Gillies MacKinnon

Gillies MacKinnon Trailers

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​ Gillies MacKinnon (born 8 January 1948, Glasgow) is a Scottish film director and writer. His film credits include Hideous Kinky, Small Faces and Regeneration.

Most Popular Gillies MacKinnon Trailers

Total trailers found: 20

Regeneration Trailer (1997)

27 August 1997

Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, two of England's most important World War I poets are sent, along with other traumatized combatants, to a rest home in order to treat their emotional troubles, caused by the psychological fatigue that suffer the soldiers fighting in the no man's land.

Tara Road Trailer (2005)

11 May 2005

A grieving Connecticut mother temporarily switches houses with a woman in Dublin, Ireland.

A Simple Twist of Fate Trailer (1994)

02 September 1994

When Michael McCann is thrown over by the woman he loves, he becomes something of a misanthrope and a miser, spending all of his spare money on collectible gold coins.

The Last Bus Trailer (2021)

18 June 2021

Widower Tom, on the recent passing of his wife Mary, uses his free bus pass to travel the length of Britain from John O'Groats in Caithness to Land's End in Cornwall, their shared birthplace, using only local buses.

The History of Mr Polly Trailer (2007)

07 May 2007

When Alfred Polly fails to find fulfilment as a shop keeper, he leaves his wife and sets out on the open road to see where freedom leads.

Castles in the Sky Trailer (2014)

07 October 2014

England, while the storm clouds of Nazism menace Germany. Robert Watson Watt and a team of eccentric and brilliant meteorologists struggle to turn the mere idea of radar into a functional reality.

Pure Trailer (2002)

13 September 2002

A young boy trying to deal with his mother's heroin addiction befriends a waitress who helps him cope with the tough situation.

Hideous Kinky Trailer (1999)

05 February 1999

In 1972, disenchanted about the dreary conventions of English life, 25-year-old Julia heads for Morocco with her daughters, six-year-old Lucy and precocious eight-year-old Bea.

Needle Trailer (1990)

12 September 1990

Needle paints a harrowing picture of a Liverpool overrun by drugs, charting a young man's nightmarish descent into intravenous heroin use and AIDS and a police and political leadership incapable of the imagination or courage necessary to respond to the drug problem.

Whisky Galore Trailer (2016)

26 June 2016

The story of the inhabitants of the isolated Scottish island of Todday, in the Outer Hebrides, where gloom sets in as their wartime rationing of whisky runs out.

Small Faces Trailer (1996)

05 April 1996

Three teenage brothers, gang-member Bobby, troubled mama's boy Alan and self-assured prankster Lex, reside in a downtrodden section of Glasgow, Scotland, circa 1968.

Passing Glory Trailer (1986)

01 September 1986

When Spanish Civil War veteran Jessie McFarlane dies, the funeral is a mockery of her life and beliefs.

The Playboys Trailer (1992)

22 April 1992

A young woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of a wedlock, and refusing to name the father.

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells Trailer (2000)

26 August 2000

After Elizabeth's husband dies, she begins to play her tenor saxophone again, and remembers when she was 15 and a member of the Blonde Bombshells, an all-girl (with one exception) swing band.

Torvill & Dean Trailer (2018)

25 December 2018

Biopic of the British ice dancers and British, European, Olympic and World champions, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean.

The Escapist Trailer (2002)

12 April 2002

Denis Hopkins, a pilot, lives with his pregnant wife Valerie and has a comfortable lifestyle. When a gang of criminals led by the sadistic Ricky Barnes breaks into his home, he offers whatever the criminals want to protect his wife and unborn child, but the evil Ricky kills Valerie anyway.

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song Trailer (2000)

12 July 2000

Ireland's bloody 1916 Easter Uprising, the suffragette movement in England, a Zeppelin raid, and a meeting with a rising young British cabinet member named Winston Churchill become vivid vignettes in Indy's life.

Trojan Eddie Trailer (1996)

09 September 1996

Trojan Eddie sells stolen goods for John Power, aging godfather of a local network of Irish gypsies, known as "travelers.

Conquest of the South Pole Trailer (1989)

01 August 1989

A Group of unemployed Edinburgh youths embark on a recreation of Roald Amundsen's historic expedition to the South Pole.

The Grass Arena Trailer (1992)

19 January 1992

The Grass Arena is based on the autobiography of John Healy. Raised in an strongly religious family, with an abusive father, John soon learns that he has to defend himself.