Behind the Lines (1997) more movies like this

directed by Gillies MacKinnon
featuring Jonathan Pryce, James Wilby, Jonny Lee Miller, Stuart Bunce, Tanya Allen

This period drama was based on the Booker Prize-winning novel by author Pat Barker, one of a trilogy dealing with World War I. James Wilby stars as Siegfried Sassoon, the real-life war hero and poet who, in 1917, writes a statement against the war that is read in Parliament. Faced with the choice of either a court-martial or time in a mental ...

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Hideous Kinky (1998) more movies like this

directed by Gillies MacKinnon
featuring Mohcine Barmouni, Kate Winslet, Saïd Taghmaoui, Bella Riza, Carrie Mullan, Pierre Clémenti

Gillies MacKinnon directed this $5.6 million production with a screenplay by his brother, Billy MacKinnon. The film adapts the 1992 autobiographical novel by Esther Freud (Sigmund Freud's granddaughter) about hippie misadventures in North Africa in 1972, as described by a five-year-old girl. Disenchanted with the dreary conventions of English life ...

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The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2000) more movies like this

directed by Gillies MacKinnon
featuring Judi Dench, Ian Holm, Olympia Dukakis, Leslie Caron, Cleo Laine

A group of trailblazing female musicians try to take another shot at success in this musical comedy-drama produced for the premium cable network HBO. In the 1940s, the Blonde Bombshells were the finest all-female jazz band in the U.K., playing hot swing music that helped raise England's spirits during the dark days of WWII. Fifty years later, ...

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A Simple Twist of Fate (1994) more movies like this

directed by Gillies MacKinnon
featuring Steve Martin, Gabriel Byrne, Laura Linney, Catherine O'Hara, Alana Austin

Steve Martin produced, wrote, and starred in this modernized adaptation of the George Eliot novel Silas Marner. Martin is miserly small-town hermit Michael McCann, who hoards his wealth in the form of a rare coin collection. When his coins are stolen, McCann is ruined, but then he discovers an abandoned baby girl on his doorstep. Although he doesn ...

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The Playboys (1992) more movies like this

directed by Gillies MacKinnon
featuring Albert Finney, Aidan Quinn, Robin Wright Penn, Milo O'Shea, Alan Devlin

Gillies MacKinnon directed this charming Irish romance, taking place in a small Irish village in 1957, just before the first television set makes an appearance in this conservative hamlet. There is a scandal in the village concerning the beautiful and independent Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) -- Tara is pregnant and refuses to identify the father. ...

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Tara Road (2005) more movies like this

directed by Gillies MacKinnon
featuring Andie MacDowell, Olivia Williams, Stephen Rea, Iain Glen, Jean-Marc Barr, Brenda Fricker

Andie MacDowell, Olivia Williams, and Stephen Rae star in this bittersweet tale of two grieving women connected by an accidental phone call. Connecticut mother Marilyn Vine (MacDowell) has always lived a charmed life, so when her adolescent son Dale suddenly dies while celebrating his fifteenth birthday the tragedy of her loss is almost too ...

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The Escapist (2002) more movies like this

directed by Gillies MacKinnon
featuring Jonny Lee Miller, Andy Serkis, Gary Lewis, Jodhi May, Paloma Baeza

Scottish filmmaker Gillies MacKinnon directs the revenge thriller The Escapist. Escaped convict Ricky Barnes (Andy Serkis, Gollom in the Lord of the Rings trilogy) breaks into the house of commercial pilot Denis (Jonny Lee Miller) and kills his pregnant wife, Valerie (Paloma Baeza). The baby survives but Denis is too distraught to care for it, so ...

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The History of Mr. Polly (2006) more movies like this

directed by Gillies MacKinnon
featuring Lee Evans, Anne-Marie Duff, Julie Graham

Director Gillies MacKinnin and screenwriter Adrian Hodges team to adapt Victorian author H.G. Wells' intimate drama about a man who has forsaken his dreams to lead a life of suffocating mediocrity. Alfred Polly (Lee Evans) was once a man with truly extraordinary dreams, but unfortunately Alfred has chosen to walk the comfortable path of convention ...

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Pure (2005) more movies like this

directed by Gillies MacKinnon
featuring Molly Parker, David Wenham, Harry Eden, Geraldine McEwan, Keira Knightley

After forays into period war drama (Regeneration) and globe-trotting bohemia (Hideous Kinky), Scottish director Gillies MacKinnon returns to social realist melodrama with this tale of a ten-year-old desperately trying to parent his heroin-addicted mother. Pure revolves around Paul (Harry Eden), a young boy who finds his life torn apart after the ...

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Trojan Eddie (1996) more movies like this

directed by Gillies MacKinnon

Set in Ireland, this beautifully rendered drama offers a fascinating portrait of a nomadic peddler who travels about the countryside selling housewares from his van. Trojan Eddie's unusual moniker comes from the logo upon his van. He works for John Power, the owner of several such traveling vans. Eddie, who is married with two children (and a ...

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Small Faces (1995) more movies like this

directed by Gillies MacKinnon
featuring Clare Higgins, Iain Robertson, Joseph McFadden, Laura Fraser

Scottish filmmaker Gillies MacKinnon directed and co-wrote (with brother Billy MacKinnon) this semi-autobiographical drama set in the working class Glasgow of 1968. Thirteen-year-old Lex Maclean (Iain Robertson) is torn between his brothers, his only male role models. Alan (Joseph McFadden) is an aspiring artist who's on his way to develop his ...

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