Bill Bryden Movies

The origins, exploits and the ultimate fate of the James gang is told in a sympathetic portrayal of the bank robbers made up of brothers who begin...

Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each...

The Silver Tassie is an opera in four acts by the English composer Mark-Anthony Turnage. The English libretto was written by Amanda Holden based on...

'Please don't slam your door - we have a delicate child', but when the baby cries, Deb ignores it. There is a secret which is destroying Deb's...

Set in Glasgow, Louie, the detective son of an upright police sergeant, is about to marry. His intended is the daughter of JoJo (Connolly), a wealthy...

Britain in the very near future. In an abandoned hotel, a young female doctor and a middle-aged scientist are interrogated separately. The question...

Carl is a US Navy Shore patrol officer who is based at the Holy Loch naval base in Scotland. Armed only with a nightstick, his primary function is to...

A fresh-faced gym instructor, Murdo Caldwell, threatens the cosy lifestyle established in the seedy Adonis Health Club in Glasgow, where, up until...

Documentary tracing the life of James Ellis, one of Northern Ireland’s best loved actors.

Fragment of a story by Robert Louis Stevenson, completed by Alasdair Gray. A dissolute medical student wakes up in the bedroom of a young woman who...

The story of the last two years the inhabitants of the islands of St Kilda (far off the west coast of Scotland) spent there, before being evacuated...

Miss A, troubled by problems, consults a clairvoyant. Can he solve them for her by summoning the spirits? Or is he just a fraud, out to steal her...

Adaptation of Pirandello's play.

A mental patient who believes he is Humphrey Bogart escapes from his institution and sets up in business as a private eye. Based on the the comic...

In the dark days of 1914 Willie Rough set out to find work in Greenock. He becomes a shipbuilding shop steward and soon finds himself involved in a...

It's General Election day 1964, and the resources of Forth and Clyde Television are under stress. Too many shows want too many things done too...

The Highlands of Scotland. A fight outside the village hall. Robert Menzies lies dead and Allan Innes flees to the hills, pursued by Robert's...

When neurologically ill American actress Sarah calls emotionally crippled English playwright Joe, they begin a very special relationship conducted...

A group of young men from Glasgow sign up to fight in the The Great War in a filmed version of Bill Bryden's play.

Filmed performance of Bill Bryden's play about life in and around the shipyards of Glasgow, performed in the former engine shed of Harland & Wolff...