8 Scottish films to steal your laughs
If there is no money to be made from stealing, then there at least a lot of laughs along the way. From stealing whisky, kitchen sinks, wine, or even bodies to robbing coach loads of tourists (in the nicest possible way). From the days of the celebrated cattle thief Rob Roy, Scotland has had more than a little obsession with the fabled skills of the light-fingered. Especially if the thieves are of a benevolent disposition and like to give something back.
Restless Natives (1985)
Throwing money away
Whisky Galore (1949)
50,000 cases of whiskey!
That Sinking Feeling (1979)
Stainless steel mine
Whisky Galore! (2016)
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Burke and Hare (2010)
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American Cousins (2003)
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The Angels' Share (2012)
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Filth (2013)
TrailerRestless Natives
Two lads in Edinburgh embark on a non-violent spree of robberies. They dress up in clown masks and act as modern highwaymen, robbing coach loads of tourists in the highlands. In the process they become folk heroes to the locals. Their adventures make for a whimsical and gentle comedy, in the Bill Fo…
Whisky Galore!
Based on a true story. The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941 - during WWII - was S/S Politician. Having left Liverpool two days earlier, heading for Jamaica, it sank outside Eriskay, The Outer Hebrides, Scotland, in bad weather, containing 250,000 bottles of whisky. The locals gathered as …
That Sinking Feeling
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-…
Whisky Galore
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. When cargo ship the SS Cabinet Minister runs aground the shrewd islanders run rings around the buffoonish English Home Guard commander Cap…
Burke & Hare
Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist.
American Cousins
Two American mafiosi, Gino and Settimo, take refuge in the Glasgow cafe owned by their Scottish/Italian cousin, but he isn’t the tough guy they’d expected. Gino and Settimo try to repay Roberto’s hospitality by chasing off a debt collector who wants his property, but their strong arm tactics alarm h…
The Angels’ Share
Narrowly avoiding jail, new dad Robbie vows to turn over a new leaf. A visit to a whisky distillery inspires him and his mates to seek a way out of their hopeless lives.
Filth
A bigoted junkie cop suffering from bipolar disorder and drug addiction manipulates and hallucinates his way through the festive season in a bid to secure promotion and win back his wife and daughter.