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Fawlty Towers (1975) FR #215 | TV | Comedy, Drama | UK, India | English, French
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Writer Connie Booth, John Cleese
Cast John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs
Plot Hotel owner Basil Fawlty's incompetence, short fuse, and arrogance form a combination that ensures accidents and trouble are never far away.
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Monty Python And The Holy Grail (1975) FR #277 | Movie | Comedy, History | UK | English, French
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Director Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
Writer Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle
Cast Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle
Plot King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table embark on a surreal, low-budget search for the Holy Grail, encountering many, very silly obstacles.
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Life Of Brian aka Monty Python'S Life Of Brian (1979) FR #594 | Movie | Comedy, History | UK, France | Latin, English
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Director Terry Jones
Writer Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam
Cast Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin
Plot Born on the original Christmas in the stable next door to Jesus Christ, Brian of Nazareth spends his life being mistaken for a messiah.
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A Fish Called Wanda (1988) FR #841 | Movie | Comedy, Crime | UK, USA | Italian, Russian
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Director Charles Crichton, John Cleese
Writer John Cleese, Charles Crichton
Cast John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline
Plot In London, four very different people team up on a jewel heist, then try to double-cross one another for the loot, complicated by their efforts to fool the very proper barrister Archibald Leach.
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The Meaning Of Life aka Monty Python'S The Meaning Of Life (1983) FR #2105 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | UK, USA | English
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Director Terry Jones
Writer Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam
Cast John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle
Plot The comedy team takes a look at life in all of its stages in their own uniquely silly way.
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Editorial Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) John Cleese collects the writer’s most important, popular and top regarded work. This list is built from the cataogue of 25000 core titles provided on FlickRatings, and showcases most important movies and TV shows as ordered by our score generated using public metadata. Combine this with our weekly updated OTT information to shortlist your next watch.
