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Crew: Director, Screenwriter
Actors: Christopher Plummer, Heath Ledger, Tom Waits, Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Colin Farrell
Synopsis: Set in the present day, director Terry Gilliam's fantastical morality tale follows the traveling show of the mysterious Dr. Parnassus (Christopher Plummer) -- a man who once won a bet with the Devil himself, and possesses the unique ability to guide the imagination of others. Many centuries ago Read More
Crew: Executive Producer
Actors: Amira Casar, Gottfried John, Cesar Sarachu, Assumpta Serna, Ljubisa Lupo-Grujcic
Synopsis: The Brothers Quay return for their first film in a decade with this live-action story of an 19th-century opera singer who is murdered on-stage shortly before her upcoming wedding. Soon after being slain by the nefarious Dr. Emmanuel Droz (Gottfried John) during a live performance, Malvina van Read More
Actors: Jodelle Ferland, Janet McTeer, Brendan Fletcher, Jeff Bridges, Jennifer Tilly
Synopsis: Following the death of her drug-addicted mother, a whimsical young girl follows her chemically dependent father to a remote prairie house to discover a wondrous world of magical fireflies and nocturnal bog men in this hallucinatory childhood fantasy from visionary filmmaker Terry Gilliam. Noah (Jeff Bridges Read More
Actors: Harry Nilsson, Jimmy Webb, Micky Dolenz, Rick Jarrard, Doug Hoefer
Actors: Albert Dupontel, Claude Perron, Nicolas Marie, Roland Bertin, Philippe Duquesne
Synopsis: Albert Dupontel directs, writes, and stars in freewheeling French comedy concerning a glue-huffing homeless man who earns an unexpected modicum of respect after coming into possession of a police uniform. Roland (Dupontel) was wandering the shores of the Seine when he noticed a man hurling himself Read More
Crew: Director
Actors: Monica Bellucci, Matt Damon, Heath Ledger, Jonathan Pryce
Synopsis: Two men who have made a career out of spinning remarkable stories find themselves bringing them to life in this inventive fantasy inspired by the creators of some of the world's best-loved fairy tales. Will Grimm (Matt Damon) and his brother Jake Grimm (Heath Ledger) earn their living by traveling Read More
Synopsis: Few television comedy programs have had the enduring success of the legendary Monty Python show. Now fans of the surrealist sketch comedy series can find all of Eric Idle's best moments from the influential series in one place thanks to this Python-approved release from A&E Home Entertainment. Read More
Actors: Terry Jones, Stephen Fry, Jonathan Miller, Alan Bennett, Terry Gilliam
Actors: Joe Brown, Eric Clapton, Jools Holland, Sam Brown, Jeff Lynne, George Harrison
Synopsis: Both as a member of the Beatles and as a solo artist, George Harrison was one of the best loved and most influential musicians of his generation, and when he died November 29, 2001, after a long battle with cancer, it was a tremendous blow to the many great artists who were his friends and Read More
Actors: Bernard Bouix, René Cleitman, Johnny Depp, Benjamin Fernandez, Terry Gilliam
Synopsis: For years, one of filmmaker Terry Gilliam's great dreams was to make a screen adaptation of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's classic tale Don Quixote, and in 2000 it looked as if his dream was to become a reality. In collaboration with Tony Grisoni, Gilliam had written a script called The Man Who Read More
Actors: Hunter S. Thompson, Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro, P.J. O'Rourke, John Cusack
Synopsis: The debut documentary feature from television director Wayne Ewing (Homicide: Life on the Street), Breakfast With Hunter attempts to offer viewers an inside look into the life and mind of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson. Along with discussions of his past writings, the film explores the Read More
Synopsis: The history of one Monty Python's Flying Circus is examined in this release featuring interviews with the Pythons and friends, new sketches, "The Lost Python Mayday Special," and much more. An animated tribute from South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone offers testament to Monty Python's Read More
Actors: Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro, Craig Bierko, Ellen Barkin, Gary Busey
Synopsis: Terry Gilliam (Brazil, Twelve Monkeys, The Fisher King) directed this colorful, stylized, pseudo-psychedelic $21-million adaptation of the 1971 Hunter S. Thompson classic, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey into the Heart of the American Dream, about stoned sportswriter Raoul Duke, Thompson Read More
Synopsis: This film features all the surviving members of Python, gathered together to perform at a comedy festival in Colorado. Many of the group's favorite skits are performed. Also featured are classic clips from the television program and interviews with the cast members who reminisce and engage in the Read More
Synopsis: This is a documentary video showing director Terry Gilliam (Brazil, Time Bandits) at work during the filming of his movie Twelve Monkeys, a dark, sardonic movie which depicts yet another dystopian future for mankind. Gilliam first became widely known for his irreverent cartoon collages in the BBC Read More
Actors: Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt, Christopher Plummer, David Morse
Synopsis: An intense film about time travel, this sci-fi entry was directed by Terry Gilliam, a member of the comedy troupe Monty Python. The film stars Bruce Willis as James Cole, a prisoner of the state in the year 2035 who can earn parole if he agrees to travel back in time and thwart a devastating Read More
Actors: Adam Bryant, Paul Lombardi, David Hyde Pierce, Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges, Mercedes Ruehl, Amanda Plummer, Michael Jeter
Synopsis: Terry Gilliam directed this adaptation of Richard LaGravenese's mystical (and mythical) tale of redemption in the hard-time town of New York City. Jeff Bridges is shock radio DJ Jack Lucas, whose low opinion of humanity lends itself well to his radio talk show, where the enmity rubs off on his Read More
Synopsis: This 56-minute video celebrates 25 years' worth of inspired lunacy from Britain's Monty Python's Flying Circus. Loyal Pythonites John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam are interviewed, offering surprisingly sobersided insight as to what made their zany Read More
Actors: John Neville, Sarah Polley, Eric Idle, Jonathan Pryce, Uma Thurman, Oliver Reed, Charles McKeown, Sting, Robin Williams, Valentina Cortese
Synopsis: Director Terry Gilliam adroitly applies his Monty Python sensibilities upon the "career" of famed German prevaricator Baron von Munchausen. Played herein by John Neville, the baron is seen quelling a war that he himself started, flying into the stratosphere on the back of a cannonball, ballooning Read More
Synopsis: This is a retrospective of the British comedy troupe on their 20th anniversary. Hosted by comedian Steve Martin, many of the group's most famous routines are showcased. Included are such gems as the Spam diner, the lingerie-clad lumberjacks, and the officials from the Ministry of Silly Walks. Read More
Actors: Jonathan Pryce, Michael Palin, Kim Greist, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond
Synopsis: 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 Read More
Actors: Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Steve Forrest, Donna Dixon, Bruce Davison
Synopsis: Director John Landis helmed this Cold War farce starring Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase as Austin Millbarge and Emmett Fitz-Hume -- two loser misfits who dwell in the lower ranks of the Central Intelligence Agency. Convinced despite much evidence to the contrary that they're prime secret agent Read More
Actors: Peter Cook, Terry Jones
Synopsis: The Secret Policeman's Private Parts, the second of two concert films produced on behalf of Amnesty International, is better photographed than the first (The Secret Policeman's Other Ball) but not quite as enjoyable. As in the earlier film, the show is stolen by the Monty Python aggregation: John Cleese Read More
Crew: Animator, Director, Screenwriter, Special Effects
Actors: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin
Synopsis: 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 Read More
Crew: Screenwriter
Actors: Graham Chapman, Peter Boyle, Tommy Chong, Eric Idle, Peter Cook
Synopsis: This colorful spoof of pirate movies had all the makings of a classic farce and yet sank straight to Davy Jones' locker at the box-office, for despite it's all-star international cast of famous comedians, and despite the fact that it was largely co-written by "Monty Python"-veteran Graham Chapman Read More
Actors: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones
Synopsis: Like The Secret Policeman's Other Ball, Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl consists of "concert" footage of the nonsensical British Monty Python troupe. This 77-minute collection of skits and blackouts features stalwart Pythoners Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones Read More
Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Actors: John Cleese, Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm
Synopsis: A young boy joins a group of renegade dwarves on an unpredictable journey through time in this humorous fantasy. Monty Python animator Terry Gilliam mostly achieves a tricky balancing act in his second feature as sole director, creating a dark, irreverent comedy disguised as a family adventure. Read More
Crew: Animator, Screenwriter
Actors: Graham Chapman, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam
Synopsis: 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 Read More
Actors: Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin, Max Wall, Deborah Fallender, John Le Mesurier, Annette Badland, Warren Mitchell
Synopsis: 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 Read More
Synopsis: This documentary is a filmed record of the preparations and rehearsals for a Monty Python group performance in conjunction with "Beyond the Fringe" comedian Peter Cook at Her Majesty's Theatre in London in 1976. Backstage sequences are also shown. The very serious work involved in creating funny Read More
Actors: John Cleese, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Michael Palin
Synopsis: 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 Read More
Crew: Animator
Synopsis: In this episode, Hamlet visits a psychiatrist and confesses that he's always wanted to be a private detective. The Melancholy Dane's sexual hang-ups are dissected by two bogus shrinks, at which point Dr. Bruce Genuine saves the day. The comfy chair used by the host of "Nationwide" is identified as Read More
Synopsis: In this episode, Alex Diamond runs over two singing tramps while en route to lumbago specialist Dr. Emile Koning. Next door to the doctor, Rear Admiral Humphrey DeVere recalls an incident in WW2, in which London was bombed by cabbage crates and attacked by troops bearing wands and wearing tutus. Read More
Synopsis: The fourth and final season of Monty Python's Flying Circus was launched on October 31, 1974, with the episode titled "The Golden Age of Ballooning." The Montgolfier Brothers develop a lighter-than-air craft with the reluctant assistance of Joseph Montgolfier's fiancée Antoinette, who makes a very Read More
Synopsis: In this episode, Chris Quinn enters a department store and demands to buy an ant named Marcus. When Chris goes home, his mum informs him that Michael Ellis -- for whom he has been repeatedly mistaken -- has been looking for him. On his own, Chris attends a poetry reading, in which Wordsworth Read More
Synopsis: As they had done in the summer of 1972, the cast of Monty Python's Flying Circus appeared on a 50-minute special for German television in October of 1973. Highlights of "Monty Python Bloeden fur Deutschland" include a visit with Superbutcher!, a profile of famed mice and fish preserver Frank Read More
Synopsis: Originally broadcast December 5, 1974, "Party Political Broadcast" was the final episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus. The broadcast in question features the "Worst Family in Britain" finals, with the grotesque Garibaldis placing third despite strong support from the Liberal Party. An Icelandic Read More
Synopsis: In this episode, England is held in thrall by Mr. Neutron, the deadliest man in the world. As Mr. Neutron enjoys the hospitality of Mr. and Mrs. Entrail, the Federal Egg Answering Room (F.E.A.R) tries to ascertain Neutron's whereabouts. The only man capable of saving humanity is Teddy Salad, who Read More
Synopsis: Sometime between seasons two and three of Monty Python's Flying Circus, the series' cast appeared in a 50-minute special that aired exclusively on German television. Popularly known as "Monty Python in Deutschland," this filmed special consisted almost entirely of new material, save for a sketch Read More
Crew: Animator, Director, Screenwriter
Actors: Michael Palin, Connie Booth, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle
Synopsis: 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 Read More
Actors: Marty Feldman
Synopsis: A Scotsman threatens to blow up an airliner, only to be ejected from the sketch by the show's director. A discussion of the significance of the Nude Organ Player is set aside in favor of "New Housing Developments," which depicts a British housing project populated entirely by literary characters Read More
Synopsis: The centerpiece of this November 30, 1972, episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus is a grisly slow-motion sequence from Sam Peckinpah's production of the musical comedy Salad Days, replete with tennis-racket impalements and blood-soaked pianos. Also on the docket is "The Adventures of Read More
Synopsis: In this episode, Reg Pither's bicycle trip through the countryside is fraught with peril. He ends up in a hospital, convinced that he's really pop star Clodagh Rogers. Resuming his journey in the company of Mr. Gulliver, Pither embarks upon a search for Lenin and Trotsky, culminating in a visit to Read More
Synopsis: The owner of the Tudor Job Agency is unable to locate a travelling companion for Sir Walter Raleigh, but he does a land-office business in dirty books. Inspector Henry Gaskell raids the agency, only to be transformed into Sir Philip Sydney, whereupon the viewer is treated to Sidney's life story. A Read More
Synopsis: The Dummy Princess Margaret presents the British Show Biz Awards, with first prize going to the remains of the late Sir Alan Waddle. At a salon party in 1895, Oscar Wilde trades dirty epigrams with George Bernard Shaw and the Prince of Wales. Back at the awards ceremony, David Niven's Refrigerator Read More
Synopsis: In this episode, dyslexic Sir Jeremy Toogood struggles to read Sir Walter Scott's The Red Gauntlet. The Queen's Own Kamikaze Highlanders go into training, with only one candidate surviving. A man from the No Time to Lose Advice Center tries to sell a used phrase. Terry Gilliam offers a 60-second Read More
Synopsis: In this episode, 18th Century highwayman Dennis Moore steals lupins from the rich to give to the poor. He later changes his M.O., stealing from the poor to give to the rich. In other developments, boxer Jack Bodell squares off against Sir Kenneth Clarke for the heavyweight championship; Read More
Synopsis: In this episode, Mr. T.F. Gumby's brain is removed by a Harley Street surgeon. A special telecast of the All-Essex Badminton Championship Finals forces the BBC to stage the Nine O'clock News on a cardboard TV screen. An exploration of Lake Pahoe yields a hallucinogenic Royal Navy recruiting film Read More
Synopsis: Using archeological evidence, the titular Mr. Norris attempts to prove that the residents of Hounslow may have emigrated from Surbiton. The hosts of the kiddie show "How to Do It" demonstrate how to cure every disease known to man, and incidentally how to play the flute. "Farming Club" presents Read More
Synopsis: After an absence of nearly two years, Monty Python's Flying Circus returned to the BBC on October 19, 1972. The first episode of the new season, "Whicker's World," begins with part one of "Njorl's Saga," a thrilling Icelandic saga that, for various reasons, never seems to get off the ground. Read More
Synopsis: "Liberty Bell March" is replaced with "God Save the Queen" as the series' theme music, in anticipation of an expected visit from the Queen sometime during the episode. A bitter coal-mine strike is sparked by an argument over the Treaty of Utrecht and Greek Architecture. Mr. Pudifoot appears on Read More
Synopsis: The titular event includes a swimsuit and evening-gown competition, and a 15-second summary of Remembrances of Things Past, performed as a madrigal by The Fred Tomlinson Singers. Col. Sir John Teasy Weasy Butler describes the International Hairdresser's Expedition of Mt. Everest. After Read More
Synopsis: In this episode, Mr. Graham gets away with speaking in anagrams until he's caught in a spoonerism. Mrs. Scum wins the grand prize on "Beat the Clock," but doesn't live to tell about it. A merchant banker orders beloved horse stars Champion and Trigger to beat each other to death; other crucial Read More
Synopsis: The programme begins with Episode Thlee of Erizabeth L, featuring Sir Flancis Dlake and the Spanish Almada. The Fraud Film Squad arrests a man for impersonating Lucino Visconti, and the Salvation Fuzz likewise swings into action. An old lady prepares a dead-rat dessert for her husband, while her Read More
Synopsis: In this episode, Frank the Plumber is invited to appear in a BBC sketch. A bank robber finds himself in a lingerie shop. The host of "It's a Tree" interviews a Chippendale writing desk who does celebrity impersonations. The Vocational Guidance Counselor tries to help Mr. Anchovy and solicits funds Read More
Synopsis: "Part 2: The Llama Live From Golders Green" is followed by a man with a tape recorder up his nose (he later returns in stereo). Double-visioned Sir George Head hires Arthur Wilson for a mountain-climbing expedition, then hires Arthur Wilson for a mountain-climbing expedition. Incompetent Bevis the Read More
Synopsis: This is the one with the Dead Parrot. Also, Private Watkins' request to be sent home from WWII is dismissed as "silly and badly written" by the Colonel, who demands a new sketch. A bride and groom are advised to say "dog kennel" instead of "mattress" to the sensitive Mr. Lambert. The Colonel ends Read More
Synopsis: An increasingly spectacular series of intermissions punctuates this final episode of season one of Monty Python's Flying Circus. Hopkins the Maitre D' is the specialty du jour at a vegetarian restaurant. The filmed audience of the Women's Institute approves of the "Me, doctor, she, nurse Read More
Synopsis: In this episode, six chapters of "The Naked Ant" are telescoped into a battle between a polar bear and a railroad engineer. An executive board meeting is periodically interrupted by the sight of men falling from the roof of a tall building. The answer to this mystery is provided by an economist, a Read More
Synopsis: In this episode, listeners protest as the sounds of the Warsaw Concerto are heard wafting from the bathroom. "The World of History" introduces a solemn team of undertakers who wend their way throughout the rest of the episode. The murder of Inspector Tiger is investigated by Assistant Chief Read More
Synopsis: After a guitar rendition of "Jerusalem" at the Cardiff Rooms in Libya, an art critic joins Marge and Janet in lunching on a few masterpieces. A bather performs a striptease, much to the dismay of the Colonel. A Sergeant-Major demonstrates the proper self-defense techniques when dealing with an Read More
Synopsis: In one of several sketches in this early Python episode, two Frenchmen with berets discuss the commercial feasibi