Direction: Bill Forsyth

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Bill Forsyth. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Local Hero

1983 · Movie · 111 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Bill Forsyth

Cast Burt Lancaster · Peter Riegert · Denis Lawson · Peter Capaldi

Synopsis An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.

6.8

3K votes

6.8

3K votes

6.8

80 votes

Gregory's Girl

1981 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Bill Forsyth

Cast John Gordon Sinclair · Dee Hepburn · Jake D'Arcy · Clare Grogan

Synopsis Gregory is a normal teen who is infatuated with a classmate. He must work to win her affection.

6.2

99 votes

6.2

99 votes

Being Human

1994 · Movie · 119 min. · United States

Direction Bill Forsyth

Cast Robin Williams · John Turturro · Anna Galiena · Vincent D'Onofrio

Synopsis Five shorts portray a character named Hector as a caveman, a slave, a warrior, an explorer and a divorced man.

5.2

219 votes

5.2

219 votes

Breaking In

1989 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Bill Forsyth

Cast Burt Reynolds · Casey Siemaszko · Sheila Kelley · Lorraine Toussaint

Synopsis Burt Reynolds plays Ernie, a veteran thief who now wants to retire and forget the past. But as a last task before retiring, he will pass all his experience to a young and a little dumb boy. Things don't go...

4.2

69 votes

4.2

69 votes

That Sinking Feeling

1980 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Bill Forsyth

Cast Tom Mannion · Eddie Burt · Richard Demarco · Alex Mackenzie

Synopsis 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...

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Gregory's Two Girls

1999 · Movie · 116 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Bill Forsyth

Cast Carly McKinnon · John Gordon Sinclair · John Murtagh · Hugh McCue

Synopsis Returns again the romantic comedy of Gregory's Girl. Twenty years after his teenage crush on a football-mad schoolgirl, Gregory is back at his old school, teaching English. When two of his pupils uncover evil practices at a local factory they...

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Andrina (S)

1981 · Movie · United Kingdom

Direction Bill Forsyth

Cast Cyril Cusack · Wendy Jane Morgan · Sandra Voe · Jimmy Yuill

Synopsis Mysterious young Andrina is the only friend of an old man. When she fails to visit him one day, he goes down to his seaside village to look for her but no one knows of such person there. Who is...

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Comfort and Joy

1984 · Movie · 106 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Bill Forsyth

Cast Bill Paterson · Eleanor David · Clare Grogan · Alex Norton

Synopsis Radio host Alan Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families over the icecream market of Glasgow. Written by Mattias Thuresson

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Islands of the West

1972 · Documentary · 27 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Bill Forsyth

Cast Duncan Carse

Synopsis A tour of the landscape and wildlife of the Western Isles in Scotland.

Not rated

Not rated