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51. A Man Called Peter (1955)
Approved | 119 min | Biography, Drama, Family
The rise of Peter Marshall, from modest Scottish upbringing, to New York seminary, time in Atlanta churches, his marriage, appointment as chaplain of the US Senate, and early death at 46. Based on real events.
Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Richard Todd, Jean Peters, Marjorie Rambeau, Jill Esmond
Votes: 1,138
52. That Sinking Feeling (1979)
PG | 93 min | Comedy, Crime
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Bill Forsyth | Stars: Tom Mannion, Eddie Burt, Richard Demarco, Alex Mackenzie
Votes: 1,285
53. A Sense of Freedom (1981)
81 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The life and imprisonment of Glasgow hard man and gangster Jimmy Boyle.
Director: John Mackenzie | Stars: David Hayman, Jake D'Arcy, Sean Scanlan, Alex Norton
Votes: 616
54. Orphans (1998)
101 min | Comedy, Drama
Four siblings gathered together for their mother's funeral in Glasgow face individual torments over night during a tumultuous storm that rips the roof off the church.
Director: Peter Mullan | Stars: Douglas Henshall, Gary Lewis, Rosemarie Stevenson, Stephen McCole
Votes: 1,796 | Gross: $0.05M
55. Postmortem (I) (1998)
R | 105 min | Thriller
The only thing James wants is to remain away from Scotland. One day, however, he receives a fax, a printout of an unknown person's obituary. The next day, he is charged and arrested for the murder of this person.
Director: Albert Pyun | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Michael Halsey, Ivana Milicevic, Stephen McCole
Votes: 2,146
56. Late Night Shopping (2001)
91 min | Comedy
An upbeat, oddball, after-hours comedy about the ups and downs of sex and shelf-stacking in the 21st century.
Director: Saul Metzstein | Stars: Luke de Woolfson, James Lance, Kate Ashfield, Enzo Cilenti
Votes: 2,308
57. Tinsel Town (2000–2001)
42 min | Drama
Drama set in Glasgows's high-octane club scene about the lifestyles of the people who go to Tinsel Town nightclub.
Stars: Dawn Steele, Patricia Ross, Andrew Flanagan, Jim Manclark
Votes: 282
58. Crackers (1998)
92 min | Comedy
It's Christmas, and Hilary and her son, Joey are going to visit her parents in the suburbs. Not only are they up for the problems between Joey and Hilary's boyfriend and his son, but they ... See full summary »
Director: David Swann | Stars: Warren Mitchell, Peter Rowsthorn, Susan Lyons, Daniel Kellie
Votes: 446
59. Strictly Sinatra (2001)
R | 97 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Small-time crooner find himself on the receiving end of the threatening attentions of a gangster, whose wife has fallen for the singer's Sinatra-like aura.
Director: Peter Capaldi | Stars: Ian Hart, Kelly Macdonald, Brian Cox, Alun Armstrong
Votes: 566 | Gross: $0.00M
60. Maggie (II) (1981–1982)
Drama, Family
Drama series about a teenage girl growing up in Glasgow.
Stars: Kirsty Miller, Michael Sheard, Mary Riggans, Anne Berry
Votes: 32
61. Glasgow Girls (2014 TV Movie)
Drama
In 2005 15-year old Agnesa Murselaj and her mother, both Kosovan Roma refugees, are seized in a dawn raid and remanded whilst waiting deportation. Six of Agnesa's fellow pupils - both ... See full summary »
Director: Brian Welsh | Stars: Letitia Wright, Olivia Popica, Kirstie Steele, Aruhan Galieva
Votes: 100
62. The Gospel According to Vic (1986)
PG-13 | 92 min | Comedy, Drama
Vic Mathews (Tom Conti) teaches a remedial class at the Blessed Edith Semple School in Scotland. Some at the school are trying to discover the two more miracles that would promote the late ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Gormley | Stars: Tom Conti, Helen Mirren, David Hayman, Brian Pettifer
Votes: 598 | Gross: $0.27M
63. Danger Route (1967)
Approved | 92 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
During the Cold War, a British secret agent is ordered to kill a Soviet-bloc defector held by the CIA in England but this straightforward mission turns into a convoluted plot involving double-agents.
Director: Seth Holt | Stars: Richard Johnson, Carol Lynley, Barbara Bouchet, Sylvia Syms
Votes: 513
64. Wild Country (2005)
R | 67 min | Horror
In Glasgow, the teenager single mother Kelly Ann is forced by Father Steven "Steve" Gillis to deliver her baby boy for adoption. Six weeks later, Father Steve organizes a hike in the ... See full summary »
Director: Craig Strachan | Stars: Samantha Shields, Martin Compston, Peter Capaldi, Alan McHugh
Votes: 671
65. The Cabin (2011 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy
A pair of single parents, who have each brought their children to a remote Scottish resort for an annual family-and-games event, are accidentally booked into the same cabin. Naturally, they can't stand each other...at first.
Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith | Stars: Lea Thompson, Steven Brand, Bel Powley, Alice Felgate
Votes: 380
66. Shirley (2011 TV Movie)
60 min | Biography, Drama
In 1938 mixed race baby Shirley Bassey, her mother and eight siblings are living in a poor area of Cardiff after her father is imprisoned for sexual offences. The teen-aged Shirley will ... See full summary »
Director: Colin Teague | Stars: Ruth Negga, Lesley Sharp, Babou Ceesay, Victoria Pugh
Votes: 203
67. Dirty Water (2023– )
30 min | Comedy
Comedy series following the Eager Beavers, the worst cleaning company in town.
Stars: Stephen McCole, Kirsty Strain, Seylan Baxter, Billy Kirkwood
Votes: 62
68. What Every Woman Knows (1934)
Passed | 89 min | Comedy
The story takes place in Scotland, where plain Maggie Wylie's family, fearing she may become a spinster, finances young John Shand's studies in return for his agreement to marry her in five... See full summary »
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Helen Hayes, Brian Aherne, Madge Evans, Lucile Watson
Votes: 440
69. Psychos (1999– )
50 min | Drama
A challenging and provocative six-part drama set in the psychiatric ward of a Glasgow hospital.
Stars: Douglas Henshall, Neve McIntosh, Alastair Mackenzie, Alison Peebles
Votes: 119
70. High and Dry (1954)
Passed | 92 min | Comedy
An American businessman in Scotland is conned into shipping a valuable load of cargo to a Scottish island via a coal powered boat.
Director: Alexander Mackendrick | Stars: Paul Douglas, Alex Mackenzie, James Copeland, Abe Barker
Votes: 1,523
71. Children of the Cult (2021)
50 min | Documentary
Explores the world's most notorious and prolific cults Children of God, through the stories of three British women who escaped its clutches.
Stars: Verity Carter, Celeste Jones, Hope Bastine
Votes: 100
72. The Girl in the Picture (1985)
PG-13 | 84 min | Comedy, Romance
Alan and Mary are pretty miserable together and split up. As an very presentable Glaswegian photographer Alan soon has chances to find consolation elsewhere, but more and more thinks of Mary. She however seems a lot less keen to try again.
Director: Cary Parker | Stars: John Gordon Sinclair, Irina Brook, Gregor Fisher, Caroline Guthrie
Votes: 210 | Gross: $0.20M
73. Fred West: The Glasgow Girls (2023– )
60 min | Documentary, Crime
Uncovering the hidden lives and experiences of Fred West first three victims his first wife, Rena Costello, her daughter Charmaine and her friend Anne McFall, when he was living in Glasgow in the early 1960s.
Star: Jane Carter Woodrow
Votes: 111
74. Silent Scream (1990)
85 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
In London 1963, Larry Winters (Iain Glen) murders a bartender. Sentenced to life Winters has fits of rage which continue until prison doctors put him in an experimental unit. Flashbacks to ... See full summary »
Director: David Hayman | Stars: Iain Glen, Andrew Barr, Kenneth Glenaan, Steve Hotchkiss
Votes: 163
75. Urban Ghost Story (1998)
R | 82 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
After a car accident, Lizzie lies dead on the roadside - slowly she is taken into the light - but is pulled back to earth when she is revived by the doctors. Lizzie feels sure that during ... See full summary »
Director: Geneviève Jolliffe | Stars: Jason Connery, Stephanie Buttle, Heather Ann Foster, Nicola Stapleton
Votes: 661
76. Kenny (2017)
86 min | Documentary, Sport
An intimate and revealing portrait of Kenny Dalglish - the player, the man, the truth.
Director: Stewart Sugg | Stars: Margaret Aspinall, John Barnes, Kelly Cates, Jodie Christmas
Votes: 951
77. See What You Made Me Do (2021– )
Documentary
A 3-part documentary series that explores one of the most complex and urgent issues of our time - domestic abuse. Presented by investigative journalist Jess Hill, this series examines the fine lines between love, abuse and power.
Director: Tosca Looby | Star: Jess Hill
Votes: 47
78. The Bowler and the Bunnet (1967)
60 min | Documentary
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.
Director: Sean Connery | Star: Sean Connery
Votes: 67
79. The Green Buddha (1954)
Approved | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
International crook Wolf Frees and his partner, Percy Herbert, steal the "Green Buddah," a priceless eastern-art object, while it is on a display-exhibition in London. Frees double-crosses ... See full summary »
Director: John Lemont | Stars: Wayne Morris, Mary Germaine, Marcia Ashton, Mary Merrall
Votes: 70
80. Bumping the Odds (1997 TV Movie)
90 min | Thriller
Lynette organises a Nodge (a saving scheme) for her friends struggling in Glasgow's inner city. The live for the day the Nodge pays out to treat themselves. When friend Terry gets involved with a local villain relationships become toxic.
Director: Rob Rohrer | Stars: Shirley Henderson, Sharon Small, Joe McFadden, Garry Sweeney
Votes: 18
81. The Open Road (1926)
64 min | Documentary
Travelogue filmed between 1924 and 1926 on a motor journey between Land's End and John O'Groats using Friese-Green's two colour additive process.
Director: Claude Friese-Greene | Star: Norman Swan
Votes: 177
82. The Big Picnic (1996 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama
A group of young Glaswegian men have signed up for the City of Glasgow Battalion to fight in The First World War. It shows both the Home Front and Battlefield abroad.
Director: Derek Bailey | Stars: Luis Allan, Dave Anderson, Gary Bakewell, Freddie Boardley
Votes: 13
83. The Planman (2003 TV Movie)
180 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A lawyer finds himself increasingly frustrated by the professional criminals he is called upon to defend, and hooks upon the idea of devising perfect crimes.
Director: John Strickland | Stars: Robbie Coltrane, Neil Dudgeon, Graham Crowden, John McGlynn
Votes: 157
84. Nancy Drew: The Silent Spy (2013 Video Game)
E10+ | Adventure, Mystery
Teen detective Nancy Drew travels to Glasgow to investigate the role a mysterious terrorist organization played in her mother's death.
Director: Tim Burke | Stars: Lani Minella, Jeff Allen Pierce, Julia Stockton, Sofia Rybin
Votes: 55
85. Atlantic Ferry (1941)
Passed | 98 min | Drama, History, Romance
After their state-of-the-art steamship the "Gigantic" sinks a few minutes after being launched, the MacIver brothers of Liverpool begin to plan for the future of their company. David (... See full summary »
Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson, Griffith Jones, Hartley Power
Votes: 151
86. The Bogie Man (1992 TV Movie)
60 min | Comedy
A mental patient who believes he is Humphrey Bogart escapes from his institution and sets up in business as a private eye.
Director: Charles Gormley | Stars: Robbie Coltrane, Fiona Fullerton, Jean Anderson, Craig Ferguson
Votes: 51
87. Team-up (2016)
Short, Fantasy
When a part-time superhero meets a tech-savvy stranger, he seizes the opportunity to form the world's first superhero team. But can he convince the others to join?
Director: Graeme Cassels | Stars: Daniel Cahill, Richard Boa, Naomi Miller, Craig McGinlay
88. Fast Romance (2011)
97 min | Comedy, Romance
Set in the cosmopolitan city of Glasgow, with a vibrant soundtrack of local music, Fast Romance follows the interweaving stories of seven very different people who go looking for love and end up getting more than they bargained for.
Director: Carter Ferguson | Stars: Neo Akram, Dave Anderson, Matthew Barr, Jennifer Bates
Votes: 115
89. The Gorbals Story (1950)
74 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A young artist is almost driven to murder as a result of the pressures of living in a Glasgow slum.
Director: David MacKane | Stars: Howard Connell, Marjorie Thomson, Betty Henderson, Roddy McMillan
Votes: 103
90. G Force (1998–2000)
Comedy, Family
Children's comedy series set in the Scottish offices of a publicity company. Originally broadcast as segments within the children's show Fully Booked.
Stars: Jude Williams, John Wark, Hannah Nicol, Carmen Pierquaccini
Votes: 101
91. In Search of Bible John (2011 TV Movie)
45 min | Documentary, Crime
David Hayman analyses the unsolved murders of the 1960s Scottish serial killer "Bible John".
Director: Julian Dismore | Stars: David Hayman, Andy Beaven, John Beith, David Cowan
Votes: 8
92. Oasis: 10 Years of Noise & Confusion (2001 TV Special)
96 min | Music
Live coverage of British rock band Oasis performing at the Barrowland Ballroom in Glasgow, Scotland, as part of their 2001 "10 Years of Noise & Confusion" anniversary tour.
Director: Dick Carruthers | Stars: Oasis, Liam Gallagher, Noel Gallagher, Gem Archer
Votes: 42
93. Operation Alley Cat
30 min | Animation, Short, Adventure | Filming
An orphaned female mouse joins forces with a community of homeless animals to defeat a gang of lizard thugs, when its leader falls madly in love with her and attempts to kidnap her.
Director: Mark Flood | Stars: Jay Britton, Alan Orr, Mark Flood, David Wallace
94. Neds (2007 TV Short)
7 min | Documentary, Short
Set in Paisley, the 'NED' capital of Scotland, this film provides a comprehensive and candid look at the daily lives and habits of these "Non Educated Delinquents", from their pulling ... See full summary »
Director: Basil Khalil | Star: Marshall Porter
95. The Last Godfather (2016)
21 min | Short, Biography, Crime
Follows the life of Arthur Thompson, "The Godfather" of Glasgow, and his criminal underworld during a dark period and raging rivalry within the city of Glasgow.
Director: Cameron Thom | Stars: Michael Rooney, Cameron Thom
96. Limmy's Other Stuff (2020 TV Special)
27 min | Comedy
Limmy introduces a chronological compilation of his non-TV stuff, from his early pre-YouTube sketches, to his Vines, to his present-day livestreaming.
Director: Brian Limond | Star: Brian Limond
Votes: 14
97. An Act of Terror (2009)
100 min | Drama
Police raid a Glaswegian Asian household. The son, Ali is arrested on suspicion of terrorism. A night of darkness for the family who go through an unraveling of secrets.
Director: Shahid Nadeem | Stars: Sarmed Mirza, Ghizala Avan, Derek Miller McEwan, Shamshad Akhtar
Votes: 11
98. Created in Scotland (2018– )
45 min | Reality-TV
Following the lives of Scotlands unique elegant individuals
Stars: Robbie Aitken, Vicci Green, Cody Khairy, Sol Mohammed
99. The Glasgow Girls' Stories (2015 TV Movie)
29 min | Documentary
Director: Emma Bond | Stars: Dougie Vipond, Amal Azzudin, Colin Barr, Cora Bissett
100. Asset Management (2017)
8 min | Short, Thriller
A short psychological thriller about the darker side of possession, jealousy and control.
Director: Ewan Fletcher | Stars: Stephen Kerr, Amir Tabrizi, Judy Alfereti
Votes: 15