Gillies MacKinnon
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gillies MacKinnon (born 8 January 1948, Glasgow) is a Scottish film director and writer. His film credits include Hideous Kinky, Small Faces and Regeneration. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gillies MacKinnon, licensed... Read full bio →
The Last Bus
Widower Tom, on the recent passing of his wife Mary, uses his free bus pass to travel the length of Britain from John O'Groats in Caithness to Land's End in Cornwall, their shared birthplace, using only local buses. It's an incident-fuelled nostalgia trip and his encounters with local people make him a media phenomenon.
Tara Road
Two women -- one American, one Irish -- swap houses and alter the course of their lives.
Pure
A young boy trying to deal with his mother's heroin addiction befriends a waitress who helps him cope with the tough situation.
Hideous Kinky
In 1972, disenchanted about the dreary conventions of English life, 25-year-old Julia heads for Morocco with her daughters, six-year-old Lucy and precocious eight-year-old Bea.
Regeneration
Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, two of England's most important World War I poets are sent, along with other traumatized combatants, to a rest home in order to treat their emotional troubles, caused by the psychological fatigue that suffer the soldiers fighting in the no man's land.
Small Faces
Three teenage brothers, gang-member Bobby, troubled mama's boy Alan and self-assured prankster Lex, reside in a downtrodden section of Glasgow, Scotland, circa 1968.
A Simple Twist of Fate
His life was emotionally closed off from the world, until an orphaned baby showed up at his house.