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Gillies Mackinnon
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Gunpowder, Treason And Plot
on DVD (2004)
Starring: Robert Carlyle, Emilia Fox, Paul Nicholls
Director: Gillies Mackinnon
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Award-winning writer Jimmy McGovern explores the lives of Mary Queen of Scots and her son, James I in this BBC drama. Robert Carlyle leads a prestigious cast in this lavish production. Peopled with infamous characters, driven by compelling drama and life with love, lust, politics and prejudice, we ..read more »
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70%
from 261 members
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Pure
on DVD (2003)
Starring: Molly Parker, Keira Knightley, Harry Eden
Director: Gillies Mackinnon
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From the director of HIDEOUS KINKY and TV's acclaimed THE LAST OF THE BLOND BOMBSHELLS comes this powerful drama that sees a mother battling and succumbing to heroin-addiction while trying to bring up her ten year old son. A film that is coldly realistic and rightly a harrowing experience that ..read more »
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65%
from 279 members
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The Escapist
(2002)
Starring: Jonny Lee Miller, Gary Lewis, Andy Serkis
Director: Gillies Mackinnon
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Dennis returns home to find that his pregnant wife has been murdered... The culprit is caught and sent to prison. Dennis hatches an elaborate plan to get revenge by turning in a criminal. He is punished for his crimes by being placed in prison. He attempts to break out on a number of occasions ..read more »
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56%
from 734 members
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Last Of The Blonde Bombshells
on DVD (2000)
Starring: Judi Dench, Ian Holm, Leslie Caron
Director: Gillies Mackinnon
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Elizabeth, the youngest of The Blonde Bombshells, recalls her days during the Second World War when the group entertained the nation. When she meets up with Patrick, the only male member of the group, she has the idea on reforming the band to play together again for one last time.
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71%
from 296 members
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Hideous Kinky
(1999)
Starring: Kate Winslet, Said Taghmaoui
Director: Gillies Mackinnon
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With her two precious daughters in tow, free-spirited Julia (Kate Winslet) flees her stifling life in London for the promise of excitement, freedom and self-discovery in exotic Marrakech. In her single-minded quest for enlightenment and escapism, Julia falls into a steamy relationship with a ..read more »
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60%
from 761 members
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Regeneration
(1997)
Starring: Jonathan Pryce, James Wilby, Jonny Lee Miller
Director: Gillies Mackinnon
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Jonathan Pryce stars as Dr. William Rivers, an army psychologist who treats mentally disturbed patients so that they can return to the front, in this adaptation of Pat Barker's moving World War I novel. Dr. Rivers begins to doubt the morality of his occupation when he begins treating a bizarre trio ..read more »
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71%
from 164 members
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Trojan Eddie
on DVD (1996)
Starring: Stephen Rea, Richard Harris, Sean McGinley
Director: Gillies Mackinnon
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Eddie, a low-level flunky in a "family" of Irish swindlers, gets a case of torn loyalties after one of the junior members absconds with the willing, too-young bride of the family's boss--and with the dowry money, as well. While trying to clean up the mess, Eddie also contends with his own sloppy ..read more »
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48%
from 64 members
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Small Faces
on DVD (1996)
Starring: Clare Higgins, Ian McElhinney, Iain Robertson
Director: Gillies Mackinnon
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Three teenage brothers, gang-member Bobby, troubled mama's boy Charlie and self-assured prankster Lex, reside in a downtrodden section of Glasgow, Scotland, circa 1968. But while Bobby and Charlie are beginning to experience the power of raging hormones, the story focuses on Lex, who begins a ..read more »
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64%
from 493 members
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A Simple Twist Of Fate
on DVD (1995)
Starring: Steve Martin, Gabriel Byrne, Catherine O'Hara
Director: Gillies Mackinnon
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A recluse who lives his life making furniture, discovers a two year old orphan on his doorstep. Making a new life together their relationship is threatened when the natural father appears... Based around the George Elliot novel 'Silas Marner'.
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60%
from 427 members
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The Playboys
Starring: Albert Finney, Aidan Quinn, Robin Wright Penn
Director: Gillies Mackinnon
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A young woman, Tara Maguire scandalises her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of a wedlock, and refusing to name the father. She has a rare beauty and every man in town desires her, especially Sergeant Hegarty. The arrival of a dramatic troupe stirs things up even more, ..read more »
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51%
from 9 members
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The History Of Mr Polly
Starring: Lee Evans, Anne-Marie Duff, Julie Graham
Director: Gillies Mackinnon
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A young man daydreams his way through life as a draper's assistant until one day he is sacked and his life turns upside-down. Then on his father's death he inherits a large fortune and promptly buys himself a bicycle to travel the world and find adventure. His dreams are soon shattered by a doomed ..read more »
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58%
from 8 members
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