Jane Austen's Emma (1996), Carry on Spying (1964), Snatch (2000), This Is Spinal Tap (1984), Shaun of the Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007), The Ladykillers (1955), The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best British Humor movies.
Storyline: Tired of her husband's philandering ways, the mother of two daughters drowns her husband. With the reluctant help of the local coroner, the murder is covered up. Her daughters are having similar problems with relationships, and tend to follow their mother's example, and the coroner becomes reluctantly involved in their murders as well. As the plot progresses, visual and spoken numbers appear in the scenes, counting from one to one hundred.—Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>
Plot Keywords: black comedy, absurdist, murder, symbolism, british humor, surreal, family secrets ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Seven elderly Britons, for a variety of reasons, respond to an online ad and travel to Jaipur, India, where they find run-down hotel with a young, exuberant, and optimistic host. Evelyn, newly widowed, wants low-cost experience, Graham seeks a long-ago love, Douglas and Jean have lost their pension in a family investment, Muriel needs cheap hip surgery, Madge seeks a rich husband, and Norman is chasing women. India affects each in different ways, enchanting Douglas and Evelyn while driving Jean deeper into bitterness. Their host, young Sonny, has dreams but little cash or skill; he also has a girlfriend whom his mother dismisses. Stories cross and discoveries await each one.
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, romance, british, indian, elderly, retirement ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: To get background for a new book, author Charles Condomine (Sir Rex Harrison) and his second wife Ruth (Constance Cummings) light-heartedly arrange for local mystic Madame Arcati (Dame Margaret Rutherford) to give a séance. The unfortunate result is that Charles' first wife Elvira (Kay Hammond) returns from beyond the grave to make his life something of a misery. Ruth too gets increasingly irritated with her supernatural rival, but Madame Arcati is at her wit's end as to how to sort things out.—J-26
Plot Keywords: comedy, fantasy, romance, supernatural, ghost, marriage, farce ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Cockney cat burglar Harry Dean needs Hong Kong dancer Nicole Chang's help to pull off the perfect heist. With a simple makeover and a new wardrobe; Nicole's resemblance to wealthy recluse Mr. Shahbandar's late wife is uncanny. While Shahbandar is distracted by the mesmerizing Nicole, Harry takes steps to swipe a priceless artifact from under the tycoon's nose. But even the most foolproof schemes have a way of backfiring.—L. Hamre
Plot Keywords: comedy, crime, heist, british film, shirley maclaine, 1960s, con ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Victorian London. George, the 10th Duke of Bristol, and his equally upper class friend Richard Halton are both broke. To live, George has had to rent out his London castle to visiting young American socialite Helen Hale. So the only way George has access to his own home is when he is invited to a party hosted by Helen. Much to George's surprise, Richard confesses to him that he is in love from afar with and would like to marry wealthy widowed Maria Wislack, Helen's friend who George considers a haggard, controlling, old (forty-one) shrew of a woman. Richard believes he has no chance with Maria due to the difference in their financial situations. Richard is surprised to find that Maria knows he is in love with her, she in turn attracted to him. However, to test if they will be compatible as husband and wife, Maria proposes they spend one month together in her mansion on an otherwise deserted island off the coast of Scotland, Richard who is to row to the mainland every night and row back the next morning so as to be publicly proper in their courtship. George and Helen decide to tag along to support their respective friend, although each has his/her own ulterior motive, George to live off the creature comforts in Maria's mansion and being waited on hand and foot by her servants, and Helen to be close to George who she believes she loves. Out of circumstance, the four end up living in the island mansion together without any servants. As the month progresses, each of the four learns their true feelings, resulting in each hatching plots and subplots to achieve what he/she wants and/or to show up the others toward who ill feelings have developed.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, british film, black and white, classic, 1940s, adaptation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The script, written by Jamie Mathieson, follows three social outcasts -- two geeks and a cynic -- as they attempt to navigate a time-travel conundrum in the middle of a British pub. Faris plays a girl from the future who sets the adventure in motion.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, comedy, time travel, british film, independent film, humor, low budget ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: War threatens London as Miss Pettigrew, a destitute governess, filches a client's card from her agency and presents herself at the door. A singer named Delysia Lafosse wants a social secretary as she seeks a West End role by sleeping with a feckless producer in the bed of Nick, a smarmy nightclub owner with whom she also dallies. She ignores Michael, her piano player, who loves her and has tickets for New York on the Queen Mary. Miss Pettigrew's job is to make sure Delysia gets the part. Over 24 hours, Miss Pettigrew is also called upon to help an ambitious and unfaithful fashion editor patch things up with her older fiancé, a lingerie designer. Has Miss Pettigrew found her calling?
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, drama, period, 1930s, london, fashion ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The Cardiff club scene in the 90's: five best friends deal with their relationships and their personal demons during a weekend. Jip calls himself a sexual paranoid, afraid he's impotent. Lulu, Jip's mate, doesn't find much to fancy in men. Nina hates her job at a fast food joint, and her man, Koop, who dreams of being a great hip-hop d.j., is prone to fits of un-provoked jealousy. The fifth is Moff, whose family is down on his behavior. Starting Friday afternoon, with preparations for clubbing, we follow the five from Ecstacy-induced fun through a booze-laden come-down early Saturday morning followed by the weekend's aftermath. It's breakthrough time for at least three of them.
Plot Keywords: nightlife, electronic music, friendship, coming of age, british cinema, urban life, alienation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This is a Sherlock Holmes story with a difference. Here, Dr. Watson is the ace detective and has been using an actor to play the part Holmes. Holmes is a drunken actor and gets on Watson's nerves. When Watson tries to go it alone, he doesn't have much success, so he is forced to let Holmes take all the credit once more.—Rob Hartill
Plot Keywords: comedy, detective, sherlock holmes, dr. watson, england, victorian era, mystery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The diamond merchant's niece falls for his new footman who is really an impoverished aristocrat.
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, musical, british film, 1940s, high society, misunderstanding ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Accident-prone Fingers runs a pretty unsuccessful gang. They try and rob wealthy but tricky Billy Gordon - who distrusts banks and fears the Inland Revenue - but he sees Fingers and the boys off. So they decide to kidnap his daughter, only to end up with his wife Lucy. Gordon makes out he couldn't be more pleased, spurring Lucy to take charge of the hopeless bunch of villains.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: comedy, crime, british film, black and white, 1950s, heist, farce ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The film follows the fortunes of Charles and his friends as they wonder if they will ever find true love and marry. Charles thinks he's found "Miss Right" in Carrie, an American. This British subtle comedy revolves around Charlie, his friends and the four weddings and one funeral which they attend.
Plot Keywords: romantic comedy, british film, romance, wedding, romantic relationships, humor, light comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Theatrical British pals from college have a revealing New Year's party at one's (Stephen Fry) country estate.
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, british film, ensemble cast, friendship, nostalgia, reunion ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so far and what he can still do to help the community.
Plot Keywords: drama, family, british film, black and white, 1950s, rural life, moral dilemma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The arrival of Sultan's daughter Princess Fatima at England's famous and prestigious 'School for Young Ladies' precipitates even more chaos than usual. Her father's horse Arab Boy is due to run at the nearby Gold Cup so Clarence Fitton, bookie brother of headmistress Millicent, ensures his own daughter is on hand to report progress. At the same time Barchester police have planted sergeant Ruby Gates as a teacher, and the Ministry of Education are sending a third inspector down after the previous two disappeared without trace.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: comedy, school, british film, classic, black comedy, rebellion, farce ...
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