Italy |
| Land of Happiness | — | drama film | South Korea |
| Land of Storms | Ádám Császi | drama film, LGBTQ-related film | Germany, Hungary |
| Land of the Lost | Brad Silberling | monster film, fantasy film, science fiction film, parody film, science fiction comedy | United States |
| Land of the Pharaohs | Howard Hawks, Paul Helmick | drama film | United States |
| Landscape in White | Gianni Lepre | — | Norway, Italy |
| Lapitch the Little Shoemaker | Milan Blažeković | fantasy film, children's film, musical film | Croatia |
| Lapland Odyssey 4 | Juha Wuolijoki | comedy film | Finland |
| Lapseni on minun | Jorma Nortimo | drama film | Finland |
| Lara Croft: Tomb Raider | Simon West | fantasy film, girls with guns, action film, treasure hunt film, adventure film, science fiction film | United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, United States |
| Laramie | Ray Nazarro | Western film | United States |
| Larceny, Inc. | Lloyd Bacon | comedy film, Christmas film, heist film | United States |
| Largo Winch II | Jérôme Salle | action film, thriller film, adventure film | France, Germany, Belgium |
| Larisa | Elem Klimov | biographical film, documentary film | Soviet Union |
| LarryBoy and the Bad Apple | Tim Hodge | — | United States |
| Las orgías inconfesables de Emmanuelle | Jesús Franco | erotic film | Spain |
| Las Vegas Nights | Ralph Murphy | musical film | United States |
| Last Call | Christine Lucas | drama film | Chile |
| Last Chance Harvey | Joel Hopkins | romance film, drama film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Last Dance | David Pulbrook | thriller film | Australia |
| Last Dance | Bruce Beresford | drama film | United States |
| Last Days | Gus Van Sant | drama film | United States |
| Last Days in the Desert | Rodrigo García Márquez | drama film | United States |
| Last Days of the Victim | Adolfo Aristarain | drama film, crime film | Argentina |
| Last Flag Flying | Richard Linklater | drama film | United States |
| Last Man to Kill | Umberto Lenzi | drama film | France, Italy |
| Last of the Mobile Hot Shots | Sidney Lumet | drama film | United States |
| Last of the Pony Riders | George Archainbaud | Western film | United States |
| Last Present | Kim Yeong-jun | drama film | South Korea |
| Last Present | O Ki-hwan | romance film | South Korea |
| Last Stop 174 | Bruno Barreto | drama film, crime film | France, Brazil |
| Last Supper | Luigi Maria Giachino | — | Italy |
| Last Swim | — | — | United Kingdom |
| Last Year at Marienbad | Alain Resnais | drama film | France, Germany, Italy |
| Last Year of Berkut | Vadim Lysenko | — | Soviet Union |
| Lata dwudzieste, lata trzydzieste | Janusz Rzeszewski | comedy film | Poland |
| Late Dates | Vladimir Grigoryev | romance film, comedy drama | Soviet Union |
| Late Flowers | Abram Room | romance film, drama film, musical film | Soviet Union |
| Late for Dinner | W. D. Richter | science fiction film, comedy drama | United States |
| Late meeting | Vladimir Shredel | romance film | Soviet Union |
| Late Summer Blues | Renen Schorr | drama film | Israel |
| Latif | Mikayil Mikayilov | drama film, children's film, silent film | Soviet Union, Azerbaijan, Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic |
| Laugh and Get Rich | Gregory La Cava | comedy film | United States |
| Laughing Matters | Reetta Aalto | — | Finland |
| Laughter in the Dark | Tony Richardson | romance film, drama film | France, United Kingdom |
| Laulava sydän | Edvin Laine | — | Finland |
| Laulu sõber | Reet Kasesalu, Yuly Fogelman | comedy film | Soviet Union, Estonia |
| Laura | Otto Preminger | — | — |
| Lava Kusha | C. Pullaiah, C. S. Rao | epic film | India |
| Lavender | Kam-Hung Yip | romance film | Hong Kong |
| Law and Order | Nathan Juran | Western film | United States |
| Law for Tombstone | Buck Jones | — | — |
| Law of the Underworld | Lew Landers | drama film | United States |
| Lawful Larceny | Allan Dwan | — | — |
| Lawless Empire | Vernon Keays | Western film | United States |
| Lawless Love | Robert Thornby | — | — |
| Laws of Attraction | Peter Howitt | romantic comedy | United Kingdom, Germany, Ireland, United States |
| Laxwesa Wa - Strength of the River | Barbara Cranmer | documentary film | Canada |
| Layla M. | Mijke de Jong | drama film | Germany, Belgium, Netherlands |
| Le Building | Marco Nguyen | comedy film | France |
| Le Cake-walk du Nouveau Cirque | Alice Guy-Blaché | — | — |
| Le Chakka | Raj Chakraborty | comedy film | India |
| Le Chant des étoiles | Nadine Beaudet | documentary film | Canada |
| Le Coffre-fort | Georges Denola | — | — |
| Le comiche | Neri Parenti | comedy film | Italy |
| Le Crime de Toto | Georges Denola | — | — |
| Le Cœur des hommes 3 | Marc Esposito | comedy film | France |
| Le Diable dans la peau | Gilles Martinerie | drama film | France |
| Le Faux Soir | Michaël R. Roskam | — | Belgium |
| Le Grand Chef | Jeon Yun-su | drama film | South Korea |
| Le Grand Chef 2: Kimchi Battle | Baek Dong-hoon | drama film | South Korea |
| Le inibizioni del dottor Gaudenzi, vedovo col complesso della buonanima | Giovanni Grimaldi | comedy film | Italy |
| Le jour S… | Jean Pierre Lefebvre | drama film | Canada |
| Le leggi del desiderio | Silvio Muccino | comedy film | Italy |
| Le Lion | Ludovic Colbeau-Justin | comedy film, spy film | France |
| Le missionnaire | Roger Delattre | comedy film | France |
| Le monde nous appartient | Stephan Streker | drama film | France, Belgium |
| Le mystère des roches de Kador | Léonce Perret | — | — |
| Le Pacha | Georges Lautner | crime film | France, Italy |
| Le Plaisir | Max Ophüls | romantic comedy film, drama film | France |
| Le Pont du Nord | Jacques Rivette | drama film | France |
| Le Quattro Volte | Michelangelo Frammartino | drama film, documentary film | Germany, Italy, Switzerland |
| Le ragazze di San Frediano | Valerio Zurlini | romantic comedy | Italy |
| Le Samouraï | Jean-Pierre Melville | drama film, neo-noir, crime film | France, Italy |
| Le syndrome du Titanic | Jean-Albert Lièvre, Nicolas Hulot | documentary film | France |
| Leader's path. Astana | Akan Satajew | drama film, biographical film | Kazakhstan |
| Lean on Pete | Andrew Haigh | drama film | United Kingdom |
| Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl) | John Haptas, Carol Dysinger | documentary film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Least We Forget | Leonid Lukov | war film, biographical film | Soviet Union |
| Lebedev against Lebedev | Genrikh Gabay | drama film | Soviet Union |
| Legacy of Hate | Nino Oxilia | — | — |
| Legacy of Rage | Ronny Yu | martial arts film, drama film, action film, thriller film | Hong Kong |
| Legend | Brian Helgeland | drama film, LGBTQ-related film, thriller film, biographical film, crime film | France, United Kingdom |
| Legend | Ridley Scott | sword and sorcery film, fantasy film, cinematic fairy tale, adventure film, epic film, dark fantasy | United Kingdom, United States |
| Legend of the Bat | Chor Yuen | martial arts film, thriller film | Hong Kong |
| Legend of the Lost | Henry Hathaway | — | — |
| Legendary | Mel Damski | drama film | United States |
| Legends of the Fall | Edward Zwick | romance film, drama film, Western film, war film | United States |
| Legion | Scott Stewart | fantasy film, action film, horror film, thriller film, zombie film, apocalyptic film | United States |
| Legionnaire | Peter MacDonald | drama film, action film, adventure film, war film, boxing film | United States |
| Leif | Claes Eriksson | comedy film | Sweden |
| Lekar Hum Deewana Dil | Arif Ali | romance film | India |
| Lembri Uudu | Eeva Mägi | documentary film | Estonia |
| Lend Me Your Wife | Arne Mattsson | comedy film | Sweden |
| Lennon or McCartney | Matt Schichter | documentary film | United States |
| Leon Drey | Yevgeni Bauer | — | — |
| Leonardo da Vinci: The Mind of the Renaissance | Jean-Claude Lubtchansky | documentary film | France |
| Leone a Roma | — | documentary film | Vatican City |
| Lepiej byc piekna i bogata | Filip Bajon | comedy film | Germany, Ukraine, Hungary, Poland |
| Leprechaun | Mark Jones | fantasy film, horror film, comedy horror | United States |
| Les | Vladimir Motyl | comedy drama | Soviet Union |
| Les 11 commandements | François Desagnat, Thomas Sorriaux | anthology 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 Brigades du Tigre | Jérôme Cornuau | crime film | France |
| Les folles années du twist | Mahmoud Zemmouri | comedy film | France, Algeria |
| Les Harkis | Philippe Faucon | drama film | France, Belgium |
| Les Hussards | Alex Joffé | comedy film | France |
| Les Lions sont lâchés | Henri Verneuil | comedy film | France, Italy |
| Les malheurs d'Alfred | Pierre Richard | comedy film | France |
| Les Misérables | Tom Hooper | romance film, drama film, musical film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Les Misérables | Richard Boleslawski | drama film | United States |
| Les mois d'avril sont meurtriers | Laurent Heynemann | crime film | France |
| Les oeufs de Pâques | Segundo de Chomón | — | — |
| Les Tontons tringleurs | Alain Payet | pornographic parody film | France |
| Less Than the Dust | John Emerson | — | — |
| Lessons for tomorrow | — | melodrama | Soviet Union |
| Lessons of Darkness | Werner Herzog | documentary film | France, United Kingdom, Germany |
| Let It Be | Michael Lindsay-Hogg | music documentary film | United Kingdom |
| Let It Rain | Hannes Holm | drama film | Sweden |
| Let It Ride | Joe Pytka | comedy film | United States |
| Let Not Man Put Asunder | J. Stuart Blackton | — | — |
| Let the Bullets Fly | Jiang Wen | comedy film | People's Republic of China |
| Let the Dance Begin | Marina Seresesky | road movie, musical film, comedy drama | Spain, Argentina |
| Let the Sunshine In | Claire Denis | drama film | France |
| Let There Be Light | Marko Škop | drama film | Czech Republic, Slovakia |
| Let Us Be Gay | Robert Z. Leonard | comedy drama | United States |
| Let Us Live | John Brahm | crime film | United States |
| Let Us Meet Now | — | drama film | South Korea |
| Let's Be Cops | Luke Greenfield | comedy film, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film | United States |
| 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 Go to Bed | Kao Li | — | British Hong Kong |
| Let's Go to Prison | Bob Odenkirk | LGBTQ-related film, prison film, parody film | United States |
| Let's love again | — | — | Nigeria |
| Let's Make Laugh | Alfred Cheung | romantic comedy film | Hong Kong |
| Let's Make Music | Leslie Goodwins | musical film | United States |
| Let's Relax Shorts Program | — | family film, traditionally animated film, compilation film | United States |
| Lethal Weapon | Richard Donner | action film, thriller film, Christmas film, buddy cop film, buddy film, crime film | United States |
| Lethal Weapon 4 | Richard Donner | martial arts film, action film, thriller film, buddy cop film, buddy film | United States |
| Letter from BAM | Temur Palavandishvili | adventure film | Georgian SSR |
| Letter to America | Kira Muratova | drama film | Ukraine |
| Letters to Angel | Sulev Keedus | drama film | Estonia |
| Letters to Santa | Mitja Okorn | romantic comedy film, Christmas film | Poland |
| Leve het bruine monster | Sherman De Jesus | documentary film | Netherlands |
| Levity | Ed Solomon | drama film, thriller film, crime film | France, United States |
| Lewat Djam Malam | Usmar Ismail | — | — |
| Leyli and Majnoon | Siamak Yasemi | romance film, drama film | Iran |
| Li Shuangshuang | Lu Ren | comedy drama | People's Republic of China |
| Lianbron | Sven Nykvist | drama film | Sweden |
| Liang Po Po: The Movie | — | parody film | Singapore |
| Liar Liar | Tom Shadyac | trial film, fantasy comedy film | United States |
| 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 |
| Liberated Don Quixote | Vadim Vladimirovitch Kurchevsky | — | Soviet Union |
| Liberation of Soviet Belarus | Vladimir Korsh-Sablin, Mikola Sadkovich | documentary film | Soviet Union |
| Liberty Stands Still | Kari Skogland | romance film, drama film, crime thriller film | Canada, Germany, United States |
| Licence to Build | Éric Fraticelli | comedy film | France |
| LIE | Hanu Raghavapudi | spy film | India |
| Liebestraum | Mike Figgis | mystery film, drama film, thriller film | United States |
| Lies Inc. | César Ducasse | — | France, Norway |
| Lies My Father Told Me | Ján Kadár | drama film | Canada |
| Lieve Céline | Thomas Korthals Altes | — | Netherlands |
| Life | Daniel Espinosa | drama film, action film, horror film, thriller film, science fiction film | United States |
| Life According to Nino | Simone van Dusseldorp | family film | Netherlands |
| Life After Love | Gabriel Pelletier | romantic comedy | Canada |
| Life and Nothing But | Bertrand Tavernier | drama film | France |
| Life and Nothing More | Antonio Méndez Esparza | drama film | Spain |
| Life Begins Today | Laura Mañá | comedy film | Spain |
| Life During Wartime | Todd Solondz | comedy drama | United States |
| Life in a Year | Mitja Okorn | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Life in a... Metro | Anurag Basu | romance film, drama film | India |
| Life in Her Hands | Philip Leacock | drama film | United Kingdom |
| Life in the Citadel | Herbert Rappaport | drama film, war film | Soviet Union |
| Life in Your Hands | Nikolai Rozantsev | — | — |
| Life is All You Get | Wolfgang Becker | romance film, drama film, comedy film | Germany |
| Life is an Art | Jayant R. Harnam | thriller film | Netherlands |
| Life Is Sweet | Mike Leigh | art film, drama film, comedy film | United Kingdom |
| Life that never exists… | — | — | Russia |
| Life with Mikey | James Lapine | comedy film | United States |
| Lifeboat | Alfred Hitchcock | drama film, survival film, war film | United States |
| Lifeguard | Daniel Petrie | drama film | United States |
| Light in the Piazza | Guy Green | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Light Melody | Edvin Laine | musical film | Finland |
| Light Sleeper | Paul Schrader | drama film, crime film | United States |
| Lightnin' | John Ford | — | — |
| Lightning Guns | Fred F. Sears | Western film | United States |
| Lightyear | Angus MacLane | family film, comedy film, adventure film, science fiction film, superhero fiction, animated film with LGBT character(s) | United States |
| Like a Prince | Ali Marhyar | comedy film | France |
| Like a Spiral | Lamia Chraibi | documentary film | Canada |
| Like for Likes | Park Hyun-jin | drama film | South Korea |
| Lilies of the Field | Ralph Nelson | drama film, comedy film | United States |
| Lilla Jönssonligan och cornflakeskuppen | Christjan Wegner | comedy film | Sweden |
| Lilla Jönssonligan på styva linan | Christjan Wegner | comedy film | Sweden |
| Lilly The Little Fish | Yassen Grigorov | romance film, fantasy film, comedy film, adventure film | Bulgaria |
| Lilo & Stitch | Dean Fleischer Camp | fantasy film, comedy film, science fiction film, comedy drama | United States |
| Lily of Killarney | Maurice Elvey | musical film | United Kingdom |
| Lily of the Dust | Dimitri Buchowetzki | — | — |
| Lily van Java | Nelson Wong | — | — |
| Lilya 4-ever | Lukas Moodysson | teen film, drama film, crime film | Estonia, Sweden, Denmark |
| Limited Life | — | drama film | Soviet Union |
| 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 |
| Linear | Anton Corbijn | — | United Kingdom |
| Lines of Escape | Catherine Chabot, Miryam Bouchard | comical satyre | Canada |
| Lingonberries in the Forest | Yevgeny Vasilyev | — | Soviet Union |
| Link | Richard Franklin | horror film, science fiction film | United Kingdom |
| Lisa | Gary Sherman | drama film, crime film | United States |
| Lisbela e o Prisioneiro | Guel Arraes | romance film, comedy film, romantic comedy | Brazil |
| Lissy | Konrad Wolf | drama film | East Germany |
| Listen Before You Sing | — | comedy film | Taiwan |
| Lita på mej älskling | Sven Lindberg | comedy film | Sweden |
| Little 'Tinker | Tex Avery | family film, comedy film | United States |
| Little Allan - The Human Antenna | Amalie Næsby Fick | cinematic fairy tale, animated film, adventure film | Denmark |
| Little Ashes | Paul Morrison | drama film, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film | United Kingdom, Spain |
| Little Bear | Vyacheslav Prokopenko | family film | Soviet Union |
| Little Bear: Parties & Picnics | Arna Selznick, Charles E. Bastien, Raymond Jafelice | family film, animated film, short film | Canada, United States |
| Little Big Girl | Morten Køhlert | drama film, family film | Sweden, Denmark |
| Little Big One | Pascal Becker | — | Luxembourg |
| Little Boy Lost | William Perlberg, George Seaton, Marghanita Laski | drama film | United States |
| Little Children | Todd Field | romance film, drama film, independent film, crime film | United States |
| Little Girl | Rainer Frimmel, Tizza Covi | drama film | Italy, Austria |
| Little Girl Blue | Mona Achache | drama film, docudrama | France, Belgium |
| Little Girl Blue | Alice Nellis | drama film, comedy film | Czech Republic, Slovakia |
| Little Girl Blue | Anna Luif | teen film, drama film, comedy film | Switzerland |
| Little Grey Fergie and His New Friend Clunky | Trond Jacobsen | family film | Norway |
| Little Indi | Marc Recha | drama film | Spain |
| Little Isles of Freedom | Victor Stoloff | documentary film | United States |
| Little Joe | Jessica Hausner | drama film, science fiction film | United Kingdom, Germany, Austria |
| Little Jole | Nikša Fulgosi | comedy film | Yugoslavia |
| Little Loves | Celia Rico Clavellino | drama film | Spain |
| Little Man Tate | Jodie Foster | drama film | United States |
| Little Mary Sunshine | Henry King | — | — |
| Little Miss Happiness | John G. Adolfi | — | — |
| Little Miss Sunshine | Valerie Faris, Jonathan Dayton | drama film, comedy film, road movie | United States |
| Little Mother | Henry Koster | comedy film | First Republic of Austria, Kingdom of Hungary |
| Little Nicholas' Treasure | Julien Rappeneau | family film, comedy film | France |
| Little Nicky | Steven Brill | romantic comedy film, fantasy film, comedy film | United States |
| Little Old New York | Sidney Olcott | — | — |
| Little Orvie | Ray McCarey | comedy film | United States |
| Little Paradise | Paul Riniker | romance film, drama film | Switzerland |
| Little Presents | Jack Witikka | drama film | Finland |
| Little Red Monkey | Ken Hughes | — | — |
| Little School Orchestra | Mykola Rasheiev, Oleksandr Muratov | musical film | Soviet Union |
| Little Snow Animal | Miia Tervo | live-action/animated film, documentary film | Finland |
| Little Tougas | Jean-Guy Noël | — | Canada |
| Little Toys | Sun Yu | — | — |
| Little Valentino | András Jeles | drama film | Hungary |
| Little White Lies | Guillaume Canet | drama film, comedy film, LGBTQ-related film | France |
| 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 |
| Liu Sanjie | Su Li | — | People's Republic of China |
| Live and Let Die | Guy Hamilton | action film, spy film, blaxploitation film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Live Free or Die Hard | Len Wiseman | action film, action thriller, buddy cop film, buddy film | United States |
| Live Long | Frunze Dovlatyan | melodrama | Soviet Union |
| Live Wire | Christian Duguay | action film | United States |
| Living Images | Hardi Volmer | historical film | Estonia |
| Living on Love | Lew Landers | — | — |
| Living on the Edge | Rodrigue Jean | documentary film | Canada |
| Liz and the Blue Bird | Naoko Yamada | coming-of-age film, drama film, coming-of-age anime and manga, slice of life anime and manga | Japan |
| Lizzie | Hugo Haas | — | — |
| Loch Ness | John Henderson | fantasy film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Lockdown | Stephen Reynolds | action film, crime thriller film | United States |
| Locke | Steven Knight | drama film, road movie | United Kingdom, United States |
| Locked Lips | William C. Dowlan | — | — |
| Loco por ella | Dani de la Orden | romance film, comedy film | Spain |
| Locust | Egor Baranov | drama film, thriller film, erotic film | Russia |
| Logorama | Hervé de Crécy, François Alaux, Ludovic Houplain | parody | France |
| LOL | Lisa Azuelos | teen film, comedy film | France |
| Lollipop | Aman Manteghi | drama film | Iran |
| London | Patrick Keiller | essay film | United Kingdom |
| London After Midnight | Tod Browning | — | — |
| London Boulevard | William Monahan | romance film, drama film, film noir, crime thriller film | United Kingdom, United States |
| London Has Fallen | Babak Najafi | action film, thriller film | United Kingdom, United States |
| London to Brighton in Four Minutes | — | — | — |
| Loneliness | — | historical film | Soviet Union |
| Lonely Are the Brave | Kirk Douglas, David Miller | drama film, Western film | United States |
| Lonely Heart Bandits | George Blair | drama film | United States |
| Long Flat Balls II | Harald Zwart | war film | Norway |
| Long Legs, Long Fingers | Alfred Vohrer | comedy film | Germany |
| Long Live the Lady! | Ermanno Olmi | drama film, comedy film | Italy |
| Long Live the Republic! | Karel Kachyňa | drama film, war film | Czechoslovakia |
| Long Shot | Jonathan Levine | comedy film, romantic comedy | United States |
| Long Time Dead | Marcus Adams | slasher film | France, United Kingdom |
| Long Way North | Rémi Chayé | drama film, animated film, adventure film | France, Denmark |
| Long, Long Childhood | Bulat Yusupov | drama film | Russia |
| Look at Me | Agnès Jaoui | coming-of-age film, romantic comedy film, drama film | France, Italy |
| Look Back! | T. R. Sundaram | — | — |
| Look Out, Officer! | Sze Yu Lau | ghost film, slapstick | Hong Kong |
| Looker | Nic Cramer | mystery film, drama film, pornographic film, thriller film, crime film | United States |
| Lookin' to Get Out | Hal Ashby | comedy film | United States |
| Looking for Golden Phallus | Sebastián Alarcón | comedy film | Russia, Chile |
| Looking for Richard | Al Pacino | drama film, documentary film | United States |
| Looking Forward | Clarence Brown | — | — |
| Loop | Allan Niblo | comedy film | United Kingdom |
| Loose Cannons | Ferzan Özpetek | comedy film, LGBTQ-related film | Italy |
| Loose Connections | Richard Eyre | romantic comedy film | United Kingdom, Australia |
| Loose Ends 4: The Ultimate Tail | Bruce Seven, Raven Touchstone | pornographic film, adventure film | United States |
| Loose Ends 5: The New Generation | Bruce Seven | pornographic film | United States |
| Loose Ends 6: The Dark Side | Bruce Seven | fantasy film, pornographic film, adventure film | United States |
| Lootcase | Rajesh Krishnan | romantic comedy | India |
| Lootera | Vikramaditya Motwane | romance film | India |
| Lord Byron of Broadway | William Nigh, Harry Beaumont | romance film, musical film | United States |
| Lord Camber's Ladies | Benn Levy | drama film | United Kingdom |
| Lord Jeff | Sam Wood | — | — |
| Lord of War | Andrew Niccol | drama film, action film, crime film | Germany, United States |
| Lord, Forgive Us, Sinners | Artur Voytetsky | drama film, historical film | Ukraine |
| Loreak | Jose Mari Goenaga, Jon Garaño | drama film | Spain |
| Loro | Paolo Sorrentino | anthology film | France, Italy |
| Los chicos del Preu | Pedro Lazaga | comedy film | Spain |
| Los Hombres sólo piensan en eso | Enrique Cahen Salaberry | comedy film | Argentina |
| Los pájaros de Baden-Baden | Mario Camus | drama film | Spain, Switzerland |
| Los Tigres | Alberto Rodríguez Librero | thriller film, crime film | France, Spain |
| Lost | Driss Roukhe | mystery film, drama film, thriller film, psychological thriller, crime film | Morocco |
| Lost and Found | Jung-hwa Chung | romance film, comedy film | South Korea |
| Lost Command | Mark Robson | drama film, war film | France, United States |
| Lost Dreams | Alekos Sakellarios | drama film | Greece |
| Lost in Space | Stephen Hopkins | time-travel film, action film, thriller film, adventure film, science fiction film | United States |
| Lost in the Dark | Camillo Mastrocinque | drama film | Italy |
| Lost Years | Richard Foster Baker | — | — |
| Louder Than a Bomb | Greg Jacobs, Jon Siskel | documentary film | United States |
| Louise's Garden | Maciej Wojtyszko, Elzbieta Sikorska | slice of life | Poland |
| Love 65 | Bo Widerberg | drama film | Sweden |
| Love 911 | Jeong Gi-hun | romance film, drama film | South Korea |
| Love Aaj Kal Porshu | Pratim D. Gupta | romance film | India |
| Love According to Dalva | Emmanuelle Nicot | drama film | France, Belgium |
| Love Affair | Leo McCarey | romance film, drama film | United States |
| Love Affair(s) | Emmanuel Mouret | romance film, drama film | France |
| Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator | Dušan Makavejev | romance film, drama film | Yugoslavia, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
| Love After Love | Ann Hui | romantic drama | People's Republic of China |
| Love Along a River | Toivo Särkkä | drama film, historical film | Finland |
| Love and Death at Fuji Speedway | Tōru Murakawa | erotic film | Japan |
| Love and Monsters | Michael Matthews | post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film | United States |
| Love and Pigeons | Vladimir Menshov | romance film, comedy drama | Soviet Union |
| Love at First Fight | Thomas Cailley | romance film, comedy film | France |
| Love at First Sight | Rezo Esadze | comedy film | Georgian SSR |
| Love at Second Sight | Hugo Gélin | romance film, comedy film | France, Belgium |
| Love Emergency | Will Ryder | pornographic film | United States |
| Love Foolery Case for Dismembered Body | Daisuke Yamanouchi | pink film | Japan |
| Love Hard | Hernán Jiménez | romance film, comedy film, Christmas film | United States |
| Love Hotel | Shinji Sōmai | pink film, pornographic film | Japan |
| Love Hurts | Jonathan Eusebio | romance film, action film, crime film | United States |
| Love Impossible | Jeong Cho-sin | romance film, drama film | South Korea |
| Love in a Wood | Maurice Elvey | — | — |
| Love in the Big City | Lee Eon-hee | romance film | South Korea |
| Love in the Rough | Charles Reisner | musical film | United States |
| Love in the Sixth | Jude Klassen | — | Canada |
| Love in the Time of Cholera | Mike Newell | drama film | United States |
| Love in the Time of Civil War | Rodrigue Jean | drama film, LGBTQ-related film | Canada |
| Love in Vegas | Maryus Vaysberg | melodrama, slapstick | Russia, Ukraine |
| 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 | Hall Bartlett | — | United States |
| Love is in the Web | Kovi | pornographic film | Sweden |
| Love Is Love | Rob Schneider | romance film, comedy film | Mexico |
| Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon | John Maybury | drama film, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film | France, United Kingdom |
| Love is War | Omoni Oboli | comedy drama | Nigeria |
| Love Khichdi | Srinivas Bhashyam | drama film | India |
| Love Letter | Kinuyo Tanaka | — | — |
| Love Letters | William Dieterle | romance film, mystery film, drama film | United States |
| Love Lies Bleeding | Rose Glass | romance film, lesbian-related film, thriller film, crime film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Love like there's no tomorrow | Christos Nikoleris | — | Greece |
| Love Machine 2 | Andreas Schmied | comedy film | Austria |
| Love Makeup | Ishirō Honda | — | — |
| Love Me | Sam Zuchero, Andrew Zuchero | romance film, drama film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film | United States |
| Love Me Again | Rory Quintos | romantic comedy | Philippines |
| Love Me, Love Me Not | Sylvie Groulx | drama film | Canada |
| Love Nest | Joseph M. Newman | drama film, comedy film, comedy drama, romantic comedy | United States |
| Love Never Dies | Luis César Amadori | — | — |
| Love of evil (1999) | Vladimir Zaykin | comedy film | Russia |
| Love on the Run | François Truffaut | romance film, drama film, flashback film | France |
| Love Pain Kuch Bhi Karega | Ashok Pati | — | India |
| Love Phobia | Ji-eun Kang | romance film | South Korea |
| Love Storming | Borja Cobeaga | romantic comedy film | Spain |
| Love Story | Sekhar Kammula | — | India |
| Love Tales | — | — | United States |
| Love Talk | Lee Yun-ki | romance film, drama film | South Korea |
| Love Thy Neighbour | John Robins | comedy film | United Kingdom, Australia |
| Love Waits | Donald James Parker, Chip Rossetti | — | United States |
| Love Wins Out | Gustaf Molander | drama film | Sweden |
| Love Wins Over Hate | Susan Polis Schutz | documentary film | United States |
| Love Without End | Doe Ching | romance film | Hong Kong |
| Love's Blindness | John Francis Dillon | — | — |
| Love's Confusion | Slatan Dudow | romantic comedy | Germany |
| Love's Labour's Lost | Kenneth Branagh | romantic comedy film, musical film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Love's Pay Day | E. Mason Hopper | — | — |
| Love's Whirlpool | Daisuke Miura, Daisuke Miura | romance film, erotic film | Japan |
| Love, Lies | Park Heung-sik | drama film, musical film | South Korea |
| Love, Life and Laughter | Maurice Elvey | romance film, drama film, comedy film, musical film | United Kingdom |
| Love, Sex and TV News | Will Ryder | romance film, comedy film, pornographic film | United States |
| Love-Moi | Marcel Simard | fiction film | Canada |
| Lovely & Amazing | Nicole Holofcener | drama film, comedy film | United States |
| Lovely Chubby | — | romance film, pink film | Japan |
| Lovemilla | Teemu Nikki | comedy film | Finland |
| Loveparade – Als die Liebe tanzen lernte | — | documentary film | Germany |
| Lover for a Day | Philippe Garrel | drama film | France |
| Loveria | Raja Chanda | romantic comedy | India |
| Lovers | Luca Damiano | pornographic film | Spain, Italy |
| Lovers and Luggers | Ken G. Hall | — | — |
| Lovers on Trial | Manu Bonmariage | documentary film | Belgium |
| Lovey Mary | King Baggot | — | — |
| Loveyatri | Abhiraj Minawala | — | India |
| Loviisa – Niskavuoren nuori emäntä | Valentin Vaala | drama film | Finland |
| Lovis, rybka! | — | puppet film | Soviet Union |
| Low Life | Im Kwon-taek | drama film, action film, neo-noir, crime film | South Korea |
| Lowlands | Adolf Edgar Licho | — | — |
| Lu over the Wall | Masaaki Yuasa | anime, disaster film | Japan |
| Lu Xun | — | — | China |
| Lucciola | Augusto Genina | — | — |
| Luces de Buenos Aires | Adelqui Migliar Icardi | musical film | United States, Argentina |
| Lucette | Maurice Champreux | — | — |
| Lucia di Lammermoor | Oleh Biima | opera film | Soviet Union |
| Lucid Dream | Joon-Sung Kim | science fiction film | South Korea |
| Lucknow Central | Ranjit Tewari | drama film, action film | India |
| Lucky in Love | Johan Nijenhuis | romance film, comedy film | Netherlands |
| Lucky Kids | Paul Martin | comedy film | German Reich |
| Lucy Gallant | Robert Parrish | — | — |
| Lucy in the Sky | Noah Hawley | drama film | United States |
| Lucy ist jetzt Gangster | Till Endemann | family film, comedy film, children's film | Germany, Netherlands |
| Lucía, Lucía | Antonio Serrano | drama film, comedy thriller, LGBTQ-related film, romantic comedy | Spain, Mexico |
| Ludovic: The Snow Gift | Co Hoedeman | animated film | Canada |
| Ludwig II, King of Bavaria | William Dieterle | — | — |
| Lujuria tropical | Armando Bó | drama film | Argentina, Venezuela |
| Lumières sur l'eau | Ariel Saint-Louis Lamoureux, Nicolas Lachapelle | documentary film | Canada |
| Luna | Khaled Kaissar | thriller film | Germany |
| Luna | Pavel Klushantsev | popular science film, science fiction film | Soviet Union |
| Lunch Box | Imaoka Shinji | pink film, erotic film | Japan |
| Lungo il fiume | Ermanno Olmi | documentary film | Italy |
| Luottomies-elokuva: Lepoloma | Kari Ketonen | comedy film | Finland |
| Lupin III: Strange Psychokinetic Strategy | Takashi Tsuboshima | adventure film | Japan |
| Lupin the IIIrd: Goemon Ishikawa's Spray of Blood | Takeshi Koike | anime film | Japan |
| Lured | Douglas Sirk | comedy film, film noir, crime film | United States |
| Lurich | Valentin Kuik | historical film | Soviet Union |
| Lustig-Gök | Markus Ernerot, Alexander Brügge | live-action/animated film | Sweden |
| Lustrous Pearls | — | — | — |
| Là-bas – Criminal Education | Guido Lombardi | drama film | Italy |
| Länge leve bonusfamiljen | Felix Herngren | drama film, comedy film | Sweden |
| Léon: The Professional | Luc Besson | mystery film, drama film, action film, crime thriller film, buddy film, gangster film, crime film | France, United States |
| Lëtzebuerger an Argentinien | Daniel Atz, Astor Schiantarelli | documentary film | Luxembourg, Argentina |