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Browse 51 movies from The Scottish Arts Council
In early 20th century New York City, an impoverished socialite desperately seeks a suitable husband as she gradually finds herself betrayed by her friends and exiled from high society.
Oct 2000
A group of four siblings reunite in Glasgow on the eve of their mother's funeral, and the children mourn their mother's passing in a variety of ways—sometimes heartfelt, sometimes bizarre. As a potential thunderstorm threatens to damage the city, the situation compounds itself.
Sep 1998
A young Glaswegian prostitute in London tries to start a new life.
Nov 1997
Set in 1943 in Scotland during World War II. Janie is a young housewife married to a man named Dougal, 15 years her senior. As part of a war rehabilitation program, Janie and Dougal welcome three Italian POWs to work on their farm. Soon, Janie falls in love with one of them...
May 1983
The life and work of the Scottish architect and artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
Jan 1968
Duncan and George compete to be Alasdair's best man.
Aug 2004
Unable to accept that she doesn't want to see him anymore, Joe threatens to shoot himself in the head at his ex-lover's apartment door, but is not expecting her to then attack him.
Aug 1996
The fates of four people are interwined over one night.
Closet is a short film about the policing of 'cottaging'.
Nov 1994
Black comedy about legs and why we need them.
Aug 2001
Scotland - the future. Democracy has evolved. Citizens vote in mandatory daily referenda and aspire to the ultimate prize - a place on IM: Heaven Above Earth.
Sonny, who has alcoholism, has to swallow his pride and plead to be allowed to return to the pub he has been banned from in order to take his son Mark for a drink.
Aug 1998
The misdaventures of a man who is forced to confront the realities of his life when he promises his estranged wife that he will get a pair of football boots for his son at any cost.
Aug 2000
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.
The Hollywood musical is brought to a Glasgow street. Amidst the crush of city life, two street musicians provide the backdrop for a girl meets boy story, with a spark of purely Glasgow magic.
Jan 1996
Events conspire against a council driver who desperately wants to see the highlights of a Scotland match.
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.
Paisley, Scotland, in 1957. Three likely lads look forward to the staff dance at the local carpet factory where they work
Aug 1997
The acclaimed Scottish poet discusses his work.
Jan 1977
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