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1. A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Crime
In London, four very different people team up on a jewel heist, then try to double-cross one another for the loot, complicated by their efforts to fool a very proper barrister.
Directors: Charles Crichton, John Cleese | Stars: John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin
Votes: 154,098 | Gross: $63.49M
2. The Meaning of Life (1983)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Musical
The comedy team takes a look at life in all of its stages in their own uniquely silly way.
Director: Terry Jones | Stars: John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones
Votes: 125,409 | Gross: $14.93M
3. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
PG | 126 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences across late 18th-century Europe with his band of misfits.
Director: Terry Gilliam | Stars: John Neville, Eric Idle, Sarah Polley, Oliver Reed
Votes: 56,937 | Gross: $8.08M
4. Absolutely Anything (2015)
R | 85 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
A group of eccentric aliens confers a human being with the power to do absolutely anything, as an experiment.
Director: Terry Jones | Stars: Simon Pegg, Kate Beckinsale, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Rob Riggle
Votes: 48,472
5. Fierce Creatures (1997)
PG-13 | 93 min | Comedy
Zookeepers struggle to deal with the policies of changing directors.
Directors: Robert Young, Fred Schepisi | Stars: John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin
Votes: 25,654 | Gross: $9.38M
6. Brassed Off (1996)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
The coal mine in a northern English village may be closing, which would also mean the end of the miners' brass band.
Director: Mark Herman | Stars: Pete Postlethwaite, Tara Fitzgerald, Ewan McGregor, Stephen Tompkinson
Votes: 20,961 | Gross: $2.56M
7. Splitting Heirs (1993)
PG-13 | 87 min | Comedy, Crime
A duke dies and leaves the title and wealth to his adult son. But who's the real son: the found baby raised in USA or the abandoned baby raised by a Hindi family in London? Comedy follows.
Director: Robert Young | Stars: Eric Idle, Rick Moranis, Barbara Hershey, Catherine Zeta-Jones
Votes: 4,589 | Gross: $3.25M
8. Blame It on the Bellboy (1992)
PG-13 | 78 min | Comedy
Several strangers converge on a hotel in Venice, Italy, where a bellboy's bad English sets them up to clash against each other in a hilarious case of mistaken identity.
Director: Mark Herman | Stars: Bronson Pinchot, Dudley Moore, Bryan Brown, Richard Griffiths
Votes: 2,878 | Gross: $3.10M
9. Himalaya with Michael Palin (2004– )
360 min | Documentary
Michael Palin travels the Himalaya mountain region.
Stars: Michael Palin, The Dalai Lama
Votes: 1,217
10. Great Performances (1971– )
TV-G | 180 min | Music, Musical
Filmed and televised versions of theater productions, such as plays, musicals, operas, ballets, and concerts from around the world.
Stars: Scott Yoo, Julie Andrews, Renée Fleming, Plácido Domingo
Votes: 903
11. American Friends (1991)
PG | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Reverend Francis Ashby (Sir Michael Palin), a senior Oxford don on vacation alone in the Alps, meets vacationing American Miss Caroline Hartley (Connie Booth) and her companion Miss Elinor ... See full summary »
Director: Tristram Powell | Stars: Bryan Pringle, Fred Pearson, Michael Palin, Alfred Molina
Votes: 864
12. New Europe (2007– )
50 min | Documentary
With the Iron Curtain coming down in 1991, Michael Palin embarks on 20 countries tour from Balkans to Baltic of Central and Eastern Europe.
Stars: Michael Palin, Sevval Sam, Ilie Nastase, Lech Walesa
Votes: 749
13. Film '72 (1971–2018)
30 min | Talk-Show
The BBC's flagship cinema review television programme featuring reviews of new releases, news items and interviews. The title of the programme changes each year to incorporate the year of broadcast.
Stars: Barry Norman, Danny Leigh, Claudia Winkleman, Jonathan Ross
Votes: 535
14. Reuniting the Rubins (2010)
PG | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
One man's mission to follow his dream is comically halted in its tracks at the request of his dear, but difficult, aged Jewish mother who is hell-bent on seeing her warring dysfunctional grown up grandchildren together one last time before she dies.
Director: Yoav Factor | Stars: Timothy Spall, James Callis, Rhona Mitra, Honor Blackman
Votes: 443 | Gross: $0.01M
15. Brazil with Michael Palin (2012– )
60 min | Documentary
Michael Palin travels around Brazil, from Amazonia to Rio, from the North East to the Deep South, to find out what makes this vast country tick.
Stars: Michael Palin, Susie Valerio, Carolina Ferraz, Davi Kopenawa
Votes: 378
16. Around the World in 20 Years (2008 TV Movie)
59 min | Documentary
Michael Palin attempts to emulate the exploits of fictional character Phileas Fogg, by trying to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days without flying .
Director: Roger Mills | Stars: Michael Palin, Mahesh Bhatt, Bill Nelson, Hassan Suleyman
Votes: 363
17. An Accidental Studio (2019)
TV-PG | 97 min | Documentary
Charts the early years of HandMade Films, seen through the eyes of the filmmakers, key personnel, and the man who started it all: former Beatle George Harrison.
Directors: Bill Jones, Kim Leggatt, Ben Timlett | Stars: George Harrison, Ray Cooper, Denis O'Brien, George Ayoub
Votes: 348
18. He Dreams of Giants (2019)
85 min | Documentary
The culmination of a trilogy of documentaries that have followed film director Terry Gilliam over a 25 year period. Charting Gilliam's final, beleaguered quest to adapt Don Quixote, this documentary is a potent study of creative obsession.
Directors: Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe | Stars: Adam Driver, Terry Gilliam, Jonathan Pryce
Votes: 203
19.
New Europe (2007– )
Episode:
War and Peace
(2007)
54 min | Documentary
Michael Palin is our guide through Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, and Albania.
Director: John-Paul Davidson | Stars: Michael Palin, Edin Karamazov
Votes: 50
20. The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen (2008 Video)
73 min | Documentary
A documentary about the troubled production of The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.
Director: Constantine Nasr | Stars: Terry Gilliam, Charles McKeown, Jonathan Pryce, Eric Idle
Votes: 49
21.
Himalaya with Michael Palin (2004– )
Episode:
North by Northwest
(2004)
TV-PG | 58 min | Documentary
Beginning at the Khyber Pass, Michael Palin takes the Khyber steam railway through the North-West Frontier Province, home of the Pathan people, a fierce race who live by the philosophy of hospitality and revenge.
Director: Roger Mills | Star: Michael Palin
Votes: 48
22.
New Europe (2007– )
Episode:
Eastern Delight
(2007)
55 min | Documentary
Michael takes us through Macedonia, Bulgaria and Turkey. Notable stops being Göreme in Turkeywhere "fairy chimney" rock formations house families and early Christian churches.
Director: John-Paul Davidson | Stars: Michael Palin, Andus Emge, Gülcan Yucedogan Emge, Sevval Sam
Votes: 44
23.
New Europe (2007– )
Episode:
Wild East
(2007)
54 min | Documentary
Michael Palin travels thru Transnistria, Moldova, and Romania. He celebrated Transnistrian National Day (unrecognized country in Ukraine/Moldava). He traveled thru poorest country of Europe... See full summary »
Director: John-Paul Davidson | Stars: Michael Palin, Dan Badarau, Clara Jacobs, Ilie Nastase
Votes: 40
24.
New Europe (2007– )
Episode:
From Pole to Pole
(2007)
54 min | Documentary
Michael Palin tours Poland only: From seaport Gdansk where Lech Walesa and his Solidarity movement in 1989 lead to the Fall of USSR; to the capital Warsaw; to the Renaissance Old Town and ... See full summary »
Director: Roger Mills | Stars: Michael Palin, Lech Walesa
Votes: 39
25.
New Europe (2007– )
Episode:
Danube to Dnieper
(2007)
55 min | Documentary
Michael Palin travels Hungary and Ukraine. He tours thru Hungary's Capital, Budapest, incl'd cathedral, old headquarters of Nazi and Communist, and Zwarck Unicum winery; then Tokaji Aszú ... See full summary »
Director: Roger Mills | Star: Michael Palin
Votes: 38
26.
New Europe (2007– )
Episode:
Baltic Summer
(2007)
55 min | Documentary
Michael Palin travels thru Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, to Kaliningrad, the only Russia oblast (state) in the European Sea. From Estonia capital, Tallinn to Latvia capital Riga to Lithuania ... See full summary »
Director: Roger Mills | Star: Michael Palin
Votes: 38
27. Something Fishy (2003 Video)
31 min | Documentary, Short
Director: John Cork | Stars: John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin
Votes: 36
28.
New Europe (2007– )
Episode:
Journey's End
(2007)
55 min | Documentary
Michael Palin tours Slovakia, Czech Republic, and former East Germany. From rural areas of Slovakia, he tours Czechia industrial city Brno, capital Prague, then luxurious Karlovy Vary. ... See full summary »
Director: John-Paul Davidson | Stars: Michael Palin, Gunter Böhnke, Tatána Kucharová, Margit Miosga
Votes: 36
29.
Brazil with Michael Palin (2012– )
Episode:
Out of Africa
(2012)
TV-PG | 57 min | Documentary
Michael Palin starts his visit of Brazil, the last subcontinent he never visited, in the populous North east, where its colonial history started. It remains the most African and racially ... See full summary »
Director: Francis Hanly | Stars: Michael Palin, Susie Valerio
Votes: 34
30. BBC Look North: Yorkshire (1968– )
News
Stars: Christa Ackroyd, Harry Gration, Tony Earnshaw, Paul Hudson
Votes: 33
31.
Himalaya with Michael Palin (2004– )
Episode:
Bhutan to the Bay of Bengal
(2004)
TV-PG | 56 min | Documentary
In the remote Kingdom of Bhutan, Michael Palin finds himself back in the land of yaks for a last look at the high Himalaya. Passing Tiger's Nest Monastery, Michael treks towards the Base ... See full summary »
Directors: John-Paul Davidson, Roger Mills | Star: Michael Palin
Votes: 33
32.
Brazil with Michael Palin (2012– )
Episode:
Into Amazonia
(2012)
TV-PG | 58 min | Documentary
Michael proceeds to Brazil's young interior, the Amazon jungle states, land of pioneers and promising future, but harsh present. He visits two native tribes, the famous Yanomani, who grew ... See full summary »
Director: John-Paul Davidson | Stars: Michael Palin, Gaby Amarantos, Priscilla Brasil, Thiago Castanho
Votes: 32
33.
Brazil with Michael Palin (2012– )
Episode:
The Road to Rio
(2012)
TV-PG | 57 min | Documentary
Palin starts this leg of the journey in the mineral-rich state of Minas Gerais. He visits an old gold mine once owned by the British, before going to see a vast opencast iron ore mine. He ... See full summary »
Director: Francis Hanly | Stars: Michael Palin, Icaro Raimundo Ferreira de Freitas, Luke Dowdney, Priscilla Ann Goslin
Votes: 32
34.
Brazil with Michael Palin (2012– )
Episode:
The Deep South
(2012)
TV-PG | 57 min | Documentary
Moving on to the deep south, Michael finds many surprises as he encounters the rich diversity of the more European and Asian cultures that have created a new melting pot in the deep south of Brazil.
Director: John-Paul Davidson | Stars: Michael Palin, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Criolo, Marina Xavier da Silva
Votes: 30
35. Movie Connections (2007–2009)
40 min | Documentary
Series looking at the history of favourite films.
Stars: Ashley Jensen, Julie Walters, Alex Norton, John Gordon Sinclair
Votes: 23
36.
Great Performances (1971– )
Episode:
Hayley Westenra: Live from New Zealand
(2004)
TV-G | Music, Musical
Hayley Westenra: Live from New Zealand.
Directors: David Horn, Karen McLaughlin | Stars: Hayley Westenra, Teddy Tahu Rhodes, Sophie Westenra
Votes: 18
37. Calendar (1968– )
30 min | News
A local news coverage programme with regional weather and sport reports and chat.
Stars: Tony Earnshaw, Christine Talbot, Duncan Wood, Christa Ackroyd
38.
Movie Connections (2007–2009)
Episode:
Brassed Off
(2007)
39 min | Documentary
Director: Kevin McMunigal | Stars: Ashley Jensen, Mark Herman, Pete Postlethwaite, Melanie Hill
39.
Film '72 (1971–2018)
Episode:
Episode #20.26
(1991)
Talk-Show
Barry Norman reviews the films Awakenings (1990), Blood Oath (1990), Lost Angels (1989), Fear (1990) and Highlander II: The Quickening (1991). Features a location report from the set of ... See full summary »
Director: Shaun Williams | Stars: Barry Norman, Michael Palin, Tristram Powell, Alfred Molina
40.
Calendar (1968– )
Episode:
Episode dated 12 June 2009
(2009)
News
Yorkshire, England, celebrates as Bradford is named the world's first 'City of Film' following a decision to grant the title by UNESCO. Famous Bradfordians including Simon Beaufoy (the ... See full summary »
Stars: Steve Abbott, Simon Beaufoy, Tony Earnshaw
41.
BBC Look North: Yorkshire (1968– )
Episode:
Episode dated 12 June 2009
(2009)
News
Bradford, UK celebrates becoming the world's first UNESCO City of Film. Among the supporters are Oscar-winner Simon (Slumdog Millionaire) Beaufoy, producer Steve (Brassed Off) Abbott, ... See full summary »
Stars: Steve Abbott, Christa Ackroyd, Simon Beaufoy, Ian Cashmore
42.
BBC Look North: Yorkshire (1968– )
Episode:
Episode dated 17 February 2016
(2016)
News
Main stories: Bradford couple lost in Scottish Highlands; teenager attacked and sexually assaulted in Harrogate; cast and crew of Brassed Off are reunited at Ilkley Film Festival; vets warn... See full summary »
Stars: Lara Rostron, Phil Bodmer, John Cundy, Charlotte Leeming