Tag: scotland

  • Young Adam

    A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers’ lives while hiding the fact that he knows more about a dead woman found in the river than he admits.

  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

    A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12-year-old charges with her over-romanticized worldview.

  • Dear Frankie

    Nine-year-old Frankie and his single mum Lizzie have been on the move ever since Frankie can remember, most recently arriving in a seaside Scottish town. Wanting to protect her deaf son from the truth that they’ve run away from his father, Lizzie has invented a story that he is away at sea on the HMS Accra. Every few weeks, Lizzie writes Frankie a make-believe letter from his father, telling of his adventures in exotic lands. As Frankie tracks the ship’s progress around the globe, he discovers that it is due to dock in his hometown. With the real HMS Accra arriving in only a fortnight, Lizzie must choose between telling Frankie the truth or finding the perfect stranger to play Frankie’s father for just one day…

  • The Day After Tomorrow

    After paleoclimatologist Jack Hall is largely ignored by UN officials when presenting his environmental concerns about the beginning of a new Ice Age, his research proves true when a superstorm develops, setting off catastrophic natural disasters throughout the world. Trying to get to his son, Sam, who is trapped in New York City with his friend Laura and others, Jack and his crew must travel to get to Sam before it’s too late.

  • The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby

    This is the true story of a little dog that refused to leave his master’s graveside in Edinburgh. The dog visited the grave for years.

  • Man to Man

    An epic about anthropologists who hunt and capture pygmies for study back in Europe, in an attempt to illustrate the link between man and ape.

  • Death Defying Acts

    On a tour of Britain in 1926, Harry Houdini enters into a passionate affair with a psychic out to con the famous magician.

  • The Water Horse

    A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend.

  • Made of Honor

    Tom and Hannah have been platonic friends for 10 years. He’s a serial dater, while she wants marriage but hasn’t found Mr. Right. Just as Tom is starting to think that he is relationship material after all, Hannah gets engaged. When she asks Tom to be her ‘maid’ of honor, he reluctantly agrees just so he can attempt to stop the wedding and woo her.

  • The Wicker Tree

    Gospel singer Beth and her cowboy boyfriend Steve leave Texas to preach door-to-door in Scotland. When, after initial abuse, they are welcomed with joy and elation to Tressock, the border fiefdom of Sir Lachlan Morrison, they’re about to learn the real meaning of sacrifice.