Movies starring Billy Connolly

Biography: 
Billy Connolly was born and brought up in Glasgow, Scotland. He left school to work in the shipyards where he became a welder, joining the Territorial Army (in the Parachute Regiment) at around the same time. He developed an interest in folk music, eventually becoming an accomplished banjo player and a member of the band "Humblebums" with Gerry Rafferty (later of "Baker Street" fame). The jokes he ...  show all 

Fido (2006)

Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: Billy Connolly | Jan Skorzewski | Carrie-Anne Moss | Dylan Baker | Kevin Tyell | K'Sun Ray | Henry Czerny | Tim Blake Nelson | Sonja Bennett | Jennifer Clement | Raphael Kepinski | Aaron Brown | Brandon Olds | Alexia Fast | Bernard Cuffling
Directors: Andrew Currie
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Timmy Robinson’s best friend in the whole wide world is a six-foot tall rotting zombie named Fido. But when FIDO eats the next-door neighbor, Mom and Dad hit the roof, and Timmy has to go to the ends of the earth to keep Fido a part of the family. A boy-and-his-dog movie for grown ups, “FIDO” will rip your heart out.

The Last Samurai (2003)

Friday, January 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: Japan | New Zealand | USA
Actors: Shin Koyamada | Ken Watanabe | Tom Cruise | William Atherton | Chad Lindberg | Ray Godshall Sr. | Billy Connolly | Tony Goldwyn | Masato Harada | Masashi Odate | John Koyama | Timothy Spall | Shichinosuke Nakamura | Togo Igawa | Satoshi Nikaido | Shintaro Wada
Directors: Edward Zwick
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In the 1870s, Captain Nathan Algren, a cynical veteran of the American Civil war who will work for anyone, is hired by Americans who want lucrative contracts with the Emperor of Japan to train the peasant conscripts for the first standing imperial army in modern warfare using firearms. The imperial Omura cabinet’s first priority is to repress a rebellion of traditionalist Samurai -hereditary warriors- who remain devoted to the sacred dynasty but reject the Westernizing policy and even refuse firearms. Yet when his ill-prepared superior force sets out too soon, their panic allows the sword-wielding samurai to crush them. Badly wounded Algren’s courageous stand makes the samurai leader Katsumoto spare his life; once nursed to health he learns to know and respect the old Japanese way, and participates as advisor in Katsumoto’s failed attempt to save the Bushido tradition, but Omura gets repressive laws enacted- he must now choose to honor his loyalty to one of the embittered sides when the conflict returns to the battlefield…

Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006)

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Family
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Breckin Meyer | Jennifer Love Hewitt | Billy Connolly | Bill Murray | Ian Abercrombie | Roger Rees | Lucy Davis | Lena Cardwell | Veronica Alicino | Jane Carr | Oliver Muirhead | JB Blanc | Vernee Watson-Johnson | Russell Milton | Ben Falcone
Directors: Tim Hill
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Jon goes to London to be with Liz and Garfield sneaks with him. Meanwhile a deceased Queen gives everything to her cat Prince XII. Her only heir Lord Dargis becomes jealous and tries to kill Prince. Garfield & Odie sneaks out to the streets of London. Lord Dargis throws Prince in the river and ends up in the sewer of London. SMithee the butler believes he found Prince but it was really Garfield and Jon find Odie with Prince and mistakes him for Garfield. Now the Castle animals must keep Garfield safe and keep him thinking he’s royal to save their lives.

Timeline (2003)

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Paul Walker | Frances O'Connor | Gerard Butler | Billy Connolly | David Thewlis | Anna Friel | Neal McDonough | Matt Craven | Ethan Embry | Michael Sheen | Lambert Wilson | Marton Csokas | Rossif Sutherland | Steve Kahan | David La Haye
Directors: Richard Donner
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In the heart of the beautiful and historically rich Dordogne Valley of France, a team of archeology students and their professor diligently work to uncover the ruins of a 14th-century castle. For Professor Edward Johnston, the project is the culmination of a lifelong dream. Aided by assistant professor Andre Marek, his son Chris and students Kate, Stern and François, Johnston has made major strides in unearthing not only La Roque Castle but also a monastery and structures from the surrounding village of Castlegard. But things are about to go haywire… Suspicious of the dig’s benefactor, International Technology Corporation (ITC) and the man who runs it, Robert Doniger, Professor Johnston heads to ITC headquarters in New Mexico to get some answers, and while he’s away, his students discover a chamber that has been sealed for more than 600 years. Marek and Kate descend into the unstable room, and just before a near disastrous cave-in, they make two startling discoveries — a bifocal lens, which couldn’t have been invented before the chamber was sealed, and even more intriguing, a handwritten plea for help dated April 2, 1357…from Professor Johnston! Determined to solve the mystery, the students head for ITC headquarters, where they are stunned to learn of Doniger’s new invention — a machine that can actually transmit three-dimensional objects through space. Although he meant for the device to revolutionize shipping, Doniger inadvertently opened a wormhole that leads directly to the 14th century, and Professor Johnston, who had insisted on experiencing the discovery himself, is now trapped in a vicious French vs. English feudal war! Can Johnston’s loyal students survive one of the most violent battles in world history… and make it back to the 21st century alive?

The Boondock Saints (1999)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Willem Dafoe | Sean Patrick Flanery | Norman Reedus | David Della Rocco | Billy Connolly | David Ferry | Brian Mahoney | Bob Marley | Richard Fitzpatrick | William Young | Robert Pemberton | Bill Craig | Dot Jones | Scott Griffith | Layton Morrison
Directors: Troy Duffy
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Two Irish brothers accidentally killed mafia thugs. They turned themselves in and were released as heroes. They then see it as a calling by God and started knocking off mafia gang members one by one. Willem Dafoe plays the detective trying to figure out the killings, but the closer he was to catching the Irish brothers, the more he thinks the brothers are doing the right thing.

White Oleander (2002)

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Amy Aquino | John Billingsley | Elisa Bocanegra | Darlene Bohorquez | Solomon Burke Jr. | Scott Allan Campbell | Sam Catlin | Debra Christofferson | Billy Connolly | Marc Donato | Svetlana Efremova | Patrick Fugit | Vernon Haas | Sean Happy | Cole Hauser
Directors: Peter Kosminsky
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Astrid Magnussen is a 15 year old girl, living in California. Her mother, Ingrid, is a beautiful, free-spirited poet. Their life, though unusual, is satisfying until one day, a man named Barry Kolker (that her mother refers to at first as “The goat man”) comes into their lives, and Ingrid falls madly in love with him, only to have her heart broken, and her life ruined. For revenge, Ingrid murders Barry with the deadly poison of her favourite flower: The White Oleander. She is sent to prison for life, and Astrid has to go through foster home after foster home. Throughout nearly a decade she experiences forbidden love, religion, near-death experiences, drugs, starvation, and how it feels to be loved. But throughout these years, she keeps in touch with her mother via letters to prison. And while Ingrid’s gift is to give Astrid the power to survive, Astrid’s gift is to teach her Mother about love.

Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Jim Carrey | Liam Aiken | Emily Browning | Kara Hoffman | Shelby Hoffman | Jude Law | Timothy Spall | | Billy Connolly | Meryl Streep | Luis Guzmán | Jamie Harris | Craig Ferguson | Jennifer Coolidge | Jane Adams
Directors: Brad Silberling
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Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire are three intelligent young children who receive terrible news that their parents have died in a fire and have left them an enormous fortune not to be used until the eldest child is of age. When they are sent to live with Count Olaf, a greedy distant relative, they soon learn he is trying to steal their fortune for himself.