Movies: Bill Forsyth

An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected....

One man must learn the meaning of courage across four lifetimes centuries apart....

A teenager falls hard for the female soccer player who has replaced him on the team and attempts to pursue her....

Radio host Alan 'Dickie' Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families over the icecream market of Glasgow....

In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950s, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite live up to most people's expectations....

Professional thief Ernie takes Mike on as an apprentice, but while Mike clearly has "larceny in his heart", it will take him a long time to get as good as Ernie....

Twenty years after his teenage crush on a football-mad schoolgirl, Gregory is back at his old school, teaching English. When two of his pupils uncover evil practices at a local factory they want their teacher to help them expose the wrong-doer, who h...

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 and comes up with a complicated scheme: to steal sinks from a w...

Abraham lives deep in the heart of an industrial wasteland. His only companion is a giant machine. Inside the machine is a man and a woman who take care of Abraham's every need. Abraham drifts through daily life until a tiny singing cowboy bursts fro...

A young would-be writer searches the street of Glasgow for his missing girlfriend....

A look at English people who have made their home in Scotland....

An interview for Scottish television of film director Bill Forsyth...

A documentary about the making of Bill Forsyth's 1983 film "Local Hero."...

The industries of the Scottish Highlands....

Captain Bill Torvald has retired to his quiet home in Orkney after fifty years at sea. When a young woman, Andrina, begins visiting him through the dark winter, he is grateful for her kindness and company. But as she starts to enquire about his pas...

A young artist struggles to seek inspiration from a slowly crumbling cityscape. Moving Image Archive: http://movingimage.nls.uk/film/3631...

A tour of the landscape and wildlife of the Western Isles in Scotland....

A look at the career of Oscar-winning cameraman Chris Menges. Filmed on location of 'Comfort and Joy'. Chris Menges discusses his early career in television and film. Featuring interviews with Bill Forsyth, Bill Paterson, Ken Loach, Neil Jordan, and ...

The life and work of the Scottish architect and artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh....

A documentary, edited by Bill Forsyth, promoting the proposed development of Glasgow in the 1970s....