Gillies MacKinnon
January 8, 1948 · 78 years old
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gillies MacKinnon (born 8 January 1948, Glasgow) is a Scottish film director and writer. His film credits include Hideous Kinky, Small Faces and Regeneration. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gillies MacKinnon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list…
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10 titles
Hideous Kinky
Unsatisfied with her life in England, young mother Julia relocates to Morocco with her small daughters, Lucy and Bea. Although the family enjoys various adventures, they struggle to make ends meet.
A Simple Twist of Fate
His life was emotionally closed off from the world, until an orphaned baby showed up at his house.
The Last Bus
After the death of his wife, an aging man travels across the UK by bus to fulfill his pledge to spread her ashes near their first home.
Pure
A young boy trying to deal with his mother's heroin addiction befriends a waitress who helps him cope with the tough situation.
Whisky Galore
Scottish islanders try to plunder cases of whisky from a stranded ship during WWII.
Tara Road
Two women -- one American, one Irish -- swap houses and alter the course of their lives.
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
A woman tries to reunite the swing band with which she played during World War II.
The Playboys
A young woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of wedlock, and refusing to name the father. She has a rare beauty and every man in town desires her, especially...
Castles in the Sky
Eddie Izzard stars in this funny, moving and inspiring factual drama about the pioneering work on radar by a little known team of scientists in the run up to the Second World War.
