Fiction work(s) | Film adaptation(s) |
L.A. Confidential (1990), James Ellroy | L.A. Confidential (1997) |
Lad, A Dog (1919), Albert Payson Terhune | Lad, A Dog (1963) |
Lady Audley's Secret (1862), Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Lady Audley's Secret (1912) |
Lady Audley's Secret (a. k. a. Secrets of Society) (1915) |
Lady Audley's Secret (1920) |
Lady Audley's Secret (2000) |
The Lady in Cement (1961), Marvin H. Albert | Lady in Cement (1968) |
Lady L (1958), Romain Gary | Lady L (1965) |
The Lady of the Camellias (French: La Dame aux Camélias) (1848), Alexandre Dumas, fils | Camille (1909) |
The Lady of the Camellias (1912) |
The Lady of the Camellias (1915; made by Baldassarre Negroni) |
The Lady of the Camellias (1915; made by Gustavo Serena) |
Camille (1915) |
Camille (1917) |
Prima Vera (German: Die Kameliendame) (1917) |
The Red Peacock (German: Arme Violetta) (1920) |
Camille (1921) |
The Lady of the Camellias (Swedish: Damen med kameliorna) (1925) |
Camille (1926; made by Norma Talmadge) |
Camille (1926; made by Ralph Barton, and starring Charlie Chaplin) |
The Lady of the Camellias (1934) |
Camille (1936) |
The Lady of the Camellias (Italian: La signora dalle camelie) (1947) |
Traviata '53 (1953) |
The Lady of the Camellias (1953) |
Camelia (1954) |
Camille 2000 (1969) |
The Lady of the Camellias (1981) |
Camille (1984)[N 4] |
The Lady of the Camellias (Polish: Dama kameliowa) (1994) |
The Lair of the White Worm (1911), Bram Stoker | The Lair of the White Worm (1988) |
La lampe dans la fenêtre (1972), Pauline Cadieux | Cordélia (1980) |
The Land That Time Forgot (1918), Edgar Rice Burroughs | The Land That Time Forgot (1975) |
The People That Time Forgot (1977) |
The Land That Time Forgot (2009) |
The Lands of Risk (Portuguese: As Terras Do Risco) (1994), Agustina Bessa-Luís | The Convent (1995) |
Lassie Come-Home (1940), Eric Knight | Lassie Come Home (1943) |
Son of Lassie (1945) |
Courage of Lassie (1946) |
Hills of Home (1948) |
The Sun Comes Up (1949) |
Challenge to Lassie (1950) |
The Painted Hills (1951) |
The Magic of Lassie (1988) |
Lassie (1994) |
Lassie (2005) |
The Last Days of Pompeii (1834), Edward Bulwer-Lytton | The Last Days of Pompeii (Italian: Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei) (1908) |
The Last Days of Pompeii (1913) |
The Last Days of Pompeii (1926) |
The Last Days of Pompeii (1935) |
The Last Days of Pompeii (French: Les Derniers Jours de Pompéi) (1950) |
The Last Days of Pompeii (1959) |
The Last Detail (1970), Darryl Ponicsan | The Last Detail (1973) |
The Last Hunt (1954), Milton Lott | The Last Hunt (1956) |
Last of the Curlews (1954), Fred Bodsworth | Last of the Curlews (1972)[N 4] |
The Last of the Duanes (written 1913, published 1996), Zane Grey | The Last of the Duanes (1919) |
The Last of the Duanes (1924) |
The Last of the Duanes (1930) |
El último de los Vargas (1930) |
Last of the Duanes (1941) |
The Last of the Mohicans (1826), James Fenimore Cooper | Leather Stocking (1909) |
The Last of the Mohicans (1911) |
The Last of the Mohicans (1920; American) |
The Last of the Mohicans (German: Der Letzte der Mohikaner) (1920; Germany) |
The Last of the Mohicans (1932)[N 5] |
The Last of the Mohicans (1936) |
Fall of the Mohicans (Spanish: Uncas, el fin de una raza, Italian: L'ultimo dei Mohicani) (1965) |
The Last Tomahawk (German: Der letzte Mohikaner) (1965) |
The Last of the Mohicans (Romanian: Ultimul mohican) (1968) (TV) |
Last of the Mohicans (1977)[N 4] |
The Last of the Mohicans (1987)[N 4] |
The Last of the Mohicans (1992) |
The Last Picture Show (1966), Larry McMurtry | The Last Picture Show (1971) |
The Last Ride (1996), Thomas Eidson | The Missing (2003) |
The Last Song (2009), Nicholas Sparks | The Last Song (2010) |
Last Stand at Papago Wells (1957), Louis L'Amour | Apache Territory (1958) |
Last Stand at Saber River (1959), Elmore Leonard | Last Stand at Saber River (1997) |
The Last Thing He Wanted (1996), Joan Didion | The Last Thing He Wanted (2020) |
The Last Unicorn (1968), Peter S. Beagle | The Last Unicorn (1982) |
The Late George Apley (1937), John P. Marquand | The Late George Apley (1947) |
The Laughing Cavalier (1913), Baroness Orczy | The Laughing Cavalier (1917) |
Laura (serialised 1942, published as a book 1943), Vera Caspary | Laura (1944) |
Laura (1955)[N 4] |
Laura (1968)[N 4] |
Law and Order (1973), Dorothy Uhnak | Law and Order (1976)[N 4] |
The Law at Randado (1954), Elmore Leonard | Border Shootout (1990) |
Law Man (1955), Lauran Paine | The Quiet Gun (1957) |
Lawyer Man (1932), Max Trell | Lawyer Man (1933) |
Lay This Laurel (1973), Lincoln Kirstein | Glory (1989) |
Layer Cake (2000), J. J. Connolly | Layer Cake (2004) |
Leaving Cheyenne (1963), Larry McMurtry | Lovin' Molly (1974) |
The Ledger (1970), Dorothy Uhnak | Get Christie Love! (1974)[N 4] |
Left Behind (1995–2007) (series), Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins | Left Behind: The Movie (2000) |
Left Behind II: Tribulation Force (2002) |
Left Behind: World at War (2005) |
Left Behind (2014) |
The Legend of the Condor Heroes (Chinese: 射鵰英雄傳, Shè Diāo Yīng Xióng Zhuàn) (1957–1959), Jin Yong | Story of the Vulture Conqueror (Chinese: 射鵰英雄傳) (1958–1959) |
The Brave Archer (1977) |
The Brave Archer 2 (1978) |
The Brave Archer 3 (1981) |
The Brave Archer and His Mate (1982) |
The Eagle Shooting Heroes (Chinese: 射鵰英雄傳之東成西就, Se diu ying hung ji dung sing sai jau) (1993) |
Ashes of Time (Chinese: 東邪西毒, Dongxié Xidú) (1994) |
Legend of the Galactic Heroes (Japanese: 銀河英雄伝説, Hepburn: Ginga Eiyū Densetsu) (1982–1987), Yoshiki Tanaka | Legend of the Galactic Heroes: My Conquest is the Sea of Stars (1988) |
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Golden Wings (1992) |
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Overture to a New War (1993) |
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Stellar War (2019) |
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Clash (2021) |
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Intrigue (2022) |
Legion (1983), William Peter Blatty | The Exorcist III (1990) |
Lemonade Mouth (2007), Mark Peter Hughes | Lemonade Mouth (2011)[N 4] |
The Leopard (1958), Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa | The Leopard (1963) |
Less than Zero (1985), Bret Easton Ellis | Less than Zero (1987) |
Let Me Count the Ways (1965), Peter De Vries | How Do I Love Thee? (1970) |
Let the Right One In (Swedish: Låt den rätte komma in) (2004), John Ajvide Lindqvist | Let the Right One In (2008) |
Let Me In (2010) |
A Letter to Five Wives (1945), John Klempner | A Letter to Three Wives (1949) |
A Letter to Three Wives (1985)[N 4] |
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759–1767), Laurence Sterne | A Cock and Bull Story (2006) |
The Life Before Us (French: La vie devant soi) (1975), Romain Gary (as Émile Ajar) | Madame Rosa (1977) |
The Life Before Us (2010)[N 4] |
The Life Ahead (2020) |
Life of Pi (2001), Yann Martel | Life of Pi (2012) |
Lift to the Scaffold (French: Ascenseur pour l'échafaud) (1956), Noël Calef | Elevator to the Gallows (1958) |
The Light in the Forest (1953), Conrad Richter | The Light in the Forest (1958) |
The Light of Western Stars (1914), Zane Grey | The Light of Western Stars (1918) |
The Light of Western Stars (1925) |
The Light of Western Stars (1930) |
The Light of Western Stars (1940) |
Like a Fire is Burning (1991), Gerald N. Lund | The Work and the Glory: American Zion (2005) |
Like Water for Chocolate (Spanish: Como agua para chocolate) (1989), Laura Esquivel | Like Water for Chocolate (1992) |
The Lincoln Lawyer (2005), Michael Connelly | The Lincoln Lawyer (2011) |
A Lion Is in the Streets (1945), Adria Locke Langley | A Lion Is in the Streets (1953) |
Lisa and Lottie (German: Das doppelte Lottchen) (1949), Erich Kästner | Two Times Lotte (1950) |
Hibari's Lullaby (ひばりの子守唄, Hibari no komoriuta) (1951) |
Twice Upon a Time (1953) |
The Parent Trap (1961) |
Kuzhandaiyum Deivamum (1965) |
Leta Manasulu (1966) |
Do Kaliyaan (1968) |
Cheeky Little Angels (Korean: 개구장이 천사들, Gaegujangi Cheonsadeul) (1980) |
Pyaar Ke Do Pal (1986) |
The Parent Trap II (1987)[N 4] |
Parent Trap III (1988)[N 4] |
Parent Trap: Hawaiian Honeymoon (1989)[N 4] |
Charlie & Louise – Das doppelte Lottchen (1994) |
Strange Sisters (Persian: خواهران غریب) (1995) |
The Parent Trap (1998)[N 6] |
Kuch Khatti Kuch Meethi (2001) |
Tur & retur (2003) |
Little Caesar (1929), W. R. Burnett | Little Caesar (1931) |
Black Caesar (1973) |
Hell Up in Harlem (1973) |
Little Dorrit (serialised 1855–1857, published as a book 1857), Charles Dickens | Little Dorrit (1913) |
Little Dorrit (1920) |
Little Dorrit (German: Klein Dorrit) (1934) |
Little Dorrit (1987) |
The Little Drummer Girl (1983), John le Carré | The Little Drummer Girl (1984) |
The Little White Horse (1946), Elizabeth Goudge | The Secret of Moonacre (2009) |
Live and Let Die (1954), Ian Fleming | Live and Let Die (1973) |
Live Flesh (1986), Ruth Rendell | Live Flesh (Spanish: Carne trémula) (1997) |
The Living and the Dead (French: D'entre les morts) (1954), Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac | Vertigo (1958) |
The Lizard's Tail (1979), Marc Brandell | The Hand (1981) |
Loaded (1995), Christos Tsiolkas | Head On (1998) |
Logan's Run (1967), William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson | Logan's Run (1976) |
Lolita (1955), Vladimir Nabokov | Lolita (1962) |
Lolita (1997) |
The Lone Star Ranger (1915), Zane Grey | The Lone Star Ranger (1919) |
The Lone Star Ranger (1923) |
The Lone Star Ranger (1930) |
Lone Star Ranger (1942) |
Lonely Castle in the Mirror (かがみの孤城, Kagami no Kojō) (2017), Mizuki Tsujimura | Lonely Castle in the Mirror (2022) |
The Long Goodbye (1953), Raymond Chandler | The Long Goodbye (1973) |
Longarm (1978–2006) (series), Lou Cameron[N 7] | Longarm (1987)[N 4] |
Looking for Trouble (1941), Virginia Spencer Cowles | Ladies Courageous (1944) |
The Looters (1968), John H. Reese | Charley Varrick (1973) |
Lord Jim (serialised 1899–1900, published as a book 1900), Joseph Conrad | Lord Jim (1925) |
Lord Jim (1965) |
Lord of the Flies (1954), William Golding | Lord of the Flies (1963) |
Alkitrang dugo (1976) |
Lord of the Flies (1990) |
The Lord of the Rings (1954–1955)[N 8], J. R. R. Tolkien | J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (1978) |
The Return of the King (1980)[N 4] |
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) |
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) |
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) |
The Lords of Discipline (1980), Pat Conroy | The Lords of Discipline (1983) |
Lost Horizon (1933), James Hilton | Lost Horizon (1937) |
Lost Horizon (1973) |
The Lost Ones (1961), Donald G. Payne | The Island at the Top of the World (1974) |
A Lost Paradise (失楽園, Shitsurakuen) (1997), Junichi Watanabe | Lost Paradise (1997) |
The Lost World (1912), Arthur Conan Doyle | The Lost World (1925) |
The Lost World (1960) |
The Lost World (1992) |
Return to the Lost World (1992) |
The Lost World (1998) |
The Lost World (2001)[N 4] |
King of the Lost World (2005) |
The Lost World (1995), Michael Crichton | The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) |
A Love in Germany (German: Eine Liebe in Deutschland) (1978), Rolf Hochhuth | A Love in Germany (1983) |
Love Story (1970), Erich Segal | Love Story (1970) |
The Loved One (1948), Evelyn Waugh | The Loved One (1965) |
The Lovely Bones (2002), Alice Sebold | The Lovely Bones (2009) |
The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844), William Makepeace Thackeray | Barry Lyndon (1975) |
The Lucky One (2008), Nicholas Sparks | The Lucky One (2012) |
Lydia Bailey (1947), Kenneth Roberts | Lydia Bailey (1952) |