Screenplay: John Cleese

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by John Cleese. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


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'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'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

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

The Croods

2013 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Kirk De Micco · Chris Sanders

Plot "The Croods" are an eccentric family of cavemen, who survive the harsh terrain by living accordingly to a strict set of rules. But when their home is destroyed in the...

6.3

20K votes

6.3

20K votes

Fierce Creatures

1997 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom

5.8

6K votes

5.8

6K votes

Marty (TV Series)

1968 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

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The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It

1977 · Movie · 55 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Joseph McGrath

Cast John Cleese · Arthur Lowe · Ron Moody · Holly Palance

Plot The grandchild of Professor James Moriarty had promised the world that it has only five days left to live. Moriarty is a master of disguise, a crack shot, and is...

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The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer

1970 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Kevin Billington

Cast Peter Cook · Denholm Elliott · Ronald Fraser · Vanessa Howard

Plot Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place. He uses this as a springboard to get into politics, and in...

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Not rated

The Frost Report (TV Series)

1966 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

Direction James Gilbert

Cast David Frost · Ronnie Parker · Ronnie Corbett · John Cleese

Plot A comedy show written and staring various comedy pioneers including comedians who would go on to form the Two Ronnies and Monty Python.

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Six Dates with Barker (TV Series)

1971 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Maurice Murphy

Cast Ronnie Parker · Michael Bates · Michael Hordern · Dennis Ramsden

Plot Six one-off episodes, by different writers, featuring actor-comedian Ronnie Barker.

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Not rated

At Last the 1948 Show (TV Series)

1967 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ian Fordyce

Cast John Cleese · Graham Chapman · Tim Brooke-Taylor · Marty Feldman

Plot Surreal, sketch based TV comedy series. Two series were produced in 1967 by the commercial company Associated Rediffusion. In style and content, a forerunner of 'Monty Python's Flying Circus', which...

Not rated

Not rated

Python Night: 30 Years of Monty Python (TV)

1999 · Documentary · 125 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terry Jones · Elaine Shepherd

Cast Eddie Izzard · John Cleese · Terry Gilliam · Eric Idle

Plot Host Eddie Izzard links together interviews with former Python members and other famous comedians to tell the story of one the most famous comedy troupes of the 20th century. Includes...

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Not rated