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Gracie Fields' second film Looking on the Bright Side was a smash hit film of 1932. It contains a lot of her biggest hit songs of the period.

An overachieving executive quits her job just before Christmas and goes to her father's country inn to try to find some balance again.

Join in this feztival of fun which contains the best loved sketches and classic routines from one of Britain's Favourite clowns who returns for yet more side-spitting sketches. Watch as all his conjuring tricks misfire and let his maniacal laugh take over you in his unique and inimitable style. A true comic genius with unmistakable fez, he will make you laugh out loud... just like that!

Award winning and latterly disgraced comedian Alfie Brown is back. This is his first full special since the resurfacing of an old routine put his career in ruins. In this show he's tries to navigate the story of his own cancellation without turning into one of those right wing free speech comedians. Comment below if you think he managed it.

An awkward encounter on the sidewalk between two strangers turns into a shuffle... a Sidewalk Shuffle.

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.

Two down-on-their-luck American brothers travel to England to sell their late grandfather's country estate. A straightforward plan if it weren't for the strangers in the house and the sinister man on their tail.

When three dazed and confused strangers wake up in a pub to a dead woman lying on the table with hefty chunks of flesh missing, they must figure out what happened to her in order to ensure they don't meet the same fate.

It's Samantha's big wedding day but her mother is making it miserable for her with a typical maternal conflict of interests. Her mother orders her the wrong flowers, the wrong type of make-up and wants to video the garden instead of the girls getting dressed. To top it off three thieves have crashed the party pretending to be video-assistants, the make-up artist gets drunk and the chauffeur has choked on a biscuit and died.

This documentary explores the legacy of one of the most notorious British sitcoms of all time. Launching alternative comedy onto our screens, the show made household names of its performers and writers and proved to be a huge influence, despite the BBC reportedly being baffled by what they'd commissioned back in 1982. Never before had a flagship comedy show contained so much violence, depravity and anarchy - it was a shot across the bow to mainstream comedians that things would never be the same again.

A movie in three acts following three couples who, over three years, each host a Christmas party. The camera stays in the kitchen and we are treated to Ayckbourn's beautifully detailed look at middle class life.

The Crazy Gang join the 1898 gold rush. Unfortunately it's now 1939 and they're a bit late.

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.

A British comedy film directed by Norman Walker

Army buddies help Private Trevor court the daughter of their commanding officer. All efforts fail - until a hero is revealed and the sergeant masquerades as a housekeeper!

Ian Hedge is a very ordinary man who sees himself as a secret super hero with a mission to protect the distressed and vulnerable. Single and living in a rented room with his sour-tempered landlady Mrs Wardle, Ian works 'undercover' as a council worker and spends the days walking the streets of the city in a high viz jacket holding a trundle wheel, with his costume ready to go in his backpack.

It’s Lava Fish Day and something’s not right. Time to take a ride in the Chopper Chopper.

The film begins with an Earth space craft stumbling upon a movie floating in the vast nothingness. The film turns out to be from planet Zog and when people see it, they are shocked and angered by the Zogs (or is it 'Zogians' or 'Zogites'?). It seems that they have their genitals where our heads are and vice-versa. To make things really weird, they eat and drink with their genitals and defecate with their faces.

An engaged to marry duke causes an infatuated heiress to return to her soldier sweetheart.

A man tries to burgle his own safe on the same night that a professional criminal attempts it.

A young man being followed by a stalker discovers there is more to his tormentor than meets the eye.

When Amy is woken in the middle of the night by the TARDIS telephone, she learns the Doctor carries on a very active social and adventuring life while his companions sleep.

In 2018 Joz Norris had a breakdown that made him afraid to leave his own flat. In 2019 he was evicted from that flat and had to say goodbye to the identity he had constructed for himself in the eight years he lived there. You Build The Thing You Think You Are is an absurdist storytelling show about how we construct ourselves, about the accumulation of rubbish both in our heads and in our homes, about feeling more at home in your mind than in your body, and about the struggle to ever share any of this stuff with another human being. It's about a Romanian Troll/Goblin thing who just wants to sing the hits and learn how to dance; about a Van Morrison gig that accidentally came to be the cornerstone of a personality; and about a gong bath so profound that it caused someone's spine to grow by two inches.

A darts player slides into depression after an heart attack spooks him so much he loses his skill.

This lively comedy of 1933 provided an early film role for Leslie Fuller, and sees the wildly popular, rubber-faced actor and entertainer – once touted as Elstree's own Clark Gable – playing identical twins with very different ambitions: one is a policeman who longs to join a circus, the other a farm hand who wants to be a policeman!

Ellen Pitblado is a widow who lives in recluse in 1930s Gloucestershire. When her scummy journalist nephew, Douglas, tries to force her to give him her money, she calls her mysterious lookalike gentlemen friends to her aid.

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.

Musical comedy starring George Formby alongside his wife Beryl in his first ever feature film. George plays John Willie, the shoeshine boy at the upmarket Crestonian Hotel. He's a cheeky little man with no time for authority, a head full of dreams, a pocketful of songs and a heart full of love for the hotel's scullery maid (Beryl Formby). After causing more than his fair share of chaos at the hotel, he finally gets the chance to redeem himself - and show off his hidden musical talents - when he finds himself topping the bill at the hotel's Gala Cabaret Night. Songs include: 'Why Don't Women Like Me?', 'Sitting on the Ice in the Ice Rink' and 'I Could Make a Good Living at That'.

A widower yearning seclusion, an opportunity to get away is still disturbed by his deceased wife.

Catherine Tate returns with one of her most beloved characters in a half-hour special following the life and hilarious antics of a potty-mouthed granny. When Nan's kitchen tap breaks, she visits the council to arrange to get it fixed. Whilst there, she causes mayhem and upset.

In the aftermath of his mother's death, Edwin reaches out to his extended family for support.

A short film about a small boy from England telling his parents he's off to America.

A long dead vampire resurrected into an AI model by a CEO seeking infinite power A lone graphic designer attempts to evade the clutches of the vampire

At a school reunion dinner in a remote country mansion, a dozen people are offered the chance to collect a million pounds each if they can stay on the estate, cut off from the outside world, for 96 hours.

Satire of the Pathé Gazette.

An unemployed pirate attempts to find a new job.

During lockdown, comedians experimented with hundreds of online comedy gigs that connected people worldwide. Access Festival curates the best examples of these, beaming comedians from their homes into yours via Zoom and NextUp. So this January - stay in, warm up and enjoy over 15 unique and hilarious virtual gigs that pioneer a new way to enjoy comedy, streamed directly into your home.

Bill Hicks tells us how he feels about non-smokers, blow-jobs, religion, war and peace, and drugs and music.

A documentary on the life and career of Norwich's finest broadcaster, Alan Partridge. In the programme, Alan is asked tough questions about his divorce, Toblerone addiction and his autobiography 'Bouncing Back' by formidable interviewer Ray Woollard.

A 'Vlogumentary' following Joseph as he meets up with legendary street artist: George. Watch as George breaks down the political barriers of society through his wonderful and very serious works.

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.

Six former friends reunite eight years after their houseshare ended in acrimony and recrimination. But is newly-engaged Martin playing with fire by seeing old flame Hannah?

Arlette is a malicious schoolgirl who uses her feminine charms to attract, and then destroy, every man gullible enough to respond to her flirtations. She sets her cap for the art professor and very nearly does him in... but his loving wife and daughter help the deluded man escape the seductive mantrap.

The fisherman from a Cornish village have a friendly rivalry with the fishermen (and one formidable woman) from a French port. Then war comes and they must all rethink their petty differences.

Neagle stars as Frances Baring, a socialite widow attempting to keep her late husband's symphony orchestra going. Reluctantly she enlists the help of a young pop singer (Frankie Vaughan) who has fallen for Baring's daughter Joanna, played by a young Janette Scott.

Short comedic documentary about crops.

The unique life and talent of Caroline Aherne is celebrated in a new Arena film, featuring unseen photographs and contributions from a cast of her lifelong friends, including Steve Coogan, John Thomson, Craig Cash and producer Andy Harries.

Paul desperately tries to get away from a lads night out. But in order to do so, he must play by the 'rules' and tell the group a story.

An entire relationship told through photos in five minutes.

Feeling misplaced and trapped in an environment where he doesn't belong, he dreams of doing what he always wanted. This is the story of the crow who wore a suit and worked in an office.

An American tourist on a day trip to Sussex from London inadvertently finds himself at Glyndebourne Opera House in Sussex where he learns to appreciate Opera.

A group of professional skateboarders and their friends take part in the Gumball 3000 rally, an 8 day race around the world from London to Los Angeles.

A political satire about climate change. Focused on the protest group Extinction Rebellion.

Star of BBC Scotland's Up For It! and BBC Radio Scotland, Ashley Storrie returns to the Fringe with a raw and hysterical show about mental health and the ways she uses humour to overcome her pain.

Dumped two days before his planned proposal on the day of the Royal Wedding, well-off slacker Ben Caserley sets out to win back his girlfriend - before the wedding bells call time on their relationship.

Violently arrested and thrown in jail, Bryan narrates his bizarre life story from the confines of his prison cell. Some kids suck their thumbs or stroke a comforter; this four year old Bryan, however, was into pockets... Spoiled by his parents, his curious obsession leads to an unnatural infatuation with other people's pockets. That's when the trouble really began.

The irreverent Scottish comedian tackles big themes like death, decline and the disappointments of middle age in her stand-up special filmed in Bristol.

Ronnie, Wal, Andy and Vic are four bored, unemployed teens in dreary, rainy Glasgow. Ronnie comes up with a great idea. He has noticed that stainless steel sinks are worth a lot of money and comes up with a complicated scheme: to steal sinks from a warehouse dressed as girls and using a stop-motion-potion.

In the ruins of a post-apocalyptic Earth, a wayward celestial being finds companionship in a jaded, out-of-work life coach.