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.
17. A Sense of Freedom
A Sense of Freedom stars David Hayman who portrays Glasgow hard man and gangster Jimmy Boyle. | STV
18. 1917
Parts of Glasgow were transported back a century to feature as the backdrop for Sam Mendes’ World War 1 epic 1917. Govan Graving Docks were featured during a nerve-shredding scene in which lead character Will crosses a river via a demolished bridge. Photo: eOne
19. The Last King of Scotland
The Last King of Scotland stars James McAvoy and is “based on the events of the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin’s regime as seen by his personal physician during the 1970s.” | Film4
20. Death Watch
Death Watch is a 1980 science fiction film directed by Bertrand Tavernier and starring a young Harvey Keitel. “In a future where dying of illness is exceedingly rare, a terminally ill woman becomes a celebrity and a man with camera implants goes to secretly record her for a morbid TV show.” Filming locations included the Necropolis, Glasgow Cathedral, the former Queen’s Dock on the Clyde and City Chambers. | Death Watch