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Peter Mullan

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  • My Name Is Joe
  • My Name Is Joe review by from Glasgow, Scotland
    Rated - 4 stars Heart of Glasgow 25 March 2004
    ...the surface. You will not need sub-titles to understand this film. Just look in Peter Mullan's eyes. ...  
  • The Magdalene Sisters
  • The Magdalene Sisters review by from Wokingham
    Rated - 5 stars Oscar worthy and not to be missed 10 October 2003
    ...Catholic-raised actor-turned-director Peter Mullan's scathing condemnation of what he calls 'one of the great injustices of the second half of the 20th century' is harsh an...  
  • Young Adam
  • Young Adam review by from Cheshire
    Rated - 4 stars You'll love it or hate it 28 July 2005
    ...raphy, and the performances are generally excellent, those of Tilda Swinton and Peter Mullan being particularly outstanding. A number of reviewers have asked why so many s...  

Peter Mullan - filmography


  • The Last Legion on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Colin Firth,  Ben Kingsley,  Aishwarya Rai
    Director: Doug Lefler
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The Empire is being held to ransom by the Barbarians. On the eve of the coronation of the 12-year-old Romulus Augustus, his mentor, the shaman Ambrosinus (Ben Kingsley), predicts disaster. His worst fears are realised as the Goths sack the once-great city of Rome and capture the last Emperor and ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 14,235 members
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  • Blinded on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Jodhi May,  Peter Mullan,  Anders W. Berthelsen
    Director: Eleanor Yule
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Danish backpacker Mike Hammershoi (Anders W. Berthelsen) is running from a dark secret. One night, while travelling through the Scottish borders, he stops at Black’s estate hoping to find some work. There, he encounters blind farm-owner Francis Black (Peter Mullan) and his elderly mother Bella (..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 43% from 782 members
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  • Kiss Of Life on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Peter Mullan,  Millie Findlay,  David Warner
    Director: Emily Young
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Writer-director Emily Young's BAFTA-winning debut is an incredibly moving story of love, death and grief. John (Peter Mullen) has been an aid worker in a war-torn area of Eastern Europe and is about to return home to his wife and children back in London who are anxiously waiting for his safe return...read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 153 members
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  • Young Adam on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Ewan McGregor,  Tilda Swinton,  Emily Mortimer
    Director: David Mackenzie
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    YOUNG ADAM is David McKenzie's adaptation of Alexander Trocchi's novel, a romantic murder mystery set on a barge in the canals of Scotland. Lovely photography by Giles Nuttgens, complemented by a lonely score by David Byrne, provides a picturesque backdrop for what is otherwise a seedy story of ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 6,093 members
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  • My Name Is Joe on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Peter Mullan,  Louise Goodall,  David McKay
    Director: Ken Loach
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Peter Mullan (ORPHANS, MISS JULIE) won the Best Actor award at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival for his performance as Joe Kavanagh, a recovering alcoholic in his late thirties. Like half the people in his impoverished Glasgow neighborhood, he's unemployed and struggles to get by between odd jobs and ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 3,514 members
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  • Orphans on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Douglas Henshall,  Gary Lewis,  Stephen McCole
    Director: Peter Mullan
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    The star of Ken Loach's MY NAME IS JOE, Mullan proves that his talent isn't relegated to acting. As a writer/director, he has crafted a supremely entertaining motion picture. ORPHANS tells the grittily realistic, hysterical, and deeply moving tale of a group of siblings who reunite in Glasgow on ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 728 members
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  • Shallow Grave on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Christopher Eccleston,  Ewan McGregor,  Kerry Fox
    Director: Danny Boyle
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    After three Edinburgh roommates (Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston, and Kerry Fox) finally choose a new roommate they can live with, they find him dead on the floor with a suitcase full of cash. While trying to remove the body and extricate themselves from the situation, they wade hip-deep into ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 15,595 members
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Peter Mullan facts

5 most recent films

The Fixer - Series 2 - 3.5 stars
Fixer, The - Series 1 - 3.5 stars
The Last Legion - 3.0 stars
True North - 3.0 stars
On A Clear Day - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Boy A - 4.5 stars
Shallow Grave - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Fixer, The - Series 1 - 3.5 stars
Shallow Grave - 3.5 stars
The Magdalene Sisters - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

True North - 3.0 stars
The Fixer - Series 2 - 3.5 stars
Cinema 16 - European Short Films - 4.0 stars
Blinded - 2.0 stars
Kiss Of Life - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Jody Latham - 4 times - show films
Liz White - 4 times - show films
Andrew Buchan - 4 times - show films
Tamzin Outhwaite - 4 times - show films
Ewan McGregor - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Sam Miller - 3 times - show films
Danny Boyle - 2 times - show films
Alrick Riley - 1 times - show films
David Mackenzie - 1 times - show films
Gaby Dellal - 1 times - show films