Direction: Terry Gilliam
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Terry Gilliam. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Titles found: 23
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 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
12 Monkeys
1995 · Movie · 130 min. · United States
Direction Terry Gilliam
Cast Bruce Willis · Madeleine Stowe · Brad Pitt · Christopher Plummer
Plot In this intriguing science fiction film from director Terry Gilliam, penal colony prisoner James Cole must travel back in time from the year 2035 to find the cause of a...
7.4
117K votes
7.4
117K 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
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
The Fisher King
1991 · Movie · 137 min. · United States
Direction Terry Gilliam
Cast Jeff Bridges · Robin Williams · Amanda Plummer · Mercedes Ruehl
Plot Terry Gilliam directed this adaptation of Richard LaGravenese's mystical (and mythical) tale of redemption in the hard-time town of New York City. Jeff Bridges is shock radio DJ Jack Lucas,...
7.0
14K votes
7.0
14K votes
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
1998 · Movie · 118 min. · United States
Direction Terry Gilliam
Cast Johnny Depp · Benicio del Toro · Craig Bierko · Tobey Maguire
Plot An adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's novel of the same name. The film details a whacky search for the "American Dream", by Thompson and his crazed, Samoan lawyer. Fueled by...
6.8
56K votes
6.8
56K votes
The Adventures of Baron Münchausen
1988 · Movie · 126 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Terry Gilliam
Cast John Neville · Sarah Polley · Eric Idle · Uma Thurman
Plot Baron Munchausen is a character of European myth that might be considered the predecessor of American tales of Pecos Bill or Paul Bunyan. The Baron's stories are taken to be...
6.6
9K votes
6.6
9K votes
6.3
383 votes
Time Bandits
1981 · Movie · 110 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Terry Gilliam
Cast Craig Warnock · David Rappaport · David Warner · Jack Purvis
Plot A young boy's wardrobe contains a time hole. Through this hole an assortment of short people (i.e. dwarfs) come while escaping from their master, the supreme being. They take Kevin...
6.2
5K votes
6.2
5K votes
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
2009 · Movie · 122 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Terry Gilliam
Cast Christopher Plummer · Heath Ledger · Lily Cole · Andrew Garfield
Plot Blessed with the extraordinary gift of guiding the imaginations of others, Dr. Parnassus is cursed with a dark secret. Long ago he made a bet with the devil, Mr. Nick,...
6.2
24K votes
6.2
24K votes
The Miracle of Flight (S)
1974 · Movie · 5 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Terry Gilliam
6.1
443 votes
6.1
443 votes
Tideland
2005 · Movie · 122 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Terry Gilliam
Cast Jodelle Ferland · Jeff Bridges · Jennifer Tilly · Janet McTeer
Plot Welcome to the world of Jeliza-Rose, the young heroine and narrator of Tideland. What has brought Jeliza-Rose from Los Angeles to a rural Texan farmhouse? And why is her former...
6.0
7K votes
6.0
7K votes
The Wholly Family (S)
2011 · Movie · 20 min. · Italy
Direction Terry Gilliam
Cast Cristiana Capotondi · Douglas Dean · Nicolas Connoly · Sergio Solli
Plot A dreamlike journey between reality and imagination throughout the most hidden places and symbols of Napoles city.
5.5
131 votes
5.5
131 votes
Jabberwocky
1977 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Terry Gilliam
Cast Michael Palin · Max Wall · Deborah Fallender · John Le Mesurier
Plot After the death of his father the young cooper 'Dennis Cooper' goes to town where he has to pass several adventures. The town and the whole kingdom is threatened by...
5.4
2K votes
5.4
2K votes
The Brothers Grimm
2005 · Movie · 120 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Terry Gilliam
Cast Matt Damon · Heath Ledger · Monica Bellucci · Jonathan Pryce
Plot Set in Germany in 19th Century. Folklore collectors and con artists, Jake and Will Grimm travel from village to village pretending to protect townsfolk from enchanted creatures and performing exorcisms....
5.4
26K votes
5.4
26K votes
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
2018 · Movie · 133 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Terry Gilliam
Cast Adam Driver · Jonathan Pryce · Olga Kurylenko · Stellan Skarsgard
Plot Toby, a disillusioned advertising executive, becomes pulled in to a world of time jumping fantasy when a Spanish cobbler believes him to be Sancho Panza. He gradually becomes unable to...
5.3
3K votes
5.3
3K votes
The Zero Theorem
2013 · Movie · 107 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Terry Gilliam
Cast Christoph Waltz · Mélanie Thierry · David Thewlis · Lucas Hedges
Plot Qohen Leth is an eccentric and reclusive computer genius living in an corporate world controlled by shadowy figure known as Management. Leth lives as a virtual cloistered monk in the...
5.1
4K votes
5.1
4K votes
Beware of the Elephants (S)
1967 · Movie · 3 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Terry Gilliam
Plot An odd collage of snippets.
5.0
111 votes
5.0
111 votes