Local Hero
Local Hero
6.7/101983HD
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.
Bill Forsyth
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Gregory's Girl
Gregory's Girl6.804/101981HDA teenager falls hard for the female soccer player who has replaced him on the team and attempts to pursue her.
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Being Human
Being Human5.1/101994HDOne man must learn the meaning of courage across four lifetimes centuries apart.
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Comfort and Joy
Comfort and Joy6.6/101984HDRadio host Alan 'Dickie' Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between...
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Housekeeping
Housekeeping6.6/101987HDIn the Pacific Northwest during the 1950s, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of...
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Breaking In
Breaking In5.7/101989HDProfessional 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...
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That Sinking Feeling
That Sinking Feeling6.3/101980HDRonnie, 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...
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Gregory's Two Girls
Gregory's Two Girls4.8/101999HDTwenty years after his teenage crush on a football-mad schoolgirl, Gregory is back at his old school, teaching English. When two of his pupils...
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The Beast Pageant
The Beast Pageant7.75/102010HDAbraham 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...
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"I Thought Maybe I'd Get to Meet Alan Whicker": A Conversation with Bill Forsyth
"I Thought Maybe I'd Get to Meet Alan Whicker": A Conversation with Bill Forsyth6/101986HDAn interview for Scottish television of film director Bill Forsyth
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Andrina
Andrina7/101981HDCaptain 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...
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Mirror
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The Smiths in Scotland
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Islands of the West
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Glasgow 1980
Glasgow 19806/101971HDA documentary, edited by Bill Forsyth, promoting the proposed development of Glasgow in the 1970s.
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The South Bank Show: 'Local Hero'
The South Bank Show: 'Local Hero'0/101983HDA documentary about the making of Bill Forsyth's 1983 film "Local Hero."
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Highlands
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KH-4
KH-42/101969HDA young artist struggles to seek inspiration from a slowly crumbling cityscape. Moving Image Archive: http://movingimage.nls.uk/film/3631
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Shooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman
Shooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman0/101985HDA look at the career of Oscar-winning cameraman Chris Menges. Filmed on location of 'Comfort and Joy'. Chris Menges discusses his early career in...
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Mackintosh
Mackintosh0/101968HDThe life and work of the Scottish architect and artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
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The Living Land
The Living Land0/101976HDA look at how the landscape of the Scottish Highlands has been shaped by man.
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Island of the Big Cloth
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The Making of a 'Local Hero' (With a Little Help from His Friends)
The Making of a 'Local Hero' (With a Little Help from His Friends)0/101983HDDocumentary for Scottish television about the making of Bill Forsyth's 1983 film "Local Hero."
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Shapes In The Water
Shapes In The Water0/101974HDHighland boat-building, showing intermediate processes of clinker- and carvel built boats, as well as those involved in ferroconcrete and steel...
