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The Good Doctor (American TV series)

The Good Doctor (American TV series), ABC medical drama 2017-2024 created by David Shore, an adaptation of South Korea's 2013 KBS series Good Doctor, starring Freddie Highmore as autistic savant surgeon Dr. Shaun Murphy at St. Bonaventure Hospital; seven seasons, 126 episodes, major debates over autism portrayal.

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 Fight

The Good Fight (2017–2022) is an American legal-political drama, spinoff of The Good Wife, created by Robert King, Michelle King, and Phil Alden Robinson, starring Christine Baranski as Diane Lockhart; 6 seasons, 60 episodes on CBS All Access and Paramount+.

The Good German

The Good German (2006), German title In den Ruinen von Berlin, is Steven Soderbergh's black-and-white film noir adaptation of Joseph Kanon's novel, starring George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, and Tobey Maguire in July 1945 Berlin during the Potsdam Conference; R, 105 min, Warner Bros, released December 15, 2006.

The Good Girl

The Good Girl is a 2002 American comedy-drama directed by Miguel Arteta and written by Mike White, starring Jennifer Aniston and Jake Gyllenhaal as co-workers whose affair darkens.

The Good Karma Hospital

The Good Karma Hospital: British medical drama created by Dan Sefton, Tiger Aspect for ITV, 2017–2022, four six-episode series (24 episodes) set in southern India, filmed in Sri Lanka, starring Amanda Redman and Amrita Acharia.

The Good Lawyer's Wife (바람난 가족)

The Good Lawyer's Wife (바람난 가족) is a 2003 South Korean drama written and directed by Im Sang-soo, starring Moon So-ri, about a family full of affairs.

The Good Liar

The Good Liar is a 2019 British thriller directed by Bill Condon, adapted from Nicholas Searle's 2015 novel, starring Ian McKellen as conman Roy Courtnay and Helen Mirren as widow Betty McLeish in their first film together.

The Good Lie

The Good Lie is a 2014 Warner Bros. drama directed by Philippe Falardeau, written by Margaret Nagle, about the Lost Boys of Sudan resettling in Kansas City, starring Reese Witherspoon, Arnold Oceng, Ger Duany, and Emmanuel Jal.

The Good Life (1975 TV series)

The Good Life (1975 TV series), US title Good Neighbors, is a BBC1 sitcom by Esmonde and Larbey in which Tom and Barbara Good pursue self-sufficiency in Surbiton, starring Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Penelope Keith, and Paul Eddington.

The Good Lord Bird (miniseries)

Seven-episode 2020 Showtime historical drama miniseries adapted from James McBride's 2013 National Book Award-winning novel, starring Ethan Hawke as abolitionist John Brown, narrated by fictional enslaved boy Henry "Onion" Shackleford, and winner of a Peabody Award.

The Good Mothers

The Good Mothers is a 2023 Italian-British Disney+ miniseries, also on Hulu, adapted from Alex Perry's book about women of the 'Ndrangheta who collaborated with prosecutors; it won the inaugural Berlinale Series Award.

The Good Neighbor (2022 film)

The Good Neighbor (2022) is an American psychological thriller directed by Stephan Rick, a remake of his 2011 German film Unter Nachbarn, starring Luke Kleintank and Jonathan Rhys Meyers as neighbors covering up a hit-and-run in Riga, Latvia.

The Good Neighbor (film)

The Good Neighbor (2016), originally titled The Waiting, is an American psychological thriller directed by Kasra Farahani, starring James Caan, Logan Miller, and Keir Gilchrist; two teens fake a haunting on neighbor Harold Grainey, premiered at SXSW, released by Vertical Entertainment, grossing $90,573.

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 Good Old Days (British TV series)

The Good Old Days is a BBC television variety program, running from 1953 to 1983, that recreated Victorian and Edwardian music hall from Leeds City Varieties.

The Good Old Days (再见艳阳天)

The Good Old Days (再见艳阳天) is a 106-episode Hong Kong television drama starring Amy Chan, Ma Jingtao, and Sheren Tang, first broadcast on ATV in 1996.

The Good Place

The Good Place is an NBC fantasy-comedy sitcom created by Mike Schur, airing 2016-2020 in four seasons, starring Kristen Bell and Ted Danson in an afterlife comedy built around moral philosophy, with philosopher consultants and wide use in ethics classrooms.

The Good Shepherd (film)

The Good Shepherd (2006) is a spy drama directed by Robert De Niro, written by Eric Roth, starring Matt Damon and Angelina Jolie, dramatizing the CIA's founding through fictional officer Edward Wilson, loosely based on James Angleton; grossed about $100 million worldwide.

The Good Son (film)

The Good Son is a 1993 American psychological thriller directed by Joseph Ruben, written by Ian McEwan, starring Macaulay Culkin as murderous Henry and Elijah Wood as cousin Mark; Fox release, R-rated, 87 minutes, $60.6 million worldwide.

The Good Thief

The Good Thief is a 2002 heist film directed by Neil Jordan, starring Nick Nolte as an American gambler planning a Monte Carlo casino vault robbery.

The Good Wife

The Good Wife is a CBS legal and political drama (2009–2016, seven seasons, about 156 episodes) created by Robert and Michelle King, starring Julianna Margulies as Alicia Florrick, a lawyer restarting her career after her husband's corruption and sex scandal; noted for legal realism, 5 Emmy wins, and The Good Fight spin-off.

The Good Witch

The Good Witch is a 2008 American fantasy comedy-drama TV movie directed by Craig Pryce, starring Catherine Bell and Chris Potter, which premiered on the Hallmark Channel.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo), Sergio Leone's 1966 spaghetti western closing the Dollars Trilogy: Eastwood, Wallach, and Van Cleef hunt $200,000 in Confederate gold amid the Civil War, with Ennio Morricone's iconic score.

The Good, the Bad, the Weird (좋은 놈, 나쁜 놈, 이상한 놈)

The Good, the Bad, the Weird (좋은 놈, 나쁜 놈, 이상한 놈) is Kim Jee-woon's 2008 Korean Manchurian western starring Song Kang-ho, Lee Byung-hun, and Jung Woo-sung as three exiles chasing a treasure map in 1930s Manchuria, screened out of competition at Cannes 2008.

The Goodbye Girl

The Goodbye Girl is a 1977 Neil Simon romantic comedy directed by Herbert Ross, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, and Quinn Cummings as unwilling Manhattan roommates; Dreyfuss won the 1978 Best Actor Oscar.

The Goode Family

The Goode Family is a 2009 ABC animated sitcom by Mike Judge, Altschuler, and Krinsky satirizing an ultra-green, politically correct family (Gerald, Helen, Ubuntu, Bliss, vegan dog Che); 13 episodes, canceled after low ratings, later on Comedy Central.

The Goodies

The Goodies: British TV comedy series (1970–1982, BBC2 then LWT/ITV) starring and written by Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, and Bill Oddie, a hire-anything trio on a trandem; known for Kitten Kong, the Funky Gibbon, and Montreux Silver Roses.

The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard

The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard is a 2009 American comedy film directed by Neal Brennan, starring Jeremy Piven as a mercenary used-car salesman saving a failing dealership.

The Goon Show

The Goon Show was a British radio comedy program aired from 1951 to 1960. Written by Spike Milligan, it influenced major acts like Monty Python and the Beatles.