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1. The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (1895)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, History
This short film, one of the first to use camera tricks, depicts the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Director: Alfred Clark | Stars: Robert Thomae, Mrs. Robert L. Thomas
Votes: 2,552
2. The Bride of Lammermoor: A Tragedy of Bonnie Scotland (1909)
Short, Drama
A young girl is being urged by her father to marry a Duke. She refuses and leaves the room, closely followed by the Duke who remains unseen. She enters the garden, where she meets her lover... See full summary »
Director: J. Stuart Blackton | Stars: Annette Kellerman, Maurice Costello
3. Rob Roy (1911)
Short, Romance
An outlawed clan leader rebels against George I.
Director: Arthur Vivian | Stars: John Clyde, Theo Henries, Durward Lely, W.G. Robb
4. The Little Minister (1913)
Short, Drama, Romance
Part One. To start a little in advance of our story, Lord Rintoul, of the English nobility, finds a little Gypsy girl three years old, who had been deserted by her parents. Fifteen years ... See full summary »
Director: James Young | Stars: Clara Kimball Young, James Young, Mrs. E.M. Kimball, Robert Gaillard
5. Mairi: The Romance of a Highland Maiden (1913)
Drama, Short
Director: Andrew Paterson | Stars: Evelyn Duguid, Jack Maguire, Dan Munro
6. The Heart of Midlothian (1914)
47 min | Drama
A crofter's daughter has a child by an outlaw and is condemned to death when it is stolen by a midwife's mad daughter.
Director: Frank Wilson | Stars: Flora Morris, Violet Hopson, Alma Taylor, Stewart Rome
7. The Little Minister (1915)
Romance, Drama
A Lord's fiancée poses as a gypsy and falls in love with the new minister.
Director: Percy Nash | Stars: Joan Ritz, Gregory Scott, Henry Vibart, Fay Davis
9. Kilties Three (1918)
Drama, War
In Edinburgh a foundry owner weds a German spy's widow who becomes a nurse.
Director: Maurice Sandground | Stars: Bob Reed, Rowland Hill, Robert Vallis, Ernest Esdaile
10. The Little Minister (1921)
60 min | Drama
In 1840 Scotland, a young lass named Babbie revels in the country life and frolics with the locals, simple weavers whose livelihood is threatened by increasing industrialization. When Lord ... See full summary »
Director: Penrhyn Stanlaws | Stars: Betty Compson, George Hackathorne, Edwin Stevens, Nigel Barrie
Votes: 62
11. Rob Roy (1922)
86 min | Adventure
A clan chief seeks revenge on the jealous Duke who outlawed him.
Director: W.P. Kellino | Stars: David Hawthorne, Gladys Jennings, Simeon Stuart, Wallace Bosco
Votes: 66
12. The Little Minister (1922)
60 min | Drama
A Lord's fiancée poses as a gypsy and falls in love with the new minister.
Director: David Smith | Stars: Alice Calhoun, James Morrison, Henry Hebert, Alberta Lee
13. Bonnie Prince Charlie (1923)
Biography, Drama, History
In the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the Young Pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie leads an insurrection to overthrow the Protestant House of Hanover and restore his family, the Catholic branch of the House of Stuart, to the British throne.
Director: Charles Calvert | Stars: Gladys Cooper, Ivor Novello, Hugh Miller, A.B. Imeson
14. The Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots (1923)
Drama, History
The Dauphin's widow weds a lord and is executed for plotting against the queen.
Director: Denison Clift | Stars: Fay Compton, Gerald Ames, Ivan Samson, John Stuart
15. Maria Stuart, Teil 1 und 2 (1927)
Drama
Directors: Friedrich Feher, Leopold Jessner | Stars: Magda Sonja, Fritz Kortner, Walter Janssen, Anton Pointner
16. Putting Pants on Philip (1927)
Passed | 20 min | Comedy, Short
Pompous J. Piedmont Mumblethunder, greets his nephew from Scotland, who arrives in kilts. He is immediately taken to a tailor for a pair of proper pants.
Director: Clyde Bruckman | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Chester A. Bachman, Don Bailey
Votes: 1,015
17. Annie Laurie (1927)
90 min | Drama, Romance
The story of the famous battle between the Scots clans of Macdonald and Campbell, and the young woman who comes between them, Annie Laurie.
Director: John S. Robertson | Stars: Lillian Gish, Norman Kerry, Creighton Hale, Joseph Striker
Votes: 499 | Gross: $0.43M
18. The Black Watch (1929)
Passed | 93 min | Adventure, Drama
Captain Donald King of the British Army goes to India just as World War I breaks out, convincing his comrades that he is a coward. In reality, he is on a secret mission to rescue British soldiers held prisoner there.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Myrna Loy, David Torrence, David Rollins
Votes: 479
19. The Loves of Robert Burns (1930)
96 min | Biography, Musical
Biography of the ploughboy poet.
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Joseph Hislop, Dorothy Seacombe, Eve Gray, Nancy Price
20. 7 Till 5 (1933)
12 min | Documentary, Short
An impressionistic live-action study by Norman McLaren of art school activities from morning to night. This silent film was the first film of the Glasgow School of Art Film Group.
Director: Norman McLaren | Stars: Helen Biggar, Stewart McAllister
Votes: 99
21. Strike! (1934)
69 min | Drama
David Barr is the manager and chief designer of a British shipyard (when we still built ships). The shipyard is in financial trouble but Barr has a design for a new ship that will save them... See full summary »
Director: Michael Powell | Stars: Leslie Banks, Carol Goodner, Frank Vosper, Alfred Drayton
Votes: 301
22. The Little Minister (1934)
Approved | 110 min | Drama, Romance
In rural 1840s Scotland, Gavin Dishart arrives to become the new "little minister" of Thrums' Auld Licht church. He meets a mysterious young gypsy girl in the dens and to his horror Babbie ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, John Beal, Alan Hale, Donald Crisp
Votes: 852
23. The Ghost Goes West (1935)
Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A haunted Scottish castle is dismantled and transported to Florida, bringing the family ghost along with it.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Robert Donat, Jean Parker, Eugene Pallette, Elsa Lanchester
Votes: 2,118
24. The 39 Steps (1935)
Approved | 86 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A man in London tries to help a counter-espionage agent, but when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring that is trying to steal top-secret information.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle
Votes: 61,507
25. Mary of Scotland (1936)
Approved | 123 min | Biography, Drama, History
The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.
Directors: John Ford, Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Douglas Walton
Votes: 2,795
26. Storm in a Teacup (1937)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Romance
A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.
Directors: Ian Dalrymple, Victor Saville | Stars: Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison, Cecil Parker, Sara Allgood
Votes: 1,116
27. The Edge of the World (1937)
Passed | 74 min | Drama, History, Romance
A way of life is dying on an Outer Hebridean island fishing port, but some of the inhabitants resist evacuating to the mainland.
Director: Michael Powell | Stars: Niall MacGinnis, Belle Chrystall, John Laurie, Eric Berry
Votes: 1,991
28. Wee Willie Winkie (1937)
Approved | 100 min | Adventure, Family
Priscilla Williams, a young girl living with her widowed mother and paternal grandfather at the post he commands in northern India, becomes enamored of military life and embroiled in brewing rebellion against the crown in the early 1900's.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Shirley Temple, Victor McLaglen, C. Aubrey Smith, June Lang
Votes: 1,936
29. Kidnapped (1938)
Approved | 90 min | Adventure, Drama
In 1747, young David Balfour's life is threatened by his greedy uncle Ebenezer who wishes to become heir to the considerable Balfour estate.
Directors: Alfred L. Werker, Otto Preminger | Stars: Warner Baxter, Freddie Bartholomew, Arleen Whelan, C. Aubrey Smith
Votes: 337
30. Marigold (1938)
Drama
Director: Thomas Bentley | Stars: Sophie Stewart, Patrick Barr, Phyllis Dare, Edward Chapman
31. Mony a Pickle (1938)
11 min | Short
A film advocating thrift by use of the Post Office Savings Bank.
Directors: Alberto Cavalcanti, Richard Massingham, Norman McLaren
Votes: 71
32. U-Boat 29 (1939)
77 min | Thriller, War
A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
Director: Michael Powell | Stars: Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Sebastian Shaw, Marius Goring
Votes: 2,457
33. The Heart of a Queen (1940)
103 min | Biography, Drama
While awaiting her unjust execution at the hands of the treacherous Queen Elizabeth I, the tragic Mary Stuart reflects at the series of cruel political machinations that set up her path to the scaffold.
Director: Carl Froelich | Stars: Zarah Leander, Willy Birgel, Maria Koppenhöfer, Lotte Koch
Votes: 105
34. Bombsight Stolen (1941)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.
Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Leslie Banks, Alastair Sim, Jeanne De Casalis, Carla Lehmann
Votes: 1,365
35. The Ghost of St. Michael's (1941)
82 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A hapless teacher named Will Lamb is hired by a grim school in Scotland. The school soon starts to be haunted by a legendary ghost, whose spectral bagpipes signal the death of one of the ... See full summary »
Director: Marcel Varnel | Stars: Will Hay, Claude Hulbert, Felix Aylmer, Raymond Huntley
Votes: 622
36. Shining Victory (1941)
Approved | 80 min | Drama
In a Scottish sanitarium, a brilliant research psychiatrist works on a treatment for dementia precox. He falls for his altruistic female lab assistant and they begin a passionate, tragic relationship.
Director: Irving Rapper | Stars: James Stephenson, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Donald Crisp, Barbara O'Neil
Votes: 814
37. A.J. Cronin's Hatter's Castle (1942)
102 min | Drama
James Brodie (Robert Newton) is the only hatter in a small area in Scotland. Ruthless in business as well as at home, he is a tyrant to his family and intimidating to everyone he knows. But... See full summary »
Director: Lance Comfort | Stars: Robert Newton, James Mason, Deborah Kerr, Emlyn Williams
Votes: 392
38. The Shipbuilders (1943)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
A generation of shipbuilders is nearly wiped out by the Great Depression, but a second Great War gets them back to work.
Director: John Baxter | Stars: Clive Brook, Morland Graham, Nell Ballantyne, Finlay Currie
Votes: 83
39. On Approval (1944)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy
Two wealthy Victorian widows are courted tentatively by two impoverished British aristocrats. When one of the dowagers suggests that her beau go away with her for a month to see if they are compatible, the fireworks begin.
Director: Clive Brook | Stars: Clive Brook, Beatrice Lillie, Googie Withers, Roland Culver
Votes: 720
40. I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Romance
A young Englishwoman goes to the Hebrides to marry her older, wealthier fiancé. When the weather keeps them separated on different islands, she begins to have second thoughts.
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, Pamela Brown, Finlay Currie
Votes: 9,778
41. The Body Snatcher (1945)
Approved | 78 min | Horror, Thriller
A ruthless doctor and his young prize student find themselves continually harassed by their murderous supplier of illegal cadavers.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell, Edith Atwater
Votes: 10,187
42. The Green Years (1946)
Passed | 127 min | Drama
An orphaned young boy is guided by his great-grandfather and strives to go to university to become a doctor. However, the boy's harsh grandfather stands in his way.
Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Charles Coburn, Tom Drake, Beverly Tyler, Hume Cronyn
Votes: 1,079
43. The Silver Darlings (1947)
84 min | Drama
Set on the rugged north-east coast of Scotland in the 1800s, Catrine is the wife of a dispossessed farmer who hates his new life as a herring fisherman. When he is press-ganged by the Royal Navy, she must face life without him.
Director: Clarence Elder | Stars: Norman Williams, Christopher Capon, Murdo Morrison, Helen Shingler
Votes: 85
44. The Brothers (1947)
Approved | 98 min | Drama
The McFarishes and the Macraes are lifelong enemies living on a remote island in the Western Isles of Scotland. Mary Lawson is a Scottish orphan brought up in a convent who arrives on the ... See full summary »
Director: David MacDonald | Stars: Patricia Roc, Will Fyffe, Maxwell Reed, Finlay Currie
Votes: 189
45. Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948)
Passed | 98 min | Biography, Drama, History
In the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the Young Pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie leads an insurrection to overthrow the Protestant House of Hanover and restore his family, the Catholic branch of the House of Stuart, to the British throne.
Directors: Anthony Kimmins, Leslie Arliss, Alexander Korda, Robert Stevenson | Stars: David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Morland Graham, John Laurie
Votes: 334
46. Kidnapped (1948)
Approved | 81 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In Scotland in 1752, the 17-year-old David Balfour is cheated out of his birthright by his evil uncle Ebenezer.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Roddy McDowall, Sue England, Dan O'Herlihy, Roland Winters
Votes: 269
47. Macbeth (1948)
Passed | 107 min | Drama, History, War
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Orson Welles, Jeanette Nolan, Dan O'Herlihy, Roddy McDowall
Votes: 7,793
48. Challenge to Lassie (1949)
G | 76 min | Drama, Family
When Lassie's master dies, an old friend tries to convince a judge that the dog's life should be spared.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Donald Crisp, Geraldine Brooks, Reginald Owen
Votes: 665
49. Floodtide (1949)
Approved | 90 min | Drama, Romance
David Shields decides to become a ship designer instead of following the family tradition and entering farming.
Director: Frederick Wilson | Stars: Gordon Jackson, Rona Anderson, John Laurie, Jack Lambert
Votes: 104
50. The Secret of St. Ives (1949)
Approved | 75 min | Action, Adventure, History
Anatole de Keroual is captured by the British in the Napoleonic war and imprisoned in the dungeon of Edinburgh Castle with six companions. Floria Gilchrist, coveted by the fortress ... See full summary »
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Richard Ney, Vanessa Brown, Henry Daniell, Edgar Barrier
Votes: 50
51. Whisky Galore! (1949)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Crime
Scottish islanders try to plunder 50,000 cases of whisky from a stranded ship.
Director: Alexander Mackendrick | Stars: Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood, Catherine Lacey, Bruce Seton
Votes: 6,650
52. 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: 100
53. Madeleine (1950)
Approved | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Madeleine's middle-class family cannot understand why she puts off marrying a respectable young man; they know nothing about her long-term affair with a Frenchman.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Ann Todd, Norman Wooland, Ivan Desny, Leslie Banks
Votes: 2,030
54. Flesh and Blood (1951)
Unrated | 102 min | Drama
Three generations of a Scottish family suffer from the effects of heredity
Director: Anthony Kimmins | Stars: Richard Todd, Glynis Johns, Joan Greenwood, André Morell
Votes: 88
55. Happy Go Lovely (1951)
Approved | 97 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A chorus girl gets a ride from millionaire Bruno's driver. The cash-strapped theater director thinks, she's Bruno's girlfriend and makes her the lead. She meets Bruno, thinking he's a reporter. More confusion follows.
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: David Niven, Vera-Ellen, Cesar Romero, Bobby Howes
Votes: 876
56. You're Only Young Twice (1952)
81 min | Comedy
Ada Shore is mistaken for a new secretary, she brings a breath of fresh air to the traditional university.
Director: Terry Bishop | Stars: Duncan Macrae, Joseph Tomelty, Patrick Barr, Charles Hawtrey
Votes: 93
57. Scotch on the Rocks (1953)
Approved | 77 min | Comedy, Romance
A parliamentary delegation is sent to a remote community in the Scottish Highlands where the residents are protesting at their poor links with the outside world. After a few days amongst ... See full summary »
Director: John Eldridge | Stars: Ronald Squire, Kathleen Ryan, Raymond Huntley, Sebastian Shaw
Votes: 179
58. Rob Roy: The Highland Rogue (1953)
Approved | 81 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The wartime adventures of Scotish highland leader Rob Roy MacGregor during the reign of King George I in the 18th century.
Director: Harold French | Stars: Richard Todd, Glynis Johns, James Robertson Justice, Michael Gough
Votes: 659
59. The Master of Ballantrae (1953)
Approved | 90 min | Action, Adventure, History
Two noble Scottish brothers deliberately take opposite sides when Bonnie Prince Charlie returns to claim the throne of Scotland in order to preserve the family fortune.
Director: William Keighley | Stars: Errol Flynn, Roger Livesey, Anthony Steel, Beatrice Campbell
Votes: 1,782
60. Brigadoon (1954)
Passed | 108 min | Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Two Americans on a hunting trip in Scotland become lost. They encounter a small village, not on the map, called Brigadoon, in which people harbor a mysterious secret, and behave as if they were still living two hundred years in the past.
Director: Vincente Minnelli | Stars: Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Cyd Charisse, Elaine Stewart
Votes: 9,367
61. 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: 1,521
62. Trouble in the Glen (1954)
Approved | 91 min | Comedy
Major Jim "Lance" Lansing, an American ex-pilot of the U.S. Air Corps, returns to Scotland after the war and finds much trouble in the glen where he settles because of the high-handed ... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Orson Welles, Forrest Tucker, Victor McLaglen
Votes: 265
63. 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: 1,133
64. Wee Geordie (1955)
93 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Geordie is a very small boy who feels that the girl he loves is ignoring him because of his size. He decides to take a correspondence course in body-building. At 21, Geordie becomes one of the tallest and strongest men in Scotland.
Director: Frank Launder | Stars: Bill Travers, Alastair Sim, Paul Young, Norah Gorsen
Votes: 928
65. Quentin Durward (1955)
Approved | 103 min | Action, Adventure, History
A Scottish knight in France to facilitate a marriage between a rich and beautiful countess and his aging uncle becomes involved in court intrigue.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Robert Taylor, Kay Kendall, Robert Morley, George Cole
Votes: 1,145
66. Mad Little Island (1958)
Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy
Inhabitants of the Hebridean isle of Toddaya resist the British government's plan to turn their island home into a missile base.
Director: Michael Relph | Stars: Jeannie Carson, Donald Sinden, Roland Culver, Noel Purcell
Votes: 251
67. The Battle of the Sexes (1960)
84 min | Comedy
Angela Barrows, an accomplished business analyst from the US, attempts to contemporise the late MacPherson's tweed factory, shaking the very foundation of a men-only company.
Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: Peter Sellers, Robert Morley, Constance Cummings, Jameson Clark
Votes: 1,733
68. Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
Approved | 129 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.
Director: Henry Levin | Stars: James Mason, Pat Boone, Arlene Dahl, Diane Baker
Votes: 19,548 | Gross: $10.00M
69. The 39 Steps (1959)
Approved | 93 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
In London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who's after a spy ring that covets British military secrets.
Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: Kenneth More, Taina Elg, Brenda de Banzie, Barry Jones
Votes: 2,331
70. The Bridal Path (1959)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy
Based on a novel by Nigel Tranter, The Bridal Path is a light-hearted look at the somewhat unfortunate results that can come of the continued marrying of fairly close cousins in a ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Launder | Stars: Bill Travers, Bernadette O'Farrell, George Cole, Duncan Macrae
Votes: 296
71. Kidnapped (1960)
Approved | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In Scotland in 1751, young David Balfour is shanghaied aboard a ship where he meets Jacobite rebel Alan Breck Stewart with whom he escapes to the Scottish Highlands, dodging the redcoats.
Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Peter Finch, James MacArthur, Bernard Lee, John Laurie
Votes: 1,609
72. Night Train for Inverness (1960)
69 min | Drama
7-year old Ted has diabetes. When he leaves the hospital, the doctor tells his mother Ann not to forget the insulin injections twice a day, which for Ted is a matter of life and death. At ... See full summary »
Director: Ernest Morris | Stars: Norman Wooland, Jane Hylton, Dennis Waterman, Silvia Francis
Votes: 91
73. The Flesh and the Fiends (1960)
94 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In 1828 Scotland, Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Knox does medical research on cadavers he buys from murderers Burke and Hare, without questioning the unethical procurement methods.
Director: John Gilling | Stars: Peter Cushing, June Laverick, Donald Pleasence, George Rose
Votes: 2,324
74. Tunes of Glory (1960)
Not Rated | 106 min | Drama
After World War II, a Highland Regiment's acting Commanding Officer, who rose from the ranks, is replaced by a peace-time Oxford-educated Commanding Officer, leading to a dramatic conflict between the two.
Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Alec Guinness, John Mills, Susannah York, Dennis Price
Votes: 4,555
75. Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog (1961)
Approved | 87 min | Drama, Family
The remarkable veritable story of a terrier named Bobby and the enduring friendship he forges with a tenderhearted shepherd known simply as Old Jock---unbroken even by the kindly old man's death.
Director: Don Chaffey | Stars: Donald Crisp, Laurence Naismith, Alex Mackenzie, Duncan Macrae
Votes: 1,847
76. Seawards the Great Ships (1961)
28 min | Documentary, Short
Documentary about shipbuilding on the Clyde. In 1960, Glasgow and other towns and ports on the River Clyde, on the west coast of Scotland, were still one of the world's great centres of ... See full summary »
Director: Hilary Harris | Stars: Bryden Murdoch, Kenneth Kendall
Votes: 83
77. What a Whopper (1961)
90 min | Comedy
A writer attempts to raise some cash by writing a book about the Loch Ness Monster. No publisher will take it because they all think there isn't really a monster. The writer and some of his... See full summary »
Director: Gilbert Gunn | Stars: Adam Faith, Sidney James, Carole Lesley, Terence Longdon
Votes: 285
78. Culloden (1964 TV Movie)
69 min | Drama, History, War
The 1746 Battle of Culloden, the last land battle fought in the British Isles and the battle that ensured that Scotland was controlled by England.
Director: Peter Watkins | Stars: Tony Cosgrove, Olivier Espitalier-Noel, Don Fairservice, George McBean
Votes: 1,727
79. Carry on Up the Khyber (1968)
Not Rated | 88 min | Adventure, Comedy
Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond looks after the British outpost near the Khyber Pass. Protected by the kilted Third Foot and Mouth regiment, you would think they were safe but the Khazi of Kalabar has other ideas.
Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Roy Castle
Votes: 5,458
80. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
M/PG | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An eccentric Scottish schoolteacher's extravagantly romantic ideas about life--and love--overly impress her young pupils and bring her into conflict with her school's conservative headmistress.
Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Maggie Smith, Gordon Jackson, Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin
Votes: 9,858
81. Schüsse unterm Galgen (1968)
107 min | Western
In Scotland in 1751, young David Balfour is shanghaied aboard a ship where he meets Jacobite rebel Alan Breck Stewart with whom he escapes to the Scottish Highlands, dodging the redcoats.
Director: Horst Seemann | Stars: Werner Kanitz, Alena Procházková, Thomas Weisgerber, Herwart Grosse
Votes: 16
82. Kidnapped (1971)
G | 100 min | Adventure, Drama
In eighteenth century Scotland, during the Jacobite Rebellion, David Balfour claims his inheritance from his uncle who has him shanghaied on a ship where David meets fugitive Jacobite rebel Alan Breck.
Director: Delbert Mann | Stars: Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Lawrence Douglas, Vivien Heilbron
Votes: 1,528
83. Macbeth (1971)
R | 140 min | Drama, History
A ruthlessly ambitious Scottish lord seizes the throne with the help of his scheming wife and a trio of witches.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Jon Finch, Francesca Annis, Martin Shaw, Terence Bayler
Votes: 14,960
84. Mary, Queen of Scots (1971)
PG-13 | 128 min | Biography, Drama, History
During the sixteenth century, the Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots engages in over two decades of religious and political conflict with her cousin, the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I of England, amidst political intrigue in her native land.
Director: Charles Jarrott | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Glenda Jackson, Patrick McGoohan, Timothy Dalton
Votes: 4,881 | Gross: $2.33M
85. When Eight Bells Toll (1971)
GP | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
In a vein similar to the James Bond movies, British Agent Philip Calvert (Sir Anthony Hopkins) is on a mission to determine the whereabouts of a ship that disappeared near the coast of Scotland.
Director: Etienne Périer | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Jack Hawkins, Robert Morley, Nathalie Delon
Votes: 2,677
86. Burke & Hare (1972)
R | 94 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
Two men go into business supplying medical colleges with cadavers by robbing graves.
Director: Vernon Sewell | Stars: Paul Luty, Roy Macready, Derren Nesbitt, Susan Coates
Votes: 565
87. My Childhood (1972)
Not Rated | 46 min | Biography, Drama
The First part of Bill Douglas' influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-'40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape - he paid for it with the money he made from... See full summary »
Director: Bill Douglas | Stars: Stephen Archibald, Hughie Restorick, Jean Taylor Smith, Karl Fieseler
Votes: 1,393
88. My Ain Folk (1973)
Not Rated | 55 min | Biography, Drama
Jamie and Tommy are separated by the death of their grandmother; Jamie with another relative and Tommy to a welfare home. Now Jamie is all alone and his life is not at all happy taken over by silence, rejection and violence.
Director: Bill Douglas | Stars: Stephen Archibald, Hughie Restorick, Jean Taylor Smith, Bernard McKenna
Votes: 1,008
89. The Wicker Man (1973)
R | 88 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A puritan police sergeant arrives in a Scottish island village in search of a missing girl, who the pagan locals claim never existed.
Director: Robin Hardy | Stars: Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento, Britt Ekland
Votes: 92,198 | Gross: $0.06M
90.
Play for Today (1970–1984)
Episode:
The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black Black Oil
(1974)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
Drama documentary adaptation of John McGrath's play staged by the 7:84 theatre company dealing with the exploitation of the Scottish people throughout history, from the brutal evictions of ... See full summary »
Director: John Mackenzie | Stars: John Bett, David MacLennan, Dolina MacLennan, Elizabeth MacLennan
Votes: 42
91. The Great McGonagall (1975)
PG | 95 min | Biography, Comedy
William Topaz McGonagall, the world's greateset poet. Unfortunately the whole of the rest of the world disagreed. His talent made him a sort of Victorian Chris Evans but without the cash.
Director: Joseph McGrath | Stars: Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Julia Foster, John Bluthal
Votes: 286
92. Long Shot (1978)
85 min | Drama
Filmed around the 1977 Edinburgh Film Festival, Long Shot is a deadpan satire about the trials and tribulations of British independent filmmaking.
Director: Maurice Hatton | Stars: Charles Gormley, Neville Smith, Ann Zelda, David Stone
Votes: 104
93. My Way Home (1978)
Not Rated | 71 min | Biography, Drama
Jamie leaves the children's home to live with his paternal grandmother. After working in a mine and in a tailor's shop, he is conscripted into the RAF, and goes to Egypt, where he is ... See full summary »
Director: Bill Douglas | Stars: Stephen Archibald, Paul Kermack, Jessie Combe, William Carrol
Votes: 858
94. The Thirty Nine Steps (1978)
PG | 102 min | Crime, History, Mystery
In March 1914, a mining engineer named Richard Hannay tries to prevent Prussian Agents from executing a political assassination designed to trigger World War I.
Director: Don Sharp | Stars: Robert Powell, David Warner, Eric Porter, Karen Dotrice
Votes: 2,775
95. 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
96. 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: 1,282
97. Death Watch (1980)
R | 117 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In a future where dying of illness is exceedingly rare, a terminally ill woman becomes a celebrity and a man with camera implants goes to secretly record her for a morbid TV show.
Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Romy Schneider, Harvey Keitel, Harry Dean Stanton, Thérèse Liotard
Votes: 3,459
98. Burning Rubber (1981)
85 min | Action
The story of Henry Carsten (Alan Longmuir), his life as a race car driver and his relationship with Maxe (Olivia Pascal).
Director: Norman Cohen | Stars: Olivia Pascal, Alan Longmuir, Sascha Hehn, Stuart 'Woody' Wood
Votes: 42
99. Chariots of Fire (1981)
PG | 125 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew and the other a devout Christian, are driven to win in the 1924 Olympics as they wrestle with issues of pride and conscience.
Director: Hugh Hudson | Stars: Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nicholas Farrell, Nigel Havers
Votes: 65,855 | Gross: $58.97M
100. Gregory's Girl (1980)
PG | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Gregory is a normal teen who is infatuated with a classmate. He must work to win her affection.
Director: Bill Forsyth | Stars: John Gordon Sinclair, Dee Hepburn, Jake D'Arcy, Clare Grogan
Votes: 9,445
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