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Gladiator (2000 film)

Gladiator (2000) is Ridley Scott's Roman epic starring Russell Crowe as Maximus and Joaquin Phoenix as Commodus; it won five Oscars including Best Picture and spawned Gladiator II (2024).

Gladiator II

Gladiator II (2024) is Ridley Scott's sequel to Gladiator, starring Paul Mescal as Lucius with Denzel Washington and Pedro Pascal; it opened November 22, 2024, grossed about $462 million worldwide, and scored 64 on Metacritic.

Glass (2019 film)

Glass is a 2019 American superhero thriller directed by M. Night Shyamalan, starring Bruce Willis, James McAvoy, and Samuel L. Jackson as the conclusion to the Unbreakable trilogy, grossing $247 million worldwide.

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is Rian Johnson's 2022 Netflix whodunit, the second Knives Out film, with Daniel Craig's Benoit Blanc investigating tech billionaire Miles Bron on a Greek island; 139 minutes, 91% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Glassland

Glassland is a 2014 Irish drama directed by Gerard Barrett, starring Jack Reynor and Toni Collette as a Dublin taxi driver and his alcoholic mother; Sundance Special Jury Prize winner, 85% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Glen or Glenda

Glen or Glenda (1953), also released as I Led Two Lives and I Changed My Sex, is Ed Wood's directorial debut: a low-budget exploitation drama about cross-dressing and sex-change surgery, starring Wood as Glen/Glenda with Bela Lugosi, later a cult trans-representation milestone.

Glengarry Glen Ross (film)

Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), James Foley's film of David Mamet's Pulitzer-winning play, stars Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, and Alec Baldwin as cutthroat real estate salesmen; Baldwin's added "always be closing" Blake scene and the $10.7M US gross distinguish it.

Glenrothan

Glenrothan is a 2025 British comedy-drama and Brian Cox's feature directorial debut, starring Cox as Sandy and Alan Cumming as Donal, estranged brothers reunited at a Scottish Highland whisky distillery; released by Lionsgate in UK cinemas 17 April 2026 after a Toronto premiere.

Glitter (film)

Glitter is a 2001 American drama film starring Mariah Carey as singer Billie Frank, directed by Vondie Curtis-Hall and widely regarded as one of the worst films ever made.

Gloria (1980 film)

Gloria (1980) is John Cassavetes's Columbia Pictures crime drama starring Gena Rowlands as an ex-gun moll protecting a boy from the mob; it shared the 1980 Venice Golden Lion and earned Rowlands an Oscar nomination.

Gloria Bell

Gloria Bell is a 2019 A24 drama directed by Sebastián Lelio, remaking his 2013 Chilean film Gloria with Julianne Moore as a Los Angeles divorcée; 90% on Rotten Tomatoes, 78 on Metacritic, $5.6M US gross.

Gloria DeHaven

Gloria DeHaven (July 23, 1925 – July 30, 2016), American actress and singer of 1940s-50s MGM musicals (Two Girls and a Sailor, Summer Stock), soap operas, and the 1997 film Out to Sea.

Gloria Guida

Gloria Guida, Italian actress and singer born 1955 in Merano, star of 1970s commedia sexy all'italiana films like La liceale and Avere vent'anni; wife of Johnny Dorelli.

Gloria Leonard

Gloria Leonard (Gale Sandra Klinetsky, 1940–2014), American adult film actress and publisher of High Society magazine; pioneer of Celebrity Skin and phone sex lines, Free Speech Coalition president 1998.

Glory hole

Glory hole: a hole in a wall or partition, as in adult bookstore booths, bathhouses, or public toilets, allowing anonymous sexual activity; also nonsexual nautical, glassmaking, mining, and British storage senses.

Gnomeo & Juliet

Gnomeo & Juliet (2011) is a Touchstone computer-animated romantic comedy retelling Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet with feuding red and blue garden gnomes, directed by Kelly Asbury, featuring Elton John's music, and grossing $193 million worldwide.

Go (1999 film)

Go (1999) is a Doug Liman comedy-thriller, written by John August, telling three interlocking stories around an ecstasy deal and a Christmas rave. Released April 9, 1999 by Columbia Pictures, it flopped theatrically against The Matrix but became a cult classic.

Go (GO) (2001 film)

Go is a 2001 Japanese coming-of-age drama directed by Isao Yukisada, starring Yōsuke Kubozuka as the son of Korean residents in Japan who falls for a Japanese classmate.

Go Away Mr. Tumor (滚蛋吧!肿瘤君)

Go Away Mr. Tumor (滚蛋吧!肿瘤君) is a 2015 Chinese comedy-drama directed by Han Yan, starring Bai Baihe and Daniel Wu, adapted from cartoonist Xiong Dun's autobiographical comic about her lymphoma treatment; it earned about 510 million yuan and was China's 88th Academy Awards entry.

Go Away!

Go Away! is a British dark comedy-crime film about a cannabis-growing lodger whose scheme is threatened by a bailiff mishap and his landlord's home viewings.

Go Fish (1994 film)

Go Fish (1994) is Rose Troche's black-and-white lesbian romantic comedy, co-written with star Guinevere Turner, about Max and Ely in Chicago; a Sundance hit, Teddy Award winner, and New Queer Cinema landmark.

Go Goa Gone

Go Goa Gone is a 2013 Hindi zombie action comedy, Bollywood's first zom-com, directed by Raj and D.K., starring Saif Ali Khan as Boris, Kunal Khemu, and Vir Das, about a rave on an island off Goa where a drug turns guests into zombies.

Go Lala Go! (杜拉拉升职记)

Go Lala Go! (杜拉拉升职记) is a 2010 Chinese workplace comedy-drama film directed by and starring Xu Jinglei, adapted from Li Ke's novel; it earned 130 million yuan and spawned stage, TV, web, and game adaptations.

Go Now

Go Now is a 1995 BBC2 television drama, also called a TV movie, directed by Michael Winterbottom and written by Jimmy McGovern and Paul Henry Powell, about Bristol plasterer Nick Cameron (Robert Carlyle) facing multiple sclerosis; it won a BAFTA for Best Editing and the RTS Best Writer award.

Go Trabi Go

Go Trabi Go (Go, Trabi, Go) is a 1990 German road-movie comedy by Peter Timm, released 17 January 1991: the Bitterfeld Struutz family drives their Trabant 'Schorsch' to Italy after the Wall fell; a cult Wende film.

Goa (2010 film)

Goa (கோவா) is a 2010 Tamil comedy film written and directed by Venkat Prabhu, produced by Soundarya Rajinikanth's Ocher Studios with Warner Bros, starring Jai, Vaibhav, and Premgi Amaren, with music by Yuvan Shankar Raja, released 29 January 2010.

Goal II: Living the Dream

Goal II: Living the Dream (2007) is the second film of the Goal! trilogy, directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, in which Kuno Becker's Santiago Muñez transfers from Newcastle United to Real Madrid amid fame, family drama, and a Champions League final against Arsenal.

Goal III: Taking on the World

Goal III: Taking on the World, 2009 sports drama, final Goal! film, directed by Andrew Morahan, starring Kuno Becker, JJ Feild, Leo Gregory; straight-to-DVD UK release 15 June 2009, set at the 2006 FIFA World Cup, poorly received.

Goal! (film)

Goal! (Goal! The Dream Begins), 2005 Danny Cannon drama starring Kuno Becker as Santiago Muñez, a Mexican immigrant who trials for Newcastle United; first of a FIFA-backed trilogy with Real Madrid and World Cup sequels.

Goat (2016 film)

Goat (2016) is Andrew Neel's fraternity-hazing drama adapted from Brad Land's 2004 memoir, starring Ben Schnetzer and Nick Jonas as brothers at the fictional Phi Sigma Mu; released by Paramount September 23, 2016, 96 minutes, R-rated, 79% on Rotten Tomatoes.