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Browse 115 movies from Scottish Television (STV)
Radio host Alan 'Dickie' Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families over the icecream market of Glasgow.
Aug 1984
A teenager falls hard for the female soccer player who has replaced him on the team and attempts to pursue her.
Nov 1980
Documentary for Scottish television about the making of Bill Forsyth's 1983 film "Local Hero."
Dec 1983
Jun 1991
A 1993 TV special and biography of Sean Connery featuring archive footage and appearances by Albert R. Broccoli, Michael Caine, and Michael Feeney Callan.
Jan 1993
Tony Roper wrote 'The Steamie' for Glasgow's Mayfest in 1987. Return to Hogmany 1957 when a fiesty group of Glasgow women; Mrs Culfeathers, Dolly, Doreen and the irrepressible Magrit, all meet at The Steamie to do the traditional family wash before the New Year. The Steamie is a hilarious cameo of Glasgow's social history where the washing was always easier to do when the Women shared their laugher and sorrow and a scandalous supply of gossip. This is the definitive version of the most popular play of the last 20 years with the all star cast of Dorothy Paul as Magrit, Eileen McCallum as Dolly, Kate Murphy as Doreen, Sheila McDonald as Mrs Culfeathers and a very young Peter Mullan as Andy, the whisky loving handy man.
Dec 1988
Sean Connery examines the gap and suspicion in the relationship between management and workers in industry, and shows how one Scottish shipyard is trying to change that and what could well be a blueprint for other companies to follow.
Jul 1967
This 1986 documentary features interviews with director Alexander Mackendrick, actor Burt Lancaster, producer James Hill, and others.
Jan 1986
A man lives in an asteroid belt carrying out a lonely mission.
Jan 2002
Downtrodden Frankie is given an opportunity that is too good to refuse when a chance encounter gives him 24 hours to get his life back on track and revive his romance.
Jan 2004
It's Laura's first job and she is anxious to do well, but her instinctive empathy with the elderly people in her care puts her in conflict with her colleagues.
Aug 2001
Harry is a small time gangster in hiding. Sheila is the ultimate femme fatale and they are stuck together like rats in a trap.
Apr 1996
A man returns to his local community after serving prison time but finds that the locals are less than pleased to see him back.
Arthur is a confirmed bachelor. But when he meets Ann Mitchell his fixed attitudes are severely challenged.
Jun 1982
Dramatic account of the deputy fuhrer's infamous flight to Scotland during World War II.
Sep 1978
An insight into what goes on in the ladies loos of a nightclub as seen by the mirror on the wall.
A television documentary about Scottish society's attitudes towards homosexuality, including interviews with gay men and couples, featuring footage of the Edinburgh Gay Centre and the Lavender Menace bookshop.
May 1983
A postman has to face down a dangerous dog and an ex partner.
Aug 1997
Flying bin bags, missing sofas, broken lifts and a complete power failure make an interesting night for tenants of a council tower block.
A lorry driver feeling isolated from his family and a woman with a troubling secret help each other to find out some answers on a journey to Land’s End.
Aug 2000