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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 Guvernment

The Guvernment, also known as the Guvernment Entertainment Complex, was a multi-room nightclub on Toronto's waterfront, open from 1996 to 2015 and long ranked among North America's largest clubs.

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 Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All

The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All (気になってる人が男じゃなかった, KiniOto, "green yuri") is Sumiko Arai's yuri webcomic-turned-manga about Aya, who falls for a CD shop clerk who is really her classmate Mitsuki; over 2.25 million copies sold, anime by CloverWorks premieres January 8, 2027.

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 Gwendy Trilogy

The Gwendy Trilogy, or Gwendy's Button Box Trilogy, is Stephen King and Richard Chizmar's three-novella series (2017–2022) following Gwendy Peterson, guardian of a catastrophe-causing button box, from 1974 Castle Rock into space.

The Gypsies

The Gypsies (Цыганы) is a narrative poem by Alexander Pushkin, written in 1824 during his southern exile and published as a book in 1827, the last of his "Southern poems".

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 Haçienda

The Haçienda (FAC 51) was a Manchester nightclub on Whitworth Street West, opened 21 May 1982 by Factory Records and New Order, closed 28 June 1997, demolished 2002; birthplace of UK acid house and Madchester culture.

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 Haitian Trilogy

The Haitian Trilogy is Derek Walcott's 2002 collection of three verse plays on the Haitian Revolution, gathering Henri Christophe, Drums and Colours, and The Haitian Earth.

The Halal Guys

The Halal Guys: American halal fast-casual chain founded 1990 in NYC by Egyptian immigrants Abouelenein, Elsaka, and Elsayed; began as a 53rd and 6th hot dog cart serving Muslim cab drivers, famous for chicken-over-rice platters and white sauce.

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 Brother

The Half Brother (Halvbroren) is a 2001 epic novel by the Norwegian author Lars Saabye Christensen, following half-brothers Barnum and Fred through four generations in postwar Oslo.

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.

The Hallmarked Man

The Hallmarked Man (2025) is the eighth Cormoran Strike crime novel by Robert Galbraith, J.K. Rowling's pseudonym. Published 2 September 2025, 912 pages, it follows Strike and Robin Ellacott investigating a dismembered body in a Masonic silver vault.

The Hallow

The Hallow (2015) is a UK-Irish folk horror film and Corin Hardy's feature debut, premiering at Sundance 2015. A London family in a remote Irish mill house is attacked by changeling and banshee creatures, realized mainly with practical animatronic effects.

The Ham Funeral

The Ham Funeral is a two-act play by Patrick White, written in postwar London in 1947 and first staged in Adelaide in 1961 after the Adelaide Festival rejected it.

The Hamburg Cell (film)

The Hamburg Cell (2004) is a British TV docudrama directed by Antonia Bird, written by Ronan Bennett, dramatizing the Hamburg al-Qaeda cell behind 9/11, focused on hijacker Ziad Jarrah; premiered at Edinburgh, first 9/11 film adaptation.

The Hamilton Mixtape

The Hamilton Mixtape is a 2016 Atlantic compilation of covers, remixes, and demos of songs from Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical Hamilton, performed by Nas, Sia, Alicia Keys, Kelly Clarkson, Chance the Rapper, and others; released December 2, 2016.

The Hammer of the Village

The Hammer of the Village (A helység kalapácsa) is a comic epic poem in four cantos by the Hungarian poet Sándor Petőfi, published in 1844 as his first printed book.

The Hampsterdance Song

"The Hampsterdance Song" is a 2000 novelty dance single by Hampton the Hampster, produced by the Boomtang Boys from a sped-up sample of Roger Miller's "Whistle Stop"; it hit number one in Canada and number five in Australia.

The Hand (comics)

The Hand is a Marvel Comics ninja-assassin organization created by Frank Miller, first appearing in Daredevil #174 (September 1981). Led by the demon Beast, founded 1588 by Kagenobu Yoshioka, it menaces Daredevil, Elektra, and Wolverine in comics, Netflix shows, and games.

The Hand (手) (2004 film)

The Hand (手) is Wong Kar-wai's 2004, 56-minute Hong Kong film about a tailor and a courtesan in 1960s Hong Kong, expanded from his segment of the Eros anthology with Soderbergh and Antonioni, starring Chang Chen and Gong Li.

The Hand of God (film)

The Hand of God (È stata la mano di Dio) is Paolo Sorrentino's 2021 semi-autobiographical Netflix film about teenage Fabietto in 1980s Naples, Maradona, and family tragedy; it won the Venice Silver Lion and was Oscar-nominated.