de-Americanised British 'Comedy' Movie List
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- DirectorDavid MackenzieStarsAlastair MackenzieJonny PhillipsEwan StewartTwo men meet while travelling north on separate missions. Charlie wants to catch up with the man who has stolen his wife, while Vicente is trying to escape a contract castration. After their car breaks down, they seek sanctuary in an isolated building home to a strange sect whose whole equilibrium is threatened by the arrival of the two men. The result is chaos.
- DirectorChristopher MorrisStarsPaddy ConsidineMiranda PleasenceSimon GreenallDisaster after disaster, an already frail man descends into madness after his talking dog announces that he is actually his defence lawyer.
- DirectorSimon Cellan JonesStarsJustine WaddellRichard RoxburghJonathan CakeIt's love at first sight when Stevie and kitchen-installer Neil meet. But she's pregnant by her Italian footballer husband, and Neil and his girlfriend are adopting Mgala from Burkina Faso. Is it too late for love and happiness?
- DirectorFrancesca JosephStarsLucy BatesIan BurfieldBruce ByronAn opera company puts on a production of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd in a maximum security prison.
- DirectorJohn HendersonStarsKenneth CranhamLeo BillDerek JacobiComedy drama based on the true story of two British Army dentists who in 1942, eager to see action, go A.W.O.L. and invade occupied France on their own.
- DirectorDanny BoyleStarsTimothy SpallMichael BegleyKaty Cavanagh-JupePete has recently got a new job as a vacuum cleaner salesman. His mentor is the veteran Tommy, whose methods are rather rude; his sole target is to be the best salesman in his team and to receive the "Golden Hoover". Their temperaments are quite different and the apprentice days turn wilder and wilder.
- DirectorConor McPhersonStarsMichael CaineDylan MoranMichael GambonTwo failed actors decide to pull a con on a local gangster by pretending to be the people to whom he owes money.
- DirectorChristian JamesStarsJames HeathcoteDan PalmerNicola ConnellTwo best friends, Merv Doody (James Heathcote) and Onkey (Dan Palmer), take a hapless escaped mental patient under their wing and attempt to teach him how to become a real serial killer.
- DirectorTerry LoaneStarsJohn Joesph McneillNiall WrightJulie WaltersThis movie tells the story of two boys who become friends at the start of the Troubles in 1970. They share an obsession with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), with the consequence that they run away to Australia.
- DirectorAndy HumphriesStarsJohnny VegasMackenzie CrookCarol HarveyFollows the sexual antics of a group of potato delivery men in Birmingham.
- DirectorEdgar WrightStarsSimon PeggNick FrostKate AshfieldThe uneventful, aimless lives of a London electronics salesman and his layabout roommate are disrupted by the zombie apocalypse.
- DirectorColin TeagueStarsKate AshfieldLinda BassettChooye BayThree East-End Spivs spend their time wheeling and dealing wherever and whenever they can. After one of their scams goes south, the three con men are left to care for two young illegal immigrants.
- DirectorHelen GraceStarsBarber AliJohn Campbell-MacDave CourtneyWinner Takes All is the tale of a cocky Stranger who enters a rowdy bar and accepts a challenge to win a pot of money. He fails to listen to the rules properly, with shocking but hilarious consequences. The tale is based on an old joke, and is all told in rhyme.
- DirectorMark JeavonsStarsAlec SedgleyMorgan LeesGraham PollardBilly has problems...girls. meeting people. food. parents. Life. Sepia Films invites you to spend some time with a boy who's a little bit lost, a little bit confused, a little bit...quirky?
- DirectorAnnie GriffinStarsKevin MassonLyndsey MarshalPaddy BonnerAugust in Edinburgh sees the population of the grand, historic Scottish capital swell with actors, directors, street performers, comedians, media high flyers and audience.
- DirectorJulian JarroldStarsChiwetel EjioforJoel EdgertonSarah-Jane PottsA drag queen comes to the rescue of a man who, after inheriting his father's shoe factory, needs to diversify his product if he wants to keep the business afloat.
- DirectorRichard E. GrantStarsNicholas HoultMiranda RichardsonEmily WatsonRalph witnesses the disintegration of his parents' marriage through adultery and alcohol during the last gasp of the British Empire in Swaziland in 1969. Ralph finds his new step-mother is the only one who understands his inner turmoil.
- DirectorEdgar WrightStarsSimon PeggNick FrostMartin FreemanAn overachieving London police sergeant is transferred to a village where the easygoing officers object to his fervor for regulations, all while a string of grisly murders strikes the town.
- DirectorBaz TaylorStarsPhil CornwellJames FleetCaroline HarkerThere's trouble brewing in Downtown Coventry. Mobster, Ray Carlton has a dream - casinos. He's got dirt on the local Mayor, Derek Osbourne and he wants his pound of flesh. In return for not flushing him down the toilet, Carlton has the Mayor greasing the way for a super casino on the site of the park where Lady Godiva actually rode. The mayor's American ex-wife Catherine is having none of it however, and with the help of a hippy ex-teacher and Rebel Without a Cause, Alan Jenkins the gloves are coming off. But they have not reckoned with the ambitions of Ray Carlton. Unbeknownst to them all, Ray has crossed the Atlantic to deal the world's richest casino builders into the game. Far more powerful than even the Las Vegas Mob, Ray Carlton has hired Indians from the Oquassa Tribe of Wisconsin, to manage his new Sin City and nothing is going to stop him. Is there some giant, some hero from the past who can save Coventry in her hour of need? Or heroine maybe?
- DirectorBille EltringhamStarsJessica BardenCatherine TateSusan TordoffShe left the land of Marks and Spencer and went to the world of Marx and Lenin. Mrs Ratcliffe's Revolution is a feelgood comedy following one dysfunctional family's journey from 1968 West Yorkshire to 19-below-freezing East Germany and back again. Mr Ratcliffe fought for the cause, but his wife fought for their family: a teenage sex goddess and a 12-year-old Communist spy. Will Mr Ratcliffe throw out his party cad and fall in love with his brave new wife?
- DirectorDarren Paul FisherStarsJack RyderJodi AlbertAndrew Lee PottsToo insecure to approach the girl of his dreams, Danny takes a job at the local multiplex where she works.
- DirectorSarjit BainsStarsAmeet ChanaPooja ShahRonny JhuttiA gang of young petty criminals end up in an abandoned farm when a deal goes wrong.
- DirectorChris WaittStarsAleksandra BoyarskayaDanielle McLeodOlivia TrenchA humorous look at life for a loser in love.
- DirectorPaul Andrew WilliamsStarsAndy SerkisReece ShearsmithJennifer EllisonA tough, cute woman is kidnapped for ransom and brought to a rural English cottage. David and two morons have way more to worry about than her crime boss stepdad, his two Asian killers and her.
- DirectorVito RoccoStarsEddie MarsanEwen BremnerJessica HynesA romantic comedy set in the world of battle re-enactments, about an irresponsible guy who has to shape up in order to win back his wife.