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Great Expectations (1946 film)

Great Expectations (1946) is David Lean's Cineguild adaptation of Dickens's novel, starring John Mills, with two Academy Awards for cinematography and art direction from five nominations.

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.

Great Expectations (2012 film)

Great Expectations (2012) is a Mike Newell film adaptation of Dickens's novel, scripted by David Nicholls, starring Jeremy Irvine, Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter, and Holliday Grainger; released 30 November 2012 by Lionsgate UK and BAFTA-nominated for costume design.

Great Freedom

Great Freedom (Große Freiheit) is a 2021 Austrian-German prison drama by Sebastian Meise starring Franz Rogowski as Hans, repeatedly jailed under Paragraph 175, with Georg Friedrich as cellmate Viktor; Cannes Un Certain Regard Jury Prize winner and Austria's Oscar entry.

Great Grand Masti (ग्रेट ग्रैंड मस्ती)

Great Grand Masti (ग्रेट ग्रांड मस्ती), 2016 Hindi adult comedy, third in the Masti series, directed by Indra Kumar, starring Deshmukh, Oberoi, Shivdasani, and Urvashi Rautela as a ghost; leaked before release, a box-office disaster.

Great News

Great News, NBC sitcom (2017-2018) created by Tracey Wigfield and produced by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, about producer Katie Wendelson whose mother interns at her Secaucus, New Jersey cable news show The Breakdown; canceled after two seasons, later a Netflix favorite.

Great Pretender (グレートプリテンダー) (TV series)

Great Pretender (グレートプリテンダー) is a 2020 original WIT Studio heist anime, 23 episodes, directed by Hiro Kaburagi, written by Ryota Kosawa, streamed on Netflix worldwide; not to be confused with the Freddie Mercury song or the razbliuto sequel.

Great Teacher Onizuka

Great Teacher Onizuka (GTO) is a 25-volume shōnen manga by Tōru Fujisawa serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine 1997–2002, about ex-biker Eikichi Onizuka becoming an unconventional teacher; adapted into a 1998 live-action drama, a 43-episode 1999 anime, and GTO 2026.

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.

Greed (1924 film)

Greed (1924) is Erich von Stroheim's silent adaptation of Frank Norris's McTeague, cut by MGM from a lost nine-and-a-half-hour original to about 140 minutes; a 1999 reconstruction restored roughly four hours using stills.

Greed (2019 film)

Greed (2019) is a British satirical comedy-drama directed by Michael Winterbottom, starring Steve Coogan as fashion billionaire Sir Richard 'Greedy' McCreadie, a thinly veiled Philip Green, premiered at TIFF 2019 and released by Sony Pictures Classics in 2020.

Greedy

Greedy is a 1994 American comedy film directed by Jonathan Lynn, starring Michael J. Fox and Kirk Douglas, about scheming relatives competing for their wealthy Uncle Joe's fortune.

Greef Karga

Greef Karga, Bounty Hunters Guild expeditor on Nevarro and later its Magistrate, is a fictional character in The Mandalorian played by Carl Weathers, who died in February 2024; later voiced by Carl Lumbly.

Greek (ΣΣK) (TV series)

Greek (ΣΣK) is an American ABC Family comedy-drama (2007-2011), created by Patrick Sean Smith, following siblings Casey and Rusty Cartwright through fraternities and sororities at the fictional Cyprus-Rhodes University. Four seasons, 74 episodes, starring Spencer Grammer and Jacob Zachar.

Greek Salad (2023 TV series)

Greek Salad (Salade grecque) is a 2023 French comedy-drama series by Cédric Klapisch, a sequel to L'Auberge espagnole, following Tom and Mia in Athens over 8 Prime Video episodes.

Green (The Bear)

"Green" is the eighth episode of season 4 of the American comedy-drama series The Bear, written by Joanna Calo and Christopher Storer and released on Hulu in 2025.

Green Acres

Green Acres: CBS sitcom (1965-1971, 170 episodes) starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as New Yorkers farming near Hooterville; created by Jay Sommers and Paul Henning, cancelled in CBS's rural purge, known for surreal fourth-wall humor.

Green and Gold

Green and Gold is a 2025 American drama, Anders Lindwall's first theatrical feature, starring Craig T. Nelson as a Wisconsin dairy farmer who bets his foreclosure-threatened farm on the 1993 Green Bay Packers winning the Super Bowl; Madison Lawlor plays granddaughter Jenny, and it was M. Emmet Walsh's final film.

Green Arrow

Green Arrow is DC Comics' archer superhero Oliver Queen, created by Mort Weisinger and George Papp in More Fun Comics #73 (1941); a billionaire Justice League member known for trick arrows, social-justice storylines, Black Canary, and the CW series Arrow.

Green Bones

Green Bones is a 2024 Filipino prison drama directed by Zig Dulay, starring Dennis Trillo and Ruru Madrid, based on the belief that green bones in remains prove goodness. It won Best Picture at the 50th MMFF and streams on Netflix.

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 Border

Green Border (Zielona granica) is Agnieszka Holland's 2023 black-and-white Polish drama, 152 min, about refugees pushed back at the Belarus-Poland border. Special Jury Prize at Venice 2023; denounced by Poland's Law and Justice government before the 2023 election.

Green Card (film)

Green Card is a 1990 romantic comedy, also called グリーン・カード, directed, written, and produced by Peter Weir. It stars Gérard Depardieu and Andie MacDowell in a marriage-of-convenience plot, won two Golden Globes, and earned an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay.

Green Chair (녹색의자)

Green Chair (녹색의자) is a 2003 South Korean erotic drama directed by Park Chul-soo, starring Suh Jung and Sim Ji-ho, about a divorcee's affair with a 19-year-old student, released June 2005.

Green Eggs and Ham (TV series)

Green Eggs and Ham is a Netflix animated series (2019–2022) adapted from Dr. Seuss's 1960 book; created by Jared Stern, hand-drawn by Warner Bros. Animation, starring Adam Devine and Michael Douglas in two seasons.

Green Fish (초록물고기)

Green Fish (초록물고기, Chorok mulgogi) is Lee Chang-dong's 1997 South Korean directorial debut, a crime drama starring Han Suk-kyu, Shim Hye-jin, and Moon Sung-keun about a discharged soldier drawn into Seoul's gangland; it swept the 1997 Blue Dragon, Grand Bell, and Paeksang awards.

Green for Danger

Green for Danger: 1944 Christianna Brand whodunit and its 1946 Sidney Gilliat film, in which postman Joseph Higgins dies on an operating table during V-1 raids and Inspector Cockrill (Alastair Sim) investigates seven hospital staff.

Green Frontier

Green Frontier (Frontera Verde) is Netflix's first Colombian original, an 8-episode 2019 supernatural crime miniseries directed by Ciro Guerra, Laura Mora, and Jacques Toulemonde, filmed in Leticia, Amazonas, about a Bogota detective investigating four femicides.

Green Goblin

Green Goblin: Marvel Comics supervillain alias, chiefly Norman Osborn, Spider-Man's archenemy, debuting in The Amazing Spider-Man #14 (July 1964) by Lee and Ditko; also held by Harry Osborn, with glider, pumpkin bombs, and film roles for Willem Dafoe.

Green Lantern

Green Lantern: DC Comics superhero legacy since 1940, from Alan Scott's magic ring to Hal Jordan's Green Lantern Corps power ring of willpower; bearers include John Stewart; adapted in the 2026 HBO series Lanterns.