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7.4

♡ 26

78%

73%

11th century

husband wife relationship

based on play or musical

rise to power

scotland

War

Roman Polanski Director

Martin Shaw as Banquo

Richard Pearson as Doctor

Jon Finch as Macbeth

Alf Joint as Old Seyward

Scotland, 11th century. Driven by the twisted prophecy of three witches and the ruthless ambition of his wife, warlord Macbeth, bold and brave, but also weak and hesitant, betrays his good king and his brothers in arms and sinks into the bloody mud of a path with no return, sown with crime and suspicion.

Local Hero

1983

7.3

♡ 17

100%

Bill Forsyth Director

John M. Jackson as Cal

Burt Lancaster as Felix Happer

Denis Lawson as Urquhart

Alex Norton as Watt

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.

Sweet Sixteen

2002

7.4

♡ 11

97%

Ken Loach Director

Scott Dymond as Davi-Vampire

Jon Morrison as Douglas

Martin Compston as Liam

Gary McCormack as Stan

Determined to have a normal family life once his mother gets out of prison, a Scottish teenager from a tough background sets out to raise the money for a home.

Beats

2019

7.1

♡ 18

88%

Brian Welsh Director

Laura Fraser as Alison

Amy Manson as Cat

Kevin Mains as Les

Lorn Macdonald as Spanner

Summer 1994, Scotland. Johnno and Spanner are best mates, but Johnno’s family are moving him to a new town and a better life, leaving Spanner behind to face a precarious future. In pursuit of adventure and escape they head out on one last night to an illegal rave before parting ways indefinitely.

Braveheart

1995

8.3

♡ 358

76%

85%

based on a true story

Mel Gibson Director

Brendan Gleeson as Hamish

Catherine McCormack as Murron

Sophie Marceau as Princess Isabelle

Mel Gibson as William Wallace

Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.

Under the Skin

2013

6.3

♡ 155

83%

Jonathan Glazer Director

Paul Brannigan as Andrew

Antonia Campbell-Hughes as Shadow Alien

Adam Pearson as The Deformed Man

Scarlett Johansson as The Female

Macbeth

2015

6.6

♡ 67

80%

Justin Kurzel Director

David Thewlis as Duncan

Marion Cotillard as Lady Macbeth

Michael Fassbender as Macbeth

Sean Harris as Macduff

Feature film adaptation of Shakespeare's Scottish play about General Macbeth whose ambitious wife urges him to use wicked means in order to gain power of the throne over the sitting king, Duncan.

A Lonely Place to Die

2011

6.2

♡ 56

71%

Julian Gilbey Director

Melissa George as Alison

Paul Anderson as Chris

Karel Roden as Darko

Sean Harris as Mr. Kidd

A group of five mountaineers are hiking and climbing in the Scottish Highlands when they discover a young Serbian girl buried in a small chamber in the wilderness. They become caught up in a terrifying game of cat and mouse with the kidnappers as they try to get the girl to safety.

The Man from Planet X

1951

5.7

♡ 14

100%

Edgar G. Ulmer Director

William Schallert as Dr. Mears

Margaret Field as Enid Elliot

Harold Gould as Frightened villager

Charles Davis as Geordie - Man at Dock

While watching for a planet that may collide with earth, scientists stationed in Scotland are approached by a visitor from outer space.

Last Breath

2019

7.6

♡ 3

88%

Richard da Costa Director

Duncan Allcock as Self

Duncan Allcock as Self -Bellman

Kjetil Ove Alvestad as Self - Chief Engineer

Kevin Whyte as Self - ROV Pilot

A commercial diver is stranded on the seabed with only five minutes of oxygen supply, but with no chance of rescue for more than 30 minutes. With access to amazing archival footage, this is the true story of one man’s impossible fight for survival.

The Water Horse

2007

6.4

♡ 93

1940s

Adventure

based on children's book

Jay Russell Director

Emily Watson as Anne MacMorrow

Brian Cox as Old Angus

Jason Hood as Scottish Officer

Marshall Napier as Sgt. Strunk

A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend.

The Outrun

2024

6.9

♡ 50

82%

based on memoir or autobiography

addiction

Nora Fingscheidt Director

Saskia Reeves as Annie

Paapa Essiedu as Daynin

Izuka Hoyle as Gloria

Saoirse Ronan as Rona

Fresh out of rehab, Rona returns to the Orkney Islands—a place both wild and beautiful, right off the Scottish coast. Now 29 and after more than a decade of living life on the edge in London, where she both found and lost love, Rona attempts to come to terms with her troubled past. As she reconnects with the dramatic landscape where she grew up, memories of her traumatic childhood merge with more recent challenging events that have set her on the path to recovery.

My Childhood

1972

7.3

♡ 7

89%

Bill Douglas Director

Helen Rae as Bus Conductress

Ann Smith as Jamie's Mother

Eileen McCallum as Nurse

Helen Crummy as Schoolteacher

The first part of Bill Douglas' influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-'40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape - he paid for it with the money he made from returning empty jam jars - and this escape is reflected most closely at this time of his life as an eight-year-old living on the breadline with his half-brother and sick grandmother in a poor mining village.

Brave

2012

7.1

♡ 247

78%

Mark Andrews Director

Emma Thompson as Elinor

Kelly Macdonald as Merida

Julie Walters as The Witch

Steven Cree as Young Macintosh

In the mystical Scottish Highlands, Merida is the princess of a kingdom ruled by King Fergus and Queen Elinor. An unruly daughter and an accomplished archer, Merida one day defies a sacred custom of the land and inadvertently brings turmoil to the kingdom. In an attempt to set things right, Merida seeks out an eccentric old Wise Woman and is granted an ill-fated wish. Also figuring into Merida's quest — and serving as comic relief — are the kingdom's three lords: the enormous Lord MacGuffin, the surly Lord Macintosh, and the disagreeable Lord Dingwall.

The Wicker Man

1973

7.5

♡ 60

91%

82%

Robin Hardy Director

Christopher Lee as Lord Summerisle

John Hallam as P.C. McTaggert

Aileen Lewis as Villager

Juliet Cadzow as Villager on Summerisle

Britt Ekland as Willow

Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. The investigation is further complicated as Howie’s religious views clash with those of the island’s residents.

The Eagle

2011

6.2

♡ 57

39%

Kevin Macdonald Director

Jamie Bell as Esca

Channing Tatum as Marcus

Ned Dennehy as Seal Chief / The Horned One

Brian Gleeson as Traveller 1

In 140 AD, twenty years after the unexplained disappearance of the entire Ninth Legion in the mountains of Scotland, young centurion Marcus Aquila arrives from Rome to solve the mystery and restore the reputation of his father, the commander of the Ninth. Accompanied only by his British slave Esca, Marcus sets out across Hadrian's Wall into the uncharted highlands of Caledonia - to confront its savage tribes, make peace with his father's memory, and retrieve the lost legion's golden emblem, the Eagle of the Ninth.

The Tragedy of Macbeth

2021

husband wife relationship

7.1

♡ 71

93%

74%

ambition

based on play or musical

Drama

Fantasy

History

Joel Coen Director

Bertie Carvel as Banquo

Brendan Gleeson as Duncan

Denzel Washington as Macbeth

Sean Patrick Thomas as Monteith

Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.

T2 Trainspotting

2017

7.1

♡ 170

81%

78%

Danny Boyle Director

Robert Carlyle as Begbie / Begbie's Father

Kelly Macdonald as Diane

Ewan McGregor as Renton

Amy Manson as Woman in Club

After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.

Trainspotting

1996

8.1

♡ 166

90%

93%