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American cinema: All genres

Gabriel Over the White House (1933)
Gregory La Cava

The American people expect great things from Judson Hammond when he is inaugurated President of the United States, having promised radical action to lift the country out of the depths of the worst depression it has ever known...   [More...]

Gaslight (1944)
George Cukor

Shortly after their marriage, Gregory Anton persuades his wife Paula that he has a burning desire to live in the centre of London...   [More...]

The Gay Divorcee (1934)
Mark Sandrich

After a brief stay in Paris, the celebrated American dancer Guy Holden travels to England with his friend, Egbert Fitzgerald, a lawyer who has agreed to temporarily take the reins at his father's London law firm...   [More...]

The General (1927)
Clyde Bruckman

America, 1861. Train driver Johnnie Gray has two loves in his life - his locomotive, named The General, and his sweetheart, Annabelle Lee...   [More...]

Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
Elia Kazan

Shortly after moving to New York City with his ten-year-old son and mother, journalist Phil Green accepts a commission from magazine proprietor John Minify to write a series of articles on anti-Semitism in the United States...   [More...]

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
Howard Hawks

Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw are showgirls who think of nothing but catching the man of their dreams. Lorelei believes she has already landed her man, a wealthy heir named Gus Esmond who can't help showering her with expensive presents...   [More...]

The Getaway (1972)
Sam Peckinpah

Carter McCoy is serving a ten-year stretch in prison. After he is refused parole, he sends his wife Carol to make a deal with crooked businessman Jack Benyon...   [More...]

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Recently widowed, Mrs Lucy Muir decides to leave her in-laws in London and start a new life, with her young daughter, by the seaside...   [More...]

Giant (1956)
George Stevens

In the 1930s, Bick Benedict is the owner of a mammoth Texan cattle ranch which has made him one of the wealthiest men in the state...   [More...]

Gigi (1958)
Vincente Minnelli

Paris, 1900. The wealthy man of leisure, Gaston Lachaille, is bored with society women - unlike his ageing uncle Honoré, who has lost none of his enthusiasm for playing the field...   [More...]

Gilda (1946)
Charles Vidor

Not long after his arrival in Buenos Aires, crooked gambler Johnny Farrell is hired by the wealthy entrepreneur Ballin Mundson to work in his illicit casino...   [More...]

The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955)
Richard Fleischer

New York in the early 1900s. As soon as he catches his first glimpse of Evelyn Nesbit, a dazzling young actress, Stanford White finds he is irresistibly drawn to her...   [More...]

Give a Girl a Break (1953)
Stanley Donen

Broadway producer Felix Jordan has a crisis on his hands when his temperamental lead actress walks out of his latest show Give a Girl a Break...   [More...]

The Glass Key (1942)
Stuart Heisler

Former crook Paul Madvig offers his services as the electoral agent for the scrupulously honest Ralph Henry in the coming mayoral elections - partly to show he is a reformed character, but also so that he can win the girl he loves, Henry's daughter Janet...   [More...]

The Godfather (1972)
Francis Ford Coppola

Summer, 1945. Don Vito Corleone is the head of one of five gangster families operating in New York, known to his associates as The Godfather...   [More...]

The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Francis Ford Coppola

Sicily, 1901. When Antonio Andolini is killed by Mafia chief Don Ciccio, his wife pleads with the latter to spare her only remaining son Vito...   [More...]

The Godfather: Part III (1990)
Francis Ford Coppola

In 1979, Michael Corleone appears to be a reformed character. As he nears his 60th birthday, he has almost completely severed his links with the Mafia and now presides as the head of a wholly legitimate business empire...   [More...]

Going Bye-Bye! (1934)
Charley Rogers

It is on the evidence supplied by two upstanding American citizens that the thuggish criminal Butch Long is finally put behind bars...   [More...]

Going My Way (1944)
Leo McCarey

Father Fitzgibbon is the ageing pastor of St Dominic's parish, a disadvantaged area of New York where stray boys roam the streets in gangs whilst financier Ted Haines threatens his tenants with eviction unless they pay their rent...   [More...]

Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Mervyn LeRoy

America, during the Great Depression. Life is hard for chorus girls Polly, Carol and Trixie, who find themselves out of a job when the show they had been rehearsing is cancelled...   [More...]

Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
Busby Berkeley

The staff at the Wentworth Plaza, a high class hotel at Lake Waxapahachie, are used to handsome tips from their well-heeled clients...   [More...]

The Gold Rush (1925)
Charles Chaplin

An anonymous tramp makes the journey to Alaska, hoping to make his fortune in the gold rush. Caught in a snow storm, he takes refuge in a log cabin in which he confronts an escaped convict, Black Larsen, and another prospector, Big Jim McKay...   [More...]

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974)
Gordon Hessler

Sinbad is out sailing one sunny afternoon when a strange bat-like creature appears from nowhere and accidentally drops a gold ornament at his feet...   [More...]

GoldenEye (1995)
Martin Campbell

British agent James Bond is sent to Monte Carlo to tail Xenia Onatopp, a member of the mysterious Janus crime syndicate. Bond fails to prevent Onatopp and her associate General Ourumov from stealing a revolutionary new helicopter which is capable of withstanding an electromagnetic pulse...   [More...]

Gone with the Wind (1939)
Victor Fleming

In 1861, Scarlett O'Hara is celebrating her sixteenth birthday at her family home, a plantation in the southern US state of Georgia...   [More...]

Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
Barry Levinson

Saigon, 1965. During the Vietnam War, American Airman Adrian Cronauer is seconded to work as a disc jockey for the Armed Forces Radio service...   [More...]

Good Will Hunting (1997)
Gus Van Sant

Will Hunting is a 20-year-old South Bostonian who earns a meagre crust as a janitor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...   [More...]

Goodbye Again (1961)
Anatole Litvak

Paula Tessier is an interior designer who lives and works in Paris. Although she is still beautiful, she knows that the flower of her youth is rapidly fading...   [More...]

Goodfellas (1990)
Martin Scorsese

Growing up in Brooklyn in the 1950s, Henry Hill is easily seduced into a life of crime. Lured by easy money and the glamour of the mob, he runs errands for local mobster Paul Cicero and before he knows it he is a fully paid up gangster, raking in cash with his associates Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito...   [More...]

Gosford Park (2001)
Robert Altman

England, 1932. Sir William McCordle, a wealthy industrialist, welcomes an assorted gathering at his stately country mansion, Gosford Park, for a hunting party...   [More...]



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