The Scottish Connection
A list of films either set or partially set in Scotland or filmed there.
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- DirectorRonny YuStarsSamuel L. JacksonRobert CarlyleEmily MortimerAn American master chemist plans to score big on a once in a lifetime drug deal. All does not go as planned and he is soon entangled in a web of deceit.At the end of the film he is meant to be playing golf from a castle in Scotland.
- DirectorWilliam A. GrahamStarsJames CaanDavid SumnerNorman BowlerDuring World War II, the British Royal Navy used experimental midget submarines to raid German warships in Norway.The Submarine crewtrain and leavefor their mission in Scotland, also filmed there.
- DirectorRoland EmmerichStarsDennis QuaidJake GyllenhaalEmmy RossumJack Hall, paleoclimatologist, must make a daring trek from Washington, D.C. to New York City to reach his son, trapped in the cross-hairs of a sudden international storm which plunges the planet into a new Ice Age.Has a section ofthe film which is from the Weather Research Station based in Braemar.
- DirectorDanny BoyleStarsEwan McGregorEwen BremnerJonny Lee MillerRenton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out despite the allure of drugs and the influence of friends.Most of the film set and filmed in Scotland.
- DirectorMichael PowellStarsConrad VeidtValerie HobsonSebastian ShawA German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.Set in Scapa Flow
- DirectorRichard WallaceStarsKatharine HepburnJohn BealAlan HaleIn rural 1840s Scotland, Gavin Dishart arrives to become the new "little minister" of Thrums' Auld Licht church. He meets a mysterious young gypsy girl in the dens and to his horror Babbie draws him into her escape from the soldiers after she incites a Luddite riot. But unknown to Gavin, Babbie is more than she seems, and they must overcome her secret, the villagers' fears of her, and worst of all, Gavin's devotion to his mother's sensibilities, before they can openly declare their love.Set in Scotland in the 1840s
- DirectorHenry LevinStarsJames MasonPat BooneArlene DahlAn Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.Start and end of the filmis setin Edinburgh.
- DirectorChristian CarionStarsDiane KrugerBenno FürmannGuillaume CanetIn December 1914, an unofficial Christmas truce on the Western Front allows soldiers from opposing sides of the First World War to gain insight into each other's way of life.Start of the film is set in a north scotland church and follows some Scottish Soldiers.
- DirectorFranco ZeffirelliStarsMel GibsonGlenn CloseAlan BatesHamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge.Some filming at Blackness Castle beside Firth of Forth and Dunnotter Castle near Stonehaven.
- DirectorMatthew VaughnStarsCharlie CoxClaire DanesSienna MillerIn a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the magical realm.Some of it filmed in Wester Ross and on Skye.
- DirectorBob CarruthersDavid McWhinnieStarsGary AndrewBrian BlessedRichard BrimblecombeIn the early 14th century, Scottish warrior and Earl Robert the Bruce is crowned King of Scots, leading Scotland during the First War of Scottish Independence against England.Parts of the film were shot at Craigmillar Castle in Edinburgh and at Peebles in the Scottish Borders
- DirectorJohn LandisStarsBill BaileyTom WilkinsonMichael SmileyA black comedy about two 19th-century grave robbers who find a lucrative business providing cadavers for an Edinburgh medical school.Set in Edinburgh.
- DirectorCharles CrichtonStarsPeter SellersRobert MorleyConstance CummingsAngela Barrows, an accomplished business analyst from the US, attempts to contemporise the late MacPherson's tweed factory, shaking the very foundation of a men-only company.Set in Edinburgh
- DirectorNeil MarshallStarsShauna MacdonaldNatalie MendozaAlex ReidA caving expedition goes horribly wrong, as the explorers become trapped and ultimately pursued by a strange breed of predators.Initial part set on Scottish river, exteriors filmed in Scotland.
- DirectorDon SharpStarsRobert PowellDavid WarnerEric PorterIn March 1914, a mining engineer named Richard Hannay tries to prevent Prussian Agents from executing a political assassination designed to trigger World War I.Some of the film shot in and set in Dumfries and Galloway.
- DirectorStephen FrearsStarsHelen MirrenMichael SheenJames CromwellAfter the death of Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth II struggles with her reaction to a sequence of events nobody could have predicted.Set and filmed in Scotland at Blairquhan Castle, South Ayrshire, Culzean Castle, South Ayrshire and Castle Fraser, Aberdeenshire and some parts of Scotland.
- DirectorLeslie NormanJoseph LoseyStarsDean JaggerEdward ChapmanLeo McKernA radioactive, mud-like creature terrorizes a Scottish village.
- DirectorScott GrahamStarsChloe PirrieMichael SmileyJoseph MawleThe story of Shell, a girl who lives with her father Pete in a remote gas station in the Scottish Highlands, in their struggle against the elements and the impossible love they feel during the last winter that she will be in that place.Set in Scotland and filmed at Little Loch Broom, Highland, Scotland
- DirectorRobert StevensonStarsPeter FinchJames MacArthurBernard LeeIn Scotland in 1751, young David Balfour is shanghaied aboard a ship where he meets Jacobite rebel Alan Breck Stewart with whom he escapes to the Scottish Highlands, dodging the redcoats.Set in Scotland and filmed in Scotland at Ardgour, Ballachulish, Fort William, Glen Coe, Glen Nevis and the Highlands.
- DirectorGillies MacKinnonStarsJonathan PryceJames WilbyJonny Lee MillerBased on Pat Barker's novel of the same name, "Regeneration" tells the story of soldiers of World War One sent to an asylum for emotional troubles. Two of those soldiers are England's most important WW1 poets.Set in Craiglockhart Hospital near Edinburgh, filmed in Overtooun House, Dumbarton and Portencross, North Ayrshire.
- DirectorWalter GraumanStarsCliff RobertsonGeorge ChakirisMaria PerschyA RAF squadron is assigned to knock out a German rocket fuel factory in Norway. The factory supplies fuel for the Nazi effort to launch rockets on England during D-Day.Training for their mission was set in Scotland and filmed at Loch Morar, Glen Coe, Eigg Island, Lochgilphead, Loch Nevis, Lairg Ghru, Scotland.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsLeslie BanksAlastair SimJeanne De CasalisAllied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.Set in Scotland, not believed to have been filmed there.
- DirectorMichael HoffmanStarsVincent FriellNed BeattyJoe MullaneyTwo Scottish friends become local folk heroes and tourist attractions when they start holding up tour buses with novelty items.Set in Scotland and filmed in Glen Nevis, Edinburgh, Glen Coe, Lochgoilhead.
- DirectorThomas ImbachStarsCamille RutherfordMehdi DehbiSean BiggerstaffA queen who lost three kingdoms. A wife who lost three husbands. A woman who lost her head.Set in Scotland and some of the scenes filmed there icluding Dunnottar Castle.
- DirectorRonald NeameStarsAlec GuinnessJohn MillsSusannah YorkAfter World War II, a Highland Regiment's acting Commanding Officer, who rose from the ranks, is replaced by a peace-time Oxford-educated Commanding Officer, leading to a dramatic conflict between the two.Set in an unknown Castle in Scotland and some filming at Stirling Castle.
- DirectorDavid MackenzieStarsChris PineStephen DillaneRebecca RobinA true David vs. Goliath story of how the 14th century Scottish 'Outlaw King' Robert the Bruce used cunning and bravery to defeat the much larger and better equipped occupying English army.Robert the Bruce, set and filmed in Scotland.
- DirectorJonathan GlazerStarsScarlett JohanssonJeremy McWilliamsLynsey Taylor MackayA mysterious young woman seduces lonely men in the evening hours in Scotland. However, events lead her to begin a process of self-discovery.Set in and about Scotland.
- DirectorDavid YatesStarsDaniel RadcliffeEmma WatsonRupert GrintWith their warning about Lord Voldemort's return scoffed at, Harry and Dumbledore are targeted by the Wizard authorities as an authoritarian bureaucrat slowly seizes power at Hogwarts.Filmed in Glencoe, Glenfinnan, Glen Etive, Scotland
- DirectorStephen ShinMichael ParkerStarsJoseph FiennesJesse KoveBruce LockeEric Liddell - China's first gold medalist and one of Scotland's greatest athletes - returns to war-torn China.About a Scottish runner and missionary in China.
- DirectorGillies MacKinnonStarsNaomi BattrickSean BiggerstaffJames CosmoScottish islanders try to plunder cases of whisky from a stranded ship during WWII.Filmed and set in Scotland.
- DirectorDavid YatesStarsDaniel RadcliffeEmma WatsonRupert GrintAs Harry, Ron and Hermione race against time and evil to destroy the Horcruxes, they uncover the existence of the three most powerful objects in the wizarding world: the Deathly Hallows.Filmed on Ranch Moor, Scotland
- DirectorDavid YatesStarsDaniel RadcliffeEmma WatsonRupert GrintAs Harry Potter begins his sixth year at Hogwarts, he discovers an old book marked as "the property of the Half-Blood Prince" and begins to learn more about Lord Voldemort's dark past.Filmed at Cape Wrath and Glencoe, Scotland.
- DirectorMike NewellStarsDaniel RadcliffeEmma WatsonRupert GrintHarry Potter finds himself competing in a hazardous tournament between rival schools of magic, but he is distracted by recurring nightmares.Filmed at Glen Nevis and Glenfinnan, Scotland.
- DirectorCharles JarrottStarsVanessa RedgraveGlenda JacksonPatrick McGoohanDuring the sixteenth century, the Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots engages in over two decades of religious and political conflict with her cousin, the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I of England, amidst political intrigue in her native land.About a Scottish queen with some filming there.
- DirectorChris ColumbusStarsDaniel RadcliffeRupert GrintEmma WatsonHarry Potter lives his second year at Hogwarts with Ron and Hermione when a message on the wall announces that the legendary Chamber of Secrets has been opened. The trio soon realize that, to save the school, it will take a lot of courage.Various scenes shot in Scotland.
- DirectorDavid DobkinStarsWill FerrellRachel McAdamsDan StevensWhen aspiring musicians Lars and Sigrit are given the opportunity to represent their country at the world's biggest song competition, they finally have a chance to prove that any dream worth having is a dream worth fighting for.Some of the film set in and filmed in Scotland.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsMark RylanceRuby BarnhillPenelope WiltonAn orphan little girl befriends a benevolent giant who takes her to Giant Country, where they attempt to stop the man-eating giants that are invading the human world.A part of the movie filmed in Skye, Scotland.
- DirectorSam MendesStarsDean-Charles ChapmanGeorge MacKayDaniel MaysApril 6th, 1917. As an infantry battalion assembles to wage war deep in enemy territory, two soldiers are assigned to race against time and deliver a message that will stop 1,600 men from walking straight into a deadly trap.A part filmed at Glasgow Docks.
- DirectorPhilip LeacockStarsJohn GregsonMeg BuchananJohn RaeA story about a true mining accident.Set in a small Scottish Mining village.
- DirectorKen LoachStarsPaul BranniganJohn HenshawRoger AllamNarrowly avoiding jail, new dad Robbie vows to turn over a new leaf. A visit to a whisky distillery inspires him and his mates to seek a way out of their hopeless lives.Set and filmed in Scotland.
- DirectorAnthony KimminsLeslie ArlissAlexander KordaStarsDavid NivenMargaret LeightonMorland GrahamIn the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the Young Pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie leads an insurrection to overthrow the Protestant House of Hanover and restore his family, the Catholic branch of the House of Stuart, to the British throne.Set in and some filming in Scotland.
- DirectorHarald ZwartStarsThomas GullestadJonathan Rhys MeyersMarie BlokhusThey were 12 saboteurs. The Nazis killed 11 of them. This is the true story of the one that got away.Small part set in Shetland with some filming in Edinburgh.
- DirectorJonathan TeplitzkyStarsBrian CoxMiranda RichardsonJohn SlatteryNinety-six hours before the World War II invasion of Normandy, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill struggles with his severe reservations with Operation Overlord and his increasingly marginalized role in the war effort.Some filming in Scotland.
- DirectorGraham HollowayStarsBrian BlessedIain CuthbertsonMatthew ZajacThe Jacobite Rebellion of Scotland, and thirty years after the first battle, Bonnie Prince Charlie and his army make a stand at Culloden.Filmed and set in Scotland - Fort George and Culloden.
- DirectorKristoffer NyholmStarsPeter MullanGerard ButlerEmma KingThree lighthouse keepers on the remote Flannan Isles obtain a mysterious trunk, leading to their mysterious disappearance.Set and filmed in Scotland
- DirectorPeter SasdyStarsChristopher LeePeter CushingDiana DorsThree rich trustees are murdered - appearing as suicides. When a bus filled with orphans and three other rich trustees has an "accident," Colonel Bingham investigates.Set but not filmed in Scotland.
- DirectorTom HarperStarsJessie BuckleyMatt CostelloJane PattersonA troubled young Glaswegian woman dreams of becoming a Nashville country star.Filmed and set in Scotland
- DirectorDanny BoyleStarsEwan McGregorEwen BremnerJonny Lee MillerAfter 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud, and Begbie.
- DirectorJon S. BairdStarsJames McAvoyJamie BellEddie MarsanA corrupt, junkie cop with bipolar disorder attempts to manipulate his way through a promotion in order to win back his wife and daughter while also fighting his own inner demons.
- DirectorPaul McGuiganStarsStephen McColeMaurice RoëvesGarry SweeneyThree twisted tales of abuse, drugs, displaced personalities, and insect life by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh.
- DirectorRichard GrayStarsAngus MacfadyenDiarmaid MurtaghJared HarrisThe story of the nobleman-turned-outlaw hero who was crowned king of Scots in the 14th century.About and filmed in Scotland.
- DirectorLewis GilbertStarsEugeniusz ChylekSydney TaflerMichael BalfourA superb early work by illustrious British director Lewis Gilbert (Alfie, You Only Live Twice) which follows orphaned Polish refugee Janek, who runs into trouble in the shape of two scheming thieves. Starring popular character actor Sydney Tafler (Carve Her Name with Pride, The Spy who Loved Me) as a cunning spiv, and featuring an appearance from John Laurie (The 39 Steps, Dad's Army), Johnny on the Run is an action-packed adventure with a remarkable performance from its young lead.
- DirectorRobert WiseStarsBoris KarloffBela LugosiHenry DaniellA ruthless doctor and his young prize student find themselves continually harassed by their murderous supplier of illegal cadavers.Set in Scotland although mostly filmed in USA.
- DirectorJoel CoenStarsDenzel WashingtonFrances McDormandAlex HassellA Scottish lord becomes convinced by a trio of witches that he will become the next King of Scotland, and his ambitious wife supports him in his plans of seizing power.About Scotland but not filmed there.
- DirectorChristian CarionStarsJames McAvoyClaire FoyTom CullenEdmond Murray searches for answers deep in the Highlands after receiving a frantic call from his ex-wife that their seven-year-old son went missing from a campsite.Filmed and set in Scotland
- DirectorJohn M. StahlStarsGregory PeckThomas MitchellVincent PriceA young priest is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish.Some of film set in Scotland although not filmed there.
- DirectorHerbert MasonStarsArthur AskeyMoore MarriottGraham MoffattA lowly BBC employee pulls a prank at the studio and finds himself transferred to an isolated island where he is to set up a weather station at a lighthouse. As if in a fantasy, a ship carrying a bevy of beautiful models is shipwrecked off the coast and the models wind up on the island. However, when the models begin disappearing, the "back-room boy" investigates and finds a sinister scheme involving spies and Nazi battleships.Set on fictional Scottish island.
- DirectorRichie AdamsStarsHermione CorfieldWill FletcherMark GatissA young girl lives in the Outer Hebrides in a small village in the years just before WWI. Isolated and hard by the shore, her life takes a dramatic change when a terrible tragedy befalls her.Set and filmed in Scotland.
- DirectorOswald MitchellStarsTod SlaughterHenry OscarJenny LynnA story of body snatchers in Edinburgh, based on Burke and Hare.Set in Edinburgh although not filmed there.
- DirectorDavid MacDonaldStarsPatricia RocWill FyffeMaxwell ReedThe McFarishes and the Macraes are lifelong enemies living on a remote island in the Western Isles of Scotland. Mary Lawson is a Scottish orphan brought up in a convent who arrives on the weekly steamer to come and work as a servant to the Macraes. Mary is warned that she must have no dealings with the McFarish family but living a lonely life she encourages the friendship of Will McFarish, with tragic consequences.Set and filmed in Scotland - Skye.
- DirectorOscar BurnStarsMara Russell-TavernanRobert EssexKarl Meir1947. Drama. During the war, a British agent travels to the remote Glennye Castle in the wilds of Scotland to investigate a mysterious murder by a masked phantom. Directed by Oscar Burn.Set in Scotland. Mentions Nairn.
- DirectorReed MoranoStarsBlake LivelyRichard BrakeElly CurtisA woman seeks revenge against those who orchestrated a plane crash that killed her family.A section set in north Scotland but appears not filmed there.
- DirectorRoy William NeillStarsBasil RathboneNigel BruceAubrey MatherSherlock Holmes investigates a series of deaths at a castle with each foretold by the delivery of orange pips to the victims.Set in Scotland although not filmed there.
- DirectorRoy William NeillStarsBasil RathboneNigel BruceGale SondergaardSherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called "pajama suicides". He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as venomous as a spider.Start of the film set in Scotland. Not filmed there.
- DirectorKevin ConnorStarsDoug McClureJohn McEnerySusan PenhaligonDuring World War I, a German U-boat sinks a British ship and takes the survivors on board. After it takes a wrong turn, the submarine takes them to the unknown land of Caprona, where they find dinosaurs and neanderthals.A part filmed in Skye.
- DirectorAlan RickmanStarsPhyllida LawEmma ThompsonSheila ReidA recent widow, who is determined to leave Scotland for Australia with her son, gets an unexpected visit from her aging mother.Filmed and set in Scotland at Elie and Pittenweem, Fife.
- DirectorJohn McPhailStarsElla HuntMalcolm CummingSarah SwireA zombie apocalypse threatens the sleepy town of Little Haven - at Christmas - forcing Anna and her friends to fight, slash and sing their way to survival, facing the undead in a desperate race to reach their loved ones. But they soon discover that no one is safe in this new world, and with civilization falling apart around them, the only people they can truly rely on are each other.Filmed in Scotland, West Lothian and Port Glasgow.
- DirectorPaul WrightStarsGeorge MacKayKate DickieNichola BurleyAaron, a young misfit living in a remote Scottish fishing community, is the lone survivor of a strange fishing accident that claimed the lives of five men including his older brother. Spurred on by sea-going folklore and local superstition, the village blames Aaron for this tragedy, making him an outcast amongst his own people. Steadfastly refusing to believe that his brother has died, he sets out to recover him and the rest of men.Filmed and set in Scotland - Gourdon, Aberdeenshire.
- DirectorAgnieszka HollandStarsJames NortonVanessa KirbyPeter SarsgaardA Welsh journalist breaks the news in the western media of the famine in Ukraine in the early 1930s.Some scenes filmed in Scotland, Edinburgh and Pittenweem.
- DirectorJames MangoldStarsHarrison FordPhoebe Waller-BridgeAntonio BanderasArchaeologist Indiana Jones races against time to retrieve a legendary artifact that can change the course of history.Astronauts Parade filmed in Glasgow.
- DirectorIan DalrympleVictor SavilleStarsVivien LeighRex HarrisonCecil ParkerA local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.Set in Scotland, unknown its filming location.