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The Girl Who Cried Pearls

The Girl Who Cried Pearls (La jeune fille qui pleurait des perles) is a 2025 NFB stop-motion short by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski about a Montreal boy selling a girl's pearl tears; it won the 2026 Oscar for Best Animated Short Film.

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006 film)

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (時をかける少女, Toki o Kakeru Shōjo) is a 2006 Madhouse anime film directed by Mamoru Hosoda, adapting Yasutaka Tsutsui's novel as a sequel about high schooler Makoto Konno's time-leap ability; a word-of-mouth hit that won Sitges and Japan Academy awards.

The Girl with Green Eyes

Girl with Green Eyes (The Girl with Green Eyes) is a 1964 British drama, Desmond Davis's directorial debut, adapted by Edna O'Brien from her novel The Lonely Girl, starring Rita Tushingham, Peter Finch, and Lynn Redgrave; it won the 1965 Golden Globe for Best English-Language Foreign Film.

The Giver (film)

The Giver (2014) is Phillip Noyce's film adaptation of Lois Lowry's 1993 Newbery-winning dystopian novel, long championed by Jeff Bridges, who stars with Meryl Streep and Brenton Thwaites; released August 15, 2014 by the Weinstein Company.

The Glass Castle (2017 film)

The Glass Castle (2017 film), directed by Destin Daniel Cretton from Jeannette Walls's 2005 memoir, stars Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, and Naomi Watts; Lionsgate released it August 11, 2017, grossing $17.2M with mixed reviews (RT 53%, Metacritic 56).

The Glenn Miller Story

The Glenn Miller Story (1954) is a Universal-International biographical musical directed by Anthony Mann, starring James Stewart as bandleader Glenn Miller and June Allyson as Helen Burger, with Louis Armstrong and Gene Krupa as themselves; a Technicolor box-office hit that earned Oscar nominations and a Best Sound win.

The Go Master (吴清源)

The Go Master (吴清源) is Tian Zhuangzhuang's 2006 biographical drama about Go master Wu Qingyuan (Go Seigen), starring Chang Chen; a 104-minute China-Japan co-production delayed by funding disputes and praised as restrained.

The Go-Between (1971 film)

The Go-Between (1971) is Joseph Losey's British drama, scripted by Harold Pinter from L.P. Hartley's 1953 novel, about a boy carrying secret love letters in 1900 Norfolk; it won the 1971 Cannes Palme d'Or and BAFTAs for Pinter's screenplay.

The Golden Compass (film)

The Golden Compass is a 2007 fantasy adventure film directed by Chris Weitz, adapting Philip Pullman's novel Northern Lights, starring Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, and Dakota Blue Richards.

The Golden Era (黄金时代)

The Golden Era (黃金時代, Huangjin shidai) is Ann Hui's 2014 biographical drama on writer Xiao Hong, written by Li Qiang and starring Tang Wei; it won Golden Horse and Hong Kong Film Awards but earned only 36.4 million RMB on a 70 million budget.

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973) is the second Ray Harryhausen Sinbad film, directed by Gordon Hessler, starring John Phillip Law, Caroline Munro, and Tom Baker as wizard Koura, with Dynarama stop-motion creatures including Kali, a centaur, and a griffin.

The Goldfinch (film)

The Goldfinch (2019) is John Crowley's drama adaptation of Donna Tartt's Pulitzer-winning novel, written by Peter Straughan, starring Ansel Elgort, Oakes Fegley, and Nicole Kidman; a $40 million Warner Bros. film that grossed about $10 million and scored 24% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Good Dinosaur

The Good Dinosaur is a 2015 Pixar animated film directed by Peter Sohn, imagining dinosaurs never went extinct, following young Apatosaurus Arlo who befriends a human boy named Spot.

The Good Earth (1937 film)

The Good Earth (1937) is Sidney Franklin's MGM adaptation of Pearl S. Buck's Pulitzer novel, starring Paul Muni and Luise Rainer in yellowface as Chinese farmers; Rainer and Karl Freund won Oscars, and Anna May Wong was denied the O-Lan role.

The Good Nurse

The Good Nurse (2022) is a Netflix crime drama directed by Tobias Lindholm, starring Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne, adapted from Charles Graeber's 2013 book about serial-killing nurse Charles Cullen and nurse Amy Loughren, who helped catch him.

The Grapes of Wrath (film)

The Grapes of Wrath (1940), John Ford's Twentieth Century-Fox adaptation of Steinbeck's Dust Bowl novel, starring Henry Fonda as Tom Joad; won Oscars for Best Director and Best Supporting Actress (Jane Darwell).

The Gray Man (2007 film)

The Gray Man is a 2007 American biographical thriller film about serial killer Albert Fish, directed by Scott L. Flynn and starring Patrick Bauchau as Fish.

The Great Caruso

The Great Caruso is a 1951 MGM Technicolor musical biopic of tenor Enrico Caruso, starring Mario Lanza, Ann Blyth, and Dorothy Kirsten, directed by Richard Thorpe, an Oscar-winning 1951 box-office hit later successfully sued by Caruso's heirs.

The Great Debaters

The Great Debaters is a 2007 drama directed by and starring Denzel Washington as professor Melvin B. Tolson, coach of Wiley College's 1935 debate team; Forest Whitaker co-stars, and the film dramatizes the team's victory over the national champions.

The Great Escaper

The Great Escaper is a 2023 British drama directed by Oliver Parker, starring Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson as Bernard and Irene Jordan, based on the 2014 escape of an 89-year-old D-Day veteran from his Hove care home to attend the 70th D-Day anniversary in Normandy.

The Great Gatsby (1974 film)

The Great Gatsby (1974) is Jack Clayton's Paramount adaptation of Fitzgerald's novel, written by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Robert Redford and Mia Farrow, and winning Oscars for costume design and adapted score.

The Great Gatsby (2013 film)

The Great Gatsby (2013) is Baz Luhrmann's 3D adaptation of Fitzgerald's 1925 novel, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, and Joel Edgerton; released May 10, 2013 by Warner Bros., it opened Cannes out of competition and grossed $353.6 million worldwide.

The Great Hack

The Great Hack is a 2019 Netflix documentary by Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim, premiered at Sundance, about the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data scandal, following Brittany Kaiser, David Carroll, and Carole Cadwalladr; Emmy and BAFTA nominated.

The Great Mouse Detective

The Great Mouse Detective is Disney's 1986 G-rated animated mystery, directed by Clements, Mattinson, Michener, and Musker, based on Eve Titus's Basil of Baker Street, with Vincent Price as Ratigan, a Henry Mancini score, and a Big Ben climax using early computer animation.

The Great Piggy Bank Robbery

The Great Piggy Bank Robbery is a 1946 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes short directed by Bob Clampett, in which Daffy Duck dreams he is detective Duck Twacy in a Dick Tracy parody, battling grotesque villains such as Neon Noodle and Rubberhead.

The Great Ziegfeld

The Great Ziegfeld (1936) is MGM's Best Picture-winning musical biopic of Broadway impresario Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., directed by Robert Z. Leonard, starring William Powell, Luise Rainer, and Myrna Loy, famous for its 'A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody' number.

The Greatest Night in Pop

The Greatest Night in Pop (2024) is Bao Nguyen's Netflix documentary about the January 28, 1985 all-night recording of "We Are the World" by 45 stars after the American Music Awards, covering its Belafonte origins, logistics, reception, and awards.

The Greatest Story Ever Told

The Greatest Story Ever Told is George Stevens' 1965 Ultra Panavision 70 biblical epic of the life of Jesus, starring Max von Sydow, based on Fulton Oursler's 1949 novel, a $20 million box-office failure with five Oscar nominations.

The Green Hornet (2011 film)

The Green Hornet is a 2011 American action-comedy directed by Michel Gondry, starring Seth Rogen as a slacker who becomes a masked vigilante with his father's employee Kato.

The Green Knight (film)

The Green Knight (2021) is David Lowery's A24 dark fantasy adapting the 14th-century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, starring Dev Patel as Gawain, with Ralph Ineson and Alicia Vikander; released July 30, 2021, it earned 88% on Rotten Tomatoes but only 50% from audiences.