Direction: Terry Gilliam

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Terry Gilliam. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


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

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

Synopsis 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 sketch comedy show from Monty Python, and the group's initial...

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

Synopsis 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 so by exploring the various stages of life, starting with...

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

Synopsis 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 virus that killed five billion people in 1997. Cole's trip...

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

Synopsis 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 your average medieval knights and horses story - for a...

7.4

46K votes

7.4

46K votes

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Brazil

1985 · Movie · 138 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terry Gilliam

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

Synopsis 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 life in a small apartment, set in a dystopian world...

7.3

34K votes

7.3

34K votes

Direction Terry Gilliam

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

Synopsis 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 they sack an employee, there's an uprising, and the building...

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

Synopsis 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, whose low opinion of humanity lends itself well to his...

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

Synopsis 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 the massive amount of drugs they purchased with an advance...

6.8

56K votes

6.8

56K votes

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Direction Terry Gilliam

Cast John Neville · Sarah Polley · Eric Idle · Uma Thurman

Synopsis 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 outrageous and fanciful lies. This is the origin of the...

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

Synopsis 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 with them on their adventures through time from Napoleonic times...

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6.2

5K votes

6.2

5K votes

Direction Terry Gilliam

Cast Christopher Plummer · Heath Ledger · Lily Cole · Andrew Garfield

Synopsis 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, in which he won immortality on condition that when his...

6.2

24K votes

6.2

24K votes

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6.1

443 votes

Tideland

2005 · Movie · 122 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terry Gilliam

Cast Jodelle Ferland · Jeff Bridges · Jennifer Tilly · Janet McTeer

Synopsis 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 rockabilly guitarist father not talking to her anymore? And who...

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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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 a terrible monster called 'Jabberwocky'. Will Dennis make his fortune?...

5.4

2K votes

5.4

2K votes

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The Brothers Grimm

2005 · Movie · 120 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terry Gilliam

Cast Matt Damon · Heath Ledger · Monica Bellucci · Jonathan Pryce

Synopsis 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. They are put to the test, however, when they encounter...

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

Synopsis 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 tell dreams from reality.

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

Synopsis 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 shattered interior of a fire-damaged chapel while working on a...

5.1

4K votes

5.1

4K votes

Beware of the Elephants (S)

1967 · Movie · 3 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terry Gilliam

Synopsis An odd collage of snippets.

5.0

111 votes

5.0

111 votes

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