An optical film, a polarizing plate, and an image display device, each having an optically anisotropic layer obtained by curing a polymerizable liquid crystal composition including a polymerizable liquid crystal compound (LCC) having forward wavelength dispersion and a monofunctional compound, and immobilizing an alignment state of the polymerizable LCC. The number a.sub.1 of atoms of the polymerizable LCC and the number a.sub.2 of atoms of the monofunctional compound satisfy a relationship of Expression (1): 0.2<a.sub.2/a.sub.1<0.55; the number b.sub.1 of the rings B.sup.1 contained in the polymerizable LCC and the total number b.sub.2 of the aromatic rings Ar and the rings B.sup.2 contained in the monofunctional compound satisfy a relationship of Expression (2): b.sub.2=b.sub.10.5 or b.sub.2=(b.sub.1+1)0.5.

A liquid-crystal material (LC media) containing thiophene compounds which are stabilized by sterically hindered amines or amine derivatives (HALS, hindered amine light stabilizers), where the LC media contains one or more compounds of formula 13 ##STR00001##
and one or more compounds of formula H ##STR00002##
and liquid-crystal displays (LC displays) which contain these LC materials.