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Lucky in Love

Romance, Comedy
<p>For Mira Simon (Jessica Szohr), it feels like a prank when all of her dreams start coming true on April Fool's Day. An April Fool, however, she is not. After three of her own tricks materialize, Mira finds herself promoted to the perfect job, dating the perfect man, and living in the perfect home. Her huge promotion even allows her to work directly with her professional hero, CEO Erin Billings (Deidre Hall) and her friend, Jonah (Ben Hollingsworth), on a massive social media website relaunch. </p><p>Even though it's the life she's always dreamed of, Mira starts to realize that actually living this dream is much harder than she imagined. The pressure at work builds up to a boiling point, a busy schedule keeps her from spending any quality time with her friends, and her seemingly-perfect boyfriend turns out to be less than perfect for her. What once seemed like April Fool's Day fortune is turning out to be a big joke on Mira. </p><p>With the support of Erin, her colleagues, and her friends, Mira must find a way to reconcile her new "perfect" life with reality. Now that April Fool's Day is in her rearview mirror, can Mira step up to the challenges in front of her and prove that she's "Lucky in Love?"</p>
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Lucky Number Slevin

Comedy, Thriller
<p>Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city&#8217;s biggest criminal bosses. Under constant watch, Slevin must try not to get killed by an infamous assassin and come up with an idea of how to get out of his current dilemma.</p>
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Lucky One, The

Romance, Drama
<p>A Marine travels to Louisiana after serving three tours in Iraq and searches for the unknown woman he believes was his good luck charm during the war.</p>
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Lucky Ones, The

Comedy, Drama
<p>When three very different U.S. soldiers find themselves on an unplanned road trip across America, they form a deep bond that may be the closest thing any of them has to real family. A humorous and timely drama about coming home, "The Lucky Ones" stars Rachel McAdams ("The Notebook," "Wedding Crashers"), Tim Robbins ("Mystic River," "The Shawshank Redemption") and Michael Pena ("Crash," "World Trade Center"), and is directed by Neil Burger ("The Illusionist") from a screenplay by Burger and Dirk Wittenborn.</p><p>T.K. Poole (Michael Pena), Colee Dunn (Rachel McAdams) and Fred Cheever (Tim Robbins) arrive in New York from Germany only to find their connecting flights canceled due to a power outage. Anxious to get to their respective destinations, they agree to share a rented minivan to suburban St. Louis where Cheever is to reunite with his wife and teenage son. From there, the other two plan to fly to Las Vegas where the macho T.K. wants to make an important stop before seeing his fiancee and the tough yet naive Colee plans to pay a visit to a fallen fellow-soldier's family.</p><p>But when Cheever's homecoming turns out to be a far cry from what he anticipated, the trio's one-day drive expands into an impromptu cross-country marathon. Along the way, they experience a string of surprising adventures ranging from the hilarious to the heartbreaking. As their interstate journey takes them from a barroom brawl to a high society dance to a bizarre Sunday morning church service, T.K., Colee and Cheever discover that home is not quite what they remembered and the unlikely companionship they've found in one another might be what matters most of all.</p>
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Lucky Sky Diamond

At the clinic where her boyfriend Katayama, a young genius doctor, is the director, Yoko, a young girl who continues to suffer from eerie nightmares every day, is not getting better despite the care of her sister Sakurako and Katayama's treatment. Sakurako, the sister, is suspicious of Yoko's condition and confronts Katayama, who tells her that she suffers from a serious mental disorder and that the only way to cure it is to have brain surgery. Yoko, despite being persuaded by her sister and Katayama, agrees to the surgery, although she is skeptical...
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Lucky Stiff

Musical, Comedy
<p>A young down-and-out British shoe salesman named Harry Witherspoon takes his dead American uncle to Monte Carlo for the best time of his life-a week of fun, dancing, gambling and sun. If the young man fulfills his uncle's request to the letter, he will inherit the $6 million left to him. If he doesn't, the money will go to the Universal Dog Home of Brooklyn. </p><p>As Harry races from casino to nightclub to beach to bedroom with his dead uncle, he is chased by a desperate put-upon optometrist; his controlling, myopic, trigger-happy sister; an avaricious French chanteuse; a mysterious Italian playboy; as well as a young woman from Brooklyn dead set on getting that money for the dogs. </p><p>Guns go off, disguises go on, champagne corks pop, nightmares come to life, romance blossoms, dogs bark, and everyone sings! It's a zany, frothy, colorful and fast-paced musical farce with a very happy ending.</p>
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Lucky Them

Drama, Comedy
<p>More interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work, veteran rock journalist Ellie Klug has one last chance to prove her value to her magazine&#8217;s editor: a no-stone-unturned search to discover what really happened to long lost rock god, Matt Smith, who also happens to be her ex-boyfriend. Teaming up with an eccentric amateur documentary filmmaker, Ellie hits the road in search of answers.</p>
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Lucky You

Drama, Comedy
<p>In "Lucky You," director Curtis Hanson ("L.A. Confidential," "Wonder Boys," "8 Mile") brings us a story based in the world of high-stakes Las Vegas poker. Huck Cheever (Eric Bana) is a blaster-a player who goes all out, all the time. But in his personal relationships, Huck plays it tight, expertly avoiding emotional commitments and long-term expectations. When Huck sets out to win the main event of the 2003 World Series of Poker-and the affections of Billie Offer (Drew Barrymore), a young singer from Bakersfield-there is one significant obstacle in his path: his father, L.C. Cheever (Robert Duvall), the poker legend who abandoned Huck's mother years ago.</p> <p>As these two rivals progress toward a final showdown at the poker table, Huck learns that to win in the games of life and poker, he must try to play cards the way he has been living his life and live his life the way he has been playing cards.</p>
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Lucy

Action, Thriller
<p>A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.</p>
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Lucy and Desi

Documentary
<p>This film will explore the rise of comedian icon Lucille Ball, her relationship with Desi Arnaz, and how their groundbreaking sitcom I Love Lucy forever changed Hollywood, cementing her legacy long after her death in 1989.</p>
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Lucy and the Boundless Sky

Animation
<p>A father brings his daughter to a ceremony, where she will fly off to become a star in the sky.</p>
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Lucy in the Sky

Drama, Sci-Fi
<p>In "Lucy in the Sky", Natalie Portman plays Lucy Cola, a strong woman whose determination and drive as an astronaut take her to space, where she's deeply moved by the transcendent experience of seeing her life from afar. Back home as Lucy's world suddenly feels too small, her connection with reality slowly unravels.</p>
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Lucy Shimmers and the Prince of Peace

Second chances start when a hardened criminal crosses paths with a precocious little girl who is helped by an angel to change hearts during the holiday season.
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Luke Cage

Action, Drama, Fantasy
<p>A wrongly convicted man, escaping from prison after gaining superhuman strength and endurance, becomes a superhero mercenary.</p>
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Lullaby

Drama, Comedy
<p>Estranged from his family, Jonathan (Hedlund) discovers his father has decided to take himself off life support in forty-eight hours' time. During this intensely condensed period, a lifetime of drama plays out. Robert (Jenkins) fights a zero sum game to reclaim all that his illness stole from his family. A debate rages on patients' rights and what it truly means to be free. Jonathan reconciles with his father, reconnects with his mother (Archer), sister (Brown-Findlay), and his love (Adams) and reclaims his voice through two unlikely catalysts-a young, wise-beyond-her-years patient (Barden) and a no-nonsense nurse (Hudson). Through this intensely life-affirming prism, an unexpected and powerful journey of love, laughter, and forgiveness unfolds.</p>
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Lullaby for Pi

Romance, Drama
<p>Since his wife Josephine died, Sam lost his way. Abandoning the bar where he used to perform dazzling concerts, he spends his nights alone in the hotel room where he first met her. The concierge, George, his best friend and mischievous guardian angel, takes on to shaking Sam's world by messing with the hotel keys. One night, a distressed girl thus burst into Sam's shelter and locks herself in the bathroom.</p><p>Lulled by Sam's comforting voice, Pi, as fragile and mysterious as her name, suggests an odd seductive game: to meet again in this hotel room, to open up night after night through the bathroom door and to open it only when they'll be ready to love each other. Pi is the spark that Sam was waiting for to fire up his world and come back to life and on stage again.</p>
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Lullaby, The

Horror
<p>Returning to her home town, Eden Rock, and overwhelmed by the birth of her first born, Chloe van Heerden (19) tries to come to terms with motherhood. Despite the support from her loving mother, Ruby (35), Chloe struggles with the demand of being a new mom. The incessant crying of her baby, the growing sense of guilt and paranoia sends Chloe into a dark depression. With a heightened urge to protect her son, Chloe sees danger in every situation. Distraught she pays a visit to family psychologist Dr. Timothy Reed (40s) who diagnoses her intrusive thoughts and feelings of anxiousness to a mild case of baby blues. Yet the thoughts grow worse and more violent. Chloe starts to hear voices and humming of a childhood lullaby and sees flashes of a strange entity around her child. Convinced that the entity is real, Chloe does everything in her power to protect her son. Her decline reaches fever pitch, and everybody seems to be moving against her. Desperate, Chloe finds solace in the arms of her.</p>
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Lumberjack Man

Horror
<p>As the staff of Good Friends Church Camp prepares for a spring break filled with &quot;Fun Under the Son&quot;, a demon logger rises from his sap boiler to wreak his vengeance and feast on flapjacks soaked in the blood of his victims.</p>
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Lumberjanes

Supernatural, Thriller
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Luna

Drama
<p>With the moon hurtling toward Earth and the world unraveling, one woman&apos;s quiet descent into solitude mirrors the chaos above. As doomsday approaches, Selene-adrift in grief and silence-finds an unexpected connection in the sky&apos;s slow collapse. A haunting, poetic journey through memory and meaning, The Award winning Luna is a meditative tale of endings, and the peace we find when we stop running from them.</p>
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Lunar Park

Biography, Drama
<p>Lunar Park is Ellis' most autobiographical work, in which the author-narrator is a narcissistic, self-pitying drug fiend who gets a shot at redemption when movie star Jayne Dennis, an old flame, offers to marry him. The deal is that he must now connect with Robby, the son he has shunned for 11 years.</p>
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Lunch Witch, The

Fantasy
<p>For generations and generations, the women of Grunhilda's family have stirred up trouble in a big, black pot. Grunhilda inherits her famous ancestors' recipes and cauldron, but no one believes in magic anymore. Despite the fact that her only useful skill is cooking up potfuls of foul brew, she finds a job listing that might suit her: lunch lady.</p><p> Grunhilda delights in scaring the kids until she meets a timid little girl named Madison with a big set of glasses who becomes an unlikely friend. Madison needs help at school and at home, but helping people goes against everything Grunhilda's believes in as a witch. Will this girl be able to thaw the Lunch Witch's icy heart? Or will Grunhilda turn her back on a kindred spirit?</p>
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Lunchbox, The

Drama, Romance
<p>A mistaken delivery in Mumbai&apos;s famously efficient lunchbox delivery system (Mumbai&apos;s Dabbawallahs) connects a young housewife to a stranger in the dusk of his life. They build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Gradually, this fantasy threatens to overwhelm their reality.</p>
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Lundon's Bridge and the Three Keys

Animation, Fantasy
<p>Ancient sea-magic turns a dolphin into a human, an evil spell changes a teenage boy into a dragonfly and a once good and loving jellyfish queen becomes an evil fairy godmother. This story, filled with adventure after adventure uses family love and the magic of belief as weapons to fight a war between the land and the sea.</p>
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Lupin the IIIRD: The Movie - The Immortal Bloodline

Animation
<p>After fending off a series of skilled assassins, gentleman thief Lupin III and his band of allies follow a strange invitation to an uncharted island. When their plane is shot down, the gang is stranded and soon hunted by the island&#8217;s inhabitants, past enemies, and a monstrous immortal being known as Muom, who threatens to destroy Lupin&apos;s legacy. As a deadly toxic fog settles over them, Lupin must confront his greatest enemy in his most daring escapade yet.</p>
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Lure, The

Comedy, Drama, Horror
<p>In this bold, genre-defying horror-musical mashup - the playful and confident debut of Polish director Agnieszka Smoczynska - a pair of carnivorous mermaid sisters are drawn ashore in an alternate '80s Poland to explore the wonders and temptations of life on land. </p><p>Their tantalizing siren songs and otherworldly aura make them overnight sensations as nightclub singers in the half-glam, half-decrepit fantasy world of Smoczynska’s imagining. In a visceral twist on Hans Christian Andersen's original Little Mermaid tale, one sister falls for a human, and as the bonds of sisterhood are tested, the lines between love and survival get blurred.</p><p> A savage coming-of-age fairytale with a catchy new-wave soundtrack, lavishly grimy sets, and outrageous musical numbers, "The Lure" explores its themes of sexuality, exploitation, and the compromises of adulthood with energy and originality.</p>
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Lust for Life

Drama, Biography, Music
<p>A biopic about the legendary collaboration between pop stars David Bowie and Iggy Pop in 1970s West Berlin.</p>
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Lust for Love

Romance, Comedy
<p>Winning your childhood sweetheart can create more problems than it solves.</p>
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Lust, Caution

Thriller, Drama
<p>The new film from Ang Lee, the Academy Award-winning director of "Brokeback Mountain" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." A startling erotic espionage thriller about the fate of an ordinary woman's heart, it is based on the short story by revered Chinese author Eileen Chang, and stars Asian cinema icon Tony Leung opposite screen newcomer Tang Wei. Shanghai, 1942. The World War II Japanese occupation of this Chinese city continues in force. Mrs. Mak, a woman of sophistication and means, walks into a café, places a call, and then sits and waits. She remembers... how her story began several years earlier, in 1938 China. She is not in fact Mrs. Mak, but shy Wong Chia Chi (Tang Wei). With WWII underway, Wong has been left behind by her father, who has escaped to England. As a freshman at university, she meets fellow student Kuang Yu Min (Wang Leehom) Kuang has started a drama society to shore up patriotism. As the theater troupe's new leading lady, Wong realizes that she has found her calling, able to move and inspire audiences – and Kuang. He convenes a core group of students to carry out a radical and ambitious plan to assassinate a top Japanese collaborator, Mr. Yee (Tony Leung). Each student has a part to play; Wong will be Mrs. Mak, who will gain Yee's trust by befriending his wife (Joan Chen) and then draw the man into an affair. Wong transforms herself utterly inside and out, and the scenario proceeds as scripted – until an unexpectedly fatal twist spurs her to flee. Shanghai, 1941. With no end in sight for the occupation, Wong – having emigrated from Hong Kong – goes through the motions of her existence. Much to her surprise, Kuang re-enters her life. Now part of the organized resistance, he enlists her to again become Mrs. Mak in a revival of the plot to kill Yee, who as head of the collaborationist secret service has become even more a key part of the puppet government. As Wong reprises her earlier role, and is drawn ever closer to her dangerous prey, she finds her very identity being pushed to the limit...</p>
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Luteal

<p>A comical modern tale of a girl asking herself why she&#8217;s irritated all the time, and trying everything in order to change.</p>
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LUV

Drama
<p>An 11-year-old boy gets a crash course in what it means to be a man when he spends a day with the uncle he idolizes in LUV, a poignant and gritty coming-of-age story featuring standout performances by Common, Danny Glover, Dennis Haysbert, Charles S. Dutton and newcomer Michael Rainey Jr. With his mother in rehab and his father out of the picture, young Woody Watson (Michael Rainey Jr.) lives with his grandmother (Lonette McKee) in suburban Baltimore and longs for his family to be reunited. His charismatic Uncle Vincent (Common) has recently returned home after eight years in prison, determined to straighten out his life by opening a high-end crab shack that will establish him as a solid citizen with a legitimate future. Soon Vincent finds himself pulled back into the violent world he is trying to escape - and Woody has to decide whether to follow his hero- or become his own man.</p>
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Luxor

Drama, Romance
<p>When British aid worker Hana (Andrea Riseborough) returns to the ancient city of Luxor, she comes across Sultan (Karim Saleh), a talented archaeologist and former lover. As she wanders, haunted by the familiar place, she struggles to reconcile the choices of the past with the uncertainty of the present. </p>
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LVLS Agituoja

<p>In just one breathtaking minute, LVLS Agituoja delivers a pulse-pounding micro-thriller that wastes no time immersing viewers in its high-stakes world. The film follows a lone protagonist, Agituoja, who finds themselves trapped in a surreal, labyrinthine environment where every second counts. Driven by an urgent, undefined mission, the character must navigate a series of cryptic visual cues and escalating obstacles that blur the line between reality and illusion. The central conflict emerges from a relentless countdown, forcing Agituoja to make split-second decisions that could determine their fate. The atmosphere is tense and claustrophobic, with a minimalist yet striking visual style that amplifies the sense of urgency and disorientation. Though brief, the narrative hints at deeper mysteries lurking beneath the surface, leaving viewers hungry for answers. This experimental short film challenges conventional storytelling, packing suspense, emotion, and a tantalizing hook into its remarkably concise runtime. It is a bold, immersive experience that proves even the shortest journey can leave a lasting impact.</p>
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Lying and Stealing

Drama, Crime, Comedy
<p>Ivan (Theo James) is a gifted and discerning art thief, whose specialty is infiltrating and stealing from Los Angeles' highest end collectors. It's a dirty, complex business, and business is good - yet Ivan wants out. Elyse (Emily Ratajkowski) is an aspiring actress whose own past transgressions in Hollywood haunt her, as well as a mountain of debt. </p><p>These two outsiders are drawn to each other, and as brilliant con artists in their own right, team up for one last, big daring heist. Part Thomas Crowne Affair, part Out of Sight, these two characters ride the razors edge of the high-end LA universe, playing their own shell game against the establishment, and finding each other in the process. With money, incarceration, and lives on the line, their escapade tests their explosive love story and loyalty.</p>
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Lyle

Horror
<p>"Lyle", Stewart Thorndike's sinister ode to Rosemary's Baby, finds the perfect mom-to-be in Gaby Hoffmann. Her electrifying performance as Leah, a pregnant lesbian confronted by an unspeakable evil, brings out a primal terror that's difficult to shake. With dark humor and razor-sharp camerawork, Thorndike takes audiences into a growing nightmare as Leah begins to question the motives of her partner, friends, and neighbors.</p>
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Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile

Animation,Adventure,Comedy
<p>Follows the title reptile who lives in a house on East 88th Street in New York City. Lyle enjoys helping the Primm family with everyday chores and playing with the neighborhood kids but one neighbor insists that Lyle belongs in a zoo. Mr. Grumps and his cat, Loretta, do not like crocodiles, and Lyle tries to prove that he is not as bad as others might first think.</p>
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Lymelife

Drama, Comedy
<p>Scott Bartlett (Rory Culkin) is a typical 15-year-old boy growing up in late-1970s Long Island. His suburban existence is primarily marked by a nerdy interest in Star Wars, fending off bullies at high school, his longtime crush on neighbor/best friend Adrianna Bragg (Emma Roberts), and navigating the dysfunctional terrain of his parents' rocky marriage-all against the paranoid backdrop of a Lyme disease outbreak, which has freaked out Scott's high-strung mother, Brenda (Jill Hennessy), and has already claimed Adrianna's father, Charlie (Timothy Hutton), as a victim. With Charlie out of work due to his illness, Adrianna's mother, Melissa (Cynthia Nixon), takes a job working for Scott's father, Mickey (Alec Baldwin), a successful real-estate developer, and soon embarks on a messy affair. When eldest son Jimmy (Kieran Culkin) returns from army training and confronts his father about Mickey's less-than-discreet adultery, both families are forever changed by the devastating consequences.</p>
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Lysistrata

Animation
<p>Lysistrata and the women of Athens and Sparta take a radical decision to bring an end to the war between their cities, as they go on a sex strike.</p>
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LYTLE 2014

Drama
<p>Set against the raw and intimate backdrop of a single, unbroken performance, "LYTLE 2014" is a gripping character study that plunges viewers into the chaotic mind of a stand-up comedian on the verge of a breakdown. The film follows a troubled performer as he takes the stage for what he intends to be a triumphant comeback, but the spotlight quickly becomes a harsh interrogation of his own fractured psyche. As the jokes tumble out, they blur the line between routine and raw confession, revealing a man haunted by past failures and personal demons. The central conflict is not with a heckler in the crowd but with the relentless, self-destructive voice inside his own head. With a claustrophobic atmosphere and a tone that oscillates between darkly comic and deeply unsettling, this film offers an unflinching look at the high cost of seeking validation through laughter. It is a powerful, minimalist drama that examines the fragile boundary between a performer's public persona and their private turmoil, leaving the audience to question what is real and what is merely a punchline.</p>
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