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Blood Red Roses (1986)
Character: Harry Sim
A woman looks back on her life as a political activist in Scotland from the 1950s to the 1970s.
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The Crystal Spirit: Orwell on Jura (1983)
Character: Donald Darroch
A remote farmhouse on an isolated island. Strangers with English accents. Quarrels and a lonely child. The year is 1946. The man is George Orwell. The book he has come to write is Nineteen Eighty-four.
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The Shutter Falls (1987)
Character: Jim Flett
A 19th Century photographer travels to the North of Scotland to document the fishing industry, where he falls in love with one of the Gaelic-speaking fish gutting girls.
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The Gift (1989)
Character: Fat George
Robert and Gordon, two talented teenage footballers from Wick, are invited to Glasgow for a week's trial with a big club. It is their first taste of professional football, but both the game and the city upset their expectations.
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One Last Chance (2004)
Character: Dr. MacFarlane
A group of slackers think they have found gold in the Highlands.
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The Long Roads (1993)
Character: Donnie
An elderly woman learns that she is dying of cancer. She and her husband leave their small farm on the Isle of Skye to visit their children to inform them of the news. During the journey, the couple rediscover their love for each other.
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Knockback: 2 (1985)
Character: Kitchen Officer
Alan and Sylvia fall in love and Alan gains a renewed sense of purpose. He begins to hope for an eventual release on licence. However both he and Sylvia have to face the fact that, for the foreseeable future, they cannot enjoy any physical intimacy. They decide to treat their affair as a long Victorian courtship.
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A Sense of Freedom (1985)
Character: Fisherman
The true story of Jimmy Boyle, who was reputed to be Scotland's most violent man.
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La Mort en direct (1980)
Character: Truck Driver
In a future world where the disease has been finally defeated and everything can be sold, even the crude spectacle of death, the rare case of a dying woman becomes the morbid theme of a revolutionary reality show, broadcast through the curious eyes of a peculiar camera.
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Just a Boys' Game (1979)
Character: N/A
Jake lives in the shadow of his dying grandfather, who was once the town's toughest hard man. Despite their hatred of each other, Jake's sole aim is to be as tough as the old man was. One day in Jake's life, as he drifts, drinks and fights, leads to a bleak realisation.
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Burke & Hare (2010)
Character: Rabble Rouser
Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist.
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Just Another Saturday (1975)
Character: N/A
It's the day of the Orange Parade in Glasgow, but for Jon, the thrill of leading the parade and swinging the mace soon turns to horror as he learns the truth behind the costumes and songs.
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Shallow Grave (1994)
Character: Newspaper Editor
When David, Juliet, and Alex find their new roommate dead with a large sum of money, they agree to hide the body and keep the cash. However, this newfound fortune gradually corrodes their friendship.
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Trainspotting (1996)
Character: Gail's Father
Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends -- Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind when Begbie shows up at his front door on the lam, and a scheming Sick Boy follows.
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