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Films on this page:
Labyrinthus, Lady in White, Ladybugs, Lassie, The Last Chance Detectives: Mystery Lights of Navaho Mesa, The Last Chance Detectives: The Legend of the Desert Bigfoot, The Last Chance Detectives: Escape From Fire Lake, Last Kind Words, The Last Prostitute, The Last Song, The Last Summer, The Late Bloomer, Late Summer, Lawn Dogs, The Lawnmower Man, The Legend of Billie Jean, The Legend of Cryin’ Ryan, The Legend of Gator Face, The Legend of Razorback, The Lego Movie, The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, Leprechaun, Let It Be, Let Us In, Letters to God, The Liar’s Club, Liar’s Moon, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Life Now, Life Then, A Light in the Forest, Lightning Bug, Like Mike, Like Sunday, Like Rain, Little Darlings, Little Giants, Little Marines, Little Men, Little Miss Millions, Little Miss Sunshine, Little Nikita, The Little Rascals Save the Day, The Long Days of Summer, The Longshots, Looking for Miracles, The Lords of Discipline, Los Herederos, Los Scavengers, Loser, Losin’ It, Lost Christmas, Lost Lake, The Lost Medallion: The Adventures of Billy Stone, Love and Basketball, Love Like Poison, The Loved Ones, Low Tide, Lucas, Lucky.
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To qualify for a listing, one or more of the lead or main supporting characters in the film is seen wearing chucks — Converse “Chuck Taylor” All Stars. |
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Labyrinthus. (2014) Spencer Bogaert, Emma Verlinden, Felix Maesschalck, Pommelien Tijs, Pepijn Caudron, Herwig Ilegems.
Directed by Douglas Boswell. Frikke, a 14-year-old boy, picks up a black box that fell out of someone’s backpack on his street. At home he discovers it is a controller to a sinister computer game that uses unsuspecting real people from his neighborhood as players. Several of his friends are inserted into its playing field through the controllers, leaving them in a coma in the real world. In a race against time Frikke must find the evil creator of this horrible game and figure out how to rescue the humans inside it. Categories: Adventure, Family, Science Fiction/Fantasy. |
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Lady in White. (1988) Lukas Haas, Len Cariou, Alex Rocco, Jason Presson, Katherine Helmond. Directed by Frank LaLoggia. A ghost story set in a small northeastern town pits a boy with dreams of becoming a mystery writer against a serial killer when the boy sees an apparition re-enacting the ten year old unsolved murder of a young girl. |
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Ladybugs. (1992) Rodney Dangerfield, Jackee Harry, Jonathan Brandis, Ilene Graff, Vinessa Shaw, Tom Parks. Directed by Sidney J. Furie. Rodney Dangerfield stars as Chester Lee, a salesman bucking for a promotion, who gets saddled with the job of coaching the company-sponsored girls soccer team, which had a winning record but now has nothing but klutzy newcomers. Luck intervenes when he persuades his fiancee’s jock son Matthew to compete on the team disguised as a girl. Categories: Comedy, Sports. |
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Lassie. (1994) Tom Guiry, Helen Slater, Jon Tenny, Brittany Boyd, Frederic Forrest, Richard Farnsworth, Michele Williams. Directed by Daniel Petrie. This 1994 film updates the classic Lassie Come Home film of the forties and the television series of the fifties and sixties. Instead of Timmy and Tommy, the story focuses around Matt Turner, a young teenaged kid from Baltimore who sports a headband, earring, rock t-shirts, and high top chucks, and displays a negative attitude about most things. Can Lassie bring this kid around? Bet the farm! Categories: Family, Drama, Coming of Age. |
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The Last Chance Detectives: Mystery Lights of Navaho Mesa. (1994) Ryan Calhoun, Davin Carey, Crystle Lightning, David Netter, Raymond Guth, James Callahan, Peggy Stewart. The Last Chance Detectives investigate the mysteries of unfamiliar voices heard through an antique radio, items disappearing, and a strange light that keeps appearing on the Navajo reservation. Categories: Adventure, Family, Religious. |
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The Last Chance Detectives: Legend of the Desert Bigfoot. (1995) Ryan Calhoun, Davin Carey, Crystle Lightning, David Netter, Raymond Guth, James Callahan, Brian Frejo. Written and directed by Robert Vernon. The four Last Chance Detectives investigate when there is a Bigfoot sighting in the desert where they are camping out. Categories: Adventure, Family, Religious. |
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The Last Chance Detectives: Escape From Fire Lake. (1996) Ryan Calhoun, Davin Carey, Crystle Lightning, David Netter, Anthony De Longis, James Callahan, J. Marvin Campbell. Written and directed by Stephen Styles. When Mike goes missing, the trail leads the others to the wilderness of Fire Lake. Categories: Adventure, Family, Religious. |
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Last Kind Words. (2012) Brad Dourif, Spencer Daniels, Marianne Hagan, Sarah Steele, Clay Wilcox, Alexia Fast. Written and directed by Kevin Barker. When young Eli moves to the backwoods of Kentucky with his family to work on an isolated farm, he meets Amanda, a mysterious and sweet girl. But soon he discovers that Amanda and the forest are harboring some very dark secrets. Categories: Drama, Horror, Romance. |
The Last Prostitute. (1991) Sonia Braga, David Kaufman, Dennis Letts, Dru Mouser, Cotter Smith, Wil Wheaton. Directed by Lou Antonio. Danny and Burt, two teenaged boys ditch summer camp and journey to Texas to find Loah, a prostitute elevated to legendary status by Danny’s late uncle. Their quest for a quick initiation into manhood hits a snag when they discover that Loah is retired and now runs a horse farm. Exhausted and penniless, they boys convince her to hire them on as farm hands. While Burt manages only to alienate himself, Danny befriends the headstrong woman and learns the true meaning of love. Categories: Drama, Coming of Age. |
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The Last Song. (2010) Miley Cyrus, Liam Hemsworth, Greg Kinnear, Bobby Coleman, Kelly Preston. Directed by Julie Anne Robinson. Veronica "Ronnie" Miller is a troubled and rebellious teenager sent to live with her estranged father in a small beach town for the summer. Her life begins to change when she is romantically pursued by a local boy from a wealthy family. But tragedy strikes as Ronnie begins to reconnect with her father through their love for music. Categories: Drama, Romance. |
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The Last Summer. (2004) Corey Jackson, Britt Robertson, Muse Watson, Nick Searcy, David Andrews, Adam Pervis, Andrew Dickinson Jr., Drew Dickinson, Christa Orion, Stephanie Wood, Rusty Deats, Justin Douglas, Joseph Ragusa, Chase Carpenter. Written and directed by Jonathan Landau. In 1981, 12-year-old Joel Shuman faces his first summer after the sudden death of his mom. Joel helps his family come to terms with their tragic loss while spending his last summer of innocence with the best friends he will ever know. Category: Drama. |
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The Late Bloomer. (2016) Johnny Simmons, Kumail Nanjiani, Beck Bennett, Maria Bello, Britanny Snow, Jane Lynch, J.K. Simmonds. Directed by Kevin Pollak. The story of Dr. Pete Newman, a 30-year-old sex therapist who, after the successful removal of a benign tumor resting against his pituitary gland, experiences all the changes and effects of puberty over a three-week period. Categories: Comedy, Sexually Explicit. |
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Late Summer. (2001) Christopher Nee, Erol Zeybekoglu, Sheila Stasack, Robert Walsh, Augustus Kelly, Stephanie Lemelin. Written and directed by David Ottenhouse. A photographer remembers that special summer that he spent with his somewhat older cousin, the feelings that were awakened, and the unexpected turn of events behind his “best” photo. Categories: Short, Drama, Coming of Age, Sexually Explicit. |
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Lawn Dogs. (1997) Mischa Barton, Sam Rockwell, Chirstopher McDonald, Kathleen Quinlan. Directed by John Duigan. Newly arrived in an up-market housing development, quiet ten-year-old Devon doesn’t quite fit in. Ignoring the urgings of her social-climbing father, Devon chooses the company of Trent, who mows the estate’s lawns, rather than of the girls her own age. Their friendship grows during her visits to his trailer home, but although it is completely innocent it is obvious that it would be unacceptable to the residents if they found out. Category: Drama. |
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The Lawnmower Man. (1981) Jeff Fahey, Pierce Brosnan, Jenny Wright, Mak Bringleson, Geoffrey Lewis, Jeremy Slate, Dean Norris, Colleen Coffey, Jim Landis, Troy Evans, Rosalee Mayeux, Austin O’Brien. Directed by Brett Leonard. A mentally retarded man is turned into a genius through the application of an experimental virtual reality program originally designed for primates. Categories: Drama, Science Fiction/Fantasy. |
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The Legend of Billie Jean. (1985) Helen Slater, Keith Gordon, Christian Slater, Richard Bradford, Peter Coyote, Martha Gehman, Yeardley Smith, Dean Stockwell, Barry Tubb, Mona Lee Fultz. Directed by Matthew Robbins. Billie Jean Davy and her brother Binx, teenagers from Corpus Christie, Texas, get into a violent confromtation after Hubie, a local bully, steals and trashes Binx’ motorbike and he and his piggish father refuse to pay for the damages. When things get violent leading to a standoff with the authorities and Billie Jean and Binx becoming fugitives, Billie Jean’s righteous demands for justice make her an icon for teens all over the state. Categories: Drama, Action/Adventure. |
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The Legend of Cryin’ Ryan. (1998) Michael Heidemann, Andi Eystad, Harrison Myers, Ernie Lively, Harold Smith, Rhelda Mortensen, Rob Lenn. Written and directed by Deanna Shapiro. After young Kris accidentally knocks over the tombstone of Cryin’ Ryan, a thirteen-year-old kid who was killed under mysterious circumstances forty years earlier, she begins seeing his ghost. With her best friend Billy, Kris begins to investigate the events of his death to help lay his spirit to rest. Categories: Drama, Crime and Mystery, Family. |
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The Legend of Gator Face. (1996) John White, Dan Warry-Smith, Charlotte Sullivan, Gordon Michael Woolvett, Kathleen Laskey, C. David Johnson, Paul Winfield, Pam Hyatt, Roger Dunn. Directed by Vic Sarin. Two bored young boys living in a sleepy Mississippi town fake appearances of a legendary swamp creature. Everyting is going great for them until the media appears and the National Guard is sent in to kill the creature. Categories: Comedy, Adventure, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Family. |
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The Legend of Razorback. (2002) Austin Stout, Kevin McCarthy, Barbara Tarback, Nick Nordella, Andrew Schatzberg. Directed by Michael Greenspan. Since the untimely death of his parents, eleven-year-old Avery Small has become silent. No one has been able to alleviate his pain until Avery’s desire for a new bicycle leads him to undertake the challenge of Razorback, getting a haircut in a chair hooked up to a lightning rod. Categories: Comedy, Family, Short. |
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The Lego Movie. (2014) Will Ferrell, Jadon Sand, Will Arnett and many celebrity voices for animated characters. Written and directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. An ordinary Lego construction worker, thought to be the prophesied ‘Special’, is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil tyrant from gluing the Lego universe into eternal stasis. Categories: Comedy, Family, Fantasy. |
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The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part. (2014) Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Jadon Sand, Maya Rudolph, Will Ferrell, Brooklyn Prince. Directed by Mike Mitchell. It’s been five years since everything was awesome and the citizens are facing a huge new threat: Lego Duplo invaders from outer space, wrecking everything faster than they can rebuild. Categories: Comedy, Family, Fantasy. |
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Leprechaun. (1993) Jennifer Aniston, Mark Holton, Warwick Davis, Ken Olandt, Robert Gorman, Shay Duffin, John Sandeford. Directed by Mark Jones. A mean leprechaun goes on a rampage after his precious bag of gold coins is stolen. Categories: Horror. |
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Let It Be. (1970) John Lennon, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Ringo Star, Billy Preston, Yoko Ono, Heather McCartney, George Martin, Mal Evans. Directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg. A documentary of the Beatles in the studio preparing music for the Let It Be album, and ending with their famous rooftop impromtu performance in London. Categories: Musical, Documentary. |
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Let Us In. (2021) Makenzie Moss, O'Neill Monahan, Eric Callero, Tobin Bell, Sadie Stanley, Siena Agudong, Mackenzie Ziegler. Written and directed by Craig Moss. Emily and her best friend Christopher are searching for extraterrestrial communication as part of a science project but instead run into creepy beings dressed in hoodies with pale skin, all black eyes and terrible body odor. Worse yet it seems that they are responsible for the recent disappearances of several teenagers in their small town. When the black-eyed creatures go after her and Christopher, Emily must find a way to fight back. Categories: Horror, Science Fiction. |
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Letters to God. (2010) Robyn Lively, Jeffrey Johnson, Tanner Maquire, Micahel Bolten Marie Chetham, Bailee Madison. Directed by David Nixon and Patrick Doughtie. Tearjerker about a young boy suffering from cancer who writes letters to God, touching lives in his neighborhood and community. Categories: Drama, Family. |
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The Liar’s Club. (1993) Wil Wheaton, Brian Krause, Michael Cudlitz, Soleil Moon Frye, Jennifer Burns, Aron Eisenberg, Sevonne Durkin. Directed by Jeffrey Porter. The loyalties of a tight group of high school friends is severely tested when a sexual encounter between one of them and young girl results in her death. Categories: Drama, Crime and Mystery. |
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Liar’s Moon. (1981) Matt Dillon, Cindy Fischer, Hoyt Axton, Yvonne de Carlo, Jim Greenleaf, Broderick Crawford. Directed by David Fischer. Jack and Ginny are two teenagers from different sides of the tracks who meet and fall in love despite the opposition of Ginny’s parents. The two eventually elope, and live happily for a few months until Ginny becomes pregnant and a dark family secret is revealed. Categories: Drama, Romance, Teenagers. |
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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. (2004) Bill Murray, Cate Blanchette, Owen Wilson, Angelica Huston, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Michael Gambon, Noah Taylor. Written and directed by Wes Anderson. Steve Zissou, an internationally famous oceanographer in the style of Jacques Cousteau, is facing a lot of problems: his documentaries are no longer well received, his longtime partner was eaten by a “jaguar” shark on his last voyage, and he has family and financial problems. But he somehow is able to take Team Zissou on one last voyage to kill the shark and try to redeem his life and career. Categories: Comedy, Adventure, Drama. |
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