The Telegraph: 20 Great Scottish Films

Stan and Ollie mistakenly enlist in the army and find themselves posted to the Northwest Frontier in India on a dangerous mission.

A man in London tries to help a counter-espionage agent, but when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring that is trying to steal top-secret information.

An English comedian attempts his luck on the Scottish stage, and develops a rivalry with a local performer.

Scottish islanders try to plunder 50,000 cases of whisky from a stranded ship.

Eccentric and well-meaning teacher Jean Brodie's extravagantly romantic ideas about life and love overly impress her young pupils in 1930s Edinburgh, bringing her into direct conflict with her school's conservative headmistress.

A ruthlessly ambitious Scottish lord seizes the throne with the help of his scheming wife and a trio of witches.

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.

Jamie and Tommy are separated by the death of their grandmother; Jamie with another relative and Tommy to a welfare home. Now Jamie is all alone and his life is not at all happy taken over by silence, rejection and violence.

Jamie leaves the children's home to live with his paternal grandmother. After working in a mine and in a tailor's shop, he is conscripted into the RAF, and goes to Egypt, where he is befriended by Robert, whose undemanding companionship releases Jamie from self-pity.

A puritan police sergeant arrives in a Scottish island village in search of a missing girl, who the pagan locals claim never existed.

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

An American oil company has plans for a new refinery and sends someone to Scotland to buy up an entire village, but things don't go as expected.

An immortal Scottish swordsman must confront the last of his immortal opponents, a murderously brutal barbarian who lusts for the fabled "Prize".

Three friends discover their new flatmate dead but loaded with cash.

Scottish warrior William Wallace leads his countrymen in a rebellion to free his homeland from the tyranny of King Edward I of England.

Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out despite the allure of drugs and the influence of friends.

Oilman Jan is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when Jan urges her to have sex with another.

A naïve young lad navigates the dirty squalid streets of 1973 Glasgow and the poor youth around him.

A routine military exercise turns into a nightmare in the Scottish wilderness.

Sparks fly in Glasgow's south side when a young Asian man enters into a relationship with a Caucasian woman.

James Bond's loyalty to M is tested when her past comes back to haunt her. When MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.

A mysterious young woman seduces lonely men in the evening hours in Scotland. However, events lead her to begin a process of self-discovery.