Alexei Sayle

The Fringe, Fame and Me is the story of how a small Scottish arts festival that began 75 years ago this year became a national institution – a crucible where new stars are forged, careers made, and sometimes, dreams dashed. Told by the stars who first found fame at the Edinburgh Fringe, this is the inside story of what it takes to make a name here, from those who enjoyed overnight success to those who slogged for years to make it. Through their triumphs, favourite jokes, and sometimes painful failures, we’ll discover a hidden history of British comedy – revealing how the gags we find funny and the comedians we love reflect our changing culture.

El viaje de la adolescente de Midlands, Johanna Morrigan, que se reinventa a sí misma como Dolly Wilde: una mujer aventurera sexual que habla rápido, se muda a Londres y consigue un trabajo como crítica musical con la esperanza de salvar a su pobre familia en Wolverhampton. Basado en la novela semiautobiográfica más vendida de Caitlin Moran.

Alan is a stylish tailor with moves as sharp as his suits. He has spent years searching tirelessly for his missing son Michael who stormed out over a game of Scrabble. With a body to identify and his family torn apart, Alan must repair the relationship with his youngest son and solve the mystery of an online player who he thinks could be Michael, so he can finally move on and reunite his family.

This documentary explores the legacy of one of the most notorious British sitcoms of all time. Launching alternative comedy onto our screens, the show made household names of its performers and writers and proved to be a huge influence, despite the BBC reportedly being baffled by what they'd commissioned back in 1982. Never before had a flagship comedy show contained so much violence, depravity and anarchy - it was a shot across the bow to mainstream comedians that things would never be the same again.

Tocado y hundido por la muerte de su entrenador, Doug es un exboxeador asediado por unas deudas que amenazan con arrebatarle su gimnasio. Su suerte cambiará cuando una bella gitana le proponga entrenar a su hermano, aspirante en un campeonato de peleas a puño descubierto. Las desventuras de este grupo de marginados dan forma a Gloves Off, una comedia dramática que no teme plantar cara a la adversidad.

Comic fantasy telling the story of Rebekah, an innocent and beguiling Northern girl who accidentally becomes Chief Executive of News International and gets caught up in a seventies Watergate-style scandal.

Michael Grade traces the raucous history of the music hall in a revelatory journey that takes him from venues such as Wilton's Music Hall in London to Glasgow's once-famous Britannia.

Eleven-year-old Beanie's bland life is changed for ever when he is sent on a mission. Armed only with laser lip-gloss and a pair of blend-in pants he has to save his parents from Evil Stella and return the Golden Nit to its rightful place at the heart of the sun, thereby saving the universe.

The story of Francis Cooper and his mother; Emily Maddison and that man's face; and Craig MacKay and his cat.

Long-time Wire fan Charlie Brooker takes a journey to the mean streets of Baltimore to meet the cast and crew of the series, and undertakes a mission to explain what makes The Wire the best cop show ever made.

Drama-documentary which explores the life and work of the writer Hector Hugh Munro, better known by his pen name Saki, whose short stories satirised Edwardian society and culture.

Prosper y Bo son dos huérfanos que huyen de su tía, quien intenta separarles. En su escapada, los hermanos llegan a Venecia, donde encontrarán cobijo en una pandilla juvenil, liderada por el misterioso "Príncipe de los ladrones". Un encargo llevará al grupo de amigos hasta una isla en la laguna, un lugar que alberga un misterio que lo cambiará todo... (FILMAFFINITY)

The Secret Policeman benefit shows for Amnesty International brought together comedy grand masters - from Python and Beyond the Fringe - and performers then relatively unknown, like Rowan Atkinson. Narrated by Dawn French, the programme includes interviews with many of the comedians and musicians who took part: John Cleese, Stephen Fry, Michael Palin, Sting, Lenny Henry and many more. The shows and their stars had a huge effect on modern British comedy. There are few comics today whose careers have not been heavily influenced by the anarchic and surreal humour of these events.

Based on a true story, the movie tells the story of two pigs, named Butch and Sundance, who staged a dramatic escape from an abattoir in January 1998 and remained at large for a week ...

Larry, a young criminal, is taught to walk away from a crime scene and never run by his Uncle Henry, a hitman. However he is a purse snatcher and soon learns that it is better to run away instead.

When Martin Luxford (Hugo Speer) leaves jail, he decides to form a swing band, having been taught to play the saxophone by his cellmate Jack. Returning to his native Liverpool, Martin pulls together a backing band of misfits and loners, and recruits his ex-girlfriend Joan (Lisa Stansfield) as a singer. Things are complicated somewhat by the fact that Joan is now married to the policeman who arrested Martin, and when the band's first gig - at a heavy metal pub - goes badly, it seems as though the road to musical success may be a rocky one.

An hilariously funny one-off comic sitcom in which some mates attempt to rob a pub of its takings.

Comedy about a brilliant young brain surgeon set in an unorthodox hospital. A "Naked Gun" type comedy from Britain, this one-off special was made specifically for the launch of Channel 5 in 1997.

A young man's odyssey from a small town in Colorado to Budapest, in search of his estranged girlfriend.

A romantic comedy written by and starring Alexei Sayle. A couple on a first date in London are determined to find a drink after closing time, to prove to themselves that they are not careworn and middle-aged. What follows is a series of misadventures

A romantic comedy written by and starring Alexei Sayle. A couple on a first date in London are determined to find a drink after closing time, to prove to themselves that they are not careworn and middle-aged. What follows is a series of misadventures

George C. Scott and William Petersen are expatriates living in Curaçao. They're bound together by an understanding that each is hiding from a dangerous past.

Kelly es un ladrón de bancos, un héroe de la cultura pop y el dueño de la tienda de video. Esta historia moderna cuenta cómo se pone furioso cuando una empresa japonesa quiere comprar la granja de su banda.

El Gran Abdul está preocupado. Sus espías le han comunicado que un tal Cristóbal Colón prepara un viaje para descubrir nuevas rutas a las indias, lo que arruinará sus negocios. Por lo tanto decide enviar su mejor espía para intentar sabotear el viaje.

In the tradition of the acclaimed series of British concerts known as The Secret Policemen's Ball, Amnesty International celebrates its 50th Anniversary live at Radio City Music Hall.

In 1981, Gerd Heidemann (Jonathan Pryce), a war correspondent and reporter with the German magazine Stern, makes what he believes is the literary and historical scoop of the century: the personal diaries of Adolf Hitler. Over the next two years, Heidemann and the senior management figures at Stern secretly pay 10 million German marks to a mysterious 'Dr Fischer' (Alexei Sayle) for the sixty volumes of 'Hitler's diaries'. However, to the dismay of all, it is discovered after the publication of first extract that the diaries are crude forgeries, faked by Stuttgart criminal Konrad Kujau.

A lone hitch hiker, marooned near a housing estate, has a dramatic effect on the lives of those around him.

A lone hitch hiker, marooned near a housing estate, has a dramatic effect on the lives of those around him.

Les Dogs are the band playing in a large marquee to celebrate the wedding of Geoffrey and Angela. During the reception, the fathers of the groom and bride exchange insults and a gun battle ensues in which many guests - and Les Dogs - are casualties though the happy couple escape. Victor, who has wandered in on the scene, is asked to take wedding photographs and has a series of dreamlike fantasies all based around his infatuation with Angela.

Clarence Flamer hosts a late-night talk show on regional radio station North Star Sound. A phone call he takes one night leads to his discovering a mortgage scam being run by a group of estate agents. His attempts to delve deeper have tragic consequences.

En esta tercera entrega, el padre del protagonista (Harrison Ford), Henry Jones, también arqueólogo (Sean Connery), es secuestrado cuando buscaba el Santo Grial. Indiana tendrá que ir a rescatarlo y, de paso, intentar hacerse con la preciada reliquia, que también ambicionan los nazis.

When he was a little boy, Dillon's rock musician father and hippie mother died in a traffic accident. Now in his twenties, Dillon wants nothing more than a normal, responsible life, working in an office and taking care of the grandmother who raised him. But his grandmother has other ideas, and Dillon finds himself lured into an alternate lifestyle of art, pleasure and rebellion.

Carl Moss leaves jail,where he has taken the rap for his evil twin Sterling,and has been declared a model prisoner. Pauline Sneek,his probation officer - and girlfriend - gets him community work teaching youngsters how to lead law-abiding lives. This displeases Sterling,as he needs the young delinquents for his bicycle stealing ring.

Carl Moss leaves jail,where he has taken the rap for his evil twin Sterling,and has been declared a model prisoner. Pauline Sneek,his probation officer - and girlfriend - gets him community work teaching youngsters how to lead law-abiding lives. This displeases Sterling,as he needs the young delinquents for his bicycle stealing ring.

Paul, a former miner, writes a hard-hitting screenplay about his own experiences of the 1984 miners' strike. However, the Hollywood production company that gets hold of his script turns it into a ludicrously sensationalist and anachronistic action film, starring Al Pacino as Arthur Scargill, and Meryl Streep as his wife.

A normal teenager is transported to a Monty Pythonesque medieval fantasy land where an odd, adamant knight takes him on a quest.

Mr Corbett is a cruel employer to Ben Partridge. One night on New Years Eve Ben is sent out to deliver some medicine. Along the way he wishes his master was dead, little knowing that the man he is delivering to is the Collector of Souls.

Claire (una estadounidense) se despierta en un estado terrible al final de una carretera en España. A medida que intenta darse cuenta de su estado (ensangrentada y amoratada), tiene escenas retrospectivas de los últimos días. Ella cree que ha matado a alguien, pero no está segura, y ahora está vagando por las calles españolas sin dinero y sin una memoria clara. (FILMAFFINITY)

Three alternative comedians get involved in a pyramid-selling organization, Pathway, in order to finance their act. They gain great success by deploying their skills as entertainers, only to eventually discover the sinister purpose behind the Pathway organization.

En un futuro donde la mayor parte del agua ha desaparecido de la Tierra, encontramos a un grupo de adolescentes que viven en un orfanato, bajo las reglas de los despóticos nuevos dictadores de la nueva Tierra. Un día encuentran una pelota de poder especial que produce extraños efectos en ellos. Cuando les roban la pelota, se escapan del orfanato, perseguidos por la policía.

When a small British owned island in the Caribbean is invaded and the world's most dangerous terrorist kidnaps a member of the Royal family, the countdown to World War 3 begins. If anyone can prevent the oncoming apocalypse it's the American President, but her closest ally the British Prime Minister appears to have gone stark raving mad.

While taking a holiday in the country with his mother, Dennis hits on a scheme to impress a girl so that she'll go away on a trip with him as his girlfriend. Although he fails to gain any interest from the girl, the police take a great interest in his story. From this point on, Dennis digs a deeper hole for himself at every turn

A partir de su experiencia y de sus conocimientos científicos, el Doctor Frankestein construye a Eva, una mujer perfecta, que debe ser su fiel servidora. Cuando la ve la primera de sus criaturas, al comprender que no es para él, se enfurece y se escapa. Algunos años después, Eva se ha convertido en una dama un tanto peculiar. Mientras tanto, el monstruo se mantiene alejado, pero el destino podría propiciar su reencuentro.

At the Tranquil Repose mortuary, the Doctor and Peri uncover a sinister plot to create a new breed of Daleks under the supervision of the mysterious Great Healer.

The hardships faced by a woman trying to survive a bloody civil war while caring for the abandoned child of the deposed former ruler.

Mickey and Mo head to Liverpool for the chance of a big score

Tres cadáveres desfigurados aparecen en el parque Gorky, en el centro de Moscú. El detective de policía Arkady Renko se hace cargo de la investigación, pero tropieza con ciertas trabas burocráticas. Por otra parte, el estado de los cuerpos, que presentan numerosas mutilaciones, impide que sean identificados. A medida que la investigación avanza, Renko empieza a sospechar que ciertos miembros de las altas esferas políticas están relacionados con estos asesinatos. Una historia de intriga, espionaje y romance durante la época de la Guerra Fría.

The real Alexei Sayle. Over 75 minutes. Live. Uncensored. Recorded in Manchester 1982. Warning: This video cassette contains language of an explicit nature that may give offence. This tape should not be played in the presence of minors

The real Alexei Sayle. Over 75 minutes. Live. Uncensored. Recorded in Manchester 1982. Warning: This video cassette contains language of an explicit nature that may give offence. This tape should not be played in the presence of minors

A ski run in Italy, a supermarket manager in Luton, a sandwich bar in London EC2, Arena opens the bonnet of the Ford Cortina, Britain's most popular, most stolen, and most misunderstood car. 'Dagenham dustbin'? 'Poor man's Rolls-Royce'? In the year that may well see the end of a legend, some of the motoring public, including Sir John Betjeman, Tom Robinson, Alexei Sayle, Sir Terence Beckett and Magnus Magnusson take apart the Ford Cortina: Life and Works 1962-1982.

A tongue-in-cheek "behind the scenes" look at the Comic Strip comedy club in the early 1980s, which gave rise to 'The Comic Strip Presents'

A tongue-in-cheek "behind the scenes" look at the Comic Strip comedy club in the early 1980s, which gave rise to 'The Comic Strip Presents'

A deconstructed crime thriller, inspired by the French new wave, in which a woman’s confession of murder is not as simple as it seems.