'Riviera. Professional co-respondents mistake one another for clients.' (British Film Catalogue)
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'Riviera. Professional co-respondents mistake one another for clients.' (British Film Catalogue)
The film is a contempary-set version of William Shakespeare's play As You Like It.
David's boyfriend died crossing the road to cheat on him. Now damned to search for their missing cat, he finds himself spiralling towards a closure that comes with claws.
16 people face off in a 7 hour gauntlet of challenges, puzzles and morale destroying tasks for the chance to win £150.
Before the Doctor can settle down to married life, he must face one last confrontation with his deadly enemy of certain death - the Master.
A plane carrying a weapon more dangerous than a nuclear weapon goes down near Greece. To prevent panic, the officials go in dressed as tourists (who are dressed so casually that the pilots assume that they are all gay). The pilots are not to make themselves known and can't contact the rescue team. The secrecy causes a comedy of errors including the desolate Greek Isle deciding that since tourists have now arrived, they have to become touristy.
Monty Python perform many of their greatest sketches at the Hollywood Bowl, including several from pre-Python days.
Made during MAP 48 Hour challenge 2025. Franny goes camping for her hen do.
Bertrand, an accountant employed by a large London firm, is called to the office of the Managing Director, Dreuther, to explain a mistake in the accounts. Dreuther is highly impressed by the young accountant's skilful explanation of the error and, hearing that Bertrand is soon to marry his spirited young fiancée, tells him to spend the honeymoon not in Bournemouth, but Monte Carlo at the company s expense! However, events in the fabulous Mediterranean paradise do not work out quite as Bertrand had envisaged...
Told by family and friends, with rare unseen archive, this documentary reflects on the career of Dave Allen, relative of poet Katharine Tynan, and a natural performer who cut his teeth at Butlins. He became a TV star in Australia in his twenties, before returning home to dominate the schedules here in Britain with his unique blend of sketches and stories in a career that took in films, plays, documentaries and chat shows, alongside award winning comedy series.
Sensitive story of a British girl's awakening from childhood into life and love on vacation in France.
Sir Hugo is more interested in reconstructing dinosaur bones than in paying attention to his wife, Lady Harriet. He's not thrilled when daughter Cleo brings home her betrothed, Sidney, who aspires to be a poet. The new butler, Fledge, provides Lady Harriet with the attention she's been missing and then seduces Sidney. Did he have a role in Sidney's disappearance as well?
It's Christmas day and Richie is cooking the dinner to which Dave Hedgehog and Spudgun are invited. Dinner is not up to Michelin standard, but Richie's day improves when he finds out he is the son of God.
On the streets of London, a man who goes only by 'Slugger' spends his nights as a contract killer. His weapon of choice? A baseball bat, what else?
A mockumentary that follows three couples as they battle it out to win the coveted title of 'Most Original Wedding of the Year'.
When Soren calls an otherworldly hotline to vent his frustrations about the state of the planet, he is greeted by Simone. If he thought he had problems before, just wait until he's finished talking with her.
Out of money and out of luck, Danny is determined to turn his life around, but the interventions of his anarchic mum and the reappearance of figures from his past threaten to derail him at every turn.
Lots more musical adventures, that's what! It's time to join in the fun with Cilla Fisher, Artie Trezise and Gary Coupland in Kettleland. There's riddles, rhymes and plenty to sing about on their exciting adventures!
John Cleese training video on customers.
The Famous Five are back. Thirty years after the Comic Strip arrived on our screens with their famous Enid Blyton spoof - Five Go Mad in Dorset. These famous children's characters have again been brought back from the past to confront today's modern world. This time they are made to account for their racist and sexist views. But they seem blissfully unrepentant as they gather for a reunion on Dick's birthday in leafy Dorset - still a magical land of rolling hills, woods, ruined castles, and of course dodgy villains in big black cars.
A meek, lowly employee at a London brokerage firm sees his life change when he's suspected of being a notorious womanizer.
An American art dealer (Miguel Sandoval), who specializes in southwestern topaz, arrives by train in Liverpool. Similarly, a very proper British art dealer (Alex Cox), who specializes in African art, arrives in the same hotel. The two meet in the hotel's abandoned restaurant and decide to set off in finding an evening meal, which becomes problematic immediately when the Brit reveals he is vegetarian. While following their pursuit of a mutually acceptable meal, the main point of the film is their discourse en route to their various attempts at an eatery.
A Bristol typist joins the world of beauty contests.
Antonia Lynch-Gibbon, wife of upper-crust wine dealer Martin, falls in love with her husband's best friend, noted psychiatrist Palmer Anderson. While both Palmer and Antonia would like to remain in Martin's life, he has some secrets of his own — namely, a mistress called Georgie, whom his womanizing brother also desires. All the while, Palmer's sister Honor seems to know everyone's business.
A bashful local vicar is called upon to save a haunted nudist camp from the prudish poltergeist covering their privates.
When an execution is sanctioned in the UK for the first time in almost 50 years, it soon becomes a media circus. The television rights are sold, and it becomes the worlds biggest reality TV show, re-branded as X-Day.
In this modern twist on a classic fairy tale, a headstrong princess is stolen by an evil sorcerer, and her scholarly fiancé must use his wits in an epic quest to find her while she boldly challenges her captors and plots a daring escape.
When a group of college kids get together for a weekend of partying, they find themselves mixed up in a murderous plot. Having planned on a weekend of hard-core debauchery, the English students and their visiting American friends do not notice when a series of mindless murders and acts of terrorism are carried out around them.
Ginger Ted, AKA Edward Claude Wilson, a drunkard and womanizer, and Miss Jones, a missionary, live in the Alas Islands. During a cholera epidemic, Ginger Ted and Miss Jones are sent to an outlying part of the islands to run a hospital; on their return, their motorboat breaks down, and they are marooned overnight on a small island.
Now in their 50’s, three friends recreate an inter-rail journey across Europe, but this time 18-year-old Maddie is taking her mother’s place, fulfilling her dying wish. With lost passports, train strikes and romantic entanglements thrown in their way, they must put old feuds aside to complete the journey within five days and remind themselves that they are still at their peak.
Three a.m. A crash of breaking glass ... the slow creak of a door opening ... is it a burglar? Raymond Collis finds out the hard way.
A romantic comedy about the fleeting attractions between men and women on the set of a popular British sitcom.
Hannah, a half-white and half-Chinese teenager, meets her 100% Chinese half-sister for the first time at an event to celebrate her birth, forcing Hannah to question where she fits in.
A dark romantic comedy about a young couple from London. A decision to walk home one night, rather than taking a taxi, brings out the very different secrets that they have been keeping from one another.
Tina lives in a quiet seaside town but her life is anything but quiet - her mother is threatening to leave her father, her daughter is being bullied and she and her husband Mick are juggling full time jobs and three children. Determined to ditch the dysfunction and beat her inner demons, Tina puts on her fighting gloves - literally, stepping into the boxing ring to sweat out her anxieties and punch up her self-worth. But does she have what it takes to get her family off the ropes and emerge victorious?
FRIEND REQUEST PENDING is a short comedy drama about the mature generation dating in our modern social networking world. It's a tale of love but more importantly life long friendship. The twelve-minute tale tells the story of Mary (Judi Dench) and Linda (Penny Ryder) who spend an afternoon discussing the pleasures, pitfalls and problems with using social networking to try and woo the local choirmaster Trevor (Philip Jackson).
A short horror comedy following Muckman, that grotty dirty fellow who targets the elderly with his rot coated fingers, causing a fuss and being a bother.
Having pulled off the smallest ever train robbery, Little Walter and his crew decide to get out of London. The six of them set up business in a disused monastery off the Cornish coast, despite the fact that none of them really qualifies as a monk - least of all Walter's moll Bikini. Bit by bit, the quiet way of life starts becoming a habit.
The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical student at St Swithin's hospital in London. Falling in with three longer-serving hopefuls he is soon immersed in the wooing, imbibing and fast sports-car driving that constitute 1950s medical training. There is, however, always the looming and formidable figure of chief surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt to remind them of their real purpose.
Emphasises the importance of professional knowledge of an organisation’s stocks or services in dealing with difficult customers. Highlights the customer who parades their knowledge, the silent customer who cannot communicate his needs and the finicky customer who requires every detail. Features John Cleese, Anghared Rees, Patricia Routledge, Bernard Cribbins and Lynn Redgrave.
When rancher Arthur Mackley welcomes his daughter (Florence Perkes) to his ranch for a visit, all of the cowboys compete for her affections.
The poor, elderly—and the wily, when it comes to parting those who can afford it from their money—Scottish skipper of a broken-down old 'puffer' boat tricks an American tycoon into paying him to transport his personal cargo. When the tycoon learns of the trick, he attempts to track down the boat and remove his possessions.
Remi is struggling with her stress levels, not to mention her running feud with the woman across the street and her incontinent dog. Life is made so much harder by her two housemates - projections of her own self-doubt and self-confidence, neither of whom have anything useful to say.
On the surface Gerty and Matthew seem like the quintessential quaint old British couple, but Gerty has a thirst for vengeance. This one act film has Gerty invite her young neighbour Rodney for tea, but unbeknownst to her that is the last person Matthew wants to see. They discuss the passing of their sweet dog Toby and eventually Gerty's motives become clear.
The future: A woman has brought back her husband from cryogenic suspension...well, most of him.
A mixed immigrant couple in 1970s London attempt to navigate both Britain's immigration laws and their relationship with each other.
Enormously successful writer Sir Hugo Latymer has a tryst with the past not altogether to his liking. This bittersweet comedy is the story of a cosmopolitan author caught in his declining years between two women, one being his wife of convenience for twenty years, the other, one of his former lovers.
Virginal nerd Jon Pigeon, manages to secure a job in a sex research institute where the patients run about the corridors naked, nude aerobics are encouraged and no man is safe from the crotch-grabbing tea lady. In his attempts to seduce pretty office secretary Cheryl, Pigeon invents a machine called Agnes that emits a 'sonic aphrodisiac' guaranteed to turn any man or woman into an slathering sex maniac. Although his attempts to zap Cheryl are singularly unsuccessful, Pigeon gets some interesting results when he accidentally turns the 'sex ray' on his bullying boss Nutbrown and the prudish Mary Watchtower.
The Karate Man honors his recently deceased Sensei through a tribute video he created dedicated to his Sensei's legacy.
A temp with a typing speed of no words a minute finds herself way out of her depth when sent to work at a large corporation, by a rather desperate Temping Agency, 'SuperTemps'...
It is 1947, the year of the communist rebellion in Malaya and the British army's SADUSEA (Song And Dance Unit South East Asia) are called to the Malayan Jungle to entertain the troops. The eccentric, bible-bashing Major Giles Flack (John Cleese) is in command of the unit. Flack is accompanied by an ageing, theatrical drama queen, Terri Dennis (Denis Quilley) who hopes to entertain the troops with his flamboyant impressions, but the bored troops find other ways to enjoy themselves.
Rogues Jelly Knight, Scapa Flood, and Lennie the Dip leave prison expecting boss The Duke to have their stash ready to share out. Instead, Duke's girl Sara gives them the news Duke is dead and the money gone on nursing care. They soon discover that Duke is actually running Hope Springs Nature Clinic with the help of most of the local villains. Very strange - and the nearby army camp and Sara's encouragement of Lieutenant Vine would seem to be no coincidence either. Written by Jeremy Perkins
Saving the world one bite at a time – things spiral out of control when lab-grown vegan meat develops teeth.
Bradley is a loner. After numerous, failed, suicidal attempts, he hires a Hit Man on the Internet. Celebrating his last night on Earth, Bradley goes drinking and meets the beautiful Monica. They share a few hours together and agree to meet up again the following night. Problem is, Bradley already has a date... with the Hit Man!
Malcolm Lyons is back, and this time he’s got a vengeance! Working with hitman Hugh Rafferty, they begin to take hostages, and the clock is ticking for the team to find them and take down Lyons, or he’ll begin to execute them one by one. Will they rescue the hostages in time, or will they just be another addition to Mad Malkie’s death toll?
Two women sit in a barren dystopian wasteland discussing the best way to die.
Biting political satire starring Robert Lindsay as a beleaguered Tony Blair, who stubbornly refuses to see the danger he faces from a Special Tribunal on Iraq that has been set up to investigate war crimes
When 15-year-old Michael's best friend, Ed, is caught catfishing online, the two navigate the aftermath under the looming pressure of Ed's overbearing mother.
At a ruthless PR firm, an ambitious publicist takes on a notorious energy company at the promise of a promotion. As a mysterious sickness spreads throughout her firm, she must decide whether to sacrifice her morals in favour of corporate success.
A group of gay London gangsters get even on a homophobic thug in the most ruthless way.