There’s a great selection of movies set in the city or filmed in Glasgow to choose from while you spot local landmarks in scenes. Suggestions include a film written by Peter McDougall that was originally released as a television play, but is now considered a film in its own right. One popular pick, Just a Boys’ Game, featured Glasgow actors but Greenock can claim that film as its own. The same applies to Ken Loach’s Sweet Sixteen.
Honourable mentions, not included in this list, include 2005 action thriller Unleashed which starred the likes of Jet Li and Morgan Freeman and filmed in Broomhill; Hobbs and Shaw and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny which both featured a lot of Glasgow scenes. The cast for eighties film Gregory’s Girl included members of the Glasgow Youth Theatre but it was filmed in Cumbernauld.
We asked our readers to tell us their favourite film featuring Glasgow - here are the all-time favourites.
9. Orphans
“Four siblings gathered together for their mother’s funeral in Glasgow face individual torments over night during a tumultuous storm that rips the roof off the church.” | BBC
10. World War Z
Starring Hollywood A-lister Brad Pitt, “former United Nations employee Gerry Lane traverses the world in a race against time to stop a zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatens to destroy humanity itself.” During the filming of this movie Glasgow was transformed into a zombie post-apocalyptic wasteland. | Getty Images
11. Small Faces
“Three teenage brothers, gang-member Bobby, troubled mama’s boy Alan and self-assured prankster Lex, reside in a downtrodden section of Glasgow, circa 1968. But while Bobby and Alan are beginning to experience the power of raging hormones, the story focuses on Lex, who begins a downward spiral after he accidentally shoots the leader of a rival gang.” | BBC
12. That Sinking Feeling
“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 scheme: to steal sinks from a warehouse dressed as girls and using a stop-motion potion.” | That Sinking Feeling