Walter poses as a detective to impress his girlfriend and ends up having to fend off thieves who try to steal her father's valuable diamond, kept on board his houseboat.
8,577 Matches Found
A group of friends come to Gary's flat after a hard night's clubbing, take more drugs and chill out until the next morning.
Coming Down
The cast and crew of The Comic Strip share anecdotes about the making of the show, recounting experiences marked by a playful disregard for health and safety.
30 Years of Comic Strip
This cheerful mix of wartime spy drama and comedy sees the returning heroes of a small English village recount their exploits in the war in Mesopotamia. German spies have been using a Peace Society as a front for their nefarious activities (the rotters!), but our stout lads are on to them. They finally rout the blackguards while on active service in the Middle East - or at least the English field that stands in for it! The eponymous lads actually include a lass, who joins up as a nurse.
The Lads of the Village
After nearly 40 years of waiting for his big chance, Wilfred Morgenhall is given the case of defending Herbert Fowle who is accused of murdering his wife. Despite Fowle's insistence of guilt, Moregenhall will not let go of the opportunity to plead his client as innocent and be a star in the courtroom.
The Dock Brief
Love, sex and psychedelic rhythms. In an isolated mountain cabin, four couples rediscover their relationship. They only have one weekend to find a happy ending.
The Perfect Escape
Penniless Lord Whitebait's plan to save his sinking fortunes is to open stately Whitebait Manor to the public. But the public ignores his gesture, and his fortunes fade even further, with a stream of debts threatening to run into a deluge when his daughter's fiancé demands a plush and costly wedding. Where is the cash to come from? Whitebait and his servant Spankforth's answer is a scam involving the theft of a valuable painting from the Manor. How could such a cunningly original ruse fail?
Nothing Barred
Dr. Benjamin Twist (Hay) and his pupils become involved with art thieves on a trip to Paris. Hay’s seamy schoolmaster act is supported by a fine cast including Charles Hawtrey and Lilli Palmer.
Good Morning, Boys!
Just an everyday space hoarder dealing with an everyday space pest.
Infinity Unknown
Comedy, Set in the late 60's, a free tour to London attracts a variety of people from different classes, only to find half way through the journey they appear in 2009.
Off We Go Then
The tourist group are in Monte Carlo, where Mdm Papillion wins a fortune.
Riviera Revels - Travelaugh No. 6
Don't Tell The Groom
The biggest-titted Edinburgh Best Show nominees return in their darkest-ever adventure. Learn the horrifying true story of what happened when Amy and Christopher-Louise decided to hide from their problems on a remote island. As tensions flare and psyches fray, how will Yorkshire's finest meat-themed duo survive?
The Delightful Sausage: Nowt But Sea
A knockout solo show about one woman’s love of pro wrestling. Part confessional, part exuberant oral history of sports entertainment’s greatest matches and most-loved characters. Acclaimed comedian Tegan Verheul leaves no Stone (Cold) unturned in her unflinchingly raw autobiographical debut that grapples with heartbreak, friendship and the healing power of bloodsport. Riotously funny, unexpectedly touching, brilliantly human. You will leave a wrestling fan.
Chokeslam
A mockumentary about Paul Roberts who is found sleeping rough on a mattress struggling with his music career after leaving his band The Stranglers after 16 years.
Paul Roberts, Former Frontman of The Stranglers: 3 Years On
Facing an arranged marriage to a man of dubious morals, heiress Korah Hurley poses as the impoverished travelling companion of her aunt, the Marquise de Jaurmais, in order to test whether her rakish fiancé's affections are truly for her or for the fortune she will inherit.
Knowing Men
Chris Shepherd directs a short animation in tribute to Joe Orton (Entertaining Mr Sloane, Loot) to mark the 50th anniversary of his death. Joe Orton would write letters of complaint using the pseudonym of Edna Welthorpe. Using this persona, Orton would wind up companies, vicars and even ridicule his own plays. In this short we see what mayhem ensues when Edna writes to Smedley Jams and Littlewood home catalogue service.
Yours Faithfully, Edna Welthorpe (Mrs)
The gloriously glamorous Dame Edna entertains a celebrity audience in this 1988 special.
One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage
A medical student who is thrown out of his university, ends up working in a laundry and rebuilds his confidence with a relationship with a fashion model.
Let's Get Married
London has become enthralled by the antics of the contemporary Robin Hood, but when a band of bad guys start framing him for their misdeeds, the hero has to catch the criminals and clear his name.
Crackerjack
Young Viscount Tony Pym wangles National Service leave on the pretext of standing as a Tory candidate for a local seat held by his family for generations. The request is a ruse to enable Pym to marry his wealthy American fiancee while she's still in England, but his masterplan backfires when he finds himself swept into an election campaign and beaten by Labour's Mr Cleghorn – who is then made a peer. In an attempt to save face, Pym decides to stand again – as a socialist. It all proves too much for the Pyms' loyal, true-blue butler, Mr Beecham...
The Chiltern Hundreds
What kind of monster would desecrate a bowl of Kellogg’s Cornflakes like this??
Milk Before Cereal
IT’S GREAT TO A YOUNG stars John Mills as Dingle an easygoing high school teacher. When autocratic new headmaster Frome (Cecil Parker) begins imposing all sorts of repressive rules, Dingle does his best to stand up for his students, only to be dismissed for his troubles. The kids conspire to not only reinstate their favourite teacher, but to circumvent Frome's refusal to purchase new instruments for an upcoming music festival.
It's Great to be Young!
Rory McGrath takes a comical look at television commercials from around the world, ranging from the most bizarre to the most hilarious.
Rory McGrath's Commercial Breakdown
This short cartoon shows an artist doing some drawings of the good and the evil. And when he’s not looking, the 2 end up causing trouble.
Good Vs Evil
It's young Rodney's first day on the job; he's ambitious , driven and way over his head. Thrust into the criminal underworld, how long will this little sheep survive?
Tractor Run
A young man will inherit a huge fortune--8 million pounds--but to qualify, he must spend a million pounds in just two months. Easy to do? That's what you think!
Three on a Spree
A man attempts to deal with the bevy of naked beauties who have been bothering his family for generations.
The Nine Ages of Nakedness
It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane above topples into the path of the oncoming bus... Then Big Ben begins to wind backwards. Time recedes. And we discover the lives of all the passengers and the events that brought them to that late-night bus journey, from the con-man with a hundred-pound cheque to the businessman's distraught and elderly wife. Time flows on, inevitably, to the crash -- and past it, as some live and some die.
Friday the Thirteenth
A king misses the butter on his slice of bread.
The King's Breakfast
A comical guide to 1970s and 80s porn clichés, inter-cut with Strutter's own homages to the genre.
A Star Is Porn
A comedy film directed by J. O. C. Orton.
The Bad Companions
Sketches include the film noir 'Farewell my Cinders', the BBC Jewish news, The Bruce Fosdyke Show, A Christmas Appeal by Faith Douche, the meaning of Christiman, 'The Last Noël', Jacques Cousteau presents Some Mammals Do 'Ave 'Em, Girl on the Cover followed Harpies Bizarre's America's Loveliest Girls starring Lois Latnick.
Stanley Baxter's Christmas Box
Judith, an uptight widow, is appalled when her daughter Lily quits law school to move into a commune of hippie misfits who live according to the behavioural principles of the bonobo monkey, a species famous for its 'make love not war' philosophy.
Bonobo
A stand-up comedy special about being an awkward teenage boyband-fan - and a bit about peeing on someone.
Sofie Hagen: Generation Boyband Fan
Brilliantly funny Britain's Got Talent finalist Daliso Chaponda presents his hilarious new show 'What The African Said'. After receiving Amanda Holden's Golden Buzzer, Daliso has gone on to amass over 50 million views online and has sold out venues across the UK on his debut nationwide tour. He has been heard on BBC Radio 4 on The News Quiz, The Now Show, and his own critically acclaimed series Citizen of Nowhere. Join Daliso as he discusses his new found fame, how he deals with online trolls, and help him decide just how racist some people really are.
Daliso Chaponda: What The African Said...
A pregnant girl stays with her aunt and is forced to share a room with a mysterious male lodger.
Bedtime with Rosie
A satirical look at Eurovision featuring cover versions of classic songs.
A Song for Eurotrash
Dennis and Catherine are having casual conversation when a "bear" — actually a mysterious man dressed in a fully yellow business suit — invades their apartment asking them for food.
The Bear
Britain's first musical shot in colour and widescreen (a process called Cosmoscope) is a cabaret-style featurette centred on a group of young people in Chelsea lodgings, watched over by a fatherly caretaker. Eight specially written songs are performed by stage stars of the day – most notably Georgia Brown, who later created the role of Nancy in Oliver!
Five Guineas a Week
A young man's attempts at seduction and social climbing lead to mayhem.
Decline and Fall ...of a Birdwatcher
Four former friends reunite to complete a hike they attempted 5 years earlier, in the hope it will make them hate each other a little less.
Mayfly
A young man has to come to terms with the fact that he has 6 months left to live.
The Goodbye
A black comedy, based on the accounts of a day in the life of the Rev. Dr. Skipton in his asylum in 1860. Dr, Arthur Uwins, arriving to be interviewed for a job, is introduced to treatments - all based on documented evidence - ranging from the bizarre to the barbaric.
The Madness Museum
It’s Lava Fish Day and something’s not right. Time to take a ride in the Chopper Chopper.
Scoop
Naïve young Englishman, Silas P. Binns inherits a substantial business in Chicago. Unaware of the city's reputation for rampant organized crime during the Prohibition era, Silas arrives in America with idealistic expectations. Upon his arrival, he finds himself inadvertently caught in the middle of a fierce and dangerous turf war between rival gangster factions. The humor of the film stems from Silas's "innocent" and oblivious nature as he navigates the violent underworld of Chicago, often mistaking life-threatening situations for ordinary business or social interactions.
The Innocents of Chicago
The third instalment in the Tonbridge School Movember Saga of 2025. At 2.55 AM, while the entire Tonbridge community sleeps, boys across two boarding houses are suddenly woken and interviewed on the spot – dragged into a surreal late-night confrontation with their own thoughts. This is a truly bizarre and original exploration of mental health and masculinity within the school community.
MOVEMBER: WEEK 3
A fishless story
Dead Fish
An American airman stationed in the United Kingdom strikes down his commanding officer. Believing he's killed him, the airman goes on the run with a woman. They encounter a lookalike couple and hijinks ensue.
Two and Two Make Six
Having lost his license through driving under the influence of drink, Tom hires Bente, an au pair, to be his chauffeur. He readily succumbs to her charms, resulting in his wife Jacqui hiring her own male au pair, Aron.
You're Driving Me Crazy
Scottish comedian Marc Jennings performs his latest stand-up show "Away From Here". The show was recorded at Monkey Barrel Comedy in Edinburgh, following on from Marc's sold-out show at Glasgow's King's Theatre in March 2023.
Marc Jennings: Away From Here
Trapped in a world of domesticity and servitude, long suffering vicar's wife Valerie has spent a lifetime serving others. Lost and lonely, she makes a quiet plea to a statue of the Virgin Mary, who answers her prayers in the form of a strange force.
The Birth of Valerie Venus
A middle-aged man is feeling the strain of looking after his elderly grandfather, who is demanding and needs a lot of medical treatment. Then a neighbour suggests a painless way to be rid of him. This black comedy is set in the future, where euthanasia is lawful and increasingly common, but it should still, ideally, be voluntary.
Dog Ends
A pirate crewman kills his captain after learning where he has hidden his buried treasure. However, as he begins to lose his memory, he relies more and more on the ghost of the man he just murdered to help him find the loot.
Ghost in the Noonday Sun
A Lord's son loves the daughter of a counterfeiter who steals necklaces.
The Game of Liberty
Two divorced fathers Mathias and Antoine, decide to raise their children together in London. Their lives consist of Sophie the pretty florist secretly in love with Antoine, Yvonne who runs the 'bistrot français' and has a very maternal outlook on life and Mac Enzie, the boss of Antoine's agency who is completley in love with Yvonne despite the big age difference.
Mes amis, mes amours
Mr. Bean visits the police station on Red Nose Day to report items stolen from his car - it'd be far easier if he wasn't on a sponsored silence.
Mr. Bean: Police Station
Set just after the end of WWII (but filmed in the middle of it) in a time of general euphoria at having won the war, with full employment and general happiness for all (or nearly all). Peter, the young wastrel son of a hard working hotel owner doesn't like the idea of having to work for a living. He discovers a society of "White Elephants" who are quite willing to be poor as long as they don't have to work. They are protected and guided by Nina (Margaret Lockwood) and her precocious sister Heidi (Jean Simmons).
Give Us the Moon
While trying to expose corruption and greed, television reporter Edison Carter discovers that his employer, Network 23, has created a new form of subliminal advertising (termed "blip-verts") that can be fatal to certain viewers.
Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future
'Newsreel cameramen wrest secret papers from Chinese bandit.' (British Film Catalogue)