Robert Carlyle
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Barney Thomson, an awkward Glasgow barber lives a life of desperate mediocrity. His uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he enters the grotesque and comically absurd world of serial killers. Winner of Best Actress and Best Feature Film at the **BAFTA Awards, Scotland**. "*Scottish actor Robert Carlyle makes a bold impression as a first-time director with Barney Thomson, a brash, dirty little film that's eager to please...
5) Born Equal
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
A major, improvised drama from BAFTA winning writer and director Dominic Savage. The film centres on a hostel temporarily housing the homeless and dispossessed in the affluent Swiss Cottage area of north London, and weaves together the stories of four seemingly unrelated people, whose lives are gradually drawn towards one another.
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
A Musical Romance starring Academy Award Winner Marisa Tomei, Robert Carlyle and John Goodman that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Frank has been consumed by grief over his wife's death. But everything changes when he pulls over on a rural highway to help a dying stranger entangled in a car wreck. En route to fulfill a forty-year promise to his childhood sweetheart, the stranger shares a compelling tale of adolescent love replete with first...
Pub. Date
1996.
Description
A groundbreaking sensation that wowed critics and audiences nationwide, TRAINSPOTTING is a wild mix of rebellious action and wicked humor. Four friends score and scam their way through a hyper-kinetic world of drugs, sex, and rock and roll, only to end up planning the ultimate scam. Set amongst the backdrop of Edinburgh and London in the 90s, this classic launched the careers of an outstanding cast that includes Ewan McGregor, Kelly Macdonald, Jonny...
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Description
Six unemployed men, inspired by a touring group of male strippers, decide they can make a small fortune by putting on a striptease show of their own with one small difference. They intend to go the "full monty" and strip completely naked. A hilarious, heartfelt comedy in which six friends discover the inner strength to overcome the problems in their personal lives.
10) To end all wars
Pub. Date
[2004], c2002
Description
Based on actual events that happened during World War II when 61,000 Allied POWs were forced by the Japanese to build the Thailand-Burma Railway - better known to the soldiers as the "Railway of Death". This is the story of a Scottish regiment forced to help construct the infamous railway and how they had to fight to survive and ultimately forgive their brutal captors.
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
[Full screen ed.]
Description
"PC Hamish Macbeth (Robert Carlyle) is back in action. He's the sheriff - with his own singular methods of dealing with crime and misdemeanors. Many a baffling mystery and outrageous scam lurk behind the closed doors of Lochdubh, and Hamish needs everything he's got to keep the big boys from Inverness off his patch. If only his love life were as easy to solve; but that's another story..."--Container.
14) Trainspotting
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
A young heroin addict in Edinburgh tries to kick the habit but his junkie friends aren't making it easy for him.
15) Eragon
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Eragon is an orphaned farm boy whose destiny is sealed forever when a mystic stone chooses him for its keeper. This is no ordinary stone, this is the last surviving egg of the dragon race. Eragon is now the new Dragon Rider, the boy who will be a savior to the repressed peoples of the Kingdom. The Kingdom is ruled by the wicked King Galbatorix and his evil wizard Durza. Eragon, together with his mentor, Brom, the gracious dragon Saphira and the beautiful...
Pub. Date
[2004], c2002
Description
After his girlfriend turns down a marriage proposal by her decent-but-dull boyfriend, small-time crook, Jimmy, drifts back into town to win back his old flame and pull off one final crime. Will she follow her head or her heart - and can her new beau handle the stiff competition? This smooth operator has more than met his match in a motley crew of oddball outcasts, as rekindled passions and old secrets up the ante in an uproarious love triangle.