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Hugo was once a happily married man living an idyllic life. But the arrival of a nemesis from the past is the catalyst for his transformation to Soho drag artist as the weekend descends into a riot of strippers, gypsies, thieves and murder.
An American advertising tycoon chooses a weekend therapy clinic as the ideal place in which to assess the various candidates for the vice-presidency of his firm.
Animated film with words and music by Ivor Cutler, about a young boy and his sister dreaming about running away from the harsh punishments of home.
Starring Rikki Fulton. Supercop, McGlinchey and of course, the Reverend I M Jolly are all back along with a host of hilarious take-offs including Robin Hood and Gone with the Wind.
Every year, two friends host a competitive game day event, and every year their board-game obsessed companion, Steven, ruins the evening by taking the games too seriously. This year, he is determined to win, even at the price of his friendships.
One of the Bait director’s earliest shorts is a nightmarish vision of life spent behind the wheel, where time melts and car becomes prison. Despite its low budget, The Man Who Needed A Traffic Light sews all the seeds for Bait, and shows the vision in progress of one of Britain’s most exciting filmmakers.
In his first live stand-up DVD for over 10 years, Lenny Henry at his brilliant best!
A girl is staying at a spooky hotel, where she is menaced by a hunchback, but a soldier saves her.
British comedy film directed by Harcourt Templeman and Herbert Wilcox..
Nerdy handles the heat! When his computer suddenly catches fire, he totally handles it like a champ. For sure. Definitely.
Max Miller plays a boxer's manager who fails to get fights for his simple-minded boxer. The manager sets up a scene in an American nightclub whereby his fighter gets the chance to knock down the reigning champion. The ruse fails to get the fighter a job but a female acquaintance of the champion takes a fancy to his opponent. The plot develops aboard a ship back to England.
Cecil Hepworth’s Vivaphone film features Hay Plumb singing George Robins’ optimistic 1906 ditty concerning the mischievous responses of a poor family to regular visits from the bailiffs.
A retired Scotland Yard detective, Patrick Fitzpatrick (Tom Walls) comes back to take one final case, tracking down a missing vase which has been stolen by a gang of thieves specialising in taking art treasures. His investigation takes him to the home of the innocent Mr Pye (Robertson Hare), whose house has been used by the crooks to hide their proceeds.
A comedy short Directed by Castleton Knight,
A Martian is sentenced to visit earth to cure a selfish man.
A nurse whose father left her many years ago takes a special interest in a psychotic killer suffering from amnesia.
A reluctant spy-wannabe has to team up with an American when an insidious real estate plot comes to the small Cotswold town of Witney.
Sped up footage of musicians fighting on a stretch of mudflats.
Nic Goldstein is on the edge. His business is on the brink of collapse, his young wife is missing with the company coffers and his only hope is to win the next pitch. It's crunch time.
An anthology film about Rebecca, Josh and Melissa telling ghost story's during a black out . comprising of several short films
In this charming animation, lovingly drawn ink-to-paper over 4 years, a man is driven to insanity by the constant barking of the dog next door. As things come to a head, the warring neighbours find out whose bark is worse than their bite.
This adaptation of the traditional story will see Robin Hood and his Merry Band protecting Sherwood Forest and its animal inhabitants from the Sheriff of Nottingham, who has a very naughty plan to destroy the wood of its riches for her own benefit.
Coming out doesn't always go to plan.
An obsession of pyromaniac leads to unexpected events.
South African-born Manxman Pierre Novellie is anything but quiet when it comes to emergency trousers, the apocalypse, anatomically-correct Halloween costumes, and Christmas Day with The Queen. “Quiet Ones” was recorded in September 2021 at the Pleasance Theatre in London.
A woman prevents a popular stage performer getting arrested for drunk driving, though has to pretend to be a rich benefactor when she next meets him.
Edwin, a lonely, narcissistic vampire, returns home after a restock to lament about life and his yearning to be normal to his best friend Morris - a decapitated head that loathes his guts.
Comedy skit shown as part of a theatrical revue. 'The picture is supposed to be a Hollywood drama of English life, wildly burlesqued, and in the middle of projection Maisie Gay stands up in the stalls, protests, argues with the players on the screen, and then steps into the picture. Finally a chorus of duchesses steps from screen to stage and the revue becomes tri-dimensional.' (Kinematograph Weekly)
Bonnie, Pinkman's finest student and head girl, takes us on a tour of her school as she tries to round up the school captains in time for the school photo.
Filmed in front of an audience, Dame Edna will host a very exclusive evening with celebrity chat, staffed by some familiar faces.
Having run out of weed, Norville visits his close friend and drug dealer Gary, only to find himself ravelled in an absurd conspiracy that only he can get to the bottom of.
Mother of the bride Isobel speaks direct to camera about her selfish Lesbian daughter Kelly's upcoming civil partnership to the older, sensible Janice.
A young man wishes to finish writing his script, but his father has grown tired of him wasting his time and takes matters into his own hands.
Meet influencer, online personality and Internet sensation PolarBarry: The mischievous Polar Bear who knows how to make the North Pole rumble. PolarBarry introduces his followers to the Climate Change debate. VLOG #207 sheds a light on the likeliness that humanity cannot act as a collective.
The film, made to advertise domestic telephone sets, is based around two very different families. The Petts are conventional, happy and have children; the Potts are unconventional and unhappy, without children.
Mary Jane tries to light the oven. When she's unsuccessful, she plays around, getting black boot polish on her face. She mugs before a mirror. Then, it's back to work. When the stove still won't light, she pours in paraffin, winks at the camera, and lights a match. Kaboom! Is there any rest for the foolish, even in the grave?
Josh Widdicombe, "…the undisputed king of the exasperated petty gripe...”, is back with his new stand-up show.
Self proclaimed 'man of the house' Casey Knight starts a petty beef with Yuri, a strange young man with a wooden hand. After Casey pisses on a beautiful tree, that Yuri claims belongs to his family.
A Christmas Dream tells the story of a local teenage girl who has had ambitions to go to a musical theatre school in London since she was eight years old. She is now 18 but her parents, who are both solicitors, want her and her twin brother to go to university and study law. The film shows the support she gets from her friends, boyfriend and her singing and dance teacher. They encourage her to follow her dream and go for it and have no regrets in later life.
Robert is stuck on a boating holiday with his parents in the English countryside. Impatient to grow and become a man, an unexpected sight cracks his world open.
A petty crook and his girlfriend discover a rare antique plate priced at £60 in an antique shop. As they rush to buy it, they face unexpected competition. Will they get the plate or miss out?
In a world where men have a menstrual cycle, how differently would periods be viewed.
To celebrate their 15th birthday onedotzero – luminaries of the digital moving image realm – have commissioned a number of their filmmakers from over the years to create wallpaper making Granimator™ packs with app interface designers ustwo™. One such contributor is Grant Orchard, the Academy-nominated and BAFTA-winning animator of A Morning Stroll. For his wallpaper creator app he developed a kit of suggestively sexy parts, entertaining for the jejune and the outright dirty, it’s a lot of fun to play with. To celebrate it’s eventual release, Grant has created a one-minute “saucy but harmless” Yeah Just There vector animation. Enjoy and potentially feign innocence if you’re questioned about your viewing habits at work.
On New Year's Day 1964, Jimmy Savile ushered in a revolution in television broadcasting - a weekly show devoted to the pop charts. In the first of an evening of programmes marking the 30th anniversary of Top of the Pops, Smashie and Nicey (Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse) pay tribute to this triumphant survivor from the days when the Beatles topped the chart with I Wanna Hold Your Hand. Three poptastic decades surrender their fab sounds, their hits and their haircuts, for our nostalgic enjoyment - from the Moptops to Take That, from the Stones to Madonna.
Murder, Blackmail and a Shit Sandwich.
A manic journey of a heart-broken woman possessed by a destructive being.
In amongst the fishing quaysides of the North East of England, manipulative Bob is first able to wangle his way into a prominent position within a fish distribution firm. It isn’t long before he has his sights not only on the boss’s job - but also his wife as well.
Slapstick comedy.
A mother and father who, in order to shock their extended family out of their idle spendthrift ways, pretend to have lost all their money.
Those corn flakes are looking sketchy. Entry in the Four4 Very Short Horror Film Competition, 2013.
The story of a Variety Theatre, illustrated by performers from its past.
A story loosely involving Lime bikes made under the influence of alcohol.
A troubled young actor in an East London Theatre Company for the homeless romances a wealthy out-of-towner in the bustling streets of contemporary London.
From his massive 2012 tour ‘What’s Happening White People?’ join Paul Chowdhry live and uncensored from his huge sellout show at the legendary Hammersmith Apollo on 22nd September 2012. Star of Channel 4’s Comedy Gala, Stand Up For The Week and BBC 1's Live At The Apollo, join Paul as he dissects all the issues of growing up and living in multicultural Britain with his own brand of edgy and highly charged comedy. From reusing margarine tubs to passive racism to breaking down racial barriers, there are no holds barred and nothing is left unturned as Paul tackles them all in his own inimitable and shocking style.
National treasure Max Boyce celebrates two major milestones - 50 years on stage and his 80th birthday, in a star-studded look at his incredible career as a comedian, singer, songwriter and 'people’s poet'. In a mix of documentary and performance, Max looks back at his achievements and lifts the lid on his private life at home in Glyneath. From the tragic events that shaped his life to his passion for rugby and his local club, this is a side of Max rarely seen. The programme mines six decades of archive material and features some of his most iconic songs and stories as well as contributions from Rob Brydon, Michael Sheen, Katherine Jenkins, Gareth Edwards and Cerys Mathews.
This section of Ecotoons contains clips from BBC's Saturday morning children's programme, Going Live, which hosted an animation competition. The star of the film was to be the famous plasticine character 'Morph' in a green situation. Twelve year old Ruth Dancer won the competition and went down to the Aardman Animation studios in Bristol, to watch Peter Lord make her storyboard into a film: Re-Cycle.
Tom - while attempting to eulogise his very kind, caring mother - is interrupted by his girlfriend Ellie, who feels perhaps she should be receiving these kind of compliments and speeches a little more instead of his sadly passed mum, and can’t help herself from letting the rest of the congregation hear her grievances, even though it isn’t necessarily the best time to bring it up.
Tod Slaughter’s last big screen appearance on camera, delivering a Sweeney Todd monologue.
A BAFTA award winning comedy based on short story by Damon Runyon. Set in New York in the 1920s, the story tells of the bungling attempts of three gangsters to break into a safe, aided by Butch the safe cracker, who has brought his baby along because he can't get a sitter.