The House of Mirth 2000
In early 20th century New York City, an impoverished socialite desperately seeks a suitable husband as she gradually finds herself betrayed by her friends and exiled from high society.
In early 20th century New York City, an impoverished socialite desperately seeks a suitable husband as she gradually finds herself betrayed by her friends and exiled from high society.
Set in 1943 in Scotland during World War II. Janie is a young housewife married to a man named Dougal, 15 years her senior. As part of a war rehabilitation program, Janie and Dougal welcome three Italian POWs to work on their farm. Soon, Janie falls in love with one of them...
Downtrodden Frankie is given an opportunity that is too good to refuse when a chance encounter gives him 24 hours to get his life back on track and revive his romance.
A young Glaswegian prostitute in London tries to start a new life.
A group of four siblings reunite in Glasgow on the eve of their mother's funeral, and the children mourn their mother's passing in a variety of ways—sometimes heartfelt, sometimes bizarre. As a potential thunderstorm threatens to damage the city, the situation compounds itself.
The fates of four people are interwined over one night.
At a hyponotist show, a woman is hypnotised and reveals all her family's dark secrets...
Set in the wake of Britain’s first financial crisis, the South Sea Bubble of 1720, and based on the inferred prison encounters between the thief Jack Sheppard and the writer Daniel Defoe, this critical costume drama traces connections between fiction, speculation and aesthetics.
The story of an aspiring actor's adventures around the Scottish Borders and northern England with a travelling theatre group.
The acclaimed Scottish poet discusses his work.
A sudden tragic loss forces an apparently close-knit family to re-evaluate what is precious about their lives.
The life and work of the Scottish architect and artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
A portrait of the Scottish artist Sir William Gillies.
It's Laura's first job and she is anxious to do well, but her instinctive empathy with the elderly people in her care puts her in conflict with her colleagues.
In the wake of their mother's death, two small boys are held captive to their father's grief. But when their mother's last wish heralds the arrival of their estranged grandmother, their fierce independence sets in motion a household power struggle that threatens to confront the ghosts of the past.
An interview with the Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid.
Camping out by a disused tunnel. Kirsty winds Jamie up with horror stories about the mysterious hunter Johnny. A nasty shock lies in wait for both of them when Kirsty lures Jamie into the tunnel to look for the bodies of Johnny’s victims.
Events conspire against a council driver who desperately wants to see the highlights of a Scotland match.
The misdaventures of a man who is forced to confront the realities of his life when he promises his estranged wife that he will get a pair of football boots for his son at any cost.
Scotland - the future. Democracy has evolved. Citizens vote in mandatory daily referenda and aspire to the ultimate prize - a place on IM: Heaven Above Earth.