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The Gryphon

The Gryphon (Der Greif) is a 2023 German Prime Video fantasy series, six episodes, adapted from Wolfgang and Heike Hohlbein's 1989 novel; three teens enter the Black Tower to fight the Gryphon.

The Guard (2011 film)

The Guard (2011) is an Irish black comedy-thriller, John Michael McDonagh's directorial debut, starring Brendan Gleeson as Garda sergeant Gerry Boyle and Don Cheadle as FBI agent Wendell Everett; it set the Irish box office record for an independent Irish film.

The Guardian (2006 film)

The Guardian is a 2006 American adventure drama directed by Andrew Davis, starring Kevin Costner as a Coast Guard rescue swimmer turned instructor and Ashton Kutcher as his recruit.

The Guardian (2026 film)

The Guardian (납치 48시간, Kidnapping: 48 Hours) is a 2026 Korean-Filipino action thriller directed by Jeong Jang Hwan, starring Nam Woo-hyun and Park Eun-hye; a 48-hour Manila kidnapping rescue released June 17, 2026 in South Korea and September 2, 2026 via Viva Films.

The Guardian (TV series)

The Guardian: 2001–2004 CBS legal drama created by David Hollander, starring Simon Baker as Nick Fallin, a Pittsburgh corporate lawyer ordered into 1,500 hours of child advocacy community service after a drug conviction. Not to be confused with the British newspaper or other titles named The Guardian.

The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special

The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (2022) is James Gunn's 42-minute Disney+ Special Presentation ending MCU Phase 4: Drax and Mantis abduct Kevin Bacon as a Christmas gift for Peter Quill, with Mantis revealing she is Quill's half-sister.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (film)

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is Mike Newell's 2018 film adaptation of Shaffer and Barrows's epistolary novel, starring Lily James and Michiel Huisman, about a writer and a Guernsey book club formed during the German Occupation; released theatrically in April 2018 and on Netflix in August 2018.

The Guest (2014 American film)

The Guest is a 2014 American action thriller directed by Adam Wingard, written by Simon Barrett, starring Dan Stevens and Maika Monroe. A soldier claims to be a dead friend of the Peterson family; premiered Sundance Jan 17, 2014, US limited release Sep 17, 2014, $332.9K gross.

The Guest (British TV series)

The Guest is a four-part British psychological thriller, BBC One and iPlayer, premiered 1 September 2025. Eve Myles plays Fran, Gabrielle Creevy her cleaner Ria; written by Matthew Barry, Quay Street Productions, filmed in Wales.

The Guest and My Mother (손님과 어머니)

The Guest and My Mother (사랑방 손님과 어머니, Mother and a Guest) is Shin Sang-ok's 1961 Korean classic drama adapted from Ju Yo-seop's 1935 story, starring Choi Eun-hee; it won the 1962 Asia Film Festival Best Picture and was Korea's first Oscar submission.

The Guest Book

The Guest Book is a TBS comedy anthology series created by Greg Garcia (My Name Is Earl), airing 2017-2018, about vacationers at Froggy Cottage and later Bare Feet Retreat who record their misadventures in a guest book.

The Guild (web series)

The Guild is an American comedy web series created by and starring Felicia Day, about online gamers; it ran on YouTube and Xbox from 2007 to 2013, won Streamy and IAWTV awards, and was the first web series released on Netflix.

The Guilt Trip (film)

The Guilt Trip, also known as My Mother's Curse, is a 2012 American road trip comedy directed by Anne Fletcher and written by Dan Fogelman.

The Guilty (2018 film)

The Guilty (Danish: Den skyldige) is Gustav Möller's 2018 Danish debut thriller, 85 minutes in real time inside an emergency call centre, starring Jakob Cedergren; Sundance and Rotterdam audience award winner and Denmark's 91st Academy Awards submission.

The Guilty (2021 film)

The Guilty (2021) is Antoine Fuqua's American remake of Gustav Möller's Danish thriller Den Skyldige (2018), starring Jake Gyllenhaal as demoted LAPD officer Joe Baylor in a 911 dispatch center; shot in 11 days during COVID, released by Netflix October 1, 2021.

The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag

The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag is a 1992 comedy-mystery about a small-town librarian who falsely confesses to a murder to gain attention. It stars Penelope Ann Miller.

The Gun on Second Street

The Gun on Second Street is an American independent drama written and directed by Rohit Karn Batra, an allegory of the U.S. gun crisis about a Pittsburgh officer who accidentally kills his partner. Shot in Wheeling, West Virginia; its 2025 IATSE crew strike drew attention.

The Gunfighter

The Gunfighter (1950) is Henry King's Twentieth Century-Fox Western starring Gregory Peck as aging gunslinger Jimmy Ringo, an antiheroic, mustachioed forerunner of the psychological Westerns, initially a box-office disappointment but later acclaimed (Metascore 94).

The Guns of Navarone (film)

The Guns of Navarone is a 1961 J. Lee Thompson war film produced by blacklisted Carl Foreman from Alistair MacLean's novel, starring Gregory Peck, David Niven, and Anthony Quinn as saboteurs destroying German guns on a fictional Aegean island; seven Oscar nominations, Best Special Effects win.

The Gutter (2024 film)

The Gutter (2024) is an American bowling comedy directed by brothers Yassir and Isaiah Lester, starring Shameik Moore, Susan Sarandon, and D'Arcy Carden; SXSW premiere, 75% on Rotten Tomatoes, Metascore 59.

The Guy from Vought

The Guy from Vought is the nameless Vought-American executive in Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson's comic The Boys (2006–2012), later identified as James Stillwell; the TV series split him into Madelyn Stillwell and Stan Edgar.

The Guyver

The Guyver (1991), released in the UK as Mutronics, is an American-Japanese live-action adaptation of Yoshiki Takaya's Bio Booster Armor Guyver manga, directed by Screaming Mad George and Steve Wang, produced by Brian Yuzna, starring Mark Hamill, and known for its practical Zoanoid creature effects.

The Gypsy and the Gentleman

The Gypsy and the Gentleman (1958) is Joseph Losey's British Regency costume melodrama, starring Melina Mercouri as gold-digging gypsy Belle opposite Keith Michell's Sir Paul Deverill; a Rank Organisation box-office failure Losey disowned, later reappraised as a precursor of The Servant.

The H-Man (美女と液体人間)

The H-Man (美女と液体人間, Bijo to ekitai ningen) is a 1958 Toho tokusatsu sci-fi film directed by Ishirō Honda with effects by Eiji Tsuburaya, about H-bomb radiation turning humans into liquid creatures; first of Toho's Transforming Human series.

The Hack

The Hack is a 2025 seven-part ITV/Stan drama by Jack Thorne dramatizing the News of the World phone hacking scandal and the Daniel Morgan murder inquiry, starring David Tennant as Nick Davies and Robert Carlyle as DCS Dave Cook.

The Hairdresser Mysteries

The Hairdresser Mysteries is a 2026 British cosy crime drama on BBC One and iPlayer, created by Jim Cartwright and starring Sally Phillips as 1970s-obsessed hairdresser Lily Petal, who solves murders in the fictional village of Blossom Vale through salon gossip.

The Hairy Ape

The Hairy Ape is an eight-scene 1922 play by Eugene O'Neill, in which stoker Yank Smith, rejected by a wealthy passenger, searches industrial New York for a place to belong.

The Halcyon

The Halcyon is a 2017 British ITV period drama, eight episodes, created by Charlotte Jones and made by Left Bank Pictures, set in 1940 at a fictional five-star London hotel during World War II; cancelled after one season, distinct from the Syfy series Halcyon and Disney's Halcyon starcruiser.

The Half of It

The Half of It is a 2020 Netflix romantic comedy-drama written and directed by Alice Wu, starring Leah Lewis, Daniel Diemer, and Alexxis Lemire. A queer Cyrano-style teen story set in fictional Squahamish, it won the Tribeca Founders Award and a 2021 Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay.

The Hallelujah Trail

The Hallelujah Trail (1965) is a John Sturges Western comedy, from Bill Gulick's novel Hallelujah Train, starring Burt Lancaster and Lee Remick; a whiskey wagon train to Denver is fought over by temperance women, cavalry, and Sioux.