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Mullan wins San Sebastian's top prize -
27 September 2010
-Scottish director/actor Peter Mullan picked up the top prize at Spain's San Sebastian film festival on Saturday (25Sep10) for his film Neds.-
-The Trainspotting star was awarded the Golden Shell - the international movie event's highest accolade - for his coming-of-a
Peter Mullan - what members say
review by from Glasgow, Scotland
Heart of Glasgow 25 March 2004
review by buffyrules from
Struggled Here 17 April 2012
review by from Wokingham
Oscar worthy and not to be missed 10 October 2003
Peter Mullan - filmography
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Tyrannosaur - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Peter Mullan, Eddie Marsan, Olivia Colman
Director: Paddy Considine
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Watch now: Unavailable
Respected actor Paddy Considine moves to the director's chair for the first time with this emotionally powerful drama. Joseph (Peter Mullan) is a short-tempered alcoholic with a violent streak and just enough sense to know his life has gone terribly wrong. After getting in a fight with three men ..read more »
 
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from 2,772 members
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Tyrannosaur
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Peter Mullan, Eddie Marsan, Olivia Colman
Director: Paddy Considine
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Watch now: Unavailable
"Tyrannosaur" is the story of Joseph a man plagued by violence and a rage that is driving him to self-destruction. As Joseph's life spirals into turmoil a chance of redemption appears in the form of Hannah, a Christian charity shop worker. Their relationship develops to reveal that Hannah is hiding ..read more »
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from 8,007 members
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Neds - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Gary Milligan, Marianna Palka, Gregg Forrest
Director: Peter Mullan
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Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Peter Mullan takes the directorial helm once again in his third feature length film, returning to 1970's Glasgow in NEDS (which stands for 'Non-Educated Delinquents'), a personal but not autobiographical tale. John McGill is a confident young man, an academic genius and full of potential, however ..read more »
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from 2,935 members
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NEDS
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Connor McCarron, David McKay, Marcus Nash
Director: Peter Mullan
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
John McGill is about to start secondary school in Glasgow, where he hopes to continue his fledgling academic career. But his dysfunctional home-life, where his father is drunk and violent, his mother is anxious and repressed and his brother is always in trouble with the law, conspire to thwart his ..read more »
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from 10,904 members
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The Fixer - Series 2
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Andrew Buchan, Peter Mullan, Tamzin Outhwaite
Director: Sam Miller
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In the shadowy world between right and wrong, John Mercer is a modern-day gun for hire, beholden to his sinister master but not the boundaries - moral or otherwise - of the law. Includes all the episodes from the show's second series.
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from 279 members
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The Last Legion
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Colin Firth, Ben Kingsley, Aishwarya Rai
Director: Doug Lefler
Certificate: 
Watch now: Unavailable
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 »
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from 17,479 members
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Boy A
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Andrew Garfield, Alfie Owen, Katie Lyons
Director: Dimitry Cruelle, John Crowley
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A young man (Andrew Garfield, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The Other Boleyn Girl) is released from prison after many years and given a new identity in a new town. Aided by a supervisor who becomes like a father to him he finds a job and friends and hesitantly starts a relationship with a ..read more »
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from 2,994 members
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On A Clear Day
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Peter Mullan, Billy Boyd, Brenda Blethyn
Director: Gaby Dellal
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A man who finds himself out of work at fifty-five, finds a new lease of life when his friend happens to mention in idle conversation swimming to France. The preparation for the challenging feat is kept secret from his loved ones...
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from 6,458 members
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Blinded
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Jodhi May, Peter Mullan, Anders W. Berthelsen
Director: Eleanor Yule
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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 »
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from 812 members
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Kiss Of Life
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Peter Mullan, Millie Findlay, David Warner
Director: Emily Young
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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 »
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from 176 members
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Young Adam
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Tilda Swinton, Emily Mortimer
Director: David Mackenzie
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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 »
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from 6,734 members
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The Magdalene Sisters
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Geraldine McEwan, Nora-Jane Noone, Anne-Marie Duff
Director: Peter Mullan
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Based on the true accounts of the Magdalene laundries in Ireland, which eventually closed in 1996 after an estimated 30,000 women had been detained, 'The Magdalene Sisters' follows the story of three of these young women in Dublin, 1964.
Margaret (Anne-Marie Duff) is raped by her cousin at a ..read more »
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from 11,273 members
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Session 9
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: David Caruso, Peter Mullan, Brendan Sexton III
Director: Brad Anderson
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The Danvers State Mental Hospital closed down fifteen years ago. Now there's five strangers from the Elimination Company to clean it up. The hospital holds many secrets from its evil past...
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from 3,171 members
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Ordinary Decent Criminal
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Linda Fiorentino, Peter Mullan
Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Certificate:
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ORDINARY DECENT CRIMINAL stars Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey as Michael Lynch, an normal Irish bloke who just happens to rob from the rich. Charming and clever, Michael becomes a hero to the public, challenging and outwitting the authorities at every turn. However, the police soon become ..read more »
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from 2,321 members
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The Claim
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Wes Bentley, Nastassja Kinski, Shirley Henderson
Director: Michael Winterbottom
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In transporting Thomas Hardy's THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE to the American West, English director Michael Winterbottom has fashioned an audacious, epic anti-Western that is a haunting achievement. Set in 1849, the story concerns Mr. Dillon (Peter Mullan), the ruler of Kingdom Come, a snow-covered ..read more »
56%
from 915 members
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My Name Is Joe
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: David McKay, Peter Mullan, Louise Goodall
Director: Ken Loach
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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 »
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from 4,738 members
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Orphans
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Douglas Henshall, Gary Lewis, Stephen McCole
Director: Peter Mullan
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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 »
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from 868 members
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Orphans - Blu-ray
(1997)
Starring: Douglas Henshall, Gary Lewis, Stephen McCole
Director: Peter Mullan
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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 »
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from 46 members
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Shallow Grave - Blu-ray
(1994)
Starring: Christopher Eccleston, Ewan McGregor, Kerry Fox
Director: Danny Boyle
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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 »
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from 2,349 members
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Shallow Grave
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Christopher Eccleston, Colin McCredie, Ewan McGregor
Director: Danny Boyle
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The feature film debut of Scottish director Danny Boyle was a dark, hip, Generation X comedy about a trio of Edinburgh roommates whose narcissistic greed fuels murder and betrayal. Boisterous journalist Alex (Ewan McGregor), flirtatious doctor Juliet (Kerry Fox), and meek accountant David (..read more »
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from 18,734 members
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Peter Mullan facts
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...the surface. You will not need sub-titles to understand this film. Just look in Peter Mullan's eyes. ...
