Movies from Donald Glover

City of God

Buscapé was raised in a very violent environment. Despite the feeling that all odds were against him, he finds out that life can be seen with other eyes...
Donald Glover
Actor, Musician
City of God is one of Donald's favorite movies.
Movies from Donald Glover

American Gangster

Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. Partly based on a true story.
Donald Glover
Actor, Musician
Have you ever seen American Gangster? You know Bumpy, the guy at the start who has a heart attack? My grandpa used to work with him, he was his right-hand man in real life. They ran numbers together. Those guys had this drive to go out and make something of themselves by any means necessary. So I look at all of them, and I wonder why does it stop with me, and I realize that it's because I have so many options available.
Movies from Donald Glover

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

As bass guitarist for a garage-rock band, Scott Pilgrim has never had trouble getting a girlfriend; usually, the problem is getting rid of them. But when Ramona Flowers skates into his heart, he finds she has the most troublesome baggage of all: an army of ex-boyfriends who will stop at nothing to eliminate him from her list of suitors.
Donald Glover
Actor, Musician
That movie is brilliant - it's funny, very interesting and it has got good values.
Movies from Donald Glover

The 400 Blows

For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful parents, Antoine spends his days with his best friend, Rene, trying to plan for a better life. When one of their schemes goes awry, Antoine ends up in trouble with the law, leading to even more conflicts with unsympathetic authority figures.
Donald Glover
Actor, Musician
It's a very snobby, geeky lyric but it has my favourite things in it: one of my favourite movies (The 400 Blows) and a double entendre (Truffaut and "true-faux", as in fake).
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5 movies

5 Desert Island Movies

Donald Glover picks 5 movies he'd watch (again and again) on a desert island.
Donald Glover
Actor, Musician
Donald Glover picks 5 movies he'd watch (again and again) on a desert island.
Movies from Donald Glover

The Counselor

A lawyer finds himself in far over his head when he attempts to get involved in drug trafficking.
Donald Glover
Actor, Musician
The Atlanta staff writers’ text-message group is named “Team Bolito,” after a mechanical weapon featured in Ridley Scott’s 2013 The Counselor. Glover says the writers became “super-obsessed” with a clip in which Brad Pitt’s character succumbs to the bolito, and they “watched it every day, probably three times a day.” He predicts, “[The Counselor] will probably become a classic.”
Books from Donald Glover

Kierkegaard: a Collection of Critical Essays



Donald Glover
Actor, Musician
Are you reading books right now? Yeah, I'm really into Kierkegaard shit right now.
Books from Donald Glover

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Jonathan Safran Foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated. Now, with humor, tenderness, and awe, he confronts the traumas of our recent history. What he discovers is solace in that most human quality, imagination. Meet Oskar Schell, an inventor, Francophile, tambourine player, Shakespearean actor, jeweler, pacifist, correspondent with Stephen Hawking and Ringo Starr. He is nine years old. And he is on an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York. His mission is to find the lock that fits a mysterious key belonging to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11. An inspired innocent, Oskar is alternately endearing, exasperating, and hilarious as he careens from Central Park to Coney Island to Harlem on his search. Along the way he is always dreaming up inventions to keep those he loves safe from harm. What about a birdseed shirt to let you fly away? What if you could actually hear everyone's heartbeat? His goal is hopeful, but the past speaks a loud warning in stories of those who've lost loved ones before. As Oskar roams New York, he encounters a motley assortment of humanity who are all survivors in their own way. He befriends a 103-year-old war reporter, a tour guide who never leaves the Empire State Building, and lovers enraptured or scorned. Ultimately, Oskar ends his journey where it began, at his father's grave. But now he is accompanied by the silent stranger who has been renting the spare room of his grandmother's apartment. They are there to dig up his father's empty coffin.
Donald Glover
Actor, Musician
Can you recommend a good book? I have an obsession with books about kids with Asperger's syndrome. I like the way they think - it suits me. The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time by Mark Haddon is great. That and [Jonathan Safran Foer's] Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close - they're on a separate bookshelf. They don't understand what the other books are saying by their facial expressions, but they're perfectly lined-up.
Books from Donald Glover

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

Over ten million copies sold'Outstanding...a stunningly good read' Observer'Mark Haddon's portrayal of an emotionally dissociated mind is a superb achievement... Wise and bleakly funny' Ian McEwan The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen. He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns and the truth. He hates the colours yellow and brown and being touched. He has never gone further than the end of the road on his own, but when he finds a neighbour's dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his whole world upside down.
Donald Glover
Actor, Musician
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time by Mark Haddon is great.
Books from Donald Glover

Future Shock

"The best study of our times that I know. . . . Of all the books that I have read in the last 20 years, it is by far the one that has taught me the most."--Le Figaro Future Shock is about the present. Future Shock is about what is happening today to people and groups who are overwhelmed by change. Change affects our products, communities, organizations--even our patterns of friendship and love. Future Shock vividly describes the emerging global civilization: tomorrow's family life, the rise of new businesses, subcultures, life-styles, and human relationships--all of them temporary. Future Shock illuminates the world of tomorrow by exploding countless clichés about today. Future Shock will intrigue, provoke, frighten, encourage, and, above all, change everyone who reads it. Praise for Future Shock "Explosive . . . brilliantly formulated."--The Wall Street Journal "A spectacular outcrop of a formidable, organized intellectual effort."--Manchester Guardian "Revealing, exciting, encouraging, brilliant."--The Christian Science Monitor "Immensely readable."--Newsweek "Alvin Toffler has sent something of a shock-wave through Western society."--London Daily Express "To the elite . . . who often get committed to age-old institutions or material goals alone, let Toffler's Future Shock be a lesson and a warning."--The Times of India
Donald Glover
Actor, Musician
Future Shock, the 1970 book by futurist Alvin Toffler, is “very pertinent right now,” Glover says. “It talks about how we haven’t, as human beings, studied how adaptable we are to getting information faster and faster . . . . [Toffler] predicted the Internet before the Internet happened.”
TV Shows from Donald Glover

Rick and Morty: The Anime

Rick and Morty anime spin-off adapting themes and events of the main series while also standing on its own as an original work.
Donald Glover
Actor, Musician
Like many of us, Glover is a huge Rick & Morty fan.
TV Shows from Donald Glover

World Star TV

Chris Powell and a panel of comedians provide commentary to clips found on "World Star Hip Hop." Also: original sketches; and man-on-the-street segments.
Donald Glover
Actor, Musician
I love watching Worldstar and all that shit.
TV Shows from Donald Glover

Naked and Afraid

What happens when you put two complete strangers - sans clothes - in some of the most extreme environments on Earth? Each male-female duo is left with no food, no water, no clothes, and only one survival item each as they attempt to survive on their own.
Donald Glover
Actor, Musician
In America most of the time I watched Naked and Afraid. What's that? - You haven't seen it? - Oh, it's the best.
TV Shows from Donald Glover

Gogglebox

Gogglebox is an entertaining television review programme in which some of Britain's most opinionated and avid telly viewers comment freely on the best and worst television shows of the past week, from the comfort of their sofas.
Donald Glover
Actor, Musician
When I was here most of the time I watched Gogglebox, I loved that so much!
TV Shows from Donald Glover

Killing Eve

A security consultant hunts for a ruthless assassin. Equally obsessed with each other, they go head to head in an epic game of cat-and-mouse.
Donald Glover
Actor, Musician
Irresistibly bingeable Killing Eve.
TV Shows from Donald Glover

Fleabag

Fleabag is thrown roughly up against the walls of contemporary London, sleeping with anyone who dares to stand too close, squeezing money from wherever she can, rejecting anyone who tries to help her, and keeping up her bravado throughout.
Donald Glover
Actor, Musician
I went to work the next day and I told all my writers to watch the show, cuz I thought I honestly was like this is incredible. It's like it's new to me. It's not easy to surprise us anymore as an audience. We're not innocent, you know, like like an apathetic teenager we have endless opportunities and resources, and endless chances to see something special. But we've become more and more bored by the nature of our due to our endless access to content. It's rare and in really exciting to see something that feels new, and Phoebe has a unique expression for every emotion that leads you to from like discomfort to sympathy, to laughing out loud with the slightest shift of a glance into the camera lens.
TV Shows from Donald Glover

American Dad!

The series focuses on an eccentric motley crew that is the Smith family and their three housemates: Father, husband, and breadwinner Stan Smith; his better half housewife, Francine Smith; their college-aged daughter, Hayley Smith; and their high-school-aged son, Steve Smith. Outside of the Smith family, there are three additional main characters, including Hayley's boyfriend turned husband, Jeff Fischer; the family's man-in-a-goldfish-body pet, Klaus; and most notably the family's zany alien, Roger, who is "full of masquerades, brazenness, and shocking antics."
Donald Glover
Actor, Musician
I'm probably going to get in trouble for this but American Dad is one of my favourite shows. It gets very dark in places but the jokes are there.
TV Shows from Donald Glover

O.J.: Made in America

The rise and fall of American football star, O.J. Simpson, from his days growing up in Los Angeles to his murder trial that polarized the country.
Donald Glover
Actor, Musician
The last series Glover “really, really became obsessed with” was the five-part ESPN documentary O.J.: Made in America. “[The O. J. Simpson] story was like Prince or Michael [Jackson]. The same way we won’t see artists like that again, we’re not going to see a story like that again. [The documentary] was beautifully done and spoke the truth about so many things.”
Music from Donald Glover

Marvin Gaye

Donald Glover
Actor, Musician
“All you really want to do is make something that stands the test of time,” he said. “That’s all that matters. I like Erykah Badu and Lauryn Hill and Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder. That’s everyday music. That’s music that people just put on and they’re like, ‘Man, this song makes me feel good. This song, it helps me get through the day.’”
Music from Donald Glover

Erykah Badu

Donald Glover
Actor, Musician
I like Erykah Badu and Lauryn Hill and Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder. That’s everyday music. That’s music that people just put on and they’re like, ‘Man, this song makes me feel good. This song, it helps me get through the day.’
Music from Donald Glover

LCD Soundsystem

Donald Glover
Actor, Musician
LCD was amazing. I cried, honestly.
Music recommended by Donald Glover
3 songs

3 Favorite Rappers

Donald Glover
Actor, Musician
Music from Donald Glover

Kiss from a Rose

Donald Glover
Actor, Musician
What's your karaoke song? "Kiss From A Rose". At the beginning, people know the intro and react [starts singing the melody]: "Bada-ba-ba-ba-ba-bada-ba..." You're never alone by the time you have to sing the "Baby!" which is the hard part because it gets high.
Music from Donald Glover

Songs In The Key Of Life

Donald Glover
Actor, Musician
Lastly, he’d have to bring a Stevie Wonder record. Glover performed Superstition onstage with the music legend at Los Angeles’ Peppermint Club recently. “I have to choose wisely,” he mutters before blurting, “Songs in the Key of Life.”
Music from Donald Glover

When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts

Donald Glover
Actor, Musician
He’d also bring with him a Fiona Apple record. “Tidal,” he says. “No, no, no, you know what, Fiona Apple, When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts…”
Music from Donald Glover

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Donald Glover
Actor, Musician
He’d also bring a Kanye West record. As he ponders which one, we suggest 808s & Heartbreak. “808s is a good choice,” Glover replies, “but I’m going to go with My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.”
Music from Donald Glover

The Dark Side Of The Moon

Donald Glover
Actor, Musician
This is really intense.
Music from Donald Glover

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Donald Glover
Actor, Musician
“This,” he says pausing for effect, “is very important.” Glover immediately name checks Lauryn Hill’sThe Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (it’s the album he says he has listened to the most).
Goods from Donald Glover

Betty Crocker Fruit Gushers, Strawberry Splash and Tropical, 0.9 Ounce (Pack Of 42)

Good source of Vitamin C
Donald Glover
Actor, Musician
- I had more money than all my friends, but I felt like-- you know, you don't spend it well. - What were you spending it on? - Can I be honest? - Yeah. - Like, Gushers. I wasn't allowed--I wasn't allowed to have candy as a kid, so I was like, I'm ballin'.