Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown (1997), Ae Fond Kiss ... (2004), The Keys of the Kingdom (1944), Madeleine (1950), Braveheart (1995), Trainspotting (1996), Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy With Time (2001), Joyeux Noel (2005) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Scotland movies.
Storyline: The friendship of a loyal servant, Scotsman John Brown (Billy Connolly), revives the spirits of Britain's widowed Queen Victoria (Judi Dench).
Plot Keywords: historical, biographical, drama, 19th century, power struggle, friendship, loneliness ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young man (Atta Yaqub) upsets his Punjabi family when he falls in love with an Irish schoolteacher (Eva Birthistle).
Plot Keywords: romance, cross-cultural, race, religion, family conflict, social pressure, immigration ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Orphaned as a child, Francis Chisholm (Gregory Peck) grows up to join the priesthood. He decides to become a missionary in China, and arrives to find the previous church burned down. Undaunted, he presses on, but doesn't initially fare well with the local populace. It's not until the child of a Mandarin falls ill that Chisholm proves his worth. Over time, he collaborates with a trio of nuns, endures several wars and, at the end of his life, returns to Scotland.
Plot Keywords: religion, faith, china, scotland, catholicism, humanity, sacrifice ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Upper-class Madeleine Smith (Ann Todd) stands trial for killing her French lover (Ivan Desny) in Victorian Scotland.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, historical, british film, black and white, classic, mystery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: William Wallace is a Scottish rebel who leads an uprising against the cruel English ruler Edward the Longshanks, who wishes to inherit the crown of Scotland for himself. When he was a young boy, William Wallace's father and brother, along with many others, lost their lives trying to free Scotland. Once he loses another of his loved ones, William Wallace begins his long quest to make Scotland free once and for all, along with the assistance of Robert the Bruce.
Plot Keywords: history, war, biography, epic, scotland, independence, freedom ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A wild, freeform, Rabelaisian trip through the darkest recesses of Edinburgh low-life, focusing on Mark Renton and his attempt to give up his heroin habit, and how the latter affects his relationship with family and friends: Sean Connery wannabe Sick Boy, dimbulb Spud, psycho Begbie, 14-year-old girlfriend Diane, and clean-cut athlete Tommy, who's never touched drugs but can't help being curious about them...
Plot Keywords: drugs, addiction, scotland, underground culture, punk, crime, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Portrait of Andy Goldsworthy, an artist whose specialty is ephemeral sculptures made from elements of nature.
Plot Keywords: documentary, art, nature, time, landscape, creative process, photography ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1914, World War I, the bloodiest war ever at that time in human history, was well under way. However on Christmas Eve, numerous sections of the Western Front called an informal, and unauthorized, truce where the various front-line soldiers of the conflict peacefully met each other in No Man's Land to share a precious pause in the carnage with a fleeting brotherhood. This film dramatizes one such section as the French, Scottish and German sides partake in the unique event, even though they are aware that their superiors will not tolerate its occurrence.
Plot Keywords: war, history, christmas, world war i, humanity, peace, soldiers ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 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...
Plot Keywords: drama, family, emotional, motherhood, single parent, scotland, letters ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Richard Hannay is a Canadian visitor to London. At the end of "Mr Memory"'s show in a music hall, he meets Annabella Smith, who is running away from secret agents. He agrees to hide her in his flat, but she is murdered during the night. Fearing that he could be accused of the murder, Hannay goes on the run to break the spy ring.
Plot Keywords: mystery, thriller, spy, manhunt, british, classic, film noir ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Glasgow, summer, 1973. Dustmen are striking; bags of garbage add to the blight of council flats and a fetid canal. Ryan, who's about 12, drowns during a play fight with his neighbor, the jug-eared James. James runs home, a flat where he lives with his often-drunk da, his ma, and sisters, who live in hope of moving to newly-built council flats. The slice-of-life, coming-of-age story follows James as he tags along with the older lads; has a friendship with his quirky wee rodent-loving neighbor, Kenny; spends time with Margaret Anne, myopic, slightly older, the local sexual punching bag; and, has a moment or two of joy. The strike may end, but is there any way out for James?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: drama, coming of age, social realism, poverty, scotland, glasgow, 1970s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A liberated young schoolteacher at an Edinburgh girls' school in the period between the two world wars, instructs her girls on the ways of life. Ignoring the more mundane subjects, she teaches them of love, politics and art. Her affairs with two male teachers become known and she finds herself fighting to keep her job. She believes that she can always count on the one hundred percent support of her favorite pupils, but one of them does not feel that Miss Jean Brodie (Dame Maggie Smith) is in her "prime" anymore. No longer swayed by her teacher's eloquence, she begins to learn about life and love herself.—Rhino <rhino@blueyonder.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: education, female coming-of-age, scotland, 1930s, teacher, teacher-student relationship, mind control ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: During the latter part of World War I, Private Charles Plumpick is chosen to go into the French town of Marville and disconnect a bomb that the German Army has planted. However, Charles is chased by some Germans, and finds himself holed up at the local insane asylum, where the inmates are convinced that he is the "King of Hearts". Feeling obligated to help the inmates, Charles attempts to lead them out of town, but they are afraid to leave, and frolic about the streets in gay costumes.—Rick Gregory <rag.apa@email.apa.org>
Plot Keywords: war, comedy, absurd, anti-war, french film, black comedy, mental asylum ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Major Jock Sinclair has been in this Highland regiment since he joined as a boy piper. During World War II, as Second-in-Command, he was made acting Commanding Officer. Now the regiment has returned to Scotland, and a new commanding officer is to be appointed. Jock's own cleverness is pitted against his new C.O., his daughter, his girlfriend, and the other officers in the Mess.—Aryk Nusbacher <nusbacher-a@rmc.ca>
Plot Keywords: war, military, scotland, power struggle, command, psychological conflict, tradition ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In a Scottish town in 1974, factory workers refuse to carry out repairs on warplane engines in an act of solidarity against the violent military coup in Chile. Four years pass before the engines, left to rust in factory yard, mysteriously disappear in the middle of the night.
Plot Keywords: documentary, history, politics, scotland, working class, social movement, solidarity ...
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