Billy Connolly — Actor (28)
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Still Crazy (1998) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Still Crazy
director: Brian Gibson actor: Stephen Rea / Billy Connolly …
other title: Ainda Muito Loucos / Siempre locos
In the 1970s, Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies, drugs, internal tension and an ex front man dead from an overdose. Even their demise was glamorous; when lightning struck the stage during an outdoor festival. Twenty years on, these former rock gods they have now sunk deep into obscurity when the idea of a reunion tour is lodged in the head of Tony, former keyboard player of the Fruits. Tony sets out to find his former bandmates with the help of former manager Karen to see if they can recapture the magic and give themselves a second chance.
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The Man Who Sued God (2001) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Man Who Sued God
director: Mark Joffe actor: Billy Connolly / Judy Davis …
other title: Der Mann, der Gott verklagte
A lawyer becomes a fisherman from frustration. When his one piece of property, his boat, is struck by lightning and destroyed he is denied insurance money because it was “an act of God”. He re-registers as a lawyer and sues the insurance company and, as God’s representative, The Church.
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The Elephants' Graveyard (1976) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Elephants' Graveyard
director: John Mackenzie actor: Billy Connolly / Jon Morrison
Bunny has told his wife he is working as a postman, but in fact is wandering the hills all day, wondering why he doesn't want to work. He meets Jody, an older man who has told his wife he's working in a factory, but is in fact doing the same thing. The two men spend a day of friendship together, but what does the future offer them? And tonight is supposed to be pay night...
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Water (1985) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Water
director: Dick Clement actor: Michael Caine / Valerie Perrine …
other title: Acqua in bocca / Vandskræk …
The British governor of a tiny island nation in the Caribbean Commonwealth finds his idyllic existence thrown into chaos when an American drilling company finds a huge source of natural mineral water there.
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Bullshot (1983) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Bullshot
director: Dick Clement actor: Alan Shearman / Diz White …
other title: Bullshot - Ein tollkühner Himmelhund / Bullshot Crummond …
The dashing Captain Hugh "Bullshot" Crummond - WWI ace fighter pilot, Olympic athlete, racing driver, part-time sleuth and all round spiffing chap - must save the world from the dastardly Count Otto van Bruno, his wartime adversary. And, of course, win the heart of a jolly nice young lady.
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Overnight (2003) [Movie] WikiData Skybridge TMDB IMDb
Overnight
director: Mark Brian Smith / Tony Montana actor: Troy Duffy / Billy Connolly …
Alternately hilarious and horrifying, Overnight chronicles one man's misadventures of making a Hollywood movie. It starts out as a rags to riches story as Troy Duffy, a Boston-bred bartender, sells his first screenplay for The Boondock Saints.
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The Secret Policeman's Ball (1979) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Secret Policeman's Ball
director: Roger Graef actor: Rowan Atkinson / John Cleese …
A series of benefit concerts to raise money for Amnesty International. Performances include comedy skits and musical numbers by a varied cast of mostly British performers. Featuring several Monty Python members, Rowan Atkinson, and Peter Cook.
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Billy Connolly: Big Banana Feet (1977) [Movie] TMDB WikiData Skybridge IMDb
Billy Connolly: Big Banana Feet
director: Murray Grigor actor: Billy Connolly
other title: Big Banana Feet
Billy Connolly was, in the 1970s, a sort of Scottish Lenny Bruce, who, with devastating humour, sliced through the hypocrisies he perceived. This 1976 documentary follows the singer-comic during his 1975 Irish tour. Made in a cinema verité fashion, the performer appears to be completely unaware of the presence of the camera in his off-stage and backstage moments.
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Just Another Saturday (1975) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Just Another Saturday
director: John Mackenzie actor: Jon Morrison / Eileen McCallum …
other title: Un sabato come gli altri
It's the day of the Orange Parade in Glasgow, but for Jon, the thrill of leading the parade and swinging the mace soon turns to horror as he learns the truth behind the costumes and songs.
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Absolution (1978) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Absolution
director: Anthony Page actor: Richard Burton / Dominic Guard …
other title: Absolución / L'assoluzione
At a Catholic boys' school, domineering disciplinarian Father Goddard rules over his pupils with an iron hand. When one of his teenage charges confesses to murder, the dogmatic but deeply repressed Goddard finds his faith challenged and his life spiralling dangerously out of control.
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Open Season (2006) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB Douban
Open Season
director: Roger Allers / Jill Culton actor: Martin Lawrence / Ashton Kutcher …
other title: Boog & Elliot a caccia di amici / Boog og Elliot: Vilde venner …
Boog, a domesticated 900lb. Grizzly bear finds himself stranded in the woods 3 days before Open Season. Forced to rely on Elliot, a fast-talking mule deer, the two form an unlikely friendship and must quickly rally other forest animals if they are to form a rag-tag army against the hunters.
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The X Files: I Want to Believe (2008) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB WikiData Douban Skybridge IMDb
The X Files: I Want to Believe
director: Chris Carter actor: David Duchovny / Gillian Anderson …
other title: X-Files - Voglio crederci / Strengt Fortroligt: Jeg Vil Tro …
Six years after the events of The X-Files series finale, former FBI agent Doctor Dana Scully is now a staff physician at Our Lady of Sorrows, a Catholic hospital, and treating a boy named Christian who has Sandhoff disease, a terminal brain condition. FBI agent Drummy arrives to ask Scully’s help in locating Fox Mulder, the fugitive former head of the X-Files division, and says they will call off its manhunt for him if he will help investigate the disappearances of several women, including young FBI agent Monica Banan. Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions pertaining to a kidnapped agent.
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Muppet Treasure Island (1996) [Movie] TMDB Skybridge IMDb
Muppet Treasure Island
director: Brian Henson actor: Tim Curry / Billy Connolly …
other title: I Muppet nell'isola del tesoro / Muppets skatteø …
After telling the story of Flint's last journey to young Jim Hawkins, Billy Bones has a heart attack and dies just as Jim and his friends are attacked by pirates. The gang escapes into the town where they hire out a boat and crew to find the hidden treasure, which was revealed by Bones before he died. On their voyage across the seas, they soon find out that not everyone on board can be trusted.
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Prince Charming (2001) [Movie] TMDB
Prince Charming
director: Allan Arkush actor: Christina Applegate / Christina Applegate …
other title: Ein Kuss mit Folgen / Prince Charmant …
After an extramarital indiscretion, a fairy-tale prince and his sidekick are turned into frogs for all eternity or until the prince can convince a maiden to kiss and then marry him.