Peter Mullan

Peter Mullan

出生 : 1959-11-02, Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK

略歴

Peter Mullan (born 2 November 1959) is a Scottish stage, film and television actor and director, best known for playing supporting roles in feature films such as "Braveheart" and "Trainspotting", and for starring as the titular character Joe Kavanagh in "My Name Is Joe".

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参加作品

Baghead
Owen Lark
Following the death of her estranged father, Iris learns she has inherited a run-down, centuries-old pub. She travels to Berlin to identify her father’s body and meet with The Solicitor to discuss the estate. Little does she know, when the deed is signed she will become inextricably tied to an unspeakable entity that resides in the pub’s basement – Baghead – a shape-shifting creature that can transform into the dead.
The Hanging Sun
Dad
On the run from his former employer, a reluctant hitman seeks refuge in an isolated village where he is faced with events that test the true nature of his conscience.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Global Fan Screening
King Durin III
An edited version of the first two episodes of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, shown exclusively to fans in cinemas around the world in August 2022. In a time of relative peace, an ensemble cast of characters confronts the re-emergence of evil to Middle-earth.
A Farewell to Ozark
Self
Jason Bateman, Laura Linney and other cast members open up about the show's characters and creators, plus what they'll miss most.
Don vs Lightning
Don
When Don, an elderly Scottish grump, finds himself the victim of multiple lightning strikes he begins to worry that his quiet, orderly life may never be the same again.
Marionette
Dr. McVittie
A therapist loses her grip on reality when a ten-year-old boy claims he can control her future.
Fatbaws
Director
After switching the food in his back-garden bird feeder, an idyllic lockdown experience is threatened after the birds make it clear they’re none too happy with the change. A showdown ensues, and as the fight escalates beyond his control the lines between man and beast begin to blur.
Fatbaws
After switching the food in his back-garden bird feeder, an idyllic lockdown experience is threatened after the birds make it clear they’re none too happy with the change. A showdown ensues, and as the fight escalates beyond his control the lines between man and beast begin to blur.
Orphans Reunited
20th anniversary documentary on “Orphans” including interviews with cast and crew.
バニシング
Thomas
スコットランド沖のフラナン諸島。絶海に浮かぶ無人島アイリーン・モア島に、3人の灯台守がやって来る。これから6週間、寒風吹き荒ぶこの島で灯台をともし続けるのが彼らの仕事だ。メンバーは、灯台守を25年続けているベテランのトマス、短気で粗暴な大男のジェームズ、まだ新米の若者ドナルド。 3人の静かで退屈な日々は、嵐の夜の翌朝、破られることになる。ドナルドが、流れ着いたボートと漂流者を発見。崖下に降り、ボートに積まれていた木箱を引き上げようとしていると、死んでいると思っていた漂流者が突然襲いかかってくる。身を護るため必死で抵抗したドナルドは、逆に漂流者を殺してしまった。そして木箱を開けてみると、中には金塊がぎっしりと詰められていたのだ。 思わぬ成り行きに動揺する3人の脳裏に、ドス黒い欲望が沸き上がってくる。死体を処分して、何も無かったことにすれば、金塊は自分たちの物になる……。だが3人のそんな想いをあざ笑うように、島にロックとボラという男たちが現れる。あの漂流者と木箱を探していた2人は、トマスたちの嘘を見破り、凶暴な正体をむき出しにする。血みどろの戦いの果て、気がつくと3人の前には、ロックたちの死体が転がっていた……。 死体を海に捨て、すべては片付いたはずだった。だが、誰もが罪の意識に怯え、男たちの精神状態は限界に達してゆく。幻覚に追い立てられ、狂ったように暴れるジェームズ。疑心暗鬼は深まり、仲間だった3人は敵同士となり、自分だけが助かろうとあがきはじめる。そして遂に、破滅の時は訪れた……。
モーグリ:ジャングルの伝説
Akela
ジャングルの奥深くで動物たちに育てられた少年が、傍若無人な天敵と自分と同じ種である人間に立ち向かう。恐れを乗り越え運命をつかんだその姿は、まさに真の勇者。
Pearl
Al
72 hours from the final of an international female bodybuilding championship. Lea Pearl is set to compete for the prestigious title of Miss Heaven. But her past catches up with her, when her ex-lover Ben shows up with the 6-year-old son she hardly knows.
荒野の誓い
Lieutenant Colonel Ross McCowan
A legendary Native American-hating Army captain nearing retirement in 1892 is given one last assignment: to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory back to his Montana reservation.
Tommy's Honour
Tom Morris
In every generation, a torch passes from father to son. And that timeless dynamic is the beating heart of Tommy's Honor - an intimate, powerfully moving tale of the real-life founders of the modern game of golf.
Edith
Jake
Edith explores the heartbreaking inevitability that is old age.
Hector
Hector McAdam
Hector has been living on the motorways for years. His once comfortable family life has been replaced by a never-ending tour of service stations that offer him shelter, anonymity, washing facilities and food. The story follows his journey south from Scotland on his annual pilgrimage to a temporary Christmas shelter in London where he finds comfort, friendship and warmth. Over the course of his Homeric journey, Hector decides to reconnect with his long estranged past. As his previous life catches up with him, the story of how he came to be leading a marginal life begins to emerge.
Sunset Song
John Guthrie
The daughter of a Scottish farmer comes of age in the early 1900s.
ヘラクレス
Sitacles
全能の神ゼウスと人間の間に生まれた半神半人の男ヘラクレス(ドウェイン・ジョンソン)。神さえも恐れる超人的な怪力と人間の心を併せ持つ彼は、強さと優しさに満ち溢れた人物として世に知られていた。だが、自分の子どもの命を奪ったことで罪の意識に押しつぶされそうになった彼は、苦しみ抜いた末、救いを得るために自らに12の試練を課す。多頭の蛇ヒュドラ、不死身のライオン、巨大なイノシシであるエリュマントスなど、襲い掛かる魔物や悪を、圧倒的な力で倒してゆくヘラクレスだった
サンシャイン/歌声が響く街
Robert 'Rab' Henshaw
スコットランドのリースで生活しているロブとジーンのもとに、兵役を終えた息子のデイヴィーが帰ってくる。デイヴィーは、妹のリズの紹介で出会ったイヴォンヌと瞬く間に恋仲になる。そんな中、ロブが24年前に交際していた女性の葬儀の連絡があり、彼女には娘がいることが発覚する。
From the Bottom of the Lake
himself
The creative process at the heart of creating TV series Top of the Lake (2013). From the writing process with long-time collaborator Gerard Lee to shooting in New Zealand, filmmaker Jane Campion struggles and rises to the occasion.
Welcome to the Punch
Roy Edwards
When notorious criminal Jacob Sternwood is forced to return to London, it gives detective Max Lewinsky one last chance to take down the man he's always been after.
ヒットマンズ・レクイエム
Peter
When 19-year-old Adam agrees to do a day's driving for his mum's gangster boyfriend Peter, it takes him on a 24-hour journey into a nightmarish world of murder, sex trafficking and revenge, in the company of aging hit man Roy.
The Man Inside
Gordon Sinclair
A thriller centered on a young boxer trying to distance himself from his father's gangster past and the relationship with his trainer.
戦火の馬
Ted Narracott
友情で結ばれていた少年と引き離され、軍馬として第1次大戦の最前線に送られた1頭の馬。国境など知らぬ馬が戦火を潜り抜け、さまざまな出会いを繰り広げていくさまをスピルバーグ監督が描き上げた感動作。
Long Distance Information
Jack
Dad always said not to talk to strangers. But you've got to phone home sometimes.
思秋期
Joseph
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 a secret of her own with devastating results on both of their lives.
Neds
Mr. McGill
NEDs (Non Educated Delinquents) is the story of a young man’s journey from prize-winning schoolboy to knife-carrying teenager. Struggling against the low expectations of those around him, John McGill changes from victim to avenger, scholar to NED, altar boy to glue sniffer. When he attempts to change back again, his new reality and recent past make conformity near impossible and violent self determination near inevitable.
Neds
Writer
NEDs (Non Educated Delinquents) is the story of a young man’s journey from prize-winning schoolboy to knife-carrying teenager. Struggling against the low expectations of those around him, John McGill changes from victim to avenger, scholar to NED, altar boy to glue sniffer. When he attempts to change back again, his new reality and recent past make conformity near impossible and violent self determination near inevitable.
Neds
Director
NEDs (Non Educated Delinquents) is the story of a young man’s journey from prize-winning schoolboy to knife-carrying teenager. Struggling against the low expectations of those around him, John McGill changes from victim to avenger, scholar to NED, altar boy to glue sniffer. When he attempts to change back again, his new reality and recent past make conformity near impossible and violent self determination near inevitable.
ハリー・ポッターと死の秘宝 Part1
Corban Yaxley
物語はハリー、ロン、ハーマイオニーに課せられた使命であるヴォルデモート抹殺の鍵を握る“分霊箱”を見つけ出すところから始まる。今や守ってくれる人も、導いてくれる師も失い、これまで以上に固い結束を求められるハリーたち。しかし、闇の力が、しっかりと結ばれたはずの3人の絆を引き裂いていく・・・・・。 一方、かつてないほど危険な場所となった魔法界。長いあいだ恐れられてきたヴォルデモート卿の復活が現実のものとなり、魔法省ばかりか、ホグワーツ魔法魔術学校までもが死喰い人の支配下に置かれた今、安全な場所はもはやどこにもなくなった。ヴォルデモート卿の命令により、ハリーを生け捕りにしようとする死喰い人の魔の手が迫る。 そして、分霊箱の手がかりを探すうちに出会った「死の秘宝」の伝説。ほとんど忘れられた古い物語に記されたその伝説が本当なら、ヴォルデモートは、分霊箱を上回る究極の力を手に入れてしまうかもしれない・・・・・。 ハリーはまったく知らないが、彼の未来は、彼自身の過去によってすでに決められているのだ。“生き残った男の子”になった日に、ハリーの運命は決まった。 初めてホグワーツの門をくぐったあの日からずっと積み重ねてきた準備―――それらはすべて、このヴォルデモートとの決着の日のために・・・・・。
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983
Martin Laws
Detective Chief Superintendent Maurice Jobson is forced to remember the very similar disappearance of Clare Kemplay, who was found dead in 1974, and the subsequent imprisonment of local boy Michael Myshkin. Washed-up local solicitor John Piggott becomes convinced of Myshkin's innocence and begins to fight on his behalf, unwittingly providing a catalyst for Jobson to start to right some wrongs.
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
Martin Laws
After 6 years of brutal murders, the West Yorkshire Police fear that they may have already interviewed The Ripper and let him back into the world to continue his reign of terror upon the citizens of Yorkshire. Assistant Chief Constable of the Manchester Police, Peter Hunter, is called in to oversee the West Yorkshire Police's Ripper investigation and see what they could have missed.
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
Martin Laws
Yorkshire, 1974. Fear, mistrust and institutionalised police corruption are running riot. Rookie journalist Eddie Dunford is determined to search for the truth in an increasingly complex maze of lies and deceit surrounding the police investigation into a series of child abductions. When young Clare Kemplay goes missing, Eddie and his colleague, Barry, persuade their editor to let them investigate links with two similar abductions that draw them into a deadly world of secrecy, intimidation, shocking revelations and police brutality.
Stone of Destiny
Ian's Father
Tells of the daring heist of The Stone of Destiny in the 1950s by a charming group of idealistic Scottish undergraduates, whose action rekindled Scottish nationalistic pride.
To Build a Home
A searingly unflinching look at love, life and death. Shot on 35mm over two days on location in Cumbria, this short tells of the final hours of a couple's life together.
Boy A
Terry
Freed after a lengthy term in a juvenile detention center, convicted child killer Jack Burridge (Andrew Garfield) finds work as a deliveryman and begins dating co-worker Michelle (Katie Lyons). While out on the road one day, the young Englishman notices a distressed child, and, after reuniting the girl with her family, becomes a local celebrity. But, when a local newspaper unearths his past, Jack must cope with the anger of citizens who fear for the safety of their children.
Dog Altogether
Joseph
Joseph is a man plagued by a violence and rage who is driving him to self destruction. As he falls further into turmoil, Joseph scours the landscape in search of a single grain of redemption that might restore hope to his fractured life.
The Last Legion
Odoacer
As the Roman empire crumbles, young Romulus Augustus flees the city and embarks on a perilous voyage to Britain to track down a legion of supporters.
The Trial of Tony Blair
Gordon Brown
Biting political satire starring Robert Lindsay as a beleaguered Tony Blair, who stubbornly refuses to see the danger he faces from a Special Tribunal on Iraq that has been set up to investigate war crimes
トゥモロー・ワールド
Syd
西暦2027年11月。人類は希望を失い、世界は恐慌状態におちいっていた。なぜか出産の能力が失われ、18年間にわたって全く子供が生まれないのだ。英国は軍事力で徹底的に抑圧することにより、秩序を維持していた。検問所に向かう途中、セオたちの車は暴徒の襲撃にあい、ジュリアンが撃たれて絶命。組織のアジトに逃げ込んだセオは、キーから衝撃の事実を告白される。なんと彼女は子供を身ごもっており、間もなく出産を迎えるというのだ。セオは彼女を連れ、命がけの逃避行を開始する。
True North
Riley
The crew of a bankrupt Scottish trawler turn to smuggling illegal immigrants over the stormy waters of the North Sea.
Cinema 16: European Short Films (European Edition)
Director
A collection of short films by 16 European directors.
Cargo
Brookes
A young backpacker gets into some trouble in Africa and stows away on a cargo ship heading to Europe.
Carry on Ken
A documentary on the films of Ken Loach. Interviews with cast and crew who worked with Loach over the years. It describe his approach to allowing actors a wide range of freedom.
On a Clear Day
Frank
After decades of laboring as a Glasgow shipbuilder, Frank Redmond, a no-nonsense 55-year-old working-class man, suddenly finds himself laid off. For the first time in his life, he is without a job or a sense of direction, and he's too proud to ask for guidance. His best mates - rascally Danny, timid Norman and cynical Eddie - are there for him, but Frank still feels desperately alone. An offhand remark from Danny inspires Frank to challenge himself. Already contemplating the state of his relationships with loving wife Joan and all-but-estranged son Rob, Frank is determined to shore up his own self-confidence. He will attempt the near impossible - swimming the English Channel.
Criminal
William Hannigan
Needing a new partner capable of intricate cons, Richard Gaddis, recruits Rodrigo, a crook with a perfect poker face. The two plan a big-time scam: selling a fake Silver Certificate to currency collector William Hannigan. Rodrigo distrusts his new associate, but needs money to help out his ill father. The situation becomes more complicated when Rodrigo falls for Gaddis' sister, Valerie, drawing another player into the game.
この世の外へ クラブ進駐軍
Jim
Five young musicians, each harboring painful memories, are assembled to entertain American soldiers at an Enlisted Men's Club. Tensions emerge between the tenor saxophonist, a disillusioned ex-soldier, and a bitter GI whose brother was killed in the war. And when the band plays the prohibited "Danny Boy" during a birthday bash for a sergeant whose son Danny had died a year ago, everyone must confront a past they'd rather forget.
Kiss of Life
John
Helen lives in London with her father and her kids. John, her husband, is an aid-worker in Eastern Europe. He has been gone many months. Helen is desperately anxious that he should come home. Taking the kids to school one morning, she is killed in a car accident. She remains caught in limbo, trapped between life and death. Many miles away, in war-torn Eastern Europe, John is unaware that his wife has died. As Helen herself is unaware that she is dead. Thus begins, a four-day Odyssey: Grandpa and the kids must come to terms with Helen's death; John must travel across a war-torn land as he tries to reach home; and Helen must stand helplessly observing her own existence as it comes back to haunt her - until at last she is reconciled with John, and thus released.
猟人日記
Les Gault
1940年代後半のイギリス。作家志望のジョ-は貨物船の作業員として働いていた。ある日彼は女性の水死体を発見し、船長のレズリーと共に死体を引き上げる。
This Little Life
Neonatologist
A powerful one-off drama written by Rosemary Kay , winner of the BBC's Dennis Potter award for new screenwriting. Sadie and Richie MacGregor are thrown into the terrifying world of neo-natal intensive care when their son Luke is born prematurely. Willed on by his desperate parents, he gradually grows in strength - but as Sadie develops a unique bond with her son, her relationship with Richie begins to suffer.
マグダレンの祈り
Mr O'Connor
1964年、アイルランド、ダブリン。マグダレン修道院に、時を同じくして3人の少女が収容される。孤児バーナデットはその美しさで周囲の少年たちの目を惹きつけてしまうことが、マーガレットは従兄弟にレイプされたことが、そしてローズは未婚のまま赤ん坊を産んだことがそれぞれ“罪”とされたのだった。彼女たちは、修道院を管理する修道女たちに性悪女と決めつけられ、祈りと労働によって神に奉仕し“罪”を悔い改めるよう言われるのだった。しかしそこで彼女たちを待っていたのは、過酷な労働と自由の一切ない刑務所以上に非人間的な環境だった。
マグダレンの祈り
Screenplay
1964年、アイルランド、ダブリン。マグダレン修道院に、時を同じくして3人の少女が収容される。孤児バーナデットはその美しさで周囲の少年たちの目を惹きつけてしまうことが、マーガレットは従兄弟にレイプされたことが、そしてローズは未婚のまま赤ん坊を産んだことがそれぞれ“罪”とされたのだった。彼女たちは、修道院を管理する修道女たちに性悪女と決めつけられ、祈りと労働によって神に奉仕し“罪”を悔い改めるよう言われるのだった。しかしそこで彼女たちを待っていたのは、過酷な労働と自由の一切ない刑務所以上に非人間的な環境だった。
マグダレンの祈り
Director
1964年、アイルランド、ダブリン。マグダレン修道院に、時を同じくして3人の少女が収容される。孤児バーナデットはその美しさで周囲の少年たちの目を惹きつけてしまうことが、マーガレットは従兄弟にレイプされたことが、そしてローズは未婚のまま赤ん坊を産んだことがそれぞれ“罪”とされたのだった。彼女たちは、修道院を管理する修道女たちに性悪女と決めつけられ、祈りと労働によって神に奉仕し“罪”を悔い改めるよう言われるのだった。しかしそこで彼女たちを待っていたのは、過酷な労働と自由の一切ない刑務所以上に非人間的な環境だった。
セッション9
Gordon
Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.
めぐり逢う大地
Daniel Dillon
A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who owns much of the old west town named Kingdom Come. But changes are brewing and his past is coming back to haunt him. A surveyor and his crew scouts the town as a location for a new railroad line and a young woman suddenly appears in the town and is evidently the man's daughter.
私が愛したギャングスター
Stevie
強盗団のボス・マイケルの目的は金ではなく、スリル。そんな彼にも2人の妻と子供がいるが、彼はさらに大きなヤマにトライし……。実在の大泥棒をモデルにしたアクション・エンタテイメント。
The Escort
Patricia's Husband
A movie about a middle aged french man who after a family crisis travels on the spur of the moment to London only to get caught up in the male prostitution business and eventually drugs.
Miss Julie
Jean
A footman seduces a count's daughter. Adaptation of August Strindberg's famous play.
Orphans
Writer
A group of four siblings reunite in Glasgow on the eve of their mother's funeral, and the children mourn their mother's passing in a variety of ways—sometimes heartfelt, sometimes bizarre. As a potential thunderstorm threatens to damage the city, the situation compounds itself.
Orphans
Director
A group of four siblings reunite in Glasgow on the eve of their mother's funeral, and the children mourn their mother's passing in a variety of ways—sometimes heartfelt, sometimes bizarre. As a potential thunderstorm threatens to damage the city, the situation compounds itself.
My Name Is Joe
Joe
Two thirtysomethings, unemployed former alcoholic Joe and community health worker Sarah, start a romantic relationship in the one of the toughest Glasgow neighbourhoods.
Duck
Nick
On a day much like any other, Mick and Carmen, two hard-drinking lovers down on their luck, set out to satisfy their hunger. But food is not their only need. As the day progresses, tensions rise and their stormy relationship is put to the ultimate test.
フェアリーテイル
Sergeant Farmer
 “妖精を目撃した”として一大論争を巻き起こした実話を基に描く、ファンタジックな感動作。自然豊かな美しいイギリスの田舎町を舞台に、妖精たちと心を通わせる少女たちの無垢な姿を詩的な映像で綴る。第一次大戦下のイギリス。父が戦地で行方不明となった8歳の少女フランシスは、12歳の従姉妹エルシーのいるヨークシャーへと向かった。叔父夫婦に温かく迎えられ、逆境に負けず毎日を明るく過ごすフランシス。そんなある日、彼女とエルシーは小川で美しく光る妖精に遭遇する。
Bogwoman
Barry
Bogwoman charts the experiences of a woman who moves to the city from Donegal in 1958. Down the years she copes with various personal and familiy pressures against the background of the emerging civil unrest and the redeployment of British troops into the area.
Nightlife
Billy
An agoraphobic woman with voyeuristic impulses witnesses the kidnapping of a young man. Breaking out of her comfort zones, she strives to track down and rescue the man.
トレインスポッティング
Swanney "Mother Superior"
ドラッグ中毒のマークと悪友たちは常にハイ状態か、あるいはドラッグを手に入れるため盗みに精を出しているというていたらく。ある日、マークはこのままではいけないと更生するためにロンドンに行き職に就く。ところが、彼らの仲間が会社に押し掛けたことが原因で、マークはクビになってしまう。
Fridge
Writer
Two Neds are harassing a drunken 'jaikie' and an inebriated resident confronts them. A stand off takes place until one of the Neds shuts a young boy in an abandoned fridge. They leave but threaten to return and burn down the tenement. The residents try to open the fridge but are unsuccessful. Panic initially sets in as they fear the young boy will die.
Fridge
Director
Two Neds are harassing a drunken 'jaikie' and an inebriated resident confronts them. A stand off takes place until one of the Neds shuts a young boy in an abandoned fridge. They leave but threaten to return and burn down the tenement. The residents try to open the fridge but are unsuccessful. Panic initially sets in as they fear the young boy will die.
Ruffian Hearts
Chez
An off-beat romantic comedy about the complex relationships between the inhabitants of a Glasgow tenement block. The final film in the Love Bites trilogy.
ブレイブハート
Veteran
イングランド王の圧制に家族を殺された、スコットランド人のウォーレス。愛する家族の仇を討つため、多くの民衆とともに立ち上がった……。中世スコットランドに実在した、伝説のヒーローの激闘を描いた歴史スペクタクル・アクション。
Good Day for the Bad Guys
John
A black comedy set onstage and off, of a traditional Scottish pantomine. One actor's progressive nervous breakdown brings Good and Evil into open conflict.
Good Day for the Bad Guys
Writer
A black comedy set onstage and off, of a traditional Scottish pantomine. One actor's progressive nervous breakdown brings Good and Evil into open conflict.
Good Day for the Bad Guys
Director
A black comedy set onstage and off, of a traditional Scottish pantomine. One actor's progressive nervous breakdown brings Good and Evil into open conflict.
Shallow Grave
Andy
When accountant David, doctor Juliet and journalist Alex are searching for a fourth roommate for their trendy flat, they settle on the aloof Hugo. However, they soon find Hugo dead of a drug overdose, beside a large sum of cash. After some deliberation, the three others decide to keep the money and to dismember and bury Hugo's body. Soon, each roommate starts thinking about keeping all the money by scamming the others.
The Priest and the Pirate
Billy Hill
A priest is transferred to Edinburgh where he becomes involved with a pirate television station supporting Scottish independence.
Vision
Sim
Set in 1847 in the Highlands of Scotland. In a remote village the people depend on their faith for survival during the potato famine. One man has different ideas.
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Writer
Vincent has recently become a father and is preparing the house for his newborn daughter's homecoming. His joy and excitement, however, turn into something darker when one of his neighbours (a sad, drunken man whose own children have recently thrown him out of the house) suggests a sordid future for both Vincent and his child. Something inside him snaps and he embarks on a pyschotic mission of 'close cleansing'. -Peter Mullan, Director "Close" is a short film on the darker side of fatherhood, of paternal love swerving dangerously down the wrong path. The mood is disturbing, violent and darkly comic.
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Director
Vincent has recently become a father and is preparing the house for his newborn daughter's homecoming. His joy and excitement, however, turn into something darker when one of his neighbours (a sad, drunken man whose own children have recently thrown him out of the house) suggests a sordid future for both Vincent and his child. Something inside him snaps and he embarks on a pyschotic mission of 'close cleansing'. -Peter Mullan, Director "Close" is a short film on the darker side of fatherhood, of paternal love swerving dangerously down the wrong path. The mood is disturbing, violent and darkly comic.
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Vincent
Vincent has recently become a father and is preparing the house for his newborn daughter's homecoming. His joy and excitement, however, turn into something darker when one of his neighbours (a sad, drunken man whose own children have recently thrown him out of the house) suggests a sordid future for both Vincent and his child. Something inside him snaps and he embarks on a pyschotic mission of 'close cleansing'. -Peter Mullan, Director "Close" is a short film on the darker side of fatherhood, of paternal love swerving dangerously down the wrong path. The mood is disturbing, violent and darkly comic.
Riff-Raff
Jake
Stevie, fresh from prison in Scotland, finds a job on a London construction site. The working conditions are poor and most of the men are working under aliases, due to immigration status and to not conflict with their "signing on" for unemployment benefits. Some coworkers help Stevie secure housing, squatting in a council estate. Then Stevie meets Susan, from Ireland, who's struggling to be a professional singer.
Your Cheatin' Heart
In this fondly remembered mini series John Byrne, creator of Tutti Frutti, explores the country music scene in an unsentimental portrait of Glaswegian life and culture. Local food and wine correspondent Frank McClusky falls in love with waitress Cissie Crouch. Unfortunately for him, she’s the wife of a convict, who is serving time for a crime he didn’t commit. As Frank’s life becomes more embroiled with Cissie’s he goes on a mission to track down the guilty men.
The Big Man
Vince
An unemployed Scottish miner is forced into bare-knuckle boxing to make ends meet.
The Steamie
Andy
Tony Roper wrote 'The Steamie' for Glasgow's Mayfest in 1987. Return to Hogmany 1957 when a fiesty group of Glasgow women; Mrs Culfeathers, Dolly, Doreen and the irrepressible Magrit, all meet at The Steamie to do the traditional family wash before the New Year. The Steamie is a hilarious cameo of Glasgow's social history where the washing was always easier to do when the Women shared their laugher and sorrow and a scandalous supply of gossip. This is the definitive version of the most popular play of the last 20 years with the all star cast of Dorothy Paul as Magrit, Eileen McCallum as Dolly, Kate Murphy as Doreen, Sheila McDonald as Mrs Culfeathers and a very young Peter Mullan as Andy, the whisky loving handy man.
Mystery Ride
Callum Macfarlane
A woman unravels a small town conspiracy of silence surrounding the murder of a hitchhiker and falls in love with a handsome, brooding Maori guy, she increasingly fears may be the killer.