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The Gryphon

The Gryphon (Der Greif) is a 2023 German Prime Video fantasy series, six episodes, adapted from Wolfgang and Heike Hohlbein's 1989 novel; three teens enter the Black Tower to fight the Gryphon.

The Guard (2011 film)

The Guard (2011) is an Irish black comedy-thriller, John Michael McDonagh's directorial debut, starring Brendan Gleeson as Garda sergeant Gerry Boyle and Don Cheadle as FBI agent Wendell Everett; it set the Irish box office record for an independent Irish film.

The Guardian (2006 film)

The Guardian is a 2006 American adventure drama directed by Andrew Davis, starring Kevin Costner as a Coast Guard rescue swimmer turned instructor and Ashton Kutcher as his recruit.

The Guardian (2026 film)

The Guardian (납치 48시간, Kidnapping: 48 Hours) is a 2026 Korean-Filipino action thriller directed by Jeong Jang Hwan, starring Nam Woo-hyun and Park Eun-hye; a 48-hour Manila kidnapping rescue released June 17, 2026 in South Korea and September 2, 2026 via Viva Films.

The Guardian (TV series)

The Guardian: 2001–2004 CBS legal drama created by David Hollander, starring Simon Baker as Nick Fallin, a Pittsburgh corporate lawyer ordered into 1,500 hours of child advocacy community service after a drug conviction. Not to be confused with the British newspaper or other titles named The Guardian.

The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special

The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (2022) is James Gunn's 42-minute Disney+ Special Presentation ending MCU Phase 4: Drax and Mantis abduct Kevin Bacon as a Christmas gift for Peter Quill, with Mantis revealing she is Quill's half-sister.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is a 2008 epistolary novel by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows about a 1946 writer corresponding with Guernsey islanders whose book club began as a curfew alibi during the German occupation; a #1 NYT bestseller adapted by Netflix in 2018.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (film)

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is Mike Newell's 2018 film adaptation of Shaffer and Barrows's epistolary novel, starring Lily James and Michiel Huisman, about a writer and a Guernsey book club formed during the German Occupation; released theatrically in April 2018 and on Netflix in August 2018.

The Guess Who

The Guess Who, Canadian rock band formed 1965 in Winnipeg from Chad Allan and the Expressions, not the Utrecht festival Le Guess Who?. First Canadian band at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with "American Woman" (1970); Bachman and Cummings reclaimed the name in 2024.

The Guest (2014 American film)

The Guest is a 2014 American action thriller directed by Adam Wingard, written by Simon Barrett, starring Dan Stevens and Maika Monroe. A soldier claims to be a dead friend of the Peterson family; premiered Sundance Jan 17, 2014, US limited release Sep 17, 2014, $332.9K gross.

The Guest (British TV series)

The Guest is a four-part British psychological thriller, BBC One and iPlayer, premiered 1 September 2025. Eve Myles plays Fran, Gabrielle Creevy her cleaner Ria; written by Matthew Barry, Quay Street Productions, filmed in Wales.

The Guest (novel)

The Guest is Emma Cline's 2023 Random House novel about Alex, a 22-year-old escort drifting through the Hamptons after being dismissed by Simon; a bestseller, PEN/Faulkner-longlisted, with an A24 film adaptation in talks.

The Guest and My Mother (손님과 어머니)

The Guest and My Mother (사랑방 손님과 어머니, Mother and a Guest) is Shin Sang-ok's 1961 Korean classic drama adapted from Ju Yo-seop's 1935 story, starring Choi Eun-hee; it won the 1962 Asia Film Festival Best Picture and was Korea's first Oscar submission.

The Guest Book

The Guest Book is a TBS comedy anthology series created by Greg Garcia (My Name Is Earl), airing 2017-2018, about vacationers at Froggy Cottage and later Bare Feet Retreat who record their misadventures in a guest book.

The Guest in the House

The Guest in the House (Host do domu) is a 1921 poetry collection, the first book of the Czech poet Jiří Wolker, written in a voice of love for everyday life.

The Guest List

The Guest List is Lucy Foley's 2020 HarperCollins murder mystery about a wedding on a remote Irish island where one of thirteen guests is found dead; a Goodreads Choice Award winner and Reese's Book Club pick.

The Guide

The Guide (1958) by R. K. Narayan, also known as the Malgudi novel Railway Raju, about a tourist guide mistaken for a holy man; first novel in English to win the Sahitya Akademi Award and basis of the 1965 film Guide.

The Guild (web series)

The Guild is an American comedy web series created by and starring Felicia Day, about online gamers; it ran on YouTube and Xbox from 2007 to 2013, won Streamy and IAWTV awards, and was the first web series released on Netflix.

The Guilt Trip (film)

The Guilt Trip, also known as My Mother's Curse, is a 2012 American road trip comedy directed by Anne Fletcher and written by Dan Fogelman.

The Guilty (2018 film)

The Guilty (Danish: Den skyldige) is Gustav Möller's 2018 Danish debut thriller, 85 minutes in real time inside an emergency call centre, starring Jakob Cedergren; Sundance and Rotterdam audience award winner and Denmark's 91st Academy Awards submission.

The Guilty (2021 film)

The Guilty (2021) is Antoine Fuqua's American remake of Gustav Möller's Danish thriller Den Skyldige (2018), starring Jake Gyllenhaal as demoted LAPD officer Joe Baylor in a 911 dispatch center; shot in 11 days during COVID, released by Netflix October 1, 2021.

The Gulag Archipelago (Архипелаг ГУЛАГ)

The Gulag Archipelago (Архипелаг ГУЛАГ) is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's three-volume documentary work on the Soviet forced labor camp system from 1918 to 1956, first published in Paris in 1973.

The Guler Bhagavata Purana of Manaku

The Guler Bhagavata Purana of Manaku, or Small Guler Bhagavata Purana, is an unfinished illustrated manuscript of the Bhagavata Purana painted by Manaku at Guler around 1740.

The Gumm Sisters

The Gumm Sisters, later the Garland Sisters, were a 1920s-1930s American children's vaudeville trio of Mary Jane, Dorothy Virginia, and Frances "Baby" Gumm, the youngest of whom became Judy Garland after signing with MGM in 1935.

The Gumps

The Gumps was an American comic strip by Sidney Smith, running in the Chicago Tribune from February 12, 1917 to October 17, 1959. Pioneering continuity storytelling with Andy, Min, and Uncle Bim, it drove Tribune syndication, earned Smith a $1 million contract, and became the first comic strip adapted to radio in 1931.

The Gun Club

The Gun Club, an American punk-blues band from Los Angeles founded by Jeffrey Lee Pierce (also the Creeping Ritual), released Fire of Love (1981) and Miami (1982) and influenced the White Stripes and Nick Cave; Pierce died in 1996.

The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag

The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag is a 1992 comedy-mystery about a small-town librarian who falsely confesses to a murder to gain attention. It stars Penelope Ann Miller.

The Gun on Second Street

The Gun on Second Street is an American independent drama written and directed by Rohit Karn Batra, an allegory of the U.S. gun crisis about a Pittsburgh officer who accidentally kills his partner. Shot in Wheeling, West Virginia; its 2025 IATSE crew strike drew attention.

The Gunfighter

The Gunfighter (1950) is Henry King's Twentieth Century-Fox Western starring Gregory Peck as aging gunslinger Jimmy Ringo, an antiheroic, mustachioed forerunner of the psychological Westerns, initially a box-office disappointment but later acclaimed (Metascore 94).

The Guns of August

The Guns of August, Barbara W. Tuchman's 1962 Macmillan narrative history of the first month of World War I, won the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and influenced Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis.