Eric Idle
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1943-03-29
Locus Natus: South Shields, County Durham, England, UK
Et ut:
Life of Brian
Brian Cohen is an average young Jewish man, but through a series of ridiculous events, he gains a reputation as the Messiah. When he's not dodging...
release : 1979.08.17popularis : 26.327
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
King Arthur, accompanied by his squire, recruits his Knights of the Round Table, including Sir Bedevere the Wise, Sir Lancelot the Brave, Sir Robin...
release : 1975.03.14popularis : 39.001
Shrek the Third
The King of Far Far Away has died and Shrek and Fiona are to become King & Queen. However, Shrek wants to return to his cozy swamp and live in peace...
release : 2007.05.17popularis : 83.152
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Life's questions are 'answered' in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes...
release : 1983.03.31popularis : 11.89
Nuns on the Run
Brian and Charlie work for a gangster. When the boss learns they want to "leave" he sets them up to be killed, after they help rob the local Triads...
release : 1990.03.16popularis : 21.713
Monty Python & the Holy Grail Location Report
An documentarian from the BBC visits the set of Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975). This documentary shouldn't be viewed as a making of the film,...
release : 1974.12.19popularis : 2.128
Splitting Heirs
A member of the English upper class dies, leaving his estate and his business to an American, whom he thinks is his son who was lost as a baby and...
release : 1993.04.02popularis : 7.507
Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure
Though Eddie's fired right at Christmastime, his boss sends him and his family on a South Pacific vacation, hoping Eddie won't sue him after being...
release : 2003.12.20popularis : 7.771
Delgo
In a divided land, it takes a rebellious boy and his clandestine love for a Princess of an opposing race to stop a war orchestrated by a power hungry...
release : 2008.12.12popularis : 5.312
The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue
The rats and mice, made intellectually superior in the original Secret of N.I.M.H., return to Thorn Valley to groom their destined leader - young...
release : 1998.12.22popularis : 8.122
State of Fear
Seven hundred and seventy one words from Orwell, Chomsky, Shakespeare and others. Seven hundred and seventy one people off the street. A 15 minute...
release : 1997.01.01popularis : 1.429
Yellowbeard
For years Yellowbeard had looted the Spanish Main, making men eat their lips and swallow their hearts. Caught and convicted for tax evasion, he's...
release : 1983.06.24popularis : 12.339
Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
Monty Python perform many of their greatest sketches at the Hollywood Bowl, including several from pre-Python days.
release : 1982.06.25popularis : 10.503
Casper
Casper is a kind young ghost who peacefully haunts a mansion in Maine. When specialist James Harvey arrives to communicate with Casper and his fellow...
release : 1995.05.26popularis : 33.887
And Now for Something Completely Different
A collection of Monty Python's Flying Circus skits from the first two seasons of their British TV series.
release : 1971.09.28popularis : 13.321
The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch
Twenty-three years after the release of the original Beatles mockumentary, 'The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash', famous artists, actors and musicians...
release : 2003.08.16popularis : 4.607
Life Of Brian Screenplay
An original illustrated 110 minute recording by The Pythons of their early screenplay in progress.
release : 2008.01.29popularis : 2.036
Monty Python's Flying Circus - Graham Chapman's Personal Best
The LORDS of LAUGHTER--The SAINTS of SATIRE--The HIGH PRIESTS of LOW COMEDY--have sold out once again. Some say you can't take it with you. Others...
release : 2006.02.22popularis : 1.391
Earth to America
Tom Hanks is the host of this show with a comic approach to raise awareness concerning the environment.
release : 2005.11.20popularis : 2.031
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie
Young Rudolph suffers a childhood accident that sees his nose turn from the publicly accepted norm of black to a glowing red colour. His parents...
release : 1998.10.16popularis : 8.553
Mom and Dad Save the World
Emperor Spengo sees Marge Nelson and using a giant magnet, kidnaps her and her husband Dick, hoping to make Marge his before blowing up the Earth....
release : 1992.07.24popularis : 6.245
The Mikado
Jonathan Miller set his well-known production of The Mikado, staged for the English National Opera, in a British seaside resort of the 1920s. The...
release : 1987.01.01popularis : 2.542
Ella Enchanted
Ella lives in a magical world in which each child, at the moment of their birth, is given a virtuous "gift" from a fairy godmother. Ella's so-called...
release : 2004.04.09popularis : 24.464
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits.
release : 1988.12.07popularis : 14.978
The Aristocrats
One hundred superstar comedians tell the same very, VERY dirty, filthy joke--one shared privately by comics since Vaudeville.
release : 2005.07.29popularis : 10.471
The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash
The story of the rise and fall of the Pre-Fab Four.
release : 1978.03.22popularis : 10.665
Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy)
Not The Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy) is a comic oratorio based on Monty Python's Life of Brian, which retells the tragic tale of Mandy,...
release : 2010.03.25popularis : 6.93
The Wind in the Willows
Jailed for his reckless driving, rambunctious Mr. Toad has to escape from prison when his beloved Toad Hall comes under threat from the wily weasels,...
release : 1996.10.16popularis : 6.936
Hitler: The Comedy Years
A documentary about the portrayal of Adolf Hitler in popular culture.
release : 2007.05.10popularis : 2.095
Dudley Do-Right
Royal Canadian Mountie Dudley Do-right is busy keeping the peace in his small mountain town when his old rival, Snidely Whiplash, comes up with a...
release : 1999.08.27popularis : 18.161
Too Much Sun
A multimillionaire, whose son is gay and daughter a lesbian, leaves a will with one clause: His children will inherit his money only if at least one...
release : 1990.10.10popularis : 4.828
The Secret Life of Brian
A documentary about the making of the controversial Life of Brian and the surrounding accusations of blasphemy.
release : 2007.01.01popularis : 3.692
An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn
Filmmaker Alan Smithee finds himself the unwilling puppet of a potentially bad big budget action film, for which he proceeds to steal the reels, and...
release : 1998.02.27popularis : 6.176
The Pythons: Somewhere in Tunisia, Circa A.D. 1979
Ten years ago exactly, more or less, give or take a day or two, six young men sat down, or maybe stood, or perhaps some of them just lounged, and...
release : 1979.06.20popularis : 2.293
Close-Up Toothpaste Relaunch
One of the least-known Monty Python rarities is “The Close-up Toothpaste Relaunch,” a short advertising film. Follow Elida Gibbs' super...
release : 1970.01.01popularis : 0.926
London 2012 Olympic Closing Ceremony: A Symphony of British Music
The closing ceremony of the games of the XXXth Olympiad.
release : 2012.08.12popularis : 2.068
Mr. Blue Sky: The Story of Jeff Lynne & ELO
Documentary which gets to the heart of who Jeff Lynne is and how he has had such a tremendous musical influence on our world. The story is told by...
release : 2012.10.05popularis : 3.633
What About Dick?
The movie begins with the birth of a sex toy invented in Shagistan in 1898 by Deepak Rushdie Obi Ben Kingsley, and tells the story of the subsequent...
release : 2012.11.13popularis : 2.1
Bobcat Goldthwait Comedy Central "Pulp Comics"
Woah dude! It's the Bobcat! Very 90s Stand-Up & Sketch Comedy. Lots of fun.
release : 1996.12.04popularis : 2.289
The Beatles Revolution
A primetime special celebrating The Beatles and exploring the lasting impact on pop music of Beatles innovations like stadium concerts, music videos,...
release : 2000.11.17popularis : 0.932
The Seventh Python
Sean Connors Films, Ltd. Presents a Frozen Pictures production of The Seventh Python, a nonfiction musical feature film based on the life, work and...
release : 2008.06.26popularis : 1.491
Life of Python
This BBC documentary tells the history of the Python group, allowing a few glimpses at the works of its predecessors (At Last the 1948 Show, Do Not...
release : 1990.03.16popularis : 4.339
The Scream Team
Eccentric Frank Carlyle ran a horror shop in small-town Steeple Falls, which takes pride in and profit from its Halloween traditions. Frank's widower...
release : 2002.10.11popularis : 7.183
The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of The Beatles' first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, this magnificent star-studded tribute salutes the...
release : 2014.02.09popularis : 6.998
Missing Pieces
As sole heir to a relative's estate, Wendel is surprised to learn that the only thing he's been left is a riddle. However, he and his musician...
release : 1992.03.28popularis : 1.568
The Secret Policeman's Ball
A live stand-up comedy and music gig to celebrate Amnesty International's 50th Anniversary.
release : 2012.03.04popularis : 5.737
Parrot Sketch Not Included: Twenty Years of Monty Python
Steve Martin presents selected sketches from "Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)". It's the well known sketches, though the parrot sketch is not...
release : 1989.11.18popularis : 1.596
The Transformers: The Movie
The Autobots must stop a colossal planet-consuming robot who goes after the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. At the same time, they must defend...
release : 1986.08.08popularis : 39.618
National Lampoon's European Vacation
The Griswalds win a vacation to Europe on a game show, and so pack their bags for the continent. They do their best to catch the flavor of Europe,...
release : 1985.07.25popularis : 21.187
Monty Python Live (Mostly)
Celebrate the last night of the Pythons on the big screen! - With John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones and Michael Palin.
release : 2014.07.20popularis : 5.93
Peter Cook: At a Slight Angle to the Universe
TV documentary tracing the life of the comedian and satirist from his school days, through the Cambridge Footlights, to Beyond the Fringe and his...
release : 2002.01.12popularis : 1.653
50 Years of BBC Two Comedy
Documentary charting and celebrating five decades of often groundbreaking, boundary-pushing comedy from BBC Two.
release : 2014.05.24popularis : 2.505
Euroshow '71: May Day Special
German made-for-TV musical extravaganza starring Monty Python.
release : 1971.05.01popularis : 0.714
Absolutely Anything
Eccentric aliens give a man the power to do anything he wants to determine if Earth is worth saving.
release : 2015.06.26popularis : 12.533
Nuclear Bogeyheads
Lost direct-to-video action comedy
release : 1970.01.01popularis : 1.085
Monty Python: The Meaning of Live
With unprecedented access, this program reveals the humour, chaos and passion that went into bringing the Flying Circus to the stage cumulating in...
release : 2014.11.13popularis : 3.139
We Are Most Amused
We Are Most Amused was a gala event held at the New Wimbledon Theatre on 12 November 2008 in honour of the 60th birthday of Charles, Prince of Wales,...
release : 2008.11.15popularis : 1.752
The Meaning of Making 'The Meaning of Life'
The behind-the-scenes production documentary of Monty Python's 'Meaning Of Life.' This documentary is featured on the 2-disc Special Edition DVD for...
release : 2003.09.02popularis : 0.67
The Admiral: Pub, Drums and Food
A documentary short catching up with John Halsey a.k.a. Barry Wom of The Rutles
release : 2018.01.29popularis : 3.11
Hollywood Homicide
Joe Gavilan and his new partner K. C. Calden, are detectives on the beat in Tinseltown. Neither one of them really wants to be a cop, Gavilan...
release : 2003.06.09popularis : 20.122
The South Bank Show: Spamalot
Eric Idle is interviewed by Melvyn Bragg in this 2006 episode of The South Bank Show (1978). The surviving members of Monty Python discuss the huge...
release : 2006.10.15popularis : 0.603
Not The Messiah: The Road To Albert Hall
Half-hour behind the scenes of Eric Idle's Not The Messiah oratorio. Featuring Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, Neil Innes,...
release : 2010.06.08popularis : 1.068
Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World
The outrageous life of the American dancer of the 1920s, Isadora Duncan, whom Ken Russell described as "part genius and part charlatan".
release : 1966.01.02popularis : 2.189
The Movie Life of George
When EMI refused to produce Monty Python's Life of Brian, George Harrison founded Handmade Pictures so that he could see the film. This is the story...
release : 1989.02.10popularis : 1.69
The Roots of Monty Python
A look back at the origins of the ground breaking BBC comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus.
release : 2005.11.26popularis : 2.434
Monty Python In The Netherlands
Monty Python sketch created for Dutch television in 1973.
release : 1973.01.18popularis : 1.478
The Entire Universe
Eric Idle persuades Professor Brian Cox to present a lecture on the birth of the entire universe. Brian soon realises Eric is actually hosting a...
release : 2016.12.26popularis : 2.967
What the Pythons Did Next...
A look at the careers of John Cleese, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam in the years after Monty Python's...
release : 2007.01.01popularis : 3.076
The Tale of the Frog Prince
A spoiled, selfish princess's fate becomes entwined with a zany and witty frog with a secret past.
release : 1982.09.11popularis : 6.058
Quest for Camelot
During the times of King Arthur, Kayley is a brave girl who dreams of following her late father as a Knight of the Round Table. The evil Ruber wants...
release : 1998.05.15popularis : 23.996
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
Pressure from his boss and a skin-cream client produces a talking boil on a British adman's neck.
release : 1989.05.05popularis : 8.982
Terry Pratchett: Back in Black
A poignant and humorous film telling the life story of the hugely popular author of the discworld series of books, in his own words.
release : 2017.02.11popularis : 6.43
Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It was directed by Jonathan Miller,...
release : 1966.12.28popularis : 5.963
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
When Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny sneak into an R-rated movie featuring Canadians Terrance and Philip, they are pronounced 'corrupted', and their...
release : 1999.06.30popularis : 39.182
The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 1
Compilation of the best Sketches of the first series of Monty Python's Flying Circus, which ran from 5 October 1969 to 11 January 1970. Memorable...
release : 2004.01.01popularis : 2.057
The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 2
All the best sketches from the second series of the ground-breaking comedy. Memorable moments include: 'It's in the Mind'; 'The New Cooker Sketch';...
release : 2004.01.01popularis : 1.339
The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 3
All the best sketches from the third and fourth series of the ground-breaking comedy. Memorable moments include: 'The Finals of the All-England...
release : 2004.01.01popularis : 0.563
The Meaning of Monty Python
A discussion between John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones about their film The Meaning of Life
release : 2013.10.08popularis : 1.872
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
The town of Hamelin pays the ultimate price after reneging on their promise to the pied piper. Based on the poem by Robert Browning.
release : 1985.04.05popularis : 0.853
The Monty Python Story
The story behind how the comedy sketch group Monty Python formed in 1969, and lead to four very series, and four very funny films that are still has...
release : 1999.10.08popularis : 2.125
Monty Python: From Spam to Sperm
Meatloaf introduces a look back at Python's use of music. Included interviews with the team, André Jacquemin and other conspirators.
release : 1999.10.08popularis : 1.434
Monty Python: 30th Anniversary Sketches
The Sketches produced by the surviving Pythons for the BBC's celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the first showing of Monty Python on 5 October...
release : 1999.10.08popularis : 1.773
Monty Python: Before the Flying Circus
Discover how six seemingly ordinary but supremely talented men became Monty Python, sketch comedy's inspired group of lunatics who turned such...
release : 2008.07.01popularis : 0.371
Monty Python Conquers America
This documentary follows the evolution of the British sketch comedy troupe that redefined humor and shaped an entire generation of American comics,...
release : 2008.01.01popularis : 0.95
The Crimson Permanent Assurance
A group of down-and-out accountants mutiny against their bosses and sail their office building onto the high seas in search of a pirate's life.
release : 1983.03.31popularis : 7.282
Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
A funny, intimate and heartbreaking portrait of one of the world’s most beloved and inventive comedians, Robin Williams, told largely through...
release : 2018.01.19popularis : 11.42
Group Madness
A behind-the-scenes documentary of the making of 1983's Yellowbeard
release : 1983.06.11popularis : 2.132
Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar
Alan Yentob meets the five surviving members of Monty Python - John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam and Eric Idle - as they prepare...
release : 2014.06.29popularis : 3.846
The Life of Python
Celebrating their 30th anniversary, Monty Python presents exclusive new material and so-called classic bits. Disc : 1 Contains 1:It's The Monty...
release : 2000.10.31popularis : 3.93
An Accidental Studio
Charts the early years of HandMade Films seen through the eyes of the filmmakers, key personnel, and the man who started it all: former Beatle George...
release : 2019.07.12popularis : 1.497
Python at 50: Silly Talks and Holy Grails
From ‘something completely different’ to icons of comedy and national treasures, this is a collection of rarely-seen Monty Python moments...
release : 2019.09.07popularis : 2.618
David Bowie - Sound and Vision
A documentary, which takes you on a journey of Bowie's revolutionary career, struggle with his personal life and his achievements and successes....
release : 2003.11.12popularis : 1.355
The English National Opera Rehearse The Mikado
A chance to see director Jonathan Miller at work on his acclaimed staging of Gilbert and Sullivan's famous comic opera.
release : 1987.10.02popularis : 1.922
102 Dalmatians
Get ready for a howling good time as an all new assortment of irresistible animal heroes are unleashed in this great family tail! In an unlikely...
release : 2000.10.07popularis : 18.799
The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen
This is an all new feature length documentary, with interviews from almost everyone involved with the production of the film. Gilliam never shies...
release : 2008.04.08popularis : 1.326
Hercules: Zero to Hero
The film briefly gives Hercules' history after defeating Hades for good, in which he marries Meg and revisits his teenage years. In particular, it...
release : 1999.08.17popularis : 10.72
Monty Python's Flying Circus - Eric Idle's Personal Best
The SAINTS of SATIRE, The LORDS of LAUGHTER, The HIGH PRIESTS of LOW COMEDY have sold out once again. Eric Idle--the outrageously successful actor,...
release : 2006.02.22popularis : 0.843
The Great Birds Eye Peas Relaunch 1971
One of the least-known Monty Python rarities is “The Great Birds Eye Peas Relaunch of 1971,” a short advertising film that was made for...
release : 1971.12.31popularis : 0.602
Yellow Submarine Sandwich
An animated Yellow Submarine spoof produced for The Rutles' 1978 mockumentary All You Need Is Cash and featuring their song "Cheese and Onions"....
release : 1978.03.22popularis : 1.231
Pirates: 3D Show
Davie (Adam Wylie), a cabin boy who was betrayed and marooned by Captain Lucky (Leslie Nielsen) on Pirate Island, sets up booby traps with the help...
release : 1999.12.31popularis : 1.978
Steve Martin's Best Show Ever
Steve Martin's fourth NBC special was in the spirit of his previous association with Saturday Night Live. It was broadcast live from Studio 8H,...
release : 1981.11.25popularis : 2.464
Live from New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live
A retrospective of the first 5 years of Saturday Night Live.
release : 2005.02.20popularis : 1.902
The Nutcracker and the Mouseking
The fairytale story revolves around a young prince who - along with his entourage - is turned into a nutcracker through his own ungrateful and...
release : 2004.10.12popularis : 3.07
Monty Python: Live at Aspen
In March 1998 in Aspen, Colorado, the surviving members of the Monty Python team – John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and...
release : 1998.03.21popularis : 4.382
Brightness
Wes and Nick are two small time crooks facing the end of their lives. When they get a second chance from the mysterious Mr. Bix, time, space and...
release : 2001.04.01popularis : 2.405
Monty Python's Best Bits Celebrated
Monty Python’s influence on comedy has been compared to the Beatles’ influence on music, a pivotal moment in the evolution of television...
release : 2021.06.05popularis : 2.404
The Comedy Vaults: BBC2's Hidden Treasure
As part of BBC Two's 50th birthday celebrations, this programme pulls from the shelf some rare and previously unseen comedy moments from some of the...
release : 2014.05.11popularis : 2.588