Best Billy Connolly movies
Today we present the best Billy Connolly movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen ... and that you love! Let's go there with the best movies from Billy Connolly:
TOP 25: The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
Billy Connolly as: Poppa Il Duce
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Release: 2009
Skillfully framed by an unknown enemy for the murder of a priest, wanted vigilante MacManus brothers Murphy and Connor must come out of hiding on a sheep farm in Ireland to fight for justice in Boston.
TOP 24: Open Season
Billy Connolly as: McSquizzy (voice)
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
Release: 2006
Boog, a domesticated 900lb. Grizzly bear finds himself stranded in the woods 3 days before Open Season. Forced to rely on Elliot, a fast-talking mule deer, the two form an unlikely friendship and must quickly rally other forest animals if they are to form a rag-tag army against the hunters.
TOP 23: The Aristocrats
Billy Connolly as: Himself
Genre: Comedy, Documentary
Release: 2005
One hundred superstar comedians tell the same very, VERY dirty, filthy joke--one shared privately by comics since Vaudeville.
TOP 22: Wild Oats
Billy Connolly as: Chandler
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 2016
Everything changes for Eva when she receives an insurance settlement check accidentally made out for $5,000,000 instead of the expected $50.000. She and her best friend take the money and head out for the adventure of a lifetime.
TOP 21: The Return of the Musketeers
Billy Connolly as: Caddie
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Release: 1989
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.
TOP 20: Fuck
Billy Connolly as: Himself
Genre: Documentary
Release: 2005
A documentary on the expletive's origin, why it offends some people so deeply, and what can be gained from its use.
TOP 19: Indecent Proposal
Billy Connolly as: Auction M.C.
Genre: Romance, Drama
Release: 1993
John Gage offers a down-on-his-luck yuppie husband $1 million for the opportunity to spend the night with the man's wife.
TOP 18: Fido
Billy Connolly as: Fido
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama, Horror
Release: 2006
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.
TOP 17: Muppet Treasure Island
Billy Connolly as: Billy Bones
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Music, Romance, Family
Release: 1996
After telling the story of Flint's last journey to young Jim Hawkins, Billy Bones has a heart attack and dies just as Jim and his friends are attacked by pirates. The gang escapes into the town where they hire out a boat and crew to find the hidden treasure, which was revealed by Bones before he died. On their voyage across the seas, they soon find out that not everyone on board can be trusted.
TOP 16: Quartet
Billy Connolly as: Wilf Bond
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 2012
The directorial debut of Dustin Hoffman, Quartet is a high-drama comedy about temperamental divas and old grudges, passion and pride, romance and Rigoletto. At a home for retired musicians, the annual concert to celebrate Verdi's birthday is disrupted by the arrival of Jean, an eternal diva and former wife of one of the residents. Expect poignancy and plenty of laughs.
TOP 15: The Man Who Sued God
Billy Connolly as: Steve Myers
Genre: Comedy
Release: 2001
A lawyer becomes a fisherman from frustration. When his one piece of property, his boat, is struck by lightning and destroyed he is denied insurance money because it was “an act of God”. He re-registers as a lawyer and sues the insurance company and, as God’s representative, The Church.
TOP 14: Overnight
Genre: Documentary
Release: 2003
Alternately hilarious and horrifying, Overnight chronicles one man's misadventures of making a Hollywood movie. It starts out as a rags to riches story as Troy Duffy, a Boston-bred bartender, sells his first screenplay for The Boondock Saints.
TOP 13: What We Did on Our Holiday
Billy Connolly as: Gordie McLeod
Genre: Comedy
Release: 2014
Doug and Abi and their three children travel to the Scottish Highlands for Doug's father Gordie's birthday party. It's soon clear that when it comes to keeping a secret under wraps from the rest of the family, their children are their biggest liability...
TOP 12: Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Billy Connolly as: Dr. Montgomery Montgomery
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Release: 2004
Three wealthy children's parents are killed in a fire. When they are sent to a distant relative, they find out that he is plotting to kill them and seize their fortune. This movie is extremely alarming, an expression which here means "a thrilling misadventure involving three ingenious orphans and a villainous actor named Count Olaf (Jim Carrey) who wants their enormous fortune." It includes a suspicious fire, delicious pasta, Jim Carrey, poorly behaved looches, Billy Connolly, an incredibly deadly viper, Meryl Streep, and the voice of an imposter named Jude Law.
TOP 11: Mrs Brown
Billy Connolly as: John Brown
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Release: 1997
When Queen Victoria's husband Prince Albert dies, she finds solace in her trusted servant, Mr. John Brown. But their relationship also brings scandal and turmoil to the monarchy.
TOP 10: Still Crazy
Billy Connolly as: Hughie
Genre: Comedy, Music
Release: 1998
In the seventies Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies, drugs, internal tension and an ex front man dead from an overdose. Even their demise was glamorous; when lightning struck the stage during an outdoor festival. 20 years on and these former rock gods they have now sunk deep into obscurity when the idea of a reunion tour is lodged in the head of Tony, former keyboard player of the Fruits. Tony sets out to find his former bandmates with the help of former manager Karen to see if they can recapture the magic and give themselves a second chance.
TOP 9: The Ballad of Nessie
Billy Connolly as: Narrator (voice)
Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Family
Release: 2011
A legendary and friendly creature named Nessie lives happily in a small pond with her friend MacQuack, a rubber duck. When a rich developer takes the pond and land surrounding it to build a miniature golf course, Nessie is forced to search for a new home.
TOP 8: Brave
Billy Connolly as: Fergus (voice)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Action, Fantasy
Release: 2012
Brave is set in the mystical Scottish Highlands, where Mérida is the princess of a kingdom ruled by King Fergus and Queen Elinor. An unruly daughter and an accomplished archer, Mérida one day defies a sacred custom of the land and inadvertently brings turmoil to the kingdom. In an attempt to set things right, Mérida seeks out an eccentric old Wise Woman and is granted an ill-fated wish. Also figuring into Mérida’s quest — and serving as comic relief — are the kingdom’s three lords: the enormous Lord MacGuffin, the surly Lord Macintosh, and the disagreeable Lord Dingwall.
TOP 7: Pocahontas
Billy Connolly as: Ben (voice)
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Romance, Family
Release: 1995
Pocahontas, daughter of a Native American tribe chief, falls in love with an English soldier as colonists invade 17th century Virginia.
TOP 6: White Oleander
Billy Connolly as: Barry Kolker
Genre: Drama
Release: 2002
A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.
TOP 5: The Boondock Saints
Billy Connolly as: II Duce
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Release: 1999
Tired of the crime overrunning the streets of Boston, Irish Catholic twin brothers Conner and Murphy are inspired by their faith to cleanse their hometown of evil with their own brand of zealous vigilante justice. As they hunt down and kill one notorious gangster after another, they become controversial folk heroes in the community. But Paul Smecker, an eccentric FBI agent, is fast closing in on their blood-soaked trail.
TOP 4: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Billy Connolly as: Dain
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Release: 2012
Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit enjoying his quiet life, is swept into an epic quest by Gandalf the Grey and thirteen dwarves who seek to reclaim their mountain home from Smaug, the dragon.
TOP 3: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Billy Connolly as: Dain
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Release: 2014
Immediately after the events of The Desolation of Smaug, Bilbo and the dwarves try to defend Erebor's mountain of treasure from others who claim it: the men of the ruined Laketown and the elves of Mirkwood. Meanwhile an army of Orcs led by Azog the Defiler is marching on Erebor, fueled by the rise of the dark lord Sauron. Dwarves, elves and men must unite, and the hope for Middle-Earth falls into Bilbo's hands.
TOP 2: The Last Samurai
Billy Connolly as: Zebulon Gant
Genre: Drama, Action, War, History
Release: 2003
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.
TOP 1: Live Aid
Genre: Documentary, Music
Release: 1985
Live Aid was held on 13 July 1985, held simultaneously in Wembley Stadium in London, England, and the John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, United States. It was one of the largest-scale satellite link-ups and television broadcasts of all time: an estimated global audience of 1.9 billion, across 150 nations, watched the live broadcast. It's twelve noon in London, seven AM in Philadelphia, and around the world it's time for: Live Aid...