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  • Galaxy Quest: Actors from an old TV show are contacted by some obsessive fans who need help dealing with violent bullies.
  • The Gallows: Ghost of a teen who was accidentally hanged in a school play tries to kill a group of students who broke into the school late at night.
  • The Game (1997): Banker gets pranked. Hard.
    • Game Night: Overtly competitive couple gets pranked. Hard.
  • Gamera: A little boy becomes best friends with a big turtle who is really neat.
  • Gandhi: Lawyer gets thrown off train, spends the rest of his life making sure nobody ever has to go through that again.
  • Gangs of New York: An angry orphan comes to a rapidly growing city during wartime. He nearly gets mugged by a woman with a shifting accent before going to work for a mustachioed, plaid-wearing hypocrite. He starts to forget why he came to the city in the first place, but then is set straight by a self-proclaimed Shakespearean scholar while a celebrity impersonator hovers above their heads and gets fruit hurled at him. Later on, an elephant stampedes through blood-soaked streets.
  • Gattaca: A man who may or may not be terminally ill steals his roommate's identity in order to fulfill his childhood dream, which will almost certainly put his coworkers' lives in danger. Later, he seduces a woman with no intention of revealing his true identity to her, then proves that he isn't mature enough to cope with his sibling-rivalry issues. In the end, the protagonist fulfills his dream while his roommate commits suicide in an incinerator.
  • Get Shorty: Mob-connected loan shark discovers he's a natural Hollywood player.
    • Be Cool: Disgruntled natural Hollywood player fights against, participates in and makes beautiful music with organized crime.
  • Get Smart: Clumsy guy gets the big break at his job, which requires him to dance with a fat woman, be repeatedly cut while pestered by a mouse, kiss a man, and attack pianists.
  • Ghostbusters (1984): Four guys drive around in a van and trap restless spirits. They save New York City from a giant candy mascot by taking serious risks with their equipment.
    • The story of three friends who overcome previous rejection to create their own start-up business on the tough streets of New York, get past resistance from bureaucrats and make a big break. There's also a Sumerian demigod.
    • Ghostbusters II: Evil painting comes to life and summons pink goo within disused subway tunnels to stalk an infant. He is eventually defeated by four guys piloting a mobile national monument.
    • Ghostbusters (2016): Four girls drive around in a hearse and trap restless spirits. They save New York City from a disgruntled janitor.
    • Ghostbusters: Afterlife: Four teens follow a family legacy by driving that same van and trapping restless spirits in the middle of nowhere.
  • G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra: Man fights his ex-girlfriend's new friends.
  • Ginger Snaps: Coming of age/werewolf drama. Morbid friendless sisters feature in a study of the similarity between premenstrual tension and uncontrollably violent lycanthropic blood-lust.
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: To get his job back, man brings the girl who lead to his dismissal to a small, cold village.
    • The Girl who Played with Fire: The girl reunites with her father. This turns out to be a bad thing.
    • The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest: To get her job back, girl asks the man to publish a dirty book of memories.
    • The Girl in the Spider's Web: The girl reunites with her sister. This turns out to be a bad thing.
  • Glass (2019): Security officer, sickly geek, and zoo worker are brought together by a shrink who thinks they're delusional.
  • Glengarry Glen Ross: A band of real estate agents endeavor to sell undesirable property to unwilling prospective buyers.
  • Gnomeo & Juliet: Romeo and Juliet...with lawn gnomes!
  • The Godfather: Importer of olive oil struggles to keep with the times. It gets violent.
    • Alternatively: Intimidating New York control freak with hanging jowls helps his friends by utilizing guns, lawyers and long-distance animal abuse.
    • The Godfather Part II: Son inherits family business and flashbacks are shown throughout.
    • The Godfather Part III: Organization leader starts a charity fund.
  • The Gods Must Be Crazy: An epic quest to get rid of an old glass bottle.
    • Alternatively: On the way to dispose of a Coke bottle, a man discovers that the world is truly bizarre.
  • Godspell: The Gospel According to Saint Matthew performed by clowns on a Manhattan Island devoid of people.
  • Godzilla: A giant dinosaur destroys (or rescues) Japan while fightingr other giant monsters for 60 years and counting.
  • Going in Style (2017): Three senior citizens plot to rob a bank.
  • Gone in 60 Seconds (1974): Professional carjacker steals '73 Mustang, proceeds to utterly void its warranty.
  • Gone with the Wind: A spoiled bitch and a lecherous scoundrel fight for chattel slavery to be made a substitute against both wage slavery and the use of taxes to transfer money from one place to another. They're our heroes.
    • Alternatively: Dixie buttercup achieves riches and finds love by flaunting her beauty, betraying friends, and smacking servants upside they heads, while others lose their lives in her behalf.
  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Three guys have a staring contest over a cash prize.
  • The Good, The Bad, The Weird: A man badly translates a stolen map.
  • Good Bye, Lenin!!: Woman falls into coma, wakes up in another country. Her son tries to cover it up.
    • Or: The protagonist feeds his ill, bed-ridden mother outrageous lies to fool her into thinking she lives in an oppressive socialist state.
  • The Good Dinosaur: Set in an alternate history, an orphan becomes friends with a small boy.
  • Good Morning, Vietnam: Army higherups try to stop Robin Williams from being funny.
  • Good Will Hunting: A therapist, a mathematician, and working class roughs vie for the soul of a really smart janitor.
  • Goodfellas: A kid gets a job parking cars for the people across the street and talks about the things his employers have him do.
  • A Goofy Movie: Reject from the Disney Animated Canon, featuring wacko suburbanite and his son on a physically dangerous Road Trip Plot. One of them ends up on stage at a concert by a performer who appears to be a cross between Prince and 1980s-era Michael Jackson. A fly-fishing move becomes a dance move and helps the father with his audience.
  • The Goonies: A hobbit and his friends try to find some treasure that was buried in a cave. They end up not getting to keep much of it.
  • Gorgo: Irish mother travels to London to rescue her kidnapped son. Visits various monuments and destroys them.
  • Gorillas in the Mist: The inspiring true story of a white woman who goes to Africa and spends most of her time hanging out with apes while pissing off a lot of black people. Ultimately she is mysteriously murdered after trying to interfere with said black people's way of making money.
  • Gosford Park: Love and intrigue at a 1930s British house party. Michael Gambon is murdered twice.
  • The Graduate: College boy wants girl, compromises by humping her mother until a yellow bus drives him to a future of probable poverty with vacillating trophy girl bride.
  • The Grand Budapest Hotel: A manager causes a shootout in his own hotel over a stolen painting. Bill Murray does not provide any laughs.
  • Gran Torino: Guy gets gangsters who broke his garden dwarf away from his property. This turns him into a neighborhood hero.
    • Alternatively: A Grumpy Old Man keeps threatening to shoot people. He befriends the kids from next door because of it.
  • Gravity: A woman suffering from Kessler syndrome struggles to get back onto her feet.
    • Alternatively: Doctor tries to drive home despite awful road conditions.
    • Or: A grieving schoolteacher finds her livelihood depends on learning Chinese in a high-pressure environment.
  • The Great Caruso: A Biopic depicts a famous tenor playing another who is even more famous.
  • The Great Dictator: A Captain Ersatz of Adolf Hitler attempts to Take Over the World and slaughter the Jews. Hilarity Ensues.
  • The Great Escape: Guy spends too much time playing with baseball while his mates dig holes. Eventually he gets to ride a motorcycle... only to get back to his baseball.
  • The Great Mouse Detective: A mouse tries to foil Vincent Price.
    • Alternatively, a large cat owner kidnaps a guy and makes him build a robotic Queen of England, and also forces a pair of rodents to listen to a song he wrote.
  • The Greatest Show on Earth: One of the greatest film directors ever takes us behind the scenes at the circus.
  • Gremlins (1984): City gets attacked by corrupted Christmas gift.
  • Grindhouse: A bunch of famed filmmakers make cheesy movies (or pieces of movies) with bad picture quality and missing scenes.
    • Planet Terror: Woman quits dancing the same day she becomes crippled. Gets used to her new prosthetic limb, though. Also, zombies happen.
    • Death Proof: Women who are tired of putting up with celebrities go and rent a car, kill an ex-stunt guy who drives his cool car around.
  • Grosse Pointe Blank: Man facing existential crisis attends his ten-year reunion to get back together with his high school sweetheart, even if he is unable to get rid of his work while there.
  • Groundhog Day: A journalist has his life fall into repetition, tries to kill himself and a woodchuck several times. Eventually he becomes enlightened.
    • Or: Big town weatherman experiences small-town life.
  • Guardians of the Galaxy (2014): Exiled orphan steals a metal ball, leading him to misunderstandings with an aggressive green girl, plus a duo of a grumpy shorty and a dimwitted giant, that get them all arrested. They are forced to team up, along with a Literal-Minded gray-and-red muscular angry guy, to break out of prison and try to get rid of said ball.
  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: Conflict over a dinner guest.
  • Get Out (2017): Conflict over being brought for more than dinner.
  • Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: An Italian man gets drunk and wishes that a hunk of wood was alive. A biblically accurate angel grants his wish and also makes it immortal. The hunk of wood proceeds to lie to his father and sing a song about poop and farts.

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