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Browse 115 movies from Scottish Television (STV)
Flying bin bags, missing sofas, broken lifts and a complete power failure make an interesting night for tenants of a council tower block.
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
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
Leonard is the victim of obsessive compulsive behaviour; meticulous and insular, his world is at home. When his long-lost son, Callum, turns up on the doorstep, seeming to be the epitome of Leonard's worst paranoias, their differences appear irreconcilable.
Oct 2001
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 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
A teenager falls hard for the female soccer player who has replaced him on the team and attempts to pursue her.
Apr 1981
In the wake of their mother's death, two small boys are held captive to their father's grief. But when their mother's last wish heralds the arrival of their estranged grandmother, their fierce independence sets in motion a household power struggle that threatens to confront the ghosts of the past.
Aug 2000
Dramatic account of the deputy fuhrer's infamous flight to Scotland during World War II.
Sep 1978
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
A middle-aged doctor has an affair with the student actor she's housing during the Edinburgh Festival.
May 1982
Jerry and Gordy are white trash hoodlums surfing into adulthood as their factory town school closes for the summer. But their teenage daydreams turn sour when the test of friendship and the ties that bind transform an innocent quest for freedom into a baptism of fire.
This 1986 documentary features interviews with director Alexander Mackendrick, actor Burt Lancaster, producer James Hill, and others.
Jan 1986
An insight into what goes on in the ladies loos of a nightclub as seen by the mirror on the wall.
A man lives in an asteroid belt carrying out a lonely mission.
Jan 2002
Davie is about to embark on his working life. Today is his first day at the local knackery.
Aug 1998
Duncan and George compete to be Alasdair's best man.
Aug 2004
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
Documentary for Scottish television about the making of Bill Forsyth's 1983 film "Local Hero."
Dec 1983
A postman has to face down a dangerous dog and an ex partner.
Aug 1997