6 Movies Directed by Bill Forsyth

That Sinking Feeling

That Sinking Feeling

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1980-10-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

93 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (578 Reviews)

Director:

Bill Forsyth

Genres:

Comedy

Fullplot:

Ronnie, Wal, Andy and Vic are four bored, unemployed teens in dreary, rainy Glasgow. Ronnie comes up with a great idea. He has noticed that stainless steel sinks are worth a lot of money and comes up with a complicated scheme: to steal sinks from a warehouse dressed as girls and using a stop-motion potion.

Gregory's Girl

Gregory's Girl

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1982-05-26

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

91 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (5640 Reviews)

Director:

Bill Forsyth

Fullplot:

In his Scottish New Town home, gangling Gregory and his school-friends are starting to find out about girls. He fancies Dorothy, not least because she has got into the football team - and is a better player than him. He finally asks her out, but it is obviously the females in control of matters here, and that very much includes Gregory's younger sister.

Local Hero

Local Hero

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1983-02-17

Languages:

English, Russian, Japanese

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

111 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (14986 Reviews)

Director:

Bill Forsyth

Fullplot:

Oil billionaire Happer sends Mac to a remote Scotish villiage to secure the property rights for an oil refinery they want to build. Mac teams up with Danny and starts the negotiations, the locals are keen to get their hands on the 'Silver Dollar' and can't believe their luck. However a local hermit and beach scavenger, Ben Knox, lives in a shack on the crucial beach which he also owns. Happer is more interested in the Northern Lights and Danny in a surreal girl with webbed feet, Marina. Mac is used to a Houston office with fax machines but is forced to negotiate on Bens terms.

Comfort and Joy

Comfort and Joy

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1984-10-10

Languages:

English, Italian

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

106 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (1186 Reviews)

Director:

Bill Forsyth

Genres:

Comedy

Fullplot:

Radio host Alan Bird witnesses how an ice cream van is attacked and destroyed by an angry competitor. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families, the Bernardis and the Rossis, over whose ice cream vans can sell where in Glasgow.

Housekeeping

Housekeeping

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1988-01-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, Canada

Runtime:

116 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (1371 Reviews)

Director:

Bill Forsyth

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Marilynne Robinson (novel)

Bill Forsyth (screenplay)

Fullplot:

In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950's, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite live up the most people's expectations.

Breaking In

Breaking In

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1989-10-13

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

94 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.1 (1125 Reviews)

Director:

Bill Forsyth

Fullplot:

Professional thief Ernie takes Mike on as an apprentice, but while Mike clearly has "larceny in his heart", it will take him a long time to get as good as Ernie.

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