Movies: Bill Douglas

  • 1973
    My Ain Folk

    My Ain Folk (1973)

    My Ain Folk

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    When Jamie's maternal grandmother dies, he and his brother Tommy are separated - Tommy is taken off to a welfare home and Jamie goes to live with his other grandmother and uncle. His life is far from happy, filled with silence, rejection and bouts of...

    My Ain Folk
  • 1972
    My Childhood

    My Childhood (1972)

    My Childhood

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    The first part of Bill Douglas' influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-'40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape - he paid for it with the money he made from returning empty jam jars - and this escape is reflected most...

    My Childhood
  • 1978
    My Way Home

    My Way Home (1978)

    My Way Home

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    Jamie leaves the children's home to live with his paternal grandmother. After working in a mine and in a tailor's shop, he is conscripted into the RAF, and goes to Egypt, where he is befriended by Robert, whose undemanding companionship releases Jami...

    My Way Home
  • 1987
    Comrades

    Comrades (1987)

    Comrades

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    The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign to receive fair wages....

    Comrades
  • 1984
    Sleepwalker

    Sleepwalker (1984)

    Sleepwalker

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    Saxon Logan's extraordinary 49 minute featurette pitches four people into a class war situation with a vicious sting in the tale....

    Sleepwalker
  • 2023
    Bill Douglas: My Best Friend

    Bill Douglas: My Best Friend (2023)

    Bill Douglas: My Best Friend

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    The story of the extraordinary friendship between Scottish film maker Bill Douglas and his lifelong companion and collaborator Peter Jewell. Bill Douglas was Scotland’s finest director, celebrated by the likes of Lynne Ramsay, Lenny Abrahamson, Sataj...

    Bill Douglas: My Best Friend
  • 1970
    Come Dancing

    Come Dancing (1970)

    Come Dancing

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    Celebrated filmmaker Bill Douglas’s early student short follows two men who meet in a cafe on a Southend pier. Glances, body language and very brief snatches of lewd dialogue suggest a pick-up, but the atmosphere soon darkens and events take an unexp...

    Come Dancing
  • 1967
    Fever

    Fever (1967)

    Fever

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    Displaying the cinematic influence of Bunuel and Cocteau, and inspired by a short story by French writer JMG Le Clézio, Bill’s most experimental short depicts a psychiatric patient who travels to Speakers’ Corner, Hyde Park, to warn anyone who will l...

    Fever
  • 2006
    Bill Douglas: Intent on Getting the Image

    Bill Douglas: Intent on Getting the Image (2006)

    Bill Douglas: Intent on Getting the Image

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    A documentary exploring Bill Douglas' struggle from childhood poverty to acclaimed filmmaker of Comrades and the Trilogy....

    Bill Douglas: Intent on Getting the Image
  • 1974
    Home and Away

    Home and Away (1974)

    Home and Away

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    A young boy away at boarding school struggles when his mother and father split up....

    Home and Away
  • 1979
    Working Surface: A Short Study (with Actors) in the 'Ways' of a Bourgeois Writer

    Working Surface: A Short Study (with Actors) in the 'Ways' of a Bourgeois Writer (1979)

    Working Surface: A Short Study (with Actors) in the 'Ways' of a Bourgeois Writer

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    Bill Douglas plays a writer struggling with a script about the interior lives of two women (played by Joanna David and Heather Page)....

    Working Surface: A Short Study (with Actors) in the 'Ways' of a Bourgeois Writer
  • 1996
    The Ring of Truth

    The Ring of Truth (1996)

    The Ring of Truth

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    Set in the Necropolis graveyard, Glasgow. A comic and magical tale about the meaning of life and a hunt for a missing diamond ring. An ex-B movie starlet and her daughter search for the ring, lost many years ago whilst the mother was making love with...

    The Ring of Truth
  • 1968
    Still Life

    Still Life (1968)

    Still Life

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    An elderly woman is admitted to an asylum and all her possessions are removed by the council. The idea came from Peter Jewell, who was working as a social worker at the time, but is reminiscent of Bill's own family history....

    Still Life
  • 1966
    Gracemary

    Gracemary (1966)

    Gracemary

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    A young woman runs to catch the last post with her weekly pools coupon, whilst imagining a more glamorous life for herself....

    Gracemary
  • 1968
    Small World

    Small World (1968)

    Small World

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    A rare “talkie” displaying Bill’s gift for dialogue, Small World is a comedy of manners about two married couples who meet by chance at an outdoor café and think they have met before....

    Small World
  • 1967
    Woman in the Park

    Woman in the Park (1967)

    Woman in the Park

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    A Hitchcockian psychodrama about an introverted man who pursues a woman with whom he becomes obsessed, demonstrating Bill’s improving grasp of advanced film language....

    Woman in the Park
  • 1966
    The Water Cress File

    The Water Cress File (1966)

    The Water Cress File

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    Playing with the tropes of the spy genre, The Water Cress File charts the progress of a mysterious briefcase, passed between several characters on the streets of Soho and, in a metaphysical flourish, into a film showing in the Pavilion cinema....

    The Water Cress File