The Scottish Connection
by vince_stuart | created - 28 Sep 2015 | updated - 1 month ago | PublicA list of films either set or partially set in Scotland or filmed there.
- Instant Watch Options
- Genres
- Movies or TV
- IMDb Rating
- In Theaters
- Release Year
- Keywords
1. Formula 51 (2001)
R | 93 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
An American master chemist plans to score big on a once in a lifetime drug deal. All does not go as planned and he is soon entangled in a web of deceit.
Director: Ronny Yu | Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Carlyle, Emily Mortimer, Nigel Whitmey
Votes: 50,960 | Gross: $5.20M
At the end of the film he is meant to be playing golf from a castle in Scotland.
2. Submarine X-1 (1968)
G | 89 min | Action, Drama, War
During World War II, the British Royal Navy used experimental midget submarines to raid German warships in Norway.
Director: William A. Graham | Stars: James Caan, David Sumner, Norman Bowler, Brian Grellis
Votes: 737
The Submarine crewtrain and leavefor their mission in Scotland, also filmed there.
3. The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
PG-13 | 124 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Jack Hall, paleoclimatologist, must make a daring trek from Washington, D.C. to New York City to reach his son, trapped in the cross-hairs of a sudden international storm which plunges the planet into a new Ice Age.
Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emmy Rossum, Dash Mihok
Votes: 476,207 | Gross: $186.74M
Has a section ofthe film which is from the Weather Research Station based in Braemar.
4. Trainspotting (1996)
R | 93 min | Drama
Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out despite the allure of drugs and the influence of friends.
Director: Danny Boyle | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd
Votes: 725,864 | Gross: $16.50M
Most of the film set and filmed in Scotland.
5. U-Boat 29 (1939)
77 min | Thriller, War
A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
Director: Michael Powell | Stars: Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Sebastian Shaw, Marius Goring
Votes: 2,459
Set in Scapa Flow
6. The Little Minister (1934)
Approved | 110 min | Drama, Romance
In rural 1840s Scotland, Gavin Dishart arrives to become the new "little minister" of Thrums' Auld Licht church. He meets a mysterious young gypsy girl in the dens and to his horror Babbie ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, John Beal, Alan Hale, Donald Crisp
Votes: 853
Set in Scotland in the 1840s
7. Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
Approved | 129 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.
Director: Henry Levin | Stars: James Mason, Pat Boone, Arlene Dahl, Diane Baker
Votes: 19,578 | Gross: $10.00M
Start and end of the filmis setin Edinburgh.
8. Joyeux Noel (2005)
PG-13 | 116 min | Drama, History, Music
In December 1914, an unofficial Christmas truce on the Western Front allows soldiers from opposing sides of the First World War to gain insight into each other's way of life.
Director: Christian Carion | Stars: Diane Kruger, Benno Fürmann, Guillaume Canet, Natalie Dessay
Votes: 31,997 | Gross: $1.05M
Start of the film is set in a north scotland church and follows some Scottish Soldiers.
9. Hamlet (1990)
PG | 135 min | Drama
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge.
Director: Franco Zeffirelli | Stars: Mel Gibson, Glenn Close, Alan Bates, Paul Scofield
Votes: 23,613 | Gross: $20.71M
Some filming at Blackness Castle beside Firth of Forth and Dunnotter Castle near Stonehaven.
10. Stardust (2007)
PG-13 | 127 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the magical realm.
Director: Matthew Vaughn | Stars: Charlie Cox, Claire Danes, Sienna Miller, Ian McKellen
Votes: 285,311 | Gross: $38.63M
Some of it filmed in Wester Ross and on Skye.
11. The Bruce (1996)
107 min | Biography, Drama, History
In the early 14th century, Scottish warrior and Earl Robert the Bruce is crowned King of Scots, leading Scotland during the First War of Scottish Independence against England.
Directors: Bob Carruthers, David McWhinnie | Stars: Gary Andrew, Brian Blessed, Richard Brimblecombe, Conor Chamberlain
Votes: 624
Parts of the film were shot at Craigmillar Castle in Edinburgh and at Peebles in the Scottish Borders
12. Burke and Hare (2010)
R | 91 min | Comedy, Crime, History
A black comedy about two 19th-century grave robbers who find a lucrative business providing cadavers for an Edinburgh medical school.
Director: John Landis | Stars: Bill Bailey, Tom Wilkinson, Michael Smiley, Tim Curry
Votes: 21,353 | Gross: $0.00M
Set in Edinburgh.
13. The Battle of the Sexes (1960)
84 min | Comedy
Angela Barrows, an accomplished business analyst from the US, attempts to contemporise the late MacPherson's tweed factory, shaking the very foundation of a men-only company.
Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: Peter Sellers, Robert Morley, Constance Cummings, Jameson Clark
Votes: 1,737
Set in Edinburgh
14. The Descent (2005)
R | 99 min | Adventure, Horror, Thriller
A caving expedition goes horribly wrong, as the explorers become trapped and ultimately pursued by a strange breed of predators.
Director: Neil Marshall | Stars: Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid, Saskia Mulder
Votes: 247,030 | Gross: $26.02M
Initial part set on Scottish river, exteriors filmed in Scotland.
15. The Thirty Nine Steps (1978)
PG | 102 min | Crime, History, Mystery
In March 1914, a mining engineer named Richard Hannay tries to prevent Prussian Agents from executing a political assassination designed to trigger World War I.
Director: Don Sharp | Stars: Robert Powell, David Warner, Eric Porter, Karen Dotrice
Votes: 2,779
Some of the film shot in and set in Dumfries and Galloway.
16. The Queen (2006)
PG-13 | 103 min | Biography, Drama
After the death of Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth II struggles with her reaction to a sequence of events nobody could have predicted.
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell, Alex Jennings
Votes: 116,004 | Gross: $56.44M
Set and filmed in Scotland at Blairquhan Castle, South Ayrshire, Culzean Castle, South Ayrshire and Castle Fraser, Aberdeenshire and some parts of Scotland.
17. X the Unknown (1956)
Approved | 81 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A radioactive, mud-like creature terrorizes a Scottish village.
Directors: Leslie Norman, Joseph Losey | Stars: Dean Jagger, Edward Chapman, Leo McKern, Anthony Newley
Votes: 3,268
18. Shell (I) (2012)
91 min | Drama
The story of Shell, a girl who lives with her father Pete in a remote gas station in the Scottish Highlands, in their struggle against the elements and the impossible love they feel during the last winter that she will be in that place.
Director: Scott Graham | Stars: Chloe Pirrie, Michael Smiley, Joseph Mawle, Iain De Caestecker
Votes: 1,767
Set in Scotland and filmed at Little Loch Broom, Highland, Scotland
19. Kidnapped (1960)
Approved | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In Scotland in 1751, young David Balfour is shanghaied aboard a ship where he meets Jacobite rebel Alan Breck Stewart with whom he escapes to the Scottish Highlands, dodging the redcoats.
Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Peter Finch, James MacArthur, Bernard Lee, John Laurie
Votes: 1,609
Set in Scotland and filmed in Scotland at Ardgour, Ballachulish, Fort William, Glen Coe, Glen Nevis and the Highlands.
20. Behind the Lines (1997)
R | 96 min | Biography, Drama, History
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 those soldiers are England's most important WW1 poets.
Director: Gillies MacKinnon | Stars: Jonathan Pryce, James Wilby, Jonny Lee Miller, Stuart Bunce
Votes: 2,500 | Gross: $0.02M
Set in Craiglockhart Hospital near Edinburgh, filmed in Overtooun House, Dumbarton and Portencross, North Ayrshire.
21. 633 Squadron (1964)
Approved | 102 min | Drama, History, War
A RAF squadron is assigned to knock out a German rocket fuel factory in Norway. The factory supplies fuel for the Nazi effort to launch rockets on England during D-Day.
Director: Walter Grauman | Stars: Cliff Robertson, George Chakiris, Maria Perschy, Harry Andrews
Votes: 4,572
Training for their mission was set in Scotland and filmed at Loch Morar, Glen Coe, Eigg Island, Lochgilphead, Loch Nevis, Lairg Ghru, Scotland.
22. Bombsight Stolen (1941)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.
Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Leslie Banks, Alastair Sim, Jeanne De Casalis, Carla Lehmann
Votes: 1,365
Set in Scotland, not believed to have been filmed there.
23. Restless Natives (1985)
PG | 90 min | Comedy, Crime
Two Scottish friends become local folk heroes and tourist attractions when they start holding up tour buses with novelty items.
Director: Michael Hoffman | Stars: Vincent Friell, Ned Beatty, Joe Mullaney, Teri Lally
Votes: 1,978
Set in Scotland and filmed in Glen Nevis, Edinburgh, Glen Coe, Lochgoilhead.
24. Mary Queen of Scots (2013)
119 min | Biography, Drama, History
A queen who lost three kingdoms. A wife who lost three husbands. A woman who lost her head.
Director: Thomas Imbach | Stars: Camille Rutherford, Mehdi Dehbi, Sean Biggerstaff, Aneurin Barnard
Votes: 995
Set in Scotland and some of the scenes filmed there icluding Dunnottar Castle.
25. Tunes of Glory (1960)
Not Rated | 106 min | Drama
After World War II, a Highland Regiment's acting Commanding Officer, who rose from the ranks, is replaced by a peace-time Oxford-educated Commanding Officer, leading to a dramatic conflict between the two.
Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Alec Guinness, John Mills, Susannah York, Dennis Price
Votes: 4,561
Set in an unknown Castle in Scotland and some filming at Stirling Castle.
26. Outlaw King (2018)
R | 121 min | Action, Biography, Drama
A true David vs. Goliath story of how the 14th century Scottish 'Outlaw King' Robert the Bruce used cunning and bravery to defeat the much larger and better equipped occupying English army.
Director: David Mackenzie | Stars: Chris Pine, Stephen Dillane, Rebecca Robin, Billy Howle
Votes: 80,996
Robert the Bruce, set and filmed in Scotland.
27. Under the Skin (I) (2013)
R | 108 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A mysterious young woman seduces lonely men in the evening hours in Scotland. However, events lead her to begin a process of self-discovery.
Director: Jonathan Glazer | Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy McWilliams, Lynsey Taylor Mackay, Dougie McConnell
Votes: 158,281 | Gross: $2.61M
Set in and about Scotland.
28. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
PG-13 | 138 min | Action, Adventure, Family
With their warning about Lord Voldemort's return scoffed at, Harry and Dumbledore are targeted by the Wizard authorities as an authoritarian bureaucrat slowly seizes power at Hogwarts.
Director: David Yates | Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Brendan Gleeson
Votes: 633,500 | Gross: $292.00M
Filmed in Glencoe, Glenfinnan, Glen Etive, Scotland
29. On Wings of Eagles (2016)
PG-13 | 108 min | Biography, Drama, History
Eric Liddell - China's first gold medalist and one of Scotland's greatest athletes - returns to war-torn China.
Directors: Stephen Shin, Michael Parker | Stars: Joseph Fiennes, Jesse Kove, Bruce Locke, Shawn Dou
Votes: 1,146
About a Scottish runner and missionary in China.
30. Whisky Galore (2016)
TV-14 | 98 min | Comedy, Romance
Scottish islanders try to plunder cases of whisky from a stranded ship during WWII.
Director: Gillies MacKinnon | Stars: Naomi Battrick, Sean Biggerstaff, James Cosmo, Matt Costello
Votes: 1,974
Filmed and set in Scotland.
31. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
PG-13 | 146 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
As Harry, Ron and Hermione race against time and evil to destroy the Horcruxes, they uncover the existence of the three most powerful objects in the wizarding world: the Deathly Hallows.
Director: David Yates | Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Bill Nighy
Votes: 599,354 | Gross: $295.98M
Filmed on Ranch Moor, Scotland
32. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
PG | 153 min | Action, Adventure, Family
As Harry Potter begins his sixth year at Hogwarts, he discovers an old book marked as "the property of the Half-Blood Prince" and begins to learn more about Lord Voldemort's dark past.
Director: David Yates | Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Michael Gambon
Votes: 595,797 | Gross: $301.96M
Filmed at Cape Wrath and Glencoe, Scotland.
33. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
PG-13 | 157 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Harry Potter finds himself competing in a hazardous tournament between rival schools of magic, but he is distracted by recurring nightmares.
Director: Mike Newell | Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Eric Sykes
Votes: 681,763 | Gross: $290.01M
Filmed at Glen Nevis and Glenfinnan, Scotland.
34. Mary, Queen of Scots (1971)
PG-13 | 128 min | Biography, Drama, History
During the sixteenth century, the Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots engages in over two decades of religious and political conflict with her cousin, the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I of England, amidst political intrigue in her native land.
Director: Charles Jarrott | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Glenda Jackson, Patrick McGoohan, Timothy Dalton
Votes: 4,882 | Gross: $2.33M
About a Scottish queen with some filming there.
35. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
PG | 161 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Harry Potter lives his second year at Hogwarts with Ron and Hermione when a message on the wall announces that the legendary Chamber of Secrets has been opened. The trio soon realize that, to save the school, it will take a lot of courage.
Director: Chris Columbus | Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Richard Harris
Votes: 692,593 | Gross: $261.99M
Various scenes shot in Scotland.
36. Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2020)
PG-13 | 123 min | Comedy, Music
When aspiring musicians Lars and Sigrit are given the opportunity to represent their country at the world's biggest song competition, they finally have a chance to prove that any dream worth having is a dream worth fighting for.
Director: David Dobkin | Stars: Will Ferrell, Rachel McAdams, Dan Stevens, Mikael Persbrandt
Votes: 102,403
Some of the film set in and filmed in Scotland.
37. The BFG (2016)
PG | 117 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
An orphan little girl befriends a benevolent giant who takes her to Giant Country, where they attempt to stop the man-eating giants that are invading the human world.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill, Penelope Wilton, Jemaine Clement
Votes: 93,283 | Gross: $55.48M
A part of the movie filmed in Skye, Scotland.
38. 1917 (2019)
R | 119 min | Action, Drama, History
April 6th, 1917. As an infantry battalion assembles to wage war deep in enemy territory, two soldiers are assigned to race against time and deliver a message that will stop 1,600 men from walking straight into a deadly trap.
Director: Sam Mendes | Stars: Dean-Charles Chapman, George MacKay, Daniel Mays, Colin Firth
Votes: 676,030 | Gross: $159.23M
A part filmed at Glasgow Docks.
39. The Brave Don't Cry (1952)
89 min | Drama
A story about a true mining accident.
Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: John Gregson, Meg Buchanan, John Rae, Fulton Mackay
Votes: 115
Set in a small Scottish Mining village.
40. The Angels' Share (2012)
R | 101 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Narrowly avoiding jail, new dad Robbie vows to turn over a new leaf. A visit to a whisky distillery inspires him and his mates to seek a way out of their hopeless lives.
Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Paul Brannigan, John Henshaw, Roger Allam, Gary Maitland
Votes: 27,013 | Gross: $0.30M
Set and filmed in Scotland.
41. Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948)
Passed | 98 min | Biography, Drama, History
In the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the Young Pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie leads an insurrection to overthrow the Protestant House of Hanover and restore his family, the Catholic branch of the House of Stuart, to the British throne.
Directors: Anthony Kimmins, Leslie Arliss, Alexander Korda, Robert Stevenson | Stars: David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Morland Graham, John Laurie
Votes: 334
Set in and some filming in Scotland.
42. The 12th Man (2017)
Unrated | 135 min | Drama, History, Thriller
They were 12 saboteurs. The Nazis killed 11 of them. This is the true story of the one that got away.
Director: Harald Zwart | Stars: Thomas Gullestad, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Marie Blokhus, Mads Sjøgård Pettersen
Votes: 29,222
Small part set in Shetland with some filming in Edinburgh.
43. Churchill (2017)
PG | 105 min | Biography, Drama, History
Ninety-six hours before the World War II invasion of Normandy, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill struggles with his severe reservations with Operation Overlord and his increasingly marginalized role in the war effort.
Director: Jonathan Teplitzky | Stars: Brian Cox, Miranda Richardson, John Slattery, Julian Wadham
Votes: 15,786 | Gross: $1.28M
Some filming in Scotland.
44. Chasing the Deer (1994)
97 min | History, War
The Jacobite Rebellion of Scotland, and thirty years after the first battle, Bonnie Prince Charlie and his army make a stand at Culloden.
Director: Graham Holloway | Stars: Brian Blessed, Iain Cuthbertson, Matthew Zajac, Fish
Votes: 167
Filmed and set in Scotland - Fort George and Culloden.
45. The Vanishing (II) (2018)
R | 107 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Three lighthouse keepers on the remote Flannan Isles obtain a mysterious trunk, leading to their mysterious disappearance.
Director: Kristoffer Nyholm | Stars: Peter Mullan, Gerard Butler, Emma King, Gary Lewis
Votes: 20,681
Set and filmed in Scotland
46. Nothing But the Night (1973)
PG | 90 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
Three rich trustees are murdered - appearing as suicides. When a bus filled with orphans and three other rich trustees has an "accident," Colonel Bingham investigates.
Director: Peter Sasdy | Stars: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Diana Dors, Georgia Brown
Votes: 2,046
Set but not filmed in Scotland.
47. Wild Rose (2018)
R | 101 min | Drama, Music
A troubled young Glaswegian woman dreams of becoming a Nashville country star.
Director: Tom Harper | Stars: Jessie Buckley, Matt Costello, Jane Patterson, Lesley Hart
Votes: 15,330 | Gross: $1.64M
Filmed and set in Scotland
48. T2 Trainspotting (2017)
R | 117 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud, and Begbie.
Director: Danny Boyle | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle
Votes: 132,992 | Gross: $2.40M
49. Filth (I) (2013)
R | 97 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A corrupt, junkie cop with bipolar disorder attempts to manipulate his way through a promotion in order to win back his wife and daughter while also fighting his own inner demons.
Director: Jon S. Baird | Stars: James McAvoy, Jamie Bell, Eddie Marsan, Imogen Poots
Votes: 115,854 | Gross: $0.03M
50. The Acid House (1998)
Unrated | 111 min | Comedy, Drama
Three twisted tales of abuse, drugs, displaced personalities, and insect life by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh.
Director: Paul McGuigan | Stars: Stephen McCole, Maurice Roëves, Garry Sweeney, Jenny McCrindle
Votes: 8,046 | Gross: $0.14M
51. Robert the Bruce (2019)
TV-14 | 124 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of the nobleman-turned-outlaw hero who was crowned king of Scots in the 14th century.
Director: Richard Gray | Stars: Angus Macfadyen, Diarmaid Murtagh, Jared Harris, Stephen Murphy
Votes: 4,884
About and filmed in Scotland.
52. Johnny on the Run (1953)
68 min | Adventure
A superb early work by illustrious British director Lewis Gilbert (Alfie, You Only Live Twice) which follows orphaned Polish refugee Janek, who runs into trouble in the shape of two ... See full summary »
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Eugeniusz Chylek, Sydney Tafler, Michael Balfour, Edna Wynn
Votes: 117
53. The Body Snatcher (1945)
Approved | 78 min | Horror, Thriller
A ruthless doctor and his young prize student find themselves continually harassed by their murderous supplier of illegal cadavers.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell, Edith Atwater
Votes: 10,192
Set in Scotland although mostly filmed in USA.
54. The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)
R | 105 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A Scottish lord becomes convinced by a trio of witches that he will become the next King of Scotland, and his ambitious wife supports him in his plans of seizing power.
Director: Joel Coen | Stars: Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Alex Hassell, Bertie Carvel
Votes: 39,728
About Scotland but not filmed there.
55. My Son (I) (2021)
R | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Edmond Murray searches for answers deep in the Highlands after receiving a frantic call from his ex-wife that their seven-year-old son went missing from a campsite.
Director: Christian Carion | Stars: James McAvoy, Claire Foy, Tom Cullen, Gary Lewis
Votes: 15,914
Filmed and set in Scotland
56. The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
Passed | 137 min | Drama, War
A young priest is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish.
Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Gregory Peck, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price, Rose Stradner
Votes: 3,092
Some of film set in Scotland although not filmed there.
57. Back-Room Boy (1942)
82 min | Comedy, Mystery
A lowly BBC employee pulls a prank at the studio and finds himself transferred to an isolated island where he is to set up a weather station at a lighthouse. As if in a fantasy, a ship ... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Mason | Stars: Arthur Askey, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt, Googie Withers
Votes: 313
Set on fictional Scottish island.
58. The Road Dance (2021)
116 min | Drama
A young girl lives in the Outer Hebrides in a small village in the years just before WWI. Isolated and hard by the shore, her life takes a dramatic change when a terrible tragedy befalls her.
Director: Richie Adams | Stars: Hermione Corfield, Will Fletcher, Mark Gatiss, David Brooks
Votes: 1,234
Set and filmed in Scotland.
59. Horror Maniacs (1948)
80 min | Drama, Horror
A story of body snatchers in Edinburgh, based on Burke and Hare.
Director: Oswald Mitchell | Stars: Tod Slaughter, Henry Oscar, Jenny Lynn, Winifred Melville
Votes: 235
Set in Edinburgh although not filmed there.
60. The Brothers (1947)
Approved | 98 min | Drama
The McFarishes and the Macraes are lifelong enemies living on a remote island in the Western Isles of Scotland. Mary Lawson is a Scottish orphan brought up in a convent who arrives on the ... See full summary »
Director: David MacDonald | Stars: Patricia Roc, Will Fyffe, Maxwell Reed, Finlay Currie
Votes: 191
Set and filmed in Scotland - Skye.
61. Castle Sinister (1948)
49 min | Horror, Thriller
1947. Drama. During the war, a British agent travels to the remote Glennye Castle in the wilds of Scotland to investigate a mysterious murder by a masked phantom. Directed by Oscar Burn.
Director: Oscar Burn | Stars: Mara Russell-Tavernan, Robert Essex, Karl Meir, James Liggat
Votes: 199
Set in Scotland. Mentions Nairn.
62. The Rhythm Section (2020)
R | 109 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
A woman seeks revenge against those who orchestrated a plane crash that killed her family.
Director: Reed Morano | Stars: Blake Lively, Richard Brake, Elly Curtis, David Duggan
Votes: 19,645 | Gross: $5.44M
A section set in north Scotland but appears not filmed there.
63. The House of Fear (1945)
Passed | 69 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of deaths at a castle with each foretold by the delivery of orange pips to the victims.
Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Aubrey Mather, Dennis Hoey
Votes: 5,538
Set in Scotland although not filmed there.
64. The Spider Woman (1943)
Passed | 63 min | Mystery, Thriller
Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called "pajama suicides". He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as venomous as a spider.
Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Gale Sondergaard, Dennis Hoey
Votes: 5,130
Start of the film set in Scotland. Not filmed there.
65. The Land That Time Forgot (1974)
PG | 91 min | Adventure, Fantasy
During World War I, a German U-boat sinks a British ship and takes the survivors on board. After it takes a wrong turn, the submarine takes them to the unknown land of Caprona, where they find dinosaurs and neanderthals.
Director: Kevin Connor | Stars: Doug McClure, John McEnery, Susan Penhaligon, Keith Barron
Votes: 7,033
A part filmed in Skye.
66. The Winter Guest (1997)
R | 108 min | Drama
A recent widow, who is determined to leave Scotland for Australia with her son, gets an unexpected visit from her aging mother.
Director: Alan Rickman | Stars: Phyllida Law, Emma Thompson, Sheila Reid, Sandra Voe
Votes: 3,748 | Gross: $0.78M
Filmed and set in Scotland at Elie and Pittenweem, Fife.
67. Anna and the Apocalypse (2017)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Horror, Musical
A zombie apocalypse threatens the sleepy town of Little Haven - at Christmas - forcing Anna and her friends to fight, slash and sing their way to survival, facing the undead in a desperate race to reach their loved ones. But they soon discover that no one is safe in this new world, and with civilization falling apart around them, the only people they can truly rely on are each other.
Director: John McPhail | Stars: Ella Hunt, Malcolm Cumming, Sarah Swire, Christopher Leveaux
Votes: 15,634 | Gross: $0.55M
Filmed in Scotland, West Lothian and Port Glasgow.
68. For Those in Peril (2013)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama
Aaron, a young misfit living in a remote Scottish fishing community, is the lone survivor of a strange fishing accident that claimed the lives of five men including his older brother. ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Wright | Stars: George MacKay, Kate Dickie, Nichola Burley, Michael Smiley
Votes: 1,254
Filmed and set in Scotland - Gourdon, Aberdeenshire.
69. Mr. Jones (2019)
119 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller
A Welsh journalist breaks the news in the western media of the famine in Ukraine in the early 1930s.
Director: Agnieszka Holland | Stars: James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard, Joseph Mawle
Votes: 16,253
Some scenes filmed in Scotland, Edinburgh and Pittenweem.
70. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)
PG-13 | 154 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Archaeologist Indiana Jones races against time to retrieve a legendary artifact that can change the course of history.
Director: James Mangold | Stars: Harrison Ford, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Antonio Banderas, Karen Allen
Votes: 198,795
Astronauts Parade filmed in Glasgow.
71. Storm in a Teacup (1937)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Romance
A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.
Directors: Ian Dalrymple, Victor Saville | Stars: Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison, Cecil Parker, Sara Allgood
Votes: 1,117
Set in Scotland, unknown its filming location.
Tell Your Friends