Movies and TV shows set in glasgow scotland

The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in glasgow scotland ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, independent film, serious, humorous, disturbing and touching films and TV shows about / with sex, scotsman, kiss, death, family relations, love, husband wife relationship, rain, love and romance and undressing plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in UK, France, Spain and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as glasgow scotland: Carla's Song (1996), Under the Skin (2013), My Name Is Joe (1998), Sweet Sixteen (2002), Perfect Sense (2011), Comfort and Joy (1984), The Legend of Barney Thomson (2015), Annika (2021), Wild Rose (2018), Ratcatcher (1999).

List of movies set in glasgow scotland

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 3K
Carla's Song (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Spain, Germany
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A Glasgow man (Robert Carlyle) visits war-torn Nicaragua with a refugee (Oyanka Cabezas) tormented by her memories.
Style: political, independent film, thought provoking, tense, serious ...
Plot: bus driver, civil war, refugee, politics, bus, revolution, spy, international relations, immigrant, american imperialism, amor, black ...
Time: year 1996, 80s, 90s
Place: glasgow scotland, scotland, europe, nicaragua
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 6.3
 157K
Under the Skin (2013)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A seductive alien prowls the streets of Glasgow in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell.
Style: surreal, disturbing, bleak, atmospheric, dark ...
Audience: adult
Plot: alien, femme fatale, extraterrestrial, human prey, nudity, disguise, female nudity, desire, nightclub, seduction, deformity, male nudity ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2013, year 2014, 21st century
Place: scotland, glasgow scotland, europe
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My Name Is Joe (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, France, Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Two thirtysomethings, unemployed former alcoholic Joe and community health worker Sarah, start a romantic relationship in the one of the toughest Glasgow neighbourhoods.
Style: realistic, touching, contemplative, thought provoking, serious ...
Plot: working class, alcoholic, drug, drug addiction, profanity, friendship, debt, bowling, football, drug addict, social outcast, recovery ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century, 80s
Place: scotland, glasgow scotland, europe
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 7.4
 16K
Sweet Sixteen (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Determined to have a normal family life once his mother gets out of prison, a Scottish teenager from a tough background sets out to raise the money for a home.
Style: disturbing, realistic, sentimental, bleak, depressing ...
Audience: teens, toddlers, teen drama
Plot: heroin, coming of age, innocence lost, drug dealing, juvenile delinquency, prison, drug dealer, downfall, dysfunctional family, family relations, teenager, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2002, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: scotland, glasgow scotland, europe, united kingdom
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 7.0
 64K
Perfect Sense (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Sweden, Denmark, Ireland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Susan is a scientist searching for answers to important questions. So important that she has given up on other things, like love - until she meets Micheal. Susan and Michael find themselves embarking on a sensual adventure while the world around ...
Style: artsy, romantic, thought provoking, sensual, sexy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: pandemic, love story, sex scene, end of the world, epidemic, love, chaos, female nudity, love affair, human existence, blindness, natural disaster ...
Time: year 2011, distant future, future
Place: scotland, glasgow scotland, iran
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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 Legend of Barney Thomson (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Barney Thomson, awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber, lives a life of desperate mediocrity and his uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he enters the grotesque and comically absurd world of the serial killer.
Style: humorous, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, murder investigation, barbershop, police detective, homicide detective, murder suspect, hairdresser, female serial killer, chase, violence, death, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: glasgow scotland
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 7.2
 9K
Annika (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
TV show
Story: The sharp, witty and enigmatic DI Annika Strandhed, as she heads up a new specialist Marine Homicide Unit (MHU) that is tasked with investigating the unexplained, brutal, and seemingly unfathomable murders.
Style: captivating, tense, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful
Plot: detective inspector, police, female police detective, mother and daughter, murder investigation, police investigation, investigation, breaking the fourth wall, homicide detective, uncover truth, crime investigation, family relations ...
Time: future
Place: glasgow scotland, scotland
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 7.1
 15K
Wild Rose (2018)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A young Scottish singer, Rose-Lynn Harlan, dreams of making it as a country artist in Nashville after being released from prison.
Style: sincere, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, humorous ...
Audience: adult
Plot: country music, single mother, women's prison, bigger dreams, musician, singer, party, working class, mother daughter reunion, promise, rehearsal, released from prison ...
Time: year 2019, 2010s, year 1943
Place: nashville tennessee, glasgow scotland, scotland, london
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 7.5
 12K
Ratcatcher (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: James Gillespie is 12 years old. The world he knew is changing. Haunted by a secret, he has become a stranger in his own family. He is drawn to the canal where he creates a world of his own. He finds an awkward tenderness with Margaret Anne, a ...
Style: disturbing, bleak, crying, depressing, art house ...
Audience: teens
Plot: children, poverty, boy, friendship, coming of age, neighbor, bully, strike, teenage boy, grief, rat, urban decay ...
Time: 70s, year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place: glasgow scotland, britain, nebraska, scotland
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Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, UK, Sweden, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The strange comedy film of two close brothers; one, Wilbur, who wants to kill himself, and the other, Harbour, who tries to prevent this. When their father dies leaving them his bookstore they meet a woman who makes their lives a bit better yet with ...
Style: sentimental, humorous, touching, black comedy, dark comedy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: suicide attempt, depression, redemption, love triangle, mental illness, suicide, fall in love, family relations, human nature, hopes, dark humor, parents and children ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: scotland, glasgow scotland, europe
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 14K
Red Road (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Denmark
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Jackie is a CCTV operator. Each day, she watches over a small part of the world, protecting the people living their lives under her gaze. One day, a man shows his face on her monitor, a man she thought she would never see again, a man she hoped ...
Style: psychological, realistic, suspenseful, contemplative, serious ...
Plot: voyeurism, stalking, video surveillance, revenge, couples, couple relations, female nudity, voyeur, vengeance, danger, dishonesty, ex convict ...
Time: year 2006
Place: glasgow scotland, britain, europe, scotland
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The Control Room (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The story of Gabe, an ordinary man who works as an emergency call handler for the Scottish Ambulance Service in Glasgow. His world is turned upside down when he receives a desperate life-and-death call from a woman who appears to know him. With Gabe ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological, emotional
Plot: call center, anonymous telephone call, secret, rescue, saving a life, workplace, ambulance, workplace situations, relationships, problem, life is a bitch, control room ...
Time: future
Place: glasgow scotland
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The Field of Blood (2011)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min.
TV show
Story: Adaptation of Denise Mina's thriller set in 1982. When the story of a murder has huge implications for her family, newspaper copy boy Paddy Meehan battles prejudices to get to the truth. As she inches closer to revealing the truth, her ...
Style: tense, captivating, realistic, detective, suspense ...
Plot: investigation, journalism, murder, uncover truth, workplace, media, ambition, murder mystery, danger, society, women, scoop ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, future, year 1982
Place: glasgow scotland, europe, scotland
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 3K
Death Watch (1980)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Roddy has a camera implanted in his brain. He is then hired by a television producer to film a documentary of terminally ill Katherine, without her knowledge. His footage will then be run on the popular TV series, "Death Watch".
Style: tech noir, cult classic, psychological, serious, bleak ...
Plot: dystopia, terminal illness, dystopian future, distopia, television, cold war, social commentary, surveillance, cyberpunk, amor, fictional reality show, tv reporter ...
Time: year 1980, future, 80s, near future
Place: scotland, glasgow scotland
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A Sense of Freedom (1981)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A Sense of Freedom is a 1979 British crime film directed by John Mackenzie for Scottish television. The film starred David Hayman and featured Hector Nicol & Fulton Mackay, is a based on the book of the true story of Jimmy Boyle, who was ...
Style: independent film
Plot: prison, imprisonment, angry, british gangster, skinhead, true crime, physical abuse, rage, brutality, prisoner, criminal, violence ...
Time: 70s, 60s
Place: scotland, glasgow scotland
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Urban Ghost Story (1998)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: After a car accident, Lizzie lies dead on the roadside - slowly she is taken into the light - but is pulled back to earth when she is revived by the doctors. Lizzie feels sure that during the 184 seconds that she lay dead, something latched on to ...
Style: independent film, serious, mind bending, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, haunted, supernatural horror, haunting, poltergeist, road accident, family problems, family relations, supernatural, journalism, supernatural ability ...
Time: 90s
Place: scotland, glasgow scotland, europe
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On a Clear Day (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: feel good, touching, humorous, emotional, stylized ...
Plot: friendship, working class, self discovery, swimming, family relations, life philosophy, character study, hopes, couple relations, down on your luck, human nature, love and romance ...
Time: year 2005
Place: scotland, english channel, glasgow scotland, europe, britain ...
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Young Adam (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact that he knows more about a dead woman found in the river than he admits.
Style: sexy, erotic, sexual, enigmatic, neo noir ...
Audience: adult
Plot: adultery, infidelity, murder, cuckold, rape, older woman younger man sex, libertine, couple relations, destructive relationship, boat, sex, character study ...
Time: 20th century, year 2003, 1940s, 1950s, year 1954
Place: scotland, glasgow scotland, europe, edinburgh scotland
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Ae Fond Kiss... (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, Germany, Spain, Belgium
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A young man upsets his Punjabi family when he falls in love with an Irish schoolteacher.
Style: realistic, emotional, touching, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: racism, culture clash, forbidden love, immigrant, prejudice, marriage, immigration, family relations, love, society, tragic love, social commentary ...
Time: year 2004
Place: scotland, glasgow scotland, britain, manchester, pakistan ...
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Mister Foe (2007)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Hallam's talent for spying on people reveals his darkest fears-and his most peculiar desires. Driven to expose the true cause of his mother's death, he instead finds himself searching the rooftops of the city for love.
Style: talky, sentimental, independent film, erotic, psychological ...
Plot: sexuality, coming of age, older woman younger man relationship, older woman younger man sex, stepmother stepson relationship, teenage life, loneliness, sex, sex with stepson, character study, stepmother, revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: scottish highlands, scotland, glasgow scotland, edinburgh scotland, europe
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Scottish Mussel (2015)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Ritchie is a Glaswegian chancer with low hopes and no prospects. Disillusioned with city life, he goes undercover at a Highland conservation centre to make his fortune as an illegal pearl fisher with the help of his two hapless and accident prone ...
Style: light, humorous, feel good, psychological, contemplative ...
Plot: boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friendship between men, fall in love, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, three friends, group of friends, love, school, mistaken identity, old love, crush, scotsman ...
Place: scotland, glasgow scotland, scottish highlands
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God Help the Girl (2014)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Eve is a catastrophe—low on self-esteem but high on fantasy, especially when it comes to music. Over the course of one Glasgow summer, she meets two similarly rootless souls: posh Cass and fastidious James, and together they form a group.
Style: uplifting, serious, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: date night, teens, chick flick
Plot: anorexia, mental illness, friendship, music band, pop music, music, friends, self discovery, musician's life, blonde, lifestyle, love and romance ...
Time: year 1969, year 1981, 20th century, 21st century
Place: glasgow scotland, scotland, edinburgh scotland
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The Girl in the Picture (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Alan and Mary are pretty miserable together and split up. As an very presentable Glaswegian photographer Alan soon has chances to find consolation elsewhere, but more and more thinks of Mary. She however seems a lot less keen to try again.
Style: independent film
Plot: photographer, photography, photo studio, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love, photograph, dating, store, breakup, photo shoot
Place: scotland, glasgow scotland
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Orphans (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: emotional, intense, surreal, dark comedy, touching ...
Plot: disability, dysfunctional family, moral ambiguity, children, british, existentialism, justice, segregation, siblings relations, depression, brutality, death in the family ...
Time: 90s
Place: scotland, glasgow scotland, europe
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A Shot at Glory (2000)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Scottish second division football team Kilnockie is taken over by American Pete Cameron. The new owner puts pressure on manager Gordon McLeod to improve the fortunes of the team, and hires first division player Jackie McQuillan.
Style: realistic, sentimental, inspirational, captivating, cult classic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: soccer, follow your dream, athlete's life, human spirit, underdog, friendship, lifestyle, ambition, against the odds, football, sport team, society ...
Place: scotland, glasgow scotland, europe
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The Fourth Protocol (1987)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Plan Aurora, led by Kim Philby is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A crack Soviet agent, placed under cover in a quiet English country town, begins to assemble a nuclear ...
Style: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, intense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: espionage, cold war, politics, spy, conspiracy, kgb, chase, betrayal, nuclear bomb, race against time, secret agent, terrorism ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: russia, england, glasgow scotland, europe, london ...
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Two Doors Down (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story: Comedy centred around a couple and their insufferable neighbours.
Style: sitcom, captivating, satirical, semi serious, feel good ...
Plot: neighbor, couples, lifestyle, married couple, male female relationship, neighbor neighbor relationship, relationship problems, marital problem, satire, couple relations, relationships, husband wife relationship
Place: glasgow 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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Only You (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Sweden
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A madly-in-love young couple's relationship begins to suffer when they struggle to conceive a child.
Style: captivating, tense, touching, sentimental, romantic drama ...
Plot: new year's eve, breakup, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, infertility, love story, anger, love and romance, couples, teenager, medical clinic, trying to get pregnant, city life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: glasgow scotland
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