Bill Forsyth Movies

An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.

A teenager falls hard for the female soccer player who has replaced him on the team and attempts to pursue her.

One man must learn the meaning of courage across four lifetimes centuries apart.

Radio host Alan 'Dickie' Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between...

Professional thief Ernie takes Mike on as an apprentice, but while Mike clearly has "larceny in his heart", it will take him a long time to get as...

Ronnie, Wal, Andy and Vic are four bored, unemployed teens in dreary, rainy Glasgow. Ronnie comes up with a great idea. He has noticed that stainless...

In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950s, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of...

Twenty years after his teenage crush on a football-mad schoolgirl, Gregory is back at his old school, teaching English. When two of his pupils...

A documentary about the making of Bill Forsyth's 1983 film "Local Hero."

A look at English people who have made their home in Scotland.

An interview for Scottish television of film director Bill Forsyth

Abraham lives deep in the heart of an industrial wasteland. His only companion is a giant machine. Inside the machine is a man and a woman who take...

A look at the career of Oscar-winning cameraman Chris Menges. Filmed on location of 'Comfort and Joy'. Chris Menges discusses his early career in...

The industries of the Scottish Highlands.

A young artist struggles to seek inspiration from a slowly crumbling cityscape. Moving Image Archive: http://movingimage.nls.uk/film/3631

Documentary for Scottish television about the making of Bill Forsyth's 1983 film "Local Hero."

A young would-be writer searches the street of Glasgow for his missing girlfriend.

Captain Bill Torvald has retired to his quiet home in Orkney after fifty years at sea. When a young woman, Andrina, begins visiting him through the...

The life and work of the Scottish architect and artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

A documentary, edited by Bill Forsyth, promoting the proposed development of Glasgow in the 1970s.