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1. A Stitch in Time (1963)
G | 89 min | Comedy
An accident in the butcher's shop leads Norman and Mr Grimsdale to the hospital where, after causing the normal amount of chaos, Norman finds Lindy, a little girl who hasn't spoken or ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Asher | Stars: Norman Wisdom, Edward Chapman, Jeanette Sterke, Jerry Desmonde
Votes: 1,271
2. The Early Bird (1965)
98 min | Comedy
Norman is the assistant trying to assist the operation of a small, old-fashioned dairy which is being threatened by a larger, modern organisation. Norman gives his best attempts to save the... See full summary »
Director: Robert Asher | Stars: Norman Wisdom, Edward Chapman, Jerry Desmonde, Paddie O'Neil
Votes: 1,302
3. Bedazzled (1967)
Approved | 103 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
A hapless loser sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for seven wishes, but has trouble winning over the girl of his dreams.
Director: Stanley Donen | Stars: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Eleanor Bron, Raquel Welch
Votes: 9,819
4. Carry on Camping (1969)
88 min | Comedy
Farcical misadventures by guests in an English holiday centre.
Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims
Votes: 5,841 | Gross: $0.22M
5. Carry on Up the Jungle (1970)
Not Rated | 89 min | Adventure, Comedy
Lady Evelyn Bagley mounts an expedition to find her long-lost baby. Bill Boosey is the fearless hunter and guide. Prof. Tinkle is searching for the rare Oozalum bird. Everything is going swimmingly until a gorilla enters the camp.
Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Frankie Howerd, Sidney James, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims
Votes: 3,166
6. Carry on Loving (1970)
88 min | Comedy, Romance
The Wedded Bliss computer dating agency aims to bring together the lonely hearts of Much-Snogging on-the-Green. Its owner, Sidney Bliss, has enough complications in his own love life, but ... See full summary »
Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims
Votes: 2,648
7. Doctor in Trouble (1970)
R | 90 min | Comedy
Dr. Tony Burke (Leslie Phillips) is in love with Ophelia O'Brien (Angela Scoular), but doesn't have time to propose to her as she leaves for a cruise to the Mediterranean. Also, on-board ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: Leslie Phillips, Harry Secombe, James Robertson Justice, Angela Scoular
Votes: 473
8. Carry on Henry VIII (1971)
GP | 89 min | Comedy, Romance
After having just wed Marie of Normandy, Henry VIII's eager to consummate their marriage. Unfortunately, she's always eating garlic, and refuses to stop. Deciding to get rid of her - in his... See full summary »
Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims
Votes: 3,058
9. Up Pompeii (1971)
R | 90 min | Comedy, History
Roman slave Lurcio inadvertently becomes the possessor of a scroll naming the proposed assassins of the Emperor Nero. Administering to the participants of his master's orgy guests seems ... See full summary »
Director: Bob Kellett | Stars: Frankie Howerd, Patrick Cargill, Bill Fraser, Michael Hordern
Votes: 1,218
10. On the Buses (1971)
PG | 88 min | Comedy
When the bus company finds itself short-staffed, Inspector Blake comes up with the brilliant idea of employing female drivers. The company is delighted, but the bus crews are horrified and try to get rid of the women.
Director: Harry Booth | Stars: Reg Varney, Doris Hare, Michael Robbins, Anna Karen
Votes: 2,180
11. Carry on at Your Convenience (1971)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy
This is the tale of industrial strife at WC Boggs' Lavatory factory. Vic Spanner is the union representative who calls a strike at the drop of a hat; eventually everyone has to get fed up ... See full summary »
Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims
Votes: 3,554
12. Carry on Matron (1972)
Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy, Crime
A gang of thieves plans to make their fortune by stealing a shipment of contraceptive pills from Finisham maternity hospital. They assume disguises and infiltrate the hospital, but everything doesn't go according to plan.
Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims
Votes: 3,330
13. Carry on Abroad (1972)
Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy
A group of tourists arrive at a half-finished hotel in Spain where the oddly identical staff and bad weather threaten the building's stability.
Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims
Votes: 4,256
14. Au Pair Girls (1972)
R | 86 min | Comedy, Romance
Four sexy foreign girls come to England as au pairs, and quickly become quite intimate with their employers, host families, and everyone else they encounter.
Director: Val Guest | Stars: Astrid Frank, Johnny Briggs, Gabrielle Drake, Me Me Lai
Votes: 910
15. O Lucky Man! (1973)
R | 178 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures that seem designed to challenge his naive idealism.
Director: Lindsay Anderson | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Ralph Richardson, Rachel Roberts, Arthur Lowe
Votes: 8,792
16. Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus (1972)
TV-MA | 87 min | Comedy
A two-part Monty Python German television comedy special.
Stars: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones
Votes: 2,284
17. Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969–1974)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy
The original surreal sketch comedy showcase for the Monty Python troupe.
Stars: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle
Votes: 78,811
18. Monty Python's and Now for Something Completely Different (1971)
PG | 88 min | Comedy
An anthology of the best sketches from the first and second seasons of Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969).
Director: Ian MacNaughton | Stars: John Cleese, Michael Palin, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam
Votes: 31,507
19. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
PG | 91 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table embark on a surreal, low-budget search for the Holy Grail, encountering many, very silly obstacles.
Directors: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones | Stars: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam
Votes: 570,406 | Gross: $1.23M
20. 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: 421,901 | Gross: $20.05M
21. Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl (1982)
R | 77 min | Documentary, Comedy, Musical
The Monty Python troupe perform a combination of classic sketches and new material at the Hollywood Bowl.
Directors: Terry Hughes, Ian MacNaughton | Stars: John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman
Votes: 15,772 | Gross: $0.33M
22. The Meaning of Life (1983)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Musical
The comedy team takes a look at life in all of its stages in their own uniquely silly way.
Director: Terry Jones | Stars: John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones
Votes: 125,346 | Gross: $14.93M
23. Carry on Girls (1973)
Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy, Romance
Local councillor Sidney Fiddler persuades the Mayor to help improve the image of their rundown seaside town by holding a beauty contest. But formidable Councillor Prodworthy, head of the ... See full summary »
Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Sidney James, Barbara Windsor, Joan Sims, Kenneth Connor
Votes: 3,186
24. Holiday on the Buses (1973)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy
After being fired from the bus company for crashing two buses, Stan and Jack seek bus-driving work at a holiday camp - only to find that Inspector Blake too now works there.
Director: Bryan Izzard | Stars: Reg Varney, Stephen Lewis, Doris Hare, Michael Robbins
Votes: 2,077
25. Dad's Army (1971)
G | 95 min | Comedy, War
The misadventures of a ragtag group of elderly Home Guard local defense volunteers at the onset of WW2.
Director: Norman Cohen | Stars: Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier, Clive Dunn, John Laurie
Votes: 3,670
26. Confessions of a Window Cleaner (1974)
R | 90 min | Comedy
An optimistic and inept window cleaner fully 'satisfies' his customers, bed hopping from one unsatisfied housewife to another, until he meets a successful female police officer, who will have none of his sexual advances.
Director: Val Guest | Stars: Robin Askwith, Anthony Booth, Sheila White, Dandy Nichols
Votes: 1,713
27. Carry on Behind (1975)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy
Professors Vooshka and Crump decide to visit an archaeological site to study the artifacts there. Lo and behold, it's right next to a caravan site where all manner of people are staying. ... See full summary »
Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Elke Sommer, Kenneth Williams, Bernard Bresslaw, Kenneth Connor
Votes: 2,966
28. Are You Being Served? (1977)
Not Rated | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The staff of Grace Bros. take a trip to Costa Plonka while the department is being remodeled.
Director: Bob Kellett | Stars: John Inman, Mollie Sugden, Frank Thornton, Trevor Bannister
Votes: 3,042
29. Gregory's Girl (1980)
PG | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Gregory is a normal teen who is infatuated with a classmate. He must work to win her affection.
Director: Bill Forsyth | Stars: John Gordon Sinclair, Dee Hepburn, Jake D'Arcy, Clare Grogan
Votes: 9,449
30. Four Lions (2010)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Four incompetent British terrorists set out to train for and commit an act of terror.
Director: Christopher Morris | Stars: Will Adamsdale, Riz Ahmed, Adeel Akhtar, Kayvan Novak
Votes: 85,313 | Gross: $0.30M
31. Hope and Glory (1987)
PG-13 | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Bill, a young boy living on the outskirts of London experiences the exhilaration of World War II. During this period, Bill learns about sex, death, love, hypocrisy, and the faults of adults as he prowls the ruins of bombed houses.
Director: John Boorman | Stars: Sarah Miles, David Hayman, Sebastian Rice-Edwards, Geraldine Muir
Votes: 14,602 | Gross: $10.02M
32. Paddington (2014)
PG | 95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown family, who offer him a temporary haven.
Director: Paul King | Stars: Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent
Votes: 133,675 | Gross: $76.27M
33. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
R | 107 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Eddy persuades his three pals to pool money for a vital poker game against a powerful local mobster, Hatchet Harry. Eddy loses, after which Harry gives him a week to pay back 500,000 pounds.
Director: Guy Ritchie | Stars: Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran, Jason Statham
Votes: 616,460 | Gross: $3.90M
34. Snatch (2000)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Crime
Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.
Director: Guy Ritchie | Stars: Jason Statham, Brad Pitt, Stephen Graham, Vinnie Jones
Votes: 911,161 | Gross: $30.33M
35. The Man in the White Suit (1951)
Approved | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
An altruistic chemist invents a fabric which resists wear and stain as a boon to humanity, but big business and labor realize it must be suppressed for economic reasons.
Director: Alexander Mackendrick | Stars: Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Michael Gough
Votes: 10,814 | Gross: $0.01M
36. The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Crime
A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipment of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country as miniature Eiffel Towers.
Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James, Alfie Bass
Votes: 15,563
37. The Full Monty (1997)
R | 91 min | Comedy, Drama
Six unemployed steel workers form a male striptease act. The women cheer them on to go for "the full monty" - total nudity.
Director: Peter Cattaneo | Stars: Robert Carlyle, Tom Wilkinson, Mark Addy, Wim Snape
Votes: 114,133 | Gross: $45.95M
38. Shaun of the Dead (2004)
R | 99 min | Comedy, Horror
The uneventful, aimless lives of a London electronics salesman and his layabout roommate are disrupted by the zombie apocalypse.
Director: Edgar Wright | Stars: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield, Lucy Davis
Votes: 594,132 | Gross: $13.54M
39. Hot Fuzz (2007)
R | 121 min | Action, Comedy, Mystery
An overachieving London police sergeant is transferred to a village where the easygoing officers object to his fervor for regulations, all while a string of grisly murders strikes the town.
Director: Edgar Wright | Stars: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman, Bill Nighy
Votes: 535,414 | Gross: $23.64M
40. The World's End (2013)
R | 109 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from twenty years earlier unwittingly become humanity's only hope for survival.
Director: Edgar Wright | Stars: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman, Rosamund Pike
Votes: 298,260 | Gross: $26.00M
41. The Ladykillers (1955)
Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Crime
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.
Director: Alexander Mackendrick | Stars: Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom
Votes: 31,408
42. Ali G Indahouse (2002)
R | 85 min | Comedy
Ali G unwittingly becomes a pawn in the Chancellor's plot to overthrow the Prime Minister of Great Britain. However, Ali is embraced by the nation as a voice of the youth, making the PM and his government more popular than ever.
Director: Mark Mylod | Stars: Sacha Baron Cohen, Emilio Rivera, Gina La Piana, Dana de Celis
Votes: 95,930
43. Borat (2006)
R | 84 min | Comedy
Kazakh TV talking head Borat is dispatched to the United States to report on the greatest country in the world.
Director: Larry Charles | Stars: Sacha Baron Cohen, Ken Davitian, Luenell, Chester
Votes: 442,237 | Gross: $128.51M
44. Brüno (2009)
R | 81 min | Comedy
Flamboyant, gay Austrian Brüno looks for new fame in America.
Director: Larry Charles | Stars: Sacha Baron Cohen, Gustaf Hammarsten, Clifford Bañagale, Chibundu Orukwowu
Votes: 153,893 | Gross: $60.05M
45. The Dictator (2012)
R | 83 min | Comedy
The heroic story of a dictator who risked his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.
Director: Larry Charles | Stars: Sacha Baron Cohen, Anna Faris, John C. Reilly, Ben Kingsley
Votes: 335,027 | Gross: $59.65M
46. The Brothers Grimsby (2016)
R | 83 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A new assignment forces a top spy to team up with his football hooligan brother.
Director: Louis Leterrier | Stars: Sacha Baron Cohen, Mark Strong, Rebel Wilson, Freddie Crowder
Votes: 111,347 | Gross: $6.86M
47. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Crime
A distant poor relative of the Duke D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.
Director: Robert Hamer | Stars: Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood
Votes: 39,726
48. Trainspotting (1996)
R | 93 min | Drama
Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out despite the allure of drugs and the influence of friends.
Director: Danny Boyle | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd
Votes: 725,833 | Gross: $16.50M
49. Bean (1997)
PG-13 | 89 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
The bumbling Mr. Bean travels to America when he is given the responsibility of bringing a highly valuable painting to a Los Angeles museum.
Director: Mel Smith | Stars: Rowan Atkinson, Peter MacNicol, John Mills, Pamela Reed
Votes: 110,873 | Gross: $45.32M
50. Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007)
G | 90 min | Comedy, Family
Mr. Bean wins a trip to Cannes where he unwittingly separates a young boy from his father and must help the two reunite. On the way he discovers France, bicycling, and true love.
Director: Steve Bendelack | Stars: Rowan Atkinson, Willem Dafoe, Steve Pemberton, Lily Atkinson
Votes: 134,138 | Gross: $33.30M
51. 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: 14,483 | Gross: $1.93M
52. A Fantastic Fear of Everything (2012)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Horror
A crime novelist whose research on Victorian serial killers has turned him into a paranoid wreck must confront his worst fears when a film executive takes a sudden interest in his movie script.
Directors: Crispian Mills, Chris Hopewell | Stars: Simon Pegg, Paul Freeman, Amara Karan, Clare Higgins
Votes: 15,211
53. Absolutely Anything (2015)
R | 85 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
A group of eccentric aliens confers a human being with the power to do absolutely anything, as an experiment.
Director: Terry Jones | Stars: Simon Pegg, Kate Beckinsale, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Rob Riggle
Votes: 48,331
54. Run Fatboy Run (2007)
PG-13 | 100 min | Comedy, Romance, Sport
Five years after jilting his pregnant fiancée on their wedding day, out-of-shape Dennis decides to run a marathon to win her back.
Director: David Schwimmer | Stars: Simon Pegg, Thandiwe Newton, Hank Azaria, Dylan Moran
Votes: 69,858 | Gross: $6.00M
55. The Inbetweeners (2011)
R | 97 min | Comedy
Four socially troubled 18-year-olds from the south of England go on holiday to Malia.
Director: Ben Palmer | Stars: James Buckley, Blake Harrison, Joe Thomas, Simon Bird
Votes: 86,698 | Gross: $0.04M
56. The Inbetweeners 2 (2014)
Not Rated | 96 min | Comedy
Jay, Neil, Simon, and Will reunite in Australia for a holiday.
Directors: Damon Beesley, Iain Morris | Stars: Simon Bird, James Buckley, Blake Harrison, Joe Thomas
Votes: 46,514
57. Guest House Paradiso (1999)
R | 89 min | Comedy, Thriller
Richie and Eddie, a perverted loser and his alcoholic partner-in-crime, run the worst hotel in Britain: the Guest House Paradiso.
Director: Adrian Edmondson | Stars: Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Bill Nighy, Kate Ashfield
Votes: 10,589
58. Johnny English (2003)
PG | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
After a sudden attack on MI5, Johnny English, Britain's most confident, yet unintelligent spy, becomes Britain's only spy.
Director: Peter Howitt | Stars: Rowan Atkinson, John Malkovich, Natalie Imbruglia, Tasha de Vasconcelos
Votes: 174,255 | Gross: $28.08M
59. Johnny English Reborn (2011)
PG | 101 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Johnny English goes up against international assassins hunting down Chinese Premier Xiang Ping.
Director: Oliver Parker | Stars: Rowan Atkinson, Rosamund Pike, Dominic West, Roger Barclay
Votes: 140,886 | Gross: $8.31M
60. The Swingin' Maiden (1962)
98 min | Comedy, Romance
During a steam engine race, an American airline firm plans to buy a new British passenger plane, but the deal hits trouble when the designer and the daughter of the Airline owner take an instant dislike to each other after a crash.
Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Michael Craig, Anne Helm, Jeff Donnell, Alan Hale Jr.
Votes: 569
61. Blithe Spirit (1945)
96 min | Comedy, Fantasy
A man and his second wife are haunted by the ghost of his first wife.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond, Margaret Rutherford
Votes: 8,015
62. Too Many Crooks (1959)
Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy, Crime
In this spoof on crime films, four would-be criminals manage to botch every job they plan. When they try to rob wealthy Billy Gordon (Terry-Thomas) they fail again. But the gang decides to kidnap his daughter.
Director: Mario Zampi | Stars: Terry-Thomas, George Cole, Brenda de Banzie, Bernard Bresslaw
Votes: 1,254
63. Your Past Is Showing (1957)
Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy
A very British comedy about a blackmailer and his victims.
Director: Mario Zampi | Stars: Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Peggy Mount, Shirley Eaton
Votes: 2,045
64. The Green Man (1956)
Not Rated | 80 min | Comedy, Crime
An assassin is annoyed by a vacuum cleaner salesman determined to stop him.
Directors: Robert Day, Basil Dearden | Stars: Alastair Sim, George Cole, Terry-Thomas, Jill Adams
Votes: 2,326
65. The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963)
Unrated | 94 min | Comedy, Crime
In London, Australian gangsters disguised as Bobbies rob the local criminals, making the panicked British mobsters seek an alliance with Scotland Yard in order to eliminate the foreign competition and return things to "normal".
Director: Cliff Owen | Stars: Peter Sellers, Lionel Jeffries, Bernard Cribbins, Davy Kaye
Votes: 2,324
66. Make Mine Mink (1960)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy
A weird mix of social misfits and neighbors becomes a gang of thieves stealing mink coats in order to fund local charities.
Director: Robert Asher | Stars: Terry-Thomas, Athene Seyler, Hattie Jacques, Billie Whitelaw
Votes: 1,130
67. Heavens Above! (1963)
Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy
A minister is accidentally appointed to a snobbish parish.
Directors: John Boulting, Roy Boulting | Stars: Peter Sellers, Cecil Parker, Isabel Jeans, Ian Carmichael
Votes: 1,673
68. Two Way Stretch (1960)
TV-PG | 78 min | Comedy, Crime
While in prison, Dodger plots the perfect heist: break out, steal diamonds, get back before noticed. With days left on sentence and a solid alibi, he's confident nothing can go wrong.
Director: Robert Day | Stars: Peter Sellers, David Lodge, Bernard Cribbins, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Votes: 2,643
69. I'm All Right Jack (1959)
Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy
A naive aristocrat in search of a career becomes caught up in the struggles between his profit-minded uncle and an aggressive labor union.
Director: John Boulting | Stars: Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Richard Attenborough
Votes: 4,367
70. School for Scoundrels (1960)
Approved | 94 min | Comedy
A young man finds a very special school. It teaches him how to take advantage of people. He begins to put the lessons into operation.
Directors: Robert Hamer, Hal E. Chester, Cyril Frankel | Stars: Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Alastair Sim, Janette Scott
Votes: 3,895
71. Convict 99 (1938)
Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy
A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened criminals. Believing he is being sent to a ... See full summary »
Director: Marcel Varnel | Stars: Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt, Googie Withers
Votes: 542
72. The Square Peg (1958)
85 min | Comedy, War
A British road repairman gets into a feud with the army, gets drafted, and is mistakenly parachuted into German-occupied France where his physical resemblance to the local German commandant triggers a hilarious chain reaction.
Director: John Paddy Carstairs | Stars: Norman Wisdom, Honor Blackman, Edward Chapman, Campbell Singer
Votes: 1,596
73. Trouble in Store (1953)
Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy
Norman, a stockroom worker at a London store, aspires to be a window dresser. Pursuing his dream, he falls for a shopgirl and they uncover a robbery plot, miraculously foiling the thieves.
Director: John Paddy Carstairs | Stars: Norman Wisdom, Margaret Rutherford, Moira Lister, Derek Bond
Votes: 1,154
74. On the Beat (1962)
106 min | Comedy
Norman wants to be a policeman like his father was, but he fails the height test (amongst others). One day he gets out his father's old uniform and "walks the beat". This leads to a level of chaos that only Norman could cause.
Director: Robert Asher | Stars: Norman Wisdom, Jennifer Jayne, Raymond Huntley, David Lodge
Votes: 1,051
75. Just My Luck (1957)
Not Rated | 86 min | Comedy
Norman works in a high-class jewellers and dreams of buying an expensive necklace for a shop girl who works across the street. His chance comes when he places a £1 accumulator on the horse races at Goodwood.
Director: John Paddy Carstairs | Stars: Norman Wisdom, Margaret Rutherford, Jill Dixon, Leslie Phillips
Votes: 702
76. Follow a Star (1959)
93 min | Comedy
Norman Truscott is a store worker who dreams of stardom. Vernon Carew is a singer who's star is fading. Vernon manages to get a recording of Norman singing and passes it off as himself.
Director: Robert Asher | Stars: Norman Wisdom, June Laverick, Jerry Desmonde, Hattie Jacques
Votes: 628
77. One Good Turn (1955)
90 min | Comedy
Norman is the oldest orphan at Greenwood Children's Home and now acts as their caretaker. All the orphans are very happy and well cared for. The adventures start when a nasty property ... See full summary »
Director: John Paddy Carstairs | Stars: Norman Wisdom, Joan Rice, Shirley Abicair, Thora Hird
Votes: 669
78. Man of the Moment (1955)
85 min | Comedy
Civil Servant Norman becomes the favourite of the rulers of a South Seas island that the British have an interest in.
Director: John Paddy Carstairs | Stars: Norman Wisdom, Lana Morris, Belinda Lee, Jerry Desmonde
Votes: 580
79. Up in the World (1956)
87 min | Comedy
A friendly window cleaner works at an English country estate where he saves the owner's son from kidnappers.
Director: John Paddy Carstairs | Stars: Norman Wisdom, Maureen Swanson, Jerry Desmonde, Michael Caridia
Votes: 751
80. Press for Time (1966)
98 min | Comedy
The British P.M.'s grandson, Norman, becomes a reporter for a provincial newspaper where he causes hilarious chaos.
Director: Robert Asher | Stars: Norman Wisdom, Derek Bond, Angela Browne, Tracey Crisp
Votes: 635
81. There Was a Crooked Man (1960)
107 min | Comedy
Davy Cooper is a law-abiding but down on his luck explosives expert. A chance meeting with a former comrade leads the naive Cooper into a world of crime and ultimately prison. On release though the chance to make amends presents itself.
Director: Stuart Burge | Stars: Norman Wisdom, Alfred Marks, Andrew Cruickshank, Reginald Beckwith
Votes: 321
82. Hue and Cry (1947)
82 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip's wording each week, unknown to writer and printer. The first of the Ealing comedies.
Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: Alastair Sim, Frederick Piper, Harry Fowler, Vida Hope
Votes: 1,787
83. Undercovers Hero (1974)
R | 107 min | Comedy
In this comedy, set during the German occupation of France, Peter Sellers plays most major male parts, so he stars in nearly every scene, always bumbling in inspector Clouseau-style. As ... See full summary »
Director: Roy Boulting | Stars: Peter Sellers, Lila Kedrova, Curd Jürgens, Béatrice Romand
Votes: 745
84. Rotten to the Core (1965)
90 min | Comedy, Crime
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 ... See full summary »
Director: John Boulting | Stars: Anton Rodgers, Charlotte Rampling, Eric Sykes, Ian Bannen
Votes: 235
85. Lucky Jim (1957)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy
Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and boring Professor Welch to have any hope of keeping his job. Worse, he has managed to get ... See full summary »
Director: John Boulting | Stars: John Welsh, Ronald Cardew, Hugh Griffith, Kenneth Griffith
Votes: 776
86. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978)
Not Rated | 78 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
A Sherlock Holmes spoof about a family that has been haunted for years by the curse of a horrible hound.
Director: Paul Morrissey | Stars: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Denholm Elliott, Joan Greenwood
Votes: 1,335
87. Side by Side (1975)
84 min | Comedy, Music
Two clubs sitting side by side (hence the title) are trying to out do each other.
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Barry Humphries, Stephanie De Sykes, Billy Boyle, Dave Mount
Votes: 106
88. Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River (1968)
G | 99 min | Comedy
An American plans to bilk the British out of some considerable money with the help of an English con artist.
Director: Jerry Paris | Stars: Jerry Lewis, Terry-Thomas, Jacqueline Pearce, Bernard Cribbins
Votes: 694
89. You Must Be Joking! (1965)
Approved | 100 min | Comedy
A motley group of soldiers are set loose in swinging London in an initiative test to collect a selection of esoteric items.
Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Michael Callan, Lionel Jeffries, Denholm Elliott, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Votes: 389
90. His and Hers (1961)
90 min | Comedy
Returned from North Africa, a British novelist is at odds with his wife when she insists on dividing the house and the domestic chores, and he goes mad when she starts writing his biography and flirting with his publisher.
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst | Stars: Terry-Thomas, Janette Scott, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Nicole Maurey
Votes: 285
91. The Battle of the Sexes (1960)
84 min | Comedy
Angela Barrows, an accomplished business analyst from the US, attempts to contemporise the late MacPherson's tweed factory, shaking the very foundation of a men-only company.
Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: Peter Sellers, Robert Morley, Constance Cummings, Jameson Clark
Votes: 1,737
92. Only Two Can Play (1962)
106 min | Comedy, Drama
A frustrated librarian (Sellers) in Swansea, Wales is torn between his wife Jean (Markell) and a glamorous married woman, Liz (Zetterling), who wants to have an affair.
Director: Sidney Gilliat | Stars: Peter Sellers, Mai Zetterling, Virginia Maskell, Kenneth Griffith
Votes: 1,418
93. The Boy Who Stole a Million (1960)
84 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A young lad working in a bank in Valencia 'borrows' a million pesetas so he can help his dad pay to get his taxi fixed. Instead he finds himself being chased all over town not only by the ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: Virgilio Teixeira, Maurice Reyna, Marianne Benet, Harold Kasket
Votes: 127
94. Dentist in the Chair (1960)
84 min | Comedy
Burglar steals Dentistry equipment by mistake and tries to sell them to Student Dentists. Mild amusements follow.
Director: Don Chaffey | Stars: Bob Monkhouse, Peggy Cummins, Kenneth Connor, Eric Barker
Votes: 218
95. Follow That Horse! (1960)
80 min | Comedy
A race horse swallows a microfilm, sought after by the major superpower spy agencies.
Director: Alan Bromly | Stars: David Tomlinson, Cecil Parker, Richard Wattis, Mary Peach
Votes: 12
96. Inn for Trouble (1960)
90 min | Comedy
When a couple from London move to the country to take over a pub they have inherited, they find that rural life isn't as idyllic as they'd imagined, thanks to the manoeuvrings of a powerful local brewery.
Director: C.M. Pennington-Richards | Stars: Shaun O'Riordan, Peggy Mount, Ronan O'Casey, David Kossoff
Votes: 254
97. Life Is a Circus (1960)
84 min | Comedy
The employees of an ailing circus find Aladdin's magic lamp and decide to use it to save the organization.
Director: Val Guest | Stars: Bud Flanagan, Jimmy Nervo, Teddy Knox, Jimmy Gold
Votes: 198
98. Beware of Children (1960)
86 min | Comedy
A young, married couple inherit an estate and decide to turn it into a summer camp for children.
Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Leslie Phillips, Geraldine McEwan, Julia Lockwood, Irene Handl
Votes: 233
99. Dentist on the Job (1961)
Unrated | 88 min | Comedy
The marketing department of a pharmaceutical company decides to find a dentist to endorse its brand of toothpaste.
Director: C.M. Pennington-Richards | Stars: Bob Monkhouse, Kenneth Connor, Shirley Eaton, Eric Barker
Votes: 320
100. Nearly a Nasty Accident (1961)
86 min | Comedy
The RAF Group Captain has a hard job to restrain the aircraft-man from tinkering with everything he can get his hands on.
Director: Don Chaffey | Stars: Jimmy Edwards, Kenneth Connor, Shirley Eaton, Eric Barker
Votes: 78
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