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Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974) more movies like this

directed by Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
featuring Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones

From its opening multi-language titles (that sure looks like Swedish) to the closing arrest of the entire Dark Ages cast by modern-day bobbies, Monty Python and the Holy Grail helped to define "irreverence" and became an instant cult classic. This time the Pythonites savage the legend of King Arthur, juxtaposing some excellently selected ...

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You've Got Mail

You've Got Mail (1998) more movies like this

directed by Nora Ephron
featuring Hallee Hirsh, Michael Palin, Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Parker Posey, Greg Kinnear, Jean Stapleton

Sleepless in Seattle director Nora Ephron originally made a name for herself as the writer of romantic comedies such as Heartburn and When Harry Met Sally. She continues the genre with You've Got Mail, marking her second collaboration with actors Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. The story brings romance and courtship into the electronic age of the World ...

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A Fish Called Wanda

A Fish Called Wanda (1988) more movies like this

directed by Charles Crichton
featuring John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin

In A Fish Called Wanda, Jamie Lee Curtis plays an ambitious con artist who uses every ounce of her sexual wiles to obtain a fortune in jewels stolen by her gangster lover Tom Georgeson. First, she romances Georgeson's dimwitted but deadly henchman Kevin Kline (who won an Academy Award for his performance). Then, to clear the path for her getaway ...

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The Life of Brian

The Life of Brian (1979) more movies like this

directed by Terry Jones
featuring Graham Chapman, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam

On a midnight clear 2,000 years ago, three wise men enter a manger where a babe is wrapped in swaddling clothes. It is an infant called Brian...and the three wise men are in the wrong manger. For the rest of his life, Brian (Graham Chapman) finds himself regarded as something of a messiah -- yet he's always in the shadow of this other guy from ...

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Brazil

Brazil (1985) more movies like this

directed by Terry Gilliam
featuring Jonathan Pryce, Michael Palin, Kim Greist, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond

Brazil constitutes Terry Gilliam's enormously ambitious follow-up to his 1981 Time Bandits. It also represents the second installment in a trilogy of Gilliam films on imagination versus reality, that began with Bandits and ended in 1989 with The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. To create this wild, visually audacious satire, Gilliam combines ...

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Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983) more movies like this

directed by Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
featuring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin

The Meaning of Life is without a doubt the most tasteless of the Monty Python feature films; it also happens to be one of the funniest. Life's questions are "answered" in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a pre-credits sequence at a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes into a pirate ship. One of our ...

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Fierce Creatures

Fierce Creatures (1997) more movies like this

directed by Fred Schepisi, Robert Young
featuring John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin, Robert Lindsay

The starring cast of the hit A Fish Called Wanda reunited for this farcical comedy, which star and co-screenwriter John Cleese described as "not a sequel, but an equal." When London's Marwood Zoo is purchased by Octopus, Inc., the multi-national holding company run by New Zealand publishing tycoon Rod McCain (Kevin Kline), the staff is given a ...

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Monty Python's Flying Circus [TV Series] (1969) more movies like this

directed by Ian MacNaughton
featuring Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones

Created in 1969 as the British Broadcasting Corporation's answer to America's Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (one of its guiding forces was BBC executive and former Laugh-In writer Barry Took), Monty Python's Flying Circus was both the title of the series and the name of the comedy troupe appearing in the show. (The name was chosen precisely because it ...

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And Now for Something Completely Different

And Now for Something Completely Different (1971) more movies like this

directed by Ian MacNaughton, Terry Gilliam
featuring Connie Booth, Michael Palin, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle

Monty Python's And Now For Something Completely Different was first released in the US in 1973, but didn't really take off as a midnight-movie fixture until after the Monty Python's Flying Circus TV series began making the PBS rounds. Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam are the Pythonites in ...

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A Private Function

A Private Function (1984) more movies like this

directed by Malcolm Mowbray
featuring Michael Palin, Maggie Smith, Liz Smith, Denholm Elliott, Richard Griffiths

A British couple's attempts to circumvent local food-rationing regulations trigger a chaotic series of events in this satirical comedy set in post-World War II England. The couple's scheme centers on a massive hog which has been illegally raised by a local farmer. Seeing a chance to capitalize on pork's scarcity, the ambitious Joyce Chilvers ...

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The Missionary

The Missionary (1982) more movies like this

directed by Richard Loncraine
featuring Michael Palin, Maggie Smith, Trevor Howard, Denholm Elliott, Michael Hordern

Michael Palin wrote and stars in this comedy as The Reverend Charles Fortescue, an unassuming missionary called back to England after spending ten years in Africa teaching children in a native village. Upon arriving in London, he finds that his new assignment is to take charge of a slum mission for prostitutes. He obtains money for the running of ...

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Jabberwocky (1977) more movies like this

directed by Terry Gilliam
featuring Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin, Max Wall, Deborah Fallender, John Le Mesurier, Annette Badland, Warren Mitchell

An innocent country farmer experiences a number of improbable misadventures that culminate in a battle against the titular beast in this broadly comic fantasy. The first solo outing of director Terry Gilliam, who served as animator and co-director on Monty Python and the Holy Grail, returns to the medieval setting that had previously served him so ...

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Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure [TV Series] (2000) more movies like this

Ernest Hemingway cut a very impressive figure both as an author and as an individual, and in this two-part documentary series, actor and comedian Michael Palin retraces the steps of "Papa"'s long journey as he tries to learn more about his life and his macho lifestyle. Palin visits Oak Park, IL, where Hemingway was born, and Ketchum, ID, where the ...

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Full Circle With Michael Palin [TV Series] (1998) more movies like this

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Michael Palin: Himalaya [TV Series] (2004) more movies like this

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Pole to Pole With Michael Palin [TV Series] (1992) more movies like this

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Michael Palin's New Europe [TV Series] (2007) more movies like this

In his post-Monty Python years, British comic and belletrist Michael Palin unquestionably made one of his strongest marks as a host of popular travel-themed cable documentary series, including Around the World in 80 Days With Michael Palin (1989), Pole to Pole with Michael Palin (1992), and Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure (2000). The seven ...

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American Friends (1993) more movies like this

directed by Tristram Powell
featuring Michael Palin, Trini Alvarado, Connie Booth, Alfred Molina, David Calder

Monty Python's Michael Palin plays an Oxford don with acute female trouble in American Friends. While on holiday in the Swiss Alps, Palin crosses the path of American tourist Connie Booth and her adopted daughter Trini Alvarado. Both women express an inordinate desire for the bookish Palin, leading to profound changes in the lives of all concerned ...

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