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A Shot at Glory (2000)
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Seasoned goalkeeper-turned-coach Gordon McLeod makes a pact with best friend and fellow coach Martin Smith to turn down offers from a prestigious premier club. When Martin rescinds his promise and accepts an enticing contract, the betrayed Gordon returns...
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Ae Fond Kiss (2004)
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Ken Loach, known for his gritty, realistic dramas, delivers his most lighthearted film to date with A FOND KISS. While maintaining Loach's characteristic propensity for addressing important and complex social issues, A FOND KISS also depicts a...
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Beautiful Creatures (2001)
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Petula (Rachel Weisz) and Dorothy (Susan Lynch) are a couple of tough broads living in Glasgow. Their gangster boyfriends (Iain Glen and Tom Mannion) are constantly beating them up. When Dorothy knocks out Petula's boyfriend, trying to defend her from...
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Carla's Song (1996)
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Paul Laverty drew on his experiences as a lawyer working with human rights groups in Nicaragua in writing the script for CARLA'S SONG, which stars Robert Carlyle (TRAINSPOTTING) as George, a Glasgow bus driver. Attracted to Carla (Oyanka Cabezas), a...
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Comfort and Joy (1984)
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A wacky comedy about a Scottish radio personality who does a bit of soul searching after his neurotic girlfriend dumps him. Later, he becomes involved in a feud between two Italian ice cream families, the McKools and the McBunnies.
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Dear Frankie (2005)
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DEAR FRANKIE is a heartwarming and often humorous tale of nine year-old Frankie and his mom, Lizzie, who have been on the move ever since he can remember. To protect her son from the truth, Lizzie has invented a story to satisfy Frankie's curiosity. She...
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Down Among the Big Boys (1993)
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Louie Gibbons is to marry Claire Donnelly, the daughter of Jojo. Young Louie has followed his father into the police force and is now working for CID. He believes that Claire's father is a business man. However, Jojo's latest 'business' venture is to rob...
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Gregory's Girl (1981)
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Lanky young Gregory and his schoolmates are just starting to notice the opposite sex. Lacking confidence and unsure of exactly what to do, Gregory sets out to win the heart of Dee, a classmate who unfortunately is much better at soccer than he is....
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Gregory's Two Girls (2004)
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Twenty years ago, Gregory (John Gordon Sinclair) was first unleashed onto the world in Bill Forsythe's GREGORY'S GIRL. His unrequited passion for a football mad schoolgirl found some release in his mostly imaginary sex life. That was in 1979. This is...
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Morvern Callar (2002)
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Following her boyfriend's suicide, supermarket clerk Morvern Callar (Morton) passes off his unpublished novel as her own. With the money her boyfriend left for his funeral, she leaves Scotland for Ibiza where she travels with her closest friend. The...
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My Name Is Joe (1999)
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Joe Kavanagh is on the wagon, but still raw after some chaotic years of drinking. He is bursting with energy, determined to live life to the fullest and ready to make up for his past mistakes. Sarah Downey is an independent and private woman who lives...
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Orphans (1997)
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Four grown up children come together the night before the funeral of their mother in Glasgow. While Thomas sings a tribute in the local pub, a fight breaks out and Michael is stabbed. John wants to avenge his brother, while Thomas goes to chapel with his...
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Ratcatcher (2000)
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James' family lives in a poor neighborhood of Glasgow in the late 1970s. While they wait for relocation to a nicer part of town, James makes do with playing by the canal with Margaret Anne and Kenny. Margaret Anne is older, and willing to sleep with the...
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Restless Natives (1985)
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Two lads in Edinburgh embark on a non-violent spree of robberies. They dress up in clown masks and act as modern highwaymen, robbing coach loads of tourists in the highlands. In the process they become folk heroes to the locals. Their adventures make for...
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Riff-Raff (1990)
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Director Ken Loach's concern for the plight of the working man takes a comic turn in this gritty film starring Robert Carlyle (TRAINSPOTTING) as Stevie, a young Scotsman who finds a construction job in the north of London turning an old hospital into...
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Shallow Grave (1994)
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After three roommates finally choose a new roommate they think they can live with, they find him dead on the floor with a suitcase full of cash. While trying to remove the body and extricate themselves from the situation, they wade hip-deep into a world...
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Small Faces (1996)
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Three teenage brothers, gang-member Bobby, troubled mama's boy Charlie and self-assured prankster Lex, reside in a downtrodden section of Glasgow, circa 1968. But while Bobby and Charlie are beginning to experience the power of raging hormones, the story...
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Soft Top Hard Shoulder (1992)
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All Gavin has to do is drive from London to Glasgow in time for his father's birthday. Easy. But nothing in Gavin's life is ever that simple. First there is his car - it's slow, temperamental, and utterly infuriating. And then there is the hitch-hiker...
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Sweet Sixteen (2003)
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Waiting for his ex-junkie mother (Coulter) to get out of prison on his upcoming 16th birthday (giving the film its title), a Scottish teenager, Liam (Compston), from a rough neighborhood in Glasgow tries to raise enough money to buy a new home so they...
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That Sinking Feeling (1980)
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Ronnie, Wal, Andy and Vic are four bored, unemployed teens in dreary, rainy Glasgow. Ronnie comes up with a great idea. He has noticed that stainless steel sinks are worth a lot of money and comes up with a complicated scheme: to steal sinks from a...
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The Big Tease (2000)
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THE BIG TEASE is a charming mockumentary of the competitive side of Hollywood and awards shows in general. Ferguson (who co-wrote the screenplay) is Crawford Mackenzie, a Scottish hairdresser who travels to Los Angeles to participate in the World...
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The Fall of Shug McCracken (2002)
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When Glasgow City Parks' Department employee Shugie (Hugh) McCracken gets caught red-handed stealing £6.99 to buy booze and ciggies, he blames mice for the crime, claiming that they "ate the tickets". Scared of taking on the Union (who rise to the...
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Trainspotting (1996)
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Smart, funny, sickly and sometimes just plain unconscious, Mark Renton is a hero of our times. Set in an underbelly of Edinburgh the city fathers never dreamed of, this is the story of Mark and his so-called friends--a bunch of losers, liars, psychos,...
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Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2004)
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This is the story of two brothers in Glasgow, Harbour (Rawlins) and Wilbur (Sives) (who struggles with suicidal tendencies as the title suggests), who inherit a used bookstore. The brothers discover that a chance encounter with a cleaning lady at the...
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Young Adam (2003)
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The corpse of a young woman is found floating in a canal by a drifter working on a barge traveling between Glasgow and Edinburgh. His relationship with the dead woman gradually unfolds as claustrophobic tensions develop between him and the couple with...
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