Iain McColl

In 1965, at the age of 25, Alan Ackland is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a business associate. In 1971, Sylvia Barker, lonely and depressed after a failed marriage and with two young children to bring up alone, seeks a new direction in her life and applies to become a voluntary prison visitor. Several years later their paths cross.

When an inventor's son learns that his father has been kidnapped, he searches for a clever contraption that can save his dad’s life.

Radio host Alan 'Dickie' Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families over the icecream market of Glasgow.

Two lads in Edinburgh embark on a non-violent spree of robberies. They dress up in clown masks and act as modern highwaymen, robbing coach loads of tourists in the highlands. In the process they become folk heroes to the locals. Their adventures make for a whimsical and gentle comedy, in the Bill Forsyth vein.

Harry Clark is a social worker on the verge of cracking up. His job is to help other people: who is there to help him?

Ben Marshall est un jeune Anglais de 17 ans, un peu timide et poéte à ses heures perdues. Il doit supporter sa mère qui l'isole des autres jeunes de son âge en essayant de le consacrer à Dieu et à la religion. Son père, Robert, est pasteur et s'ennuie dans sa vie, sa seule disctraction étant la recherche d'oiseaux. L'été approchant, la mère de Ben lui suggère de se trouver un petit boulot pour gagner un peu d'argent. Il tombe sur l'annonce d'Evie Walton, vieille actrice excentrique, pour qui il s'engage. Evie va alors lui faire découvrir un monde d'amusement qui lui permettra de s'affirmer auprès de sa mère tout en perdant en timidité.

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 book series created by writers John Wagner and Alan Grant.

En 1846, le quartier de Five Points, un faubourg pauvre de New York, est le théâtre d'une guerre des gangs entre émigrants irlandais d'un côté, les Dead Rabbits menés par Père Vallon, et les Native Americans de l'autre, dirigés par le sanguinaire Bill le Boucher. Ce dernier met rapidement en déroute les Dead Rabbits en assassinant leur chef, et prend par la même occasion le contrôle exclusif des rues de la "grosse pomme". Afin de renforcer ses pouvoirs, Bill s'allie avec Boss Tweed, un politicien influent. Seize ans plus tard, le gang des Native Americans règne toujours en maître dans New York. Devenu adulte, Amsterdam Vallon souhaite venger la mort de son père en éliminant Bill. Mais sa rencontre avec Jenny Everdeane, une énigmatique pickpocket dont l'indépendance et la beauté le fascinent, va compliquer les choses...

The film centers on the experiences of Robert Lawrence MC, an officer of the Scots Guards during the Falklands War of 1982. While fighting at the Battle of Mount Tumbledown, Lawrence is shot in the head by an Argentine sniper and left paralyzed on his left side. He then must learn to adjust to his new disability.

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 ensure that sailors on shore leave do not become too rowdy, and to provide help to sailors in need of assistance. Carl is married to a local girl and their relationship is at breaking point - she wants to leave Scotland and settle in America while he wants to remain in Scotland. With his brother-in-law Willie, who is already estranged from his wife and under threat of redundancy from his shipyard job, the two men forge a friendship to help each other through.

Hapless bank clerk Willie Melvin dreams of being a successful writer but is held back by his own incompetence, the dodgy dealings of his best friend Chancer, and lack of support from his mother, the bank's manager Adam McLelland and his obsequious fellow teller, Brian.

History student Prentice returns home to attend his grandmother’s funeral. As the McHoan family gathers together to mark the solemn occasion, old disagreements continue to fester and old acquaintances are renewed. Following the unexpected death of another close relative, Prentice begins to question the past: why did his Uncle Rory suddenly disappear and where did he go? Reading his Uncle Rory’s unpublished novel may provide the answers he is seeking but it also unearths some dark family secrets he didn’t bargain for.

Hamish Macbeth is a comedy-drama series made by BBC Scotland and first aired in 1995. It is loosely based on a series of mystery novels by M. C. Beaton. The series concerns a local police officer, Constable Hamish Macbeth in the fictitious town of Lochdubh on the west coast of Scotland. The titular character was played by Robert Carlyle. It ran for three series from 1995 to 1997, with the first two series having six episodes and the third having eight.