Here are the 19 ‘Best Scottish films of all time’ as voted by Scotsman readers

9. Brigadoon, 1954

Brigadoon is a classic fifties musical which features an American tourist who gets lost during a hunting trip in Scotland but this leads him to find an enchanted village that only appears every one hundred years.
A vintage classic, Whisky Galore! was filmed in the late 1940s on the Hebridean island of Barra. As written on our Scotsman review, it “is a classic Scottish comedy about canny islanders who cannot believe their luck when a ship with a huge cargo of whisky runs aground in the midst of a wartime drought.”



10. Whisky Galore!, 1949

A vintage classic, Whisky Galore! was filmed in the late 1940s on the Hebridean island of Barra. As written on our Scotsman review, it “is a classic Scottish comedy about canny islanders who cannot believe their luck when a ship with a huge cargo of whisky runs aground in the midst of a wartime drought.”
A movie that saw Peter Mullan crowned best actor at the Cannes Film Festival, its a take on an unlikely relationship in one of Glasgow’s most crime-ridden suburbs.

11. My Name is Joe, 1998

A movie that saw Peter Mullan crowned best actor at the Cannes Film Festival, its a take on an unlikely relationship in one of Glasgow’s most crime-ridden suburbs.




12. Gregory’s Girl, 1981

Set in the iconic Cumbernauld (Glasgow) this is a treasured coming of age comedy tale starring Dee Hepburn and John Gordon Sinclair.




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