Movies: Hopscotch Films

  • 2016
    The Carer

    The Carer (2016)

    The Carer

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    Dorottya is a young Hungarian actress with a burning desire: to make it on the English stage. Legendary actor, Sir Michael Gifford suffers from an incurable disease, and has one desire: be left alone. When Dorottya becomes his carer they both hope th...

    The Carer
  • 2022
    My Old School

    My Old School (2022)

    My Old School

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    In 1993, 16-year-old Brandon Lee enrolled at Bearsden Academy, a secondary school in a well-to-do suburb of Glasgow, Scotland. What followed over the next two years would become the stuff of legend....

    My Old School
  • 2022
    Ooh the Banter!

    Ooh the Banter! (2022)

    Ooh the Banter!

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    Jack Docherty brings together a jam-packed cast of comedians, actors and famous faces for a riotous celebration of Scotland's most valuable export – its sense of humour. Scotland is a small nation with a big funny bone. It's known the world over for ...

    Ooh the Banter!
  • 2023
    My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock

    My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock (2023)

    My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock

    6.92023HD

    Directed by Mark Cousins, My Name is Alfred Hitchcock re-examines the vast filmography and legacy of one of the 20th century’s greatest filmmakers, Alfred Hitchcock, through a new lens: through the auteur’s own voice....

    My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
  • 2024
    Janey

    Janey (2024)

    Janey

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    Janey Godley takes centre stage in this engaging and insightful documentary about the fearless and funny comic. Janey found fame for her sweary anti-Trump placards and became a social media sensation as she revoiced First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s C...

    Janey
  • 2025
    Bogancloch

    Bogancloch (2025)

    Bogancloch

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    Bogancloch is where Jake Williams lives, nestled in a vast highland forest of Scotland. The film portrays his life throughout the seasons, with other people occasionally crossing into his otherwise solitary life. At the heart a song, an argument betw...

    Bogancloch
  • 2016
    I Am Belfast

    I Am Belfast (2016)

    I Am Belfast

    6.72016HD

    Belfast, it's a city that is changing, changing because the people are leaving? But one came back, a 10,000 year old woman who claims that she is the city itself....

    I Am Belfast
  • 2015
    Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise

    Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise (2015)

    Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise

    6.62015HD

    Using only archive film and a new musical score by the band Mogwai, Mark Cousins presents an impressionistic kaleidoscope of our nuclear times – protest marches, Cold War sabre-rattling, Chernobyl and Fukishima – but also the sublime beauty of the at...

    Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise
  • 2008
    The Sickhouse

    The Sickhouse (2008)

    The Sickhouse

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    Terror lurks in the old orphanage, beneath a disused London hospital - a Seventeeth Century malevolence, the Plague Doctor, has returned to complete his evil masterpiece...

    The Sickhouse
  • 2017
    Arcadia

    Arcadia (2017)

    Arcadia

    7.12017HD

    A provocative and poetic exploration of how the British people have seen their own land through more than a century of cinema. A hallucinated journey of immense beauty and brutality. A kaleidoscopic essay on how magic and madness have linked human be...

    Arcadia
  • 2014
    Iboga Nights

    Iboga Nights (2014)

    Iboga Nights

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    Once again, David Graham Scott examines how some addicts use the plant medicine iboga to detox rapidly—and how, sometimes, the conditions in which they detox put them at risk....

    Iboga Nights
  • 2014
    Documenting John Grierson

    Documenting John Grierson (2014)

    Documenting John Grierson

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    The life and work of the documentary pioneer....

    Documenting John Grierson
  • 1969
    The Eden Express

    The Eden Express (1969)

    The Eden Express

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    In the 1970s, Mark Vonnegut, son of renowned sci-fi author Kurt Vonnegut, leads his friends out of Nixon's broken America to Eden, where they can build something good. His friends are in paradise but Mark begins hearing strange voices. Becoming incre...

    The Eden Express
  • 2024
    Rikki

    Rikki (2024)

    Rikki

    02024HD

    A centenary celebration of the life and legacy of Rikki Fulton, one of Scotland’s most beloved comic actors. Ashley Jensen narrates an affectionate tribute to one of Scotland’s funniest comedians, Rikki Fulton. It’s 100 years since Rikki first made ...

    Rikki
  • 2021
    The Story of Film: A New Generation

    The Story of Film: A New Generation (2021)

    The Story of Film: A New Generation

    7.12021HD

    The final chapter of his exceptional 15-part documentary exploring the history of cinema, The Story of Film: An Odyssey. Mark Cousins builds a bridge between the “before” of the health crisis, and the “after”....

    The Story of Film: A New Generation
  • 2019
    Lucky Star

    Lucky Star (2019)

    Lucky Star

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    1980s Glasgow: As his family disintegrates around him, the only thing on eight-year-old Jonjo’s mind is getting his prized He Man figure for Christmas....

    Lucky Star
  • 2024
    Life and Other Problems

    Life and Other Problems (2024)

    Life and Other Problems

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    The meaning of life, death and everything else? The possible answers are plenty in Max Kestner's adventurous film, which starts when the death of a giraffe at the Copenhagen Zoo goes viral from Hollywood to Chechnya....

    Life and Other Problems
  • 2019
    Orphans Reunited

    Orphans Reunited (2019)

    Orphans Reunited

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    20th anniversary documentary on “Orphans” including interviews with cast and crew....

    Orphans Reunited
  • 2021
    Adam

    Adam (2021)

    Adam

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    The true story of a trans man and his remarkable struggle across genders and borders. Based on the acclaimed National Theatre of Scotland play, with Adam himself in the lead role....

    Adam
  • 2020
    Eminent Monsters

    Eminent Monsters (2020)

    Eminent Monsters

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    ‘Do No Harm’ is an abiding principal of psychiatry. It is abandoned time after time in this shocking, utterly compelling exploration of the profession’s collusion with state sponsored torture over the past 70 years. Director Stephen Bennett untangles...

    Eminent Monsters