British humour movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant british humour movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out humorous, sitcom, realistic, witty, not serious and semi serious films and TV shows about / with british humour, satire, humour, british, disorder, friendship, sketch, society, family relations and friends plots mostly in Comedy, Drama and Crime genres shot in UK, France, Ireland and other countries.
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british humour movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as british humour: Mr. Bean (1990), Agatha Raisin (2014), Mum (2016), Fawlty Towers (1975), The Catherine Tate Show (2004), Friday Night Dinner (2011), Live at the Apollo (2004), Gavin & Stacey (2007), Death in Paradise (2011), Bluestone 42 (2013).

List of british humour movies

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 8.6
 132K
Mr. Bean (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Mr Bean turns simple everyday tasks into chaotic situations and will leave you in stitches as he creates havoc wherever he goes.
Style: humorous, not serious, sitcom, feel good, light ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: weirdo, stupidity, goofy hero, misfit, nothing goes right, fish out of water, love, storytelling, lonely, humour, new year's eve, sketch ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 80s
Place: london, britain, europe, england, united kingdom
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Agatha Raisin (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Burnt out on office politics, Agatha Raisin retires early to a picturesque village in the Cotswolds and soon finds a second career as an amateur detective investigating mischief, mayhem, and murder in her deceptively quaint town.
Style: detective, feel good, witty, captivating, emotional ...
Plot: amateur detective, female detective, amateur sleuth, private investigation, sleuth, murder mystery, murder investigation, suburbs, murder, crime investigation, investigation, private detective ...
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 8.3
 4K
Mum (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A comedy about a mother at a milestone in her life. We follow her and her family through a year of new beginnings as she rebuilds her life following the death of her husband. Mum is joined by her supportive life-long friend Michael. Through a year ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, light, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: mother, death of husband, brother sister relationship, eccentric family, love and romance, female protagonist, new life, mother son relationship, feminist, daily life, bereavement, widow ...
Time: 2010s
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 8.8
 100K
Fawlty Towers (1975)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Fawlty Towers is a British sitcom produced by BBC Television that was first broadcast on BBC2 in 1975 and 1979. Twelve episodes were made. The show was written by John Cleese and his then wife Connie Booth, both of whom also starred in the ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, hilarious, not serious, witty ...
Audience: teens
Plot: owner, farce, hotel, snob, cockney, married couple, couples, tourist, monty python, humour, disorder, nothing goes right ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1975
Place: england, britain, europe
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The Catherine Tate Show (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The Catherine Tate Show is a British television sketch comedy written by Catherine Tate and Aschlin Ditta. Tate also stars in all but one of the show's sketches, which feature a wide range of characters. The Catherine Tate Show airs on BBC Two ...
Style: humorous, not serious, witty, realistic, sketch comedy ...
Plot: comedian, lifestyle, youth, working class, society, workplace, social misfits, workplace situations, best friend, humour, girl power, sketch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england
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Friday Night Dinner (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Two siblings share their Friday night dinners at their parents home and, somehow, something always goes wrong.
Style: sitcom, not serious, humorous, realistic, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: family dinner, family relations, eccentric family, parents and children, comedy of errors, socially awkward, disorder, couple relations, marriage, family gatherings, grandparent and grandchild, satire ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, europe
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Live at the Apollo (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
TV show
Story: A British stand-up comedy programme performed from the Hammersmith Apollo Theatre in west London.
Style: light, funny, satirical, entertaining, semi serious ...
Plot: comedian, humour, female comedian, satire, sarcasm, entertainment, british humour, stand up
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 8.2
 22K
Gavin & Stacey (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 29 min.
TV show
Story: Gavin is an ordinary boy from Billericay, Essex. Stacey is an ordinary girl from Barry Island, South Wales. They’ve spoken on the phone every day at work for months but they’ve never actually met… until now.
Style: sitcom, semi serious, feel good, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, couple relations, family relations, family life, separation, couples, honeymoon, lifestyle, buddies, marriage, dating, newlyweds ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, wales, europe
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Death in Paradise (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Detective Inspector Richard Poole is transferred to Sainte Marie, an island in the Caribbean. Totally unsuited to the Caribbean way of life, Richard hates the sun, sea and sand and isn't used to the Sainte Marie style of policing. Working with ...
Style: realistic, captivating, stylized, semi serious, detective ...
Plot: investigation, police detective, police investigation, lifestyle change, murder, island, whodunit, investigator, suspicion, new job, multiple suspects, murder investigation ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: caribbean, fictional island
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 7.9
 2K
Bluestone 42 (2013)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Bluestone 42 is a comedy drama about a British bomb disposal detachment in Afghanistan. So what’s the average working day for a hero? Make your keen young colleague deal with the boring paperwork? Wind up your fellow employees? Flirt with the new ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sitcom, dark comedy
Plot: military, bomb, army, military life, life risking, commander, squad, war on terror, soldier, sergeant, verbal byplay, military base ...
Time: 21st century
Place: afghanistan, middle east
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Last of the Summer Wine (1973)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Unencumbered by wives, jobs or any other responsibilities, three senior citizens who've never really grown up explore their world in the Yorkshire Dales. They spend their days speculating about their fellow townsfolk and thinking up adventures ...
Style: sitcom, talky, humorous, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: friendship, elderly, small town, countryside, retirement, social relations, unemployment, working class, trio, veteran, library, pub ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s, 70s, 21st century
Place: yorkshire, northern england, england, united kingdom, europe
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 8.4
 37K
Red Dwarf (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The adventures of the last human alive and his friends, stranded three million years into deep space on the mining ship Red Dwarf.
Style: sitcom, stylized, witty, not serious, feel good ...
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: space travel, spaceship, space, friendship, slacker, isolation, adventurer, space and aliens, robot, androids and robots, escapades, captain ...
Time: future, distant future, 80s, 20th century, 2010s ...
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Carry on Cruising (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: not serious, parody, entertaining, melancholic, light ...
Plot: carry on, cruise ship, sea, cruise, escapades, goofy hero, sea voyage, vacation, drunk, disorder, workplace situations, boss and employee ...
Time: 60s
Place: mediterranean sea
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Phoenix Nights (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights is a British sitcom about The Phoenix Club, a working men's club in the northern English town of Farnworth, Greater Manchester. The show was written by Neil Fitzmaurice, Peter Kay and Dave Spikey, produced by ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, semi serious, realistic
Plot: working class, workplace situations, workplace, boss and employee, ambition, workplace problem, disability, sketch, nightclub, staff, singer, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: northern england, england
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Jeeves and Wooster (1990)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: Jeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories. The series was a collaboration between Brian Eastman of Picture Partnership Productions and Granada Television. It ...
Style: humorous, witty, clever, hilarious, relaxing ...
Plot: servant, butler, valet, master and servant, master servant relationship, domestic servant, boss and employee, bachelor, friendship between men, aristocracy, society, power relations ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, 1920s
Place: england, london, europe, usa
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 8.0
 8K
The Trip (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 172 min.
TV show
Story: The Trip is a television sitcom series first broadcast on BBC Two and BBC HD in the United Kingdom. The series stars Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon as fictionalised versions of themselves undertaking a restaurant tour of northern England. The partly ...
Style: sitcom, realistic, semi serious, humorous, cynical ...
Plot: travel, comedian, food, actor, actor's life, artists and showbiz, impersonating, fame, career, buddies, odd couple, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, yorkshire
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 8.0
 18K
Shameless (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: The story of a young group of siblings pretty much abandoned by their parents, surviving by their wits - and humor - on a rough Manchester council estate. Whilst they won't admit it, they need help and find it in Steve, a young middle class lad ...
Style: humorous, emotional, realistic, cynical, hilarious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, family problems, alcoholic father, working class, white trash, gay teenager, single father, gay, siblings relations, parents and children, life is a bitch, social misfits ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, manchester, northern england, europe
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 8.5
 8K
This Country (2017)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story: The lives of cousins Kerry and Kurtan in the rural village of Cotswolds.
Style: sitcom, mockumentary, humorous, light, feel good ...
Plot: rural setting, small town, brother sister relationship, grownups, friendship, countryside, society, identity crisis, adolescence, nature, youth, aspiration ...
Place: britain, england
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Black Adder the Third (1987)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: During the Regency period, the insane King George III's stark raving mad son, George, is the Prince Regent of Wales. Vulgar and staggeringly slow-and-dim-witted, George exhausts the country's money and would surely be dead by know were it ...
Style: humorous, sitcom, controversial, funny, hilarious ...
Audience: kids
Plot: satire, royal family, dandy, humour, robbery, stupidity, dark humor, assistant, disorder, power relations, rivalry, society ...
Time: 18th century, 20th century, regency period, 19th century, 1800s ...
Place: britain, england, europe, france, london
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The Thin Blue Line (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The Thin Blue Line is a British sitcom starring Rowan Atkinson set in a police station that ran for two series on the BBC from 1995 to 1996. It was written by Ben Elton.
Style: humorous, sitcom, detective, not serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: police station, police, sergeant, goofy hero, partners against crime, workplace, nothing goes right, incompetent police, working undercover, cop, odd couple, acid ...
Time: future, 90s, 20th century
Place: england, europe, britain
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Stewart Lee: 41st Best Stand-Up Ever! (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story: "In 2007, Stewart Lee was voted the 41st best stand-up of all time in an official Channel 4 poll, apparently better than Lenny Bruce but not as good as Jim Davidson. But what real difference does this accolade make? His TV pilot has been ...
Style: witty, realistic, humorous, live comedy
Plot: stand up comedian, stand up comedy, satire, comedian, social relations, monologue, stereotypes, lifestyle, society, family relations, dark humor, live performance ...
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 8.5
 122K
The Office (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 455 min.
TV show
Story: The Office is a British sitcom television series that was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two on 9 July 2001. Created, written, and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, the programme is about the day-to-day lives of office ...
Style: humorous, mockumentary, sitcom, feel good, realistic ...
Plot: workplace, everyday life, office, boss and employee, job, employer employee relationship, workplace problem, boss, coworker, storytelling, humour, sketch ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: europe, england
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 7.7
 4K
Upstart Crow (2016)
Genre: Comedy, History
Country: UK
Duration: 29 min.
TV show
Story: Comedy about the life and times of William Shakespeare as he starts to make a name for himself in London, whilst also trying to balance life as a husband and father for his family in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Style: sitcom, humorous, light, entertaining, period piece ...
Plot: british history, satire, shakespeare, writers, family relations, poet, renaissance, humour, historical event, playwright, husband wife relationship, toilet humor ...
Time: 16th century
Place: england
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Roald & Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Roald & Beatrix, the tail of the curious mouse, a heart-warming Christmas film inspired by the true encounter between a six-year-old Roald Dahl and his idol Beatrix Potter. A magical story of what really can happen when you are brave enough to ...
Style: sentimental, touching, sweet, fairy tale, christmas special
Audience: kids
Plot: bully, parents and children, intergenerational friendship, cultural icon, life philosophy, unlikely friendships, childhood, mischievous children, family relations, mentor, hopes, imagination ...
Time: 1920s
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Still Open All Hours (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Still Open All Hours is a sitcom set in a grocer's shop. It is a sequel to the series Open All Hours, written by original series writer Roy Clarke and featuring several of the permanent cast members of the original series
Style: sitcom, humorous, light, captivating, feel good ...
Plot: store, family relations, workplace, workplace situations, parents and children, family business, friendship, cooking show, storekeeper, salesman, customer, photograph ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, yorkshire, northern england
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The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, Ireland, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The fictional world of Royston Vasey is facing apocalypse and the only way to avert disaster is for our nightmarish cast of characters to find a way into the real world and confront their creators. From present day Soho to the fictional film world ...
Style: surreal, horror comedy, semi serious, humorous, witty ...
Plot: time travel, good versus evil, farce, parallel world, danger, village life, parallel universe, husband wife relationship, breaking the fourth wall, fictional city, home invasion, alternate dimension ...
Time: 17th century
Place: england, europe, london
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You, Me and Him (2017)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Despite their age difference, Lesbian couple Olivia and Alex are very much in love. But as the question of pregnancy rears its head and their neighbour John befriends them, they both start making some truly disastrous decisions.
Style: entertaining, humorous, witty, romantic, touching ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbianism, lesbian mother, lgbt, lesbian relationship, pregnancy, best friend, life philosophy, jealousy, character study, love story, lifestyle ...
Place: england
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Count Arthur Strong (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Count Arthur Strong is a faded star from the golden days of variety, prone to delusions of grandeur, selective memory loss and the blurting out of malapropisms. He was never as famous as he thinks he was... or still thinks he is. Believing that ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, realistic, slapstick comedy
Plot: delusion, desire for fame, elderly, unsuccessful, farce, writers, aging, old man, actor, cafe, overbearing, british humour ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, england
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Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible is a British comedy-horror anthology series created by Graham Duff, who co-wrote the series with Steve Coogan. BBC Two broadcast the series in 2001. It spoofs the British horror films of Amicus Productions, ...
Style: parody, anthology, not serious, suspenseful, humorous ...
Plot: mad scientist, vampire, supernatural, danger, escapades, satire, castle, halloween, disorder, heroes, lesbian vampire, giant crab ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 70s, 21st century
Place: england
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 7.2
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Up the Women (2013)
Genre: Comedy, History
Country: UK
Duration: 174 min.
TV show
Story: It's 1910 and we're in Banbury church hall at the Banbury Intricate Craft Circle. Margaret has been to London and discovered the Women's Suffrage movement so she decides they need to set up their own movement and The Banbury Intricate ...
Style: sitcom, semi serious, captivating, humorous, historical drama ...
Plot: fighting the system, idealism, against the odds, friendship, injustice, feminism, society, battle of the sexes, hopes, gender, small town, women ...
Time: 1910s, 1900s, 20th century, edwardian era
Place: england, europe
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