Historical Comedy

A belly dancer causes a scandal with her "suggestive" and "immoral" dancing at a Worlds Fair exhibition at the turn of the 20th century.

A trio of randy sailors go looking for girl-friends in 18th-century London.

Cuando el rey Jorge III se vuelve loco, sus lugartenientes intentan modificar las leyes para gobernar el país sin él.

Slapstick comedy based on the play by George Bernard Shaw. A stiff English officer, captain Charles Edstaston (Peter O'Toole), and his fiancée Claire arrive in St. Petersburg. Edstaston is brought to the imperial court to seek audience with the empress Catherine (Jeanne Moreau). He obtains an interview with her courtier, the drunken Potemkin (Zero Mostel), who ends up carrying him in his arms to the empress and dumping him into her royal bed. From this moment on, the hapless Edstaston endeavours to escape from the clutches of the sex-crazed empress and leave the city with his English fiancée.

In the 17th century, a pirate captain is murdered by his cook after he buries his treasure and marks it on a map but the poor-memory cook must rely on the captain's ghost to re-track the loot, since the map was drawn in disappearing ink.

Struggling actress Hedda Hopper (Jane Alexander) can't get a break in Hollywood, even though an acquaintance of hers is the extremely powerful gossip monger Louella Parsons (Dame Elizabeth Taylor) - maker and breaker of careers (and lives) through her daily syndicated newspaper column. The big movie moguls, fed up with Parson's power over their stars, decide to de-claw her by setting up gossip Hopper as a competitor in the rumor industry. What they couldn't foresee was that Hopper would become as big as Parsons - and every bit as much of a pain. Based on the true life stories of two of the most powerful (and arguably dangerous) women of Hollywood's heyday.

A inicios del siglo 18 en Inglaterra, la reina Ana ocupa el trono y su mejor amiga Sarah es la que gobierna en su lugar, pero cuando una nueva ayudante llega, su encanta opaca a Sarah.

Una historia obscena de cómo una pobre doncella entrega su virtud una y otra vez para llegar a la cima de la sociedad.

Un astuto esclavo romano trama ganarse la libertad uniendo románticamente a su amo con una cortesana. Pero las cosas se complican y acaba arrastrando a sus vecinos a su alrededor, lo que provoca el caos.

During French Revolution, English nobles Sir Rodney and Lord Darcy aid French aristocracy against Robespierre. Disguised as "Black Fingernail", Sir Rodney battles Camembert and Bidet, French secret police leaders.

Las románticas y caballerescas aventuras del bastardo adoptado Tom Jones en la Inglaterra del siglo XVIII.

Un Sherlock Holmes alcohólico resulta ser realmente una tapadera para el verdadero detective, el Dr. Watson.

Queen of England gives birth to twins, one kept in a pig sty, and the other hidden. Lurkalot, raised by pigs, fights to protect his daughter and her royal line.

Frankie Howerd stars as a cowardly boot-boy who goes to war in 1914 after being hypnotized to save England. With a German master plan tattooed, he tries to hand over plans to the British.

The classic story from the early days of Rome where there are no women. Romulus, the founder of Rome, finds women to be wives from Sabina where there are a lot of women. The Sabine men, of course, attack Rome to get their wives and daughters back.

Mientras Europa celebra el V-E Day en 1945 (rendición incondicional de Alemania nazi en la Segunda Guerra Mundial), las princesas adolescentes Elizabeth y Margaret pasan una noche salvaje en Londres.

Shakespearian actor Fred Wimbush's drafted during WWII. While entertaining the troops with his drag act one day, the Germans capture them. Thinking he's a girl, they let him go. He mustn't break his character until he reaches safety.

When Cockshute Towers is threatened with bankruptcy, its oversexed inhabitants attempt various money-making schemes.

In Victorian London, the British Government attempts a solution to the problem of prostitution by establishing the world's most fabulous brothel.

What really happened during Shakespeare's 'Lost Years'? Hopeless lute-player Bill Shakespeare leaves his home to follow his dream.

El único superviviente de una malograda expedición minera cuenta cómo su gusto por el oro fue sustituido por el de la carne humana.

Dos britanos, Hengist y Horsa, son capturados y esclavizados por los invasores romanos y llevados a Roma. Hengist es confundido con un combatiente y es reclutado por la Guardia Real para proteger a César.

Una película sobre la controvertida y difícil vida del máster de la comedia Charlie Chaplin.

La historia de la relación amorosa entre Franklin Roosevelt y su prima lejana Margaret Suckley, centrada en el fin de semana de 1939 en que los Reyes del Reino Unido visitaron el estado de Nueva York.

History is only slightly rewritten: instead of experienced sailors, there are only convicts whose last and only meeting with H2O was their prison diet of bread and water. And Columbus doesn't have his own map.