# What is the best Terry Gilliam film of all time?

> 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.

*By YPB Team · Published September 15, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/what-is-the-best-terry-gilliam-film-of-all-time*

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## Current results (no votes yet)

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

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