Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "glasgow-scotland", "independent-film"

1. Under the Skin (I) (2013)

R | 108 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A mysterious young woman seduces lonely men in the evening hours in Scotland. However, events lead her to begin a process of self-discovery.

Director: Jonathan Glazer | Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy McWilliams, Lynsey Taylor Mackay, Dougie McConnell

Votes: 158,508 | Gross: $2.61M

2. Ratcatcher (1999)

Not Rated | 94 min | Drama

A naïve young lad navigates the dirty squalid streets of 1973 Glasgow and the poor youth around him.

Director: Lynne Ramsay | Stars: Tommy Flanagan, Mandy Matthews, William Eadie, Michelle Stewart

Votes: 11,816 | Gross: $0.22M

3. The Fourth Protocol (1987)

R | 119 min | Thriller

John Preston is a British Agent with the task of preventing the Russians detonating a nuclear explosion next to an American base in the UK. The Russians are hoping this will shatter the "special relationship" between the two countries.

Director: John Mackenzie | Stars: Michael Caine, Pierce Brosnan, Ned Beatty, Joanna Cassidy

Votes: 11,029 | Gross: $12.42M

4. My Name Is Joe (1998)

R | 105 min | Drama, Romance

Two thirty-somethings, unemployed former alcoholic Joe and community health worker Sarah, begin a romantic relationship in one of Glasgow''s toughest neighborhoods.

Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Peter Mullan, Louise Goodall, Gary Lewis, Lorraine McIntosh

Votes: 8,917 | Gross: $0.35M

5. Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2002)

R | 109 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The chronically suicidal Wilbur, and his good-hearted big brother, Harbour, are in their thirties when, their father dies and leaves them with nothing but a worn down second-hand bookshop in Glasgow.

Director: Lone Scherfig | Stars: Jamie Sives, Adrian Rawlins, Shirley Henderson, Lisa McKinlay

Votes: 8,079 | Gross: $0.23M

6. Comfort and Joy (1984)

PG | 106 min | Comedy

Alan Bird witnesses how an ice cream van is attacked and destroyed by an angry competitor. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families, the Bernardis and the Rossis, over whose ice cream vans can sell where in Glasgow.

Director: Bill Forsyth | Stars: Bill Paterson, Eleanor David, Clare Grogan, Alex Norton

Votes: 2,356 | Gross: $1.06M

7. Carla's Song (1996)

TV-MA | 127 min | Drama, Romance, War

1987, love in time of war. Bus driver George Lennox meets Carla, a Nicaraguan exile living a precarious, profoundly-sad life in Glasgow. Her back is scarred, her boyfriend missing, her ... See full summary »

Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Robert Carlyle, Oyanka Cabezas, Scott Glenn, Salvador Espinoza

Votes: 3,500

8. Scottish Mussel (2015)

96 min | Comedy

Ritchie is a Glaswegian chancer with low hopes and no prospects. Disillusioned with city life, he goes undercover at a Highland conservation centre to make his fortune as an illegal pearl ... See full summary »

Director: Talulah Riley | Stars: Martin Compston, Talulah Riley, Morgan Watkins, Joe Thomas

Votes: 826

9. 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: 614

10. 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

11. 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: 2,145

12. 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: 1,795 | Gross: $0.05M

13. 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: 1,284

14. 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: 2,307

15. 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: 162

16. 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: 209 | Gross: $0.20M

17. 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: 565 | Gross: $0.00M

18. 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

19. 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, Mark Flood, Alan Orr, Kevy Parr

20. In Search of La Che (2011)

71 min | Comedy

Like many who grew up in the 1980s, John Tavish enjoyed the music of rock legend Roxy La Che. After years transforming the face of music, Roxy was caught up in the lethal potassium drug ... See full summary »

Director: Mark D. Ferguson | Stars: Duncan Airlie James, Paul Massie, Craig Walker, Kyle Calderwood

Votes: 20