All You Need Is Cash (1978), Benny Loves You (2020), Oh, Mr. Porter! (1937), Ask a Policeman (1939), The Family Way (1967), Laughter in Paradise (1951), Two Way Stretch (1960), Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best British Humour movies.
Storyline: A comedy of discriminating taste and dirty little secrets, the story is set in 1952 England, where Nigel, Earl of Marshwood (Edward Atterton), woos Hollywood star Miranda Frayle (Jeanne Tripplehorn), upsetting his mother, Countess Felicity of Marshwood (Dame Julie Andrews), and her former love, fellow Hollywood star Don Lucas (William Baldwin). Right before the engagement party to be held at Marshwood, Dora Moxton "Moxie" (Sophie Thompson), the Countess' personal maid and best friend, reveals that Miranda is her estranged sister. Frederick Crestwell (Stephen Fry), the Countess' butler, quickly devises a plan, but an inebriated Lucas' arrival at Marshwood to try to talk to Miranda causes all chaos to break loose.—Q. Leo Rahman
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, family, romance, british, adaptation, high society ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The story of the rise of a madame of a suburban brothel catering to older men, inspired by the real experiences of Cynthia Payne.
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, british film, social satire, 1980s, female-led, based on true events ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Dark comedy about a seaside Punch and Judy man driven to distraction by his social climbing wife and his hatred for the snobbery of local government. He is persuaded to go to the Mayor's gala evening but it's all too much for him.
Plot Keywords: comedy, british film, 1960s, black and white, seaside town, social satire, marital relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Set in Haven Hospital where a certain men's ward is causing more havoc than the whole hospital put together. The formidable Matron's debut gives the patients a chill every time she walks past, with only Reckitt standing up to her. There's a colonel who is a constant nuisance, a bumbling nurse, a romance between Ted York and Nurse Denton, and Bell who wants his bunion removed straight away, so after drinking alcohol, the men decide to remove the bunion themselves!—Graeme Huggan <hia95gh@sheffield.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: comedy, british film, police, slapstick, franchise, black and white, 1960s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When he is crossed in love, grocers assistant Norman Puckle joins the Navy, where he is recruited to man the first British rocket.
Plot Keywords: comedy, british film, black and white, 1960s, slapstick, military, navy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A brave wartime copper (policeman) becomes a hero when he thwarts a plot to destroy a battleship. But then the rest of the police get the idea that he is one of the enemy agents.—Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: comedy, crime, british, black and white, classic, police, humour ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 1970s English suburbia: middle-aged homeowner Sid Abbot just wants to get on with building his illegal whisky still, but is frustrated by his workshy son, and otherworldly daughter. Then the rude and arrogant Ronald Baines and his family move in next door. Garden-fence hostilities soon commence.—Simon Shearn <simon@frieth.demon.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: comedy, family, british film, 1970s, adaptation, tv adaptation, humour ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This is the tale of industrial strife at WC Boggs' Lavatory factory. Vic Spanner is the union representative who calls a strike at the drop of a hat; eventually everyone has to get fed up with him. This is also the ideal opportunity for lots of lavatorial jokes...—Simon N. McIntosh-Smith <Simon.N.Smith@cs.cf.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: comedy, historical, british, parody, sexual innuendo, franchise, period piece ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: George plays an aspiring news photographer that gets pictures by way of a spy camera in his bow tie. Comic confusion and chases arise from his inadvertently taking blackmail-able snaps of an important editor,and on-ice confrontations with his figure-skating love interest's jealous boyfriend, including in the middle of a professional hockey match.—WesternOne
Plot Keywords: comedy, musical, british film, black and white, 1930s, musical comedy, light comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When newlyweds Jack and Peggy face eviction, they are tricked into buying a rundown houseboat. After rebuilding the engine, they take their friends Sid and Sandra on a trip down the river to Folkestone, but somehow they end up in France with no fuel and supplies and must resort to desperate actions to return home.—mike.wilson6@btinternet.com
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, british film, black and white, 1960s, marriage, couple ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Bertram Oliphant West (also known as Bo West) wants to clear his unjustly smeared reputation. He joins the Foreign Legion, with Simpson his manservant in tow. But the fort they get posted to is full of eccentric legionnaires, and there is trouble brewing with the locals too. Unbeknown to Bo, his lady love has followed him in disguise...—Simon N. McIntosh-Smith <Simon.N.Smith@cs.cf.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: comedy, adventure, british film, parody, military, desert, humour ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Captain Crowther's lot is not a happy one! Five of his crew have to be replaced and at such short notice before the voyage begins there isn't much to choose from. Not only does he get the five most incompetent shipmates ever to sail the seven seas, but the passengers turn out to be a rather strange bunch too. The SS Happy Wanderer will never be the same.—Simon N. McIntosh-Smith <Simon.N.Smith@cs.cf.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: comedy, british film, nautical, slapstick, franchise, 1960s, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Yellowbeard (Graham Chapman), a pirate's pirate, is allowed to escape from prison to lead the authorities to his treasure. He finds that his wife neglected to tell him that he now has a son, twenty, and shame of shame, an intellectual. The British Navy, Yellowbeard, his son, and members of Yellowbeard's old crew, all go after the treasure.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
Plot Keywords: comedy, adventure, humour, british film, parody, absurd, classic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A television given as a retirement present is sold on to different households, causing misery each time.
Plot Keywords: comedy, fantasy, romance, satire, british film, black and white, 1950s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Brian and Charlie work for a gangster. When their boss learns they want to "leave", he sets them up to be killed, after they help rob the local Triads of their drug dealing profits. They decide to steal the money for themselves, but when their escape doesn't go to plan, they have to seek refuge in a nuns' teacher training school. Disguised as nuns, they have to avoid their boss, Triads, the police, and Brian's girlfriend. There's also the problem of them being men disguised as nuns in an all women institution.—Rob Hartill
Plot Keywords: comedy, action, crime, british film, disguise, gangsters, heist ...
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