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British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
5.7

British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves

Sep 12, 2016

British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
2016 60 min 2 vues
Documentary celebrating the British sitcom and taking a look at the social and political context from which our favourite sitcoms grew. We enjoy a trip through the comedy archive in the company of the people who made some of the very best British sitcoms. From The Likely Lads to I'm Alan Partridge, we find out the inspiration behind some of the most-loved characters and how they reflect the times they were living in.
Comedy
An Accidental Studio
6.444

An Accidental Studio

Jul 12, 2019

An Accidental Studio
2019 94 min 9 vues
Charts the early years of HandMade Films seen through the eyes of the filmmakers, key personnel, and the man who started it all: former Beatle George Harrison.
Documentary
Marty Feldman: Six Degrees of Separation
7.8

Marty Feldman: Six Degrees of Separation

Mar 31, 2008

Marty Feldman: Six Degrees of Separation
2008 58 min 5 vues
A documentary about the legendary and influential comedian, actor and writer, who went out from the BBC to conquer Hollywood, but sadly the system quickly withdrew its support when they couldn't contain his talents. This portrait is spiked with many comments from people who knew Feldman privately or had dealt with him professionally. His early death sadly rendered him all but forgotten by the public. The compilation consists of interviews, some film clips and photos as well as various audio clips from him.
Documentary
The Prisoner of Zenda
5.6

The Prisoner of Zenda

Aug 17, 1979

The Prisoner of Zenda
1979 108 min 33 vues
Anthony Hope's classic tale gets a decidedly 'un-classic' treatment at the hands of Peter Sellers. Following the story somewhat, friends of the new King Rudolph of Ruritania fear for his life, and switch him with a look-a-like London cabby. Throw in two(!) lovely blondes, treachery, and a battle for life and honour, and enjoy life at its zaniest.
Action
Otley
6.1

Otley

Mar 11, 1969

Otley
1969 91 min 19 vues
Anthony Hope's classic tale gets a decidedly 'un-classic' treatment at the hands of Peter Sellers. Following the story somewhat, friends of the new King Rudolph of Ruritania fear for his life, and switch him with a look-a-like London cabby. Throw in two(!) lovely blondes, treachery, and a battle for life and honour, and enjoy life at its zaniest.
Comedy
The Jokers
6

The Jokers

May 15, 1967

The Jokers
1967 94 min 16 vues
Brothers Michael and David Tremayne decide to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, not for criminal purposes, but to make themselves famous.
Comedy
Across the Universe
7.1

Across the Universe

Sep 14, 2007

Across the Universe
2007 133 min 1335 vues
Brothers Michael and David Tremayne decide to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, not for criminal purposes, but to make themselves famous.
Drama
Salaud
6.2

Salaud

May 26, 1971

Salaud
1971 98 min 38 vues
Brothers Michael and David Tremayne decide to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, not for criminal purposes, but to make themselves famous.
Crime
Souris City
6.301

Souris City

Oct 22, 2006

Souris City
2006 84 min 3789 vues
Brothers Michael and David Tremayne decide to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, not for criminal purposes, but to make themselves famous.
Adventure
Souris City
6.301

Souris City

Oct 22, 2006

Souris City
2006 84 min 3789 vues
Brothers Michael and David Tremayne decide to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, not for criminal purposes, but to make themselves famous.
Adventure
Les Commitments
7.3

Les Commitments

Aug 14, 1991

Les Commitments
1991 118 min 542 vues
Brothers Michael and David Tremayne decide to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, not for criminal purposes, but to make themselves famous.
Comedy
Braquage à l'anglaise
6.827

Braquage à l'anglaise

Feb 28, 2008

Braquage à l'anglaise
2008 112 min 2312 vues
Brothers Michael and David Tremayne decide to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, not for criminal purposes, but to make themselves famous.
Thriller
Honest
1.7

Honest

May 26, 2000

Honest
2000 110 min 3 vues
The film is an edgy black comedy set in swinging London in the late 60s. The All Saints girls play three street wise sisters who head 'up West' to rob and generally cause trouble.
Comedy
Porridge
6.7

Porridge

Aug 12, 1979

Porridge
1979 93 min 37 vues
Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Beale, makes MacKay look soft and what's more, an escape plan is hatching from the cell of prison godfather Grouty and Fletcher wants no part of it.
Comedy
Killing Bono
6.26

Killing Bono

Apr 01, 2011

Killing Bono
2011 115 min 102 vues
Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Beale, makes MacKay look soft and what's more, an escape plan is hatching from the cell of prison godfather Grouty and Fletcher wants no part of it.
Comedy
The Likely Lads
6.156

The Likely Lads

Feb 01, 1976

The Likely Lads
1976 90 min 16 vues
With the destruction of their previous neighbourhood has inevitably come the destruction of the lads’ favoured watering hole The Fat Ox. Again, it’s Bob rather than Terry who is visibly distressed by this. Upset and much the worse for free alcohol, Bob then storms into the library to seek sympathy from Thelma - who is, predictably, unimpressed. So when Thelma finds out that Terry has been getting semi-serious with glamorous Finnish shop assistant Chris, she takes it upon herself to try and pair them off for good via planning first a dinner party and then that mainstay of 70s comedy, a camping expedition. Of course, things don’t go quite according to plan and before you can say ‘I can see the way this is going’ we are set up for japes, larks and embarrassing incidents aplenty, which culminate in the lads getting rather fed up with their partners’ attempts to inflict the rugged outdoor lifestyle upon them and trying to hitch up and drive off with the girls still asleep in the caravan.
Comedy
Les doigts croisés
4.6

Les doigts croisés

Sep 06, 1971

Les doigts croisés
1971 94 min 14 vues
With the destruction of their previous neighbourhood has inevitably come the destruction of the lads’ favoured watering hole The Fat Ox. Again, it’s Bob rather than Terry who is visibly distressed by this. Upset and much the worse for free alcohol, Bob then storms into the library to seek sympathy from Thelma - who is, predictably, unimpressed. So when Thelma finds out that Terry has been getting semi-serious with glamorous Finnish shop assistant Chris, she takes it upon herself to try and pair them off for good via planning first a dinner party and then that mainstay of 70s comedy, a camping expedition. Of course, things don’t go quite according to plan and before you can say ‘I can see the way this is going’ we are set up for japes, larks and embarrassing incidents aplenty, which culminate in the lads getting rather fed up with their partners’ attempts to inflict the rugged outdoor lifestyle upon them and trying to hitch up and drive off with the girls still asleep in the caravan.
Comedy
The Virgin Soldiers
6.6

The Virgin Soldiers

Oct 14, 1969

The Virgin Soldiers
1969 95 min 9 vues
The core of the plot is the romantic triangle formed by the protagonist, a conscripted soldier named Private Brigg, a worldly professional soldier named Sergeant Driscoll, and Phillipa Raskin, the daughter of the Regimental Sergeant Major. The location is a British army base in Singapore during the Malayan Emergency.
War
Elton John : To Russia... with Elton
6.4

Elton John : To Russia... with Elton

Jan 01, 1979

Elton John : To Russia... with Elton
1979 77 min 5 vues
The core of the plot is the romantic triangle formed by the protagonist, a conscripted soldier named Private Brigg, a worldly professional soldier named Sergeant Driscoll, and Phillipa Raskin, the daughter of the Regimental Sergeant Major. The location is a British army base in Singapore during the Malayan Emergency.
Music
A Severed Head
5.3

A Severed Head

Jan 21, 1971

A Severed Head
1971 98 min 10 vues
The core of the plot is the romantic triangle formed by the protagonist, a conscripted soldier named Private Brigg, a worldly professional soldier named Sergeant Driscoll, and Phillipa Raskin, the daughter of the Regimental Sergeant Major. The location is a British army base in Singapore during the Malayan Emergency.
Comedy
Vice Versa
5.791

Vice Versa

Feb 25, 1988

Vice Versa
1988 98 min 196 vues
The core of the plot is the romantic triangle formed by the protagonist, a conscripted soldier named Private Brigg, a worldly professional soldier named Sergeant Driscoll, and Phillipa Raskin, the daughter of the Regimental Sergeant Major. The location is a British army base in Singapore during the Malayan Emergency.
Comedy
Vice Versa
5.791

Vice Versa

Feb 25, 1988

Vice Versa
1988 98 min 196 vues
The core of the plot is the romantic triangle formed by the protagonist, a conscripted soldier named Private Brigg, a worldly professional soldier named Sergeant Driscoll, and Phillipa Raskin, the daughter of the Regimental Sergeant Major. The location is a British army base in Singapore during the Malayan Emergency.
Comedy
Percy's Progress
3.9

Percy's Progress

Aug 01, 1974

Percy's Progress
1974 90 min 8 vues
Percy, the man with the world's first penis transplant, discovers that there is a chemical in the world's water that makes men impotent.
Comedy
Dôme du plaisir
3.5

Dôme du plaisir

Nov 16, 1968

Dôme du plaisir
1968 97 min 4 vues
Percy, the man with the world's first penis transplant, discovers that there is a chemical in the world's water that makes men impotent.
Crime
My Generation
7

My Generation

Oct 08, 2017

My Generation
2017 87 min 53 vues
The vivid and inspiring story of British film icon Michael Caine's personal journey through 1960s swinging London.
Documentary
My Generation
7

My Generation

Oct 08, 2017

My Generation
2017 87 min 53 vues
The vivid and inspiring story of British film icon Michael Caine's personal journey through 1960s swinging London.
Documentary
Les Commitments
7.3

Les Commitments

Aug 14, 1991

Les Commitments
1991 118 min 542 vues
The vivid and inspiring story of British film icon Michael Caine's personal journey through 1960s swinging London.
Comedy
Sunset Limousine
4

Sunset Limousine

Oct 12, 1983

Sunset Limousine
1983 92 min 7 vues
Alan O'Black is a comic who wants to hit it big. But his endless attempts at stardom have worn down his relationship with his ex-girlfriend, Julie. Thinking she'll give him another chance if he gets a real job, Alan gets a gig as a limo driver, which promptly lands him in a slew of trouble when he meets and gets involved in the hijinks of a crooked entrepreneur, Bradley Coleman.
TV Movie
Bullshot
5.5

Bullshot

Oct 27, 1983

Bullshot
1983 86 min 13 vues
Alan O'Black is a comic who wants to hit it big. But his endless attempts at stardom have worn down his relationship with his ex-girlfriend, Julie. Thinking she'll give him another chance if he gets a real job, Alan gets a gig as a limo driver, which promptly lands him in a slew of trouble when he meets and gets involved in the hijinks of a crooked entrepreneur, Bradley Coleman.
Adventure
Honest
1.7

Honest

May 26, 2000

Honest
2000 110 min 3 vues
The film is an edgy black comedy set in swinging London in the late 60s. The All Saints girls play three street wise sisters who head 'up West' to rob and generally cause trouble.
Comedy
The South Bank Show
5.3

The South Bank Show

Apr 18, 2013

The South Bank Show
2013 min 6 vues
The South Bank Show is a television arts magazine show that was produced by ITV between 1978 and 2010. A new series began on Sky Arts from 27 May 2012. Presented by Melvyn Bragg, the show aims to bring both high art and popular culture to a mass audience.
Documentary
Wogan
4.5

Wogan

Jul 01, 1992

Wogan
1992 min 6 vues
Chat show hosted by Terry Wogan, featuring live studio interviews with famous and notable personalities.
Talk
Comedy Map of Britain
1

Comedy Map of Britain

May 24, 2008

Comedy Map of Britain
2008 min 1 vues
Comedy Map of Britain is a BBC documentary series which visits the places that have inspired many of Britain's leading comedians. It first aired on BBC Two in 2007 and 2008. Narrated by veteran broadcaster Alan Whicker, comedians included in the two series include Angus Deayton, Anton Rodgers, Arthur Smith and Hale and Pace, Bill Bailey, Chris Moyles, the Chuckle Brothers, Dudley Moore, Eric Idle, Graham Fellows, Hugh Grant, Ian Hislop, Ian Lavender, Jim Davidson, Jon Culshaw, Mark Thomas, Maureen Lipman, Michael Palin, Paul Merton, Richard Whiteley, Ricky Gervais, Ronni Ancona, Rowan Atkinson, Roy Chubby Brown, Steve Coogan, Syd Little and Eddie Large, Terry Jones, Leigh Francis and many others.
Documentary
Legends
5

Legends

Jan 21, 2011

Legends
2011 min 1 vues
The story of the big names that have shaped the musical genres, plus an occasional stopgap for the new rock 'n' roll - comedy.
Documentary
Legends
6

Legends

Sep 15, 2017

Legends
2017 min 2 vues
Comedy Playhouse is a long-running British anthology series of one-off unrelated sitcoms that aired for 120 episodes from 1961 to 1975. Many episodes later graduated to their own series, including Steptoe and Son, Till Death Us Do Part, All Gas and Gaiters, The Liver Birds, Are You Being Served? and Last of the Summer Wine, which is the world's longest running sitcom, having run from January 1973 to August 2010.
Comedy
Legends
8.092

Legends

Mar 25, 1977

Legends
1977 min 49 vues
Porridge is a British situation comedy broadcast on BBC1 from 1974 to 1977, running for three series, two Christmas specials and a feature film also titled Porridge. Written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, it stars Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale as two inmates at the fictional HMP Slade in Cumberland. "Doing porridge" is British slang for serving a prison sentence, porridge once being the traditional breakfast in UK prisons. The series was followed by a 1978 sequel, Going Straight, which established that Fletcher would not be going back to prison again. Porridge was voted number seven in a 2004 BBC poll of the 100 greatest British sitcoms.
Comedy
Legends
7.3

Legends

Dec 04, 1994

Legends
1994 min 48 vues
The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries.
Comedy
Legends
8.5

Legends

Mar 17, 1999

Legends
1999 min 4 vues
Tracey Takes On... is a sketch comedy series starring comedienne Tracey Ullman. The show ran for four seasons on HBO and was commissioned after the success of the 1993 comedy special "Tracey Ullman Takes on New York." Each episode focuses on specific subject in which Ullman and her cast characters comment on or experience through a series of sketches and monologues.
Comedy
Legends
8.5

Legends

Mar 17, 1999

Legends
1999 min 4 vues
Tracey Takes On... is a sketch comedy series starring comedienne Tracey Ullman. The show ran for four seasons on HBO and was commissioned after the success of the 1993 comedy special "Tracey Ullman Takes on New York." Each episode focuses on specific subject in which Ullman and her cast characters comment on or experience through a series of sketches and monologues.
Comedy
Legends
7.8

Legends

Feb 08, 2004

Legends
2004 min 32 vues
Seven British construction workers escape Britain's ever growing dole queues and travel to Germany to work on a site in Dusseldorf. We follow their trials and tribulations of working away from home and away from the women they left behind.
Comedy
Legends
6.5

Legends

Jul 20, 1974

Legends
1974 min 2 vues
British ITV sitcom starring John Thaw and Bob Hoskins as two friends in a love triangle.
Comedy
Legends
5

Legends

Dec 17, 1990

Legends
1990 min 1 vues
Maxine Chandler (Anne Bancroft) is a fading Hollywood star who is living in a suite at the Savoy Hotel while she's working in London. She employs a young cockney woman, Freddie Latham (Charlotte Coleman) as her personal assistant. Freddie is an outspoken woman who doesn't hesitate to let Max know about her obvious shortcomings. Max's agent, Malcolm Parkes (Richard Pearson) often echoes Freddie's opinions, though usually much more quietly.
Comedy
Legends
6.625

Legends

Jan 16, 2013

Legends
2013 min 36 vues
Un attaché militaire à l'ambassade française est aspiré dans un monde d'enlèvement, de trahison et d'intrigues dans les salons diplomatiques et ruelles de Varsovie.
Drama
Legends
5.5

Legends

Aug 23, 1983

Legends
1983 min 2 vues
Astronauts was a British sitcom that aired on ITV in 1981. It was written by Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie, two of The Goodies. Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, who wrote Porridge, were script editors. It was made for the ITV network by ATV, which became Central midway through the production run.
Comedy
Legends
6.625

Legends

Jan 16, 2013

Legends
2013 min 36 vues
Un attaché militaire à l'ambassade française est aspiré dans un monde d'enlèvement, de trahison et d'intrigues dans les salons diplomatiques et ruelles de Varsovie.
Drama
Legends
6.191

Legends

Mar 20, 2005

Legends
2005 min 47 vues
Fluke Kelso, a dissipated, middle-aged former Oxford historian, who is in Moscow to attend a conference on the newly opened Soviet archives, receives in his hotel a very unexpected visitor.
Drama
Legends
1

Legends

Feb 09, 2005

Legends
2005 min 1 vues
Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais' adaptation of Jonathon Coe's novel follow a group of Birmingham teenagers, and their families, through the 1970s.
Drama
Legends
1

Legends

Jan 01, 2005

Legends
2005 min 1 vues
Sketches and clips from his greatest television comedy performances
Legends
7.556

Legends

Apr 09, 1974

Legends
1974 min 18 vues
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? is a British sitcom which was broadcast between 9 January 1973 and 9 April 1974 on BBC1. It was the colour sequel to the mid-1960s hit The Likely Lads. It was created and written, as was its predecessor, by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. There were 26 television episodes over two series; and a subsequent 45-minute Christmas special was aired on 24 December 1974. The cast were reunited in 1975 for a BBC radio adaptation of series 1, transmitted on Radio 4 from July to October that year. In 1976, a feature film spin-off was made. Around the time of its release, however, Rodney Bewes and James Bolam fell out over a misunderstanding involving the press and have not spoken since. This long-suspected situation was finally confirmed by Bewes while promoting his autobiography in 2005. Unlike Bewes, Bolam is consistently reluctant to talk about the show, and has vetoed any attempt to revive his character.
Comedy
Legends
7.273

Legends

Dec 30, 2001

Legends
2001 min 11 vues
The Likely Lads was a black and white British sitcom created and written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, and produced by Dick Clement. Twenty-one episodes were broadcast by the BBC, in three series, between 16 December 1964 and 23 July 1966. However, only eight of these shows have survived.
Comedy
Legends
7.7

Legends

Apr 07, 1978

Legends
1978 min 14 vues
Going Straight is a BBC sitcom which was a direct spin-off from Porridge, starring Ronnie Barker as Norman Stanley Fletcher, newly released from the fictional Slade Prison where the earlier series had been set. It sees Fletcher trying to become an honest member of society, having vowed to stay away from crime on his release. The title refers to his attempt, 'straight' being a slang term meaning being honest, in contrast to 'bent', i.e., dishonest. Also re-appearing was Richard Beckinsale as Lennie Godber, who was Fletcher's naïve young cellmate and was now in a relationship with his daughter Ingrid. Her brother Raymond was played by a teenage Nicholas Lyndhurst. Only one series, of six episodes, was made in 1978. It attracted an audience of over 15 million viewers and won a BAFTA award in March 1979, but hopes of a further series had already been dashed by Beckinsale's premature death earlier in the same month.
Comedy
Legends
8.092

Legends

Mar 25, 1977

Legends
1977 min 49 vues
Porridge is a British situation comedy broadcast on BBC1 from 1974 to 1977, running for three series, two Christmas specials and a feature film also titled Porridge. Written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, it stars Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale as two inmates at the fictional HMP Slade in Cumberland. "Doing porridge" is British slang for serving a prison sentence, porridge once being the traditional breakfast in UK prisons. The series was followed by a 1978 sequel, Going Straight, which established that Fletcher would not be going back to prison again. Porridge was voted number seven in a 2004 BBC poll of the 100 greatest British sitcoms.
Comedy
Legends
7.3

Legends

Dec 04, 1994

Legends
1994 min 48 vues
The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries.
Comedy
Legends
7

Legends

Dec 29, 1993

Legends
1993 min 3 vues
Jimmy Nail plays tough cop Spender, forced to return to his native Newcastle after a failed undercover operation in London. He uses tough and unconventional methods to tackle the criminal underworld, but he must also deal with the friends, enemies and family he left behind, and never expected to return to. Sammy Johnson played Spender's sidekick Stick, while Denise Welch played Spender's wife.
Crime
Legends
5

Legends

May 17, 1976

Legends
1976 min 1 vues
A minimum-security prison is the setting for gallows humor by wisecracking inmates.
Comedy
Legends
6.625

Legends

Jan 16, 2013

Legends
2013 min 36 vues
Un attaché militaire à l'ambassade française est aspiré dans un monde d'enlèvement, de trahison et d'intrigues dans les salons diplomatiques et ruelles de Varsovie.
Drama