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Profile of the Trainspotting author.
Partially fictionalised biopic of the outspoken manager, Brian Clough
A claustrophobic thriller about a kidnap where all does not go according to plan.
An ailing man seeks to reconnect with his family but inadvertently keeps making all his previous blunders worse.
Think Alan Clarke's Scum, updated for 2011.
A man haunted by a summer from his past, returns to his old stamping ground to confront old ghosts.
A Glasgow barber accidentally turns killer.
A girl on the verge of womanhood imagines life away from the constraints of caring for her father.
A coma victim with psychic powers hunts down the medical students who tormented him.
A psychological thriller from Glasgow's heart of darkness.
A Glaswegian chancer who moonlights as an illegal pearl fisher in the Highland streams falls for a beautiful English conservationist.
A snapshot of life for a 12-year-old, who steals from the rich at a local ski resort to support him and his sister.
A coming-of-age tale mixed in with the genesis of Northern Soul.
Scottish teenager becomes drug dealer to give his mum, who is in jail, a proper home.
Three international film directors take a train to Rome and tell stories of love, loss and the beautiful game.
A young man arranges to smuggle illegal immigrants across the North Sea on his Dad's boat, but he's about to find himself way out of his depth.
A family move into a haunted council house.
Monster horror flick in poundstretched kilted country.
New eyes on Old Hollywood How images of Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Rita Hayworth inspired Pretty Babies
Lost Boys Wayne Wapeemukwa on drawing on reality for Manhunt while avoiding a true crime approach
Serious about comedy Louis Paxton on grounding the humour of The Incomer in darker elements
That shrinking feeling Shivek Gupta and Syed Shadan on the Mumbai housing market and Chaar Diwaari
A woman who didn't belong Anna Cazenave Cambet on working with Vicky Krieps in Love Me Tender
A dialogue of parchment and celluloid Jean-Jacques Annaud on Umberto Eco and The Name Of The Rose
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