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41) Hoff the Record
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
After five divorces and some misguided professional decisions, David Hasselhoff is in the UK to star in a new film that could reboot his career. But alarm bells start to ring when he gets the low budget treatment on arrival. The Hoff tasks his manager with finding him something more worthy of his talents. But as his attempts fall into disarray, can The Hoff get his career back on track?
42) The Old Guys
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Housemates Tom and Roy are the ying to each other's yang. Roy is well-read, organised, clean and sensitive. Tom, well, isn't. As both of them settle into retirement, they are faced with the prospect of life simply not turning out quite how they imagined. Together, however, they manage to muddle through life - answering the important questions that retirement poses. Questions involving religion, true-love and precisely how early is too early to start...
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Sue Johnston, Dawn French and Joanna Lumley lead a celebrity cast in an eccentric comedy written by and starring Jennifer Saunders. Clatterford is a small town, with a good cross section of people, local shops and a late night convenience store - a place which also has a thriving Women's Guild; who promote truth, justice, tolerance and fellowship - or is it just an excuse for a good old gossip? Without a job and feeling very much alone, Sal slowly...
44) Early Doors
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Comedy set in The Grapes, an old-fashioned Manchester pub where the daily life of the locals - among them jack-the-lads Joe and Duffy, beer-bellied landlord Ken and his police officer cronies Phil and Nige, miserable old git Tommy and single mum Janice - revolves around love, loneliness and blocked urinals. The regulars rib each other and discuss the minutiae of everyday life, each bringing their own faults and foibles with them to the bar.
45) The bank dick
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1940, c2000
Language
English
Description
Egbert Souse accidently foils a bank robbery and is hired as a bank guard.
46) Hunter Gatherer
Publisher
The Orchard
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When a middle-aged African-American man is released from prison, all the people that he expected to return to his life don't. He befriends a young social outcast and tries to put his life back together, but soon falls back into old ways.
47) Laila's birthday
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Arabic
Description
Bursting with mordant wit and alive with urgent real-life dramatic energy, Rashid Masharawi's Laila's birthday is a "fleet, dark urban comedy," (New York Times) that "moves at a brisk clip, ticking incidents like a meter on overtime" (Time Out New York).
48) In My Skin
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Sitcom set in South Wales offers a raw, starkly funny portrayal of adolescence today. Teenager Bethan is using her cheek and wit to hide her home life from her friends. But when your mother is in a mental facility and likes breaking out, and your father is a Hell's Angel, flying under the radar isn't easy. Bethan learns, through heartache and laughter, to finally let go of the armour and exist for the first time in her own skin. Based on the writer...
49) Marion and Geoff
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Taxi driver Keith Barrett has been left by his wife, Marion, for the flashy, high achieving Geoff and turned out of his own home. In a series of monologues starring Rob Brydon, Keith chats about the events that have shaped his life - namely his doomed marriage to Marion and her affair - and he reveals himself to be a man for whom the silver lining was especially invented.
50) Sabrina
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Description
Humphrey Bogart and William Holden play the mega-rich Larrabee brothers of Long Island. Bogie’s all work, Holden’s all playboy. But when Sabrina (Audrey Hepburn), daughter of the family’s chauffeur, returns from Paris, the stage is set for some family fireworks. Nominated for six **Academy Awards**. Winner of the Best Screenplay Award at the **Golden Globes.** *"It's a Cinderella story that gets turned on its heard, a satire about breaking down...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Français
Description
A box-office sensation in France, comic star Jean Dujardin stars as secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, a.k.a. OSS 117 who in the tradition of Maxwell Smart and Inspector Clouseau somehow succeeds in spite of his ineptitude. After a fellow agent and close friend is murdered, Hubert is ordered to take his place at the head of a poultry firm in Cairo. This is to be his cover while he investigates Jack's death, monitors the Suez Canal, checks up...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Seven comedies, including four restored from turn of the century Italy and France, a recently-discovered nitrate negative of Charlie Chaplin's first appearance in his tramp attire, a frenetic Mack Sennett gag fest replete with tin lizzies, and The pest (1922), starring a pre-Hardy Stan Laurel.
53) New Tricks
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A team of seemingly over-the-hill detectives investigate previously unsolved cases in this crime drama. From the discovery of a new motive in the killing of a college lecturer, to the tracing of a missing child, the team finds a way through the detail that eluded the original officers. But they are finding a surprising incidence of cover-up and conspiracy in their new investigations. Are their superiors about to close ranks? Or is someone feeding...
54) Harmony and Me
Publisher
Factory 25
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Stubbornly embracing his own unhappiness on the heels of a recent breakup, loquacious young songwriter Harmony's self-imposed exile into misery serves as a source of irritation to his headstrong mother, and a curious source of amusement to his eccentric friends.
Publisher
Revolution Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Tim Allen plays Luther Krank, a man who decides to skip Christmas and all the surrounding trappings and go on a vacation with his wife Nora (Jamie Lee Curtis) instead. But when his daughter decides at the last minute to come home for the holiday, he is forced to put Christmas back together. Based on the novel "Skipping Christmas" by John Grisham.
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
An all new feature film from the twisted minds of cult comedy heroes Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim ("Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job") featuring cameos from "Awesome Show" regulars and some of the biggest names in comedy today! Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival**.
58) Shiva Baby
Publisher
Utopia
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A near college graduate, Danielle, rushes to meet her neurotic parents at a shiva. Danielle's day takes an unexpected turn when she discovers her ex-girlfriend, her sugar daddy, his wife, and their crying baby are also in attendance. As the day unfolds, Danielle struggles to keep up different versions of herself, fend off pressures from her family and confront her insecurities without losing it.
59) Ambassadors
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Comedy drama series staring David Mitchell and Robert Webb as British ambassadors working at the fictional Tazbekistan embassy.
60) Mister Winner
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Leslie Winner is one of the good guys. But he’s forever finding himself in self-inflicted trouble. Despite his calamitous nature, he’s found someone who’ll put up with him – his fiancée Jemma. They’re getting ready for their wedding, and if Leslie’s going to pay for the honeymoon, he needs to find a job. And somehow manage not to get the sack. This loveable klutz is never far from a fresh disaster. Decorating a house, badly, with a paint...
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