Scottish Screen (Organization)
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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Description
Chronicles Idi Amin's rise and fall. Amin's despotic reign of terror is viewed through the eyes of Nicholas Garrigan, a Scottish doctor who arrives in Uganda in the early 1970s to serve as Amin's personal physician. His perspective as an outsider causes him to be initially impressed by Amin's calculated rise to power and he grows increasingly monstrous. A pointed examination of how independent Uganda (a British colony until 1962) became a breeding...
2) Red road
Publisher
Tartan Video
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Jackie works as a CCTV operator. Each day she watches over a small part of the world, protecting the people living their lives under her gaze. One day a man appears on her monitor, a man she thought she would never see again, a man she never wanted to see again. Now she has no choice, she is compelled to confront him.
3) Mister Foe
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Driven to expose the true cause of his mother's death, Hallam Foe instead finds himself searching the rooftops of Edinburgh for love, while his knack for voyeurism paradoxically reveals his darkest fears and peculiar desires.
4) Young Adam
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Joe works on a barge run by Les. Ella may have been the boss's wife, but Joe couldn't have cared less. Their torrid affair takes his mind off the beautiful dead girl found floating in the river. Her name was Cathie, and Joe was the last person to see her alive. Only Joe know's whether Cathie's death was a suicide, an accident or murder. And the shocking truth could save the life of an innocent man, or send a guilty one to the gallows.
Publisher
Distributed by Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
In Greenock, Scotland, Liam is trying to make money. When he refuses to use his imprisoned mom as a drug mule, his criminal stepfather, Stan, and bitter grandfather kick him out of the house. He moves in with his level-headed older sister who has no love for their mother. Liam decides to buy a trailer for himself and his mom when she gets out of prison on the day before his 16th birthday. He comes up with a plan to steal Stan's drug stash and sell...
Publisher
Liberation Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008]
Language
English
Description
A young woman must take over her father's Indian restaurant and compete in The Best of the West Curry Competition. When Nina then falls in love with the beautiful Lisa, she begins to question a world that has been thrown into sudden turmoil. Now she wonders if her feeling will ever be reciprocated and if they are, what will this mean for Nina and her family?
Publisher
Fun City Editions
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Morvern Callar is greeted with a startling surprise, her boyfriend has committed suicide. He has left her a cryptic message on his computer and a manuscript for a novel. She changes the author's name to her own and begins a re-birth of self discovery.
