The first part of Bill Douglas' influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-'40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape - he paid for it with the money he made from returning empty jam jars - and this escape is reflected most closely at this time of his life as an eight-year-old living on the breadline with his half-brother and sick grandmother in a poor mining village.
Collection
Part of Bill Douglas Trilogy
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Signals in Silence
2025 · Movie
Oilmagna
2024 · Movie
Purgatory
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Jabberwockies
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Ride Your Wave
2019 · Movie
Emotion
1966 · Movie
The Camp on Blood Island
1958 · Movie
The Wizard of Loneliness
1988 · Movie
Olivier, Olivier
1992 · Movie
Saving Buddy Charles
2025 · Movie
The Groundsman
2013 · Movie
Sunshine
2025 · Movie
Frozen Stars
2003 · Movie
Postcards from Last Summer
2021 · Movie
True Love Waits
2023 · Movie
Amrum
2025 · Movie
Desert Bloom
1986 · Movie
Bengbulan
1996 · Movie
Moon of Wolves
1987 · Movie
Hvor der er vilje, er der vej
1986 · Movie
