🏷 Discover The Best Scotland Movies & TV Shows To Watch Today

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Explore the Best of Scotland on the Big Screen

From the rugged Highlands to the vibrant streets of Glasgow, Scotland has a rich history, stunning landscapes, and a unique culture that has captivated audiences around the world. Discover the best movies and TV shows set in Scotland, featuring iconic locations, fascinating stories, and memorable characters that will leave you feeling inspired and connected to the land of lochs and legends.

Cast

Robert Aramayo

Maxine Peake

Peter Mullan

Shirley Henderson

I Swear (2025)

8.2 386 votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 121 min.

Audience: R

Story: Diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome at 15, John Davidson navigates his way against the odds through troubled teenage years and into adulthood, finding inspiration in the kindness of others to discover his true purpose in life.

Plot: dark comedy, biography, based on true story, alienation, outcast, tourette syndrome, docudrama, triumph over adversity, ...

Time: 1980s, 1990s

Place: scotland

Cast

Caitru00edona Balfe

Sam Heughan

Sophie Skelton

Richard Rankin

Outlander (2014) TV Show

8.2 2.9K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Seasons: 8

Episodes: 101

Audience: TV-MA

Story: The story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie, a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate affair is ignited that tears Claire's heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.

Plot: based on novel or book, magic, time travel, romance, love story

Time: 18th century

Place: scotland

Hello! Sandybell (1981) TV Show

8.0 109 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 47

Story: Hello! Sandybell is an anime series made by Toei Animation in 1981. It was aired in Japan by TV Asahi.In the original title when it is made in Japan, her name is the spelling to which "E" is attached to an end by "Sandybelle".Similarly to Silver Fang, the show is relatively unknown in the U.S. but was quite popular in Asia, Latin America, Arab countries and Europe, particularly Scandinavia.

Plot: london, england, first love, freelance journalist, anime, search for mother, kodomo, aspiring journalist

Place: scotland

Cast

Ewan McGregor

Ewen Bremner

Jonny Lee Miller

Kevin McKidd

Trainspotting (1996)

8.0 10.5K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 94 min.

Audience: R

Story: Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends --Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind as Begbie and Sick Boy come knocking.

Plot: drug dealer, friendship, london, england, drug abuse, based on novel or book, heroin, drug addiction, ...

Place: scotland

Cast

Mel Gibson

Catherine McCormack

Sophie Marceau

Patrick McGoohan

Braveheart (1995)

7.9 11.2K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, History

Country: United States of America

Duration: 178 min.

Audience: R

Story: Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.

Plot: loss of loved one, idealism, based on true story, catholic, war, dramatic, powerful

Time: medieval

Place: england, scotland

Cast

Matthew Goode

Chloe Pirrie

Jamie Sives

Alexej Manvelov

Dept. Q (2025) TV Show

7.9 440 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 9

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A brash but brilliant cop becomes head of a new police department, where he leads an unlikely team of misfits in solving Edinburgh's cold cases.

Style: provocative, suspenseful

Plot: detective, based on novel or book, edinburgh, scotland, cop, questioning, grim, cold case, ...

Shetland (2013) TV Show

7.5 210 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United Kingdom

Seasons: 10

Episodes: 56

Audience: TV-PG

Story: Created from the novels by award winning crime writer Ann Cleeves, Shetland follows DI Jimmy Perez and his team as they investigate crime within the close knit island community. In this isolated and sometimes inhospitable environment, the team have to rely on a uniquely resourceful style of policing.

Plot: parent child relationship, island, investigation, police, police detective, murder investigation, small town murder, small community, ...

Place: scotland

Cast

Anna Paquin

Holliday Grainger

Emun Elliott

Steven Robertson

Tell It to the Bees (2019)

7.5 473 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 106 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Dr. Jean Markham returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over her late father's medical practice. When a school-yard scuffle lands Charlie in her surgery, she invites him to visit the hives in her garden and tell his secrets to the bees, as she once did. The new friendship between the boy and the bee keeper brings his mother Lydia into Jean's world.

Plot: based on novel or book, lesbian relationship, working class, lgbt, woman director, failed marriage, beekeeper, lesbian

Time: 1950s

Place: scotland

Cast

Emily Watson

Stellan Skarsgu00e5rd

Katrin Cartlidge

Jean-Marc Barr

Breaking the Waves (1996)

7.5 1.1K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Denmark, France

Duration: 159 min.

Audience: R

Story: 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.

Plot: underdog, dying and death, prostitute, paraplegic, parent child relationship, faith, society, tradition, ...

Time: 1970s

Place: scotland

Cast

Sean Connery

Rob Brown

F. Murray Abraham

Anna Paquin

Finding Forrester (2000)

7.1 1.2K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: United States of America

Duration: 136 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents while living on the streets of the Bronx. He accidentally runs into an old writer named Forrester who discovers his passion for writing. With help from his new mentor Jamal receives a scholarship to a private school.

Plot: dying and death, high school, friendship, scholarship, sibling relationship, based on novel or book, unsociability, becoming an adult, ...

Place: scotland

Cast

Kelly Macdonald

Emma Thompson

Billy Connolly

Julie Walters

Brave (2012)

7.0 14.3K votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: PG

Story: In the mystical Scottish Highlands, Merida is the princess of a kingdom ruled by King Fergus and Queen Elinor. An unruly daughter and an accomplished archer, Merida one day defies a sacred custom of the land and inadvertently brings turmoil to the kingdom. In an attempt to set things right, Merida seeks out an eccentric old Wise Woman and is granted an ill-fated wish. Also figuring into Merida's quest — and serving as comic relief — are the kingdom's three lords: the enormous Lord MacGuffin, the surly Lord Macintosh, and the disagreeable Lord Dingwall.

Style: irreverent, absurd, whimsical

Plot: witch, kingdom, rebel, bravery, villain, wish, archer, bear, ...

Place: scotland

Cast

Ewan McGregor

Jonny Lee Miller

Ewen Bremner

Robert Carlyle

T2 Trainspotting (2017)

6.9 3.4K votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 117 min.

Audience: R

Story: After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.

Plot: prison, friendship, based on novel or book, fight, blackmail, heroin, drug addiction, junkie, ...

Place: scotland

Cast

Denzel Washington

Frances McDormand

Alex Hassell

Bertie Carvel

The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)

6.9 884 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: R

Story: Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.

Plot: witch, husband wife relationship, ambition, treason, based on play or musical, black and white, rise to power, non-traditional casting

Place: scotland

Cast

James Mason

Arlene Dahl

Pat Boone

Peter Ronson

Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)

6.9 516 votes

Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 132 min.

Audience: G

Story: An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.

Plot: professor, duck, expedition, edinburgh, scotland, volcano, giant lizard, travel, ...

Place: iceland

Cast

Christopher Lambert

Roxanne Hart

Clancy Brown

Sean Connery

Highlander (1986)

6.9 2.9K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: R

Story: He fought his first battle on the Scottish Highlands in 1536. He will fight his greatest battle on the streets of New York City in 1986. His name is Connor MacLeod. He is immortal.

Style: suspenseful, intense

Plot: new york city, martial arts, swordplay, immortality, sword, sword fight, fictional war, dark fantasy, ...

Place: scotland

Cast

Chris Pine

Aaron Taylor-Johnson

Florence Pugh

Billy Howle

Outlaw King (2018)

6.8 1.7K votes

Genre: Action, History, War

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 122 min.

Audience: R

Story: Forced into exile by the English after being crowned King of Scotland, legendary warrior Robert the Bruce fights to reclaim the throne.

Plot: castle, exile, biography, based on true story, uprising, period drama, historical drama, scottish highlands, ...

Time: 14th century

Place: scotland

Cast

Ben Cross

Ian Charleson

Cheryl Campbell

Alice Krige

Chariots of Fire (1981)

6.8 1.0K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 123 min.

Audience: PG

Story: In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in China, sees running as part of his worship of God's glory and refuses to train or compete on the Sabbath. Harold Abrahams overcomes anti-Semitism and class bias, but neglects his beloved sweetheart in his single-minded quest.

Plot: underdog, sports, missionary, olympic games, jewry, patriotism, mayor, praline, ...

Time: 1920s

Place: scotland

Cast

Kit Harington

Mark Gatiss

Edward Holcroft

Tom Cullen

Gunpowder (2017) TV Show

6.8 215 votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: United Kingdom

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 3

Audience: TV-MA

Story: London, 1605. Robert Catesby, a 33-year old Warwickshire gentleman, devises a plot to blow up Parliament and kill the King.

Plot: religion, miniseries, period drama, catholic priest, gunpowder plot, activist

Time: 17th century

Place: scotland, england

Cast

Dennis Quaid

Jake Gyllenhaal

Emmy Rossum

Dash Mihok

The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

6.6 8.9K votes

Genre: Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 124 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: After paleoclimatologist Jack Hall is largely ignored by UN officials when presenting his environmental concerns about the beginning of a new Ice Age, his research proves true when a superstorm develops, setting off catastrophic natural disasters throughout the world. Trying to get to his son, Sam, who is trapped in New York City with his friend Laura and others, Jack and his crew must travel to get to Sam before it's too late.

Plot: new york city, philadelphia, pennsylvania, saving the world, climate change, greenhouse effect, tornado, hurricane, ...

Place: scotland

Cast

Saoirse Ronan

Margot Robbie

Jack Lowden

David Tennant

Mary Queen of Scots (2018)

6.6 2.0K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 124 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 1561, Mary Stuart, widow of the King of France, returns to Scotland, reclaims her rightful throne and menaces the future of Queen Elizabeth I as ruler of England, because she has a legitimate claim to the English throne. Betrayals, rebellions, conspiracies and their own life choices imperil both Queens. They experience the bitter cost of power, until their tragic fate is finally fulfilled.

Plot: based on novel or book, cousin, royal family, biography, queen elizabeth i, tudor, female prisoner, burlesque, ...

Time: 16th century

Place: scotland

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