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Golda (film)
Golda (2023 film), directed by Guy Nattiv, written by Nicholas Martin: biographical drama starring Helen Mirren as Israeli PM Golda Meir during the 19-day Yom Kippur War; premiered at Berlinale 2023, Metascore 48.
Golden age of American animation
The golden age of American animation was the era of theatrical short cartoons, roughly 1928 to the early 1960s, produced by Disney, Warner Bros., and MGM.
Golgo 13: The Professional (ゴルゴ13)
Golgo 13: The Professional (ゴルゴ13) is a 1983 Osamu Dezaki anime film from Tokyo Movie Shinsha adapting Takao Saito's manga, notable as the first feature-length animated film using 3DCG, released in the US by Streamline Pictures.
Gonzo pornography
Gonzo pornography is a non-narrative, documentary-style porn genre, also called POV porn, named after gonzo journalism. Born from 1989 titles by Stagliano, Gillis, and Powers, it is the dominant style on mainstream porn sites.
Good Boy (2023 film)
Good Boy (2023 film): 16-minute British short comedy-drama written and directed by Tom Stuart, starring Ben Whishaw and Marion Bailey as a mother and son robbing a bank; Oscar-shortlisted and BAFTA-nominated, distinct from the Norwegian thriller and 2025 dog horror of the same name.
Goodbye, Don Glees! (グッバイ、ドン・グリーズ!)
Goodbye, Don Glees! (グッバイ、ドン・グリーズ!) is a 2022 MADHOUSE anime film directed by Atsuko Ishizuka about three rural teens, the Don Glees, blamed for a forest fire, whose adventure reaches Iceland; distributed by KADOKAWA, 98 minutes.
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939 film)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) is Sam Wood's MGM British Studios drama adapted from James Hilton's novella, starring Robert Donat and a debuting Greer Garson; Donat won the 1939 Best Actor Oscar, beating Clark Gable.
Goodnight Mister Tom (film)
Goodnight Mister Tom (1998) is a British ITV television film directed by Jack Gold, adapted by Brian Finch from Michelle Magorian's novel, starring John Thaw as Tom Oakley and Nick Robinson as evacuee William Beech; it won a BAFTA and drew 14 million viewers.
Gorillas in the Mist
Gorillas in the Mist (1988) is Michael Apted's biographical drama starring Sigourney Weaver as primatologist Dian Fossey, adapted from her 1983 autobiography; a Universal-Warner Bros. film with five Oscar nominations and $61 million worldwide gross.
Gorky Park (film)
Gorky Park is a 1983 American Cold War thriller directed by Michael Apted, adapted by Dennis Potter from Martin Cruz Smith's novel, starring William Hurt as Moscow detective Arkady Renko; filmed in Helsinki after the USSR barred shooting in Moscow.
Gossamer (Looney Tunes)
Gossamer, also called Rudolph or the Tennis-Shoe Monster, is the big red-orange hairy Looney Tunes monster in tennis shoes created by Chuck Jones; he debuted unnamed in Hair-Raising Hare (1946) and was named Gossamer in 1980.
Gothic film
Gothic film: a cinematic mode carrying Gothic fiction conventions (haunted houses, curses, the supernatural) onto screen; not a formal genre, spanning German Expressionism, Universal and Hammer horror, and modern works like Get Out and Crimson Peak.
Gotti (2018 film)
Gotti (2018) is an American biographical crime film about mob boss John Gotti, directed by Kevin Connolly, starring John Travolta, Kelly Preston, and Spencer Lofranco; a critical and commercial failure with a 0% Rotten Tomatoes score and six Razzie nominations.
Goya in Bordeaux
Goya in Bordeaux (Goya en Burdeos) is Carlos Saura's 1999 Spanish-Italian biopic of Francisco de Goya, starring Francisco Rabal and José Coronado, shot by Vittorio Storaro, winner of five Goya awards and Montreal festival prizes.
Goya's Ghosts
Goya's Ghosts (Los Fantasmas de Goya) is a 2006 historical drama by Miloš Forman, starring Javier Bardem, Natalie Portman, and Stellan Skarsgård as Goya, set during the Spanish Inquisition and Napoleonic invasion of Spain.
Grace of Monaco (film)
Grace of Monaco (Grace de Monaco), 2014 Olivier Dahan biographical drama starring Nicole Kidman as Grace Kelly, set in 1962 during France's tax dispute with Monaco; opened Cannes 2014, flopped critically, aired on Lifetime in 2015.
Grand Theft Hamlet
Grand Theft Hamlet (2024) is a British documentary by Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane about staging Hamlet inside Grand Theft Auto Online during COVID lockdown, shot entirely in-game; SXSW Grand Jury winner.
Grass (1925 film)
Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life (1925) is a silent American documentary by Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack, and Marguerite Harrison following the Bakhtiari tribe's 48-day migration across Iran's Karun River and Zardeh Kuh.
Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life
Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life is a 1925 American silent documentary in which Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack filmed the Bakhtiari tribe's migration.
Grave of the Fireflies
Grave of the Fireflies (火垂るの墓, Hotaru no Haka) is a 1988 Studio Ghibli animated war drama directed by Isao Takahata, adapted from Akiyuki Nosaka's Naoki Prize-winning 1967 story about orphaned siblings Seita and Setsuko in 1945 Kobe.
Grave Robbing for Morons
Grave Robbing for Morons is a 1990 American amateur shockumentary, about 27 minutes long, credited to director Christopher Bouchie and starring an unidentified man called Anthony.
Great Balls of Fire! (film)
Great Balls of Fire! (1989) is Jim McBride's Jerry Lee Lewis biopic starring Dennis Quaid, Winona Ryder, and Alec Baldwin, based on Myra Lewis's book, released by Orion Pictures, rated PG-13 after an R appeal, grossing $13.7 million.
Great Expectations (1998 film)
Great Expectations is a 1998 American romantic drama directed by Alfonso Cuarón, loosely adapting Dickens' novel to modern Florida, starring Ethan Hawke and Gwyneth Paltrow.
Greater (film)
Greater is a 2016 American biographical sports drama about Brandon Burlsworth, the Arkansas walk-on who became an All-American and died days after being drafted by the NFL.
Green Book (film)
Green Book (2018) is Peter Farrelly's Oscar-winning comedy-drama, also called the Don Shirley and Tony Lip film, about a 1962 Jim Crow South concert tour; it won Best Picture, Supporting Actor, and Original Screenplay but drew Shirley family and white savior criticism.
Green Lantern (film)
Green Lantern (2011 film), directed by Martin Campbell, starring Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan, Blake Lively, Mark Strong; DC Comics adaptation about the first human Green Lantern fighting Parallax; a critical and commercial flop, later mocked by Reynolds in Deadpool.
Grey Gardens
Grey Gardens (1975) is a direct cinema documentary by Albert and David Maysles, Ellen Hovde, and Muffie Meyer about Big Edie and Little Edie Beale, Jackie Onassis's reclusive relatives, in their decaying East Hampton mansion; released theatrically February 19, 1976.
Grey Gardens (2009 film)
Grey Gardens (2009) is an HBO Films television drama directed by Michael Sucsy, starring Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange as Little Edie and Big Edie Beale; it premiered April 18, 2009 and won the Emmy for Outstanding Made for Television Movie.
Grey Wolf: The Escape of Adolf Hitler
Grey Wolf: The Escape of Adolf Hitler is a 2011 book by Simon Dunstan and Gerrard Williams, adapted into a 2014 docudrama, claiming Hitler fled to Argentina and died there in 1962; historians reject it as discredited conspiracy theory.
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes is a 1984 Warner Bros. adventure drama directed by Hugh Hudson, based on Burroughs's Tarzan of the Apes, with a screenplay credited to P.H. Vazak (Robert Towne's pseudonym), starring Christopher Lambert, and earning three Oscar nominations.