Research guides: Scottish Cinema: Films A-Z

Films A-Z

Braveheart.
Call Number: PN1997 .B73 2000
Directed by Mel Gibson.
177 minutes; released 1995.
Gibson directs and stars in this Academy Award-winning epic based on the life of legendary thirteenth century Scottish hero William Wallace.
Gregory's Girl.
Call Number: PN1997 .G763 2001
Directed by Bill Forsyth.
91 minutes; released 1981.
Gregory loses his place on his high school soccer team, only to fall in love with the girl who's replaced him. Starring John Gordon Sinclair, Dee Hepburn, Jake D'Arcy and Clare Grogan.
Local Hero.
Call Number: PN1997 .L6335 2011
Directed by Bill Forsyth.
111 minutes; released 1983.
A comedy about the interaction between Americans representing a Texas oil company and the inhabitants of a small village in Scotland.
Man of Aran.
Call Number: PN1997 .M35 2003
Directed by Robert J. Flaherty.
77 minutes; released 1934.
Flaherty's documentary about life in the Aran Islands.
Orphans.
Call Number: PN1997 .O75 2000
Directed by Peter Mullan.
98 minutes; released 1998.
Brought together by their mother's death, four siblings of a Scottish Catholic working class family are propelled into a comical nightmare of absurd mishaps and bittersweet mayhem.
Ratcatcher.
Call Number: PN1997 .R38 2002
Directed by Lynne Ramsay.
94 minutes; released 1999.
Life in a Glasgow housing project during the 1973 garbage workers strike as seen through the eyes of 12-year-old.
Seachd: The Inaccessible Pinnacle.
Call Number: PN1997.2 .S433 2008
Directed by Simon Miller.
88 minutes; released 2007.
A young man's curiosity about his family history leads him on an adventure to one of Scotland's most treacherous mountains. Seachd is the first contemporary Scots Gaelic feature film. In Gaelic with English and Spanish subtitles. This is a Region 2 DVD and may not be compatible with all DVD players.
Trainspotting.
Call Number: PR6073 .E47 T732 2011
Directed by Danny Boyle.
94 minutes; released 1996.
An intimate look inside the subculture of heroin abuse in Scotland based on the novel by Irvine Welsh. Audio-track available in English or French. Starring Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller and Kelly Macdonald.
Tunes of Glory.
Call Number: PR6061 .E59 T82 2004
Directed by Ronald Neame.
106 minutes; released 1960.
A whiskey-drinking commanding officer of a peacetime Scottish battalion and his educated, by-the-book rival become locked in a fierce battle for control of the battalion and the hearts and minds of its men. Starring Alec Guinness.