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The Great Indian Kitchen

The Great Indian Kitchen (മഹത്തായ ഭാരതീയ അടുക്കള), 2021 Malayalam drama by Jeo Baby starring Nimisha Sajayan and Suraj Venjaramoodu, about a new bride's domestic drudgery; remade in Tamil and as Hindi film Mrs.

The Great Indian Suicide

The Great Indian Suicide (ది గ్రేట్ ఇండియన్ సూసైడ్), also earlier titled Telisinavaallu, is a 2023 Telugu mystery thriller by Viplove Koneti starring Hebah Patel and Ram Karthik, released directly on Aha on October 6, 2023, based on Madanapalle family mass-suicide incidents.

The Great Magician (大魔术师)

The Great Magician (大魔術師, 2011) is a Derek Yee-directed Hong Kong-China comedy-drama starring Tony Leung as magician Zhang Xian, Lau Ching-wan as warlord Lei Daniu, and Zhou Xun as Liu Yin, set in 1916 Beijing; it earned ¥174 million at the 2012 mainland box office.

The Great McGinty

The Great McGinty (1940) is Preston Sturges' directorial debut, a Paramount political satire starring Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus, and Akim Tamiroff, about a hobo who rises from vote fraud to governor and is ruined by honesty; it won the first Best Original Screenplay Oscar.

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 Muppet Caper

The Great Muppet Caper is a 1981 musical comedy film that stars the Muppets, including Kermit and Fozzie, investigating the theft of Lady Holiday's diamonds in London.

The Great Outdoors (film)

The Great Outdoors is a 1988 American comedy film directed by Howard Deutch, written by John Hughes, starring John Candy and Dan Aykroyd as rival brothers-in-law on a Wisconsin lake vacation.

The Great Passage (舟を編む)

The Great Passage (舟を編む, Fune o Amu) is a 2013 Japanese drama film by Yuya Ishii, adapted from Shion Miura's Booksellers' Award-winning novel about editors compiling the dictionary Daitokai; it was Japan's 86th Academy Awards entry.

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 Pre-Wedding Show

The Great Pre-Wedding Show (ది గ్రేట్ ప్రీ-వెడ్డింగ్ షో) is a 2025 Telugu comedy-drama directed by Rahul Srinivas, starring Thiruveer and Teena Sravya; a village photographer loses a pre-wedding shoot's memory card. Released 7 November 2025; streamed on ZEE5.

The Great Race

The Great Race (1965) is Blake Edwards' slapstick comedy starring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Natalie Wood, and Peter Falk in a 1908 New York-to-Paris auto race; 157 minutes, Oscar for Sound Effects, famous 2,500-pie fight honoring Laurel and Hardy.

The Great Santini

The Great Santini (1979), also released as The Ace, is Lewis John Carlino's drama adapted from Pat Conroy's autobiographical 1976 novel, starring Robert Duvall as Marine pilot Bull Meechum; Oscar-nominated for Duvall and Michael O'Keefe.

The Great Shamsuddin Family

The Great Shamsuddin Family is a 2025 Hindi comedy-drama film directed and written by Anusha Rizvi, released 12 December 2025 on JioHotstar. Kritika Kamra plays Bani Ahmed, a writer whose 12-hour deadline collides with her chaotic Muslim family in Delhi.

The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery

The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery (onscreen title The St. Louis Bank Robbery) is a 1959 black-and-white American crime drama directed by Charles Guggenheim and John Stix, starring Steve McQueen as a getaway driver, based on the real 1953 Southwest Bank robbery and shot on location in St. Louis.

The Great Train Robbery (1903 film)

The Great Train Robbery (1903) is a silent Western short directed by Edwin S. Porter for Edison Manufacturing Co., about twelve minutes long, fourteen scenes, famous for its final bandit-fires-at-camera shot and pioneering continuity editing.

The Great Wall (长城) (film)

The Great Wall (长城) is Zhang Yimou's 2016 US-China monster fantasy starring Matt Damon, Jing Tian, Willem Dafoe, and Andy Lau; a $150 million co-production about mercenaries defending the wall from Tao Tei monsters, a hit in China but a Western flop.

The Great War (1959 film)

La grande guerra (The Great War) is Mario Monicelli's 1959 Italian-French war comedy-drama with Alberto Sordi and Vittorio Gassman, produced by Dino De Laurentiis; the first realistic Italian film on World War I, it shared the 1959 Venice Golden Lion-equivalent prize.

The Great War of Archimedes (アルキメデスの大戦)

The Great War of Archimedes (アルキメデスの大戦, Arukimedesu no taisen) is a 2019 Japanese historical drama by Takashi Yamazaki, based on Norifusa Mita's manga, in which mathematician Kai Tadashi tries to stop the battleship Yamato's construction through cost analysis; it earned ¥1.93 billion in Japan.

The Great White Hype

The Great White Hype is a 1996 Reginald Hudlin boxing satire starring Samuel L. Jackson as promoter Rev. Fred Sultan, who stages a white challenger (Peter Berg) against Black champ Damon Wayans; 20th Century Fox, $8 million gross.

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 Beer Run Ever

The Greatest Beer Run Ever is a 2022 Peter Farrelly comedy-drama on Apple TV+, starring Zac Efron, Russell Crowe, and Bill Murray, based on John "Chickie" Donohue's 2020 memoir about delivering Pabst Blue Ribbon to friends in 1967 Vietnam.

The Greatest Game Ever Played

The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005) is a Disney sports drama directed by Bill Paxton, written by Mark Frost from his 2002 book, starring Shia LaBeouf as Francis Ouimet, who beats Harry Vardon at the 1913 U.S. Open.

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 of All Time

The Greatest of All Time, also known as GOAT, is a 2024 Indian Tamil action film directed by Venkat Prabhu, starring Vijay in dual roles as an anti-terrorism agent and his son.

The Greatest Show on Earth (film)

The Greatest Show on Earth is a 1952 American circus drama directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Charlton Heston and Betty Hutton, that won Best Picture.

The Greatest Showman

The Greatest Showman is a 2017 American musical film directed by Michael Gracey, starring Hugh Jackman as P. T. Barnum alongside Zac Efron and Michelle Williams.

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 Berets (film)

The Green Berets is a 1968 American war film directed by John Wayne and Ray Kellogg, based on Robin Moore's novel, which portrays U.S. Special Forces in Vietnam.

The Green Eyes

The Green Eyes (Les Yeux verts) is a 2026 French-Belgian-Swedish drama by Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh about an Iraqi refugee girl entering her brother's dreams after he falls into resignation syndrome; it opened Locarno 2026.

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.