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What is the best Terry Gilliam film of all time?

By YPB Team

Some of these were fought over with studios for years; others barely escaped their own productions. The consensus picks and the disasters sit in the same bracket.

  1. Brazil — ranked #11
    Brazil
    A 1985 dystopian satire about a clerk in a bureaucratic state who escapes into daydreams.
    1000pts
  2. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus — ranked #22
    The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
    A 2009 fantasy about a travelling showman whose mirror leads into the imagination.
    914pts
  3. Monty Python and the Holy Grail — ranked #33
    Monty Python and the Holy Grail
    The 1975 Arthurian comedy Gilliam co-directed with Terry Jones.
    792pts
  4. The Zero Theorem — ranked #44
    The Zero Theorem
    A 2013 science-fiction film about a reclusive programmer ordered to prove existence is meaningless.
    621pts
  5. 12 Monkeys — ranked #55
    12 Monkeys
    A 1995 science-fiction thriller about a prisoner sent back in time to trace a deadly virus.
    621pts
  6. Jabberwocky — ranked #66
    Jabberwocky
    Gilliam's 1977 solo debut, a medieval comedy about a cooper's son facing a monster.
    548pts
  7. Tideland — ranked #77
    Tideland
    A 2005 drama following a young girl who retreats into fantasy in an abandoned prairie house.
    464pts
  8. The Fisher King — ranked #88
    The Fisher King
    A 1991 drama about a disgraced radio host and a homeless man on a quest through New York.
    365pts
  9. The Brothers Grimm — ranked #99
    The Brothers Grimm
    A 2005 fantasy adventure casting the fairy-tale collectors as con men facing a real curse.
    365pts
  10. Time Bandits — ranked #1010
    Time Bandits
    A 1981 fantasy adventure in which a boy joins six dwarves robbing their way through history.
    249pts
  11. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen — ranked #1111
    The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
    A 1988 fantasy epic following the tall tales of an aging baron and his impossible crew.
    249pts
  12. The Man Who Killed Don Quixote — ranked #1212
    The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
    Gilliam's 2018 film, finished after decades of collapsed productions, about a director pulled into Quixote's delusion.
    249pts
  13. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas — ranked #1313
    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
    A 1998 adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's drug-soaked trip through Nevada.
    0pts

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