The Kid
(1921) [G]

The Tramp cares for an abandoned child, but events put that relationship in jeopardy. The Kid was director Charlie Chaplin's first full-length film and is considered one of his best. Co-starring five-year-old Jackie Coogan, whom Chaplin discovered on a Los Angeles vaudeville stage, The Kid is the...  More

The Mouse That Roared
(1959) [PG]

In this classic satire, the Duchess and the Prime Minister of the tiny Duchy of Grand Fenwick (both played by Peter Sellers) have come up with a brilliant plan to keep their country from going broke - make war on the United States, lose, then collect lots of American post-war aid. The only...  More

The Marx Brothers: A Day At The Races
(1937) [G]

Maureen O'Sullivan must rely upon a wealthy hypochondriac if she is to save her hospital, unless the Marx Brothers can save her in “ A Day At The Races”. The film includes some of their most famous sketches in a truly lavish production. A “paste up” involves the villainess being literally...  More

The Importance Of Being Earnest (1952)
(1952) [G]

This star-studded version of Oscar Wilde's classic comedy is full of charm and remains the definitive version of his work. Jack Worthing (Michael Redgrave) and Algernon Moncrieff (Michael Denison) are two wealthy bachelors in love. Jack is in love with Gwendelon Fairfax (Joan Greenwood) and...  More

Adam's Rib
(1949) [PG]

George Cukor's delightful romantic comedy pitches married couple and lawyers Adam (Tracy) and Amanda Bonner (Hepburn) against each other in a courtroom battle. When Doris Attinger (Judy Holliday) finds her husband Warren (Tom Ewell) in bed with another woman she shoots and wounds him. Adam Bonner...  More

The Philadelphia Story (Special Edition) (2 Disc Set)
(1940) [PG]

Sophisticated romantic comedy achieved its pinnacle in this timeless classic voted one of the Top 100 American Films of all time by the American Film Institute. Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant and Best Actor Academy Award winner* James Stewart star in the masterful comedy (directed by George Cukor)...  More

Arsenic And Old Lace
(1944) [PG]

A hilariously absurd story, Arsenic & Old Lace tells of a newlywed dramatic critic (Cary Grant) in the big city who lives with two aunts (Josephine Hull and Jean Adair) and an uncle (John Alexander). Uncle Teddy is bonkers and thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt. The aunts think Teddy is the only one...  More

The Court Jester
(1955) [G]

This spectacular production features the tremendous pageantry and color of 12th-century England and the considerable talents of Danny Kaye. Kaye plays a court jester who becomes involved with outlaws trying to overthrow the king. In between singing, dancing and clowning, he still finds time for...  More

The Marx Brothers: Animal Crackers
(1930) [G]

Captain Spaulding, the noted explorer, returns from Africa and attends a gala party held by Mrs. Rittenhouse. A painting displayed at that party is stolen, and the Marx's help recover it. Well, maybe 'help' isn't quite the word I was looking for, this is the Marx Brothers after all...  More

The Marx Brothers: At The Circus
(1939) [G]

A wealthy young man (Kenny Baker II) forsakes the fortune of his rich aunt (Margaret Dumont) to run away to the circus in which his sweetheart (Florence Rice) performs. But when the evil owner (James Burke) steals the takings to pay off his mortgage, the only people who can help are the strongman...  More

Murder Most Foul
(1964) [G]

After hearing all the evidence as a juror at the trial of a man charged with a murder set within a theatrical troupe, Miss Marple (Margaret Rutherford) is not convinced that the police have got the killer. As the only member of a jury who has faith in the defendant's innocence, she joins the...  More

Hobson's Choice
(1954) [G]

The brilliant, touching and delightful working-class comedy from David Lean, Oscar nominated Director of 'Doctor Zhivago' (1965) and 'A Passage To India' (1984). Charles Laughton is the drunken tyrannical Lancashire Bootmaker brought to heel by his tough eldest daughter and her simple-minded...  More

Billy Liar
(1963) [PG]

Tom Courtenay stars as Billy Fisher, an ambitious but ultimately lazy young man with a dreary life who spends most of his time daydreaming about a land where he is a hero. A number of minor indiscretions causes Billy to lie in order to avoid the penalties. As these events start catching up with...  More

The Titfield Thunderbolt
(1952) [G]

Director Charles Crichton and writer Tibby Clarke teamed up again for the first Ealing comedy to be produced in Technicolor. When an antiquated railway line is threatened with closure, the villagers decide to run it themselves and enter into frenzied competition with the local bus route, with...  More

La Cage Aux Folles
(1979) [PG]

Two gay men living in St. Tropez have their lives turned upside down when the son of one of the men announces he is getting married. They try conceal their lifestyle and their ownership of the transvestite club downstairs when the fiancée and her parents come for dinner.

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Open All Hours : Series 1, Disc 1
(1976) [PG]

Ronnie Barker stars as Arkwright, the stuttering grocer, in the first series of this cornershop comedy. Arkwright's urge to take money from his customers by fair means or foul is second only to his need to prevent Granville, his nephew, from discovering a world beyond the clang of the shop...  More

Monty Python: And Now For Something Completely Different
(1971) [PG]

England was such a proper place - until the day the Python arrived. Monty Python, that is, a Flying Circus that slithered up the funnybone of an entire nation and gave it fits of laughter. Here's Monty Python's first feature film - a hilarious collection of their very best twits, skits and bits...  More

The Three Stooges: Volume One
(1936) [PG]

Three Stooges' 2 reeler comedies: A Ducking They Did Go, G.I. Wanna Home, Back from the Front, A Gem of a Jam, Three Dumb Clucks, Dizzy Doctors, No Census No Feeling, Three Little Sew and Sews, Cuckoo Cavaliers, So Long Mr Chumps, From Nurse to Worse, The Sitter Downers.  More

Young Frankenstein
(1974) [PG]

Neurosurgeon Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (Gene Wilder), inherits a castle from his grandfather Baron Von Frankenstein - the notoriously experimental German nobleman. On travelling to the ancestral pile he discovers his grandad's scientific papers and decides to recreate his 'shocking' experiments...  More

Porridge: Series 1
(1974) [PG]

'Porridge’ is slang for a jail sentence, and habitual offender Norman Stanley Fletcher (Barker) is doing five years. Six episodes of cynicism, self-preservation and bare-faced cheek as Fletcher takes on the Slade prision system. New Faces, Old Hands "Twenty-three and you want to go...  More

Une Parisienne
(1957) [PG]

Une Parisienne is a light, charming, cheeky comedy with the stunning and sexy Brigitte Bardot in flirty form. Brigitte Laurier (Bardot), the spoiled and innocent daughter of a French Ambassador cons one of her father's top aides, Michel (Henri Vidal) into marrying her. Brigitte's brattish ways...  More

The Rutles
(1978) [G]

Rutland Weekend Television takes a look at the Pre-fab Four: Dirk, Barry, Stig and Nasty; better known as the Rutles. This documentary follows their career from their early days in Liverpool and Hamburg's infamous Rat-Keller, to their amazing worldwide success. A parody of Beatlemania and the...  More

Stalag 17
(1953) [PG]

During World War II, a group of G.I.s are thrown together in the notorious German prison camp Stalag 17. For the most part, they spend their time scheming ways to help each other escape. But when two prisoners are killed in an escape attempt, it becomes obvious that there is a spy among them....  More

Monty Python And The Holy Grail (2 disc set)
(1975) [M]

Arthur, King of Britons, Defeater of the Saxons and Sovereign of all England with only his trusty servant Patsy by his side has travelled the length and breadth of the land in search of noble knights to join his Court at Camelot. His ranks soon swelled by such illustrious names as Sir Bedevere,...  More

The Smallest Show On Earth
(1957) [G]

Jean and Bill (Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers) are a married couple trying to scrape a living. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them that Bill's long lost uncle has died and left them his business - a cinema in the town of Sloughborough. They expect to sell the cinema to gain...  More

Roman Holiday
(1953) [G]

Audrey Hepburn's Oscar-winning performance in her first starring role. Roman Holiday was nominated for ten Academy Awards, and Audrey Hepburn captured an Oscar for her portrayal of a modern-day princess rebelling against her royal obligations who explores Rome on her own. She meets Gregory Peck,...  More

Laurel & Hardy: The Bullfighters
(1945) [G]

Laurel and Hardy blunder their way around Mexico as private detectives sent from the States in search of a lady criminal. The best part of the film is the sequence in which Hardy is inveigled by a bullfight manager into taking the place of a look-alike matador.  More

Mon Oncle
(1958) [G]

Directed by Jacques Tati. Written by Jacques Tati and Jacques Lagrange. Music by Alain Romans and Franck Barcellini. With Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Adrienne Servantie, Alain Becourt. France, 1958. Tati's second outing as the amiable Monsieur Hulot, and his first colour film, Mon Oncle is a...  More

We're No Angels
(1955) [G]

Humphrey Bogart plays one of his rare comedy roles in this jaunty excursion about three convicts - Joseph (Bogart), Albert (Aldo Ray) and Jules (Peter Ustinov) - who are plotting their escape from Devil's Island. Fate intervenes when they hide out with kindly, but inept Felix Ducotel (Leo G....  More

Harvey
(1950) [G]

James Stewart gives one of his finest performances in this lighthearted film, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Stewart stars as the good-natured Elwood P. Dowd, whose constant companion is Harvey, a six-foot tall rabbit that only he can see. To his sister, Veta Louise, Elwood's obsession...  More