Gillies MacKinnon

Gillies MacKinnon

1948-01-08 Glasgow, Scotland, UK 20 Credits

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gillies MacKinnon (born 8 January 1948, Glasgow) is a Scottish film director and writer. His film credits include Hideous Kinky, Small Faces and Regeneration. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gillies MacKinnon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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The Last Bus

The Last Bus

2021

Director

6.5
Directing

Widower Tom, on the recent passing of his wife Mary, uses his free bus pass to travel the length of Britain from John O'Groats in Caithness to Land's ...

Torvill & Dean

Torvill & Dean

2018

Director

6.7
Directing

Biopic of the British ice dancers and British, European, Olympic and World champions, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean.

Whisky Galore

Whisky Galore

2016

Director

5.9
Directing

The story of the inhabitants of the isolated Scottish island of Todday, in the Outer Hebrides, where gloom sets in as their wartime rationing of whisk...

Castles in the Sky

Castles in the Sky

2014

Director

5.8
Directing

England, while the storm clouds of Nazism menace Germany. Robert Watson Watt and a team of eccentric and brilliant meteorologists struggle to turn the...

The History of Mr Polly

The History of Mr Polly

2007

Director

6.0
Directing

When Alfred Polly fails to find fulfilment as a shop keeper, he leaves his wife and sets out on the open road to see where freedom leads.

Tara Road

Tara Road

2005

Director

5.4
Directing

A grieving Connecticut mother temporarily switches houses with a woman in Dublin, Ireland.

Pure

Pure

2002

Director

6.2
Directing

A young boy trying to deal with his mother's heroin addiction befriends a waitress who helps him cope with the tough situation.

The Escapist

The Escapist

2002

Director

5.7
Directing

Denis Hopkins, a pilot, lives with his pregnant wife Valerie and has a comfortable lifestyle. When a gang of criminals led by the sadistic Ricky Barne...

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells

2000

Director

6.7
Directing

After Elizabeth's husband dies, she begins to play her tenor saxophone again, and remembers when she was 15 and a member of the Blonde Bombshells, an ...

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song

2000

Director

5.0
Directing

Ireland's bloody 1916 Easter Uprising, the suffragette movement in England, a Zeppelin raid, and a meeting with a rising young British cabinet member ...

Hideous Kinky

Hideous Kinky

1999

Director

6.1
Directing

In 1972, disenchanted about the dreary conventions of English life, 25-year-old Julia heads for Morocco with her daughters, six-year-old Lucy and prec...

Regeneration

Regeneration

1997

Director

5.7
Directing

Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, two of England's most important World War I poets are sent, along with other traumatized combatants, to a rest hom...

Trojan Eddie

Trojan Eddie

1996

Director

5.3
Directing

Trojan Eddie sells stolen goods for John Power, aging godfather of a local network of Irish gypsies, known as "travelers." Having done time rather tha...

Small Faces

Small Faces

1996

Director, Writer

6.3
Directing Writing

Three teenage brothers, gang-member Bobby, troubled mama's boy Alan and self-assured prankster Lex, reside in a downtrodden section of Glasgow, Scotla...

A Simple Twist of Fate

A Simple Twist of Fate

1994

Director

6.1
Directing

When Michael McCann is thrown over by the woman he loves, he becomes something of a misanthrope and a miser, spending all of his spare money on collec...

The Playboys

The Playboys

1992

Director

6.0
Directing

A young woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of a wedlock, and refusing to na...

The Grass Arena

The Grass Arena

1992

Director

8.0
Directing

The Grass Arena is based on the autobiography of John Healy. Raised in an strongly religious family, with an abusive father, John soon learns that he ...

Needle

Needle

1990

Director

10.0
Directing

Needle paints a harrowing picture of a Liverpool overrun by drugs, charting a young man's nightmarish descent into intravenous heroin use and AIDS and...

Conquest of the South Pole

1989

Director

Directing

A Group of unemployed Edinburgh youths embark on a recreation of Roald Amundsen's historic expedition to the South Pole.

Passing Glory

1986

Director, Writer

Directing Writing

When Spanish Civil War veteran Jessie McFarlane dies, the funeral is a mockery of her life and beliefs. Caught in a family divided by politics and rel...