Cast: Michael Palin

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Michael Palin. 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

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

Brazil

1985 · Movie · 138 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terry Gilliam

Cast Jonathan Pryce · Kim Greist · Michael Palin · Katherine Helmond

Plot The film centers on Sam Lowry, a young man trying to find a woman who appears in his dreams while he is working in a mind-numbing job and living a...

7.3

34K votes

7.3

34K 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

The Crimson Permanent Assurance (S)

1983 · Movie · 16 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terry Gilliam

Cast Sydney Arnold · Guy Bertrand · Andrew Bicknell · Myrtle Devenish

Plot In the bleak days of 1983, the Crimson Permanent Assurance, an accountancy staffed by elderly workers much like a slave ship, has been taken over by efficiency-minded corporate types. When...

7.1

3K votes

7.1

3K 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

Produced by George Martin

2011 · Documentary · 88 min. · United Kingdom

6.8

68 votes

6.8

68 votes

The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash

1978 · Movie · 76 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Eric Idle · Gary Weis

Cast Eric Idle · Ricky Fataar · Neil Innes · Michael Palin

Plot Rutland Weekend Television takes a look at the Pre-fab Four: Dirk, Barry, Stig and Nasty; better known as the Rutles. This documentary follows their career from their early days in...

6.7

575 votes

6.7

575 votes

North Korea: Michael Palin's Journey (TV Miniseries)

2018 · Documentary · 45 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Neil Ferguson

Cast Michael Palin

Plot As diplomatic relations between DPRK and South Korea begin to slightly thaw after decades of hostility, comedian and world traveler Michael Palin is allowed to visit North Korea for two...

6.6

42 votes

6.6

42 votes

Ripping Yarns (TV Series)

1976 · Series · 270 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jim Franklin · Alan J.W. Bell · Terry Hughes

Cast Michael Palin · Charles McKeown · David Griffin · Michael Stainton

Plot TV Series (1976-1979). 2 Seasons. 9 Episodes. Wildly funny series featuring excellent writing by Monty Python members Michael Palin and Terry Jones. Palin is well cast in different roles as...

6.5

48 votes

6.5

48 votes