The best Bill Paterson’s comedy movies

Bill Paterson

Bill Paterson

03/06/1945 (78 años)
We present our ranking of the best Bill Paterson’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Bill Paterson.
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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
7.1/10
An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits.

Dad's Army

Dad's Army
5.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/02/2016
  • Character: Private Frazer
A cinema remake of the classic sitcom Dad's Army (1968). The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon deal with a visiting female journalist and a German spy as World War II draws to its conclusion.

The Man Who Invented Christmas

The Man Who Invented Christmas
7/10
In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads, until the moment when, struggling with inspiration and confronting reality with his childhood memories, a new character is born in the depths of his troubled mind; an old, lonely, embittered man, so vivid, so human, that a whole world grows around him, a story so inspiring that changed the meaning of Christmas forever.

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
6.4/10
A British writer struggles to fit in at a high-profile magazine in New York.

Spice World

Spice World
3.7/10
Zany adventure that follows The Spice Girls and their entourage (mostly fictional characters) - manager Clifford, his assistant Deborah, and filmmaker Piers (who is trying to shoot a documentary on "the real Spice Girls").

Bright Young Things

Bright Young Things
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/05/2003
In the 1930s, a social set known to the press – who follow their every move – as the “Bright Young Things” are Adam and his friends who are eccentric, wild and entirely shocking to the older generation. Amidst the madness, Adam, who is well connected but totally broke, is desperately trying to get enough money to marry the beautiful Nina. While his attempts to raise cash are constantly thwarted, their friends seem to self-destruct, one-by-one, in an endless search for newer and faster sensations. Finally, when world events out of their control come crashing around them, they are forced to reassess their lives and what they value most.

The Return of the Musketeers

The Return of the Musketeers
5.9/10
It's 1649: Mazarin hires the impoverished D'Artagnan to find the other musketeers: Cromwell has overthrown the English king, so Mazarin fears revolt, particularly from the popular Beaufort. Porthos, bored with riches and wanting a title, signs on, but Aramis, an abbé, and Athos, a brawler raising an intellectual son, assist Beaufort in secret. When they fail to halt Beaufort's escape from prison, the musketeers are expendable, and Mazarin sends them to London to rescue Charles I. They are also pursued by Justine, the avenging daughter of Milady de Winter, their enemy 20 years ago. They must escape England, avoid Justine, serve the Queen, and secure Beauford's political reforms.

Truly Madly Deeply

Truly Madly Deeply
7.2/10
Nina is totally heartbroken at the death of her boyfriend Jamie, but is even more unprepared for his return as a ghost. At first it's almost as good as it used to be - hey, even the rats that infested her house have disappeared. But Jamie starts bringing ghostly friends home and behaving more and more oddly.

Happy New Year, Colin Burstead

Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 11/10/2018
  • Character: Gordon Burstead
Colin has rented a stately country home for his extended family’s New Year celebrations. He’s the centre of attention until his estranged brother David unexpectedly arrives, throwing the family dynamic far off orbit.

The Odd Job

The Odd Job
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 31/08/1978
  • Character: Sergeant Mull
Arthur Harris is a happily married man who returns from his job to discover that his wife, Fiona, is leaving him. Devastated he gets really drunk and tries to commit suicide. After a few setbacks and while he is trying to electrocute himself with a lamp, the door bell rings. An odd man in a leather coat asks if there are any odd jobs that he can perform. Arthur hires the man to kill him. The next day his wife returns, but the man he hired is still trying to kill him...

A Private Function

A Private Function
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/11/1984
  • Character: Morris Wormold the Meat Inspector
In the summer of 1947, Britain prepares to commemorate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip. To get around food-rationing laws, Dr. Charles Swaby, accountant Henry Allardyce and solicitor Frank Lockwood are fattening a black-market pig for the big day. Egged on by his wife, meek Gilbert Chilvers steals the swine, but the couple must conceal it from inspector Morris Wormold.

The Rachel Papers

The Rachel Papers
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 12/05/1989
  • Character: Gordon Highway
Charles is in control of his life; he is about to finish 6th from college and start at Oxford. He is 19 and wants an 'older' woman before he turns 20. Enter the beautiful Rachel, and Charles puts his 'master-of-seduction' routines into top gear. Things however get complicated, Charles has a string of ex's and a weird brother-in-law. Rachel has a boyfriend named Deforest and Charles' father has a mistress.

Just Ask for Diamond

Just Ask for Diamond
6.2/10
Thirteen-year-old Nick and his slightly dense older brother Herbert run the Diamond Private Detective Agency above Camden Town Tube Station in north-central London. When a master criminal called The Falcon dies, they come into possession of his box of chocolate Maltesers, which contains the secret key to a fabulous cache of diamonds. Can they unravel the mystery and avoid the clutches of seedy lowlifes Brenda Von Falkenberg, Gott and Himmell, The Fat Man and the dogmatic Chief Inspector Snape, all of whom want to find the swag first.

Rag Tale

Rag Tale
3.9/10
A romance that plays out in the splashy, sensational world of British tabloids.

The Object of Beauty

The Object of Beauty
5.6/10
American couple Jake and Tina are living in an expensive London hotel above their means, incurring a sizeable debt. When they are asked to pay a lavish dinner bill and Jake's card is declined, he suggests they sell Tina's tiny, expensive Henry Moore sculpture to cover the debt. After they hatch a scheme to claim the sculpture was stolen in order to collect insurance on it, the sculpture mysteriously goes missing.

Crush

Crush
5.7/10
Three 40-something women in a small English town meet weekly for a ritual of gin, cigarettes, and sweets -- and swapped stories arguing which of them has the most pathetic love life. Kate is headmistress at the local school; her best friends are the town's police chief and a cynical, thrice-divorced doctor.

The Match

The Match
6.2/10
The Match is a romantic comedy set against the story of a grudge football match between two pubs. The prize for the winner of the centenary match is the the closure of their opponent's bar. The Match was mainly filmed around Straiton in Ayrshire.

Dutch Girls

Dutch Girls
5.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 18/10/1985
  • Character: Mr Mole
In this sophomoric comedy, a lusty adolescent British hockey team heads for Holland where they find something far more interesting than tulips and windmills: gorgeous, lusty women. They are so busy pursuing romance that they forget all about their upcoming match.

Comfort and Joy

Comfort and Joy
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/10/1984
  • Character: Alan
Radio host Alan 'Dickie' Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families over the icecream market of Glasgow.

Wonderdate

Wonderdate
8.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 27/09/2018
  • Character: Kolodon
A man dazzles a girl on the perfect first date but why won't she text back? He retraces his steps, reexamining the date.

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