Terry Gilliam
Also Known As: Terry C. Gilliamberg, 테리 길리엄, Террі Гілліам, تری گیلیام
Biography: Terrence Vance "Terry" Gilliam (born November 22, 1940) is an American-British screenwriter, film director, animator, actor and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. Subsequent to his early work with the Pythons, Gilliam became known for directing fantasy and sci-fi films, including "Time Bandits" (1981), "Brazil" (1985), "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" (1988), "The Fisher King" (1991), "12 Monkeys" (1995), "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" (1998) and "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" (2009). He is the only Python not born in Britain; he took British citizenship in 1968.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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Brazil
Overview: Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-20
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Life of Brian
Overview: Brian Cohen is an average young Jewish man, but through a series of ridiculous events, he gains a reputation as the Messiah. When he's not dodging his followers or being scolded by his shrill mother, the hapless Brian has to contend with the pompous Pontius Pilate and acronym-obsessed members of a separatist movement. Rife with Monty Python's signature absurdity, the tale finds Brian's life paralleling Biblical lore, albeit with many more laughs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-17
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Overview: King Arthur, accompanied by his squire, recruits his Knights of the Round Table, including Sir Bedevere the Wise, Sir Lancelot the Brave, Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot and Sir Galahad the Pure. On the way, Arthur battles the Black Knight who, despite having had all his limbs chopped off, insists he can still fight. They reach Camelot, but Arthur decides not to enter, as "it is a silly place".
Genres: Adventure Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-03
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Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Overview: Life's questions are 'answered' in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes into a pirate ship. Then there's the National Health doctors who try to claim a healthy liver from a still-living donor. The world's most voracious glutton brings the art of vomiting to new heights before his spectacular demise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-31
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Monty Python & the Holy Grail Location Report
Overview: An documentarian from the BBC visits the set of Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975). This documentary shouldn't be viewed as a making of the film, but rather a goof-off session that is simply there to conjure up laughter.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-19
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Lost in La Mancha
Overview: Fulton and Pepe's 2000 documentary captures Terry Gilliam's attempt to get The Man Who Killed Don Quixote off the ground. Back injuries, freakish storms, and more zoom in to sabotage the project.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-11
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The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of 'Twelve Monkeys'
Overview: A documentary following Terry Gilliam through the creation of "Twelve Monkeys."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-05
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Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
Overview: Monty Python perform many of their greatest sketches at the Hollywood Bowl, including several from pre-Python days.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-06-25
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Spies Like Us
Overview: Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for nuclear war.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-06
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And Now for Something Completely Different
Overview: A collection of Monty Python's Flying Circus skits from the first two seasons of their British TV series.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-28
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Life Of Brian Screenplay
Overview: An original illustrated 110 minute recording by The Pythons of their early screenplay in progress.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-29
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Monty Python's Flying Circus - Graham Chapman's Personal Best
Overview: The LORDS of LAUGHTER--The SAINTS of SATIRE--The HIGH PRIESTS of LOW COMEDY--have sold out once again. Some say you can't take it with you. Others just refuse to go. Graham Chapman--doctor, tall actor, self-wrestler and really famous dead guy--is the latter. Chapman has a least 8 movie and TV appearances to his credit since he passed away in 1989 making him the most prolific corpse since Elvis. This DVD GRAHAM CHAPMAN'S PERSONAL BEST makes 9. In a comprehensive tribute written by the remaining members of the incomparable Monty Python's Flying Circus this program includes the sketches they believe Chapman would have called his very favorites. Of course they could be wrong.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-02-22
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Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
Overview: The Secret Policeman benefit shows for Amnesty International brought together comedy grand masters - from Python and Beyond the Fringe - and performers then relatively unknown, like Rowan Atkinson. Narrated by Dawn French, the programme includes interviews with many of the comedians and musicians who took part: John Cleese, Stephen Fry, Michael Palin, Sting, Lenny Henry and many more. The shows and their stars had a huge effect on modern British comedy. There are few comics today whose careers have not been heavily influenced by the anarchic and surreal humour of these events.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-09
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Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy)
Overview: Not The Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy) is a comic oratorio based on Monty Python's Life of Brian, which retells the tragic tale of Mandy, impregnated by a Roman soldier, giving birth to Brian, a reluctant revolutionary of the People's Front of Judea who falls in love with Judith, gets mistaken for a Messiah and is arrested by the Romans and sentenced to be crucified. It ranges in reference from Handel, through a naughty Mozart duet, to the Festival of Nine Carols, Bob Dylan, and the classic finale "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life".
Genres: Comedy Music History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-25
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Breakfast with Hunter
Overview: Breakfast with Hunter is a feature length documentary starring the infamous outlaw journalist Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. Edited by director Wayne Ewing from cinema verite film and digital video that he shot over many years on the road with Dr. Thompson, Breakfast with Hunter follows several story lines in the trials (literally) and triumphs of this cultural icon who created his own genre of writing - Gonzo journalism.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-06-21
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Heath Ledger: A Tribute
Overview: On January 22, 2008, the entertainment world was rocked by news that one of its brightest young stars had unexpectedly died. This film is a commemorative special dedicated to the life and works of this complex and unique talent who died before his time.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-06-01
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Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him?)
Overview: The life and work of the enigmatic singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-26
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The Secret Life of Brian
Overview: A documentary about the making of the controversial Life of Brian and the surrounding accusations of blasphemy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Jupiter Ascending
Overview: In a universe where human genetic material is the most precious commodity, an impoverished young Earth woman becomes the key to strategic maneuvers and internal strife within a powerful dynasty…
Genres: Science Fiction Fantasy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-02-04
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Pleasure at Her Majesty's
Overview: The first of the Amnesty International comedy benefit galas. The title is a play on the phrase at Her Majesty's pleasure (the show was performed at Her Majesty's Theatre, London). This show came to be considered part of the Secret Policeman's Ball series of shows that it inspired, although it pre-dated the first show in the series by three years. The event was organized by a team of three: Monty Python member John Cleese, Amnesty's Assistant Director Peter Luff and Transatlantic Records executive Martin Lewis. It featured the cream of Britain's comedic talent of the era, setting a precedent that would inspire many subsequent Amnesty galas...
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-29
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Absolutely Anything
Overview: Eccentric aliens give a man the power to do anything he wants to determine if Earth is worth saving.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-02-13
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The Pythons: Somewhere in Tunisia, Circa A.D. 1979
Overview: Ten years ago exactly, more or less, give or take a day or two, six young men sat down, or maybe stood, or perhaps some of them just lounged, and wrote the first episode of a new series called Owl Stretching Time. They were called Graham Chapman , John Cleese, Terry Gilliam , Eric Idle,Terry Jones and Michael Palin and later both they and the series became known as Monty Python 's Flying Circus . Today they are the best known British comedy group in the world, famous from Cathay to Kathmandu, from Sydney to Sidcup (except in Japan where the programme is called The Gay Boys' Dragon Show ... say no more). To commemorate their tenth anniversary a BBC team tracked them down in the deserts of Tunisia where they were filming their Life of Brian and almost persuaded them to examine the genesis, the genius and the gender of Monty Python.
Genres: Documentary Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-20
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The Monster of Nix
Overview: Life is good in the idyllic fairytale village of Nix... until an all-devouring monster appears. Young Willy has to fight it. Alone.
Genres: Animation Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2011-06-01
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A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman
Overview: John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam pay tribute to their late Monty Python colleague Graham Chapman in this hilarious, 3-D animated adaptation of Chapman's brazenly fictionalized life story.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-08
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Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan
Overview: There’s only one person who so accurately personifies movie magic in the history of film, and that man is special effects maestro Ray Harryhausen. Focusing on the man behind the landmark effects on films like Clash Of The Titans, One Million Years B.C., Jason And The Argonauts and many more, this in-depth film features interviews with the great man himself, and with an array of animators and directors influenced by his work including Guillermo del Toro, Peter Jackson, Nick Park, Terry Gilliam, James Cameron and Steven Spielberg. The film also features unseen footage of tests and experiments recently uncovered.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-29
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Forever Ealing
Overview: This is a history of the England's Ealing Film Studios, from its beginnings in 1902. It follows the studio's successes through the 1930's, World War II dramas, the well-known 'Ealing comedies' with Alec Guinness, and the BBC's television productions
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-05
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Classic Albums: Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Freak Out!
Overview: This programme tells the story behind the conception, recording and release of this groundbreaking album. By use of interviews, musical demonstration, performance, archive footage and returning to the multi tracks with Ahmet Zappa and Joe Travers we discover how Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention created the album with the help of legendary African- American producer Tom Wilson.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-08
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Anatomy of a Liar
Overview: A documentary about A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-26
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Getting Gilliam
Overview: This documentary follows director Terry Gilliam through the process of making his film Tideland.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-01
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Chris on Chris
Overview: A short film on Chris Marker
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Overview: An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-07
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Storytime
Overview: The first story-time segment is about a cheerful cockroach named Don, who scurries throughout his mansion home, walks beneath the floorboards and does unspeakable things in the darkness of the cupboard, before being splatted by somebody's foot. The second segment is about an ordinary man named Albert Einstein ("the only Albert Einstein not to have discovered the Theory of Relativity") whose hands have a life of their own, staying out late at night, misbehaving and committing adultery with feet. The third segment – hasn't much story to it at all, and instead concerns the inhabitants of the moving pictures on an over-sized Christmas card, who interact with each other in all sorts of bizarre ways.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-09
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The Cricklewood Greats
Overview: Peter Capaldi embarks upon a personal journey to discover the shocking history of the stars of north London's famous film studios, Cricklewood Film Studios.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-02-05
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Life of Python
Overview: This BBC documentary tells the history of the Python group, allowing a few glimpses at the works of its predecessors (At Last the 1948 Show, Do Not Adjust Your Sets etc.) and various interviews with the group's members and other associated artists.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-16
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Forging the Frame: The Roots of Animation, 1900-1920
Overview: A documentary about the early days of animation.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-30
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Parrot Sketch Not Included: Twenty Years of Monty Python
Overview: Steve Martin presents selected sketches from "Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)". It's the well known sketches, though the parrot sketch is not included. Steve Martin has some funny comments on the Pythons.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-18
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Cinématon
Overview: Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-12-20
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Münchhausen - Die Geschichte einer Lüge
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-01-19
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For No Good Reason
Overview: For No Good Reason a film about Ralph Steadman. Johnny Depp guides the visually stunning journey, smashing narrative conventions, moving seamlessly from interview to animation and in the finest Gonzo tradition questions of witness and authenticity are challenged. Steadman's art is for the first time animated, including illustrations from Hunter S Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vagas. Featuring Richard E Grant, Terry Gilliam, Bruce Robinson and with music from Slash, The All American Rejects, Jason Mraz, Crystal Castles, Ed Hardcourt and Beth Orton. A touching and at times funny film about honesty, friendship and the ambition driving an artist. This is a true record of the demise of the 20th Century counterculture and hipster dream with Ralph Steadman the last of the Gonzo visionaries.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-12
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Hollywood Trailblazer: The Debra Hill Story
Overview: Debra Hill's documentary tells the story of her multifaceted life and of inspiring filmmakers around the world, and her legacy as a creative producer, mentor, film pioneer and activist is an enduring one.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
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Monty Python Live (Mostly)
Overview: Celebrate the last night of the Pythons on the big screen! - With John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones and Michael Palin.
Genres: Comedy Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-07-20
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The Crimson Permanent Assurance
Overview: A group of down-and-out accountants mutiny against their bosses and sail their office building onto the high seas in search of a pirate's life.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-31
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The Legend of Hallowdega
Overview: The host of an investigative news show joins forces with a techno-geek paranormal expert to dodge close-calls and chase crazy leads to get to the bottom of the mysteries around Talladega Superspeedway.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-31
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Euroshow '71: May Day Special
Overview: German made-for-TV musical extravaganza starring Monty Python.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-01
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Miracle of Flight
Overview: We're given the history of man seeking flight, however not by the channels of 'do-it-yourself': men jump off of cliffs while trying to flap their arms, be them in armor or other outfits.
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-06-15
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Adventures in Plymptoons!
Overview: A documentary film about Oscar-nominated animator Bill Plympton. This is a portrait piece that includes interviews with family, friends, colleagues, critics, and fans.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-05-30
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9 Month Stretch
Overview: Ariane Felder is pregnant! This is surprising with her being a young hardened judge with strict morals. But what is more surprising is that, according to paternity testing, the child's father is none other than Bob, a criminal from the prosecution charged with an atrocious attack! Ariane doesn't remember any of what has happened, so she has no idea what to expect...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-09-07
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Monty Python: The Meaning of Live
Overview: With unprecedented access, this program reveals the humour, chaos and passion that went into bringing the Flying Circus to the stage cumulating in the legendary One Down, Five To Go.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-13
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Plankton Salesmen
Overview: A nostalgic look at the birth and death of arthouse film distribution in the early 2000s in Russia. The story of the Cinema Without Borders company and its two founders, Sam Klebanov and Anton Mazurov.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2017-10-29
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The Meaning of Making 'The Meaning of Life'
Overview: The behind-the-scenes production documentary of Monty Python's 'Meaning Of Life.' This documentary is featured on the 2-disc Special Edition DVD for Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, released in September 2003.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-02
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Quentin Tarantino: Hollywood's Boy Wonder
Overview: A documentary profile on Quentin Tarantino broadcast by the BBC's "Omnibus" strand in 1994 to coincide with "Pulp Fiction" hitting UK cinemas.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-25
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Film Adventurer Karel Zeman
Overview: A look at the life, work and importance of Czech filmmaker Karel Zeman (1910-89), a genius of world cinema, a wizard of special effects, revealing his sources of inspiration and his revolutionary filming techniques.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2015-03-31
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A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
Overview: Julie Walters tells the story of how Morph, Shaun the Sheep and that cheese-loving man Wallace and his dog Gromit first came to life.
Genres: Documentary Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-26
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Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices
Overview: The life and career of the renowned voice actor of animation and radio. For generations, Mel Blanc was one of the most famous Hollywood voice actors with his myriad of voices for classic animated characters like Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and scores of others. However, animation was only one of the fields where Blanc shone through in his long career. This film covers the life of this amazingly talented and big hearted actor, comedian and musician as he became one of the performing greats from the golden ages of American animation and radio through to the 1980s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-21
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Philip K Dick: A Day in the Afterlife
Overview: A poetic look at the life and legacy of legendary author Philip K. Dick (1928-1982), who wrote over over a hundred short stories and 44 novels of mind-bending sci-fi, exploring themes of authority, drugs, theology, mental illness and much more.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-09
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The South Bank Show: Terry Gilliam
Overview: Terry Gilliam is interviewed by Melvyn Bragg in this 1991 episode of The South Bank Show (1978). Gilliam speaks of his history with the British comedy group Monty Python and is joined by Michael Palin in discussing his films including Jabberwocky, Time Bandits, Brazil, The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen and The Fisher King.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-06
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The South Bank Show: Spamalot
Overview: Eric Idle is interviewed by Melvyn Bragg in this 2006 episode of The South Bank Show (1978). The surviving members of Monty Python discuss the huge success of Spamalot on Broadway and Eric Idle discusses the history of the musical.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-15
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Not The Messiah: The Road To Albert Hall
Overview: Half-hour behind the scenes of Eric Idle's Not The Messiah oratorio. Featuring Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, Neil Innes, Carol Cleveland and the cast of the show.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-08
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Under the Radar: The Mike Edmonds Story
Overview: The story of one of cinema's true professionals, "little person" Mike Edmonds, from his early life in Essex to the Star Wars franchise, Time Bandits, The R.S.C. and beyond.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-30
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Locked Out
Overview: Once upon a time, somewhere... a homeless guy finds a policeman's uniform...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-04-05
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The Movie Life of George
Overview: When EMI refused to produce Monty Python's Life of Brian, George Harrison founded Handmade Pictures so that he could see the film. This is the story of him and Handmade Films.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-10
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The Roots of Monty Python
Overview: A look back at the origins of the ground breaking BBC comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-26
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Monty Python In The Netherlands
Overview: Monty Python sketch created for Dutch television in 1973.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-18
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What the Pythons Did Next...
Overview: A look at the careers of John Cleese, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam in the years after Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969).
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Botticelli's Venus: The Making of an Icon
Overview: Sam Roddick explores the enduring appeal of Botticelli's masterpiece The Birth of Venus, one of the most celebrated paintings in western art. A joyous celebration of female sexuality, its journey to worldwide fame was far from straightforward and it lay in obscurity for centuries. Artist and entrepreneur Sam explains why Botticelli's nude was so revolutionary, and explores its impact on contemporary culture with artists such as Terry Gilliam, who memorably reinvented Venus for his Monty Python's Flying Circus animations.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-15
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The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 1
Overview: Compilation of the best Sketches of the first series of Monty Python's Flying Circus, which ran from 5 October 1969 to 11 January 1970. Memorable moments include: 'The 127th Upperclass Twit of the Year Competition from Hurlingham Park'; 'Bicycle Repair Man'; 'Vicious Gangs of Old Ladies - the Layabouts in Lace'; 'The Man with Three Buttocks'; 'The Lumberjack Song'; 'Vocational Guidance Councillor'; and 'The Joke That Kills People'. Oh, and a sketch about a dead parrot.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 3
Overview: All the best sketches from the third and fourth series of the ground-breaking comedy. Memorable moments include: 'The Finals of the All-England Summarise Proust Competition'; 'Stand and Deliver! It's That Highwayman Dennis Moore'; 'Thrust: A Quite Controversial Look at the World Around Us'; 'Whicker's Island'; and 'The Fifteenth Ideal Loon Competition'. Originally broadcast from 19 October 1972 to 18 January 1973, and 31 October to 5 December 1974.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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The Best of Monty Python's Flying Circus Volume 2
Overview: All the best sketches from the second series of the ground-breaking comedy. Memorable moments include: 'It's in the Mind'; 'The New Cooker Sketch'; 'Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition'; and 'The Ministry for Silly Walks'. Originally Broadcast from 15 September to 22 December 1970
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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The Meaning of Monty Python
Overview: A discussion between John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones about their film The Meaning of Life
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-08
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The Monty Python Story
Overview: The story behind how the comedy sketch group Monty Python formed in 1969, and lead to four very series, and four very funny films that are still has funny today as when they were released.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-08
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Monty Python: From Spam to Sperm
Overview: Meatloaf introduces a look back at Python's use of music. Included interviews with the team, André Jacquemin and other conspirators.
Genres: Documentary Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-08
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Monty Python: 30th Anniversary Sketches
Overview: The Sketches produced by the surviving Pythons for the BBC's celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the first showing of Monty Python on 5 October 1969.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-08
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Tom Waits: Tales from a Cracked Jukebox
Overview: Tom Waits is one of the most original musicians of the last five decades. Renowned for his gravelly voice and dazzling mix of musical styles, he's also one of modern music's most enigmatic and influential artists. Using rare archive, audio recordings and interviews, this film is a bewitching after-hours trip through the surreal, moonlit world of Waits' music - a portrait of a pioneering musician and his unique, alternative American songbook.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-02-19
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Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil
Overview: Following the recent death of Ken Russell, Alan Yentob looks back over the career of the flamboyant film director responsible for Women In Love, Tommy and The Devils. Friends and admirers - including Glenda Jackson, Terry Gilliam, Twiggy, Melvyn Bragg, Robert Powell and Roger Daltrey - recall a pioneering documentary-maker, talented photographer and fearless film director.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-14
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Hunter Goes to Hollywood
Overview: Hunter Thompson visits the set of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-02-18
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Monty Python: Before the Flying Circus
Overview: Discover how six seemingly ordinary but supremely talented men became Monty Python, sketch comedy's inspired group of lunatics who turned such unlikely sources of inspiration as Spam, dead parrots and the Inquisition into enduring punch lines. This entertaining documentary includes interviews with members of the troupe, as well as home movies, photos and rare recordings from Monty Python's early years.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-07-01
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What Is Brazil?
Overview: What is this film called Brazil? Find out in this witty documentary.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-16
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Monty Python Conquers America
Overview: This documentary follows the evolution of the British sketch comedy troupe that redefined humor and shaped an entire generation of American comics, focusing especially on their conquest of the American comedy scene,
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk
Overview: A documentary celebrating the work of Walerian Borowczyk, a director of unparalleled sensitivity, revered in the 1970s, who was later labeled as a maker of erotic movies.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2018-05-18
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The Battle of Brazil: A Video History
Overview: The struggle of releasing "Brazil" in the United States of America is examined in this Criterion documentary.
Genres: Documentary Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-02
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Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar
Overview: Alan Yentob meets the five surviving members of Monty Python - John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam and Eric Idle - as they prepare to reunite on stage.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-29
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The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
Overview: Toby, a cynical film director finds himself trapped in the outrageous delusions of an old Spanish shoe-maker who believes himself to be Don Quixote. In the course of their comic and increasingly surreal adventures, Toby is forced to confront the tragic repercussions of a film he made in his idealistic youth.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-05-19
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The Life of Python
Overview: Celebrating their 30th anniversary, Monty Python presents exclusive new material and so-called classic bits. Disc : 1 Contains 1:It's The Monty Python Story 2:Pythonland 3:The Last Python Mayday Special 4:From Spam to Sperm:Monty Pythons Greatest Hits An Animated South Park Tribute Disc:2 1 The Last German Episode Fliegender Zirkus #2: Schnapps with Everything
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-31
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An Accidental Studio
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-07-12
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Gaga for Dada: The Original Art Rebels
Overview: To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the surreal art movement, comedian Jim Moir (a.k.a. Vic Reeves) presents this documentary exploring the history of Dadism and the lasting influence it has had on himself and others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-21
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Jabberwocky
Overview: After the death of his father, young 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? Is anyone brave enough to defeat the monster?
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-28
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I REC U
Overview: 19 years old Neve sees women out of focus - but he can see them properly when they are recorded on magnetic tape or film. This is why he wears a special pair of camera-glasses which, recording every single moment of his life, allow him to see everything correctly. His life actually becoming one of the movies he has been watching since he was a child. Until the day he meets the one and only woman he can see at naked eye.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Fantasy Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-09-24
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Cinéma… par Albert Dupontel
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-10-18
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Python at 50: Silly Talks and Holy Grails
Overview: From ‘something completely different’ to icons of comedy and national treasures, this is a collection of rarely-seen Monty Python moments from the BBC archives, following the group’s encounters with ‘Auntie’ over the past 50 years.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-07
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Love Bite: Laurie Lipton and Her Disturbing Black & White Drawings
Overview: With millions of tiny strokes of her humble pencil, Laurie Lipton’s haunted images seek answers to some of the most uncomfortable themes in our culture. But what compels her to live a life of isolation drawing is neither black nor white.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-03-12
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He Dreams of Giants
Overview: 15 years after "Lost in la Mancha", Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe come back to follow Terry Gilliam's new (successful) attempt at filming "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-16
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Magical Mystery Tour Revisited
Overview: The making of The Beatles' controversial 1967 film, featuring previously unseen archive footage.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-06
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The Making of 'Tideland'
Overview: Behind the scenes of Tideland (2005)
Genres: Documentary Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-27
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The Brothers Grimm: Bringing the Fairytale to Life
Overview: Behind the scenes of The Brothers Grimm
Genres: Documentary Action Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-20
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The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen
Overview: This is an all new feature length documentary, with interviews from almost everyone involved with the production of the film. Gilliam never shies away from the truth, even when it comes to himself, and so this documentary is self-effacing and refreshingly frank. The documentary details not only the battles Gilliam had with Columbia in getting the film finished and released, but also the imagination and innovation that went into the production.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-08
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Spotlight on Location: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Overview: Behind the scenes of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-11-17
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The Visual Magic of the Brothers Grimm
Overview: Behind the scenes of the special effects of The Brothers Grimm
Genres: Documentary Fantasy Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-20
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Fellini of the Spirits
Overview: 2020 marks 100 years since the birth of Federico Fellini, the most prominent Italian director and one of the symbols of the insuperable cinematic heyday of mid-20th century. Fellini had always been a mysterious director, not only in his cryptic symbolism but also in his idiosyncratic, excessive mixture of psychoanalysis, Catholicism and faith in the mysterious. In this documentary, his relationship with the paranormal, luck and fate, alongside the coexistence of organized discourse and transcendence to the imaginary, is examined via friends, collaborators and distinguished fans (Friedkin, Gilliam, Chazelle). A great testimony to why rationalists and ideologists have a hard time with his work, ‘Fellini and the Spirits’ is an appropriate yet unexpected tribute.
Genres: Documentary Animation
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-08-31
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Dante Ferretti: Production Designer
Overview: The Documentary Dante Ferretti – Production Designer retraces the life and the career of Dante Ferretti, the famous Italian Artist and Production Designer.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-09-10
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Das Prinzip Dada
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-02-06
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Bye Bye Morons
Overview: When 43-year-old hairdresser Suze Trappet finds out that she's seriously ill, she decides to go looking for a child she was forced to abandon when she was only 15. On her madcap bureaucratic quest she crosses paths with JB, a 50-year-old man in the middle of a burnout, and Mr. Blin, a blind archivist prone to overenthusiasm. The unlikely trio set off on a hilarious and poignant helterskelter journey across the city in search of Suze's long-lost child.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-10-21
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Sean Connery: In His Own Words
Overview: Featuring archive interviews with Sean Connery from over 50 years in the business. Friends, actors and directors including Robert Carlyle, Dougray Scott, Laurence Fishburne, Terry Gilliam and George Lucas pay tribute to Scotland's greatest movie star as he celebrates his 85th birthday.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-18
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Sodankylä Forever
Overview: The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets. Founded by Aki and Mika Kaurismäki along with Anssi Mänttäri and Peter von Bagh in 1985, the festival has played host to an international who’s who of directors and each day begins with a two-hour discussion. To mark the festival’s silver anniversary, festival director Peter von Bagh edited together highlights from these dialogues to create an epic four-part choral history of cinema drawn from the anecdotes, insights, and wisdom of his all-star cast: Coppola, Fuller, Forman, Chabrol, Corman, Demy, Kieslowski, Kiarostami, Varda, Oliveira, Erice, Rouch, Gilliam, Jancso — and 64 more. Ranging across innumerable topics (war, censorship, movie stars, formative influences, America, neorealism) these voices, many now passed away, engage in a personal dialogue across the years that’s by turns charming, profound, hilarious and moving.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2010-08-05
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Cinématon n°601 : Terry Gilliam
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Monty Python: Live at Aspen
Overview: In March 1998 in Aspen, Colorado, the surviving members of the Monty Python team – John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin – shared a stage together for the first time in 18 years. Even more remarkably, Graham Chapman was there too....in an urn! The occasion for this reunion was the US Comedy Arts Festival Tribute to Monty Python, hosted by Robert Klein in front of a live audience.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-21
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Monty Python's Best Bits Celebrated
Overview: Monty Python’s influence on comedy has been compared to the Beatles’ influence on music, a pivotal moment in the evolution of television humor. Celebrating the cultural legacy and influence of the troupe, this special pairs their original material with new and entertaining commentary from celebrities who consider Monty Python hugely significant, both personally and to the history of screen satire. Celebrity humorists discuss, laugh, and reminisce about various Python segments and bring a fresh perspective to the material, connecting Monty Python’s work to today’s most successful television humor. In a time when a few moments of escape and laughter couldn’t be more sought after, this special reminds viewers of Python’s cultural impact, and that PBS introduced them to American viewers.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-05
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Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
Overview: Who has ever compared Reservoir Dogs? What are “Open Road” and “New World Disorder”? Why is Harvey Keitel a fairy and how did we all almost become diehard fans of Paul Calderon? Here’s a story about Quentin Tarantino. The director who needs no introduction.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-01-02
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Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut) - Theatrical Release
Overview: This is a theatrical / movie adaptation of the TV Miniseries. Its chapters do not align with the episodes directly, so it necessarily must be held separate from the TV Miniseries.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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