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Glasgow (pronounced /ˈɡlæzɡoʊ/ Scots: Glesga Scottish Gaelic: Glaschu) is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands. A person from Glasgow is known as a Glaswegian, which is also the...
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Red Road

Red Road is a 2006 British film directed by Andrea Arnold. It tells the story of a CCTV security operator who observes through her monitors a man from her past. It is named after, and partly set at, the Red Road flats in Barmulloch, Glasgow,...

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  • 2006

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  • 113 min (67.8 hs )

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Sweet Sixteen

Sweet Sixteen is a 2002 film by director Ken Loach. The film tells the story of a working class Scottish teenage boy, Liam (played by Martin Compston), a typical 'ned', who dreams of starting afresh with his mother who is completing a prison term....

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  • 2002

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  • 106 min (63.6 hs )

The House of Mirth

The House of Mirth (1905), by Edith Wharton, is a novel about New York socialite Lily Bart attempting to secure a husband and a place in rich society. It is one of the first novels of manners in American literature. The title derives from...

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  • 2000

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  • 140 min (84 hs )

Young Adam

Young Adam is a 2003 British drama film written and directed by David Mackenzie. The screenplay is based on the 1954 novel of the same name by Alexander Trocchi. The film is set in Scotland in the early 1950s. Shiftless young drifter Joe Taylor...

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  • Sep 26, 2003

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  • 93 min (56 hs )

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Shallow Grave

Shallow Grave is a 1994 British crime thriller film that marks the directorial debut of Danny Boyle with an original screenplay by John Hodge. The film also provided starring roles for the then unknown actors Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston and...

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  • 1994

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  • 89 min (53 hs )

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Taggart

Taggart is a long-running Scottish detective television programme, created by Glenn Chandler, who has written many of the episodes, and made by STV Productions for the ITV network. Taggart is a Glaswegian detective television programme, originally...

My Name Is Joe

My Name Is Joe is a 1998 Scottish film directed by Ken Loach. The film stars Peter Mullan as Joe Kavanagh, an unemployed recovering alcoholic in Glasgow who meets and falls in love with a health visitor. David McKay plays his troubled friend Liam....

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  • 1998

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  • 105 min (63 hs )

Small Faces

Small Faces (1996) is a Scottish film directed by Gillies MacKinnon about gangs, specifically the Tongs, in 1960s Glasgow. It stars Iain Robertson, Joseph McFadden, Steven Duffy, Kevin McKidd, Laura Fraser, Mark McConnochie, Clare Higgins, Garry...

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  • 1996

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  • 108 min (64.8 hs )

Dear Frankie

Dear Frankie is a 2004 British drama film directed by Shona Auerbach. The screenplay by Andrea Gibb focuses on a young single mother whose love for her son prompts her to perpetuate a deception designed to protect him from the truth about his father...

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  • May 4, 2004

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  • 105 min (63 hs )

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Unleashed

Unleashed (also known as Danny the Dog), is a 2005 action/thriller film, directed by Louis Leterrier and written by Luc Besson. It is set in Glasgow. Unleashed follows Danny, a Chinese man who was raised by a British gangster named Bart, who trained...

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  • May 13, 2005

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  • 102 min (61.2 hs )

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Carla's Song

Carla's Song (1996) is a British movie directed by Ken Loach with screenplay by Paul Laverty. Set in 1987, it tells the story of the relationship between a Scottish bus driver, George Lennox (Robert Carlyle) and Carla (Oyanka Cabezas), a Nicaraguan...

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  • 1996

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Comfort and Joy

Comfort and Joy is a 1984 film directed by Bill Forsyth. It stars Bill Paterson as a Glasgow radio DJ whose life undergoes a bizarre upheaval when his girlfriend leaves him. In Glasgow, just before Christmas, newly-single radio disc jockey Allan ...

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  • Oct 10, 1984

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  • 106 min (63.6 hs )

Ratcatcher

Ratcatcher is a 1999 film written and directed by Lynne Ramsay. It is her debut feature film and was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. The film tells the story of James, a 12-year-old boy living in an...

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  • Nov 12, 1999

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  • 94 min (56 hs )

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Beautiful Creatures

Beautiful Creatures is a 2000 English black comedy/thriller film directed by Bill Eagles and starring Susan Lynch and Rachel Weisz. Lynch received a British Independent Film Award nomination for her role.

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  • 2000

Runtime:

  • 86 min (52 hs )

Postmortem

Postmortem is a 1998 film directed by Albert Pyun and starring Charlie Sheen (credited as Charles Sheen). James McGregor receives a fax of a stranger's obituary. The next day, he is arrested and charged with the stranger's murder.

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  • 1998

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Late Night Shopping

Late Night Shopping (2001) is a comedy funded by FilmFour Productions. The film is about four young friends (Sean, Vincent, Jody and Lenny) who all work the graveyard shifts in various soul-killing jobs (the hospital, a supermarket, a factory and a...

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  • 2001

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  • 91 min (55 hs )

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Ae Fond Kiss

Ae Fond Kiss... (also known as Just a Kiss) is a 2004 romantic drama film directed by Ken Loach, and starring Atta Yaqub and Eva Birthistle. The title is taken from a Scottish poem by Robert Burns, the complete line being "Ae fond kiss, and then we...

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  • Jul 11, 2005

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  • 103 min (61.8 hs )

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Orphans Of The Storm

Orphans of the Storm (1921) is a film by D.W. Griffith set in late 18th century France, before and during the French Revolution. This was the last Griffith film to feature Lillian and Dorothy Gish, and is often considered Griffith's last major...

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  • 1921

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  • 190 min (114 hs )

Restless Natives

Restless Natives (1985) is a comedy film directed by Michael Hoffman and starring Vincent Friell, Joe Mullaney, and Ned Beatty. Filmed in Scotland, the story follows the adventures of two young men who don masks (a clown and a wolf-man) and hold up...

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  • 1985

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  • 90 min (54 hs )

Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself

Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself is a Swedish-Danish film from 2002.

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  • Nov 8, 2002

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On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever is a 1970 American musical/romantic fantasy film directed by Vincente Minnelli. The screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner is adapted from his book for the 1965 stage production of the same name. The songs feature lyrics by...

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  • 1970

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  • 129 min (77.4 hs )

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