Movies and TV shows set in scotland – page 4

List of movies set in scotland

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White Settlers (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Young urban couple Ed and Sarah are set to begin a new life when they move from London into an isolated borders Scottish farmhouse. After falling in love with the 19th century Castle Farm and seeing its potential as a fixer-upper they are anxious to ...
Style: scary, tense, suspenseful, suspense, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: home invasion, couples, danger, couple relations, twists and turns, forest, masked man, rivalry, isolation, outsider, farmhouse, aggression ...
Time: 21st century
Place: scotland
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National Theatre Live: Macbeth (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Performing from within the walls of a deconsecrated Manchester church, Kenneth Branagh takes the lead role in this ambitious production of William Shakespeare's tragic tale of ambition and treachery.
Style: captivating, suspense, psychological, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot: king, shakespeare, revenge, tragic hero, prophecy, femme fatale, betrayal, rise and fall, medieval, throne, assassination, state affairs ...
Time: middle ages
Place: scotland, united kingdom
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 6.8
 682
Waterboys (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Netherlands, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Both newly single, a Dutch crime author and his cellist son attempt to rekindle their feeble bond as the latter joins the former on a publicity trip to Scotland.
Style: entertaining, witty, dramatic, funny, captivating ...
Plot: road trip, parent child relationship, city, father and son, father, father son relationship, music, son, travel, father son estrangement
Place: scotland
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Little Bone Lodge (2023)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: During a stormy night in the Scottish Highlands, two criminal brothers on the run seek refuge in a desolate farmhouse. But after taking the resident family captive, they find the house holds even darker secrets of its own.
Style: captivating, suspenseful, bleak, serious
Plot: criminal, matriarchy, stormy night, held captive, brother, fugitive, storm, family secret, mother, hostage situation, dark secret, runaway ...
Place: scottish highlands, scotland
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 7.6
 9K
Karen Pirie (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: Karen is a refreshingly normal and charmingly unfashionable young woman – slick, maverick cop she is not – but her quick mouth and ingenuity make her an impressive investigator. Following her promotion to Police Scotland’s Historic Cases Unit, ...
Style: dramatic, detective, captivating, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: cold case, female detective, female protagonist, investigation, murder, british, policewoman, police investigation, murder investigation, police detective, homicide detective, female police detective ...
Place: scotland
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 7.5
 477
Sea of Souls (2004)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: Sea of Souls follows para-psychologist Monaghan and his two sidekicks from a fictitious Scottish University that investigates paranormal activity.
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, detective ...
Plot: parapsychology, paranormal, supernatural power, supernatural, paranormal investigation, paranormal phenomena, paranormal investigator, paranormal activity, investigation, uncover truth, private detective, mysticism ...
Place: scotland
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 8.9
 9K
Still Game (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 29 min.
TV show
Story: Cult Scottish comedy about the lives of two OAP's (Old Age Pensioners) Jack and Victor and their views on how it used to be in the old days and how bad it is now in the fictional town of Craiglang.
Style: sitcom, satirical, funny, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot: humour, male protagonist, satire, social satire, slice of life, lifestyle, bookies, brother brother relationship
Place: scotland, glasgow scotland
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 7.0
 2K
Stag (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: Dark comedy about a group of obnoxious friends who struggle to survive the Stag Weekend from hell, as a deer-stalking expedition in the Scottish Highlands quickly turns messier than expected.
Style: humorous, light, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: friends, manhunt, survival, hunting, farce, danger, struggle for survival, murder, forest, friend, mysticism, murder mystery ...
Place: scotland
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From Darkness (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 233 min.
TV show
Story: The story of Claire Church, a former police officer who moves away to the remote Western Isles in an attempt to escape the past and violence that still haunts her. Soon, Claire is pulled back into an investigation she thought she long left behind, ...
Style: detective, tense, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, disturbing ...
Plot: british police, serial killer, murder investigation, policewoman, murder, police investigation, countryside, british, investigation, violence, society, family relations ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: scotland
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 5.4
 380
The Cabin (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A pair of single parents, who have each brought their children to a remote Scottish resort for an annual family-and-games event, are accidentally booked into the same cabin. Naturally, they can't stand each other...at first.
Style: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, not serious ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: parents and children, love and romance, resort, disorder, family relations, family life, youth, couples, friendship, single parent, frog, auto mechanic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: scotland, europe, edinburgh scotland, glasgow scotland
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Single Father (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 231 min.
TV show
Story: Dave is facing the seemingly impossible job of bringing up four kids alone after the sudden death of his wife. And things get even more complicated when he falls in love with his wife's best friend, Sarah. Single Father asks how soon is too ...
Style: touching, realistic, serious, emotional, romantic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: tragic event, accident, fall in love, family relations, parents and children, family problems, death in the family, love and romance, loss of spouse, loss of family member, loss of loved one, grief ...
Time: 21st century
Place: scotland, europe
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 6.1
 386
Some Dogs Bite (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Halliday (19), Casey (14) and baby Severino have been split up after their mothers death. Casey is in care; Severino has been fostered with a view to adoption, and no one really cares what Halliday does; even his mum thought he was a waste of space.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, captivating, psychological, serious
Plot: adoption, on the road, on the run, family relations, youth, estrangement, teenage life, parents and children, abduction, brother brother relationship, baby, poverty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: scotland, afghanistan
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The Crossing (2012)
Genre: Thriller
Country: France, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Lola Arendt, 8, vanishes while on vacation on a wild Scottish island. Shattered by her disappearance, her parents, Sarah and Martin, separate. Two years later, Lola is found at the exact same spot. Martin returns to the island to bring her home. His ...
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: island, disappearance, manipulation, family problems, life is a bitch, uncover truth, dishonesty, twists and turns, father daughter relationship, little girl, death, missing child ...
Time: 21st century
Place: scotland
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 2.4
 4K
Nine Lives (2002)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Nine friends seclude themselves in an old, isolated Scottish mansion for a birthday weekend bash. Cut off from the outside world by a snowstorm, strange behavior soon invades the group and one by one they disappear.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, slasher, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: vengeance, ghost, danger, confined, supernatural, gory, murder, survival, isolation, haunted house, campus, haunted ...
Time: 21st century
Place: scotland, europe
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The Battle of Culloden (1964)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 69 min.
Story: Culloden is a 1964 docudrama written and directed by Peter Watkins for BBC TV. It portrays the 1746 Battle of Culloden that resulted in the British Army's destruction of the Scottish Jacobite uprising and, in the words of the narrator, ...
Style: cerebral, political, philosophical, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot: battles, war, time machine, social commentary, historical event, love letter, socialist, british army, soldier, rebellion, power relations, military ...
Time: 18th century
Place: scotland, scottish highlands, england, europe
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The Loch Ness Horror (1982)
Genre: Adventure, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Hunters set out to catch the legendary Scottish monster that has defied explanation and eluded capture since the 1940s.
Style: independent film, psychotronic
Plot: kaiju, loch ness monster, giant monster, monster, boat, creature, water monster, exploitation, cryptid, octopus, prehistoric animal, cryptozoology ...
Place: scotland
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Chasing the Deer (1994)
Genre: History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The Jacobite Rebellion of Scotland, and thirty years after the first battle, Bonnie Prince Charlie and his army make a stand at Culloden.
Style: independent film
Plot: rebellion, historical event, corporal punishment, battles, murder, british officer, conscription, child soldier, musket, sword, deer, clan ...
Time: 18th century
Place: scotland
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 7.6
 235
Kidnapped (1978)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, West Germany, UK
Duration: 390 min.
TV show
Story: No overview found.
Style: period drama
Plot: inheritance, kidnapped, historical event, slave, ship, murder, money, uncle, manhunt, orphan, sea captain, englishman ...
Place: scotland
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 4.4
 670
Wild Country (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 67 min.
Story: Wild Country is a low budget British horror film which was shot on location in and around Glasgow, Scotland in October.The cast was made up of mostly unknown actors with the exception of Martin Compston and a cameo appearance by Peter Capaldi. The ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, serious, scary, crying
Plot: werewolf, supernatural, survival, adoption, youth, teenage life, wilderness, danger, dangerous animal, abandoned baby, legends and myths, creature feature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: scotland, scottish highlands, europe, glasgow scotland
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 6.9
 262
Kidnapped (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 222 min.
Story: Kidnapped is a two-part BBC television adaptation of the 1893 novel of the same name by Robert Louis Stevenson. The show is directed by Brendan Maher and stars James Anthony Pearson as Davie Balfour and Iain Glen as Alan Breck. Attempting to claim ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, exciting
Plot: pirate, kidnapping, orphan, heroes, teenage life, heroic mission, daring rescue, rescue, treasure hunt, adventurer, escapades, good versus evil ...
Time: 18th century
Place: scotland, europe
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Comfort and Joy (1984)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Radio host Alan Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families over the icecream market of Glasgow.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat, feel good ...
Audience: date night
Plot: christmas, ice cream, radio dj, breakup, family feud, radio station, food, radio, coming of age, self discovery, scottish history, loneliness ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: glasgow scotland, scotland, europe
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The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Director Billy Wilder adds a new and intriguing twist to the personality of intrepid detective Sherlock Holmes. One thing hasn't changed however: Holmes' crime-solving talents. Holmes and Dr. Watson take on the case of a beautiful woman ...
Style: detective, satirical, atmospheric, clever, humorous ...
Plot: sherlock holmes, private detective, loch ness monster, investigation, homosexual subtext, spy, lgbtq, regret, time travel, royalty, gangster, monk ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1800s, year 1970, 1880s
Place: scotland, britain, england, europe, germany ...
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 7.4
 853
My Way Home (1978)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 71 min.
Story: Jamie leaves the children's home to live with his paternal grandmother. After working in a mine and in a tailor's shop, he is conscripted into the RAF, and goes to Egypt, where he is befriended by Robert, whose undemanding companionship ...
Style: bleak, art house, depressing, gloomy, sincere ...
Plot: youth, child neglect, rich, poor, poverty, adoption, lgbt, autobiography, neglect, friends, redemption, society ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1978, 50s, 1950s
Place: scotland, egypt, africa, middle east, europe ...
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Strictly Sinatra (2001)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In Glasgow, Toni Cocozza, age 28, aspires to be a lounge singer; his repertoire is strictly Sinatra, backed by Bill, an aging piano player and his only friend. Toni dreams big and enters a local television talent show. About that time, a local Mob ...
Style: realistic, suspense, captivating, enigmatic, independent film ...
Plot: gangster, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, desire for fame, ambition, music, love and romance, relationship vs career, jazz, singer, unfulfillment, fall in love ...
Place: scotland, europe, new york, glasgow scotland
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 7.5
 1K
My Ain Folk (1973)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 55 min.
Story: When Jamie's maternal grandmother dies, he and his brother Tommy are separated - Tommy is taken off to a welfare home and Jamie goes to live with his other grandmother and uncle. His life is far from happy, filled with silence, rejection and ...
Style: bleak, art house, depressing, contemplative, captivating ...
Plot: youth, children, childhood, autobiography, neglect, biopic, teenage life, family life, siblings relations, parents and children, boarding school life, down on your luck ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1973
Place: scotland, europe
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The Debt Collector (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Mean, gritty, dirty and low and that's just the Policeman Gary Keltie (Ken Stott) out for retribution for the horrendous crimes against the helpless people of Edinburgh during the nineteen seventies, by notorious, torturous, and killer, debt ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: obsession, murder, vengeance, rehabilitation, human nature, rivalry, life is a bitch, society, journalism, campaign, dead body, police officer ...
Time: 90s
Place: scotland, europe, england
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 5.8
 760
One More Kiss (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When Sarah Hopson realizes her successful high-rise New York lifestyle is devoid of meaning, she packs her bags and heads for her home town in the Scottish Borders to look for Sam, her childhood sweetheart and the only man she ever loved. Sam Murray ...
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: cancer, chef, cancer patient, girl, terminal illness, love triangle, ex-lover, love, couples, family relations, family problems, last wish ...
Time: 90s
Place: scotland, europe, edinburgh scotland, new york, manhattan new york city ...
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Behind the Lines (1997)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Based on Pat Barker's novel of the same name, 'Regeneration' tells the story of soldiers of World War One sent to an asylum for emotional troubles. Two of the soldiers meeting there are Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, two of ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, emotional, serious, realistic ...
Plot: world war one, shell shock, great war, war, gay interest, world war, writers, psychology, poet, world war two, mental illness, anti war ...
Time: year 1997, 20th century
Place: scotland, europe
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 6.9
 9K
Neds (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France, Italy
Duration: 124 min.
Story: 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, ...
Style: rough, serious, realistic, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot: juvenile delinquency, street kid, bullying, coming of age, gang war, youth, social decay, teenage life, society, realism, social problems, rebellion ...
Time: year 2010, 70s, 20th century
Place: scotland, europe
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Beyond Loch Ness (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: James Murphey is a rugged cryptozoologist, who thirty years earlier, during a trip to Loch Ness, Scotland, had a fatal encounter with the fabled "Nessie" creature that killed his father, and left James with deep facial scar. Twenty years ...
Style: suspense, rough, suspenseful, scary, mythical ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: dangerous animal, sea monster, killer animal, creature feature, loch ness monster, lost world, abandoned mine, experiment gone awry, deadly creature, chaos and mayhem, danger, gory ...
Time: jurassic, year 1976, 2000s
Place: scotland, europe, scottish highlands, united kingdom
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