Cast: John Cleese

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring John Cleese. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Monty Python's Flying Circus (TV Series)

1969 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Graham Chapman · John Cleese · Terry Gilliam · Eric Idle

Cast John Cleese · Michael Palin · Graham Chapman · Eric Idle

Plot TV series (1969-1974). 4 Seasons. 45 Episodes. "Monty Python's Flying Circus" (also known as "Flying Circus", "MPFC" or just "Monty Python" during the fourth season) was a popular, surreal BBC...

8.4

12K votes

8.4

12K votes

Monty Python's Life of Brian

1979 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terry Jones

Cast John Cleese · Michael Palin · Graham Chapman · Eric Idle

Plot The setting is Judea 33 A.D, a time of poverty and chaos, with no shortage of messiahs, followers willing to believe in them, and exasperated Romans trying to impose some...

7.9

111K votes

7.9

111K votes

Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl

1982 · Movie · 77 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terry Hughes · Ian MacNaughton

Cast Graham Chapman · John Cleese · Terry Gilliam · Carol Cleveland

Plot A collection of skits that made the Python troup famous, performed live at the Hollywood Bowl. Included are the singing philosophers, lumberjacks, the pope, and a suspiciously-male looking seabird vendor.

7.9

2K votes

7.9

2K votes

Fawlty Towers (TV Series)

1975 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Cleese · Connie Booth · John Howard Davies · Bob Spiers

Cast John Cleese · Prunella Scales · Andrew Sachs · Connie Booth

Plot TV Series (1975-1979). 2 Seasons. 12 Episodes. Hotel owner Basil Fawlty's incompetence, short fuse, and arrogance form a combination that ensures accidents and trouble are never far away.

7.8

3K votes

7.8

3K votes

Monty Python: International Philosophy (S)

1972 · Movie · 4 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terry Jones

Cast John Cleese · Eric Idle · Graham Chapman · Michael Palin

Plot The Philosophers' Football Match is a Monty Python sketch depicting a football match in the Olympiastadion at the 1972 Munich Olympics between philosophers representing Greece and Germany. Starring in the...

7.6

4K votes

7.6

4K votes

Monty Python's Personal Best (TV Miniseries)

2006 · Series · 360 min. · United States

Direction Harry K. Garvin

Cast John Cleese · Michael Palin · Terry Jones · Terry Gilliam

Plot TV Miniseries (2006). 6 Episodes. Each episode showcases the contributions of a particular Monty Python member. The five surviving members (Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin and John...

7.5

175 votes

7.5

175 votes

Monty Python: Almost the Truth - The Lawyers Cut (TV Series)

2009 · Documentary · 60 min. · United States

Direction Bill Jones · Alan G. Parker · Ben Timlett

Cast Danny Scheinmann · John Cleese · Terry Jones · Terry Gilliam

Plot Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyers Cut) is a 2009 documentary that covers the members of the Monty Python comedy troupe from their birth to the present day. It...

7.5

636 votes

7.5

636 votes

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

1983 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terry Jones · Terry Gilliam

Cast Graham Chapman · John Cleese · Terry Gilliam · Eric Idle

Plot Why are we here, what's it all about? The Monty Python-team is trying to sort out the most important question on Earth: what is the meaning of life? They do...

7.4

28K votes

7.4

28K votes

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

1975 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terry Jones · Terry Gilliam

Cast John Cleese · Michael Palin · Terry Jones · Terry Gilliam

Plot The Monty Python team are at it again in their second movie. This time we follow King Arthur and his knights in their search for the Holy Grail. This isn't...

7.4

46K votes

7.4

46K votes

Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus (TV) (TV Miniseries)

1971 · Series · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ian MacNaughton

Cast Graham Chapman · John Cleese · Michael Palin · Terry Jones

Plot Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus (Monty Python's Flying Circus) consisted of two 45-minute Monty Python German television comedy specials produced by WDR for West German television. The two episodes were first...

7.2

86 votes

7.2

86 votes

A Fish Called Wanda

1988 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Charles Crichton

Cast John Cleese · Kevin Kline · Jamie Lee Curtis · Michael Palin

Plot Diamond-loving American Wanda (Jamie Lee Curtis) has come to London with her demented, self-loving, and Nietzsche-quoting boyfriend Otto (Kevin Kline) in hopes of pulling off an armed diamond heist. The...

7.0

43K votes

7.0

43K votes

The Secret Life of Brian (TV)

2007 · Documentary · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Will Yapp

Cast Richard Dillane · Jonathan Benson · John Beyer · Inayat Bunglawala

Plot A documentary about the making of the controversial La vida de Brian and the surrounding accusations of blasphemy.

7.0

59 votes

7.0

59 votes

Monty Python: The Meaning of Live (TV)

2014 · Documentary · 90 min. · United Kingdom

6.9

27 votes

6.9

27 votes

How to Irritate People (TV)

1968 · Movie · 68 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ian Fordyce

Cast John Cleese · Tim Brooke-Taylor · Graham Chapman · Michael Palin

Plot In this mock-documentary, John Cleese narrates a series of sketches on irritation -- types and techniques. Included are parents irritating their children, old ladies irritating movie-goers in a theater, an...

6.9

134 votes

6.9

134 votes

Monty Python And Now For Something Completely Different

1971 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ian MacNaughton

Cast Graham Chapman · John Cleese · Terry Gilliam · Eric Idle

Plot A collection of re-filmed sketches from the first and second series of the cult TV comedy show "Monty Python's Flying Circus". Includes such classics as "Nudge, Nudge", "Hell's Grannies", "Killer...

6.8

3K votes

6.8

3K votes

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

2001 · Movie · 152 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Chris Columbus

Cast Daniel Radcliffe · Rupert Grint · Emma Watson · Robbie Coltrane

Plot Harry Potter has learned to live with his bullying Uncle Vernon, Aunt and spoiled cousin. On his 11th birthday, Harry learns that he is the orphaned son of two powerful...

Max

6.8

82K votes

6.8

82K votes

Silverado

1985 · Movie · 133 min. · United States

Direction Lawrence Kasdan

Cast Kevin Kline · Scott Glenn · Kevin Costner · Danny Glover

Plot Four cowboys join forces in the Old West to combat injustice in "Silverado", director Lawrence Kasdan's loving ode to the Western. Emmett, a quiet loner, saves Paden from sure death...

6.7

11K votes

6.7

11K votes

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

2002 · Movie · 154 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Chris Columbus

Cast Daniel Radcliffe · Rupert Grint · Emma Watson · Kenneth Branagh

Plot Harry Potter is in his second year of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He is visited by a house-elf named Dobby and warned not to go back to Hogwarts....

Max

6.5

72K votes

6.5

72K votes

Doctor Who: City of Death (TV)

1979 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Hayes

Cast Tom Baker · Lalla Ward · Julian Glover · Tom Chadbon

Plot In modern-day Paris, the Doctor and Romana realise that someone is playing with time. Who is the mysterious Count Scarlioni? Why does he seem to have counterparts scattered throughout history?...

6.5

29 votes

6.5

29 votes

Spud

2010 · Movie · 103 min. · South Africa

Direction Donovan Marsh

Cast Troye Sivan · John Cleese · Tanit Phoenix · Jason Cope

Plot It's South Africa, 1990. Two major events are about to happen: The release of Nelson Mandela and, more importantly, it's Spud Milton's first year at an elite boys only private...

6.4

94 votes

6.4

94 votes