Screenplay: John Cleese
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by John Cleese. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
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 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
Direction Fred Schepisi · Robert Young
Cast John Cleese · Jamie Lee Curtis · Kevin Kline · Michael Palin
5.8
6K votes
5.8
6K votes
Marty (TV Series)
1968 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Roger Race
Cast Marty Feldman · John Junkin · Tim Brooke-Taylor · Roland MacLeod
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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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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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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...
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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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