Initiation

Initiation 1996

1

The relationship between a father and son is taken to the limit when the workmen at the family firm initiate the boy into his new job.

1996

Suburban Home

Suburban Home 2005

1

Summertime in suburbia and Emma is bored. Dad is no help and neither are the local kids. With the arrival of a new neighbour she finds friendship in a world of magic, music and milkshakes.

2005

Six Hours of Daylight

Six Hours of Daylight 2004

1

Two men have chosen to live a life of almost total solitude; shift- working a logging machine in a vast remote forest. Each resentful of the others presence, they refuse to acknowledge in full the existence of the other. Against the backdrop of some unspecified global conflict they cling to a monotonous, unyielding routine of work, eat, sleep. When one of the workers abruptly disappears without explanation the other is left alone, devoid of all human contact. He elects to carry on with his routine and becomes prone to increased fatigue, paranoia and experiences a strange visitation.

2004

Dear Frankie

Dear Frankie 2004

7.05

Nine-year-old Frankie and his single mum Lizzie have been on the move ever since Frankie can remember, most recently arriving in a seaside Scottish town. Wanting to protect her deaf son from the truth that they've run away from his father, Lizzie has invented a story that he is away at sea on the HMS Accra. Every few weeks, Lizzie writes Frankie a make-believe letter from his father, telling of his adventures in exotic lands. As Frankie tracks the ship's progress around the globe, he discovers that it is due to dock in his hometown. With the real HMS Accra arriving in only a fortnight, Lizzie must choose between telling Frankie the truth or finding the perfect stranger to play Frankie's father for just one day...

2004

Spitting Distance

Spitting Distance 1998

1

A young man is torn between the conflicting demands of his phlegmatic grandfather and his pub obsessed girlfriend.

1998

Hallam Foe

Hallam Foe 2007

6.65

Hallam's talent for spying on people reveals his darkest fears-and his most peculiar desires. Driven to expose the true cause of his mother's death, he instead finds himself searching the rooftops of the city for love.

2007

Billy Bongo

Billy Bongo 2002

1

A young Scottish man becomes a local celebrity... but to what end?

2002

Perfect Sense

Perfect Sense 2011

6.86

In Glasgow, Scotland, while a mysterious pandemic begins to spread around the world, Susan, a brilliant epidemiologist, falls in love with Michael, a skillful cook.

2011

As Far As You've Come

As Far As You've Come 2006

1

Inspired by the Wislaw Szymborska poem, ‘On Death, Without Exaggeration’, dawn breaks the spell for Billy and Andy when they stumble across a dying man as they walk through the park on their way home from an all night party.

2006

The Night Sweeper

The Night Sweeper 1998

1

Events conspire against a council driver who desperately wants to see the highlights of a Scotland match.

1998

The Last King of Scotland

The Last King of Scotland 2006

7.42

Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his formal education, so he decides to try his luck in Uganda, and arrives during the downfall of President Obote. General Idi Amin comes to power and asks Garrigan to become his personal doctor.

2006

Kick About

Kick About 2007

1

Teenager Chris McMillan desperately tries to stop his older brother joining a Glasgow gang, only to end up becoming a part of his violent initiation.

2007

The Magdalene Sisters

The Magdalene Sisters 2002

7.42

Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.

2002

Nightwindows

Nightwindows 2001

1

Animated film that turns the viewer into a floating voyeur, snatching brief but compelling glimpses of peoples' private worlds beyond the window frame.

2001

Book of Blood

Book of Blood 2009

5.36

Based on the wraparound story penned by Clive Barker in the author's "Books of Blood" collection, the story centers on a paranormal expert who, while investigating a gruesome slaying, finds a house that is at the intersection of "highways" transporting souls to the afterlife.

2009

Morvern Callar

Morvern Callar 2002

6.70

After her boyfriend commits suicide, a young woman attempts to use the unpublished manuscript of a novel and a sum of money he left behind to reinvent her life.

2002

Young Adam

Young Adam 2003

5.82

A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact that he knows more about a dead woman found in the river than he admits.

2003

Blackout

Blackout 2001

1

Flying bin bags, missing sofas, broken lifts and a complete power failure make an interesting night for tenants of a council tower block.

2001

Red Road

Red Road 2006

6.50

Jackie is a CCTV operator. One day, a man shows his face on her monitor, a man she hoped never to see again. Now she has no choice and is compelled to confront him.

2006

Crying with Laughter

Crying with Laughter 2009

7.00

Powerfully redemptive and darkly comedic revenge thriller set in the vicious world of stand-up comedy, starring Stephen McCole and Malcolm Shields.

2009