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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


  • My Name Is Joe
  • My Name Is Joe review by from Glasgow, Scotland
    Rated - 4.0 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. ...   Read customer review
  • Orphans
  • Orphans review by buffyrules from
    Rated - 3.0 stars Struggled Here 17 April 2012
    ...I love Peter Mullan as an actor and a director but really struggled with this. It just felt like it did not know which way to go and instead combined darkness with humour w...   Read customer review
  • The Magdalene Sisters
  • The Magdalene Sisters review by from Wokingham
    Rated - 5.0 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...   Read customer review

Peter Mullan - filmography


  • Tyrannosaur - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Peter Mullan,  Eddie Marsan,  Olivia Colman
    Director: Paddy Considine
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    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 »
    4 stars out of 5 78% from 2,772 members
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  • Tyrannosaur on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Peter Mullan,  Eddie Marsan,  Olivia Colman
    Director: Paddy Considine
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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 »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 8,007 members
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  • Neds - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Gary Milligan,  Marianna Palka,  Gregg Forrest
    Director: Peter Mullan
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 2,935 members
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  • NEDS on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Connor McCarron,  David McKay,  Marcus Nash
    Director: Peter Mullan
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% 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
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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.
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 279 members
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  • The Last Legion on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Colin Firth,  Ben Kingsley,  Aishwarya Rai
    Director: Doug Lefler
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 59% 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
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% 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
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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...
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 6,458 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 »
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 812 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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 176 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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% 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
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 11,273 members
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  • Session 9 on DVD (2001)
    Starring: David Caruso,  Peter Mullan,  Brendan Sexton III
    Director: Brad Anderson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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...
    3 stars out of 5 58% 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: Certificate: 15
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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 »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 2,321 members
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  • The Claim on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Wes Bentley,  Nastassja Kinski,  Shirley Henderson
    Director: Michael Winterbottom
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 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
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 4,738 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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 868 members
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  • Orphans - Blu-ray (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 »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 46 members
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  • Shallow Grave - Blu-ray (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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 2,349 members
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  • Shallow Grave on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Christopher Eccleston,  Colin McCredie,  Ewan McGregor
    Director: Danny Boyle
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 18,734 members
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Peter Mullan facts

5 most recent films

Long Distance Information - 3 stars
War Horse - 3.5 stars
Tyrannosaur - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Tyrannosaur - 4.0 stars
War Horse - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Tyrannosaur - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Tyrannosaur - 4.0 stars
The Fixer - Series 2 - 4.0 stars
Boy A - 3.5 stars
War Horse - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Long Distance Information - 3 stars
True North - 3.0 stars
Orphans - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Cinema 16 - European Short Films - 4.0 stars
Blinded - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Andrew Buchan - 4 times - show films
Tamzin Outhwaite - 4 times - show films
Gary Lewis - 4 times - show films
Jody Latham - 4 times - show films
Liz White - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Sam Miller - 3 times - show films
Paddy Considine - 3 times - show films
Thaddeus O'Sullivan - 2 times - show films
Danny Boyle - 2 times - show films
Steven Spielberg - 2 times - show films