Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows With Charles McKeown

1. Ripley's Game (2002)

R | 110 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A dying family man in need of money is persuaded to assassinate a European crime boss.

Director: Liliana Cavani | Stars: John Malkovich, Dougray Scott, Lena Headey, Ray Winstone

Votes: 19,440

2. New Tricks (2003–2015)

TV-14 | 60 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Three retired police officers are drafted in to solve cold cases, with a touch of comedy and drama

Stars: Dennis Waterman, Amanda Redman, Alun Armstrong, James Bolam

Votes: 8,776

3. Brazil (1985)

R | 132 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A bureaucrat in a dystopic society becomes an enemy of the state as he pursues the woman of his dreams.

Director: Terry Gilliam | Stars: Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond

Votes: 211,179 | Gross: $9.93M

4. Time Bandits (1981)

PG | 110 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

A young boy accidentally joins a band of time travelling dwarves, as they jump from era to era looking for treasure to steal.

Director: Terry Gilliam | Stars: Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall, John Cleese, Katherine Helmond

Votes: 68,324 | Gross: $42.37M

5. Life of Brian (1979)

R | 94 min | Comedy

Born on the original Christmas in the stable next door to Jesus Christ, Brian of Nazareth spends his life being mistaken for a messiah.

Director: Terry Jones | Stars: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam

Votes: 421,782 | Gross: $20.05M

6. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)

PG-13 | 123 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

Having made a deal with the Devil himself for immortality many millennia ago, the now decrepit mystic Doctor Parnassus fights for the freedom of his only daughter's soul.

Director: Terry Gilliam | Stars: Christopher Plummer, Lily Cole, Heath Ledger, Andrew Garfield

Votes: 153,924 | Gross: $7.69M

7. Fawlty Towers (1975–1979)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

Hotel owner Basil Fawlty's incompetence, short fuse, and arrogance form a combination that ensures accidents and trouble are never far away.

Stars: John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, Connie Booth

Votes: 100,113

8. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)

PG | 126 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences across late 18th-century Europe with his band of misfits.

Director: Terry Gilliam | Stars: John Neville, Eric Idle, Sarah Polley, Oliver Reed

Votes: 56,849 | Gross: $8.08M

9. Spies Like Us (1985)

PG | 102 min | Adventure, Comedy

Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for Nuclear War.

Director: John Landis | Stars: Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Mark Stewart, Sean Daniel

Votes: 52,960 | Gross: $60.09M

10. The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992– )

TV-G | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Family

The adventures of the archaeological treasure hunter in his youth as related by an elderly Indiana Jones.

Stars: Sean Patrick Flanery, George Hall, Corey Carrier, Ronny Coutteure

Votes: 8,677

11. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981)

TV-PG | 152 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Arthur Dent and his friend, Ford Prefect, escape the destruction of Earth, only to face incredible trials, tribulations and adventures in space and time.

Stars: Simon Jones, David Dixon, Peter Jones, Sandra Dickinson

Votes: 11,709

12. Yes Minister (1980–1984)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

The Right Honorable James Hacker has landed the plum job of Cabinet Minister to the Department of Administration. At last he is in a position of power and can carry out some long-needed reforms, or so he thinks.

Stars: Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds, Diana Hoddinott

Votes: 16,535

13. Erik the Viking (1989)

PG-13 | 107 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

Erik the Viking and his men travel across the sea to find Valhalla to ask the gods to end the Age of Ragnarok.

Director: Terry Jones | Stars: Tim Robbins, John Cleese, Mickey Rooney, Eartha Kitt

Votes: 14,481 | Gross: $1.93M

14. Screen Two (1985–1998)

TV-14 | 120 min | Drama

In 1984 Kenith Trodd joined BBC team responding to Channel 4 releases, leading to transition from BBC studio plays to Screen One/Two anthology series. Trodd oversaw first group of titles in these series in 1985.

Stars: Jude North, Roger Brierley, Geoffrey Chater, Norman Jones

Votes: 244

15. Plunkett & Macleane (1999)

R | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Two robbers are persecuted by the law, whose servants are not much better and even worse.

Director: Jake Scott | Stars: Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller, Iain Robertson, Ken Stott

Votes: 10,448 | Gross: $0.47M

16. Prick Up Your Ears (1987)

R | 105 min | Biography, Drama

Biographer John Lahr is writing a book about playwright Joe Orton. Joe and Kenneth meet at drama school and live together for ten years as lovers and collaborators. Both want to be writers, but only one of them is successful.

Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina, Vanessa Redgrave, Wallace Shawn

Votes: 6,536 | Gross: $1.65M

17. The Missionary (1982)

R | 90 min | Comedy

In the early 20th Century, devout Reverend Charles Fortesque returns to England from his missionary work in Africa and, despite plans to marry his childhood sweetheart, receives a most unusual assignment: minister to the local prostitutes.

Director: Richard Loncraine | Stars: Michael Palin, Maggie Smith, Trevor Howard, Denholm Elliott

Votes: 2,590 | Gross: $7.24M

18. Hold the Sunset (2018–2019)

TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy

Neighbours Edith and Phil are keen to start a relationship and a new life abroad. Those plans are disrupted when Edith's immature fiftysomething son Roger moves back home after leaving his wife and children.

Stars: John Cleese, Jason Watkins, Alison Steadman, Rosie Cavaliero

Votes: 884

19. American Friends (1991)

PG | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Reverend Francis Ashby (Sir Michael Palin), a senior Oxford don on vacation alone in the Alps, meets vacationing American Miss Caroline Hartley (Connie Booth) and her companion Miss Elinor ... See full summary »

Director: Tristram Powell | Stars: Bryan Pringle, Fred Pearson, Michael Palin, Alfred Molina

Votes: 862

20. A Private Function (1984)

R | 92 min | Comedy

In post-World War II Britain, food rationing continues, leading a married couple to become involved in the flourishing bacon black market.

Director: Malcolm Mowbray | Stars: Michael Palin, Maggie Smith, Denholm Elliott, Richard Griffiths

Votes: 3,181 | Gross: $2.53M

21. Ripping Yarns (1976–1979)

TV-PG | 30 min | Adventure, Comedy

This show is a collection of tales that make for "ripping good" television. Sir Michael Palin played a different lead character in each yarn.

Stars: Michael Palin, Charles McKeown, Barbara New, David Griffin

Votes: 1,702

22. BBC2 Playhouse (1973–1983)

60 min | Drama

BBC2 Playhouse was a British one-hour episode anthology television series produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Stars: Ralph G. Morse, Gawn Grainger, John Bluthal, Trevor Laird

Votes: 137

23. Family Ties Vacation (1985 TV Movie)

90 min | Comedy, Family

The Keaton Family goes on a Family Vacation.

Director: Will Mackenzie | Stars: Meredith Baxter, Michael Gross, Michael J. Fox, Justine Bateman

Votes: 607

24. Inigo Pipkin (1973–1981)

Family

Series about Inigo Pipkin (George Woodbridge) a puppet maker who ran his shop with help of talking animals and his assistant Wayne. When Woodbridge died during filming, the show was renamed "Pipkins".

Stars: George Woodbridge, Nigel Plaskitt, Elizabeth Lindsay, Wayne Laryea

Votes: 93

25. Sweet Sixteen (1983– )

30 min | Comedy

Helen Walker, a 41-year-old who runs a building firm, falls in love with the 25-year-old Peter Morgan and becomes pregnant with his child. Issues between the two arise due to their age difference.

Stars: Penelope Keith, Christopher Villiers, Joan Blackham, Mike Grady

Votes: 43

26. Late Night Theatre (1972–1974)

Drama

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Stars: Michael Ripper, Aubrey Woods, Gordon Rollings, Nicolette Roeg

27. Comedy Connections (2003–2008)

40 min | Documentary

Series looking at the history of favourite comedy shows.

Stars: Doon Mackichan, Julia Sawalha, John Howard Davies, Gareth Gwenlan

Votes: 88

28. Pinkerton's Progress (1983– )

30 min | Comedy

The adventures of an unscrupulous teacher at a very peculiar school.

Stars: Eleanor Bron, Clive Merrison, Geoffrey Whitehead, Michael Elwyn

Votes: 6

29. The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen (2008 Video)

73 min | Documentary

A documentary about the troubled production of The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.

Director: Constantine Nasr | Stars: Terry Gilliam, Charles McKeown, Jonathan Pryce, Eric Idle

Votes: 48

30. What Is Brazil? (1985 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 30 min | Documentary, Comedy, Sci-Fi

What is this film called Brazil? Find out in this witty documentary.

Director: Rob Hedden | Stars: Patrick Cassavetti, Richard Conway, Julian Doyle, George Gibbs

Votes: 227

31. The Box (1981)

23 min | Short, Comedy

A politician's stunt involving a box goes wrong. He finds that he is not alone in the box.

Director: Micky Dolenz | Stars: Terry Jones, Andrew Lodge, Charles McKeown, Michael Palin

Votes: 32

32. N7 (1995 TV Movie)

30 min | Comedy

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Director: Angie de Chastelai Smith | Stars: Louise Beattie, Simon Clayton, Phil Daniels, James Larkin

Votes: 11

33. Screen Two (1985–1998)
Episode: East of Ipswich (1987)

TV-14 | Drama

Seventeen-year-old Richard and his parents take their annual seaside holiday in a guesthouse on England's east coast in the 1950s. Julia, a teenage girl holidaying with her parents in a ... See full summary »

Director: Tristram Powell | Stars: John Nettleton, Pat Heywood, Edward Rawle-Hicks, Allan Cuthbertson

Votes: 237

34. BBC2 Playhouse (1973–1983)
Episode: Days at the Beach (1981)

90 min | Drama

In 1920, a trio of British soldiers have to guard an unexploded mine that has washed up on a beach.

Director: Malcolm Mowbray | Stars: Sam Kelly, Stephen Bill, Mark Aspinall, Julie Walters

35. Fawlty Towers (1975–1979)
Episode: The Kipper and the Corpse (1979)

TV-PG | 32 min | Comedy

One of the guests has died in his sleep, but Basil thinks it's due to serving him spoiled food.

Director: Bob Spiers | Stars: John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, Connie Booth

Votes: 2,098

36. Ripping Yarns (1976–1979)
Episode: Across the Andes by Frog (1977)

TV-14 | 32 min | Adventure, Comedy

Explorer Walter Snetterton and his party travel to the Andes to prove his theory that frogs are able to climb mountains. Due to the Cup Final the only person willing to act as guide is an ... See full summary »

Director: Terry Hughes | Stars: Michael Palin, Denholm Elliott, Don Henderson, Eileen Way

Votes: 324

37. Ripping Yarns (1976–1979)
Episode: Golden Gordon (1979)

TV-PG | 32 min | Adventure, Comedy

Barnestoneworth United is the worst football team of 1935,who lose every match. Gordon Ottershaw is,however,their loyal fan,determined to prevent them from being disbanded after their final... See full summary »

Director: Alan J.W. Bell | Stars: Michael Palin, Gwen Taylor, Bill Fraser, Teddy Turner

Votes: 367

38. Ripping Yarns (1976–1979)
Episode: Roger of the Raj (1979)

TV-PG | 29 min | Adventure, Comedy

On the eve of the Great War Roger Bartlesham's aristocratic parents are firm believers in the Empire though Roger, encouraged by socialist Latin teacher Mr Hopper,dreams of equality and ... See full summary »

Director: Jim Franklin | Stars: Michael Palin, Richard Vernon, Joan Sanderson, Roger Brierley

Votes: 312

39. Ripping Yarns (1976–1979)
Episode: Whinfrey's Last Case (1979)

TV-G | 32 min | Adventure, Comedy

In 1913 the British government, hearing that the Germans are planning World War I, ask top agent Whinfrey to intervene, but instead he decides to go on holiday to Cornish fishing village ... See full summary »

Director: Alan J.W. Bell | Stars: Michael Palin, Maria Aitken, Antony Carrick, Edward Hardwicke

Votes: 326

40. Sweet Sixteen (1983– )
Episode: Episode #1.4 (1983)

Comedy

It's the big day, and having proposed the pair marry, and begin a new chapter of modern life.

Director: Gareth Gwenlan | Stars: Penelope Keith, Christopher Villiers, Victor Spinetti, John Rapley

41. Yes Minister (1980–1984)
Episode: Jobs for the Boys (1980)

TV-PG | 29 min | Comedy

The Minister goes on the BBC to extol the virtues of a public-private partnership project but when he learns that the private firm involved may soon go bankrupt, it is up to Sir Humphrey to... See full summary »

Director: Sydney Lotterby | Stars: Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds, Richard Vernon

Votes: 349

42. The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992–1993)
Episode: Barcelona, May 1917 (1992)

TV-G | Action, Adventure, Family

Professor Indiana Jones is about to lecture the Pennsylvania History Society when some trouble with his microphone stand leads him off into recounting a disastrous spy mission in which he ... See full summary »

Directors: Terry Jones, Carl Schultz | Stars: Sean Patrick Flanery, George Hall, Amanda Ooms, Timothy Spall

Votes: 152

43. The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992–1993)
Episode: Prague, August 1917 (1993)

TV-G | Action, Adventure, Family

Working as a Belgian spy during World War One, young Indiana Jones is reassigned to Prague where he is to receive an important phone call. Unfortunately his hotel room turns out to be ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Young | Stars: Sean Patrick Flanery, Tim McInnerny, Michael McShane, Timothy Spall

Votes: 134

44. New Tricks (2003–2015)
Episode: Buried Treasure (2007)

TV-14 | 57 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

When Brian's dog finds a body on a common, it prompts two people to confess to murder. But when the body turns out to be over 600 years old, Sandra, Jack, Brian and Gerry must discover why ... See full summary »

Director: Minkie Spiro | Stars: Alun Armstrong, James Bolam, Amanda Redman, Dennis Waterman

Votes: 257

45. Hold the Sunset (2018–2019)
Episode: Aunty Joan (2019)

TV-G | 27 min | Comedy

Edith is finding her sister Joan irritating in the extreme. Meanwhile, impatient to see Phil sell the house, Roger decides to try and help the process along by checking the roof for dry rot.

Director: Sandy Johnson | Stars: Rosie Cavaliero, John Cleese, James Cosmo, Peter Egan

Votes: 31

46. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981)
Episode: Episode #1.4 (1981)

TV-14 | 30 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Deep down inside the planet Magrathea, coastline designer Slartibartfast is working on Earth, mark II. It seems the previous version was destroyed just before it managed to complete it's ... See full summary »

Director: Alan J.W. Bell | Stars: Peter Jones, Simon Jones, David Dixon, Sandra Dickinson

Votes: 232

47. Comedy Connections (2003–2008)
Episode: Ripping Yarns (2008)

39 min | Documentary

Cast and crew look back at Ripping Yarns (1976), a comedy starring vehicle for Michael Palin which featured spoofs on Boys' Own adventures.

Director: Maria Stewart | Stars: Doon Mackichan, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, James Gilbert

48. Inigo Pipkin (1973–1981)
Episode: The Toy-Makers (1976)

15 min | Family

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Director: Michael Jeans | Stars: Lorain Bertorelli, Jumoke Debayo, Wayne Laryea, Charles McKeown

49. Pinkerton's Progress (1983– )
Episode: Episode #1.1 (1983)

Comedy

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Director: John B. Hobbs | Stars: Eleanor Bron, Michael Elwyn, Derek Farr, Derek Francis

50. Pinkerton's Progress (1983– )
Episode: Episode #1.2 (1983)

Comedy

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Director: Gareth Gwenlan | Stars: Eleanor Bron, Michael Elwyn, Derek Farr, Derek Francis