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.

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...

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...

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

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...

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 tour of the landscape and wildlife of the Western Isles in Scotland.

The story of Harris Tweed and its Hebridean homeland.

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."

An interview for Scottish television of film director Bill Forsyth

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

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

The scenery and wildlife around Loch Lomond, Scotland, and the people who live and work there.

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