Acting

Charles Kearney

Acting credits

The Wicker Man poster
7.3

Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. The investigation is further complicated as Howie’s religious views clash with those of the island’s residents.

The Wicker Man

1973

Breaking the Waves poster
7.5

In a small, conservative Scottish village, an oilman is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when he urges her to have sex with another.

Breaking the Waves

1996

Local Hero poster
6.8

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.

Local Hero

1983

Comfort and Joy poster
6.6

Radio host Alan 'Dickie' 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.

Comfort and Joy

1984

No artwork available
NR

A man sees a newspaper advert for a rotavator. He visits the seller and is invited to an allotment.

Allotment

1971

33-1 Before the Off poster
NR

A portrait of gambling obsession

33-1 Before the Off

1997

No artwork available
NR

Set in the beautiful Isle of Arran where an over enthusiastic amateur detective becomes involved in a plot to rob Brodick Castle of its collection of antique silver.

Nosey Dobson

1976

The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil poster
8.0

In their songs, comedy and exuberant music, a travelling theatre company give a fiercely polemic account of Scottish history, from the aftermath of Culloden to the oil boom. Their production before a live audience is intercut with filmed reconstructions of the Highland Clearances and the Victorian obsession with hunting stags.

The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil

1974

No artwork available
NR

A priest is transferred to Edinburgh where he becomes involved with a pirate television station supporting Scottish independence.

The Priest and the Pirate

1994

Accounts poster
5.2

Financial and emotional accounts are settled as a family battle to survive in an unforgiving land.

Accounts

1983

No artwork available
NR

The oil rigs provide rich pickings for those who work on them, but for wives isolated from husbands affluence is not enough.

The Good Time Girls

1981

Wild Flowers: Women of South Lebanon poster
7.0

In this award-winning documentary, directors Masri and Chamoun focus on the women who played a crucial role in fighting the Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon. Preserving their stories on camera, Wild Flowers: Women of South Lebanon is a poignant documentary about courage, resistance, and hope.

Wild Flowers: Women of South Lebanon

1987

Aliens poster
NR

In June 1940 Italy entered the war alongside Germany. With Britain threatened by a German invasion, thousands of ordinary Italians living in the UK were arrested and thrown into internment camps.

Aliens

1982

The Boy Who Wanted Peace poster
10.0

Two underprivileged Glaswegian youngsters are caught up in sectarian gang warfare after discovering crates stuffed with banknotes in the basement they use for a clubhouse.

The Boy Who Wanted Peace

1970

Loyalties poster
NR

Everybody tells Onnie to steer clear of Patsy Gallaher, that he's bad news, but Onnie doesn't see it. Gallaher is Onnie's friend, and he believes friends should be loyal to one another.

Loyalties

1978