.....that start with Le, La, Les, Los, L', Une, etc?

As a guy, I don't have any movies that start that way.

But if I did, probably the same as my "the" or "a" movies, under the letter of the first "real word" of the title.

Using your examples..... under "L".

Aaaaah...come on....La Femme Nikita is a guy flick.

Those would go under "L" for me

Well, mine are all filed by director, not title. But, if they were, 'L'Age D'Or' would go under "A."

Then it would be "Le Femme Nikita", wouldn't it?

Say, Isn't Nikita a guy's name anyway?

...am I the only one that files movies that start with just the letter "A" under "A"?

Avventura, L'
Biches, Les
Dolce Vita, La
etc.

But my DVDs are organized by director anyway.

As a guy without issues, I don't define my masculinity based on my DVD collection.

In my collection, those go under the first proper word. Example: La Haine goes under "H", just like A Dirty Shame goes under "D"

I go buy the cataloging system that i learned in elementary school. First real word of the title is where it gets filed. No "the, and, an, a etc" Foreign films no translations of above mentioned words. Of course I do have several dvds that start with the letters "les"... but those get filed in a different area.

I know, I just can't resist using that joke. C'mon, I used the smiley!

I have several titles that start with L' or similar.

Who here files 'A Clockwork Orange' under "A" and who under "C" (especially seeing as how the spine of the disc just lists the title as 'Clockwork Orange')?

Do you file all the movies that start with "The" under "T"? If you do, then I would say the La, Les type movies would be filed that way.

so what about 'Das Boot'? D or B?

Boot, Das.

I mean, even the English title is The Boat. Makes no sense if it goes under D.

Good point. For some reason, this is the only film, foreign or otherwise, that I file under the definite article.

Other than that, I can't imagine filing something under a for "a" or t for "the", that makes no sense to me

I know.... I'm just being snide...


I file it under Das too, (go figure).

Le Mans is a straight up guy movie. I guess you don't like cars or racing?

I file La Femme Nikkita under F, I think I did L to begin with but notced it was sorted as L in my DVDspot collection. I didn't even think about it until then, but I did fix it. I don't have das Boot, but I would ahve filed it under D. But now if and when I get it I will put it under B.

Here's another good reason to skip the definite articles when filing movies or books or anything else you want alphabetical:

There are several titles* that are sometimes confusing as to whether there is an 'a' or 'the' in front of them or not. By filing everything under the first "real" word, there is less confusion.

* Of course I can't think of a single good example right now.

Next to my recipe for La -sagna, but behind my recipe for Lo-Mein

Do what I do. Random shelf placement.

Foreign language movies are pretty girly.

For me, it depends on the movie. With The School of Rock, it's under S because I never call it The School of Rock, I always drop the "the". However, with movies like The Edge, I will file under T, because I call the movie The Edge.

So it all comes down to how the movie is known for me.

You randomly place a shelf around the house?

Different, but I like it.